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You have beheld this, not ten times, not a thousand times, but ever; you have beheld the magnificence of the earth curing the affliction of the soul, and the joy of the soul compensating for the desolation of things; the alternating dance of Nature, who gives her left hand to Job and her right to Sardanapalus. AHASVERUS. What do you know of my life? Nothing; you are ignorant of human existence.
You will not be spared a jot of your destiny; it will be fulfilled to the letter. You yourself will be the new Hercules. I, who announced the glory of the other, now proclaim yours; and you will be no less generous than he. AHASVERUS. Are you mad? PROMETHEUS. The truth unknown to man is the madness of him who proclaims it. Proceed, and have done. AHASVERUS. Glory pays nothing, and dies.
PROMETHEUS. Hercules. AHASVERUS. Hercules ... See whether he will repeat his service now that you are to be bound anew. PROMETHEUS. You are raving. AHASVERUS. The sky gave you your first punishment, now earth will give you the second and the last. Not even Hercules will ever be able to break these fetters.
After having referred to a report that Paracelsus was not dead, but was seated alive, asleep or napping, in his sepulchre at Strasburg, preserved from death by some of his specifics, Labavius declares that he would sooner believe in the old man, the Jew, Ahasverus, wandering over the world, called by some Buttadaeus, and otherwise, again, by others.
AHASVERUS. Of a race divine, then? PROMETHEUS. You have said it. AHASVERUS. I do not know you; but what matters it that I do not? You are not a human being; then I may die; for I am the last and I close the gate of life. PROMETHEUS. Life, like ancient Thebes, has a hundred gates. You close one, and others will open. You are the last of your species?
AHASVERUS. And time, which gnaws all things, does not desire them, then? PROMETHEUS. They were wrought by a divine hand. Vulcan forged them. Two emissaries from heaven came to secure me to the rock, and an eagle, like that which now is flying across the horizon, kept gnawing at my liver without ever consuming it. This lasted for time beyond my reckoning. No, no, you cannot imagine this torture ...
PROMETHEUS. Poor, ignorant wretch, who rejects a throne! No, you cannot reject it. AHASVERUS. Now it is you who are raving. Kneel, and let me manacle your arms. So, 'tis well you will resist no more. Bend this way; now your legs ... PROMETHEUS. Have done, have done. It is the passions of earth turning upon me; but I, who am not a human being, do not know ingratitude.
Said Simon, "I hear a tumult an outcry of a crowd what has happened in the city? I will keep quiet a little perhaps my ears have deceived me." Jesus had fallen faint and had staggered against the house of Ahasverus and was there endeavoring to support himself. The third executioner said to him roughly, "It is no use thy fainting. Thou must keep on to Golgotha."
Everything is confused in my wearied retina. PROMETHEUS. But nothing pained you personally; and what about me, from time immemorial suffering the wrath of the gods? AHASVERUS. You? PROMETHEUS. My name is Prometheus. AHASVERUS. You! Prometheus! PROMETHEUS. And what was my crime? Out of clay and water I made the first men, and afterwards, seized with compassion, I stole for them fire from the sky.
Then Ahasverus came out of his house and said, "Be off from my house; here is no place for resting." Simon, who was listening without being able to see the cause of the commotion, said, "The noise waxes louder. I must hasten to see what it is. What comes there? Ah, I cannot get in here. I will wait and see what happens."
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