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If you are not located in the United States, you +will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before +using this eBook. + +Title: The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus + +Author: Christoper Marlowe + +Release Date: January, 1997 [eBook #779] +[Most recently updated: November 18, 2023] + +Language: English + +Produced by: Gary R. Young + +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS *** + + + + +THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS + +By Christopher Marlowe + +From The Quarto of 1604 + +Edited by The Rev. Alexander Dyce + + + + +THE TRAGICALL HISTORY OF D. FAUSTUS. AS IT HATH BENE ACTED +BY THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARLE OF NOTTINGHAM HIS SERUANTS. +WRITTEN BY CH. MARL. + +In reprinting this edition, I have here and there amended the text +by means of the later 4tos,--1616, 1624, 1631.--Of 4to 1663, which +contains various comparatively modern alterations and additions, +I have made no use. + + + + +DRAMATIS PERSONAE. + + THE POPE. + CARDINAL OF LORRAIN. + THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. + DUKE OF VANHOLT. + FAUSTUS. + VALDES, ] friends to FAUSTUS. + CORNELIUS, ] + WAGNER, servant to FAUSTUS. + Clown. + ROBIN. + RALPH. + Vintner. + Horse-courser. + A Knight. + An Old Man. + Scholars, Friars, and Attendants. + + DUCHESS OF VANHOLT + + LUCIFER. + BELZEBUB. + MEPHISTOPHILIS. + Good Angel. + Evil Angel. + The Seven Deadly Sins. + Devils. + Spirits in the shapes of ALEXANDER THE GREAT, of his Paramour + and of HELEN. + + Chorus. + + + + + +THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS + +FROM THE QUARTO OF 1604. + + + Enter CHORUS. + + CHORUS. Not marching now in fields of Thrasymene, + Where Mars did mate[1] the Carthaginians; + Nor sporting in the dalliance of love, + In courts of kings where state is overturn'd; + Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds, + Intends our Muse to vaunt[2] her[3] heavenly verse: + Only this, gentlemen,--we must perform + The form of Faustus' fortunes, good or bad: + To patient judgments we appeal our plaud, + And speak for Faustus in his infancy. + Now is he born, his parents base of stock, + In Germany, within a town call'd Rhodes: + Of riper years, to Wertenberg he went, + Whereas[4] his kinsmen chiefly brought him up. + So soon he profits in divinity, + The fruitful plot of scholarism grac'd, + That shortly he was grac'd with doctor's name, + Excelling all whose sweet delight disputes + In heavenly matters of theology; + Till swoln with cunning,[5] of a self-conceit, + His waxen wings did mount above his reach, + And, melting, heavens conspir'd his overthrow; + For, falling to a devilish exercise, + And glutted now[6] with learning's golden gifts, + He surfeits upon cursed necromancy; + Nothing so sweet as magic is to him, + Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss: + And this the man that in his study sits. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS discovered in his study.[7] + + FAUSTUS. Settle thy studies, Faustus, and begin + To sound the depth of that thou wilt profess: + Having commenc'd, be a divine in shew, + Yet level at the end of every art, + And live and die in Aristotle's works. + Sweet Analytics, 'tis thou[8] hast ravish'd me! + Bene disserere est finis logices. + Is, to dispute well, logic's chiefest end? + Affords this art no greater miracle? + Then read no more; thou hast attain'd that[9] end: + A greater subject fitteth Faustus' wit: + Bid Economy[10] farewell, and[11] Galen come, + Seeing, Ubi desinit philosophus, ibi incipit medicus: + Be a physician, Faustus; heap up gold, + And be eterniz'd for some wondrous cure: + Summum bonum medicinae sanitas, + The end of physic is our body's health. + Why, Faustus, hast thou not attain'd that end? + Is not thy common talk found aphorisms? + Are not thy bills hung up as monuments, + Whereby whole cities have escap'd the plague, + And thousand desperate maladies been eas'd? + Yet art thou still but Faustus, and a man. + Couldst[12] thou make men[13] to live eternally, + Or, being dead, raise them to life again, + Then this profession were to be esteem'd. + Physic, farewell! Where is Justinian? + + [Reads.] + Si una eademque res legatur[14] duobus, alter rem, + alter valorem rei, &c. + + A pretty case of paltry legacies! + + [Reads.] + Exhoereditare filium non potest pater, nisi, &c.[15] + + Such is the subject of the institute, + And universal body of the law:[16] + This[17] study fits a mercenary drudge, + Who aims at nothing but external trash; + Too servile[18] and illiberal for me. + When all is done, divinity is best: + Jerome's Bible, Faustus; view it well. + + [Reads.] + Stipendium peccati mors est. + Ha! + Stipendium, &c. + + The reward of sin is death: that's hard. + + [Reads.] + Si peccasse negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis veritas; + + If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and + there's 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,[19] + What will be, shall be? Divinity, adieu! + These metaphysics of magicians, + And necromantic books are heavenly; + Lines, circles, scenes,[20] letters, and characters; + Ay, these are those that Faustus most desires. + O, what a world of profit and delight, + Of power, of honour, of omnipotence, + Is promis'd to the studious artizan! + All 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, + Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man; + A sound magician is a mighty god: + Here, Faustus, tire[21] thy brains to gain a deity. + + Enter WAGNER.[22] + + Wagner, commend me to my dearest friends, + The German Valdes and Cornelius; + Request them earnestly to visit me. + + WAGNER. I will, sir. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. Their conference will be a greater help to me + Than all my labours, plod I ne'er so fast. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + + GOOD ANGEL. O, Faustus, lay that damned book aside, + And gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soul, + And heap God's heavy wrath upon thy head! + Read, read the Scriptures:--that is blasphemy. + + EVIL ANGEL. Go forward, Faustus, in that famous art + Wherein all Nature's treasure[23] is contain'd: + Be thou on earth as Jove[24] is in the sky, + Lord and commander of these elements.[25] + [Exeunt Angels.] + + FAUSTUS. How am I glutted with conceit of this! + Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, + Resolve[26] 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, + 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 swift Rhine circle fair Wertenberg; + I'll have them fill the public schools with silk,[27] + 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[28] provinces; + Yea, stranger engines for the brunt of war, + Than was the fiery keel at Antwerp's bridge,[29] + I'll make my servile spirits to invent. + + 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: + Yet not your words only,[30] 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; + Divinity is basest of the three, + Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile:[31] + 'Tis magic, magic, that hath ravish'd me. + Then, gentle friends, aid me in this attempt; + And I, that have with concise syllogisms[32] + Gravell'd the pastors of the German church, + And made the flowering pride of Wertenberg + Swarm to my problems, as the infernal spirits + On sweet Musaeus when he came to hell, + Will be as cunning[33] as Agrippa[34] was, + Whose shadow[35] made all Europe honour him. + + VALDES. Faustus, these books, thy wit, and our experience, + Shall make all nations to canonize us. + As Indian Moors obey their Spanish lords, + So shall the spirits[36] of every element + Be always serviceable to us three; + Like lions shall they guard us when we please; + Like Almain rutters[37] with their horsemen's staves, + Or Lapland giants, trotting by our sides; + Sometimes like women, or unwedded maids, + Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows + Than have the[38] white breasts of the queen of love: + From[39] Venice shall they drag huge argosies, + And from America the golden fleece + That yearly stuffs old Philip's treasury; + If learned Faustus will be resolute. + + FAUSTUS. Valdes, as resolute am I in this + As thou to live: therefore object it not. + + CORNELIUS. The miracles that magic will perform + Will make thee vow to study nothing else. + He that is grounded in astrology, + Enrich'd with tongues, well seen in[40] minerals, + Hath all the principles magic doth require: + Then doubt not, Faustus, but to be renowm'd,[41] + And more frequented for this mystery + Than heretofore the Delphian oracle. + The spirits tell me they can dry the sea, + And fetch the treasure of all foreign wrecks, + Ay, all the wealth that our forefathers hid + Within the massy entrails of the earth: + Then tell me, Faustus, what shall we three want? + + FAUSTUS. Nothing, Cornelius. O, this cheers my soul! + Come, shew me some demonstrations magical, + That I may conjure in some lusty grove, + And have these joys in full possession. + + VALDES. Then haste thee to some solitary grove, + And bear wise Bacon's and Albertus'[42] works, + The Hebrew Psalter, and New Testament; + And whatsoever else is requisite + We will inform thee ere our conference cease. + + CORNELIUS. Valdes, first let him know the words of art; + And then, all other ceremonies learn'd, + Faustus may try his cunning[43] by himself. + + VALDES. First I'll instruct thee in the rudiments, + And then wilt thou be perfecter than I. + + FAUSTUS. Then come and dine with me, and, after meat, + We'll canvass every quiddity thereof; + For, ere I sleep, I'll try what I can do: + This night I'll conjure, though I die therefore. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter two SCHOLARS.[44] + + FIRST SCHOLAR. I wonder what's become of Faustus, that was wont + to make our schools ring with sic probo. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. That shall we know, for see, here comes his boy. + + Enter WAGNER. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. How now, sirrah! where's thy master? + + WAGNER. God in heaven knows. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Why, dost not thou know? + + WAGNER. Yes, I know; but that follows not. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Go to, sirrah! leave your jesting, and tell us + where he is. + + WAGNER. That follows not necessary by force of argument, that you, + being licentiates, should stand upon:[45] therefore acknowledge + your error, and be attentive. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Why, didst thou not say thou knewest? + + WAGNER. Have you any witness on't? + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Yes, sirrah, I heard you. + + WAGNER. Ask my fellow if I be a thief. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Well, you will not tell us? + + WAGNER. Yes, sir, I will tell you: yet, if you were not dunces, + you would never ask me such a question; for is not he corpus + naturale? and is not that mobile? then 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 to see you both hanged + the next sessions. Thus having triumphed over you, I will set + my countenance like a precisian, 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[46] inform your worships: and so, the Lord bless you, + preserve you, and keep you, my dear brethren, my dear brethren![47] + [Exit.] + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Nay, then, I fear he is fallen into that damned art + for which they two are infamous through the world. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. 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. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. O, but I fear me nothing can reclaim him! + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Yet let us try what we can do. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter FAUSTUS to conjure.[48] + + FAUSTUS. Now that the gloomy shadow of the earth, + Longing to view Orion's drizzling look, + Leaps from th' antartic 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 pray'd and sacrific'd to them. + Within this circle is Jehovah's name, + Forward and backward anagrammatiz'd,[49] + Th' abbreviated[50] names of holy saints, + Figures of every adjunct to the heavens, + And characters of signs and erring[51] stars, + By which the spirits are enforc'd to rise: + Then fear not, Faustus, but be resolute, + And try the uttermost magic can perform.-- + Sint mihi dei Acherontis propitii! Valeat numen triplex Jehovoe! + Ignei, aerii, aquatani spiritus, salvete! Orientis princeps + Belzebub, inferni ardentis monarcha, et Demogorgon, propitiamus + vos, ut appareat et surgat Mephistophilis, quod tumeraris:[52] + per Jehovam, Gehennam, et consecratam aquam quam nunc spargo, + signumque crucis quod nunc facio, et per vota nostra, ipse nunc + surgat nobis dicatus[53] Mephistophilis! + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + 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 MEPHISTOPHILIS.] + + I 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: + No, Faustus, thou art conjuror laureat, + That canst command great Mephistophilis: + Quin regis Mephistophilis fratris imagine. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS like a Franciscan friar.[54] + + MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, what wouldst thou have me do? + + FAUSTUS. I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live, + To do whatever Faustus shall command, + Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere, + Or the ocean to overwhelm the world. + + MEPHIST. 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? + + MEPHIST. No, I came hither[55] of mine own accord. + + FAUSTUS. Did not my conjuring speeches raise thee? speak. + + MEPHIST. That was the cause, but yet per accidens;[56] + For, when we hear one rack the name of God, + Abjure the Scriptures and his Saviour Christ, + We fly, in hope to get his glorious soul; + Nor will we come, unless he use such means + Whereby he is in danger to be damn'd. + Therefore the shortest cut for conjuring + Is stoutly to abjure the Trinity, + And pray devoutly to the prince of hell. + + FAUSTUS. So Faustus hath + Already done; and holds this principle, + There is no chief but only Belzebub; + 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! + But, leaving these vain trifles of men's souls, + Tell me what is that Lucifer thy lord? + + MEPHIST. Arch-regent and commander of all spirits. + + FAUSTUS. Was not that Lucifer an angel once? + + MEPHIST. Yes, Faustus, and most dearly lov'd of God. + + FAUSTUS. How comes it, then, that he is prince of devils? + + MEPHIST. O, by aspiring pride and insolence; + For which God threw him from the face of heaven. + + FAUSTUS. And what are you that live with Lucifer? + + MEPHIST. Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, + Conspir'd against our God with Lucifer, + And are for ever damn'd with Lucifer. + + FAUSTUS. Where are you damn'd? + + MEPHIST. In hell. + + FAUSTUS. How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell? + + MEPHIST. Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it:[57] + Think'st 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 depriv'd 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? + Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude, + And scorn those joys thou never shalt possess. + Go bear these[58] tidings to great Lucifer: + Seeing Faustus hath incurr'd eternal death + By desperate thoughts against Jove's[59] deity, + Say, he surrenders up to him his soul, + So he will spare him four and twenty[60] 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, + To slay mine enemies, and 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[61] me of thy master's mind. + + MEPHIST. I will, Faustus. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. 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 thorough[62] the moving air, + To pass the ocean with a band of men; + I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore, + And make that country[63] continent to Spain, + And both contributory to my crown: + The Emperor shall not live but by my leave, + Nor any potentate of Germany. + Now that I have obtain'd what I desir'd,[64] + I'll live in speculation of this art, + Till Mephistophilis return again. + [Exit.] + + Enter WAGNER[65] and CLOWN. + + WAGNER. Sirrah boy, come hither. + + CLOWN. How, boy! swowns, boy! I hope you have seen many boys + with such pickadevaunts[66] as I have: boy, quotha! + + WAGNER. Tell me, sirrah, hast thou any comings in? + + CLOWN. Ay, and goings out too; you may see else. + + WAGNER. Alas, poor slave! see how poverty jesteth in his nakedness! + the villain is bare and 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. + + CLOWN. How! my soul to the devil for a shoulder of mutton, though + 'twere blood-raw! not so, good friend: by'r lady,[67] I had need + have it well roasted, and good sauce to it, if I pay so dear. + + WAGNER. Well, wilt thou serve me, and I'll make thee go like + Qui mihi discipulus?[68] + + CLOWN. How, in verse? + + WAGNER. No, sirrah; in beaten silk and staves-acre.[69] + + CLOWN. How, how, knaves-acre! ay, I thought that was all the land + his father left him. Do you hear? I would be sorry to rob you of + your living. + + WAGNER. Sirrah, I say in staves-acre. + + CLOWN. Oho, oho, staves-acre! why, then, belike, if I were your + man, I should be full of vermin.[70] + + WAGNER. So thou shalt, whether thou beest with me or no. But, + sirrah, leave your jesting, and bind yourself presently unto me + for seven years, or I'll turn all the lice about thee into + familiars,[71] and they shall tear thee in pieces. + + CLOWN. 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 their[72] meat and drink. + + WAGNER. Well, do you hear, sirrah? hold, take these guilders. + [Gives money.] + + CLOWN. Gridirons! what be they? + + WAGNER. Why, French crowns. + + CLOWN. 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? + + WAGNER. Why, now, sirrah, thou art at an hour's warning, whensoever + or wheresoever the devil shall fetch thee. + + CLOWN. No, no; here, take your gridirons again. + + WAGNER. Truly, I'll none of them. + + CLOWN. Truly, but you shall. + + WAGNER. Bear witness I gave them him. + + CLOWN. Bear witness I give them you again. + + WAGNER. Well, I will cause two devils presently to fetch thee + away.--Baliol and Belcher! + + CLOWN. Let your Baliol and your Belcher come here, and I'll + knock them, they were never so knocked since they were devils: + say I should kill one of them, what would folks say? "Do ye see + yonder tall fellow in the round slop?[73] he has killed the devil." + So I should be called Kill-devil all the parish over. + + Enter two DEVILS; and the CLOWN runs up and down crying. + + WAGNER. Baliol and Belcher,--spirits, away! + [Exeunt DEVILS.] + + CLOWN. What, are they gone? a vengeance on them! they have vile[74] + long nails. There was a he-devil and a she-devil: I'll tell you + how you shall know them; all he-devils has horns, and all + she-devils has clifts and cloven feet. + + WAGNER. Well, sirrah, follow me. + + CLOWN. But, do you hear? if I should serve you, would you teach + me to raise up Banios and Belcheos? + + WAGNER. I will teach thee to turn thyself to any thing, to a dog, + or a cat, or a mouse, or a rat, or any thing. + + CLOWN. 