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Doctor Faustus
2017
Director: Paul Reisman
Dramaturg: Claire Kimball
Artistic Director: Charlene V. Smith
Resident Dramaturg: Claire Kimball
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Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
directed by
Paul Reisman
October 2017
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PROLOGUE
Enter Chorus.
CHORUS Not marching now in elds of Trasimene,!
Where Mars did mate the Carthaginians,!
Nor sporting in the dalliance of love,!
In courts of Kings where state is over-turn’d,!
Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds,!
Intends our Muse to daunt his heavenly verse:!
Only this, Gentles: we must perform,!
e form of Faustus fortunes good or bad.!
And now to patient judgements we appeal,!
And speak for Faustus in her infancy.!
Now is she borne, her parents base of stock,!
In Germany, within a Town cal’d Rhodes:!
Of riper years to Wittenberg she went,!
Whereas her kinsmen chiey brought her vp,!
So soon she prots in Divinity,!
at shortly she was graced with Doctors name,!
Excelling all, whose sweet delight disputes!
In heavenly matters of eology,!
Till swollen with cunning, of a self conceit,!
Her waxen wings did mount above her reach,!
And melting, heavens conspired her overthrow.!
For falling to a devilish exercise,!
And glutted more with learnings golden gis,!
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She surfeits upon cursed Necromancy:!
Nothing so sweet as Magic is to her!
Which she prefers before her chiefest bliss,!
And here the doctor in her study sits.
SCENE I.i
FAUSTUS Settle thy studies Faustus, and begin!
To sound the depth of that thou wilt profess.!
Having commenced, be a divine in show,!
Yet level at the end of every art!
And live and die in Aristotle’s works.!
Sweet Analytics, ’tis thou hast ravished me.!
Bene disserere est nis logices.!
Is to dispute well logic’s chiefest end?!
Aords this art no greater miracle?!
en read no more; thou hast attained that end.!
A greater subject tteth Faustus’ wit.!
Bid economy farewell, and Galen come.!
Be a physician, Faustus; heap up gold!
And be eternized for some wondrous cure.!
Summum bonum medicinae sanitas:!
e end of physic is our body’s health:!
Why, Faustus, hast thou not attained that end?!
Are not thy bills hung up as monuments,!
Whereby whole cities have escaped the plague!
And thousand desperate maladies been cured?!
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Yet art thou still but Faustus and a [maid].!
Could’st thou make men to live eternally,!
Or being dead, raise them to life again,!
en this profession were to be esteemed.!
Physic farewell. !
When all is done, divinity is best;!
Jerome’s Bible, Faustus, view it well.!
Stipendium peccati, mors est. Ha! Stipendium, &c:
e reward of sin is death? at’s hard.!
Si peccasse, negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis
veritas. !
If we say that we have no sin, !
We deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us. !
Why then belike we must sin, !
And so consequently die.!
Ay, we must die, an everlasting death.!
What doctrine call you this: Che sera, sera,!
What will be, shall be? Divinity, adieu.!
ese metaphysics of magicians!
And necromantic books are heavenly;!
Lines, circles, scenes, letters and characters.!
Ay, these are those that Faustus most desires.!
O what a world of prot and delight,!
Of power, of honour, and omnipotence!
Is promised to the studious artisan?!
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All things that move between the quiet poles!
Shall be at my command. Emperors and Kings,!
Are but obeyed in their several provinces,!
But her dominion that exceeds in this,!
Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man:!
A sound magician is a demi-god.!
Here Faustus try thy brains to gain a deity.
(Enter Wagner.)
Wagner, commend me to my dearest friends,!
Request them earnestly to visit me.
WAGNER I will sir.
(Exit.)
FAUSTUS eir conference will be a greater help to me,!
en all my labours, plod I ne’er so fast.
(Enter the Good Angel and Evil Angel.)
GOOD ANGEL O Faustus, lay that damned book aside,!
And gaze not on it least it tempt thy soul!
And heap God’s heavy wrath upon thy head.!
Read, read the scriptures: that is blasphemy.
BAD ANGEL Go forward, Faustus, in that famous art!
Wherein all nature’s treasure is contained.!
Be thou on earth as Jove is in the sky,!
Lord and Commander of these elements.
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(Exeunt Angels.)
FAUSTUS How am I glutted with conceit of this!!
Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please,!
Resolve me of all ambiguities,!
Perform what desperate enterprise I will?!
I’ll have them y to India for gold,!
Ransack the ocean for orient pearl,!
And search all corners of the new-found world!
For pleasant fruits, and princely delicates.!
I’ll have them read me strange philosophy,!
And tell the secrets of all foreign Kings.!
I’ll have them wall all Germany with brass,!
And make swi Rhine circle fair Wittenberg.!
I’ll have them ll the public schools with silk,!
Wherewith the students shall be bravely clad.!
I’ll levy soldiers with the coin they bring,!
And chase the Prince of Parma from our land,!
And reign sole king of all the provinces.
(Enter Valdes and Cornelius)
Come, German Valdes and Cornelius,!
And make me blest with your sage conference. !
Valdes, sweet Valdes and Cornelius! !
Know that your words have won me at the last!
To practice magic and concealed arts.!
Philosophy is odious and obscure.!
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Both law and physic are for petty wits.!
Divinity is basest of the three,!
Tis magic, magic that hath ravished me.!
en gentle friends aid me in this attempt,!
And I will be as cunning as Agrippa was,!
Whose shadow made all Europe honour him.
VALDES Faustus, these books, thy wit, and our experience,!
Shall make all nations to canonize us,!
So shall the spirits of every element!
Be always serviceable to us three.!
Like lions shall they guard us when we please,!
Or Lapland giants trotting by our sides.!
Sometimes like women or unwedded maids,!
Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows!
an has the white breasts of the queen of love.!
From Venice shall they drag huge argosies,!
And from America the golden eece,!
If learned Faustus will be resolute.
FAUSTUS Valdes, as resolute am I in this,!
As thou to live, therefore object it not.
CORNELIUS e miracles that magic will perform!
Will make thee vow to study nothing else.!
She that is grounded in Astrology,!
Enriched with tongues, well seen in minerals,!
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Hath all the principles magic doth require.!
en doubt not, Faustus, but to be renowned,!
And more frequented for this mystery,!
en heretofore the Delphian oracle.!
e spirits tell me they can dry the sea,!
And fetch the treasure of all foreign wracks,!
Yea, all the wealth that our fore-fathers hid!
Within the messy entrails of the earth;!
en tell me, Faustus, what shall we three want?
FAUSTUS Nothing Cornelius. O this cheers my soul.!
Come, show me some demonstrations magical,!
at I may conjure in some bushy grove,!
And have these joys in full possession.
VALDES en haste thee to some solitary grove,!
And bear wise Bacon’s, and Albanus’ works,!
e Hebrew Psalter, and New Testament—
CORNELIUS Valdes, rst let her know the words of art,!
And then all other ceremonies learned,!
Faustus may try her cunning by himself.
VALDES First I’ll instruct thee in the rudiments,!
And then wilt thou be perfecter then I.
FAUSTUS en come and dine with me, and aer meat!
We’ll canvass every quiddity thereof;!
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For ere I sleep, I’ll try what I can do:!
is night I’ll conjure though I die therefore.
(Exeunt.)
SCENE I.ii
(Enter three Scholars.)
FIRST SCHOLAR I wonder what’s become of Faustus that was wont!
To make our schools ring, with sic probo.
(Enter Wagner)
SECOND SCHOLAR at shall we presently know, here comes her boy.
THIRD SCHOLAR How now, sirrah! Where’s thy master?
WAGNER God in heaven knows.
SECOND SCHOLAR Why dost not thou know then?
WAGNER Yes, I know, but that follows not.
FIRST SCHOLAR Go to, sirrah; leave your jesting and tell us where she
is.
WAGNER at follows not by force of argument, which!
you, being licentiates, should stand upon. erefore,
acknowledge your error, and be attentive.
THIRD SCHOLAR en you will not tell us?
WAGNER You are deceived, for I will tell you. Yet if you were
not dunces, you would never ask me such a
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question. For is she not Corpus naturale? And is not
that mobile? en wherefore should you ask me
such a question? But that I am by nature phlegmatic,
slow to wrath, and prone to lechery (to love I would
say) it were not for you to come within forty foot of
the place of execution, although I do not doubt but
to see you both hanged the next sessions. us,
having triumphed over you, I will set my
countenance like a precision, and begin to speak
thus: truly my dear brethren, my master is within at
dinner, with Valdes and Cornelius, as this wine, if it
could speak, would inform your worships. And so!
the Lord bless you, preserve you, and keep you, my
dear brethren.
(Exit.)
FIRST SCHOLAR O Faustus, then I fear it which I have long suspected:!
at thou art fallen into that damned art!
For which they two are infamous through the world.
SECOND SCHOLAR Were she a stranger, not allied to me,!
e danger of her soul would make me mourn.
THIRD SCHOLAR I fear me, nothing will reclaim her now.
SECOND SCHOLAR Yet let us see what we can do.
(Exeunt.)
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SCENE I.iii
(Enter Faustus to conjure. under.)
FAUSTUS Now that the gloomy shadow of the night,!
Leaps from th’Antarctic world unto the sky,!
Faustus, begin thine incantations!
And try if devils will obey thy hest,!
Seeing thou hast prayed and sacriced to them.!
Within this circle is Jehovah’s name,!
Forward, and backward, anagrammatised:!
’abbreviated names of holy saints,!
Figures of every adjunct to the heavens,!
And characters of signs, and evening stars,!
By which the spirits are enforced to rise.!
en fear not, Faustus, to be resolute!
And try the utmost magic can perform.
(under.)
Sint mihi Dei Acherontis propitii! Valeat numen
triplex Jehovae! Ignei aerii, aquatani, spiritus, salvete!
