All abstract riddles of our stone.—How now!
In another scene, amatory potency is expressed in lavish rhetorical imagery:
Mammon: Do we succeed? Is our day come? And holds it?
Face: The evening will set red upon you, sir;
You have color for it, crimson: the red ferment
Has done his office; three hours hence prepare you
To see projection.
Mammon: Pertinax, my Surly,
Again I say to thee, aloud, BE RICH.
This day thou shalt have ingots; and tomorrow