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 pretty wenches' + plackets! I'll be amongst them, i'faith. + + WAGNER. Well, sirrah, come. + + CLOWN. But, do you hear, Wagner? + + WAGNER. How!--Baliol and Belcher! + + CLOWN. O Lord! I pray, sir, let Banio and Belcher go sleep. + + WAGNER. Villain, call me Master Wagner, and let thy left eye be + diametarily fixed upon my right heel, with quasi vestigiis + nostris[75] insistere. + [Exit.] + + CLOWN. God forgive me, he speaks Dutch fustian. Well, I'll follow + him; I'll serve him, that's flat. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS discovered in his study. + + FAUSTUS. Now, Faustus, must + Thou needs be damn'd, and canst thou not be sav'd: + What boots it, then, to think of God or heaven? + Away with such vain fancies, and despair; + Despair in God, and trust in Belzebub: + Now go not backward; no, Faustus, be resolute: + Why waver'st thou? O, something soundeth in mine ears, + "Abjure this magic, turn to God again!" + Ay, and Faustus will turn to God again. + To God? he loves thee not; + The god thou serv'st is thine own appetite, + Wherein is fix'd the love of Belzebub: + To him I'll build an altar and a church, + And offer lukewarm blood of new-born babes. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + + GOOD ANGEL. Sweet Faustus, leave that execrable art. + + FAUSTUS. Contrition, prayer, repentance--what of them? + + GOOD ANGEL. O, they are means to bring thee unto heaven! + + EVIL ANGEL. Rather illusions, fruits of lunacy, + That make men foolish that do trust them most. + + GOOD ANGEL. Sweet Faustus, think of heaven and heavenly things. + + EVIL ANGEL. No, Faustus; think of honour and of[76] wealth. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + + FAUSTUS. Of wealth! + Why, the signiory of Embden shall be mine. + When Mephistophilis shall stand by me, + What god can hurt thee, Faustus? thou art safe + Cast no more doubts.--Come, Mephistophilis, + And bring glad tidings from great Lucifer;-- + Is't not midnight?--come, Mephistophilis, + Veni, veni, Mephistophile! + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + Now tell me[77] what says Lucifer, thy lord? + + MEPHIST. That I shall wait on Faustus whilst he lives,[78] + So he will buy my service with his soul. + + FAUSTUS. Already Faustus hath hazarded that for thee. + + MEPHIST. But, Faustus, thou must bequeath it solemnly, + And write a deed of gift with thine own blood; + For that security craves great Lucifer. + If thou deny it, I will back to hell. + + FAUSTUS. Stay, Mephistophilis, and tell me, what good will my soul + do thy lord? + + MEPHIST. Enlarge his kingdom. + + FAUSTUS. Is that the reason why[79] he tempts us thus? + + MEPHIST. Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.[80] + + FAUSTUS. Why,[81] have you any pain that torture[82] others! + + MEPHIST. As great as have the human souls of men. + But, tell me, Faustus, shall I have thy soul? + And I will be thy slave, and wait on thee, + And give thee more than thou hast wit to ask. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, Mephistophilis, I give it thee. + + MEPHIST. Then, Faustus,[83] stab thine arm courageously, + And bind thy soul, that at some certain day + Great Lucifer may claim it as his own; + And then be thou as great as Lucifer. + + FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm] 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 the blood that trickles from mine arm, + And let it be propitious for my wish. + + MEPHIST. But, Faustus, thou must + Write it in manner of a deed of gift. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, so I will [Writes]. But, Mephistophilis, + My blood congeals, and I can write no more. + + MEPHIST. I'll fetch thee fire to dissolve it straight. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. What might the staying of my blood portend? + Is it unwilling I should write this bill?[84] + Why streams it not, that I may write afresh? + FAUSTUS GIVES TO THEE HIS SOUL: ah, there it stay'd! + Why shouldst thou not? is not thy soul shine own? + Then write again, FAUSTUS GIVES TO THEE HIS SOUL. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with a chafer of coals. + + MEPHIST. Here's fire; come, Faustus, set it on.[85] + + FAUSTUS. So, now the blood begins to clear again; + Now will I make an end immediately. + [Writes.] + + MEPHIST. O, what will not I do to obtain his soul? + [Aside.] + + FAUSTUS. Consummatum est; this bill is ended, + And Faustus hath bequeath'd his soul to Lucifer. + But what is this inscription[86] on mine arm? + Homo, fuge: whither should I fly? + If unto God, he'll throw me[87] down to hell. + My senses are deceiv'd; here's nothing writ:-- + I see it plain; here in this place is writ, + Homo, fuge: yet shall not Faustus fly. + + MEPHIST. I'll fetch him somewhat to delight his mind. + [Aside, and then exit.] + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with DEVILS, who give crowns + and rich apparel to FAUSTUS, dance, and then depart. + + FAUSTUS. Speak, Mephistophilis, what means this show? + + MEPHIST. Nothing, Faustus, but to delight thy mind withal, + And to shew thee what magic can perform. + + FAUSTUS. But may I raise up spirits when I please? + + MEPHIST. Ay, Faustus, and do greater things than these. + + FAUSTUS. Then there's enough for a thousand souls. + Here, Mephistophilis, receive this scroll, + A deed of gift of body and of soul: + But yet conditionally that thou perform + All articles prescrib'd between us both. + + MEPHIST. Faustus, I swear by hell and Lucifer + To effect all promises between us made! + + FAUSTUS. Then hear me read them. [Reads] ON THESE CONDITIONS + FOLLOWING. 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 HE DESIRES.[88] FOURTHLY, THAT HE SHALL + BE IN HIS CHAMBER OR HOUSE INVISIBLE. LASTLY, THAT HE SHALL APPEAR + TO THE SAID JOHN FAUSTUS, AT ALL TIMES, IN WHAT FORM OR SHAPE + SOEVER HE PLEASE. I, 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,[89] TWENTY-FOUR YEARS BEING EXPIRED, THE ARTICLES + ABOVE-WRITTEN INVIOLATE, FULL POWER TO FETCH OR CARRY THE SAID + JOHN FAUSTUS, BODY AND SOUL, FLESH, BLOOD, OR GOODS, INTO THEIR + HABITATION WHERESOEVER. BY ME, JOHN FAUSTUS. + + MEPHIST. Speak, Faustus, do you deliver this as your deed? + + FAUSTUS. Ay, take it, and the devil give thee good on't! + + MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, ask what thou wilt. + + FAUSTUS. First will I question with thee about hell. + Tell me, where is the place that men call hell? + + MEPHIST. Under the heavens. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, but whereabout? + + MEPHIST. Within the bowels of these[90] elements, + Where we are tortur'd and remain for ever: + Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd + In one self place; for where we are is hell, + And where hell is, there[91] must we ever be: + And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, + And every creature shall be purified, + All places shall be hell that are[92] not heaven. + + FAUSTUS. Come, I think hell's a fable. + + MEPHIST. Ay, think so still, till experience change thy mind. + + FAUSTUS. Why, think'st thou, then, that Faustus shall be damn'd? + + MEPHIST. Ay, of necessity, for here's the scroll + Wherein thou hast given thy soul to Lucifer. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, and body too: but what of that? + Think'st thou that Faustus is so fond[93] to imagine + That, after this life, there is any pain? + Tush, these are trifles and mere old wives' tales. + + MEPHIST. But, Faustus, I am an instance to prove the contrary, + For I am damn'd, and am now in hell. + + FAUSTUS. How! now in hell! + Nay, an this be hell, I'll willingly be damn'd here: + What! walking, disputing, &c.[94] + But, leaving off this, let me have a wife,[95] + The fairest maid in Germany; + For I am wanton and lascivious, + And cannot live without a wife. + + MEPHIST. How! a wife! + I prithee, Faustus, talk not of a wife. + + FAUSTUS. Nay, sweet Mephistophilis, fetch me one, for I will have + one. + + MEPHIST. Well, thou wilt have one? Sit there till I come: I'll + fetch thee a wife in the devil's name. + [Exit.] + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with a DEVIL drest like a WOMAN, + with fire-works. + + MEPHIST. Tell me,[96] Faustus, how dost thou like thy wife? + + FAUSTUS. A plague on her for a hot whore! + + MEPHIST. Tut, Faustus, + Marriage is but a ceremonial toy; + If thou lovest me, think no[97] more of it. + I'll cull thee out the fairest courtezans, + 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, + As wise as Saba,[98] or as beautiful + As was bright Lucifer before his fall. + Hold, take this book, peruse it thoroughly: + [Gives book.] + + The iterating[99] of these lines brings gold; + The framing of this circle on the ground + Brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder, and lightning; + Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thyself, + And men in armour shall appear to thee, + Ready to execute what thou desir'st. + + FAUSTUS. 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. + + MEPHIST. Here they are in this book. + [Turns to them.] + + FAUSTUS. 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. + + MEPHIST. Here they are too. + [Turns to them.] + + FAUSTUS. 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. + + MEPHIST. Here they be. + + FAUSTUS. O, thou art deceived. + + MEPHIST. Tut, I warrant thee. + [Turns to them.] + + FAUSTUS. When I behold the heavens, then I repent, + And curse thee, wicked Mephistophilis, + Because thou hast depriv'd me of those joys. + + MEPHIST. Why, Faustus, + Thinkest thou heaven is such a glorious thing? + I tell thee, 'tis not half so fair as thou, + Or any man that breathes on earth. + + FAUSTUS. How prov'st thou that? + + MEPHIST. 'Twas made for man, therefore is man more excellent. + + FAUSTUS. If it were made for man, 'twas made for me: + I will renounce this magic and repent. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + + GOOD ANGEL. Faustus, repent; yet God will pity thee. + + EVIL ANGEL. Thou 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; + Ay, God will pity me, if I repent. + + EVIL ANGEL. Ay, but Faustus never shall repent. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + + FAUSTUS. My heart's so harden'd, I cannot repent: + Scarce can I name salvation, faith, or heaven, + But fearful echoes thunder in mine ears, + "Faustus, thou art damn'd!" then swords, and knives, + Poison, guns, halters, and envenom'd steel + Are laid before me to despatch myself; + And long ere this I should have slain myself, + Had not sweet pleasure conquer'd deep despair. + Have 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? + Why should I die, then, or basely despair? + I am resolv'd; Faustus shall ne'er repent.-- + Come, Mephistophilis, let us dispute again, + And argue of divine astrology.[100] + Tell me, are there many heavens above the moon + Are all celestial bodies but one globe, + As is the substance of this centric earth? + + MEPHIST. As are the elements, such are the spheres, + Mutually folded in each other's orb, + And, Faustus, + All jointly move upon one axletree, + Whose terminine is term'd the world's wide pole; + Nor are the names of Saturn, Mars, or Jupiter + Feign'd, but are erring[101] stars. + + FAUSTUS. But, tell me, have they all one motion, both situ et + tempore? + + MEPHIST. All jointly move from east to west in twenty-four hours + upon the poles of the world; but differ in their motion upon + the poles of the zodiac. + + FAUSTUS. Tush, + These slender trifles Wagner can decide: + Hath Mephistophilis no greater skill? + Who knows not the double motion of the planets? + The first is finish'd 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[102] suppositions. + But, tell me, hath every sphere a dominion or intelligentia? + + MEPHIST. Ay. + + FAUSTUS. How many heavens or spheres are there? + + MEPHIST. Nine; the seven planets, the firmament, and the empyreal + heaven. + + FAUSTUS. Well, resolve[103] 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? + + MEPHIST. Per inoequalem motum respectu totius. + + FAUSTUS. Well, I am answered. Tell me who made the world? + + MEPHIST. I will not. + + FAUSTUS. Sweet Mephistophilis, tell me. + + MEPHIST. Move me not, for I will not tell thee. + + FAUSTUS. Villain, have I not bound thee to tell me any thing? + + MEPHIST. Ay, that is not against our kingdom; but this is. Think + thou on hell, Faustus, for thou art damned. + + FAUSTUS. Think, Faustus, upon God that made the world. + + MEPHIST. Remember this. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. Ay, go, accursed spirit, to ugly hell! + 'Tis thou hast damn'd distressed Faustus' soul. + Is't not too late? + + Re-enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + + EVIL ANGEL. Too late. + + GOOD ANGEL. Never too late, if Faustus can repent. + + EVIL ANGEL. If thou repent, devils shall tear thee in pieces. + + GOOD ANGEL. Repent, and they shall never raze thy skin. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + + FAUSTUS. Ah, Christ, my Saviour, + Seek to save[104] distressed Faustus' soul! + + Enter LUCIFER, BELZEBUB, and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + LUCIFER. Christ cannot save thy soul, for he is just: + There's none but I have interest in the same. + + FAUSTUS. O, who art thou that look'st so terrible? + + LUCIFER. I am Lucifer, + And this is my companion-prince in hell. + + FAUSTUS. O, Faustus, they are come to fetch away thy soul! + + LUCIFER. We come to tell thee thou dost injure us; + Thou talk'st of Christ, contrary to thy promise: + Thou shouldst not think of God: think of the devil, + And of his dam too. + + FAUSTUS. Nor 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. + + LUCIFER. Do so, and we will highly gratify thee. Faustus, we are + come from hell to shew thee some pastime: sit down, and thou + shalt see all the Seven Deadly Sins appear in their proper shapes. + + FAUSTUS. That sight will be as pleasing unto me, + As Paradise was to Adam, the first day + Of his creation. + + LUCIFER. Talk not of Paradise nor creation; but mark this show: + talk of the devil, and nothing else.--Come away! + + Enter the SEVEN DEADLY SINS.[105] + + Now, Faustus, examine them of their several names and dispositions. + + FAUSTUS. 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 perriwig, 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. + + FAUSTUS. What art thou, the second? + + COVETOUSNESS. I am Covetousness, begotten of an old churl, in an + old leathern 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! + + FAUSTUS. 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[106] + of rapiers, wounding myself when I had nobody to fight withal. + I was born in hell; and look to it, for some of you shall be + my father. + + FAUSTUS. What art thou, the fourth? + + ENVY. 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 + shouldst see how fat I would be. But must thou sit, and I stand? + come down, with a vengeance! + + FAUSTUS. Away, envious rascal!--What art thou, the fifth? + + GLUTTONY. 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,[107]--a small trifle + to suffice nature. O, I come of a royal parentage! my grandfather + was a Gammon of Bacon, my grandmother a Hogshead of Claret-wine; + my godfathers were these, Peter Pickle-herring and Martin + Martlemas-beef; O, but my godmother, she was a jolly gentlewoman, + and well-beloved 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? + + FAUSTUS. No, I'll see thee hanged: thou wilt eat up all my victuals. + + GLUTTONY. Then the devil choke thee! + + FAUSTUS. Choke thyself, glutton!--What art thou, the sixth? + + SLOTH. 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. I'll not speak another word for a king's ransom. + + FAUSTUS. 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 stock-fish; and the first letter + of my name begins with L.[108] + + FAUSTUS. Away, to hell, to hell![109] + [Exeunt the SINS.] + + LUCIFER. Now, Faustus, how dost thou like this? + + FAUSTUS. O, this feeds my soul! + + 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. Thou shalt; I will send for thee at midnight.[110] + In meantime take this book; peruse it throughly, + And thou shalt turn thyself into what shape thou wilt. + + FAUSTUS. Great thanks, mighty Lucifer! + This will I keep as chary as my life. + + LUCIFER. Farewell, Faustus, and think on the devil. + + FAUSTUS. Farewell, great Lucifer. + [Exeunt LUCIFER and BELZEBUB.] + + Come, Mephistophilis. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter CHORUS.[111] + + CHORUS. Learned Faustus, + To know the secrets of astronomy[112] + Graven in the book of Jove's high firmament, + Did mount himself to scale Olympus' top, + Being seated in a chariot burning bright, + Drawn by the strength of yoky dragons' necks. + He now is gone to prove cosmography, + And, as I guess, will first arrive at Rome, + To see the Pope and manner of his court, + And take some part of holy Peter's feast, + That to this day is highly solemniz'd. + [Exit.] + + Enter FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS.[113] + + FAUSTUS. Having now, my good Mephistophilis, + Pass'd with delight the stately town of Trier,[114] + Environ'd round with airy mountain-tops, + With walls of flint, and deep-entrenched lakes, + Not to be won by any conquering prince; + From Paris next,[115] coasting the realm of France, + We saw the river Maine fall into Rhine, + Whose banks are set with groves of fruitful vines; + Then up to Naples, rich Campania, + Whose buildings fair and gorgeous to the eye, + The streets straight forth, and pav'd with finest brick, + Quarter the town in four equivalents: + There saw we learned Maro's golden tomb, + The way he cut,[116] an English mile in length, + Thorough a rock of stone, in one night's space; + From thence to Venice, Padua, and the rest, + In one of which a sumptuous temple stands,[117] + That threats the stars with her aspiring top. + Thus hitherto hath Faustus spent his time: + But tell me now what resting-place is this? + Hast thou, as erst I did command, + Conducted me within the walls of Rome? + + MEPHIST. Faustus, I have; and, because we will not be unprovided, + I have taken up his Holiness' privy-chamber for our use. + + FAUSTUS. I hope his Holiness will bid us welcome. + + MEPHIST. + Tut, 'tis no matter; man; we'll be bold with his good cheer. + And now, my Faustus, that thou mayst perceive + What Rome containeth to delight thee with, + Know that this city stands upon seven hills + That underprop the groundwork of the same: + Just through the midst[118] runs flowing Tiber's stream + With winding banks that cut it in two parts; + Over the which four stately bridges lean, + That make safe passage to each part of Rome: + Upon the bridge call'd Ponte[119] Angelo + Erected is a castle passing strong, + Within whose walls such store of ordnance are, + And double cannons fram'd of carved brass, + As match the days within one complete year; + Besides the gates, and high pyramides, + Which Julius Caesar brought from Africa. + + FAUSTUS. Now, by the kingdoms of infernal rule, + Of Styx, of[120] Acheron, and the fiery lake + Of ever-burning Phlegethon, I swear + That I do long to see the monuments + And situation of bright-splendent Rome: + Come, therefore, let's away. + + MEPHIST. Nay, Faustus, stay: I know you'd fain see the Pope, + And take some part of holy Peter's feast, + Where thou shalt see a troop of bald-pate friars, + Whose summum bonum is in belly-cheer. + + FAUSTUS. Well, I'm content to compass then some sport, + And by their folly make us merriment. + Then charm me, that I[121] + May be invisible, to do what I please, + Unseen of any whilst I stay in Rome. + [Mephistophilis charms him.] + + MEPHIST. So, Faustus; now + Do what thou wilt, thou shalt not be discern'd. + + Sound a Sonnet.