مسرحية دكتور فاوستوس (DR FAUSTUS) المشاهد الستة الاولى

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Enter Faustus in his Study.
Faustus
30Settle 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.
35Sweet Analytics 'tis thou has ravished me:
Bene disserere est finis logicis.
Is to dispute well Logic's chiefest end?
Affords this Art no greater miracle?
Then read no more, thou has attained the end;
40A greater subject fitteth Faustus' wit.
Bid Oncaymaeon farewell; Galen come:
Seeing Ubi desinit philosophus, ibi incipit medicus,
Be a physician Faustus, heap up gold,
And be eternis'd for some wondrous cure.
45Summum bonum medicinae sanitas:
The end of physic is our bodies health.
Why, Faustus, has thou not attained that end?
Is not thy common talk sound aphorisms?
Are not thy bills hung up as monuments,
50Whereby whole cities have escaped the plague,
And thousand desperate maladies been eased?
Yet art thou still but Faustus, and a man.
Wouldst thou make man to live eternally?
Or, being dead, raise them to life again?
55Then this profession were to be esteemed.
Physic farewell. Where is Justinian?
Si una eademque res legatur duobus,
Alter rem alter valorem rei, &c.
A pretty case of paltry legacies:
60Exhaereditari filium non potest pater nisi, &c.
Such is the subject of the institute
And universal body of the Church.
His study fits a mercenary drudge,
Who aims at nothing but external trash,
65The devil and illiberal for me
When all is done, divinity is best;
Jerome's Bible, Faustus, view it well:
Stipendium peccati mors est. Ha! Stipendium, &c.
The reward of sin is death: that's hard.
70Si peccasse negamus, fallimur, & nulla est in nobis veritas:
If we say that we have no sin,
We deceive our selves, and there's no truth in us.
Why then belike we must sin,
And so consequently die.
75Ay, we must die an everlasting death.
What doctrine call you this, Che sera, sera:
What will be, shall be? Divinity, adieu.
These Metaphysics of Magicians,
And Necromantic books are heavenly;
80Lines, circles, scenes, letters and characters,
Ay, these are those that Faustus most desires.
O what a world of profit and delight,
Of power, of honor, of omnipotence
Is promised to the studious artisan?
85All things that move between the quiet poles
Shall be at my command. Emperors and Kings,
Are but obeyed in their several provinces:
Nor can they raise the wind, or rend the clouds;
But his dominion that exceeds in this,
90Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man.
A sound magician is a mighty god:
Here Faustus try thy brains to gain a deity.

Enter Wagner.
Wagner, commend me to my dearest friends,
95The German Valdes, and Cornelius;
Request them earnestly to visit me
Wag.
I will sir. exit.
Fau.
Their conference will be a greater help to me,
Than all my labours, plod I ne'er so fast.

Enter the Good Angel and the Evil Angel.
Good. A.
O Faustus, lay that damned book aside,
And gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soul,
And heap Gods heavy wrath upon thy head,
Read, read the scriptures, that is blasphemy.
Euill A.
105Go forward, Faustus, in that famous art,
Wherein all nature's treasury is contained:
Be thou on earth as Jove is in the sky,
Lord and commander of these elements. Exeunt.
Fau.
How am I glutted with conceit of this?
110Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please,
Resolve me of all ambiguities,
Perform what desperate enterprise I will?
I'll have them fly to India for gold,
Ransack the Ocean for orient pearl,
115And 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,
120And make swift Rhine circle faire Wertenberg;
I'll have them fill 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,
125And reign sole king of all our provinces;
Yea, stranger engines for the brunt of war
Then was the fiery keel at Antwarpe's bridge,
I'll make my servile spirits to invent.
Come, German Valdes and Cornelius,
130And make me blest with your sage conference.
Valdes,sweet Valdes, and Cornelius,

