Inferno

If my entreaty wholly were fulfilled

Not yet would you be

In Banishment from human nature placed

For in my mind is fixed and touches now

My heart the dear and good paternal image

Of you when in the world from hour to hour

You taught me how a man becomes eternal

And how much I am grateful while I live

Behoves that in my language be discernedE

What you narrate of my career I write

And keep it to be glossed with other text

By a Lady who can do it if I reach her

This much will I have manifest to you

Provided that my conscience do not chide me

For whatsoever Fortune I am ready

Such handsel is not new unto mine ears

Therefore let Fortune turn her wheel around

As it may please her and the churl his mattock