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Then a deep bass voice called out, "Ha! there is Christian flesh here! Ha! there is Christian flesh!" Cur, mi Deus? The spell by knotting the girdle is noticed by Virgil, 8th eclogue: "Necte tribus nodis ternos Amarylli colores; Necte Amarylli modo, et Veneris die vincula necto."
Into the archbishop's eyes came a look of tenderness that yet seemed tinged by a vague fear, as he laid his free hand on the bent head and gave his blessing, "Deus te benedicet, meum filium. May you fulfil your hopes for my people in safety!" Very slightly the old man's voice broke.
But the natural power of a story is diminished when the uppermost purpose in the writer seems to be to recommend something else, namely, Religion. You know what Horace says of the Deus intersit? I am not able to explain myself, you must do it for me. I wrote only the "Witch Aunt," the "First Going to Church," and the final story about "A little Indian girl" in a ship.
Here, bring me the candle, you cowardly villains! By Heaven, something sighs on the outside!" As he spoke, he let go the handle of the parlour door, and stepped back a pace or two into the apartment, with cheeks as pale as the band he wore. "Deus adjutor meus!" said the Presbyterian clergyman, rising from his seat.
He staggered, passed his hand across his eyes, looked again, muttered a curse, and all his features were violently contorted. "Well, die then!" he hissed between his teeth. "No one shall have you." Then, raising his hand over the gypsy, he exclaimed in a funereal voice: "I nunc, anima anceps, et sit tibi Deus misenicors!"* * "Go now, soul, trembling in the balance, and God have mercy upon thee."
We are tempted to conclude that Leibniz has introduced the Deus ex machina with the fatal facility of his age. 'Where a little further meditation on the characters in the play would furnish a natural dénouement, he swings divine intervention on to the scene by wires from the ceiling. It is easy for us to reconstruct for him the end of the piece without recourse to stage-machines. Is it?
In speaking to Nestor, Agamemnon awakens sympathy: "Me, of all the Achaeans, Zeus has set in toil and labour ceaselessly." They are almost the very words of Charlemagne in the Chanson de Roland: "Deus, Dist li Reis, si peneuse est ma vie." The author of the Doloneia consistently conforms to the character of Agamemnon as drawn in the rest of the Iliad.
Deus lumen cordis mei, non te amabam, et haec non flebam, sed flebam Didonem exstinctam, ferroque extrema secutam, sequens ipse extrema condita tua relicto te! To the graver and more matured mind of Dante, Virgil was the lord and master who, even though shut out from Paradise, was the chosen and honoured minister of God.
In a sense, I looked upon his presence as a perfect godsend to us, as he came in most appropriately as a Deus ex machinâ to create the character of Barbarossa's invented friend.
I studied it, and it did me a great deal of good. It both strengthened my faith in Christ, and increased my love to Him. Still later I read Ecce Deus with pleasure and profit. The book however that did me most good was the Bible. I came to it continually, as to an overflowing fountain, and drank of its waters with ever-increasing delight.
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