Amid that scene, if ſome relenting eye Glance on the ſtone where our cold reliques lie.

Dissemble all your griefs and discontents.

It is apparent that there be three kinds of Frogs of the earth, the firſt is the little greene Frog: the ſecond is this Padocke, hauing a crooke back, called in Latine Rubeta Gibboſa, and the third is the Toade, commonly called Rubotax, Bufo. […] As ſoone as theſe Paddocks come once into the ayre, out of their cloſe places of generation and habitation, they ſvvell and ſo die.

It's the same with Wagner's operas (apart from Dutchman) - one is either a Ringnut or completely indifferent.