By word and nature pour themselves through him
Revealing things the senses cannot grasp.
It is just this that keeps me off from him.
Romanus:
This speech, my friend, doth strike me to the heart.
Since I drew nigh to Strader I have felt
Those very thoughts which come to me through him
To be endowed with quite peculiar power.
They cleft me just as if they were mine own.
And one day I reflected: What if I