["How often have we seen the stage of the theatre descend and part asu… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

["How often have we seen the stage of the theatre descend and part asunder, and from a chasm in the earth wild beasts emerge, and then presently give birth to a grove of gilded trees, that put forth blossoms of enamelled flowers. Nor yet of sylvan marvels alone had we sight: I saw sea-calves fight with bears, and a deformed sort of cattle, we might call sea-horses."--Calpurnius, Eclog., vii. 64.]

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