Enter Valdes and Cornelius.
Know that your words have won me at the last,
To practice magic and concealed arts:
135Yet not your words only, but mine own fantasy,
That will receive no object for my head,
But ruminates on necromantic skill.
Philosophy is odious and obscure,
Both law and physic are for petty wits;
140Divinity is basest of the three,
Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible and vile,
'Tis magic, magic that hath ravished Mephistophilis
Then, gentle friends, aide me in this attempt.
And I that have with concise syllogisms
145Gravell'd the pastors of the German church,
And made the flowering pride of Wertenberg
Swarm to my problems, as the infernal spirits,
On sweet Musoeus when he came to hell,
Will be as cunning as Agrippa was,
150Whose shadows made all Europe honor him.
Vald.
Faustus, these books thy wit and our experience
Shall make all nations to canonize us:
As Indian Moores obey their Spanish Lords,
So shall the subjects of every element
155Be always serviceable to us three,
Like lions shall they guard us when we please,
Like Almaine rutters with their horsemen's staves,
Or Lapland giants trotting by our sides;
Sometimes like women, or unwedded maids,
160Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows,
Than in their white breasts of the queen of love,
For Venice shall they drag huge Argoces,
And from America the golden fleece,
That yearly stuffs old Philips treasury,
165If learned Faustus will be resolute.
Fau.
Valdes as resolute am I in this
As thou to live; therefore object it not.
Corn.
The miracles that magic will perform,
Will make thee vow to study nothing else,
170He that is grounded in Astrology,
Enriched with tongues, well seen inminerals,
Hath all the principles magic doth require.
Then doubt not, Faustus, but to be renowned,
And more frequented for this mystery,
175Then heretofore the Delphian Oracle.
The spirits tell me they can dry the sea,
And fetch the treasure of all foreign wracks,
Ay, all the wealth that our forefathers hid
Within the massy entrails of the earth.
180Then tell me, Faustus, what shall we three want?
Fau.
Nothing, Cornelius; O this cheers my soul.
Come show me some demonstrations magical,
That I may conjure in some lusty grove,
And have these joys in full possession.
Val.
185Then haste thee to some solitary grove,
And bear wise Bacon's and Albanus' works,
The Hebrew Psalter, and New Testament,
And whatsoever else is requisite
We will inform thee ere our conference cease.
Cor.
190Valdes, first let him know the words of art;
And then, all other ceremonies learned,
Faustus may try his cunning by himself.
Val.
First I'll instruct thee in the rudiments.
And then wilt thou be perfecter than I.
Fau.
195Then come and dine with me, and after meat,
We'll canvas every quiddity thereof,
For ere I sleep I'll try what I can do;
This night I'll conjure though I die therefore.

Exeunt.

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Enter two Scholars.

1. Sch.
I wonder what's become of Faustus, that was
wont to make our schools ring with sic probo.

2. Sch.
That shall we know, for see here comes his boy.
Enter Wagner.

1. Sch.
How now sirrah, where's thy master?

Wag.
God in heaven knows.

2.
Why, dost not thou know?

Wag.
Yes, I know, but that follows not.

1.
Go to,sirrah! leave your jesting, and tell us where
he is.

Wag.
That follows not necessary by force of argument,
that you being licentiate should stand upon't, therefore ac-
knowledge your error, and be attentive.

2.
Why, did'st thou not say thou knew'st?

Wag.
Have you any witness on't?

1.
Yes ,sirrah, I heard you.

Wag.
Ask my fellow if I be a thief.

2.
Well, you will not tell us?

Wag.
Yes sir, I will tell you, yet if you were not dunces
you would never ask me such a question, for is not he cor-
pus naturale, and is not that mobile, then wherefore should
you ask me such a question? But that I am by nature phleg-
matic, 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 to see you
both hang'd the next sessions. Thus 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, it would inform your worships, and so the Lord
bless you, preserve you, and keep you my dear brethren,
my dear brethren.
exit.

1.
Nay,then, I fear he has fallen into that damned art, for
which they two are infamous through the world.

2.
Were he a stranger, and not allied to me, yet should
I grieve for him. But come let us go and inform the Rector,
and see if he by his grave counsel can reclaim him.

1.
O, but I fear me nothing can reclaim him.

2.
Yet let us try what we can do.

Exeunt.

