'Rade volte risurge per li rami
L'umana probitate: e questo vuole
Quei che la dâ, perchè da lui si chiami.'
Cary's translation is:—
'Rarely into the branches of the tree
Doth human worth mount up: and so ordains
He who bestows it, that as His free gift
It may be called.'
Marsh notes that similar sentiments occur in the Canzone prefixed to the fourth Trattato in Dante's Convito.