The Unexpected Encounter

a Socrates, a Raphael, a Guido Guido Reni, Italian painter., a Cortona Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter., a Le Brun Charles Le Brun, French painter., a Poussin Nicolas Poussin, French painter., a Van Dyck, a Teniers David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter., an Albani Francesco Albani, Italian painter., a Rubens, a Gnome, an Undine, a Sylph, a Salamander Four types of elemental spirits from alchemy., in a word, a supernatural being.

,, My soul is agitated by a celestial transport.
,, My bold, my learned & my divine brush,
,, As the famous Prometheus once did,
,, Steals its torch from astonished Olympus.
,, To my rivals I abandon the Earth;
,, Raise your nose, open your eyes:
,, To paint the effect of Thunder,
,, I am going to fly into the Heavens.
,, My soul is agitated by a celestial transport, etc.

Farewell, my dear friends, farewell, I am flying off.
(He makes a kind of fermata on "I am flying off", & exits into the wings while acting like a bird that is flying.)

SCENE IV.

EH well! brother, what do you say to that? You will admit that there are hardly any French Painters madder than that one: he is an excellent subject for the society. We like to laugh, & such a man, as you see, will perfectly earn with that price what his upkeep might cost us.

Provided that his illness is not catching, I will be charmed to have him among us.

Oh! you have not seen everything yet; two hours will not pass before he gives us an even more complete pleasure. Prepare yourself to laugh.

Ah well, tell me now about the secrets of the Brotherhood & the duties of a Calender.