Discourse on Curious Matters

three-fold Creator should testify) This concludes the sentence from the previous page: "...all works from a three-fold Creator should testify." intended to represent what may be found therein; and they would at the same time consider themselves fortunate if Mr. Marin would continue to show himself inclined to promote their delights of the soul regarding such divine & natural mysteries Latin: divina & naturalia mysteria—secrets pertaining to both God and the physical world, as they would then venture to reveal where their thoughts were occupied.

Mr. Marin, on the other hand, considered himself too insignificant to be able to satisfy them; he feared rather that his merely simple and plainly delivered accounts would prove tedious; yet, as he was at all times bound to obey Mr. Simplicius and Anthony, their command would serve him as a precise guideline original: Richtschnur—literally a "measuring line" used by builders to ensure a straight path; here meaning a standard for his behavior for what he should further observe original: observiren—to follow, comply with, or pay attention to regarding them.

Mr. Simplicius and Anthony recalled their previous agreement, and therefore they asked him to maintain a spirit of kind affection, as this would then not allow them to be put to shame—lest they might perhaps abuse the freedom granted to them and further incommode original: incommodiren—to inconvenience or trouble Mr. Marin through their eager curiosity original: Curiosität.

Marin answered, in witness thereof,