Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.].

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
1899
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Credit: Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    longed for constant change, and inspired with a prodigious thirst for knowledge, the regular routine soon got irksome, and leaving the university before completing his term for graduation, he set out to travel and gather all the experience he could. His profound love for the occult sciences, as time went on, led him to be regarded as a magician, who could work wonders and cures beyond the reach of the ordinary practitioners. Thus, as his fame increased, the physicians became greatly embittered against him, and de- nounced him as a charlatan and empiric. And so he roved from place to place, rarely remaining more than a few months in any city, but preferring to roam at his own free will from one country to another, mixing with all kinds of people, from bandits, gipsies, and fortune-tellers, to great nobles and princes. Thus he wandered once more to Nuremberg, which he hadn’t visited since his youth. The story of the attempt to carry off Dulcie and her rescue, was soon noised about the city. The burghers discussed it in the market-place, and angry murmurs against