1295. So there is the homestead of the greedy, who become black and walk in smoky steam, heaping up their riches. And because they are black, they seem to themselves to become white by the same process of scraping off the hairs as swine undergo. Yet still that mark remains, wherever they go.
1295. Wherefore this is the dwelling-place of the avaricious. They become black and walk about in smoky vapor, and gather together their riches; and because they are black they seem to themselves to be there made white by such a scraping off of the hair, like the pigs. But that mark still remains wherever they go.
1295. Quare ibi est avarorum domicilium, qui atri fiunt, et in vapore fumeo ambulant, et congerunt suas opes, et quia nigri, ibi per talem pilorum excoriationem videntur sibi candidi fieri, sicut sues, sed usque manet ea nota, ubicunque veniunt.