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Enter Faustus to conjure.
Fau.
Now that the gloomy shadow of the earth,
Longing to view Orion's drizzling look,
245Leaps from th'antarctic world unto the sky,
And dims the welkin with her pitchy breath:
Faustus, begin thine incantations,
And try if devils will obey thy hest,
Seeing thou hast prayed and sacrificed to them.
250Within this circle is Jehovah's name,
Forward and backward, anagrammatis'd,
The breviated names of holy Saints,
Figures of every adjunct to the heavens,
And characters of signs and erring stars,
255By which the spirits are enforced to rise.
Then fear not Faustus, but be resolute,
And try the uttermost magic can perform.

Sint mihi Dei Acherontis propitii! Valeat numen triplexJehovae! Ignei,
aeriI, aquatani spiritus, salvete! Orientis princeps Beelzebub,inferni
ardentis monarcha & Demigorgon, propitiamus vos, utappareat &
surgat Mephistophilis. Quid tu moraris? Per Jehovam,Gehennam, &
consecratam aquam quam nunc spargo, signumque crusisquod nunc
facio, & per vota nostra, ipse nunc surgat nobis dicatusMephistophilis!
philis.
Enter a Devil.
I charge thee to return and change thy shape;
Thou art too ugly to attend on me
Go and return an old Franciscan Friar;
That holy shape becomes a devil best. Exit Devil.

270I see there's virtue in my heavenly words;
Who would not be proficient in this art?
How pliant is this Mephistophilis?
Full of obedience and humility,
Such is the force of magic and my spells.
275Now Faustus, thou art conjurer laureate
That canst command great Mephistophilis,
Quin regis Mephistophilis fratris imagine.

Enter Mephistophilis.
Me.
Now, Faustus, what would'st thou have me do?
Fau.
280I 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.
Me.
I am a servant to great Lucifer,
285And may not follow thee without his leave,
No more than he commands must we perform.
Fau.
Did not he charge thee to appear to me?
Me.
No, I came now hither of mine own accord.
Fau.
Did not my conjuring speeches raise thee? Speak.
Me.
290That was the cause, but yet per accident,
For when we hear one rack the name of God,
Abjure the scriptures, and his Savior Christ,
We fly, in hope to get his glorious soul;
Nor will we come unless he use such means
295Whereby he is in danger to be damned:
Therefore the shortest cut for conjuring
Is stoutly to abjure the Trinity,
And pray devoutly to the Prince of Hell.
Fau.
So Faustus hath already done, & holds this principle:
300There is no chief but only Beelzebub,
To whom Faustus doth dedicate himself.
This word damnation terrifies not him,
For he confounds hell in Elysium;
His ghost be with the old philosophers.
305But, leaving these vain trifles of men's souls,
Tell me what is that Lucifer thy Lord?
Me.
Arch-regent and commander of all spirits.
Fau.
Was not that Lucifer an Angel once?
Me.
Yes, Faustus, and most dearly lov'd of God.
Fau.
310How comes it then that he is Prince of devils?
Me.
O, by aspiring pride and insolence,
For which God threw him from the face of heaven.
Fau.
And what are you that live with Lucifer?
Me.
Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer,
315Conspired against our God with Lucifer,
And are for ever damned with Lucifer.
Fau.
Where are you damned?
Me.
In hell.
Fau.
How comes it then that thou art out of hell?
Me.
320Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Thinkst thou that I who 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?
325O Faustus, leave these frivolous demands,
Which strike a terror to my fainting soul.
Fau.
What, is great Mephistophilis so passionate
For being deprived of the joys of heaven?
Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude,
330And scorn those joys thou never shall possess.
Go bear those tidings to great Lucifer:
Seeing Faustus hath incurred eternal death,
By desperate thoughts against Jove's deity,
Say he surrenders up to him his soul,
335So he will spare him four and twenty years,
Letting him live in all voluptuousness,
Having thee ever to attend on me,
To give me whatsoever I shall ask,
To tell me whatsoever I demand,
340To slay mine enemies, and aide 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.
Me.
345I will, Faustus.
Exit.
Fau.
Had I as many souls as there be stars,
I'd give them all for Mephistophilis.
By him I'll be great Emperor of the world,
And make a bridge through the moving air,
350To pass the Ocean with a band of men;
I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore,
And make that land continent to Spain,
And both contributory to my crown.
The Emperor shall not live but by my leave,
355Nor any Potentate of Germany.
Now that I have obtained what I desire,
I'll live in speculation of this art,
'Til Mephistophilis return again. Exit.


