Chrysippus It cripples; it ties the tongue, and turns the brain. Nay, I have but to will it, and you are stone this instant. Seventh Dealer Stone! You are no Perseus, friend? Chrysippus See here. A stone is a body? Seventh Dealer Yes. Chrysippus Well, and an animal is a body?

 Seventh Dealer Yes. Chrysippus And you are an animal? Seventh Dealer I suppose I am. Chrysippus ‘Therefore you are a body. Therefore a stone. Seventh Dealer Mercy, in Heaven’s name! Unstone me, and let me be flesh as heretofore. Chrysippus That is soon done. Back with you into flesh! Thus:
Is every body animate? Seventh Dealer No. Chrysippus Is a stone animate? Seventh Dealer No. Chrysippus Now, you are a body? Seventh Dealer Yes. Chrysippus And an animate body? Seventh Dealer Yes. Chrysippus Then being animate, you cannot be a stone. Seventh Dealer Ah! thank you, thank you. I was beginning to feel my limbs growing numb and solidifying like Niobe’s. Oh, I must have you. What’s to pay? Heraclitus Fifty pounds. Seventh Dealer Here it is. Heraclitus Are you sole purchaser? Seventh Dealer Not I. All these gentlemen here are going shares. Heraclitus A fine strapping lot of fellows, and will do the ‘Reaper’ credit.