Maximilla. "He showered his gifts upon me. Moreover, no one loves him as I, nor is any other so well beloved by him!"
Priscilla. "Thou liest! I am the most beloved!"
Maximilla. "No: it is I!"
(They fight. Between their shoulders suddenly appears the head of a negro.)
Montanus (clad in a black mantle, clasped by two cross-bones):
"Peace, my doves! Incapable of terrestrial happiness, we have obtained the celestial plentitude of our union. After the age of the Father, the age of the Son; and I inaugurate the third, which is that of the Paraclete. His light descended upon me during those forty nights when the heavenly Jerusalem appeared shining in the firmament, above my house at Pepuzza.
"Ah, how ye cry out with anguish when the thongs of the scourge lacerate! how your suffering bodies submit to the ardor of my spiritual discipline! how ye languish with irrealizable longing! So strong has that desire become that it has enabled you to behold the invisible world; and ye can now perceive souls even with the eyes of the body!"
Anthony. (Makes a gesture of astonishment.)
Tertullian (who appears again, standing beside Montanus):
"Without doubt; for the soul has a body, and that which is bodiless has no existence."