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For the Adige, representing among the rivers and fountains of waters the channel of Imperial, as the Tiber of the Papal power, and the strength of the Coronet being founded on the white peaks that look down upon Hapsburg and Hohenzollern, as that of the Scarlet Cap in the marsh of the Campagna, "quo tenuis in sicco aqua destituisset," the study of the policies and arts of the cities founded in the two great valleys of Lombardy and Tuscany, so far as they were affected by their bias to the Emperor, or the Church, will arrange itself in your minds at once in a symmetry as clear as it will be, in our future work, secure and suggestive.
Faunus, the satyrs, and nymphs, "Sicco Dryades pede Naides udo," are present. The rivers stay their course; the winds are hushed; the oxen forget their pasture; the bee steadies itself on poised wing to listen. An amoebean contest ensues, in which the rivals closely imitate those of Virgil's seventh eclogue, singing against one another in stanzas of four lines.
Assuredly no one will ever find in this so-called English antitype of the Curé of Meudon any of the deeper qualities of that gloomy and commanding spirit which has been finely compared to the "soul of Rabelais habitans in sicco."
One ......... Bani. Two ......... Fillo. Three ......... Sicco. Four ......... Narrato. Five ......... Karrago. Six ......... Toomo. Seven ......... Nero. Eight ......... Sego. Nine ......... Kabbo. Ten ......... Tamo. Twenty......... Tamo di fillo.
Volto ritrorso; scilicet, versus ortum suum, vel contra: el mar fugire; idest, et Mare Rubrum fugere hinc inde, quando fecit viam populo Dei, qui transivit sicco pede: fu qui mirabile a vedere; idest, miraculosius, chel soccorso que, idest, quam esset mirabile succursum divinum hic venturum ad puniendos perversos."
One, Bani. Two, Fillo. Three, Sicco. Four, Narrato. Five, Karrago. Six, Toomo. Seven, Nero. Eight, Sego. Nine, Kabbo. Ten, Tamo. Twenty, Tamo di Fillo. We arrived at Joag, the frontier town of this kingdom, on the 24th of December, and took up our residence at the house of the chief man, who is here no longer known by the title of alkaid, but is called the dooty.
"Tenuis, in sicco." How literally the words apply, as to the native streams, so to the early states or establishings of the great cities of the world.
There is not even what Coleridge with such exquisite happiness defined as being the quintessential property of Swift "anima Rabelaesii habitans in sicco the soul of Rabelais dwelling in a dry place." It is the fallen soul of Swift himself at its lowest, dwelling in a place yet drier: the familiar spirit or less than Socratic daemon of the Dean informing the genius of Shakespeare.
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