The religious ideas of late Renaissance alchemists were based on the Paracelsian theosophical system, which was a half-pagan, half-Christian belief system, both a mystical path and a theurgic practice.

The wind blows and the hemlocks wave their feathery leading shoots. Such a graceful profile, so elegant a tree.

Some fine day we may have the country raised, and the gendarmes down upon us from Strasburg, and all owing to your pretty doll, with her cunning ways of coming over you.

Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.