Dante's Divine Comedy 3

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Chapter title: The Gates of Hell

Dante: Such words inscribed on portal do I read:

Through me you pass into the city of Woe;

Dante: Through me you pass into eternal pain;
Through me among the people lost for aye*.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved,
To raise me was the task of power divine,

* "For aye": An archaic expression meaing "forever".

Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.

Dante: All hope abandon...

Ye who enter here!

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Virgil: Dante

Dante: Into hell...

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Dante: Just when the gates of Hell had I entered,
My whole self pitch blackness did envelop.
Even great Virgil, whose hand I'd taken,
Seemed to me uneasy in our progress.

Dante: A cold wind at my feet blew harshly so,
And I felt myself come upon a path.

Dante: And I, who had my head with horror bound,
Saw then in the darkness things which I knew:

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Dante: Faces of those in life by me all known,
Each face appearing briefly then vanishing.

Dante: In true darkness, true silence thus arose,
And perhaps my heart began to match it,
Since this place does apart from life exist.

Dante: Ah! You four are... my mother, my brothers!

With whom I lived in exuberant youth,
Each blessed day full of such happiness...

Dante: Thank you...

Narration: Dante's mother, but ten years after birth,
Died, but soon his father again married,
And sired three* step-brothers of Dante.

* It's not certain how many step-brothers Dante had -- the number is at least two,
but any more than that is arguable.

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Narration: Dante came to truly love his step mother,
And his joyous siblings no less than her.
His brother Francesco rejoiced in him,
And throughout his life gave aid to Dante.

Dante: Th... this is...

Virgil: Since we're in Hell...

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Dante: Oh, maestro!

What is this I hear? What race
Are these, who seem so overcome with woe?

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Virgil: Ignore these wretched beings before you;

Virgil: They are the melancholy souls of those
Who lived without both infamy and praise.

Virgil: Commingled are they with those cowardly
Angels, who have not rebellious been,
Nor faithful were to God, but were for self.

Dante: But then what makes them lament so sorely?

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Virgil: Neither Heaven nor Hell shall accept them!

They at the mouth of Hell shall ever serve!

They have no longer any hope of death,
And this blind life of theirs is so debased,

They envious are of every other fate.

They wasted pointlessly valuable lives,
And for that this is their retribution.

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Virgil: Speak not of them,
But look, and pass them by.

Virgil: These miscreants, who never were alive,
Are naked, and are stung exceedingly
By gadflies and by hornets that are there.

These do their faces irrigate with blood,
Which, with their tears commingled, at their feet
By the disgusting worms is gathered up.

Virgil: In their blindness they shall ever wander
Between Hell and Earth, perpetually lost.

Such a fate is fitting for such wastrels.

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Dante: Th... this...

Dante: You say this is not yet the realm of Hell?
But if this only the boundary is,

Then... Hell is...

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Charon: Who are those fated to cross o'er to Hell?

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Dante: Many people are coming to that shore...

Virgil: They are waiting.

Virgil: For Charon...

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Dude: *teeth chattering*

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Charon: Woe unto you, ye wicked souls depraved!

Hope nevermore to look upon the heavens!

Gahaha!

I come to lead you to the other shore,
To the eternal shades in heat and frost!

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Virgil: That is Charon!

The ferryman of Hell!

Virgil: Let us go, and we shall ride in that ship.

Dante: Ah...

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Charon: Get on!

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Charon: Get on, ye scoundrels!

Charon: In Charon's boat shall you ride on to Hell!

Charon: Scoundrel! Ye were sent to Hell, that destiny
From which none at all can hope to escape!


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Charon: And you, that yonder stand, a living soul!?

Charon: Withdraw thee from these people, who are dead!

Virgil: Charon, be not angered: so it is willed,
Where will and power are one: ask nothing more.

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Charon: What!?

Charon: Such is my task, to ferry the damned souls;
To take one yet living is not allowed!

Charon: Do you think I, Charon, would permit that!?

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Dante: Fuu...

Charon: Gahahaha!
He fainted?
Much like the dead are those with senses gone!

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Charon: Then let him ride on the ferry to Hell!

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