[122] Enter the POPE and the CARDINAL OF + LORRAIN to the banquet, with FRIARS attending. + + POPE. My Lord of Lorrain, will't please you draw near? + + FAUSTUS. Fall to, and the devil choke you, an you spare! + + POPE. How now! who's that which spake?--Friars, look about. + + FIRST 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 the dish.] + + POPE. How now! who's that which snatched the meat from me? will + no man look?--My lord, this dish was sent me from the Cardinal + of Florence. + + FAUSTUS. You say true; I'll ha't. + [Snatches the dish.] + + POPE. What, again!--My lord, I'll drink to your grace. + + FAUSTUS. I'll pledge your grace. + [Snatches the cup.] + + C. OF LOR. 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.--Friars, prepare a dirge to lay the fury + of this ghost.--Once again, my lord, fall to. + [The POPE crosses himself.] + + FAUSTUS. What, are you crossing of yourself? + Well, use that trick no more, I would advise you. + [The POPE crosses himself again.] + + Well, there's the second time. Aware the third; + I give you fair warning. + [The POPE crosses himself again, and FAUSTUS hits him a box + of the ear; and they all run away.] + + Come on, Mephistophilis; what shall we do? + + MEPHIST. Nay, I know not: we shall be cursed with bell, book, + and candle. + + FAUSTUS. How! bell, book, and candle,--candle, book, and bell,-- + Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell! + Anon you shall hear a hog grunt, a calf bleat, and an ass bray, + Because it is Saint Peter's holiday. + + Re-enter all the FRIARS to sing the Dirge. + + FIRST FRIAR. + Come, brethren, let's about our business with good devotion. + + They sing. + + CURSED BE HE THAT STOLE AWAY HIS HOLINESS' MEAT FROM THE + TABLE! maledicat Dominus! + CURSED BE HE THAT STRUCK HIS HOLINESS A BLOW ON THE FACE! + maledicat Dominus! + CURSED BE HE THAT TOOK FRIAR SANDELO A BLOW ON THE PATE! + maledicat Dominus! + CURSED BE HE THAT DISTURBETH OUR HOLY DIRGE! maledicat + Dominus! + CURSED BE HE THAT TOOK AWAY HIS HOLINESS' WINE! maledicat + Dominus? ['?' sic] + Et omnes Sancti! Amen! + + [MEPHISTOPHILIS and FAUSTUS beat the FRIARS, and fling + fire-works among them; and so exeunt.] + + Enter CHORUS. + + CHORUS. When Faustus had with pleasure ta'en the view + Of rarest things, and royal courts of kings, + He stay'd his course, and so returned home; + Where such as bear his absence but with grief, + I mean his friends and near'st companions, + Did gratulate his safety with kind words, + And in their conference of what befell, + Touching his journey through the world and air, + They put forth questions of astrology, + Which Faustus answer'd with such learned skill + As they admir'd and wonder'd at his wit. + Now is his fame spread forth in every land: + Amongst the rest the Emperor is one, + Carolus the Fifth, at whose palace now + Faustus is feasted 'mongst his noblemen. + What there he did, in trial of his art, + I leave untold; your eyes shall see['t] perform'd. + [Exit.] + + Enter ROBIN[123] the Ostler, with a book in his hand. + + ROBIN. O, this is admirable! here I ha' stolen one of Doctor + Faustus' conjuring-books, and, i'faith, I mean to search some + circles for my own use. Now will I make all the maidens in our + parish dance at my pleasure, stark naked, before me; and so + by that means I shall see more than e'er I felt or saw yet. + + Enter RALPH, calling ROBIN. + + RALPH. Robin, prithee, come away; there's a gentleman tarries + to have his horse, and he would have his things rubbed and made + clean: he keeps such a chafing with my mistress about it; and + she has sent me to look thee out; prithee, come away. + + ROBIN. Keep out, keep out, or else you are blown up, you are + dismembered, Ralph: keep out, for I am about a roaring piece + of work. + + RALPH. Come, what doest thou with that same book? thou canst + not read? + + ROBIN. Yes, my master and mistress shall find that I can read, + he for his forehead, she for her private study; she's born to + bear with me, or else my art fails. + + RALPH. Why, Robin, what book is that? + + ROBIN. What book! why, the most intolerable book for conjuring + that e'er was invented by any brimstone devil. + + RALPH. Canst thou conjure with it? + + ROBIN. I can do all these things easily with it; first, I can + make thee drunk with ippocras[124] at any tabern[125] in Europe + for nothing; that's one of my conjuring works. + + RALPH. Our Master Parson says that's nothing. + + ROBIN. True, Ralph: and more, Ralph, if thou hast any mind to + Nan Spit, our kitchen-maid, then turn her and wind her to thy own + use, as often as thou wilt, and at midnight. + + RALPH. O, brave, Robin! shall I have Nan Spit, and to mine own + use? On that condition I'll feed thy devil with horse-bread as + long as he lives, of free cost. + + ROBIN. No more, sweet Ralph: let's go and make clean our boots, + which lie foul upon our hands, and then to our conjuring in the + devil's name. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter ROBIN and RALPH[126] with a silver goblet. + + ROBIN. Come, Ralph: did not I tell thee, we were for ever made + by this Doctor Faustus' book? ecce, signum! here's a simple + purchase[127] for horse-keepers: our horses shall eat no hay as + long as this lasts. + + RALPH. But, Robin, here comes the Vintner. + + ROBIN. Hush! I'll gull him supernaturally. + + Enter VINTNER. + + Drawer,[128] I hope all is paid; God be with you!--Come, Ralph. + + VINTNER. Soft, sir; a word with you. I must yet have a goblet paid + from you, ere you go. + + ROBIN. I a goblet, Ralph, I a goblet!--I scorn you; and you are + but a, &c. I a goblet! search me. + + VINTNER. I mean so, sir, with your favour. + [Searches ROBIN.] + + ROBIN. How say you now? + + VINTNER. I must say somewhat to your fellow.--You, sir! + + RALPH. Me, sir! me, sir! search your fill. [VINTNER searches him.] + Now, sir, you may be ashamed to burden honest men with a matter + of truth. + + VINTNER. Well, tone[129] of you hath this goblet about you. + + ROBIN. You lie, drawer, 'tis afore me [Aside].--Sirrah you, I'll + teach you to impeach honest men;--stand by;--I'll scour you for + a goblet;--stand aside you had best, I charge you in the name of + Belzebub.--Look to the goblet, Ralph [Aside to RALPH]. + + VINTNER. What mean you, sirrah? + + ROBIN. I'll tell you what I mean. [Reads from a book] Sanctobulorum + Periphrasticon--nay, I'll tickle you, Vintner.--Look to the goblet, + Ralph [Aside to RALPH].--[Reads] Polypragmos Belseborams framanto + pacostiphos tostu, Mephistophilis, &c. + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS, sets squibs at their backs, and then + exit. They run about. + + VINTNER. O, nomine Domini! what meanest thou, Robin? thou hast no + goblet. + + RALPH. Peccatum peccatorum!--Here's thy goblet, good Vintner. + [Gives the goblet to VINTNER, who exit.] + + ROBIN. Misericordia pro nobis! what shall I do? Good devil, forgive + me now, and I'll never rob thy library more. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + MEPHIST. Monarch of Hell,[130] under whose black survey + Great potentates do kneel with awful fear, + Upon whose altars thousand souls do lie, + How am I vexed with these villains' charms? + From Constantinople am I hither come, + Only for pleasure of these damned slaves. + + ROBIN. How, from Constantinople! you have had a great journey: + will you take sixpence in your purse to pay for your supper, and + be gone? + + MEPHIST. Well, villains, for your presumption, I transform thee + into an ape, and thee into a dog; and so be gone! + [Exit.] + + ROBIN. How, into an ape! that's brave: I'll have fine sport with + the boys; I'll get nuts and apples enow. + + RALPH. And I must be a dog. + + ROBIN. I'faith, thy head will never be out of the pottage-pot. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter EMPEROR,[131] FAUSTUS, and a KNIGHT, with ATTENDANTS. + + EMPEROR. Master Doctor Faustus,[132] I have heard strange report + of thy knowledge in the black art, how that none in my empire + nor in the whole world can compare with thee for the rare effects + of magic: they say thou hast a familiar spirit, by whom thou canst + accomplish what thou list. This, therefore, is my request, that + thou let me see some proof of thy skill, that mine eyes may be + witnesses to confirm what mine ears have heard reported: and here + I swear to thee, by the honour of mine imperial crown, that, + whatever thou doest, thou shalt be no ways prejudiced or endamaged. + + KNIGHT. I'faith, he looks much like a conjurer. + [Aside.] + + FAUSTUS. My gracious sovereign, though I must confess myself far + inferior to the report men have published, and nothing answerable + to the honour of your imperial majesty, yet, for that love and duty + binds me thereunto, I am content to do whatsoever your majesty + shall command me. + + EMPEROR. Then, Doctor Faustus, mark what I shall say. + As I was sometime solitary set + Within my closet, sundry thoughts arose + About the honour of mine ancestors, + How they had won[133] by prowess such exploits, + Got such riches, subdu'd so many kingdoms, + As we that do succeed,[134] or they that shall + Hereafter possess our throne, shall + (I fear me) ne'er attain to that degree + Of high renown and great authority: + Amongst which kings is Alexander the Great, + Chief spectacle of the world's pre-eminence, + The bright[135] shining of whose glorious acts + Lightens the world with his reflecting beams, + As when I hear but motion made of him, + It grieves my soul I never saw the man: + If, therefore, thou, by cunning of thine art, + Canst raise this man from hollow vaults below, + Where lies entomb'd this famous conqueror, + And bring with him his beauteous paramour, + Both in their right shapes, gesture, and attire + They us'd to wear during their time of life, + Thou shalt both satisfy my just desire, + And give me cause to praise thee whilst I live. + + FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, I am ready to accomplish your request, + so far forth as by art and power of my spirit I am able to perform. + + KNIGHT. I'faith, that's just nothing at all. + [Aside.] + + FAUSTUS. But, if it like your grace, it is not in my ability[136] + to present before your eyes the true substantial bodies of those + two deceased princes, which long since are consumed to dust. + + KNIGHT. Ay, marry, Master Doctor, now there's a sign of grace in + you, when you will confess the truth. + [Aside.] + + FAUSTUS. But such spirits as can lively resemble Alexander and + his paramour shall appear before your grace, in that manner that + they both[137] lived in, in their most flourishing estate; which + I doubt not shall sufficiently content your imperial majesty. + + EMPEROR. Go to, Master Doctor; let me see them presently. + + KNIGHT. Do you hear, Master Doctor? you bring Alexander and his + paramour before the Emperor! + + FAUSTUS. How then, sir? + + KNIGHT. I'faith, that's as true as Diana turned me to a stag. + + FAUSTUS. No, sir; but, when Actaeon died, he left the horns for + you.--Mephistophilis, be gone. + [Exit MEPHISTOPHILIS.] + + KNIGHT. Nay, an you go to conjuring, I'll be gone. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. I'll meet with you anon for interrupting me so. + --Here they are, my gracious lord. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with SPIRITS in the shapes of ALEXANDER + and his PARAMOUR. + + EMPEROR. Master Doctor, I heard this lady, while she lived, had a + wart or mole in her neck: how shall I know whether it be so or no? + + FAUSTUS. Your highness may boldly go and see. + + EMPEROR. Sure, these are no spirits, but the true substantial + bodies of those two deceased princes. + [Exeunt Spirits.] + + FAUSTUS. Wilt please your highness now to send for the knight + that was so pleasant with me here of late? + + EMPEROR. One of you call him forth. + [Exit ATTENDANT.] + + Re-enter the KNIGHT with a pair of horns on his head. + + How now, sir knight! why, I had thought thou hadst been a bachelor, + but now I see thou hast a wife, that not only gives thee horns, + but makes thee wear them. Feel on thy head. + + KNIGHT. Thou damned wretch and execrable dog, + Bred in the concave of some monstrous rock, + How dar'st thou thus abuse a gentleman? + Villain, I say, undo what thou hast done! + + FAUSTUS. O, not so fast, sir! there's no haste: but, good, are + you remembered how you crossed me in my conference with the + Emperor? I think I have met with you for it. + + EMPEROR. Good Master Doctor, at my entreaty release him: he hath + done penance sufficient. + + FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, not so much for the injury he offered + me here in your presence, as to delight you with some mirth, hath + Faustus worthily requited this injurious knight; which being all + I desire, I am content to release him of his horns:--and, + sir knight, hereafter speak well of scholars.--Mephistophilis, + transform him straight.[138] [MEPHISTOPHILIS removes the horns.] + --Now, my good lord, having done my duty, I humbly take my leave. + + EMPEROR. Farewell, Master Doctor: yet, ere you go, + Expect from me a bounteous reward. + [Exeunt EMPEROR, KNIGHT, and ATTENDANTS.] + + FAUSTUS. Now, Mephistophilis,[139] the restless course + That time doth run with calm and silent foot, + Shortening my days and thread of vital life, + Calls for the payment of my latest years: + Therefore, sweet Mephistophilis, let us + Make haste to Wertenberg. + + MEPHIST. What, will you go on horse-back or on foot[?] + + FAUSTUS. Nay, till I'm past this fair and pleasant green, + I'll walk on foot. + + Enter a HORSE-COURSER.[140] + + HORSE-COURSER. I have been all this day seeking one Master Fustian: + mass, see where he is!--God save you, Master Doctor! + + FAUSTUS. What, horse-courser! you are well met. + + HORSE-COURSER. Do you hear, sir? I have brought you forty dollars + for your horse. + + FAUSTUS. I cannot sell him so: if thou likest him for fifty, take + him. + + HORSE-COURSER. Alas, sir, I have no more!--I pray you, speak for + me. + + MEPHIST. I pray you, let him have him: he is an honest fellow, + and he has a great charge, neither wife nor child. + + FAUSTUS. Well, come, give me your money [HORSE-COURSER gives + FAUSTUS the money]: my boy will deliver him to you. But I must + tell you one thing before you have him; ride him not into the + water, at any hand. + + HORSE-COURSER. Why, sir, will he not drink of all waters? + + FAUSTUS. O, yes, he will drink of all waters; but ride him not + into the water: ride him over hedge or ditch, or where thou wilt, + but not into the water. + + HORSE-COURSER. Well, sir.--Now am I made man for ever: I'll not + leave my horse for forty:[141] if he had but the quality of + hey-ding-ding, hey-ding-ding, I'd make a brave living on him: + he has a buttock as slick as an eel [Aside].--Well, God b'wi'ye, + sir: your boy will deliver him me: but, hark you, sir; if my horse + be sick or ill at ease, if I bring his water to you, you'll tell + me what it is? + + FAUSTUS. Away, you villain! what, dost think I am a horse-doctor? + [Exit HORSE-COURSER.] + + What art thou, Faustus, but a man condemn'd to die? + Thy fatal time doth draw to final end; + Despair doth drive distrust into[142] my thoughts: + Confound these passions with a quiet sleep: + Tush, Christ did call the thief upon the Cross; + Then rest thee, Faustus, quiet in conceit. + [Sleeps in his chair.] + + Re-enter HORSE-COURSER, all wet, crying. + + HORSE-COURSER. Alas, alas! Doctor Fustian, quoth a? mass, Doctor + Lopus[143] was never such a doctor: has given me a purgation, has + purged me of forty dollars; I shall never see them more. But yet, + like an ass as I was, I would not be ruled by him, for he bade me + I should ride him into no water: now I, thinking my horse had had + some rare quality that he would not have had me know of,[144] I, + like a venturous youth, rid him into the deep pond at the town's + end. I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse + vanished away, and I sat upon a bottle of hay, never so near + drowning in my life. But I'll seek out my doctor, and have my + forty dollars again, or I'll make it the dearest horse!--O, + yonder is his snipper-snapper.--Do you hear? you, hey-pass,[145] + where's your master? + + MEPHIST. Why, sir, what would you? you cannot speak with him. + + HORSE-COURSER. But I will speak with him. + + MEPHIST. Why, he's fast asleep: come some other time. + + HORSE-COURSER. I'll speak with him now, or I'll break his + glass-windows about his ears. + + MEPHIST. I tell thee, he has not slept this eight nights. + + HORSE-COURSER. An he have not slept this eight weeks, I'll + speak with him. + + MEPHIST. See, where he is, fast asleep. + + HORSE-COURSER. Ay, this is he.--God save you, Master Doctor, + Master Doctor, Master Doctor Fustian! forty dollars, forty dollars + for a bottle of hay! + + MEPHIST. Why, thou seest he hears thee not. + + HORSE-COURSER. So-ho, ho! so-ho, ho! [Hollows in his ear.] No, + will you not wake? I'll make you wake ere I go. [Pulls FAUSTUS + by the leg, and pulls it away.] Alas, I am undone! what shall + I do? + + FAUSTUS. O, my leg, my leg!--Help, Mephistophilis! call the + officers.--My leg, my leg! + + MEPHIST. Come, villain, to the constable. + + HORSE-COURSER. O Lord, sir, let me go, and I'll give you forty + dollars more! + + MEPHIST. Where be they? + + HORSE-COURSER. I have none about me: come to my ostry,[146] + and I'll give them you. + + MEPHIST. Be gone quickly. + [HORSE-COURSER runs away.] + + FAUSTUS. What, is he gone? farewell he! Faustus has his leg again, + and the Horse-courser, I take it, a bottle of hay for his labour: + well, this trick shall cost him forty dollars more. + + Enter WAGNER. + + How now, Wagner! what's the news with thee? + + WAGNER. Sir, the Duke of Vanholt doth earnestly entreat your + company. + + FAUSTUS. The Duke of Vanholt! an honourable gentleman, to whom + I must be no niggard of my cunning.[147]--Come, Mephistophilis, + let's away to him. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter the DUKE OF VANHOLT, the DUCHESS, and FAUSTUS.