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Enter Wagner and the Clown.

Wag.
Sirrah, boy, come hither.

Clo.
How, boy? Swowns boy! I hope you have seen ma-
ny boys with such pickadevaunts as I have. Boy, quotha?

Wag.
Tell me, sirrah, hast thou any comings in?

Clo.
Ay, and goings out too, you may see else.

Wag.
Alas poor slave. See how poverty jesteth in his na-
kedness. The villain is bare, and out of service, and so hun-
gry that I know he would glue his soul to the Devil for a
shoulder of mutton, though it were blood raw.

Clo.
How, my soul to the devil for a shoulder of mut-
ton though 'twere blood raw? Not so, good friend. By'r Lady, I
had need have it well roasted, and good sauce to it, if I pay so
dear.

Wag.
Well, wilt thou serve me, and I'll make thee go like
Qui mihi discipulus?

Clo.
How, in verse?

Wag.
No, sirrah, in beaten silk and stavesacre.

Clo.
How, how, Knaves acre? Ay, I thought that was all
the land his father left him. Do ye hear? I would be sorry
to rob you of your living.

Wag.
Sirrah, I say in stavesacre.

Clo.
Oho! Oho! Staves acre! Why, then, belike if I were
your man I should be full of vermin.

Wag.
So thou shalt, whether thou beest with me, or no.
But sirrah, leave your jesting, and bind your self presently
unto me for seven years, or I'll turn all the lice about thee
into familiars, and they shall tear thee in pieces.

Clo.
Do you hear sir? You may save that labour; they
are too familiar with me already. Swowns! they are as bold
with my flesh as if they had paid for my meat and drink.

Wag.
Well, do you hear sirrah? Hold, take these guilders.

Clo.
Gridirons! what be they?

Wag.
Why, french crowns.

Clo.
Mass, but for the name of french crowns, a man
were as good have as many English counters, and what
should I do with these?

Wag.
Why, now, sirrah, thou art at an hour's warning,
whensoever or wheresoever the devil shall fetch thee.

Clo.
No, no. Here, take your gridirons again.

Wag.
Truly I'll none of them.

Clo.
Truly but you shall.

Wag.
Bear witness I gave them him.

Clo.
Bear witness I give them you again.

Wag.
Well, I will cause two devils presently to fetch
thee away Baliol and Belcher.

Clo.
Let your Baliol and your Belcher come here, and I'll
knock them, they were never so knocked since they were de-
vils. Say I should kill one of them, what would folks say? Do
ye see yonder tall fellow in the round slop, he has killed the de-
vil, So I should be called Kill-devil all the parish over.
Enter two Devils, and the Clown runs up
and down crying.

Wag.
Baliol and Belcher, spirits away!

Clow.
What, are they gone? A vengeance on them; they
have vile long nails. There was a he-devil and a she-de-
vil. I'll tell you how you shall know them: all he-devils has
horns, and all she-devils has clefts and cloven feet.

Wag.
Well, sirrah, follow me.

Clo.
But do you hear? If I should serve you, would you
teach me to raise up Banios and Belcheos?

Wag.
I will teach thee to turn thy self to anything, to
a dog, or a cat, or a mouse, or a rat, or any thing.

Clo.
How! A Christian fellow to a dog or a cat, a
mouse or a rat? No, no sir, if you turn me into any thing,
let it be in the likeness of a little pretty frisking flea, that I
may be here and there and every where. O, I'll tickle the pre-
tie wenches plackets; I'll be amongst them, i'faith.

Wag.
Well, sirrah, come.

Clo.
But, do you hear, Wagner?

Wag.
How! Baliol and Belcher.

Clo.
O Lord, I pray sir, let Banio and Belcher go sleep.

Wag.
Villain, call me Master Wagner, and let thy left
eye be diametrically fixed upon my right heel, with quasivesti-
gias nostras insistere. Exit.

