mögen sie sich vergnügen mit meinem Blut, from Crete he sailed to Asia, with design, as is said, to examine the difference betwixt the manners and rules of life of the Cretans, which were very sober and temperate, and those of the Ionians, a people of sumptuous and delicate habits, and so to form a judgment, just as physicians do by comparing healthy and diseased bodies, Derweil, wir bestaunen die geschnitzte Kanzel, über der sich, wie ein flacher Riesenpilz, ein weites mächtiges Dach ausstreckt,