[148] + + DUKE. Believe me, Master Doctor, this merriment hath much pleased + me. + + FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, I am glad it contents you so well. + --But it may be, madam, you take no delight in this. I have heard + that great-bellied women do long for some dainties or other: what + is it, madam? tell me, and you shall have it. + + DUCHESS. Thanks, good Master Doctor: and, for I see your courteous + intent to pleasure me, I will not hide from you the thing my heart + desires; and, were it now summer, as it is January and the dead + time of the winter, I would desire no better meat than a dish + of ripe grapes. + + FAUSTUS. Alas, madam, that's nothing!--Mephistophilis, be gone. + [Exit MEPHISTOPHILIS.] Were it a greater thing than this, so it + would content you, you should have it. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with grapes. + + Here they be, madam: wilt please you taste on them? + + DUKE. Believe me, Master Doctor, this makes me wonder above the + rest, that being in the dead time of winter and in the month of + January, how you should come by these grapes. + + FAUSTUS. If it like your grace, the year is divided into two + circles over the whole world, that, when it is here winter with + us, in the contrary circle it is summer with them, as in India, + Saba,[149] and farther countries in the east; and by means of a + swift spirit that I have, I had them brought hither, as you see. + --How do you like them, madam? be they good? + + DUCHESS. Believe me, Master Doctor, they be the best grapes that + e'er I tasted in my life before. + + FAUSTUS. I am glad they content you so, madam. + + DUKE. Come, madam, let us in, where you must well reward this + learned man for the great kindness he hath shewed to you. + + DUCHESS. And so I will, my lord; and, whilst I live, rest + beholding[150] for this courtesy. + + FAUSTUS. I humbly thank your grace. + + DUKE. Come, Master Doctor, follow us, and receive your reward. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter WAGNER.[151] + + WAGNER. I think my master means to die shortly, + For he hath given to me all his goods:[152] + And yet, methinks, if that death were near, + He would not banquet, and carouse, and swill + Amongst the students, as even now he doth, + Who are at supper with such belly-cheer + As Wagner ne'er beheld in all his life. + See, where they come! belike the feast is ended. + [Exit.] + + Enter FAUSTUS with two or three SCHOLARS, and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + 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 lived: therefore, Master Doctor, if you will do us + that favour, 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 unfeign'd, + And Faustus' custom is not to deny + The just requests of those that wish him well, + You shall behold that peerless dame of Greece, + No otherways for pomp and majesty + Than when Sir Paris cross'd the seas with her, + And brought the spoils to rich Dardania. + Be silent, then, for danger is in words. + [Music sounds, and HELEN passeth over the stage.[153]] + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Too simple is my wit to tell her praise, + Whom all the world admires for majesty. + + THIRD SCHOLAR. No marvel though the angry Greeks pursu'd + With ten years' war the rape of such a queen, + Whose heavenly beauty passeth all compare. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Since we have seen the pride of Nature's works, + And only paragon of excellence, + Let us depart; and for this glorious deed + Happy and blest be Faustus evermore! + + FAUSTUS. Gentlemen, farewell: the same I wish to you. + [Exeunt SCHOLARS.] + + Enter an OLD MAN.[154] + + OLD MAN. Ah, Doctor Faustus, that I might prevail + To guide thy steps unto the way of life, + By which sweet path thou mayst attain the goal + That shall conduct thee to celestial rest! + Break heart, drop blood, and mingle it with tears, + Tears falling from repentant heaviness + Of thy most vile[155] and loathsome filthiness, + The stench whereof corrupts the inward soul + With such flagitious crimes of heinous sin[156] + As no commiseration may expel, + But mercy, Faustus, of thy Saviour sweet, + Whose blood alone must wash away thy guilt. + + FAUSTUS. Where art thou, Faustus? wretch, what hast thou done? + Damn'd art thou, Faustus, damn'd; despair and die! + Hell calls for right, and with a roaring voice + Says, "Faustus, come; thine hour is almost[157] come;" + And Faustus now[158] will come to do thee right. + [MEPHISTOPHILIS gives him a dagger.] + + OLD MAN. Ah, stay, good Faustus, stay thy desperate steps! + I see an angel hovers o'er thy head, + And, with a vial full of precious grace, + Offers to pour the same into thy soul: + Then call for mercy, and avoid despair. + + FAUSTUS. Ah, my sweet friend, I feel + Thy words to comfort my distressed soul! + Leave me a while to ponder on my sins. + + OLD MAN. I go, sweet Faustus; but with heavy cheer, + Fearing the ruin of thy hopeless soul. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. Accursed Faustus, where is mercy now? + I do repent; and yet I do despair: + Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast: + What shall I do to shun the snares of death? + + MEPHIST. Thou traitor, Faustus, I arrest thy soul + For disobedience to my sovereign lord: + Revolt, or I'll in piece-meal tear thy flesh. + + FAUSTUS. Sweet Mephistophilis, entreat thy lord + To pardon my unjust presumption, + And with my blood again I will confirm + My former vow I made to Lucifer. + + MEPHIST. Do it, then, quickly,[159] with unfeigned heart, + Lest greater danger do attend thy drift. + + FAUSTUS. Torment, sweet friend, that base and crooked age, + That durst dissuade me from thy Lucifer, + With greatest torments that our hell affords. + + MEPHIST. His faith is great; I cannot touch his soul; + But what I may afflict his body with + I will attempt, which is but little worth. + + FAUSTUS. One thing, good servant,[160] let me crave of thee, + To glut the longing of my heart's desire,-- + That I might have unto my paramour + That heavenly Helen which I saw of late, + Whose sweet embracings may extinguish clean + Those[161] thoughts that do dissuade me from my vow, + And keep mine oath I made to Lucifer. + + MEPHIST. Faustus, this,[162] or what else thou shalt desire, + Shall be perform'd in twinkling of an eye. + + Re-enter HELEN. + + FAUSTUS. Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, + And burnt the topless[163] towers of Ilium-- + Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.-- + [Kisses her.] + Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!-- + Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. + Here will I dwell, for heaven is[164] in these lips, + And all is dross that is not Helena. + I will be Paris, and for love of thee, + Instead of Troy, shall Wertenberg be sack'd; + 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 fairer than the evening air + Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars; + Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter + When he appear'd to hapless Semele; + More lovely than the monarch of the sky + In wanton Arethusa's azur'd arms; + And none but thou shalt[165] be my paramour! + [Exeunt.] + + Enter the OLD MAN.[166] + + OLD MAN. Accursed Faustus, miserable man, + That from thy soul exclud'st the grace of heaven, + And fly'st the throne of his tribunal-seat! + + Enter DEVILS. + + Satan begins to sift me with his pride: + As in this furnace God shall try my faith, + My faith, vile hell, shall triumph over thee. + Ambitious fiends, see how the heavens smile + At your repulse, and laugh your state to scorn! + Hence, hell! for hence I fly unto my God. + [Exeunt,--on one side, DEVILS, on the other, OLD MAN.] + + Enter FAUSTUS,[167] with SCHOLARS. + + FAUSTUS. Ah, gentlemen! + + FIRST SCHOLAR. What ails Faustus? + + FAUSTUS. Ah, my sweet chamber-fellow, had I lived with thee, + then had I lived still! but now I die eternally. Look, comes + he not? comes he not? + + SECOND SCHOLAR. What means Faustus? + + THIRD SCHOLAR. Belike he is grown into some sickness by being + over-solitary. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. If it be so, we'll have physicians to cure him. + --'Tis but a surfeit; never fear, man. + + FAUSTUS. A surfeit of deadly sin, that hath damned both body + and soul. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Yet, Faustus, look up to heaven; remember God's + mercies are infinite. + + FAUSTUS. But Faustus' offence can ne'er be pardoned: the serpent + that tempted Eve may be saved, but not Faustus. Ah, gentlemen, + hear me with patience, and tremble not at my speeches! Though + my heart pants and quivers to remember that I have been a student + here these thirty years, O, would I had never seen Wertenberg, + never read book! and what wonders I have done, all Germany can + witness, yea, all the world; for which Faustus hath lost both + Germany and the world, yea, heaven itself, heaven, the seat of + God, the throne of the blessed, the kingdom of joy; and must + remain in hell for ever, hell, ah, hell, for ever! Sweet friends, + what shall become of Faustus, being in hell for ever? + + THIRD SCHOLAR. Yet, Faustus, call on God. + + FAUSTUS. On God, whom Faustus hath abjured! on God, whom Faustus + hath blasphemed! Ah, my God, I would weep! but the devil draws in + my tears. Gush forth blood, instead of tears! yea, life and soul! + O, he stays my tongue! I would lift up my hands; but see, they + hold them, they hold them! + + ALL. Who, Faustus? + + FAUSTUS. Lucifer and Mephistophilis. Ah, gentlemen, I gave them + my soul for my cunning![168] + + ALL. God forbid! + + FAUSTUS. God forbade it, indeed; but Faustus hath done it: for + vain pleasure of twenty-four years hath Faustus lost eternal joy + and felicity. I writ them a bill with mine own blood: the date + is expired; the time will come, and he will fetch me. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Why did not Faustus tell us of this before,[169] + that divines might have prayed for thee? + + FAUSTUS. Oft have I thought to have done so; but the devil + threatened to tear me in pieces, if I named God, to fetch both + body and soul, if I once gave ear to divinity: and now 'tis too + late. Gentlemen, away, lest you perish with me. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. O, what shall we do to save[170] Faustus? + + FAUSTUS. Talk not of me, but save yourselves, and depart. + + THIRD 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 there pray for him. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, pray for me, pray for me; and what noise soever + ye hear,[171] come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Pray thou, and we will pray that God may have + mercy upon thee. + + FAUSTUS. Gentlemen, farewell: if I live till morning, I'll visit + you; if not, Faustus is gone to hell. + + ALL. Faustus, farewell. + [Exeunt SCHOLARS.--The clock strikes eleven.] + + FAUSTUS. Ah, Faustus, + Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, + And then thou must be damn'd perpetually! + Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, + That 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, + That Faustus may repent and save his soul! + O lente,[172] lente currite, noctis equi! + The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, + The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd. + O, I'll leap up to my God!--Who pulls me down?-- + See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! + One drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah, my Christ!-- + Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ! + Yet will I call on him: O, spare me, Lucifer!-- + Where is it now? 'tis gone: and see, where God + Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows! + Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me, + And hide me from the heavy wrath of God! + No, no! + Then will I headlong run into the earth: + Earth, gape! O, no, it will not harbour me! + You stars that reign'd at my nativity, + Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, + Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist. + Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud[s], + That, when you[173] vomit forth into the air, + My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths, + So that my soul may but ascend to heaven! + [The clock strikes the half-hour.] + Ah, half the hour is past! 'twill all be past anon + O God, + If thou wilt not have mercy on my soul, + Yet for Christ's sake, whose blood hath ransom'd me, + Impose some end to my incessant pain; + Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years, + A hundred thousand, and at last be sav'd! + O, no end is limited to damned souls! + Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul? + Or why is this immortal that thou hast? + Ah, Pythagoras' metempsychosis, were that true, + This soul should fly from me, and I be chang'd + Unto some brutish beast![174] all beasts are happy, + For, when they die, + Their souls are soon dissolv'd in elements; + But mine must live still to be plagu'd in hell. + Curs'd be the parents that engender'd me! + No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer + That hath depriv'd thee of the joys of heaven. + [The clock strikes twelve.] + O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, + Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell! + [Thunder and lightning.] + O soul, be chang'd into little water-drops, + And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found! + + Enter DEVILS. + + My God, my god, look not so fierce on me! + Adders and serpents, let me breathe a while! + Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer! + I'll burn my books!--Ah, Mephistophilis! + [Exeunt DEVILS with FAUSTUS.] [175] + + Enter CHORUS. + + CHORUS. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, + And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough, + That sometime grew within this learned man. + Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall, + Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, + Only to wonder at unlawful things, + Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits + To practice more than heavenly power permits. + [Exit.] + + Terminat hora diem; terminat auctor opus. + + + + + +FOOTNOTES: + + +[Footnote 1: mate-- i.e. confound, defeat.] + +[Footnote 2: vaunt-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "daunt."] + +[Footnote 3: her-- All the 4tos "his."] + +[Footnote 4: Whereas-- i.e. where.] + +[Footnote 5: cunning-- i.e. knowledge.] + +[Footnote 6: So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "more."] + +[Footnote 7: FAUSTUS discovered in his study-- Most probably, the Chorus, +before going out, drew a curtain, and discovered Faustus sitting. +In B. Barnes's DIVILS CHARTER, 1607, we find; "SCEN. VLTIMA. +ALEXANDER VNBRACED BETWIXT TWO CARDINALLS in his study LOOKING +VPON A BOOKE, whilst a groome draweth the Curtaine." Sig. L 3.] + +[Footnote 8: Analytics, 'tis thou, &c.-- Qy. "Analytic"? (but such +phraseology was not uncommon).] + +[Footnote 9: So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "the" (the printer +having mistaken "yt" for "ye").] + +[Footnote 10: So the later 4tos (with various spelling).--2to 1604 +"Oncaymaeon."] + +[Footnote 11: and-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 12: Couldst-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "Wouldst."] + +[Footnote 13: men-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "man."] + +[Footnote 14: legatur-- All the 4tos "legatus."] + +[Footnote 15: &c.-- So two of the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 16: law-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "Church."] + +[Footnote 17: This-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "His."] + +[Footnote 18: Too servile-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "The deuill."] + +[Footnote 19: Che sera, sera-- Lest it should be thought that I am wrong +in not altering the old spelling here, I may quote from Panizzi's +very critical edition of the ORLANDO FURIOSO, + "La satisfazion ci SERA pronta." C. xviii. st. 67.] + +[Footnote 20: scenes-- "And sooner may a gulling weather-spie + By drawing forth heavens SCEANES tell certainly," &c. + Donne's FIRST SATYRE,--p. 327, ed. 1633.] + +[Footnote 21: tire-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "trie."] + +[Footnote 22: Enter WAGNER, &c.-- Perhaps the proper arrangement is,] + "Wagner! + Enter WAGNER. + Commend me to my dearest friends," &c.] + +[Footnote 23: treasure-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "treasury."] + +[Footnote 24: Jove-- So again, p. 84, first col.,[See Note 59] +: + "Seeing Faustus hath incurr'd eternal death + By desperate thoughts against JOVE'S deity," &c.: +and I may notice that Marlowe is not singular in applying the name +JOVE to the God of Christians:] + "Beneath our standard of JOUES powerfull sonne [i.e. Christ--". + MIR. FOR MAGISTRATES, p. 642, ed. 1610. + "But see the judgement of almightie JOUE," &c. + Id. p. 696. + "O sommo GIOVE per noi crocifisso," &c. + Pulci,--MORGANTE MAG. C. ii. st. 1.] + +[Footnote 25: these elements-- So again, "Within the bowels of THESE +elements," &c., p. 87, first col,[See Note 90----"THESE" being +equivalent to THE. (Not unfrequently in our old writers THESE +is little more than redundant.)] + +[Footnote 26: resolve-- i.e. satisfy, inform.] + +[Footnote 27: silk-- All the 4tos "skill" (and so the modern editors!).] + +[Footnote 28: the-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "our."] + +[Footnote 29: the fiery keel at Antwerp's bridge-- During the blockade +of Antwerp by the Prince of Parma in 1585, "They of Antuerpe +knowing that the bridge and the Stocadoes were finished, +made a great shippe, to be a meanes to breake all this worke +of the prince of Parmaes: this great shippe was made of masons +worke within, in the manner of a vaulted caue: vpon the hatches +there were layed myll-stones, graue-stones, and others of great +weight; and within the vault were many barrels of powder, ouer +the which there were holes, and in them they had put matches, +hanging at a thred, the which burning vntill they came vnto +the thred, would fall into the powder, and so blow vp all. +And for that they could not haue any one in this shippe to +conduct it, Lanckhaer, a sea captaine of the Hollanders, being +then in Antuerpe, gaue them counsell to tye a great beame at the +end of it, to make it to keepe a straight course in the middest +of the streame. In this sort floated this shippe the fourth of +Aprill, vntill that it came vnto the bridge; where (within a +while after) the powder wrought his effect, with such violence, +as the vessell, and all that was within it, and vpon it, flew in +pieces, carrying away a part of the Stocado and of the bridge. +The marquesse of Roubay Vicont of Gant, Gaspar of Robles lord of +Billy, and the Seignior of Torchies, brother vnto the Seignior +of Bours, with many others, were presently slaine; which were +torne in pieces, and dispersed abroad, both vpon the land and vpon +the water." Grimeston's GENERALL HISTORIE OF THE NETHERLANDS, +p. 875, ed. 1609.] + +[Footnote 30: only-- Qy. "alone"? (This line is not in the later 4tos.)] + +[Footnote 31: vile-- Old ed. "vild": but see note ||, p. 68.