COM. SEN. Leave jesting; you'll put the fresh actor out of countenance.
COEL. Eccentrics, epicyctes, and aspects
In sextile, trine and quadrate, which effects
Wonders on earth: also the oblique part
Of signs, that make the day both long and short,
The constellations, rising cosmical,
Setting of stars, chronic, and heliacal,
In the horizon or meridional,
And all the skill in deep astronomy,
Is to the soul derived by the eye.
PHA. Visus, you have made Coelum a heavenly speech, past earthly capacity; it had been as good for him he had thundered. But I pray you, who taught him to speak and use no action? methinks it had been excellent to have turned round about in his speech.
VIS. He hath so many motions, he knows not which to begin withal.
PHA. Nay, rather it seems he's of Copernicus' opinion, and that makes him stand still.
[TERRA comes to the midst of the stage, stands still
a while, saith nothing, and steps back.
COM. SEN. Let's hear what Terra can say—just nothing?
VIS. And't like your lordship, 'twere an indecorum Terra should speak.
MEM. You are deceived; for I remember, when Phaeton ruled the sun (I shall never forget him, he was a very pretty youth), the Earth opened her mouth wide, and spoke a very good speech to Jupiter.
ANA. By the same token Nilus hid his head then, he could never find it since.