Having been heaved up, haled on its gross way,

By hands unguessed before, invisible help

From a dark brotherhood, and specially

Two obscure goblin creatures, fox-faced this,

Cat-clawed the other, called his next of kin

By Guido the main monster,—cloaked and caped,

Making as they were priests, to mock God more,—

Abate Paul, Canon Girolamo.

These who had rolled the starlike pest to Rome

And stationed it to suck up and absorb