--(This line +is not in the later 4tos.) + + [Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great):] + + Vile-- The 8vo "Vild"; the 4to "Wild" (Both eds. a little + before, have "VILE monster, born of some infernal hag", and, + a few lines after, "To VILE and ignominious servitude":--the + fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with + their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, + and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, + where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")--] + +[Footnote 32: concise syllogisms-- Old ed. "Consissylogismes."] + +[Footnote 33: cunning-- i.e. knowing, skilful.] + +[Footnote 34: Agrippa-- i.e. Cornelius Agrippa.] + +[Footnote 35: shadow-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "shadowes."] + +[Footnote 36: spirits-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "subiects."] + +[Footnote 37: Almain rutters-- See note β , p. 43.] + + [Note β from p. 43. (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + Almains, Rutters-- Rutters are properly--German troopers + (reiter, reuter). In the third speech after the present one + this line is repeated VERBATIM: but in the first scene of + our author's FAUSTUS we have, + "Like ALMAIN RUTTERS with their horsemen's staves."--] + +[Footnote 38: have the-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "in their."] + +[Footnote 39: From-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "For."] + +[Footnote 40: in-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 41: renowm'd-- See note ||, p. 11.] + + [Note || from p. 11. (The First Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + renowmed-- i.e. renowned.--So the 8vo.--The 4to "renowned." + --The form "RENOWMED" (Fr. RENOMME) occurs repeatedly + afterwards in this play, according to the 8vo. It is + occasionally found in writers posterior to Marlowe's + time. e.g. + "Of Constantines great towne RENOUM'D in vaine." + Verses to King James, prefixed to Lord Stirling's + MONARCHICKE TRAGEDIES, ed. 1607.--] + +[Footnote 42: Albertus'-- i.e. Albertus Magnus.--The correction of I. M. +in Gent. Mag. for Jan. 1841.--All the 4tos "Albanus."] + +[Footnote 43: cunning-- i.e. skill.] + +[Footnote 44: Enter two SCHOLARS-- Scene, perhaps, supposed to be before +Faustus's house, as Wagner presently says, "My master is within +at dinner."] + +[Footnote 45: upon-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "vpon't."] + +[Footnote 46: speak, would-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "speake, IT would."] + +[Footnote 47: my dear brethren-- This repetition (not found in the later 4tos) +is perhaps an error of the original compositor.] + +[Footnote 48: Enter FAUSTUS to conjure-- The scene is supposed to be a grove; +see p. 81, last line of sec. col. + [Page 81, second column, last line: + "VALDES. Then haste thee to some solitary grove,"--] + +[Footnote 49: anagrammatiz'd-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "and +Agramithist."] + +[Footnote 50: Th' abbreviated-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "The breuiated."] + +[Footnote 51: erring-- i.e. wandering.] + +[Footnote 52: surgat Mephistophilis, quod tumeraris-- The later 4tos have +"surgat Mephistophilis DRAGON, quod tumeraris."--There is a +corruption here, which seems to defy emendation. For "quod +TUMERARIS," Mr. J. Crossley, of Manchester, would read (rejecting +the word "Dragon") "quod TU MANDARES" (the construction being +"quod tu mandares ut Mephistophilis appareat et surgat"): but the +"tu" does not agree with the preceding "vos."--The Revd. J. Mitford +proposes "surgat Mephistophilis, per Dragon (or Dagon) quod NUMEN +EST AERIS."] + +[Footnote 53: dicatus-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "dicatis."] + +[Footnote 54: Re-enter Mephistophilis, &c.-- According to THE HISTORY OF +DR. FAUSTUS, on which this play is founded, Faustus raises +Mephistophilis in "a thicke wood neere to Wittenberg, called +in the German tongue Spisser Wolt..... Presently, not three +fathom above his head, fell a flame in manner of a lightning, +and changed itselfe into a globe..... Suddenly the globe opened, +and sprung up in the height of a man; so burning a time, in the +end it converted to the shape of a fiery man[?-- This pleasant +beast ran about the circle a great while, and, lastly, appeared +in the manner of a Gray Fryer, asking Faustus what was his +request?" Sigs. A 2, A 3, ed. 1648. Again; "After Doctor Faustus +had made his promise to the devill, in the morning betimes he +called the spirit before him, and commanded him that he should +alwayes come to him like a fryer after the order of Saint Francis, +with a bell in his hand like Saint Anthony, and to ring it once +or twice before he appeared, that he might know of his certaine +coming." Id. Sig. A 4.] + +[Footnote 55: came hither-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "came +NOW hither."] + +[Footnote 56: accidens-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "accident."] + +[Footnote 57: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it-- Compare Milton, +Par. Lost, iv. 75; + "Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell."] + +[Footnote 58: these-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "those."] + +[Footnote 59: Jove's-- See note β‘, p. 80. [i.e. Note 24] +: ] + +[Footnote 60: four and twenty-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "24."] + +[Footnote 61: resolve-- i.e. satisfy, inform.] + +[Footnote 62: thorough-- So one of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "through."] + +[Footnote 63: country-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "land."] + +[Footnote 64: desir'd-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "desire."] + +[Footnote 65: Enter WAGNER, &c.-- Scene, a street most probably.] + +[Footnote 66: pickadevaunts-- i.e. beards cut to a point.] + +[Footnote 67: by'r lady-- i.e. by our Lady.] + +[Footnote 68: Qui mihi discipulus-- The first words of W. Lily's +AD DISCIPULOS CARMEN DE MORIBUS, + + "Qui mihi discipulus, puer, es, cupis atque doceri, + Huc ades," &c.] + +[Footnote 69: staves-acre-- A species of larkspur.] + +[Footnote 70: vermin-- Which the seeds of staves-acre were used to destroy.] + +[Footnote 71: familiars-- i.e. attendant-demons.] + +[Footnote 72: their-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "my."] + +[Footnote 73: slop-- i.e. wide breeches.] + +[Footnote 74: vile-- Old ed. "vild." See note || p. 68. + + [Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + Vile-- The 8vo "Vild"; the 4to "Wild" (Both eds. a little + before, have "VILE monster, born of some infernal hag", and, + a few lines after, "To VILE and ignominious servitude":--the + fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with + their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, + and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, + where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")] + +[Footnote 75: vestigiis nostris-- All the 4tos "vestigias nostras."] + +[Footnote 76: of-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 77: me-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 78: he lives-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "I liue."] + +[Footnote 79: why-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 80: Solamen miseris, &c.-- An often-cited line of modern Latin +poetry: by whom it was written I know not.] + +[Footnote 81: Why-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 82: torture-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "tortures."] + +[Footnote 83: Faustus-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 84: Bill-- i.e. writing, deed.] + +[Footnote 85: Here's fire; come, Faustus, set it on-- This would not +be intelligible without the assistance of THE HISTORY OF +DR. FAUSTUS, the sixth chapter of which is headed,--"How Doctor +Faustus set his blood in a saucer on warme ashes, and writ as +followeth." Sig. B, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 86: But what is this inscription, &c.-- "He [Faustus-- tooke +a small penknife and prickt a veine in his left hand; and for +certainty thereupon were seen on his hand these words written, +as if they had been written with blood, O HOMO, FUGE." +THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, Sig. B, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 87: me-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "thee."] + +[Footnote 88: he desires-- Not in any of the four 4tos. In the tract +just cited, the "3d Article" stands thus,--"That Mephostophiles +should bring him any thing, and doe for him whatsoever." Sig. A 4, +ed. 1648. A later ed. adds "he desired." Marlowe, no doubt, +followed some edition of the HISTORY in which these words, +or something equivalent to them, had been omitted by mistake. +(2to 1661, which I consider as of no authority, has "he +requireth.")] + +[Footnote 89: that, &c.-- So all the 4tos, ungrammatically.] + +[Footnote 90: these-- See note Β§, p. 80.[i.e. Note 25] +: ] + +[Footnote 91: there-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 92: are-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "is."] + +[Footnote 93: fond-- i.e. foolish.] + +[Footnote 94: What! walking, disputing, &c.-- The later 4tos have "What, +SLEEPING, EATING, walking, AND disputing!" But it is evident +that this speech is not given correctly in any of the old eds.] + +[Footnote 95: let me have a wife, &c.-- The ninth chapter of THE HISTORY +OF DR. FAUSTUS narrates "How Doctor Faustus would have married, +and how the Devill had almost killed him for it," and concludes +as follows. "It is no jesting [said Mephistophilis-- with us: +hold thou that which thou hast vowed, and we will peforme as we +have promised; and more shall that, thou shalt have thy hearts +desire of what woman soever thou wilt, be she alive or dead, +and so long as thou wilt thou shalt keep her by thee.--These +words pleased Faustus wonderfull well, and repented himself that +he was so foolish to wish himselfe married, that might have any +woman in the whole city brought him at his command; the which +he practised and persevered in a long time." Sig. B 3, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 96: me-- Not in 4to 1604. (This line is wanting in the later 4tos.)] + +[Footnote 97: no-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 98: Saba-- i.e. Sabaea--the Queen of Sheba.] + +[Footnote 99: iterating-- i.e. reciting, repeating.] + +[Footnote 100: And argue of divine astrology, &c.-- In THE HISTORY OF +DR. FAUSTUS, there are several tedious pages on the subject; +but our dramatist, in the dialogue which follows, has no +particular obligations to them.] + +[Footnote 101: erring-- i.e. wandering.] + +[Footnote 102: freshmen's-- "A Freshman, tiro, novitius." Coles's DICT. +Properly, a student during his first term at the university.] + +[Footnote 103: resolve-- i.e. satisfy, inform.] + +[Footnote 104: Seek to save-- Qy. "Seek THOU to save"? But see note ||, +p. 18.] + + [Note ||, from page 18 (The First Part of Tamburlaine The + Great): + + Barbarous-- Qy. "O Barbarous"? in the next line but one, + "O treacherous"? and in the last line of the speech, + "O bloody"? But we occasionally find in our early dramatists + lines which are defective in the first syllable; and in some + of these instances at least it would almost seem that nothing + has been omitted by the transcriber or printer.--] + +[Footnote 105: Enter the SEVEN DEADLY SINS-- In THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, +Lucifer amuses Faustus, not by calling up the Seven Deadly Sins, +but by making various devils appear before him, "one after another, +in forme as they were in hell." "First entered Beliall in forme +of a beare," &c.--"after him came Beelzebub, in curled haire of +a horseflesh colour," &c.--"then came Astaroth, in the forme of +a worme," &c. &c. During this exhibition, "Lucifer himselfe sate +in manner of a man all hairy, but of browne colour, like a +squirrell, curled, and his tayle turning upward on his backe as +the squirrels use: I think he could crack nuts too like a +squirrell." Sig. D, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 106: case-- i.e. couple.] + +[Footnote 107: bevers-- i.e. refreshments between meals.] + +[Footnote 108: L.-- All the 4tos "Lechery."--Here I have made the alteration +recommended by Mr. Collier in his Preface to COLERIDGE'S SEVEN +LECTURES ON SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON, p. cviii.] + +[Footnote 109: Away, to hell, to hell-- In 4to 1604, these words stand +on a line by themselves, without a prefix. (In the later 4tos, +the corresponding passage is as follows; + "------ begins with Lechery. + + LUCIFER. Away to hell, away! On, piper! [Exeunt the SINS. + FAUSTUS. O, how this sight doth delight my soul!" &c.)] + +[Footnote 110: I will send for thee at midnight-- In THE HISTORY OF DR. +FAUSTUS, we have a particular account of Faustus's visit +to the infernal regions, Sig. D 2, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 111: Enter CHORUS-- Old ed. "Enter WAGNER solus." That these +lines belong to the Chorus would be evident enough, even if we +had no assistance here from the later 4tos.--The parts of Wagner +and of the Chorus were most probably played by the same actor: +and hence the error.] + +[Footnote 112: Learned Faustus, + To know the secrets of astronomy, &c.-- See the 21st chapter +of THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS,--"How Doctor Faustus was carried +through the ayre up to the heavens, to see the whole world, +and how the sky and planets ruled," &c.] + +[Footnote 113: Enter FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS-- Scene, the Pope's +privy-chamber.] + +[Footnote 114: Trier-- i.e. Treves or Triers.] + +[Footnote 115: From Paris next, &c.-- This description is from THE HISTORY +OF DR. FAUSTUS; "He came from Paris to Mentz, where the river +of Maine falls into the Rhine: notwithstanding he tarried not +long there, but went into Campania, in the kingdome of Neapol, +in which he saw an innumerable sort of cloysters, nunries, and +churches, and great houses of stone, the streets faire and large, +and straight forth from one end of the towne to the other as a +line; and all the pavement of the city was of bricke, and the +more it rained into the towne, the fairer the streets were: +there saw he the tombe of Virgill, and the highway that he cu[t] +through the mighty hill of stone in one night, the whole length +of an English mile," &c. Sig. E 2, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 116: The way he cut, &c.-- During the middle ages Virgil was +regarded as a great magician, and much was written concerning +his exploits in that capacity. The LYFE OF VIRGILIUS, however, +(see Thoms's EARLY PROSE ROMANCES, vol. ii.,) makes no mention +of the feat in question. But Petrarch speaks of it as follows. +"Non longe a Puteolis Falernus collis attollitur, famoso palmite +nobilis. Inter Falernum et mare mons est saxeus, hominum manibus +confossus, quod vulgus insulsum a Virgilio magicis cantaminibus +factum putant: ita clarorum fama hominum, non veris contenta +laudibus, saepe etiam fabulis viam facit. De quo cum me olim +Robertus regno clarus, sed praeclarus ingenio ac literis, quid +sentirem, multis astantibus, percunctatus esset, humanitate fretus +regia, qua non reges modo sed homines vicit, jocans nusquam me +legisse magicarium fuisse Virgilium respondi: quod ille severissimae +nutu frontis approbans, non illic magici sed ferri vestigia +confessus est. Sunt autem fauces excavati montis angustae sed +longissimae atque atrae: tenebrosa inter horrifica semper nox: +publicum iter in medio, mirum et religioni proximum, belli quoque +immolatum temporibus, sic vero populi vox est, et nullis unquam +latrociniis attentatum, patet: Criptam Neapolitanam dicunt, cujus +et in epistolis ad Lucilium Seneca mentionem fecit. Sub finem fusci +tramitis, ubi primo videri coelum incipit, in aggere edito, ipsius +Virgilii busta visuntur, pervetusti operis, unde haec forsan ab +illo perforati montis fluxit opinio." ITINERARIUM SYRIACUM,--OPP. +p. 560, ed. Bas.] + +[Footnote 117: From thence to Venice, Padua, and the rest, + In one of which a sumptuous temple stands, &c.-- So the +later 4tos.--2to 1604 "In MIDST of which," &c.--THE HISTORY +OF DR. FAUSTUS shews WHAT "sumptuous temple" is meant: "From +thence he came to Venice....He wondred not a little at the +fairenesse of S. Marks Place, and the sumptuous church standing +thereon, called S. Marke, how all the pavement was set with +coloured stones, and all the rood or loft of the church double +gilded over." Sig. E 2, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 118: Just through the midst, &c.-- This and the next line are +not in 4to 1604. I have inserted them from the later 4tos, as +being absolutely necessary for the sense.] + +[Footnote 119: Ponte-- All the 4tos "Ponto."] + +[Footnote 120: of-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 121: Then charm me, that I, &c.-- A corrupted passage.--Compare +THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, Sig. E 3, ed. 1648; where, however, +the Cardinal, whom the Pope entertains, is called the Cardinal +of PAVIA.] + +[Footnote 122: Sonnet-- Variously written, SENNET, SIGNET, SIGNATE, &c.--A +particular set of notes on the trumpet, or cornet, different from +a flourish. See Nares's GLOSS. in V. SENNET.] + +[Footnote 123: Enter ROBIN, &c.-- Scene, near an inn.] + +[Footnote 124: ippocras-- Or HIPPOCRAS,--a medicated drink composed of wine +(usually red) with spices and sugar. It is generally supposed to +have been so called from HIPPOCRATES (contracted by our earliest +writers to HIPPOCRAS); perhaps because it was strained,--the woollen +bag used by apothecaries to strain syrups and decoctions for +clarification being termed HIPPOCRATES' SLEEVE.] + +[Footnote 125: tabern-- i.e. tavern.] + +[Footnote 126: [Exeunt. + Enter ROBIN and RALPH, &c.-- A scene is evidently wanting +after the Exeunt of Robin and Ralph.] + +[Footnote 127: purchase-- i.e. booty--gain, acquisition.] + +[Footnote 128: Drawer-- There is an inconsistency here: the Vintner +cannot properly be addressed as "Drawer." The later 4tos are +also inconsistent in the corresponding passage: Dick says, "THE +VINTNER'S BOY follows us at the hard heels," and immediately +the "VINTNER" enters.] + +[Footnote 129: tone-- i.e. the one.] + +[Footnote 130: MEPHIST-- Monarch of hell, &c.-- Old ed. thus:--] + + "MEPHIST. Vanish vilaines, th' one like an Ape, an other like + a Beare, the third an Asse, for doing this enterprise. + + Monarch of hell, vnder whose blacke suruey," &c. + +What follows, shews that the words which I have omitted ought +to have no place in the text; nor is there any thing equivalent +to them in the corresponding passage of the play as given in +the later 4tos.] + +[Footnote 131: Enter EMPEROR, &c.