Orientis princeps Beelzebub, inferni ardentis
monarcha, et Demigorgon, propitiamus vos, ut
appareat, et surgat Mephistophilis.Quid tu moraris?
per Jehovam, gehennam, et consecratam aquam quam
nunc spargo; signumque crucis quod nunc facio, et per
vota nostra, ipse nunc surgat nobis dicatus
Mephistophilis!
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(Enter a Devil.)
I charge thee to return, and change thy shape.!
ou art too ugly to attend on me.
(Exit Devil)
I see there’s virtue in my heavenly words.!
Who would not be procient in this art?
(Enter Mephistophilis.)
How pliant is this Mephistophilis?!
Full of obedience and humility,!
Such is the force of magic and my spells.
MEPHISTOPHILIS Now, Faustus, what would’st thou have me do?
FAUSTUS I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live!
To do what ever Faustus shall command.!
Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere,!
Or the ocean to overwhelm the world.
MEPHISTOPHILIS I am a servant to great Lucifer,!
And may not follow thee without his leave.!
No more than he commands must we perform.
FAUSTUS Did not he charge thee to appear to me?
MEPHISTOPHILIS No, I came now hither of mine owe accord.
FAUSTUS Did not my conjuring raise thee? Speak.
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MEPHISTOPHILIS at was the cause, but yet per accidens;!
For when we hear one rack the name of God,!
Abjure the scriptures, and his Savior Christ,!
We y in hope to get his/her glorious soul;!
Nor will we come, unless s/he use such means!
Whereby s/he is in danger to be damned.!
erefore the shortest cut for conjuring!
Is stoutly to abjure all godliness!
And pray devoutly to the Prince of Hell.
FAUSTUS So Faustus hath already done, and holds this principle:!
ere is no chief but only Beelzebub,!
To whom Faustus doth dedicate herself.!
is word Damnation terries not me,!
For I confound hell in Elysium;!
My ghost be with the old philosophers.!
But leaving these vain tries of men’s souls,!
Tell me, what is that Lucifer, thy Lord?
MEPHISTOPHILIS Arch-regent and commander of all spirits.
FAUSTUS Was not that Lucifer an angel once?
MEPHISTOPHILIS Yes, Faustus, and most dearly loved of God.
FAUSTUS How comes it then that he is Prince of Devils?
MEPHISTOPHILIS O, by aspiring pride and insolence,!
For which God threw him from the face of heaven.
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FAUSTUS And what are you that live with Lucifer?
MEPHISTOPHILIS Unhappy spirits that live with Lucifer,!
Conspired against our God with Lucifer,!
And are for ever damned with Lucifer.
FAUSTUS Where are you damned?
MEPHISTOPHILIS In hell.
FAUSTUS How comes it then that thou art out of hell?
MEPHISTOPHILIS Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.!
ink’st thou that I that saw the face of God!
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven!
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,!
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?!
O, Faustus, leave these frivolous demands,!
Which strike a terror to my fainting soul.
FAUSTUS What, is great Mephistophilis so passionate!
For being deprived of the joys of heaven?!
Go bear these tidings to great Lucifer:!
Seeing Faustus hath incurred eternal death!
By desperate thoughts against Jove’s deity,!
Say she surrenders up to him her soul,!
So he will spare her four and twenty years,!
Letting her live in all voluptuousness,!
Having thee ever to attend on me,!
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To give me whatsoever I shall ask,!
To tell me whatsoever I demand,!
To slay mine enemies and to aid my friends,!
And always be obedient to my will.!
Go, and return to mighty Lucifer,!
And meet me in my study at midnight,!
And then resolve me of thy master’s mind.
MEPHISTOPHILIS I will, Faustus.
(Exit.)
FAUSTUS Had I as many souls as there be stars,!
I’d give them all for Mephistophilis.!
By her I’ll be great Emperor of the world,!
And make a bridge through the moving air!
To pass the ocean with a band of men.!
e Emperor shall not live but by my leave,!
Nor any Potentate of Germany.!
Now that I have obtained what I desired!
I’ll live in speculation of this art!
Till Mephistophilis return again. (Exit.)
SCENE I.iv
(Enter Wagner and [Robin] the Clown.)
WAGNER Come hither sirrah boy.
ROBIN Boy? O disgrace to my person. Zounds! Boy in your
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face! You have seen many boys with beards I am
sure.
WAGNER Sirrah, hast thou no comings in?
ROBIN Yes, and goings out too, you may see sir.
WAGNER Alas poor slave. See how poverty jests in his
nakedness. I know the villain’s out of service and so
hungry that I know he would give his soul to the
devil for a shoulder of mutton, though it were blood
raw.
ROBIN Not so neither; I had need to have it well roasted,
and good sauce to it, if I pay so dear, I can tell you.
WAGNER Sirrah, wilt thou be my man and wait on me? And I
will make thee go, like Qui mihi discipulus.
ROBIN What, in verse?
WAGNER No, slave, in beaten silk, and stavesacre.
ROBIN Stavesacre? at’s good to kill vermin. en belike if
I serve you I shall be lousy.
WAGNER Why, so thou shalt be, whether thou dost it or no.
For, sirrah, if thou dost not presently bind thyself to
me for seven years, I’ll turn all the lice about thee
into familiars, and make them tear thee in pieces.
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ROBIN Nay, sir, you may save yourself a labor, for they are
as familiar with me, as if they paid for their meat
and drink, I can tell you.
WAGNER Well, sirrah, leave your jesting, and take these
guilders.
ROBIN Yes, marry, sir, and I thank you too.
WAGNER So, now thou art to be at an hour’s warning,
whensoever and wheresoever the devil shall fetch
thee.
ROBIN Here, take your guilders; I’ll none of ’em.
WAGNER Not I. ou art pressed. Prepare thyself, for I will
presently raise up two devils to carry thee away:
Baliol, Belcher!
ROBIN Belcher and Belcher come here. I’ll belch him. I am
not afraid of a devil.
(Enter two Devils.)
WAGNER How now, sir, will you serve me now?
ROBIN Ay, good Wagner, take away the devil then.
WAGNER Spirits, away! Now, sirrah, follow me.
ROBIN I will sir, but hark you master, you teach me this
conjuring occupation?
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WAGNER Ay, sirrah, I’ll teach thee to turn thyself to a dog, or a
cat, or a mouse, or a rat, or anything.
ROBIN A dog, or a cat, or a mouse, or a rat? O, brave
Wagner.
WAGNER Villain, call me master Wagner, and see that you
walk attentively, and let your right eye be always
Diametrically xed upon my le heel, that thou
may’st, Quasi vestigias nostris insistere.
ROBIN Well, sir, I warrant you.
(Exeunt.)
SCENE II.i
(Enter Faustus in her study.)
FAUSTUS Now, Faustus, must thou needs be damned?!
Can’st thou not be saved?!
What boots it then to think on God or heaven?!
Away with such vain fancies and despair,!
Despair in God and trust in Beelzebub,!
Now go not backward, Faustus; be resolute.!
Why wavers thou? O something soundeth in mine ear.!
Abjure this magic, turn to God again.!
To God? He loves thee not.!
e God thou serv’st is thine owe appetite
(Enter the two Angels.)
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BAD ANGEL Go forward, Faustus, in that famous art.
GOOD ANGEL Sweet Faustus, leave that execrable art.
FAUSTUS Contrition, prayer, repentance? What of these?
GOOD ANGEL O, they are means to bring thee unto heaven.
BAD ANGEL Rather, illusions, fruits of lunacy,!
at make them foolish that do trust them most.
GOOD ANGEL Sweet Faustus, think of heaven and heavenly things.
BAD ANGEL No, Faustus, think of honour and of wealth.
(Exeunt Angels)
FAUSTUS Wealth? Why the signory of Embden shall be mine.!
When Mephistophilis shall stand by me,!
What power can hurt thee Faustus? ou art safe.!
Cast no more doubts; Mephistophilis,!
And bring glad tidings from great Lucifer!
Is’t not midnight? Come, Mephistophilis.!
Veni veni Mephostophile.
(Enter Mephistophilis)
Now tell me, what says Lucifer, thy Lord?
MEPHISTOPHILIS at I shall wait on Faustus whilst she lives,!
So she will buy my service with her soul.
FAUSTUS Already Faustus hath hazarded that for thee.
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MEPHISTOPHILIS But now thou must bequeath it solemnly,!
And write a deed of gi with thine owe blood,!
For that security craves Lucifer!
If thou deny it I must back to hell.
FAUSTUS Stay, Mephistophilis, and tell me,!
What good will my soul do thy Lord?
MEPHISTOPHILIS Enlarge his Kingdom.
FAUSTUS Is that the reason why he tempts us thus?
MEPHISTOPHILIS Solamen miseris, socios habuisse doloris.!
But tell me Faustus, shall I have thy soul?!
And I will be thy slave and wait on thee,!
And give thee more then thou hast wit to ask.
FAUSTUS Ay Mephistophilis, I’ll give it him.
MEPHISTOPHILIS en Faustus stab thy arm courageously,!
And bind thy soul, that at some certain day!
Great Lucifer may claim it as his owe,!
And then be thou as great as Lucifer
FAUSTUS Lo Mephistophilis, for love of thee, !
I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood!
Assure my soul to be great Lucifer’s.!
Chief Lord and Regent of perpetual night.!
View here this blood that trickles from mine arm,!
And let it be propitious for my wish.
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MEPHISTOPHILIS But, Faustus,!
Write it in manner of a deed of gi.
FAUSTUS Ay, so I do, but, Mephistophilis,!
My blood congeals, and I can write no more
MEPHISTOPHILIS I’ll fetch thee re to dissolve it straight.
Exit.
FAUSTUS What might the staying of my blood portend?!
Is it unwilling I should write this bill?!
Why streams it not that I may write afresh?!
Faustus gives to thee her soul: O there it stayed.!
