The Divine Comedy
Alighieri, Dante
INFERNO > CANTO II. · p. 23
“A gentle lady is in Heaven, who beholds this hindrance and pities it; she called me, and her words were such that I could not refuse. Beatrice it is who has moved me to come to thee, and she spoke of thee as her friend, and not as the friend of fortune.”“And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.”“Sancho Panza agreed to serve him as his squire, upon the promise that he should govern an island; and in this hope he left his wife and children, and the plough he had followed all his days.”“