With squinting glances tries
To read the sacred writing
We hide from all men’s eyes.
“Read, flea, the secret rare;
Read, louse, the sacred term
That heaven, earth and air
With seven nails hold firm.”
And in very deed, Ulenspiegel and Nele saw upon the sward, in the air and in the sky, seven tablets of shining brass fastened thereto by seven flaming nails.
Upon the tablets there was written:
Amid the dung May saps arise;