Why should’st thou not? Is not thy soul thine owe?!
en write again: Faustus gives to thee her soul.
Enter Mephistophilis, with the chafer of re.
MEPHISTOPHILIS See, Faustus, here is re; set it on.
FAUSTUS So, now the blood begins to clear again.!
Now will I make an end immediately.
MEPHISTOPHILIS What will not I do to obtain her soul?
FAUSTUS Consummatum est: this bill is ended,!
And Faustus hath bequeathed her soul to Lucifer!
But what is this inscription on mine arm?!
Homo fuge! Whither should I y?!
If unto heaven, he’ll throw me down to hell.!
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My senses are deceived; here’s nothing writ:!
O yes, I see it plain, even here is writ!
Homo fuge, yet shall not Faustus y.
MEPHISTOPHILIS Speak, Faustus, do you deliver this as your deed?
FAUSTUS Ay, take it, and the devil give thee good of it.
MEPHISTOPHILIS So, now Faustus, ask me what thou wilt.
FAUSTUS First, I will question thee about hell:!
Tell me, where is the place that men call hell?
MEPHISTOPHILIS Under the heavens.
FAUSTUS Ay, so are all things else, but whereabouts?
MEPHISTOPHILIS Where we are tortured, and remain forever.!
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed!
In one self place, but where we are is hell,!
And where hell is there must we ever be.!
And to be short, when all the world dissolves,!
And every creature shall be puried,!
All places shall be hell that is not heaven.
FAUSTUS I think hell’s a fable.
MEPHISTOPHILIS Ay, think so still, till experience change thy mind.
FAUSTUS Why, dost thou think that Faustus shall be damned?
MEPHISTOPHILIS Ay, of necessity, for here’s the scroll!
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In which thou hast given thy soul to Lucifer
FAUSTUS Ay, and body too, but what of that?!
ink’st thou that Faustus is so fond to imagine!
at aer this life there is any pain?!
No, these are tries, and mere old wives tales.
MEPHISTOPHILIS But I am an instance to prove the contrary,!
For I tell thee I am damned and now in hell.
FAUSTUS Nay, and this be hell, I’ll willingly be damned.!
What sleeping, eating, walking and disputing?!
But leaving this, let me have a wife, the fairst maid in
Germany.
MEPHISTOPHILIS Well, Faustus, thou shalt have a wife.
Meph fetches in a devil.
FAUSTUS What sight is this?
MEPHISTOPHILIS Now, Faustus, wilt thou have a wife?
FAUSTUS Here’s a hot whore indeed; no, I’ll no wife.
MEPHISTOPHILIS Marriage is but a ceremonial toy,!
And if thou lov’st me think no more of it.!
I’ll cull thee out the fairst courtesans,!
And bring them every morning to thy bed.!
Whome’er thine eye shall like, thy heart shall have,!
Were she as chaste as was Penelope,!
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As wise as Saba, or as beautiful!
As was bright Lucifer before his fall.!
Here, take this book, and peruse it well.!
e iterating of these lines brings gold;!
e framing of this circle on the ground!
Brings thunder, whirl-winds, storm and lightning.!
Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thyself,!
And men in harness shall appear to thee,!
Ready to execute what thou command’st.
FAUSTUS anks, Mephistophilis, for this sweet book.!
is will I keep as chary as my life.
(Exeunt.)
Enter the Chorus.
CHORUS Learned Faustus to nd the secrets of Astronomy,!
Graven in the book of Jove’s high rmament,!
Did mount her up to scale Olympus’ top,!
Where sitting in a chariot burning bright,!
Drawn by the strength of yoked dragons’ necks;!
She views the clouds, the planets, and the stars,!
e tropic, zones, and quarters of the sky,!
From the bright circle of the horned moon,!
Even to the height of Primum Mobile.!
And whirling round with this circumference,!
Within the concave compass of the pole,!
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From east to west her dragons swily glide,!
And in eight days did bring her home again.
SCENE II.ii
Enter Faustus in her study, and Mephistophilis.
FAUSTUS When I behold the heavens then I repent!
And curse thee wicked Mephistophilis,!
Because thou hast deprived me of those joys.
MEPHISTOPHILIS Twas thine owe seeking Faustus, thank thyself.!
But think’st thou heaven is such a glorious thing?!
I tell thee, Faustus, it is not half so fair!
As thou, or any man that breath on earth.
FAUSTUS How prov’st thou that?
MEPHISTOPHILIS Twas made for man; then he’s more excellent.
FAUSTUS If it were made for man, ’twas made for me.!
I will renounce this magic and repent.
Enter the two Angels.
GOOD ANGEL Faustus, repent yet God will pity thee.
BAD ANGEL ou art a spirit; God cannot pity thee.
FAUSTUS Who buzzeth in mine ears I am a spirit?!
Be I a devil, yet God may pity me.!
Yea, God will pity me if I repent.
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BAD ANGEL Ay, but Faustus never shall repent.
Exit Angels.
FAUSTUS My heart is hardened; I cannot repent.!
Come, Mephistophilis, let us dispute again!
And reason of divine Astrology.!
Speak, are there many spheres above the Moon?!
Are all celestial bodies but one globe,!
As is the substance of this centric earth?
MEPHISTOPHILIS As are the elements, such are the heavens,!
Even from the moon unto the empirial orb,!
Mutually folded in each others spheres,!
And jointly move upon one axle-tree.
FAUSTUS ese slender questions Wagner can decide:!
Hath Mephistophilis no greater skill?!
How many heavens, or spheres, are there?
MEPHISTOPHILIS Nine, the seven planets, the rmament, and the!
empyreal heaven.
FAUSTUS But is there not coelum igneum et cristallinum?
MEPHISTOPHILIS No, Faustus, they be but fables.
FAUSTUS Resolve me then in this one question––
MEPHISTOPHILIS Per inaequalem motum, respectu totius.
FAUSTUS Well, I am answered. Now tell me, who made the
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world?
MEPHISTOPHILIS I will not.
FAUSTUS Sweet Mephistophilis, tell me.
MEPHISTOPHILIS Move me not, Faustus.
FAUSTUS Villain, have not I bound thee to tell me anything?
MEPHISTOPHILIS Ay, that is not against our kingdom.!
is is. ou art damned; think thou of hell.
FAUSTUS ink, Faustus, upon God that made the world.
MEPHISTOPHILIS Remember this.
(Exit.)
FAUSTUS Ay, go, accursed spirit, to ugly hell.!
Tis thou hast damned distressed Faustus’ soul. Is’t
not too late?
Enter the two Angels.
BAD ANGEL Too late.
GOOD ANGEL Never too late, if Faustus will repent.
BAD ANGEL If thou repent, devils will tear thee in pieces.
GOOD ANGEL Repent and they shall never raise thy skin.
(Exit Angels.)
FAUSTUS O, Christ my Savior, my Savior,!
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Help to save distressed Faustus’ soul.
Enter Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Mephistophilis.
LUCIFER Christ cannot save thy soul, for he is just.!
ere’s none but I have interest in the same.
FAUSTUS O, what art thou that look’st so terribly?
LUCIFER I am Lucifer, and this is my companion Prince in
hell.
FAUSTUS O, Faustus, they are come to fetch thy soul.
BEELZEBUB We are come to tell thee thou dost injure us.
LUCIFER ou call’st on Christ contrary to thy promise.
BEELZEBUB ou should’st not think on God.
LUCIFER ink on the devil.
BEELZEBUB And his dam too.
FAUSTUS Nor will I henceforth: Pardon me in this,!
And Faustus vows never to look to heaven.
LUCIFER So shalt thou show thy self an obedient servant,!
And we will highly gratify thee for it.
BEELZEBUB Faustus, we are come from hell in person to show!
thee some pastime. Sit down and thou shalt behold
the seven deadly sins appear to thee in their own
proper shapes and likeness.
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FAUSTUS at sight will be as pleasant to me, as Paradise was
to Adam the rst day of his creation.
LUCIFER Talk not of Paradise or creation, but mark the show.
Go, Mephistophilis, fetch them in.
Enter the Seven Deadly Sins.
BEELZEBUB Now, Faustus, question them of their names and!
dispositions.
FAUSTUS at shall I soon. What art thou the rst?
PRIDE I am Pride; I disdain to have any parents. I am like
to Ovid’s Flea; I can creep into every corner of a
wench. Sometimes, like a periwig, I sit upon her
brow. Next, like a necklace, I hang about her neck.
en, like a fan of feathers, I kiss her lips, and then
turning myself to a wrought smock do what I list.
But e, what a smell is here? I’ll not speak a word
more for a king’s ransom, unless the ground be
perfumed, and covered with cloth of arras.
FAUSTUS ou art a proud knave indeed. What art thou!
second?
COVETOUSNESS I am Covetousness, begotten of an old churl in a
leather bag, and might I now obtain my wish, this
house you and all, should turn to Gold, that I might
lock you safe into my chest. O my sweet Gold!
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FAUSTUS And what art thou the third?
ENVY I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper, and an
oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all
books burned. I am lean with seeing others eat. O
that there would come a famine over all the world,
that all might die, and I live alone, then thou
should’st see how fat I’d be. But must thou sit, and I
stand? Come down with a vengeance.
FAUSTUS Out envious wretch. But what art thou the fourth?
WRATH I am Wrath. I had neither father nor mother; I leapt
out of a lion’s mouth when I was scarce an hour old,
and ever since have run up and down the world with
these case of rapiers, wounding myself when I could
get none to ght withal. I was born in hell, and look
to it, for some of you shall be my father.
FAUSTUS And what art thou the h?
GLUTTONY I am Gluttony; my parents are all dead, and the devil
a penny they have le me but a small pension, and
that buys me thirty meals a day, and ten beavers: a
small trie to suce nature. I come of a royal
pedigree, my father was a gammon of bacon, and
my mother was a Hogshead of claret wine. My
godfathers were these: Peter-Pickled-herring, and
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Martin Martlemasse-beef: But my godmother, O she
was an ancient gentlewoman. Her name was
Margery March-beer. Now, Faustus, thou hast heard
all my progeny; wilt thou bid me to supper?