Clo.
God forgive me, he speaks Dutch fustian. Well,
I'll follow him, I'll serve him, that's flat. Exit.


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Enter Faustus in his Study.
Fau.
Now, Faustus, must thou needs be damned,
And canst thou not be saved?
What boots it then to think of God or heaven?
440Away with such vain fancies and despair:
Despair in God, and trust in Beelzebub.
Now go not backward: no, Faustus, be resolute.
Why waverest thou? O, something soundeth in mine ears:
Abjure this magic, turn to God again.
445Ay, and Faustus will turn to God again.
To God? He loves thee not.
The God thou serv'st is thine own appetite,
Wherein is fixed the love of Beelzebub;
To him I'll build an altar and a church,
450And offer luke warm blood of new borne babes.

Enter Good Angel and EvilAngel.
Good Angel
Sweet Faustus, leave that execrable art.
Fau.
Contrition, prayer, repentance: what of them?
Good Angel
O, they are means to bring thee unto hea-
455ven.
Euill Angel
Rather illusions, fruits of lunacy,
That makes men foolish that do trust them most.
Good Angel
Sweet Faustus ,think of heaven, and hea-
venly things.
Euill Angel
460No, Faustus, think of honor and wealth.
Fau.
Of wealth, Exeunt.Angels

Why the signiory of Emden shall be mine.
When Mephistophilis shall stand by me,
What God can hurt thee Faustus? Thou art safe;
465Cast no more doubts. Come, Mephistophilis,
And bring glad tidings from great Lucifer.
Is't not midnight? Come Mephistophilis,
Veni, veni, Mephastophile! Enter Mephistophilis.

Now tell, what says Lucifer thy Lord?
Me.
470That I shall wait on Faustus whilst I live,
So he will buy my service with his soul.
Fau.
Already Faustus hath hazarded that for thee.
Me.
But Faustus, thou must bequeath it solemnly,
And write a deed of gift with thine own blood,
475For that security craves great Lucifer.
If thou deny it, I will back to fuel.
Fau.
Stay, Mephistophilis, and tell me what good will
my soul do thy Lord?
Me.
Enlarge his kingdom.
Fau.
480Is that the reason he tempts us thus?
Me.
Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
Fau.
Have you any pain that tortures others?
Me.
As great as have the human souls of men.
But tell me Faustus, shall I have thy soul,
485And I will be thy slave, and wait on thee,
And give thee more than thou hast wit to ask.
Fau.
Ay, Mephistophilis, I give it thee.
Me.
Then , Faustus, stab thine arm courageously,
And bind thy soul that at some certain day
490Great Lucifer may claim it as his own,
And then be thou as great as Lucifer.
Fau.
Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee,
I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood
495Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's,
Chief Lord and regent of perpetual night,
View here the blood that trickles from mine arm,
And let it be propitious for my wish.
Meph.
But, Faustus, thou must write it in manner of a
500deed of gift.
Fau.
Ay, so I will, but Mephistophilis my blood congeals
and I can write no more.
Me.
I'll fetch thee fire to dissolve it straight. Exit.
Fau.
What might the staying of my blood portend?
505Is it unwilling I should write this bill?
Why streams it not, that I may write afresh:
Faustus gives to thee his soul. Ah, there it stayed,
Why shouldst thou not? Is not thy soul thine own?
Then write again: Faustus gives to thee his soul.

Enter Mephistophilis with a chafer of coals.
Me.
Here's fire. Come, Faustus, set it on.
Fau.
So now the blood begins to clear again;
Now will I make an end immediately.
Me.
O, what will not I do to obtain his soul?
Fau.
515Consummatum est: this bill is ended,
And Faustus hath bequeathed his soul to Lucifer.
But what is this inscription on mine arm?
Homo fuge! Whither should I fly?
If unto God, he'll throw me down to hell.
520My senses are deceived; here's nothing writ:
I see it plain, here in this place is writ
Homo fuge! Yet shall not Faustus fly.
Me.
I'll fetch him somewhat to delight his mind.

Exit.

