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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) by Dante Alighieri: not except even them as I had not yet beheld them since our
entrance into this planet."
CANTO XV
v. 24. Our greater Muse.] Virgil Aen. 1. vi. 684.
v. 84. I am thy root.] Cacciaguida, father to Alighieri, of
whom our Poet was the great-grandson.
v. 89. The mountain.] Purgatory.
v. 92. Florence.] See G. Villani, l. iii. c. 2.
v. 93. Which calls her still.] The public clock being still
within the circuit of the ancient walls.
v. 98. When.] When the women were not married at too early an
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