FAUSTUS Not I.
GLUTTONY en the devil choke thee.
FAUSTUS Choke thyself glutton. What art thou the sixth?
SLOTH Hey ho, I am Sloth. I was begotten on a sunny bank,
where I have lain ever since, and you have done me
great injury to bring me from thence. Let me be
carried thither again by Gluttony and Lechery. Hey
ho, I’ll not speak a word more for a king’s ransom.
FAUSTUS And what are you Mistress Minx, the seventh and
last?
LECHERY Who, I, sir ? I am one that loves an inch of raw!
mutton better than an ell of fried stocksh, and the
rst letter of my name begins with Lechery.
LUCIFER Away to hell! Away, on, piper!
Exit the Seven Deadly sins.
Now Faustus, how dost thou like this?
FAUSTUS O, this feeds my soul.
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LUCIFER Tut, Faustus, in hell is all manner of delight.
FAUSTUS O, might I see hell, and return again, how!
happy were I then.
LUCIFER Faustus, thou shalt; at midnight I will send for thee.!
Meanwhile, peruse this book, and view it thoroughly,!
And thou shalt turn thyself into what shape thou wilt.
FAUSTUS anks mighty Lucifer.!
is will I keep as chary as my life.
LUCIFER Farewell, Faustus, and think on the devil.
FAUSTUS Farewell, great Lucifer. Come, Mephistophilis
Exeunt omnes, several ways.
SCENE II.iii
Enter [Robin] the Clown.
ROBIN What, Dick, look to the horses there till I come
again. I have gotten one of Doctor Faustus’s
conjuring books, and now we’ll have such knavery,
as’t passes.
Enter Dick.
DICK What, Robin, you must come away and walk the
horses.
ROBIN Let the horses walk themselves and they will.!
A per se a, t. h. e the: o per se o deny orgon, gorgon.
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Keep further from me, O thou illiterate and
unlearned hostler.
DICK Snails, what hast thou got there, a book? Why thou!
can’st not tell ne’er a word on’t.
ROBIN at thou shalt see presently. Keep out of the circle, I
say, lest I send you into the ostry with a vengeance.
DICK at’s like ’faith. You had best leave your foolery,!
for, an my master come, he’ll conjure you ’faith.
ROBIN My master conjure me? I’ll tell thee what, an my!
master come here, I’ll clap as fair a pair of horns on’s!
head as e’er thou saw’st in thy life.
DICK ou need’st not do that, for my mistress hath done
it. But I prithee tell me, is that a conjuring book?
ROBIN Do but speak what thou’d have me to do, and I’ll!
do’t. If thou’d dance naked, put o thy clothes, and
I’ll conjure thee about presently. Or if thou’d go but
to the tavern with me, I’ll give thee white wine, red
wine, claret wine, sack, muskadine, malmesey and
whippincrust. Hold belly hold, and we’ll not pay one
penny for it.
DICK O brave, prithee let’s to it presently, for I am as!
dry as a dog.
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ROBIN Come, then, let’s away.
Exeunt.
CHORUS Not long she stayed within her quiet house,!
But new exploits do hale her out again!
And mounted then upon a dragon’s back,!
at with his wings did part the subtle air.!
She now is gone to prove Cosmography,!
at measures costs and kingdoms of the earth.
Scene III.i
Enter Faustus and Mephistophilis.
FUSTUS en up to Naples, rich Campania,!
Whose buildings fair and gorgeous to the eye,!
e streets straight forth, and paled with nest brick.!
ere saw we learned Maro’s golden tomb,!
From thence to Venice, Padua, and the east,!
In one of which a sumptuous temple stands,!
at threats the stars with her aspiring top,!
Whose frame is paved with sundry colored stones,!
And roofed alo with curious work in gold.!
us hitherto hath Faustus spent her time.!
But tell me now, what resting place is this?!
Hast thou, as erst I did command,!
Conducted me within the walls of Rome?
MEPHISTOPHILIS I have my Faustus, and for proof thereof,!
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is is the goodly palace of the Pope,!
And cause we are no common guests,!
I choose his privy chamber for our use.
FAUSTUS I hope his Holiness will bid us welcome.
MEPHISTOPHILIS All’s one, for we’ll be bold with his venison.!
And take some part of holy Peter’s feast,!
e which this day with high solemnity,!
is day is held through Rome and Italy,!
In honor of the Pope’s triumphant victory.
FAUSTUS Sweet Mephistophilis, thou pleasest me.!
Whilst I am here on earth, let me be cloyed!
With all things that delight the heart of man.
MEPHISTOPHILIS Tis well said, Faustus. Come, then, stand by me!
And thou shalt see them come immediately.
FAUSTUS Nay, in this show let me an actor be,!
at this proud Pope may Faustus’ cunning see.
MEPHISTOPHILIS Let it be so, my Faustus, but rst stay!
And view their triumphs as they pass this way.!
And then devise what best contents thy mind,!
By coming in thine art to cross the Pope,!
Or dash the pride of this solemnity,!
To make his monks and abbots stand like apes,!
And point like antiques at his triple crown:!
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To beat the beads about the friars’ pates,!
Or clap huge horns, upon the cardinals’ heads,!
Or any villainy thou can’st devise,!
And I’ll perform it, Faustus. Hark, they come:!
is day shall make thee be admired in Rome.
Enter the Cardinals and Bishops, some bearing crosiers, some the pillars, Monks and Friars, singing
their procession. en the Pope, and Raymond, King of Hungary, with Bruno led in chains.
POPE Cast down our footstool.
RAYMOND Saxon Bruno stoop,!
Whilst on thy back his Holiness ascends!
Saint Peter’s chair and state pontical.
POPE To me and Peter, shalt thou groveling lie,!
And crouch before the papal dignity.!
Sound trumpets then, for thus Saint Peter’s heir,!
From Bruno’s back, ascends Saint Peter’s chair.
A ourish while he ascends.
us, as the gods creep on with feet of wool,!
Long ere with iron hands they punish men,!
So shall our sleeping vengeance now arise,!
And smite with death thy hated enterprise.!
Lord cardinals of France and Padua,!
Go forthwith to our holy consistory,!
And read amongst the statutes decretal!
What by the holy council held at Trent,!
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e sacred synod hath decreed for him!
at doth assume the papal government,!
Without election, and a true consent.!
Away, and bring us word with speed.
FIRST CARDINAL We go, my Lord.
(Exeunt Cardinals.)
POPE Lord Raymond.
FAUSTUS Go, hast thee, gentle Mephistophilis,!
Follow the cardinals to the consistory,!
And as they turn their superstitious books,!
Strike them with sloth, and drowsy idleness,!
And make them sleep so sound that in their shapes,!
yself and I may parly with this Pope,!
is proud confronter of the Emperor,!
And in despite of all his Holiness!
Restore this Bruno to his liberty,!
And bear him to the states of Germany.
MEPHISTOPHILIS Faustus, I go.
FAUSTUS Dispatch it soon.!
e Pope shall curse that Faustus came to Rome.
Exit Faustus and Mephistophilis.
BRUNO Pope Adrian, let me have some right of law;!
I was elected by the Emperor.
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POPE We will depose the Emperor for that deed,!
And curse the people that submit to him;!
Both he and thou shalt stand excommunicate,!
And interdict from churches privilege,!
And all society of holy men.!
He grows too proud in his authority,!
Liing his loy head above the clouds,!
And like a steeple overpeers the church.!
But we’ll pull down his haughty insolence,!
And as Pope Alexander, our progenitor,!
Trod on the neck of German Frederick,!
So will we quell that haughty schismatic,!
And by authority apostolic!
Depose him from his regal government.
BRUNO Pope Julius swore to princely Sigismond,!
For him, and the succeeding Popes of Rome,!
To hold the emperors their lawful lords.
POPE Pope Julius did abuse the Church’s rites,!
And therefore none of his decrees can stand.!
Is not all power on earth bestowed on us?!
And therefore though we would we cannot e’er.!
en he and thou and all the world shall stoop,!
Or be assured of our dreadful curse,!
To light as heavy as the pains of hell.
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Enter Faustus and Mephistophilis, like the Cardinals.
MEPHISTOPHILIS Now tell me, Faustus, are we not tted well?
FAUSTUS Yes, Mephistophilis, and two such cardinals!
Ne’er served a holy Pope, as we shall do.!
But whil’st they sleep within the consistory,!
Let us salute his reverend Fatherhood.
RAYMOND Behold, my Lord, the cardinals are returned.
POPE Welcome, grave Fathers, answer presently,!
What have our holy council there decreed!
Concerning Bruno and the Emperor,!
In quittance of their late conspiracy!
Against our state and papal dignity?
FAUSTUS Most sacred patron of the Church of Rome,!
By full consent of all the synod!
Of priests and prelates, it is thus decreed!
at Bruno, and the German Emperor!
Be held as Lollords and bold schismatics,!
And proud disturbers of the Church’s peace.!
And if that Bruno by his own assent,!
Did seek to wear the triple diadem,!
And by your death to climb Saint Peter’s chair,!
e statutes decretal have thus decreed:!
He shall be straight condemned of heresy.
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POPE It is enough. Here, take him to your charge,!
And in the strongest tower enclose him fast.!
Tomorrow, sitting in our consistory,!
With all our college of grave cardinals,!
We will determine of his life or death.!
Here, take his triple crown along with you,!
And leave it in the Church’s treasury.
FAUSTUS Away, sweet Mephistophilis, be gone.!
e cardinals will be plagued for this anon.
Exit Faustus and Mephistophilis.
POPE Go presently, and bring a banquet forth,!
at we may solemnize Saint Peter’s feast,!
