"And therein were a thousand tongues empight Of sundry kinds and sundry quality; Some were of dogs, that barked day and night, And some of cats, that wrawling still did cry, And some of bears, that groined continually, And some of tigers, that did seem to gren And snarl at all that ever passed by; But most of them were tongues of mortal men, Which spake reproachfully, not caring where nor when.And them amongst were mingled here and there The tongues of serpents, with three-forked stings, That spat out poison, and gore-bloody gear, At all that came within his ravenings; And spake licentious words and hateful things Of good and bad alike, of low and high; Nor kaisers spared he a whit nor kings, But either blotted them with infamy, Or bit them with his baneful teeth of injury."
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Bk. VI, Canto XII, stanzas 27–28
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