Enter Mephistophilis with devils giving crowns and rich apparel to
Faustus, and dance, and then depart.
Fau.
Speak, Mephistophilis, what means this show?
Me.
Nothing, Faustus, but to delight thy mind withal,
And to show thee what magic can perform.
Fau.
530But may I raise up spirits when I please?
Me.
Ay, Faustus, and do greater things then these.
Fau.
Then there's enough for a thousand souls.
Here, Mephistophilis, receive this scroll,
A deed of gift of body and of soul;
535But yet conditionally, that thou perform
All articles prescribed between us both.
Me.
Faustus, I swear by hell and Lucifer
To effect all promises between us made.

Fau.
Then hear me read them: On these conditions fol-
lowing. ‘
First, that Faustus may be a spirit in form and substance.
Secondly, that Mephistophilis shall be his servant, and at
his command.
Thirdly, that Mephistophilis shall do for him, and bring
him whatsoever.
Fourthly, that he shall be in his chamber or house in-
visible.
Lastly, that he shall appear to the said John Faustus at all
times, in what form or shape soever he please.
John Faustus of Wertenberg, Doctor, by these presents, do
give both body and soul to Lucifer prince of the East, and his
minister Mephistophilis, and furthermore grant unto them
that 24. years being expired, the articles above written in-
violate, full power to fetch or carry the said John Faustus body
and soul, flesh, blood, or goods, into their habitation where-
soever.
By me John Faustus.’
Me.
Speak, Faustus, do you deliver this as your deed?
Fau.
Ay, take it, and the devil give thee good on't.
Me.
560Now, Faustus, ask what thou wilt.
Fau.
First will I question with thee about hell;
Tell me, where is the place that men call hell?
Me.
Under the heavens.
Fau.
Ay, but whereabout?
Me.
565Within the bowels of these elements,
Where we are tortured and remain for ever,
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
In one self place; for where we are is hell,
And where hell is theremust we ever be:
570And to conclude, when all the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be hell that is not heaven.
Fau.
Come, I think hell's a fable.
Me.
Ay, think so still, 'til experience change thy mind.
Fau.
575Why? Think'st thou then that Faustus shall bee
damned?
Me.
Ay, of necessity, for here's the scroll
Wherein thou hast given thy soul to Lucifer.
Fau.
Ay, and body too, but what of that?
580Think'st thou that Faustus is so fond,
To imagine, that after this life there is any pain?
Tush; these are trifles and mere old wives tales.

Me.
But, Faustus, I am an instance to prove the contrary
For I am damned, and am now in hell.

Fau.
How! Now in hell? Nay and this be hell, I'll will-
lingly be damned here; what? walking, disputing, &c.? But
leaving off this, let me have a wife, the fairest maid in Ger-
many, for I am wanton and lascivious, and cannot live
without a wife.

Me.
How, a wife? I prithee, Faustus, talk not of a wife.

Fau.
Nay, sweet Mephistophilis, fetch me one, for I will
have one.

Me.
Well, thou wilt have one. Sit there 'til I come; I'll
fetch thee a wife in the devil's name.

Enter Mephistophilis with a devil dressed like a woman,
with fire works.

Me.
Tell, Faustus, how dost thou like thy wife?

Fau.
A plague on her for a hot whore!

Me.
Tut, Faustus, marriage is but a ceremonial toy; if
thou lovest me, think more of it.
I'll cull thee out the fairest courtesans,
And bring them every morning to thy bed.
She whom thine eye shall like, thy heart shall have;
Be she as chaste as was Penelope,
605As wise as Saba, or as beautiful
As was bright Lucifer before his fall.
Hold, take this book, peruse it thoroughly:
The iterating of these lines brings gold;
The framing of this circle on the ground
610Brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning.
Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thyself,
And men in armor shall appear to thee,
Ready to execute what thou desir'st.

Fau.
Thanks, Mephistophilis, yet fain would I have
a book wherein I might behold all spells and incantations,
that I might raise up spirits when I please.

Me.
Here they are in this book.There turns to them.

Fau.
Now would I have a book where I might see all
characters and planets of the heavens, that I might know
their motions and dispositions.

Me.
Here they are too. Turns to them

Fau.
Nay, let me have one book more, and then I have
done, wherein I might see all plants, herbs and trees that
grow upon the earth.