-- Scene--An apartment in the Emperor's +Palace. According to THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, the Emperor +"was personally, with the rest of the nobles and gentlemen, at +the towne of Inzbrack, where he kept his court." Sig. G, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 132: Master Doctor Faustus, &c-- The greater part of this scene +is closely borrowed from the history just cited: e.g. "Faustus, +I have heard much of thee, that thou art excellent in the black art, +and none like thee in mine empire; for men say that thou hast a +familiar spirit with thee, and that thou canst doe what thou list; +it is therefore (said the Emperor) my request of thee, that thou +let me see a proofe of thy experience: and I vow unto thee, by +the honour of my emperiall crowne, none evill shall happen unto +thee for so doing," &c. Ibid.] + +[Footnote 133: won-- May be right: but qy. "done"?] + +[Footnote 134: As we that do succeed, &c.-- A corrupted passage (not found +in the later 4tos).] + +[Footnote 135: The bright, &c.-- See note ||, p. 18.] + + [Note ||, from page 18 (The First Part of Tamburlaine The + Great): + + Barbarous-- Qy. "O Barbarous"? in the next line but one, + "O treacherous"? and in the last line of the speech, + "O bloody"? But we occasionally find in our early dramatists + lines which are defective in the first syllable; and in + some of these instances at least it would almost seem that + nothing has been omitted by the transcriber or printer.--] + +[Footnote 136: But, if it like your grace, it is not in my ability, &c.] +"D. Faustus answered, My most excellent lord, I am ready to +accomplish your request in all things, so farre forth as I and +my spirit are able to performe: yet your majesty shall know that +their dead bodies are not able substantially to be brought before +you; but such spirits as have seene Alexander and his Paramour +alive shall appeare unto you, in manner and form as they both +lived in their most flourishing time; and herewith I hope to +please your Imperiall Majesty. Then Faustus went a little aside +to speake to his spirit; but he returned againe presently, saying, +Now, if it please your Majesty, you shall see them; yet, upon this +condition, that you demand no question of them, nor speake unto +them; which the Emperor agreed unto. Wherewith Doctor Faustus opened +the privy-chamber doore, where presently entered the great and mighty +emperor Alexander Magnus, in all things to looke upon as if he +had beene alive; in proportion, a strong set thicke man, of a +middle stature, blacke haire, and that both thicke and curled, +head and beard, red cheekes, and a broad face, with eyes like +a basiliske; he had a compleat harnesse (i.e. suit of armour) +burnished and graven, exceeding rich to look upon: and so, +passing towards the Emperor Carolus, he made low and reverend +courtesie: whereat the Emperour Carolus would have stood up to +receive and greet him with the like reverence; but Faustus tooke +hold on him, and would not permit him to doe it. Shortly after, +Alexander made humble reverence, and went out againe; and comming +to the doore, his paramour met him. She comming in made the Emperour +likewise reverence: she was cloathed in blew velvet, wrought and +imbroidered with pearls and gold; she was also excellent faire, +like milke and blood mixed, tall and slender, with a face round +as an apple. And thus passed [she-- certaine times up and downe +the house; which the Emperor marking, said to himselfe, Now have +I seene two persons which my heart hath long wished to behold; +and sure it cannot otherwise be (said he to himselfe) but that +the spirits have changed themselves into these formes, and have +but deceived me, calling to minde the woman that raised the prophet +Samuel: and for that the Emperor would be the more satisfied in +the matter, he said, I have often heard that behind, in her neck, +she had a great wart or wen; wherefore he tooke Faustus by the +hand without any words, and went to see if it were also to be +seene on her or not; but she, perceiving that he came to her, +bowed downe her neck, when he saw a great wart; and hereupon she +vanished, leaving the Emperor and the rest well contented." +THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, Sig. G, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 137: both-- Old ed. "best."] + +[Footnote 138: Mephistophilis, transform him straight-- According to THE +HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, the knight was not present during Faustus's +"conference" with the Emperor; nor did he offer the doctor any +insult by doubting his skill in magic. We are there told that +Faustus happening to see the knight asleep, "leaning out of a +window of the great hall," fixed a huge pair of hart's horns on +his head; "and, as the knight awaked, thinking to pull in his head, +he hit his hornes against the glasse, that the panes thereof flew +about his eares: thinke here how this good gentleman was vexed, +for he could neither get backward nor forward." After the emperor +and the courtiers, to their great amusement, had beheld the poor +knight in this condition, Faustus removed the horns. When Faustus, +having taken leave of the emperor, was a league and a half from +the city, he was attacked in a wood by the knight and some of his +companions: they were in armour, and mounted on fair palfreys; +but the doctor quickly overcame them by turning all the bushes +into horsemen, and "so charmed them, that every one, knight and +other, for the space of a whole moneth, did weare a paire of +goates hornes on their browes, and every palfry a paire of oxe +hornes on his head; and this was their penance appointed by +Faustus." A second attempt of the knight to revenge himself on +Faustus proved equally unsuccessful. Sigs. G 2, I 3, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 139: FAUSTUS. Now Mephistophilis, &c.-- Here the scene is supposed +to be changed to the "fair and pleasant green" which Faustus +presently mentions.] + +[Footnote 140: Horse-courser-- i.e. Horse-dealer.--We are now to suppose the +scene to be near the home of Faustus, and presently that it is the +interior of his house, for he falls asleep in his chair.--"How +Doctor Faustus deceived a Horse-courser" is related in a short +chapter (the 34th) of THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS: "After this +manner he served a horse-courser at a faire called Pheiffering," &c.] + +[Footnote 141: for forty-- Qy. "for TWICE forty DOLLARS"?] + +[Footnote 142: into-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "vnto."] + +[Footnote 143: Doctor Lopus-- i.e. Doctor Lopez, domestic physician +to Queen Elizabeth, who was put to death for having received +a bribe from the court of Spain to destroy her. He is frequently +mentioned in our early dramas: see my note on Middleton's WORKS, +iv. 384.] + +[Footnote 144: know of-- The old ed. has "KNOWNE of"; which perhaps is right, +meaning--acquainted with.] + +[Footnote 145: hey-pass-- Equivalent to--juggler.] + +[Footnote 146: ostry-- i.e. inn,--lodging.] + +[Footnote 147: cunning-- i.e. skill.] + +[Footnote 148: [Exeunt. + Enter the DUKE OF VANHOLT, the DUCHESS, and FAUSTUS-- Old ed.; + + "Exeunt. + Enter to them the DUKE, the DUTCHESS, the DUKE speakes." + +In the later 4tos a scene intervenes between the "Exeunt" of +Faustus, Mephistophilis, and Wagner, and the entrance of the Duke +of Vanholt, &c.--We are to suppose that Faustus is now at the court +of the Duke of Vanholt: this is plain, not only from the later 4tos, +--in which Wagner tells Faustus that the Duke "hath sent some of +his men to attend him, with provision fit for his journey,"--but +from THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, the subjoined portion of which +is closely followed in the present scene. "Chap. xxxix. HOW DOCTOR +FAUSTUS PLAYED A MERRY JEST WITH THE DUKE OF ANHOLT IN HIS COURT. +Doctor Faustus on a time went to the Duke of Anholt, who welcommed +him very courteously; this was the moneth of January; where sitting +at the table, he perceived the dutchess to be with child; and +forbearing himselfe untill the meat was taken from the table, +and that they brought in the banqueting dishes [i.e. the dessert--, +Doctor Faustus said to the dutchesse, Gratious lady, I have alwayes +heard that great-bellied women doe alwayes long for some dainties; +I beseech therefore your grace, hide not your minde from me, but +tell me what you desire to eat. She answered him, Doctor Faustus, +now truly I will not hide from you what my heart doth most desire; +namely, that, if it were now harvest, I would eat my bellyfull of +grapes and other dainty fruit. Doctor Faustus answered hereupon, +Gracious lady, this is a small thing for me to doe, for I can doe +more than this. Wherefore he tooke a plate, and set open one of +the casements of the window, holding it forth; where incontinent +he had his dish full of all manner of fruit, as red and white +grapes, peares, and apples, the which came from out of strange +countries: all these he presented the dutchesse, saying, Madam, +I pray you vouchsafe to taste of this dainty fruit, the which +came from a farre countrey, for there the summer is not yet ended. +The dutchesse thanked Faustus highly, and she fell to her fruit +with full appetite. The Duke of Anholt notwithstanding could not +withhold to ask Faustus with what reason there were such young +fruit to be had at that time of the yeare. Doctor Faustus told +him, May it please your grace to understand that the year is +divided into two circles of the whole world, that when with us it +is winter, in the contrary circle it is notwithstanding summer; +for in India and Saba there falleth or setteth the sunne, so that +it is so warm that they have twice a yeare fruit; and, gracious +lord, I have a swift spirit, the which can in the twinkling of +an eye fulfill my desire in any thing; wherefore I sent him into +those countries, who hath brought this fruit as you see: whereat +the duke was in great admiration."] + +[Footnote 149: Saba-- i.e. Sabaea.] + +[Footnote 150: beholding-- i.e. beholden.] + +[Footnote 151: Enter WAGNER-- Scene, a room in the house of Faustus.] + +[Footnote 152: he hath given to me all his goods-- Compare chap. lvi. of +THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS,--"How Doctor Faustus made his will, +in which he named his servant Wagner to be his heire."] + +[Footnote 153: HELEN passeth over the stage-- In THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR +FAUSTUS we have the following description of Helen. "This lady +appeared before them in a most rich gowne of purple velvet, costly +imbrodered; her haire hanged downe loose, as faire as the beaten +gold, and of such length that it reached downe to her hammes; +having most amorous cole-black eyes, a sweet and pleasant round +face, with lips as red as a cherry; her cheekes of a rose colour, +her mouth small, her neck white like a swan; tall and slender of +personage; in summe, there was no imperfect place in her: she +looked round about with a rolling hawkes eye, a smiling and +wanton countenance, which neere-hand inflamed the hearts of all +the students; but that they perswaded themselves she was a spirit, +which made them lightly passe away such fancies." Sig. H 4, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 154: Enter an OLD MAN-- See chap. xlviii of THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR +FAUSTUS,--"How an old man, the neighbour of Faustus, sought to +perswade him to amend his evil life and to fall into repentance," +--according to which history, the Old Man's exhortation is delivered +at his own house, whither he had invited Faustus to supper.] + +[Footnote 155: vild-- Old ed. "vild." See note ||, p. 68. + + [Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + Vile-- The 8vo "Vild"; the 4to "Wild" (Both eds. a little + before, have "VILE monster, born of some infernal hag", and, + a few lines after, "To VILE and ignominious servitude":--the + fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with + their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, + and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, + where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")--] + +[Footnote 156: sin-- Old ed. "sinnes" (This is not in the later 4tos).] + +[Footnote 157: almost-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 158: now-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 159: MEPHIST. Do it, then, quickly, &c.-- After this speech, +most probably, there ought to be a stage-direction, "FAUSTUS +STABS HIS ARM, AND WRITES ON A PAPER WITH HIS BLOOD. Compare +THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, chap. xlix,--"How Doctor Faustus +wrote the second time with his owne blood, and gave it to the +Devill."] + +[Footnote 160: One thing, good servant, &c.-- "To the end that this miserable +Faustus might fill the lust of his flesh and live in all manner +of voluptuous pleasure, it came in his mind, after he had slept +his first sleepe, and in the 23 year past of his time, that he +had a great desire to lye with faire Helena of Greece, especially +her whom he had seen and shewed unto the students at Wittenberg: +wherefore he called unto his spirit Mephostophiles, commanding him +to bring to him the faire Helena; which he also did. Whereupon he +fell in love with her, and made her his common concubine and +bed-fellow; for she was so beautifull and delightfull a peece, +that he could not be one houre from her, if he should therefore +have suffered death, she had so stoln away his heart: and, to +his seeming, in time she was with childe, whom Faustus named +Justus Faustus. The childe told Doctor Faustus many things which +were don in forraign countrys; but in the end, when Faustus lost +his life, the mother and the childe vanished away both together." +THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. I 4, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 161: Those-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "These."] + +[Footnote 162: Faustus, this-- Qy. "This, Faustus"?] + +[Footnote 163: topless-- i.e. not exceeded in height by any.] + +[Footnote 164: is-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "be."] + +[Footnote 165: shalt-- So all the 4tos; and so I believe Marlowe wrote, +though the grammar requires "shall."] + +[Footnote 166: Enter the OLD MAN-- Scene, a room in the Old Man's house. +--In THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS the Old Man makes himself very +merry with the attempts of the evil powers to hurt him. "About +two dayes after that he had exhorted Faustus, as the poore man +lay in his bed, suddenly there was a mighty rumbling in the +chamber, the which he was never wont to heare, and he heard as +it had beene the groaning of a sow, which lasted long: whereupon +the good old man began to jest and mocke, and said, Oh, what a +barbarian cry is this? Oh faire bird, what foul musicke is this? +A[h--, faire angell, that could not tarry two dayes in his place! +beginnest thou now to runne into a poore mans house, where thou +hast no power, and wert not able to keepe thy owne two dayes? +With these and such like words the spirit departed," &c. +Sig. I 2, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 167: Enter Faustus, &c.-- Scene, a room in the house of Faustus.] + +[Footnote 168: cunning-- i.e. knowledge, skill.] + +[Footnote 169: Why did not Faustus tell us of this before, &c.-- "Wherefore +one of them said unto him, Ah, friend Faustus, what have you done +to conceale this matter so long from us? We would, by the helpe +of good divines and the grace of God, have brought you out of this +net, and have torne you out of the bondage and chaines of Satan; +whereas now we feare it is too late, to the utter ruine both of +your body and soule. Doctor Faustus answered, I durst never doe +it, although I often minded to settle my life [myself?-- to godly +people to desire counsell and helpe; and once mine old neighbour +counselled me that I should follow his learning and leave all my +conjurations: yet, when I was minded to amend and to follow that +good mans counsell, then came the Devill and would have had me +away, as this night he is like to doe, and said, so soone as I +turned againe to God, he would dispatch me altogether." THE +HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. K 3, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 170: save-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 171: and what noise soever ye hear, &c.-- "Lastly, to knit up +my troubled oration, this is my friendly request, that you would +go to rest, and let nothing trouble you; also, if you chance heare +any noyse or rumbling about the house, be not therewith afraid, +for there shall no evill happen unto you," &c. THE HISTORY OF +DOCTOR FAUSTUS, ubi supra.] + +[Footnote 172: O lente, &c. + "At si, quem malles, Cephalum complexa teneres, + Clamares, LENTE CURRITE, NOCTIS EQUI." + Ovid,--AMOR. i. xiii. 39.] + +[Footnote 173: That, when you, &c.-- So all the old eds.; and it is certain +that awkward changes of person are sometimes found in passages +of our early poets: but qy., + + "That, when THEY vomit forth into the air, + My limbs may issue from THEIR smoky mouths," &c.?] + +[Footnote 174: and I be chang'd + Unto some brutish beast-- "Now, thou Faustus, damned wretch, +how happy wert thou, if, as an unreasonable beast, thou mightest +dye without [a-- soule! so shouldst thou not feele any more doubts," +&c. THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. K. ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 175: Exeunt DEVILS with FAUSTUS-- In THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, +his "miserable and lamentable end" is described as follows: it +took place, we are informed, at "the village called Rimlich, +halfe a mile from Wittenberg."