I saw two _persons_ frozen in one hole,-- so that one head to the other was hat:-- and as bread in hunger is eaten,-- so the uppermost his teeth into the other stuck,-- there where the brain is joined to the nape.-- Not otherwise did Tydeus gnaw-- the temples of Menalippus through disdain-- than he did the skull and the other things.-- O thou who showest by so bestial token-- hatred over him whom thou eatest,--[Footnote 95] tell me the why, said I: on such condition,-- that, if thou with reason of him complainest,-- knowing who you are, and his offence,-- in the world above I also may repay thee for it,-- if that [tongue] with which I speak does not _become_ dry. The mouth [he] raised from the beastly [Footnote 96] food,-- that sinner, wiping it on the hair-- of the head which he had disfigured (maimed) behind.-- Then [he] began: Thou wishest that I renew-- desperate grief, which me to the heart oppresses,-- even only thinking, before I speak of it.-- But if my words must (may) be a seed-- that will bear fruit of infamy to the traitor I gnaw,-- thou shalt see me both speak and weep.-- I know not who thou be nor by what means-- art thou come here below; but Florentine-- _thou_ seemest to me truly, when I hear thee.-- Thou shouldst know that I was Count Ugolino,-- and this Archbishop Ruggieri:-- now I'll tell thee why I am such [Footnote 97] neighbor.-- How by the means of his evil mind,-- trusting in him, I was taken-- and then killed, there is no need of telling.-- But that which _thou_ canst not have heard, (known), [Footnote 98] that is, how cruel my death was,-- thou shalt hear; and [thou] shalt know whether he hath done me wrong.-- A narrow hole within the mew-- [Footnote 99] which from me has the title of Hunger,-- and in which it needs that others be confined,-- had shown me through its opening-- many moons already, when I had the fatal dream-- which tore from me the veil of the future.-- This [man] seemed to me leader and lord,-- driving the wolf and wolf-cubs [Footnote 100] to the mountain, for which the Pisans cannot see Lucca.--[Footnote 101] With hounds, [she-hounds,] lean, keen on the scent, and well trained, (_cagne magre studiose e conte_,)-- Gualandi with Sismondi, and with Lanfranchi-- had [he] put before him in the van.-- After a short run they seemed to me borne down,-- the father and the sons, and by those sharp teeth-- I deemed their sides torn open.-- When I became awake ere the morning-- I heard weeping in their sleep my children,-- who were with me, and ask for bread.-- Indeed thou art cruel if thou dost not already grieve,-- thinking of what to my heart was then foreboded:-- and if thou weepest not, at what art thou wont to weep?-- They were now awake, and the hour was drawing near-- when food used to be brought in,-- and his dream gave each misgivings.--