Quartilla.
None other has ever done it, all the same!
Nerva.
[Arms akimbo.] Come, then, wizard; prove yourself! dispose for us some prodigy!
Valentinus.
What, Nerva, would you consider such?
Nerva.
Oh, that a hen should crow, or a black dog should suddenly bound through the room, or a snake come down the pipe into the cistern, or that the statue of Jupiter should laugh!
Valentinus.