Thy servant’s many woes to end, that he
Into our choir admitted now will be.’
XXXVI.
“When thus I heard him speak, I marked him well,
And by his banner and his scales, I knew
It was the great Archangel Michaël:
And by his side there knelt another too,
Who in one hand a chalice held in view,
The other clasped a book, and there was writ,