They do well to amuse an idle hour.

The end of both is interesting.

That of the first, which begins with stanza lix., discusses the question: "Who cares, how such a mediocrity as Rene lived after the fame of his prophecy died out ?"[11] And Browning answers-- Well, I care--intimately care to have Experience how a human creature felt In after life, who bore the burthen grave Of certainly believing God had dealt For once directly with him: did not rave -- A maniac, did not find his reason melt -- An idiot, but went on, in peace or strife, The world's way, lived an ordinary life.
The solution Browning offers is interesting, because it recalls a part of the experiences of Lazarus in the _Epistle to Karshish_.

Rene, like Lazarus, but only for a moment, has lived in the eternal.
Are such revelations possible, is his second question.

Yes, he answers; and the form of the answer belongs to the theory of life laid down in _Paracelsus_.