‘Cease, goddesses of Thespia,’ said one of these sisters to us, as we met her in the Yale of Tempe; ‘cease to pretend that your voices only are divine. […] The Greeks held the island of Delos in high honour, for Apollo was their favourite deity, and they sent offerings to him yearly to Delos, because that island had been the refuge of Latona, and the birth-place of her divine children, Apollo acquired the use of the bow and arrow, by shooting at the fleet and timid animals of the island of Delos. […] Io instantly recognised the silver tones which had first accosted her in her return from her paternal home, and thus stopped, she listened with trembling to her divine admirer. […] Syrinx was a worshipper of Diana, and that goddess forbade her followers to listen to any male, either divine or human. […] Condescend, divine Apollo, to vindicate the words of my mother, who asserts that her child derives his birth from the gods, as certainly as that Egyptian does.”

150 Ci uniamo per rammemorare le divine Scritture : chè la qualità de’presenti tempi ci necessita ad insegnare e a riconoscere la verità. […] Discorrono in quella guisa che discorre chi sa che il suo Signore l’ascolta ; poichè, data l’acqua alle mani, e posti i lumi, e invitato ciascuno a cantare al Signore o qualche cosa delle divine Scritture, o di proprio genio ; quindi si prova come veramente abbia bevuto.