That answers not my purpose; for 't is like,

Some sunny morning—Basel being drained

Of its wise population, every corner

Of the amphitheatre crammed with learned clerks,

Here Œcolampadius, looking worlds of wit,

Here Castellanus, as profound as he,

Munsterus here, Frobenius there, all squeezed

And staring,—that the zany of the show,

Even Paracelsus, shall put off before them

His trappings with a grace but seldom judged