"
"I will," said Hircan, "although it irks me to speak of such folk.
Methinks they are of the number of those of whom Virgil says to Dante,
'Pass on and heed them not.' (6) Still, to show you that they have not
laid aside their passions with their worldly garments, I will tell you
of something that once came to pass."
6 _Non ragioniam di lor, ma guarda e passa_ (Dante's
_Purgatorio_, iii. 51). The allusion is to the souls of
those who led useless and idle lives on earth, supporting
neither the Divinity by the observance of virtue, nor the
spirit of evil by the practice of vice. They are thus cast
out both from heaven and hell.--Ed.
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_TALE LVI_.
_A pious lady had recourse to a Grey Friar for his advice in
providing her daughter with a good husband, for whom she
proposed making it so profitable a match that the worthy
father, hoping to get the money she intended for her son-in-
law, married her daughter to a young comrade of his own.
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