Melchior, Balthaser, portans hæc nomina Caspar, Solvitur e morbo Domini pietate caduco. Perpetret et ternas defunctis psallere missas. Barachun. Barachagim. Destrue. Subalgat.
Terna tibi hæc primum triplici diversa colore Licia circumdo.... Necte tribus nodis ternos, Amarylli, colores: Necte, Amarylli, modo: et Veneris, dic, vincula necto.
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.
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End of Project Gutenberg's The Magic of the Middle Ages, by Viktor Rydberg