While we crossed the stagnant swamp → one cloaked in mud rose up to say: → 33 ‘Who are you that you come before your time?’ And I to him: ‘If I come, I do not stay. But you, who are you, now become so foul?’ 36 He answered: ‘As you can see, I am one who weeps.’ And I to him: ‘In weeping and in misery, → accursèd spirit, may you stay. 39 I know you, for all your filth.’ When he stretched both his hands toward the boat, → the wary master thrust him off,
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