On a pool’s margin, but beneath it hide
Their feet and all their bodies but the snout,
So stood the sinners there on every side.”
Inferno: Canto XXII.
“A cooper’s vessel, that by chance hath been
Either of middle-piece or cant-piece reft,
Gapes not so wide as one that from his chin
I noticed lengthwise through his carcass cleft.”
Inferno: Canto XXVIII.
“We tarried yet the ocean’s brink upon,