And with Lord Raymond, King of Hungary,!
Drink to our late and happy victory. Exeunt.
SCENE III.ii
A sennet while the banquet is brought in, and then enter Faustus and Mephistophilis in their own
shapes.
MEPHISTOPHILIS Now, Faustus, come prepare thyself for mirth;!
e sleepy cardinals are hard at hand,!
To censure Bruno that is posted hence,!
And on a proud paced steed, as swi as thought!
Flies o’er the Alps to fruitful Germany,!
ere to salute the woeful Emperor.
FAUSTUS e Pope will curse them for their sloth today.!
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at slept both Bruno and his crown away.!
But now that Faustus may delight her mind,!
And by their folly make some merriment,!
Sweet Mephistophilis, so charm me here,!
at I may walk invisible to all,!
And do what e’er I please, unseen of any.
MEPHISTOPHILIS Faustus, thou shalt. en kneel down presently.!
And charm thee with this magic wand,!
First wear this girdle, then appear!
Invisible to all are here.!
e planets seven, the gloomy air,!
Hell and the Furies’ forked hair,!
Pluto’s blue re, and Hecat’s tree,!
With magic spells so compass thee,!
at no eye may thy body see.!
So, Faustus, now for all their holiness,!
Do what thou wilt; thou shalt not be discerned.
FAUSTUS anks, Mephistophilis. Now, Friars, take heed,!
Lest Faustus make your shaven crowns to bleed.
MEPHISTOPHILIS Faustus, no more. See where the cardinals come.
Enter Pope and all the Lords. Enter the Cardinals with a book.
POPE Welcome, lord cardinals. Come sit down.!
Lord Raymond, take your seat; Friars attend,!
And see that all things be in readiness,!
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As best beseems this solemn festival.
FIRST CARDINAL First, may it please your sacred Holiness,!
To view the sentence of the reverend synod,!
Concerning Bruno and the Emperor.
POPE What needs this question? Did I not tell you,!
Tomorrow we would sit i’th’consistory,!
And there determine of his punishment?!
You brought us word even now, it was decreed,!
at Bruno and the cursed Emperor!
Were by the holy council both condemned!
For loathed Lollords, and base schismatics.!
en wherefore would you have me view that book?
FIRST CARDINAL Your Grace mistakes; you gave us no such charge.
RAYMOND Deny it not; we all are witnesses!
at Bruno here was late delivered you,!
With his rich triple crown to be reserved,!
And put into the Church’s treasury.
SECOND CARDINAL By holy Paul we saw them not.
POPE By Peter, you shall die,!
Unless you bring them forth immediately.!
Hale them to prison, lade their limbs with gyves.!
False prelates, for this hateful treachery,!
Cursed be your souls to hellish misery.
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FAUSTUS So, they are safe. Now, Faustus, to the feast.
POPE Lord Raymond, sit down with us.
RAYMOND I thank your Holiness.
FAUSTUS Fall to, the Devil choke you an you spare.
POPE Who’s that spoke? Friars, look about.
FRIAR Here’s nobody if it like your Holiness.
POPE My Lord, here is a dainty dish was sent me from!
the Bishop of Milan.
FAUSTUS I thank you sir.
(Snatches it)
POPE How now! Who snatched the meat from me?!
Villains, why speak you not?!
My good Lord Archbishop, here’s a most dainty dish,!
Was sent me from a cardinal in France.
FAUSTUS I’ll have that too.
POPE What Lollards do attend our Holiness!
at we receive such great indignity? !
Fetch me some wine.
FAUSTUS Ay, pray do, for Faustus is a dry.
POPE Lord Raymond, I drink unto your grace.
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FAUSTUS I pledge your grace.
POPE My wine gone too? Ye Lubbers look about!
And nd the man that doth this villainy,!
Or by our sanctitude you all shall die.!
I pray my lords have patience at this!
Troublesome banquet.
RAYMOND My Lord, it may be some ghost newly crept out of!
purgatory, come to beg a pardon of your Holiness.
POPE It may be so.!
Go then command our friars to sing a dirge,!
To lay the fury of this same troublesome ghost.
(e Pope crosseth himself.)
FAUSTUS How now? Must every bit be spiced with a cross?
(e Pope crosseth himself again.)
Well, there’s the second time, aware the third,!
I give you fair warning.
(e Pope crosses himself again, and Faustus hits him a box of the ear)
POPE O, I am slain; help me my lords.!
O, come and help to bear my body hence.!
Damned be this soul forever for this deed.
(Exeunt the Pope and his train.)
MEPHISTOPHILIS Now, Faustus, what will you do now, for I can tell
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you, you’ll be cursed with bell, book, and candle?
FAUSTUS Bell, book, and candle: candle, book, and bell;!
Forward and backward to curse Faustus to hell
(Enter the Friars with bell, book, and candle, for the dirge.)
FIRST FRIAR Come, brethren, let’s about our business with good
devotion.!
!
Cursed be he that stole his Holiness’ meat from the table.!
Maledicat Dominus.!
Cursed be he that struck his Holiness a blow the face.!
Maledicat Dominus.!
Cursed be he that struck Friar Sandelo a blow on the pate.!
Maledicat Dominus.!
Cursed be he that disturbeth our holy dirge.!
Maledicat Dominus.
(Beat the Friars, ing reworks among them, and exeunt.)
SCENE III.iii
Enter [Robin the] Clown and Dick, with a cup.
DICK Sirrah Robin, we were best look that your devil!
can answer the stealing of this same cup, for the
vintner’s boy follows us at the hard heels.
ROBIN Tis no matter; let him come. If he follow us, I’ll so!
conjure him, as he was never conjured in his life, I
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warrant him. Let me see the cup.
Enter Vintner.
DICK Here ’tis. Yonder he comes. Now Robin, now or!
never, show thy cunning.
VINTNER O, are you here? I am glad I have found you; you!
are a couple of ne companions. Pray where’s the
cup you stole from the tavern?
ROBIN How, how? We steal a cup? Take heed what you say;!
we look not like cup-stealers I can tell you.
VINTNER Never deny’t, for I know you have it, and I’ll!
search you.
ROBIN Search me? Ay and spare not. Hold the cup Dick.!
Come, come, search me, search me.
VINTNER Come on sirrah, let me search you now.
DICK Ay, ay, do, do; hold the cup Robin. I fear not your!
searching; we scorn to steal your cups I can tell you.
VINTNER Never outface me for the matter, for sure the cup is!
between you two.
ROBIN Nay, there you lie; ’tis beyond us both.
VINTNER A plague take you; I thought ’twas your knavery!
to take it away. Come, give it me again.
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ROBIN Ay, much. When, can you tell? Dick, make me a
circle, and stand close at my back, and stir not for
thy life. Vintner, you shall have your cup anon; say
nothing, Dick. O per se o, demogorgon. Belcher and
Mephistophilis.
Enter Mephistophilis
MEPHISTOPHILIS You princely legions of infernal rule,!
How am I vexed by these villains charms?!
From Constantinople have they brought me now,!
Only for pleasure of these damned slaves.
ROBIN By lady sir, you have had a shroud journey of it;!
Will it please you to take a shoulder of mutton to
supper, and a tester in your purse, and go back
again?
DICK Ay, I pray you heartily sir, for we called you but in!
jest, I promise you.
MEPHISTOPHILIS To purge the rashness of this cursed deed,!
First, be thou turned to this ugly shape,!
For apish deeds transformed to an ape.
ROBIN O brave, an ape? I pray sir, let me have the carrying
of him about to show some tricks.
MEPHISTOPHILIS And so thou shalt: be thou transformed to a dog,
and carry him upon thy back. Away, be gone.
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ROBIN A dog? at’s excellent. Let the maids look well to!
their porridge-pots, for I’ll into the kitchen
presently. Come, Dick, come.
(Exeunt the two Clowns.)
MEPHISTOPHILIS Now with the ames of ever-burning re,!
I’ll wing myself and forth-with y amain!
Unto my Faustus to the great Turk’s court.
Exit.
SCENE IV.i
Enter Chorus.
CHORUS When Faustus had with pleasure ta’en the view!
Of rarest things, and royal courts of kings,!
She stayed her course, and so returned home,!
Where such as bear her absence, but with grief,!
I mean her friends and nearest companions,!
Did gratulate her safety with kind words,!
And in their conference of what befell,!
Touching her journey through the world and air,!
ey put forth questions of astrology,!
Which Faustus answered with such learned skill,!
As they admired and wondered at her wit.!
Now is her fame spread forth in every land;!
Amongst the rest the Emperor is one,!
Carolus the h, at whose palace now!
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Faustus is feasted ’mongst his noblemen.!
What there she did in trial of her art,!
I leave untold your eyes shall see perform’d.
Enter Martino, and Frederick at several doors.
MARTINO What ho, ocers, gentlemen!!
Hie to the presence to attend the Emperor,!
His majesty is coming to the hall.!
Go back and see the state in readiness.
FREDERICK But where is Bruno, our elected pope,!
at on a fury’s back came post from Rome.!
Will not his grace consort the Emperor?
MARTINO O yes, and with him comes the German conjuror,!
e learned Faustus, fame of Wittenberg,!
e wonder of the world for magic art,!
And she intends to show great Carolus,!
e royal shapes and warlike semblances!
Of Alexander and his beauteous paramour.
FREDERICK Where is Benvolio?
MARTINO Fast asleep I warrant you.!
He took his rouse with stoups of Rhennish wine!
So kindly yesternight to Bruno’s health,!
at all this day the sluggard keeps his bed.
FREDERICK See, see his window’s ope; we’ll call to him.
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MARTINO What ho, Benvolio!
Enter Benvolio above at a window, in his nightcap, buttoning.
BENVOLIO What a devil ail you two?
MARTINO Speak soly, sir, lest the devil hear you,!
For Faustus at the court is late arrived,!
And at her heels a thousand furies wait!
