Our humbler province is to tend the Fair, / Not a leſs pleaſing, tho’ leſs glorious care ; / To ſave the powder from too rude a gale, / Nor let th’ impriſon’d eſſences exhale[…]

Then thus incensed, the Paphian queen replies: / Obey the power from whom thy glories rise: / Should Venus leave thee, every charm must fly, / Fade from thy cheek, and languish in thy eye. / Cease to provoke me, lest I make thee more / The world’s aversion, than their love before; / Now the bright prize for which mankind engage, / Than, the sad victim, of the public rage.

This pleading, in and through the cross of Christ, makes us worthy to be heard, and this opening of the mouth therefore takes us through all of this to the divine conspection, the presence of the Presence, into the holy of holies, the sanctuary itself, the heart of the temple, the eternal liturgy of the Son offered to the Father.

Hand sections of the ascomatal wall were studied in 3% KOH. All measurements were made in Melzer’s reagent.