Scene, Colmar in Alsatia: an Inn. 1528.
Paracelsus, Festus.
Par. (to Johannes Oporinus, his Secretary). Sic itur ad astra! Dear Von Visenburg
Is scandalized, and poor Torinus paralyzed,
And every honest soul that Basel holds
Aghast; and yet we live, as one may say,
Just as though Liechtenfels had never set
So true a value on his sorry carcass,
And learned Pütter had not frowned us dumb.
We live; and shall as surely start to-morrow