To accomplish whatsoever the Doctor please.
BENVOLIO What of this?
MARTINO Come leave thy chamber rst, and thou shalt see!
is conjuror perform such rare exploits!
Before the Pope and royal Emperor,!
As never yet was seen in Germany.
BENVOLIO Has not the Pope enough of conjuring yet?!
He was upon the devil’s back late enough,!
And if he be so far in love with him,!
I would he would post with him to Rome again.
MARTINO e Emperor is at hand; who comes to see!
What wonders by black spells may compass be.
BENVOLIO Well, go you attend the Emperor. I am content!
for this once to thrust my head out at a window, for
they say, if a man be drunk overnight, the Devil
cannot hurt him in the morning. If that be true, I
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have a charm in my head shall control him as well as
the conjuror, I warrant you.
Exit.
SCENE IV.ii
A sennet. Charles the German Emperor, Bruno Saxony, Faustus, Mephistophilis, Frederick, Martino,
and Attendants
EMPEROR Wonder of men, renowned magician,!
rice-learned Faustus, welcome to our court!
is deed of thine in setting Bruno free!
From his and our professed enemy!
Shall add more excellence unto thine art,!
an if by powerful necromantic spells,!
ou could’st command the world’s obedience,!
Forever be beloved of Carolus.
FAUSTUS ese gracious words, most royal Carolus,!
Shall make poor Faustus to her utmost power,!
Both love and serve the German Emperor,!
And lay her life at holy Bruno’s feet.!
For proof whereof, if so your Grace be pleased,!
e Doctor stands prepared, by power of art,!
To cast her magic charms that shall pierce through!
e ebon’ gates of ever-burning hell,!
And hail the stubborn Furies from their caves!
To compass whatsoe’er your grace commands.
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BENVOLIO Blood, she speaks terribly, but for all that, I do not!
greatly believe her; she looks as like conjuror as the
Pope to a coster-monger.
EMPEROR en, Faustus, as thou late did’st promise us!
We would behold that famous conqueror,!
Great Alexander, and his paramour,!
In their true shapes and state majestical,!
at we may wonder at their excellence.
FAUSTUS Your majesty shall see them presently.!
Mephistophilis, away.!
And with a solemn noise of trumpets sound,!
Present before this royal Emperor,!
Great Alexander and his beauteous paramour.
MEPHISTOPHILIS Faustus, I will.
BENVOLIO Well, Master Doctor, an your devils come not away!
quickly, have me asleep presently.
FAUSTUS My Lord, I must forewarn your majesty!
at when my spirits present the royal shapes!
Of Alexander and his paramour,!
Your grace demand no questions of the King,!
But in dumb silence let them come and go.
EMPEROR Be it as Faustus please; we are content.
BENVOLIO Ay, ay, and I am content too, and thou bring
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Alexander and his paramour before the Emperor. I’ll
be Acteon, and turn myself to a stag.
FAUSTUS And I’ll play Diana, and send you the horns
presently.
Sennet. Enter at one the Emperor Alexander. He salutes the Emperor, who, leaving his state, oers to
embrace them, which Faustus seeing, suddenly stays him.
FAUSTUS My gracious lord, you do forget yourself;!
ese are but shadows, not substantial.
EMPEROR O, pardon me, my thoughts are so ravished!
With sight of this renowned Emperor,!
at in mine arms I would have compassed him.!
But, Faustus, since I may not speak to them,!
To satisfy my longing thoughts at full,!
Let me this tell thee: I have heard it said!
at this fair lady, whil’st she lived on earth,!
Had on her neck a little wart or mole.!
How may I prove that saying to be true?
FAUSTUS Your Majesty may boldly go and see.
EMPEROR Faustus, I see it plain,!
And in this sight thou better pleasest me!
an if I gained another monarchy.
FAUSTUS Away, be gone.
(Exit Show.)
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See, see, my gracious lord, what strange beast is yon,
that thrusts his head out at window.
EMPEROR O, wondrous sight. See, Duke of Saxony,!
Two spreading horns most strangely fastened!
Upon the head of young Benvolio.
SAXONY What, is he asleep? Or dead?
FAUSTUS He sleeps, my lord, but dreams not of his horns.
EMPEROR is sport is excellent. We’ll call and wake him.!
What ho, Benvolio!
BENVOLIO A plague upon you! Let me sleep a while.
EMPEROR I blame thee not to sleep much, having such a head!
of thine own.
SAXONY Look up, Benvolio, ’tis the Emperor calls.
BENVOLIO e Emperor? Where? O, zounds, my head.
FAUSTUS Why, how now, sir Knight? What, hanged by the!
horns? Fie, e, pull in your head for shame;!
let not all the world wonder at you.
BENVOLIO Zounds, Doctor, is this your villainy?
FAUSTUS O, say not so, sir. e Doctor has no skill,!
No art, no cunning, to present these lords,!
Or bring before this royal Emperor!
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e mighty monarch, warlike Alexander.!
If Faustus do it, you are straight resolved!
In bold Acteon’s shape to turn a stag.!
And therefore, my lord, so please your majesty,!
I’ll raise a kennel of hounds shall hunt him so!
As all his footmanship shall scarce prevail!
To keep his carcass from their bloody fangs.!
Ho, Belimote, Argiron, Asterote.
BENVOLIO Hold, hold! Zounds, she’ll raise up a kennel of
devils, I think anon. Good, my lord, entreat for me.
EMPEROR en good Master Doctor,!
Let me entreat you to remove his horns;!
He has done penance now suciently.
FAUSTUS My gracious Lord, not so much for injury done to!
me, as to delight your majesty with some mirth hath
Faustus justly requited this injurious knight, I am
content to remove his horns. Mephistophilis,
transform him, and hereaer, sir, look you speak
well of scholars.
BENVOLIO Speak well of ye? ’Sblood, I’ll ne’er trust smooth
faces and small rus more.
EMPEROR Come, Faustus, while the Emperor lives,!
In recompense of this thy high desert,!
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ou shalt command the state of Germany,!
And live beloved of mighty Carolus.
(Exeunt omnes.)
SCENE IV.iii
Enter Benvolio, Martino, Frederick
MARTINO Nay, sweet Benvolio, let us sway thy thoughts!
From this attempt against the conjuror.
BENVOLIO Away, you love me not to urge me thus,!
Shall I let slip so great an injury,!
When every servile groom feasts at my wrongs,!
And in their rustic gambols proudly say!
Benvolio’s head was graced with horns to day?!
O, may these eyelids never close again!
Till with my sword I have that conjuror slain.!
If you will aid me in this enterprise,!
en draw your weapons and be resolute.!
If not, depart. Here will Benvolio die,!
But Faustus’ death shall quit my infamy.
FREDERICK Nay, we will stay with thee; betide what may,!
And kill that Doctor if she come this way.
MARTINO See, see, she comes.
BENVOLIO No words. is blow ends all.!
Hell take her soul; her body thus must fall.
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FAUSTUS Oh!
FREDERICK Groan you, Master Doctor?
BENVOLIO Break may her heart with gropes. Dear Frederick, see!
us will I end her griefs immediately.
MARTINO Strike with a willing hand; her head is o.
BENVOLIO e devil’s dead; the Furies now may laugh.
FREDERICK Was this that stern aspect, that awful frown,!
Made the grim monarch of infernal spirits!
Tremble and quake at her commanding charms?
MARTINO Was this that damned head, whose heart conspired!
Benvolio’s shame before the Emperor?
BENVOLIO Ay, that’s the head and here the body lies,!
Justly rewarded for her villainies.!
Zounds, the devil’s alive again!
FREDERICK Give her her head, for God’s sake.
FAUSTUS Nay, keep it. Faustus will have heads and hands.!
I call your hearts to recompense this deed.!
Asteroth, Belimoth, Mephistophilis,
(Enter Mephistophilis and other Devils.)
Go horse these traitors on your ery backs, !
And mount alo with them as high as heaven;!
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ence pitch them headlong to the lowest hell.!
Go, Belimothe and take this caiti hence,!
And hurl him in some lake of mud and dirt.!
Take thou this other; drag him through the woods!
Among’st the pricking thorns and sharpest briars,!
Whil’st with my gentle Mephistophilis,!
is traitor ies unto some steep rock,!
at rolling down, may break the villain’s bones,!
As he intended to dismember me.
BENVOLIO Pity us, gentle Faustus; save our lives.
FAUSTUS Away.
SCENE IV.iv
Enter at several doors Benvolio, Frederick, and Martino, their heads and faces bloody and besmeared
with mud and dirt, all having horns on their heads.
BENVOLIO What Frederick, ho.
FREDERICK O help me, gentle friend; where is Martino?
MARTINO O misery! How now, Benvolio?
BENVOLIO My friends transformed thus. O hellish spite! Your!
heads are all set with horns.
FREDERICK You hit it right;!
It is your own you mean. Feel on your head.
BENVOLIO Zounds, horns again!
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MARTINO Nay, chafe not man; we all are sped.
FREDERICK What may we do, that we may hide our shames?
BENVOLIO If we should follow her to work revenge,!
She’d join long asses’ ears to these huge horns,!
And make us laughing stocks to all the world.
MARTINO What shall we then do, dear Benvolio?
BENVOLIO I have a castle joining near these woods,!
And thither we’ll repair and live obscure,!
Since black disgrace hath thus eclipsed our fame,!
We’ll rather die with grief, than live with shame.
Exeunt omnes.
SCENE IV.v
Enter Faustus and the Horse-courser and Mephistophilis
HORSE-COURSER I beseech your worship, accept of these forty!
dollars.
FAUSTUS Friend, thou can’st not buy so good a horse for so!
small a price. I have no great need to sell him, but if
thou lik’st him for ten dollars more, take him,
because I see thou hast a good mind to him.
HORSE-COURSER I beseech you, sir, accept of this; I am a very poor!
man, and have lost very much of late by horse esh,
and this bargain will set me up again.
