I now passed several days in such solitude and pondered
over the question how I could remedy my affairs, it occurred to me
how Medea had revived the dead body of Aeson, and I thought to
myself, "If Medea could do such a thing, why should such a thing
fail me?" I began at once to bethink me how I would do it, found
however no better way than that I should persist with continual
warmth until the waters disappeared, and I might see again the
corpses of our lovers. As I hoped to come off without danger and
with great advantage and praise I went on with my warmth that I
had begun and continued it forty whole days, as I was aware that
the water kept on diminishing the longer I kept it up, and the
corpses that were yet as black as coal, began again to be visible.
And truly this would have occurred before if the chamber had not
been all too securely locked and bolted. Which I yet did not avail
to open. For I noted particularly that the water that rose and
hastened to the clouds, collected above in the chamber and fell
down like rain, so that nothing could come of it, until our
bridegroom with his dearest bride, dead and rotten, and therefore
hideously stinking, lay before my eyes.

All the while the sunshine in the moist weather caused an
exceedingly beautiful rainbow to be seen, in the chamber, with
surprisingly beautiful colors, which overjoyed not a little my
overpowering affliction. Much more was I delighted that I saw my
two lovers lying before me again. But as no joy is so great but is
mixed with much sadness, so I was troubled in my joy thinking that
my charges lay still dead before me, and one could trace no life
in them. But because I knew that their chamber was made of such
pure and thick material, also so tight-locked that their soul and
spirit could not get out, but was still closely guarded within, I
continued with my steady warmth day and night, to perform my
delegated office, quite impressed with the fact that the two would
not return to their bodies, as long as the moisture continued. For
in the moist state nature keeps itself the same, as I then also
found in fact and in truth. For I was aware upon careful
examination that from the earth at evening through the power of
the sun, many vapors arose and drew themselves up just as the sun
draws water. They were condensed in