[60] Compare same eclogue:
Limus ut hic durescit, et hæc ut cera liquescit
Uno eodemque igni: sic nostro Daphnis amore.
[61] The Faust-legend, formed during the time of the Reformation, sought at first to employ one of the heroes of the learned magic, Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, as its chief character; but a biography of him, published by his pupil, Wierus, having dispelled the fantastical halo enveloping his personality, the creative desire sought a more obscure object which it could transform according to its bizarre imaginations.