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FAUSTUS Well, I will not stand with thee. Give me the money.
Now, sirrah, I must tell you that you may ride him
o’er hedge and ditch and spare him not, but do you
hear? In any case, ride him not into the water.
HORSE-COURSER How, sir, not into the water? Why will he not drink!
of all waters?
FAUSTUS Yes, he will drink of all waters, but ride him not!
into the water. O’er hedge and ditch, or where thou
wilt, but not into the water. Go bid the hostler
deliver him unto you and remember what I say.
HORSE-COURSER I warrant you, sir, O joyful day, now am I a!
made man forever.
(Exit.)
FAUSTUS What art thou, Faustus, but a woman condemned to die?!
y fatal time draws to a nal end.!
Despair doth drive distrust into my thoughts.!
Confound these passions with a quiet sleep.
She sits to sleep.
Enter the Horse-courser, wet.
HORSE-COURSER O, what a cozening Doctor was this? I, riding my!
horse into the water, thinking some hidden mystery
had been in the horse, I had nothing under me but a
little straw, and had much ado to escape drowning.
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Well, I’ll go rouse her, and make her give me my
forty dollars again. Ho, sirrah Doctor, you cozening
scab. Master Doctor, awake and rise and give me my
money again, for your horse is turned to a bottle of
hay, Master Doctor.
He pulls o her leg.
Alas, I am undone; what shall I do? I have pulled o
her leg.
FAUSTUS O, help, help, the villain hath murdered me!
HORSE-COURSER Murder or not murder, now she has but one leg.!
I’ll out-run her, and cast this leg into some ditch or
other.
FAUSTUS Stop him, stop him, stop him! ha, ha, ha! Faustus
hath her leg again, and the Horse-courser a bundle
of hay for his forty dollars.
Enter Wagner.
How now, Wagner, what news with thee?
WAGNER If it please you, the Duke of Vanholt doth earnestly
entreat your company, and hath sent some of his
men to attend you with provision t for your
journey.
FAUSTUS e Duke of Vanholt’s an honorable gentleman.
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Come away.
(Exeunt.)
SCENE IV.vi
Enter Hostess.
HOSTESS How now? What, my old guests, welcome.
ROBIN O, Hostess, how do you? I hope my score stands still.
HOSTESS Ay, there’s no doubt of that, for me thinks you make!
no haste to wipe it out.
DICK Why, Hostess, I say, fetch us some beer.
HOSTESS You shall presently. Look up into th’hall there, ho.
Exit.
DICK Come, sirs, what shall we do now till mine hostess!
comes?
CARTER Marry, sir, I’ll tell you the bravest tale how a
conjuror served me. You know Doctor Faustus?
HORSE-COURSER Ay, a plague take her. Did she conjure thee too?
CARTER I’ll tell you how she served me. As I was going to!
Wittenberg th’other day, with a load of hay, she met
me, and asked me what she should give me for as
much hay as she could eat. Now, sir, I, thinking that
a little would serve her turn, bade her take as much
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as she would for three farthings. So she presently
gave me my money and fell to eating, and as I am a
cursen man, she never le eating till she had eat up
all my load of hay.
ALL O monstrous! Eat a whole load of hay?
ROBIN Yes, yes, that may be, for I have heard of one that!
has eat a load of logs.
HORSE-COURSER Now, sirs, you shall hear how villainously she served
me. I went to her yesterday to buy a horse of him.
Doctor Faustus bade me ride him night and day, and
spare him no time. But, quoth she, in any case ride
him not into the water. Now, sir, I thinking the horse
had had some quality that she would not have me
know of, what did I but rid him into a great river,
and […] I sat straddling upon a bottle of hay.
ALL O, brave Doctor!
HORSE-COURSER But you shall hear how bravely I served her for it; I
found her asleep, and […] now ’tis at home in mine
hostry.
ROBIN And has the Doctor but one leg then? at’s
excellent, for one of her devils turned me into the
likeness of an ape.
CARTER Some more drink, Hostess.
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ROBIN Hark you, we’ll into another room and drink!
a while, and then we’ll go seek out the Doctor.
Exeunt omnes.
SCENE IV.vii
Enter the Duke of Vanholt, his Duchess, Faustus, and Mephistophilis.
DUKE OF VANHOLT anks Master Doctor, for these pleasant sights.!
Nor know I how suciently to recompense your
great deserts in erecting that enchanted castle in the
air, the sight whereof so delighted me, as nothing in
the world could please me more.
FAUSTUS I do think myself, my good lord, highly
recompensed, in that it pleaseth your grace. But,
gracious lady, it I pray you tell me what is the thing
you most desire to have? Be it in the world, it shall
be yours. I have heard that great-bellied women do
long for things are rare and dainty.
DUCHESS True, Master Doctor, and since I nd you so kind,!
I will make known unto you what my heart desires
to have, and were it now summer, as it is January, a
dead time of the winter, I would request no better
meat than a dish of ripe grapes.
FAUSTUS is is but a small matter. Go, Mephostophilis, away.
Exit Mephistophilis.
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Madam, I will do more than this for your content.
Enter Mephistophilis again with the grapes.
Here, now taste ye these. ey should be good!
For they come from a far country, I can tell you.
DUCHESS And trust me, they are the sweetest grapes that e’er I
tasted.
e Clowns bounce at the gate within.
DUKE OF VANHOLT What rude disturbers have we at the gate?
ey knock again and call out to talk with Faustus.
WAGNER Why, how now, masters? What a coil is there?!
What is the reason you disturb the Duke?
DICK We have no reason for it, therefore a g for him.
WAGNER Why, saucy varlets, dare you be so bold?
HORSE-COURSER I hope, sir, we have wit enough to be more bold!
than welcome.
WAGNER It appears so. Pray be bold elsewhere,!
And trouble not the Duke.
DUKE OF VANHOLT What would they have?
WAGNER ey all cry out to speak with Doctor Faustus.
CARTER Ay, and we will speak with her.
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DUKE OF VANHOLT Will you, sir? Commit the rascals.
DICK Commit with us! She were as good commit with her!
mother as commit with us.
FAUSTUS I do beseech your grace let them come in.!
ey are good subject for a merriment.
DUKE OF VANHOLT Do as thou wilt, Faustus. I give thee leave.
FAUSTUS I thank your grace.
Enter the [Robin the] Clown, Dick, Carter, and Horse-courser.
Why, how now, my goods friends?!
Faith you are too outrageous, but come near.!
I have procured your pardons. Welcome all.
ROBIN Nay, sir, we will be welcome for our money, and!
we will pay for what we take. What ho! Give’s half a
dozen of beer here, and be hanged.
FAUSTUS Nay, hark you, can you tell me where you are?
CARTER Ay, marry can I. We are under heaven.
WAGNER Ay, but, sir sauce-box know you in what place?
HORSE-COURSER Ay, ay, the house is good enough to drink in.
Zounds, ll us some beer, or we’ll break all the
barrels in the house, and dash out all your brains
with your bottles.
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FAUSTUS Be not so furious. Come, you shall have beer.!
My lord, beseech you give me leave awhile.!
I’ll gage my credit; ’twill content your grace.
DUKE OF VANHOLT With all my heart, kind Doctor, please thyself,!
Our servants, and our courts at thy command.
FAUSTUS I humbly thank your grace. en fetch some beer.
HORSE-COURSER Ay, marry. ere spake a Doctor indeed, and ’faith
I’ll drink a health to thy wooden leg for that word.
FAUSTUS My wooden leg? What dost thou mean by that?
CARTER Ha, ha, ha! Dost hear her Dick? She has forgot her!
leg.
HORSE-COURSER Ay, ay, she does not stand much upon that.
FAUSTUS No, faith. Not much upon a wooden leg.
CARTER Good Lord, that esh and blood should be so frail!
with your worship. Do not you remember a horse-
courser you sold a horse to?
FAUSTUS Yes, I remember I sold one a horse.
CARTER And do you remember you bid he should not ride!
into the water?
FAUSTUS Yes, I do very well remember that.
CARTER And do you remember nothing of your leg?
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FAUSTUS No, in good sooth.
CARTER en I pray you, tell me one thing.
FAUSTUS What’s that?
CARTER Be both your legs bedfellows every night together
Enter Wagner with drink.
FAUSTUS I assure thee certainly they are.
CARTER I thank you; I am fully satised.
HORSE-COURSER Why do you hear, sir? Did not I pull o one of your!
legs when you were asleep?
FAUSTUS But I have it again now I am awake.
ALL O horrible! Had the Doctor three legs?
CARTER Do you remember, sir, how you cozened me and eat!
up my load of —
Faustus charms him dumb.
DICK Do you remember how you made me wear an!
ape’s —
HORSE-COURSER You whoreson conjuring scab, do you remember!
how you cozened me with a ho---
ROBIN Ha’you forgotten me?
(Exeunt Clowns.)
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DUCHESS My Lord, we are much beholding to this learned
man.
DUKE OF VANHOLT So are we madam, which we will recompense!
With all the love and kindness that we may.!
Her artful sport drives all sad thoughts away.
Exeunt.
SCENE V.i
under and lightning. Enter devils with covered dishes; Mephistophilis leads them into Faustus’
study. en enter Wagner.
WAGNER I think my master means to die shortly. She hath
made her will and given me her wealth, her house,
her goods, and store of golden plate, besides two
thousand ducats ready coined. I wonder what she
means. If death were nie, she would not frolick thus.
She’s now at supper with the scholars, where there’s!
such belly-cheer as Wagner in his life ne’er saw the
like. And see where they come; belike the feast is
done.
Exit.
Enter Faustus, Mephistophilis, and two Scholars.