Me.
Here they be.

Fau.
O, thou art deceived.

Me.
Tut, I warrant thee. Turns to them. Exeunt.
Fau.
When I behold the heavens, then I repent
And curse thee wicked Mephistophilis,
630Because thou hast deprived me of those joys.

Me.
Why, Faustus,
Thinkst thou heaven is such a glorious thing?
I tell thee tis not half so faire as thou,
Or any man that breathes on earth.

Fau.
How provest thou that?

Me.
It was made for man; therefore is man more excel-
lent.
Fau.
If it were made for man, 'twas made for me.
I will renounce this magic, and repent.

Enter Good Angel, and Evil Angel.
Good An.
Faustus, repent; Yet God will pity thee.
euill An.
Thou art a spirit; God cannot ptty thee
Fau.
Who buzzeth in mine ears I am a spirit?
Be I a devil, yet God may pity me;
645Ay, God will pity me, if I repent.
euill An.
Ay, but Faustus never shall repent. Exeunt.
Fau.
My heart's so hardened I cannot repent.
Scarce can I name salvation, faith, or heaven,
But fearful echoes thunder in mine ears
650Faustus, thou art damned. Then swords and knives,
Poison, guns, halters, and envenomed steel
Are laid before me to dispatch my self,
And long ere this I should have slain my self,
Had not sweet pleasure conquered deep despair.
655Have not I made blind Homer sing to me,
Of Alexander's love, and Oenon's death,
And hath not he that built the walls of Thebes,
With ravishing sound of his melodious harp,
Made music with my Mephistophilis?
660
Why should I die then, or basely despair?
I am resolved: Faustus shall never repent,
Come, Mephistophilis, let us dispute again,
And argue of divine astrology,
665Tell me, are there many heavens above the Moon?
Are all celestial bodies but one globe,
As is the substance of this centric earth?
Me.
As are the elements, such are the spheres,
Mutually folded in each other's orb,
670And, Faustus, all jointly move upon one axletree,
Whose terminine is termed the world's wide pole,
Nor are the names of Saturn, Mars, or Jupiter
Fained, but are erring stars.

Fau.
But tell me, have they all one motion? Both situ &
tempore?

Me.
All jointly move from East to West in four and twenty hours
upon the poles of the world, but differ in their motion upon
the poles of the zodiac.

Fau.
Tush, these slender trifles Wagner can decide;
Hath Mephistophilis no greater skill?
Who knows not the double motion of the planets?
The first is finished in a natural day;
The second thus: as Saturn in thirty years; Jupiter in twelve;
Mars in four; the Sun, Venus, and Mercury in a year: the
Moon in twenty eight days. Tush, these are freshmen's suppositions,
but tell me, hath every sphere a dominion or intelligentia?

Me.
Ay.

Fau.
How many heavens or spheres are there?

Me.
Nine, the seven planets, the firmament, and the im-
perial heaven.

Fau.
Well, resolve me in this question: Why have we
not conjunctions, oppositions, aspects, eclipses, all at one
time, but in some years we have more, in some less?

Me.
Per inaequalem motum respectu totius.

Fau.
Well, I am answered. Tell me who made the world?

Me.
I will not.

Fau.
Sweet Mephistophilis, tell me.

Me.
Move me not, for I will not tell thee.

Fau.
Villain, have I not bound thee to tell me any thing?

Me.
I, that is not against our kingdom, but this is.
Think thou on hell, Faustus, for thou art damned.

Fau.
Think Faustus upon God that made the world.

Me.
Remember this. Exit.
Fau.
Ay, go accursed spirit to ugly hell,
705'Tis thou hast damned distressed Faustus' soul.
Is't not too late?

Enter Good Angel and Evil Angel.

euill A.
Too late.

good A.
Never too late, if Faustus can repent.

euill A.
If thou repent, devils shall tear thee in pieces.

good A.
Repent, and they shall never raze thy skin. Exeunt Angels

Fau.
Ah, Christ my Savior, seek to save distressed Fau-
stus's soul.

