Crossword-Solution: CXVI 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

CXVI Heaven’s glorious lamp, wrapped in an ugly veil Of shadows dark, was hid from mortal eye, And hell’s grim blackness did bright skies assail; On every side the fiery lightnings fly, The thunders roar, the streaming rain and hail Pour down and make that sea which erst was dry.

CXVI One struck, the other did both strike and wound, His arms were surer, and his strength was more; From Tisipherne the blood streamed down around; His shield was cleft, his helm was rent and tore.

For faith and confidence make precious before God all that which others think most shameful, so that it is written even of death in Psalm cxvi, "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints." And just as the confidence and faith are better, higher and stronger at this stage than in the first stage, so and to the same degree do the sufferings which are borne in this faith excel all works of faith.

CXVI Now he lamenting for his folly stood, That having heard the truths the pilgrim said, He should have let her story change his mood, Who him before so often had betrayed.

CXVI Of these, some will the crowded rabble's band (Too late repentant of the feat) befriend: Those, favouring not the natives of the land More than the foreigners, to part them wend.