FIRST SCHOLAR Master Doctor Faustus, since our conference about!
fair ladies, which was the beautifulest in all the
world, we have determined with ourselves that
Helen of Greece was the admirablest lady that ever
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lived. erefore, Master Doctor, if you will do us so
much favor as to let us see that peerless dame of
Greece, whom all the world admires for majesty, we!
should think ourselves much beholding unto you.
FAUSTUS Gentlemen, for that I know your friendship is unfeigned,!
It is not Faustus’ custom to deny!
e just request of those that wish her well.!
You shall behold that peerless dame of Greece,!
No otherwise for pomp or majesty,!
an when Sir Paris cross the seas with her,!
And brought the spoils to rich Dardania.!
Be silent then, for danger is in words.
Music sounds. Mephistophilis brings in Helen; she passeth over the stage.
SECOND SCHOLAR Was this fair Helen whose admired worth!
Made Greece with ten years wars aict poor Troy?!
Too simple is my wit to tell her worth,!
Whom all the world admires for majesty.
FIRST SCHOLAR Now we have seen the pride of nature’s work,!
We’ll take our leaves, and for this blessed sight!
Happy and blest be Faustus evermore.
Exeunt Scholars.
FAUSTUS Gentlemen, farewell; the same wish I to you.
Enter an Valdes and Cornelius.
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VALDES O, gentle Faustus, leave this damned art,!
is magic, that will charm thy soul to hell,!
And quite bereave thee of salvation.
CORNELIUS ough thou hast now oended like a man,!
Do not persever in it like a devil.
VALDES Yet, yet, thou hast an amiable soul!
CORNELIUS If sin by custom grow not into nature;!
en, Faustus, will repentance come too late.
VALDES en thou art banished from the sight of heaven.
CORNELIUS It may be this our exhortation!
Seems harsh, and all unpleasant; let it not.
VALDES For, gentle friend, we speak it not in wrath!
Or envy of thee but in tender love,!
And pity of thy future misery.
FAUSTUS O, friend, I feel thy words to comfort my distressed soul.!
Leave me a while to ponder on my sins.
(ey exit.)
Where art thou, Faustus? Wretch, what hast thou done?!
Hell claims his right, and with a roaring voice!
Says, Faustus, come, thine hour is almost come. !
Accursed Faustus, where is mercy now?!
I do repent, and yet I do despair,!
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Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast;!
What shall I do to shun the snares of death?
MEPHISTOPHILIS ou traitor, Faustus, I arrest thy soul,!
For disobedience to my sovereign lord.!
Revolt, or I’ll in piecemeal tear thy esh.
FAUSTUS Sweet Mephistophilis, entreat thy lord!
To pardon my unjust presumption,!
And with my blood again I will conrm!
e former vow I made to Lucifer.
MEPHISTOPHILIS Do it then, quickly, with unfeigned heart,!
Lest greater dangers do attend thy dri.
FAUSTUS One thing, good servant, let me crave of thee!
To glut the longing of my heart’s desire,!
at I may have unto my paramour,!
at heavenly Helen, which I saw of late,!
Whose sweet embraces may extinguish clear!
ose thoughts that do dissuade me from my vow,!
And keep my vow I made to Lucifer.
MEPHISTOPHILIS is, or what else my Faustus shall desire,!
Shall be performed in twinkling of an eye.
Enter Helen again, passing over.
FAUSTUS Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,!
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?!
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Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.!
Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips,!
And all is dross that is not Helena.!
I will be Paris, and for love of thee,!
Instead of Troy shall Wittenberg be sacked,!
And I will combat with weak Menelaus,!
And wear thy colours on my plumed crest.!
Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel,!
And then return to Helen for a kiss.!
O, thou art fairr than the evening’s air!
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.!
Brighter art thou then aming Jupiter,!
And none but thou shalt be my paramour.
(Exeunt.)
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under. Enter Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Mephistophilis.
LUCIFER us from infernal Dis do we ascend!
To view the subjects of our monarchy,!
ose souls which sin seals the black sons of hell,!
Mong which as chief, Faustus, we come to thee,!
Bringing with us lasting damnation,!
To wait upon thy soul. e time is come!
Which makes it forfeit.
MEPHISTOPHILIS And this gloomy night,!
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Here in this room will wretched Faustus be.
BEELZEBUB And here we’ll stay,!
To mark her how she doth demean herself.
MEPHISTOPHILIS How should she, but in desperate lunacy?!
Fond worldling, now her heart blood dries with grief!
Her conscience kills it, and her laboring brain!
Begets a world of idle fantasies!
To overreach the devil, but all in vain.!
Her store of pleasures must be sauced with pain.
Enter Faustus.
FAUSTUS O, thou bewitching end, ’twas thy temptation!
Hath robbed me of eternal happiness.
MEPHISTOPHILIS I do confess it Faustus, and rejoice!
Twas I that when thou were’t i’the way to heaven,!
Damned up thy passage; when thou took’st the book,!
To view the scriptures, then I turned the leaves!
And led thine eye.!
What weep’st thou? ’Tis too late; despair. Farewell.!
Fools that will laugh on earth most weep in hell.
(Exit.)
Enter the Scholars.
FIRST SCHOLAR Now worthy Faustus, methinks your looks are
changed.
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FAUSTUS Oh, gentlemen.
SECOND SCHOLAR What ails Faustus?!
Is all our pleasure turned to melancholy?
FIRST SCHOLAR She is not well with being over solitary.
SECOND SCHOLAR Tis but a surfeit sir; fear nothing.
FAUSTUS A surfeit of deadly sin that hath damned both body!
and soul.
FIRST SCHOLAR Yet, Faustus, look up to heaven, and remember
mercy is innite.
FAUSTUS But Faustus’ oense can ne’er be pardoned; e
serpent that tempted Eve may be saved, but not
Faustus. O, gentlemen, though I have been a student
here these thirty years, O would I had never seen
Wittenberg, never read book.
SECOND SCHOLAR Yet Faustus, call on God.
FAUSTUS On God, whom Faustus hath abjured? On God,
whom Faustus hath blasphemed? O my God, I
would weep, but the Devil draws in my tears. Gush
forth blood instead of tears, yea life and soul. Oh, he
stays my tongue. I would li up my hands, but see
they hold ’em, they hold ’em.
BOTH SCHOLARS Who, Faustus?
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FAUSTUS Why, Lucifer and Mephistophilis. O, gentlemen,!
I gave them my soul for my cunning.
BOTH SCHOLARS O, God forbid.
FAUSTUS God forbade it indeed but Faustus hath done it. !
I writ them a bill with mine own blood; the date is
expired: this is the time, and he will fetch me.
FIRST SCHOLAR O what may we do to save Faustus?
FAUSTUS Talk not of me, but save yourselves and depart.
SECOND SCHOLAR God will strengthen me; I will stay with Faustus.
FIRST SCHOLAR Tempt not God, sweet friend, but let us into the next!
room, and pray for her.
FAUSTUS Ay, pray for me, pray for me. And what noise soever!
you hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue
me.
BOTH SCHOLARS Faustus, farewell.
(ExeuntScholars.)
Enter the Good Angel and the Evil Angel at several doors.
GOOD ANGEL Oh Faustus, if thou had’st given ear to me,!
Innumerable joys had followed thee.!
But thou did’st love the world.
BAD ANGEL Gave ear to me,!
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And now must taste hell’s pains perpetually.
GOOD ANGEL O, what will all thy riches, pleasures, pomps,!
Avail thee now?
BAD ANGEL Nothing but vex thee more,!
To want in hell, that had on earth such store.
GOOD ANGEL O, thou hast lost celestial happiness,!
Pleasures unspeakable, bliss without end.!
Had’st thou aected sweet divinity,!
Hell, or the Devil, had had no power on thee.
BAD ANGEL Now, Faustus, let shine eyes with horror stare!
Into that vast perpetual torture-house.!
ere are the Furies tossing damned souls!
On burning forks; their bodies broil in lead.
GOOD ANGEL And now poor soul must thy good angel leave thee.
Exit.
BAD ANGEL e jaws of hell are open to receive thee.
Hell is discovered.
FAUSTUS O, I have seen enough to torture me.
BAD ANGEL Nay, thou must feel them, taste the smart of all.!
She that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.!
And so I leave thee, Faustus, till anon.!
en wilt thou tumble in confusion.
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Exit.
e clock strikes eleven.
FAUSTUS O, Faustus,!
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,!
And then thou must be damned perpetually.!
Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,!
at time may cease and midnight never come.!
Fair nature’s eye, rise, rise again and make!
Perpetual day. Or let this hour be but a year,!
A month, a week, a natural day,!
at Faustus may repent and save her soul.!
O lente lente currite noctis equi.!
e stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike.!
e devil will come and Faustus must be damned.!
O, I’ll leap up to heaven; who pulls me down?!
Where is it now? ’Tis gone.!
Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me,!
And hide me from the heavy wrath of heaven.
e watch strikes.
O, half the hour is past! ’Twill all be past anon.!
O, if my soul must suer for my sin,!
Impose some end to my incessant pain.!
Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years,!
A hundred thousand, and at last be saved.!
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No end is limited to damned souls.!
Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul?!
Or why is this immortal that thou hast?!
Cursed be the parents that engendered me;!
No, Faustus, curse thyself. Curse Lucifer!
at hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven.
e clock strikes twelve
It strikes, it strikes! Now body turn to air,!
Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell.!
O soul be changed into small water drops,!
And fall into the ocean ne’er be found.
under and lightning.
My god, my god! Look not so erce on me;!
Adders and serpents let me breathe awhile.!
Ugly hell, gape not; come not Lucifer!!
I’ll burn my books! Oh, Mephistophilis!
(Exeunt.)
Enter Chorus
CHORUS Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,!
And burned is Apollo’s Laurel bough,!
at some time grew within this learned woman,!
Faustus is gone, regard her hellish fall,!
Whose endful fortune may exhort the wise!
Only to wonder at unlawful things:!
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Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits,!
To practice more then heavenly power permits.
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