Enter Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Mephistophilis.
Lu.
715Christ cannot save thy soul, for he is just;
There's none but I have interest in the same.
Fau.
O, who art thou that look'st so terrible?

Lu.
I am Lucifer, and this is my companion prince in
hell.

Fau.
O,Faustus! They are come to fetch away thy soul.

Lu.
We come to tell thee thou dost injure us;
Thou talkst of Christ, contrary to thy promise.
Thou shouldst not think of God: think of the devil,
And of his dame too.
Fau.
725Nor will I henceforth: pardon me in this,
And Faustus vows never to look to heaven,
Never to name God, or to pray to him,
To burn his scriptures, slay his Ministers,
And make my spirits pull his churches down.

Lu.
Do so, and we will highly gratify thee.
Faustus, we are come from hell to show thee some pastime.
Sit down, and thou shalt see all the Seven Deadly Sins ap-
pear in their proper shapes.

Fau.
That sight will be as pleasing unto me as paradise
was to Adam, the first day of his creation.

Lu.
Talk not of paradise, nor creation, but mark this
show; talk of the devil, and nothing else. Come away.
Enter The Seven Deadly Sins.
Now Faustus, examine them of their several names and
dispositions.

Fau.
What art thou, the first??

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, or like a fan
of feathers, I kiss her lips. Indeed I do, what do I not?
But fie, what a scent is here? I'll not speak another word,
except the ground were perfumed and covered with cloth of
arras.

Fau.
What art thou, the second?

Coue.
I am Covetousness, begotten of an old churl, in
an old leather bag, and might I have my wish, I would
desire, that this house, and all the people in it were turned to
gold, that I might lock you up in my good chest. O, my
sweet gold!

Fau.
What art thou, the third ?

Wrath
I am Wrath. I had neither father nor mother. I
leapt out of a lion's mouth when I was scarce half an hour
old, and ever since I have run up and down the world
with this case of rapiers wounding my self, when I had no
body to fight withal. I was borne in hell, and look to it, for
some of you shall be my father.

Fau.
What art thou, the fourth?

Enuy
I am Envy begotten of a Chimney-sweeper and
an Oyster wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books
were burnt. I am lean with seeing others eat. O, that
there would come a famine through all the world, that all
might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I
would be. But must thou sit and I stand? Come down with
a vengeance.

Fau.
Away envious rascal. What art thou, the fifth?

Glut.
Who, I, sir? I am Gluttony. My parents are all dead,
and the devil a penny they have left me, but a bare pension,
and that is thirty meals a day and ten bevers, a small
trifle to suffice nature. O, I come of a royal parentage! My
grandfather was a gammon of bacon, my grandmother a
hogs head of Claret-wine. My godfathers were these: Pe-
ter Pickle-herring, and Martin Martlemas-beef. O, but
my godmother, she was a jolly gentlewoman, and welbelo-
ved in every good town and City; her name was mistress
Margery March-beer. Now, Faustus, thou hast heard all my
progeny, wilt thou bid me to supper?

Fau.
No, I'll see thee hanged; thou wilt eat up all my
victuals.

Glut.
Then the devil choke thee.

Fau.
Choke thyself, glutton! What art thou, the sixth?

Sloath.
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 a-
gain by Gluttony and Lechery. I'll not speak another
word for a king's ransom.

Fau.
What are you Mistress Minks, the seventh
and last?

Lechery
Who, I, sir? I am one that loves an inch of raw
Mutton better then an ell of fried stock-fish, and the first
letter of my name begins with lechery.
Away, to hell, to hell. Exeunt the Sins.

Lu.
Now, Faustus, how dost thou like this?

Fau.
O, this feeds my soul.

Lu.
Tut, Faustus, in hell is all manner of delight.

Fau.
O, might I see hell, and return again, how happy
were I then.

Lu.
Thou shalt; I will send for thee at midnight. In mean
time take this book, peruse it thoroughly, and thou shalt turn
thyself into what shape thou wilt.

Fau.
Great thanks, mighty Lucifer. This will I keep as
chary as my life.

Lu.
Farewell, Faustus, and think on the devil.

Fau.
Farewell, great Lucifer. Come Mephistophilis.
Exeunt omnes.