Which doth enable me to focus it.
Thou dost paint ghostly things, Thomasius,
Ensnaring them by magic in your work.
They do allure us on to seek for them,
And yet they never let themselves be found.
Oh—how I find your pictures horrible!
Capesius:
My friend, in this same moment hast thou lost
The thinker’s peace of mind. Consider now,
If from this picture some ghost speaks to thee