A living drollery. Now I will believe
That there are unicorns, that in Arabia
There is one tree, the phoenix’ throne, one phoenix
At this hour reigning there.
– William Shakespeare
The Tempest, Act 3, Scene 3. An invisible Prospero and a group of spirits enter, bringing a banquet of food on a table and dancing around it with gestures of welcome, inviting the royal party to eat. Sebastian calls the spectacle a live puppet show. He cries out that he now believes unicorns exist and there’s a tree in Arabia where the phoenix lives.