‘Master,’ I asked, ‘after the great Judgment will these torments be greater, less, 105 or will they stay as harsh as they are now?’ And he replied: ‘Return to your science, → which has it that, in measure of a thing’s perfection, 108 it feels both more of pleasure and of pain. ‘Although these accursèd people → will never come to true perfection, 111 they will be nearer it than they are now.’
