1st GENTLEMAN: You were afraid?! 2nd GENTLEMAN: Indeed I was. The crust of the earth is exceedingly thin: when I see such a hole I'm always afraid I might fall right through. We must tread very carefully, it could give way beneath us.

Translated by John Reddick, Complete Plays, Lenz and Other Writings, Danton's Death, Act II, Scene II (p. 33), Penguin Books. 1993