CYRANO.
To learn how I got up there? Easily. Through an invention of mine.
GUICHE (discouraged).
A madman, certainly!
CYRANO (disdainfully).
I copied not the stupid eagle of Regiomontanus, or the timid pigeon of Archytas!....
GUICHE.
A madman—but a learned one.
CYRANO.
No, Sir. I imitated nothing ever done.