Cyrano.
Or (since fumes have property to mount)
To charge a globe with fumes, sufficiently
To carry me aloft !
De Guiche
[same play, more and more astonished].
Well, that makes four !
Cyrano.
Or smear myself with marrow from a bull,
Since, at the lowest point of Zodiac,
Phoebus well loves to suck that marrow up !
DB GUICHK
[amazed].
Five!
Cyrano.
[who, while speaking, had drawn him to the other side of the square near a bench].
Sitting on an iron platform - thence
To throw a magnet in the air. This is
A method well conceived - the magnet flown
Infallibly the iron will pursue :
Then quick ! relaunch your magnet, and you thus
Can mount and mount unmeasured distances !
De Guiche.
Here are six excellent expedients !
Which of the six chose you ?
Cyrano.
Why, none ! - a seventh !