--"The students and the other that +were there, when they had prayed for him, they wept, and so went +forth; but Faustus tarried in the hall; and when the gentlemen +were laid in bed, none of them could sleepe, for that they att[e--nded +to heare if they might be privy of his end. It happened that +betweene twelve and one a clocke at midnight, there blew a mighty +storme of winde against the house, as though it would have blowne +the foundation thereof out of his place. Hereupon the students +began to feare and goe out of their beds, comforting one another; +but they would not stirre out of the chamber; and the host of +the house ran out of doores, thinking the house would fall. The +students lay neere unto the hall wherein Doctor Faustus lay, and +they heard a mighty noyse and hissing, as if the hall had beene +full of snakes and adders. With that, the hall-doore flew open, +wherein Doctor Faustus was, that he began to cry for helpe, +saying, Murther, murther! but it came forth with halfe a voyce, +hollowly: shortly after, they heard him no more. But when it was +day, the students, that had taken no rest that night, arose and +went into the hall, in the which they left Doctor Faustus; where +notwithstanding they found not Faustus, but all the hall lay +sprinkled with blood, his braines cleaving to the wall, for the +devill had beaten him from one wall against another; in one corner +lay his eyes, in another his teeth; a pittifull and fearefull +sight to behold. Then began the students to waile and weepe for +him, and sought for his body in many places. Lastly, they came +into the yard, where they found his body lying on the horse-dung, +most monstrously torne and fearefull to behold, for his head and +all his joynts were dashed in peeces. The fore-named students and +masters that were at his death, have obtained so much, that they +buried him in the village where he was so grievously tormented. +After the which they returned to Wittenberg; and comming into the +house of Faustus, they found the servant of Faustus very sad, +unto whom they opened all the matter, who tooke it exceeding +heavily. There found they also this history of Doctor Faustus +noted and of him written, as is before declared, all save only +his end, the which was after by the students thereto annexed; +further, what his servant had noted thereof, was made in another +booke. And you have heard that he held by him in his life the +spirit of faire Helena, the which had by him one sonne, the which +he named Justus Faustus: even the same day of his death they +vanished away, both mother and sonne. The house before was so +darke that scarce any body could abide therein. The same night +Doctor Faustus appeared unto his servant lively, and shewed unto +him many secret things, the which he had done and hidden in his +lifetime. Likewise there were certaine which saw Doctor Faustus +looke out of the window by night, as they passed by the house." +Sig. K 3, ed. 1648.] + + + +Original Comments on the preparation of the E-Text: + +SQUARE BRACKETS: + +The square brackets, i.e. [ ] are copied from the printed book, +without change. 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Young</div> +<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS ***</div> + +<h1>THE TRAGICAL HISTORY<br/> +OF<br/> +DOCTOR FAUSTUS</h1> + +<h2>By Christopher Marlowe</h2> + +<h4>From The Quarto of 1604</h4> + +<h3> +Edited by The Rev. Alexander Dyce +</h3> + +<hr /> + +<table summary="" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto"> + +<tr> +<td> <a href="#2H_4_0002">DRAMATIS PERSONAE.</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> <a href="#2H_4_0003">THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> <a href="#2H_FOOT">FOOTNOTES</a></td> +</tr> + +</table> + +<hr /> + +<p class="letter"> +THE TRAGICALL HISTORY OF D. FAUSTUS. AS IT HATH BENE ACTED +BY THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARLE OF NOTTINGHAM HIS SERUANTS. +WRITTEN BY CH. MARL. +</p> + +<p class="letter"> +In reprinting this edition, I have here and there amended the text +by means of the later 4tos,β1616, 1624, 1631.βOf 4to 1663, which +contains various comparatively modern alterations and additions, +I have made no use. +</p> + +<h2><a name="2H_4_0002"></a> +DRAMATIS PERSONAE.</h2> + +<pre> + THE POPE. + CARDINAL OF LORRAIN. + THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. + DUKE OF VANHOLT. + FAUSTUS. + VALDES, ] friends to FAUSTUS. + CORNELIUS, ] + WAGNER, servant to FAUSTUS. + Clown. + ROBIN. + RALPH. + Vintner. + Horse-courser. + A Knight. + An Old Man. + Scholars, Friars, and Attendants. + + DUCHESS OF VANHOLT + + LUCIFER. + BELZEBUB. + MEPHISTOPHILIS. + Good Angel. + Evil Angel. + The Seven Deadly Sins. + Devils. + Spirits in the shapes of ALEXANDER THE GREAT, of his Paramour + and of HELEN. + + Chorus. +</pre> + +<h2><a name="2H_4_0003"></a> + THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS +</h2> +<pre> +FROM THE QUARTO OF 1604. + + + Enter CHORUS. + + CHORUS. Not marching now in fields of Thrasymene, + Where Mars did mate<a href="#note-1" name="noteref-1">1</a> the Carthaginians; + Nor sporting in the dalliance of love, + In courts of kings where state is overturnβd; + Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds, + Intends our Muse to vaunt<a href="#note-2" name="noteref-2">2</a> her<a href="#note-3" name="noteref-3">3</a> heavenly verse: + Only this, gentlemen,βwe must perform + The form of Faustusβ fortunes, good or bad: + To patient judgments we appeal our plaud, + And speak for Faustus in his infancy. + Now is he born, his parents base of stock, + In Germany, within a town callβd Rhodes: + Of riper years, to Wertenberg he went, + Whereas<a href="#note-4" name="noteref-4">4</a> his kinsmen chiefly brought him up. + So soon he profits in divinity, + The fruitful plot of scholarism gracβd, + That shortly he was gracβd with doctorβs name, + Excelling all whose sweet delight disputes + In heavenly matters of theology; + Till swoln with cunning,<a href="#note-5" name="noteref-5">5</a> of a self-conceit, + His waxen wings did mount above his reach, + And, melting, heavens conspirβd his overthrow; + For, falling to a devilish exercise, + And glutted now<a href="#note-6" name="noteref-6">6</a> with learningβs golden gifts, + He surfeits upon cursed necromancy; + Nothing so sweet as magic is to him, + Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss: + And this the man that in his study sits. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS discovered in his study.<a href="#note-7" name="noteref-7">7</a> + + FAUSTUS. Settle thy studies, Faustus, and begin + To sound the depth of that thou wilt profess: + Having commencβd, be a divine in shew, + Yet level at the end of every art, + And live and die in Aristotleβs works. + Sweet Analytics, βtis thou<a href="#note-8" name="noteref-8">8</a> hast ravishβd me! + Bene disserere est finis logices. + Is, to dispute well, logicβs chiefest end? + Affords this art no greater miracle? + Then read no more; thou hast attainβd that<a href="#note-9" name="noteref-9">9</a> end: + A greater subject fitteth Faustusβ wit: + Bid Economy<a href="#note-10" name="noteref-10">10</a> farewell, and<a href="#note-11" name="noteref-11">11</a> Galen come, + Seeing, Ubi desinit philosophus, ibi incipit medicus: + Be a physician, Faustus; heap up gold, + And be eternizβd for some wondrous cure: + Summum bonum medicinae sanitas, + The end of physic is our bodyβs health. + Why, Faustus, hast thou not attainβd that end? + Is not thy common talk found aphorisms? + Are not thy bills hung up as monuments, + Whereby whole cities have escapβd the plague, + And thousand desperate maladies been easβd? + Yet art thou still but Faustus, and a man. + Couldst<a href="#note-12" name="noteref-12">12</a> thou make men<a href="#note-13" name="noteref-13">13</a> to live eternally, + Or, being dead, raise them to life again, + Then this profession were to be esteemβd. + Physic, farewell! Where is Justinian? + + [Reads.] + Si una eademque res legatur<a href="#note-14" name="noteref-14">14</a> duobus, alter rem, + alter valorem rei, &c. + + A pretty case of paltry legacies! + + [Reads.] + Exhoereditare filium non potest pater, nisi, &c.<a href="#note-15" name="noteref-15">15</a> + + Such is the subject of the institute, + And universal body of the law:<a href="#note-16" name="noteref-16">16</a> + This<a href="#note-17" name="noteref-17">17</a> study fits a mercenary drudge, + Who aims at nothing but external trash; + Too servile<a href="#note-18" name="noteref-18">18</a> and illiberal for me. + When all is done, divinity is best: + Jeromeβs Bible, Faustus; view it well. + + [Reads.] + Stipendium peccati mors est. + Ha! + Stipendium, &c. + + The reward of sin is death: thatβs hard. + + [Reads.] + Si peccasse negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis veritas; + + If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and + thereβs 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,<a href="#note-19" name="noteref-19">19</a> + What will be, shall be? Divinity, adieu! + These metaphysics of magicians, + And necromantic books are heavenly; + Lines, circles, scenes,<a href="#note-20" name="noteref-20">20</a> letters, and characters; + Ay, these are those that Faustus most desires. + O, what a world of profit and delight, + Of power, of honour, of omnipotence, + Is promisβd to the studious artizan! + All 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, + Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man; + A sound magician is a mighty god: + Here, Faustus, tire<a href="#note-21" name="noteref-21">21</a> thy brains to gain a deity. + + Enter WAGNER.<a href="#note-22" name="noteref-22">22</a> + + Wagner, commend me to my dearest friends, + The German Valdes and Cornelius; + Request them earnestly to visit me. + + WAGNER. I will, sir. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. Their conference will be a greater help to me + Than all my labours, plod I neβer so fast. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + + GOOD ANGEL. O, Faustus, lay that damned book aside, + And gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soul, + And heap Godβs heavy wrath upon thy head! + Read, read the Scriptures:βthat is blasphemy. + + EVIL ANGEL. Go forward, Faustus, in that famous art + Wherein all Natureβs treasure<a href="#note-23" name="noteref-23">23</a> is containβd: + Be thou on earth as Jove<a href="#note-24" name="noteref-24">24</a> is in the sky, + Lord and commander of these elements.<a href="#note-25" name="noteref-25">25</a> + [Exeunt Angels.] + + FAUSTUS. How am I glutted with conceit of this! + Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, + Resolve<a href="#note-26" name="noteref-26">26</a> me of all ambiguities, + Perform what desperate enterprise I will? + Iβll have them fly 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; + Iβll have them read me strange philosophy, + And tell the secrets of all foreign kings; + Iβll have them wall all Germany with brass, + And make swift Rhine circle fair Wertenberg; + Iβll have them fill the public schools with silk,<a href="#note-27" name="noteref-27">27</a> + Wherewith the students shall be bravely clad; + Iβll levy soldiers with the coin they bring, + And chase the Prince of Parma from our land, + And reign sole king of all the<a href="#note-28" name="noteref-28">28</a> provinces; + Yea, stranger engines for the brunt of war, + Than was the fiery keel at Antwerpβs bridge,<a href="#note-29" name="noteref-29">29</a> + Iβll make my servile spirits to invent. + + 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: + Yet not your words only,<a href="#note-30" name="noteref-30">30</a> 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; + Divinity is basest of the three, + Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile:<a href="#note-31" name="noteref-31">31</a> + βTis magic, magic, that hath ravishβd me. + Then, gentle friends, aid me in this attempt; + And I, that have with concise syllogisms<a href="#note-32" name="noteref-32">32</a> + Gravellβd the pastors of the German church, + And made the flowering pride of Wertenberg + Swarm to my problems, as the infernal spirits + On sweet Musaeus when he came to hell, + Will be as cunning<a href="#note-33" name="noteref-33">33</a> as Agrippa<a href="#note-34" name="noteref-34">34</a> was, + Whose shadow<a href="#note-35" name="noteref-35">35</a> made all Europe honour him. + + VALDES. Faustus, these books, thy wit, and our experience, + Shall make all nations to canonize us. + As Indian Moors obey their Spanish lords, + So shall the spirits<a href="#note-36" name="noteref-36">36</a> of every element + Be always serviceable to us three; + Like lions shall they guard us when we please; + Like Almain rutters<a href="#note-37" name="noteref-37">37</a> with their horsemenβs staves, + Or Lapland giants, trotting by our sides; + Sometimes like women, or unwedded maids, + Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows + Than have the<a href="#note-38" name="noteref-38">38</a> white breasts of the queen of love: + From<a href="#note-39" name="noteref-39">39</a> Venice shall they drag huge argosies, + And from America the golden fleece + That yearly stuffs old Philipβs treasury; + If learned Faustus will be resolute. + + FAUSTUS. Valdes, as resolute am I in this + As thou to live: therefore object it not. + + CORNELIUS. The miracles that magic will perform + Will make thee vow to study nothing else. + He that is grounded in astrology, + Enrichβd with tongues, well seen in<a href="#note-40" name="noteref-40">40</a> minerals, + Hath all the principles magic doth require: + Then doubt not, Faustus, but to be renowmβd,<a href="#note-41" name="noteref-41">41</a> + And more frequented for this mystery + Than heretofore the Delphian oracle. + The spirits tell me they can dry the sea, + And fetch the treasure of all foreign wrecks, + Ay, all the wealth that our forefathers hid + Within the massy entrails of the earth: + Then tell me, Faustus, what shall we three want? + + FAUSTUS. Nothing, Cornelius. O, this cheers my soul! + Come, shew me some demonstrations magical, + That I may conjure in some lusty grove, + And have these joys in full possession. + + VALDES. Then haste thee to some solitary grove, + And bear wise Baconβs and Albertusβ<a href="#note-42" name="noteref-42">42</a> works, + The Hebrew Psalter, and New Testament; + And whatsoever else is requisite + We will inform thee ere our conference cease. + + CORNELIUS. Valdes, first let him know the words of art; + And then, all other ceremonies learnβd, + Faustus may try his cunning<a href="#note-43" name="noteref-43">43</a> by himself. + + VALDES. First Iβll instruct thee in the rudiments, + And then wilt thou be perfecter than I. + + FAUSTUS. Then come and dine with me, and, after meat, + Weβll canvass every quiddity thereof; + For, ere I sleep, Iβll try what I can do: + This night Iβll conjure, though I die therefore. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter two SCHOLARS.<a href="#note-44" name="noteref-44">44</a> + + FIRST SCHOLAR. I wonder whatβs become of Faustus, that was wont + to make our schools ring with sic probo. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. That shall we know, for see, here comes his boy. + + Enter WAGNER. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. How now, sirrah! whereβs thy master? + + WAGNER. God in heaven knows. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Why, dost not thou know? + + WAGNER. Yes, I know; but that follows not. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Go to, sirrah! leave your jesting, and tell us + where he is. + + WAGNER. That follows not necessary by force of argument, that you, + being licentiates, should stand upon:<a href="#note-45" name="noteref-45">45</a> therefore acknowledge + your error, and be attentive. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Why, didst thou not say thou knewest? + + WAGNER. Have you any witness onβt? + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Yes, sirrah, I heard you. + + WAGNER. Ask my fellow if I be a thief. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Well, you will not tell us? + + WAGNER. Yes, sir, I will tell you: yet, if you were not dunces, + you would never ask me such a question; for is not he corpus + naturale? and is not that mobile? then 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 to see you both hanged + the next sessions. Thus having triumphed over you, I will set + my countenance like a precisian, and begin to speak thus:β + Truly, my dear brethren, my master is within at dinner, + with Valdes and Cornelius, as this wine, if it could speak, + would<a href="#note-46" name="noteref-46">46</a> inform your worships: and so, the Lord bless you, + preserve you, and keep you, my dear brethren, my dear brethren!<a href="#note-47" name="noteref-47">47</a> + [Exit.] + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Nay, then, I fear he is fallen into that damned art + for which they two are infamous through the world. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. 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. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. O, but I fear me nothing can reclaim him! + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Yet let us try what we can do. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter FAUSTUS to conjure.<a href="#note-48" name="noteref-48">48</a> + + FAUSTUS. Now that the gloomy shadow of the earth, + Longing to view Orionβs drizzling look, + Leaps from thβ antartic 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 prayβd and sacrificβd to them. + Within this circle is Jehovahβs name, + Forward and backward anagrammatizβd,<a href="#note-49" name="noteref-49">49</a> + Thβ abbreviated<a href="#note-50" name="noteref-50">50</a> names of holy saints, + Figures of every adjunct to the heavens, + And characters of signs and erring<a href="#note-51" name="noteref-51">51</a> stars, + By which the spirits are enforcβd to rise: + Then fear not, Faustus, but be resolute, + And try the uttermost magic can perform.β + Sint mihi dei Acherontis propitii! Valeat numen triplex Jehovoe! + Ignei, aerii, aquatani spiritus, salvete! Orientis princeps + Belzebub, inferni ardentis monarcha, et Demogorgon, propitiamus + vos, ut appareat et surgat Mephistophilis, quod tumeraris:<a href="#note-52" name="noteref-52">52</a> + per Jehovam, Gehennam, et consecratam aquam quam nunc spargo, + signumque crucis quod nunc facio, et per vota nostra, ipse nunc + surgat nobis dicatus<a href="#note-53" name="noteref-53">53</a> Mephistophilis! + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + 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 MEPHISTOPHILIS.] + + I see thereβs 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: + No, Faustus, thou art conjuror laureat, + That canst command great Mephistophilis: + Quin regis Mephistophilis fratris imagine. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS like a Franciscan friar.<a href="#note-54" name="noteref-54">54</a> + + MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, what wouldst thou have me do? + + FAUSTUS. I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live, + To do whatever Faustus shall command, + Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere, + Or the ocean to overwhelm the world. + + MEPHIST. 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? + + MEPHIST. No, I came hither<a href="#note-55" name="noteref-55">55</a> of mine own accord. + + FAUSTUS. Did not my conjuring speeches raise thee? speak. + + MEPHIST. That was the cause, but yet per accidens;<a href="#note-56" name="noteref-56">56</a> + For, when we hear one rack the name of God, + Abjure the Scriptures and his Saviour Christ, + We fly, in hope to get his glorious soul; + Nor will we come, unless he use such means + Whereby he is in danger to be damnβd. + Therefore the shortest cut for conjuring + Is stoutly to abjure the Trinity, + And pray devoutly to the prince of hell. + + FAUSTUS. So Faustus hath + Already done; and holds this principle, + There is no chief but only Belzebub; + To whom Faustus doth dedicate himself. + This word βdamnationβ terrifies not him, + For he confounds hell in Elysium: + His ghost be with the old philosophers! + But, leaving these vain trifles of menβs souls, + Tell me what is that Lucifer thy lord? + + MEPHIST. Arch-regent and commander of all spirits. + + FAUSTUS. Was not that Lucifer an angel once? + + MEPHIST. Yes, Faustus, and most dearly lovβd of God. + + FAUSTUS. How comes it, then, that he is prince of devils? + + MEPHIST. O, by aspiring pride and insolence; + For which God threw him from the face of heaven. + + FAUSTUS. And what are you that live with Lucifer? + + MEPHIST. Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, + Conspirβd against our God with Lucifer, + And are for ever damnβd with Lucifer. + + FAUSTUS. Where are you damnβd? + + MEPHIST. In hell. + + FAUSTUS. How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell? + + MEPHIST. Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it:<a href="#note-57" name="noteref-57">57</a> + Thinkβst 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 deprivβd 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? + Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude, + And scorn those joys thou never shalt possess. + Go bear these<a href="#note-58" name="noteref-58">58</a> tidings to great Lucifer: + Seeing Faustus hath incurrβd eternal death + By desperate thoughts against Joveβs<a href="#note-59" name="noteref-59">59</a> deity, + Say, he surrenders up to him his soul, + So he will spare him four and twenty<a href="#note-60" name="noteref-60">60</a> 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, + To slay mine enemies, and 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<a href="#note-61" name="noteref-61">61</a> me of thy masterβs mind. + + MEPHIST. I will, Faustus. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. Had I as many souls as there be stars, + Iβd give them all for Mephistophilis. + By him Iβll be great emperor of the world, + And make a bridge thorough<a href="#note-62" name="noteref-62">62</a> the moving air, + To pass the ocean with a band of men; + Iβll join the hills that bind the Afric shore, + And make that country<a href="#note-63" name="noteref-63">63</a> continent to Spain, + And both contributory to my crown: + The Emperor shall not live but by my leave, + Nor any potentate of Germany. + Now that I have obtainβd what I desirβd,<a href="#note-64" name="noteref-64">64</a> + Iβll live in speculation of this art, + Till Mephistophilis return again. + [Exit.] + + Enter WAGNER<a href="#note-65" name="noteref-65">65</a> and CLOWN. + + WAGNER. Sirrah boy, come hither. + + CLOWN. How, boy! swowns, boy! I hope you have seen many boys + with such pickadevaunts<a href="#note-66" name="noteref-66">66</a> as I have: boy, quotha! + + WAGNER. Tell me, sirrah, hast thou any comings in? + + CLOWN. Ay, and goings out too; you may see else. + + WAGNER. Alas, poor slave! see how poverty jesteth in his nakedness! + the villain is bare and 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. + + CLOWN. How! my soul to the devil for a shoulder of mutton, though + βtwere blood-raw! not so, good friend: byβr lady,<a href="#note-67" name="noteref-67">67</a> I had need + have it well roasted, and good sauce to it, if I pay so dear. + + WAGNER. Well, wilt thou serve me, and Iβll make thee go like + Qui mihi discipulus?<a href="#note-68" name="noteref-68">68</a> + + CLOWN. How, in verse? + + WAGNER. No, sirrah; in beaten silk and staves-acre.<a href="#note-69" name="noteref-69">69</a> + + CLOWN. How, how, knaves-acre! ay, I thought that was all the land + his father left him. Do you hear? I would be sorry to rob you of + your living. + + WAGNER. Sirrah, I say in staves-acre. + + CLOWN. Oho, oho, staves-acre! why, then, belike, if I were your + man, I should be full of vermin.<a href="#note-70" name="noteref-70">70</a> + + WAGNER. So thou shalt, whether thou beest with me or no. But, + sirrah, leave your jesting, and bind yourself presently unto me + for seven years, or Iβll turn all the lice about thee into + familiars,<a href="#note-71" name="noteref-71">71</a> and they shall tear thee in pieces. + + CLOWN. 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 their<a href="#note-72" name="noteref-72">72</a> meat and drink. + + WAGNER. Well, do you hear, sirrah? hold, take these guilders. + [Gives money.] + + CLOWN. Gridirons! what be they? + + WAGNER. Why, French crowns. + + CLOWN. 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? + + WAGNER. Why, now, sirrah, thou art at an hourβs warning, whensoever + or wheresoever the devil shall fetch thee. + + CLOWN. No, no; here, take your gridirons again. + + WAGNER. Truly, Iβll none of them. + + CLOWN. Truly, but you shall. + + WAGNER. Bear witness I gave them him. + + CLOWN. Bear witness I give them you again. + + WAGNER. Well, I will cause two devils presently to fetch thee + away.βBaliol and Belcher! + + CLOWN. Let your Baliol and your Belcher come here, and Iβll + knock them, they were never so knocked since they were devils: + say I should kill one of them, what would folks say? βDo ye see + yonder tall fellow in the round slop?<a href="#note-73" name="noteref-73">73</a> he has killed the devil.β + So I should be called Kill-devil all the parish over. + + Enter two DEVILS; and the CLOWN runs up and down crying. + + WAGNER. Baliol and Belcher,βspirits, away! + [Exeunt DEVILS.] + + CLOWN. What, are they gone? a vengeance on them! they have vile<a href="#note-74" name="noteref-74">74</a> + long nails. There was a he-devil and a she-devil: Iβll tell you + how you shall know them; all he-devils has horns, and all + she-devils has clifts and cloven feet. + + WAGNER. Well, sirrah, follow me. + + CLOWN. But, do you hear? if I should serve you, would you teach + me to raise up Banios and Belcheos? + + WAGNER. I will teach thee to turn thyself to any thing, to a dog, + or a cat, or a mouse, or a rat, or any thing. + + CLOWN. 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, Iβll tickle the pretty wenchesβ + plackets! Iβll be amongst them, iβfaith. + + WAGNER. Well, sirrah, come. + + CLOWN. But, do you hear, Wagner? + + WAGNER. How!βBaliol and Belcher! + + CLOWN. O Lord! I pray, sir, let Banio and Belcher go sleep. + + WAGNER. Villain, call me Master Wagner, and let thy left eye be + diametarily fixed upon my right heel, with quasi vestigiis + nostris<a href="#note-75" name="noteref-75">75</a> insistere. + [Exit.] + + CLOWN. God forgive me, he speaks Dutch fustian. Well, Iβll follow + him; Iβll serve him, thatβs flat. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS discovered in his study. + + FAUSTUS. Now, Faustus, must + Thou needs be damnβd, and canst thou not be savβd: + What boots it, then, to think of God or heaven? + Away with such vain fancies, and despair; + Despair in God, and trust in Belzebub: + Now go not backward; no, Faustus, be resolute: + Why waverβst thou? O, something soundeth in mine ears, + βAbjure this magic, turn to God again!β + Ay, and Faustus will turn to God again. + To God? he loves thee not; + The god thou servβst is thine own appetite, + Wherein is fixβd the love of Belzebub: + To him Iβll build an altar and a church, + And offer lukewarm blood of new-born babes. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + + GOOD ANGEL. Sweet Faustus, leave that execrable art. + + FAUSTUS. Contrition, prayer, repentanceβwhat of them? + + GOOD ANGEL. O, they are means to bring thee unto heaven! + + EVIL ANGEL. Rather illusions, fruits of lunacy, + That make men foolish that do trust them most. + + GOOD ANGEL. Sweet Faustus, think of heaven and heavenly things. + + EVIL ANGEL. No, Faustus; think of honour and of<a href="#note-76" name="noteref-76">76</a> wealth. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + + FAUSTUS. Of wealth! + Why, the signiory of Embden shall be mine. + When Mephistophilis shall stand by me, + What god can hurt thee, Faustus? thou art safe + Cast no more doubts.βCome, Mephistophilis, + And bring glad tidings from great Lucifer;β + Isβt not midnight?βcome, Mephistophilis, + Veni, veni, Mephistophile! + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + Now tell me<a href="#note-77" name="noteref-77">77</a> what says Lucifer, thy lord? + + MEPHIST. That I shall wait on Faustus whilst he lives,<a href="#note-78" name="noteref-78">78</a> + So he will buy my service with his soul. + + FAUSTUS. Already Faustus hath hazarded that for thee. + + MEPHIST. But, Faustus, thou must bequeath it solemnly, + And write a deed of gift with thine own blood; + For that security craves great Lucifer. + If thou deny it, I will back to hell. + + FAUSTUS. Stay, Mephistophilis, and tell me, what good will my soul + do thy lord? + + MEPHIST. Enlarge his kingdom. + + FAUSTUS. Is that the reason why<a href="#note-79" name="noteref-79">79</a> he tempts us thus? + + MEPHIST. Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.<a href="#note-80" name="noteref-80">80</a> + + FAUSTUS. Why,<a href="#note-81" name="noteref-81">81</a> have you any pain that torture<a href="#note-82" name="noteref-82">82</a> others! + + MEPHIST. As great as have the human souls of men. + But, tell me, Faustus, shall I have thy soul? + And I will be thy slave, and wait on thee, + And give thee more than thou hast wit to ask. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, Mephistophilis, I give it thee. + + MEPHIST. Then, Faustus,<a href="#note-83" name="noteref-83">83</a> stab thine arm courageously, + And bind thy soul, that at some certain day + Great Lucifer may claim it as his own; + And then be thou as great as Lucifer. + + FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, + I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood + Assure my soul to be great Luciferβs, + Chief lord and regent of perpetual night! + View here the blood that trickles from mine arm, + And let it be propitious for my wish. + + MEPHIST. But, Faustus, thou must + Write it in manner of a deed of gift. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, so I will [Writes]. But, Mephistophilis, + My blood congeals, and I can write no more. + + MEPHIST. Iβll fetch thee fire to dissolve it straight. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. What might the staying of my blood portend? + Is it unwilling I should write this bill?<a href="#note-84" name="noteref-84">84</a> + Why streams it not, that I may write afresh? + FAUSTUS GIVES TO THEE HIS SOUL: ah, there it stayβd! + Why shouldst thou not? is not thy soul shine own? + Then write again, FAUSTUS GIVES TO THEE HIS SOUL. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with a chafer of coals. + + MEPHIST. Hereβs fire; come, Faustus, set it on.<a href="#note-85" name="noteref-85">85</a> + + FAUSTUS. So, now the blood begins to clear again; + Now will I make an end immediately. + [Writes.] + + MEPHIST. O, what will not I do to obtain his soul? + [Aside.] + + FAUSTUS. Consummatum est; this bill is ended, + And Faustus hath bequeathβd his soul to Lucifer. + But what is this inscription<a href="#note-86" name="noteref-86">86</a> on mine arm? + Homo, fuge: whither should I fly? + If unto God, heβll throw me<a href="#note-87" name="noteref-87">87</a> down to hell. + My senses are deceivβd; hereβs nothing writ:β + I see it plain; here in this place is writ, + Homo, fuge: yet shall not Faustus fly. + + MEPHIST. Iβll fetch him somewhat to delight his mind. + [Aside, and then exit.] + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with DEVILS, who give crowns + and rich apparel to FAUSTUS, dance, and then depart. + + FAUSTUS. Speak, Mephistophilis, what means this show? + + MEPHIST. Nothing, Faustus, but to delight thy mind withal, + And to shew thee what magic can perform. + + FAUSTUS. But may I raise up spirits when I please? + + MEPHIST. Ay, Faustus, and do greater things than these. + + FAUSTUS. Then thereβs enough for a thousand souls. + Here, Mephistophilis, receive this scroll, + A deed of gift of body and of soul: + But yet conditionally that thou perform + All articles prescribβd between us both. + + MEPHIST. Faustus, I swear by hell and Lucifer + To effect all promises between us made! + + FAUSTUS. Then hear me read them. [Reads] ON THESE CONDITIONS + FOLLOWING. 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 HE DESIRES.<a href="#note-88" name="noteref-88">88</a> FOURTHLY, THAT HE SHALL + BE IN HIS CHAMBER OR HOUSE INVISIBLE. LASTLY, THAT HE SHALL APPEAR + TO THE SAID JOHN FAUSTUS, AT ALL TIMES, IN WHAT FORM OR SHAPE + SOEVER HE PLEASE. I, 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,<a href="#note-89" name="noteref-89">89</a> TWENTY-FOUR YEARS BEING EXPIRED, THE ARTICLES + ABOVE-WRITTEN INVIOLATE, FULL POWER TO FETCH OR CARRY THE SAID + JOHN FAUSTUS, BODY AND SOUL, FLESH, BLOOD, OR GOODS, INTO THEIR + HABITATION WHERESOEVER. BY ME, JOHN FAUSTUS. + + MEPHIST. Speak, Faustus, do you deliver this as your deed? + + FAUSTUS. Ay, take it, and the devil give thee good onβt! + + MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, ask what thou wilt. + + FAUSTUS. First will I question with thee about hell. + Tell me, where is the place that men call hell? + + MEPHIST. Under the heavens. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, but whereabout? + + MEPHIST. Within the bowels of these<a href="#note-90" name="noteref-90">90</a> elements, + Where we are torturβd and remain for ever: + Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribβd + In one self place; for where we are is hell, + And where hell is, there<a href="#note-91" name="noteref-91">91</a> must we ever be: + And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, + And every creature shall be purified, + All places shall be hell that are<a href="#note-92" name="noteref-92">92</a> not heaven. + + FAUSTUS. Come, I think hellβs a fable. + + MEPHIST. Ay, think so still, till experience change thy mind. + + FAUSTUS. Why, thinkβst thou, then, that Faustus shall be damnβd? + + MEPHIST. Ay, of necessity, for hereβs the scroll + Wherein thou hast given thy soul to Lucifer. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, and body too: but what of that? + Thinkβst thou that Faustus is so fond<a href="#note-93" name="noteref-93">93</a> to imagine + That, after this life, there is any pain? + Tush, these are trifles and mere old wivesβ tales. + + MEPHIST. But, Faustus, I am an instance to prove the contrary, + For I am damnβd, and am now in hell. + + FAUSTUS. How! now in hell! + Nay, an this be hell, Iβll willingly be damnβd here: + What! walking, disputing, &c.<a href="#note-94" name="noteref-94">94</a> + But, leaving off this, let me have a wife,<a href="#note-95" name="noteref-95">95</a> + The fairest maid in Germany; + For I am wanton and lascivious, + And cannot live without a wife. + + MEPHIST. How! a wife! + I prithee, Faustus, talk not of a wife. + + FAUSTUS. Nay, sweet Mephistophilis, fetch me one, for I will have + one. + + MEPHIST. Well, thou wilt have one? Sit there till I come: Iβll + fetch thee a wife in the devilβs name. + [Exit.] + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with a DEVIL drest like a WOMAN, + with fire-works. + + MEPHIST. Tell me,<a href="#note-96" name="noteref-96">96</a> Faustus, how dost thou like thy wife? + + FAUSTUS. A plague on her for a hot whore! + + MEPHIST. Tut, Faustus, + Marriage is but a ceremonial toy; + If thou lovest me, think no<a href="#note-97" name="noteref-97">97</a> more of it. + Iβll cull thee out the fairest courtezans, + 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, + As wise as Saba,<a href="#note-98" name="noteref-98">98</a> or as beautiful + As was bright Lucifer before his fall. + Hold, take this book, peruse it thoroughly: + [Gives book.] + + The iterating<a href="#note-99" name="noteref-99">99</a> of these lines brings gold; + The framing of this circle on the ground + Brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder, and lightning; + Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thyself, + And men in armour shall appear to thee, + Ready to execute what thou desirβst. + + FAUSTUS. 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. + + MEPHIST. Here they are in this book. + [Turns to them.] + + FAUSTUS. 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. + + MEPHIST. Here they are too. + [Turns to them.] + + FAUSTUS. Nay, let me have one book more,βand then I have done,β + wherein I might see all plants, herbs, and trees, that grow upon + the earth. + + MEPHIST. Here they be. + + FAUSTUS. O, thou art deceived. + + MEPHIST. Tut, I warrant thee. + [Turns to them.] + + FAUSTUS. When I behold the heavens, then I repent, + And curse thee, wicked Mephistophilis, + Because thou hast deprivβd me of those joys. + + MEPHIST. Why, Faustus, + Thinkest thou heaven is such a glorious thing? + I tell thee, βtis not half so fair as thou, + Or any man that breathes on earth. + + FAUSTUS. How provβst thou that? + + MEPHIST. βTwas made for man, therefore is man more excellent. + + FAUSTUS. If it were made for man, βtwas made for me: + I will renounce this magic and repent. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + + GOOD ANGEL. Faustus, repent; yet God will pity thee. + + EVIL ANGEL. Thou 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; + Ay, God will pity me, if I repent. + + EVIL ANGEL. Ay, but Faustus never shall repent. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + + FAUSTUS. My heartβs so hardenβd, I cannot repent: + Scarce can I name salvation, faith, or heaven, + But fearful echoes thunder in mine ears, + βFaustus, thou art damnβd!β then swords, and knives, + Poison, guns, halters, and envenomβd steel + Are laid before me to despatch myself; + And long ere this I should have slain myself, + Had not sweet pleasure conquerβd deep despair. + Have not I made blind Homer sing to me + Of Alexanderβs love and Oenonβs death? + And hath not he, that built the walls of Thebes + With ravishing sound of his melodious harp, + Made music with my Mephistophilis? + Why should I die, then, or basely despair? + I am resolvβd; Faustus shall neβer repent.β + Come, Mephistophilis, let us dispute again, + And argue of divine astrology.<a href="#note-100" name="noteref-100">100</a> + Tell me, are there many heavens above the moon + Are all celestial bodies but one globe, + As is the substance of this centric earth? + + MEPHIST. As are the elements, such are the spheres, + Mutually folded in each otherβs orb, + And, Faustus, + All jointly move upon one axletree, + Whose terminine is termβd the worldβs wide pole; + Nor are the names of Saturn, Mars, or Jupiter + Feignβd, but are erring<a href="#note-101" name="noteref-101">101</a> stars. + + FAUSTUS. But, tell me, have they all one motion, both situ et + tempore? + + MEPHIST. All jointly move from east to west in twenty-four hours + upon the poles of the world; but differ in their motion upon + the poles of the zodiac. + + FAUSTUS. Tush, + These slender trifles Wagner can decide: + Hath Mephistophilis no greater skill? + Who knows not the double motion of the planets? + The first is finishβd 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 freshmenβs<a href="#note-102" name="noteref-102">102</a> suppositions. + But, tell me, hath every sphere a dominion or intelligentia? + + MEPHIST. Ay. + + FAUSTUS. How many heavens or spheres are there? + + MEPHIST. Nine; the seven planets, the firmament, and the empyreal + heaven. + + FAUSTUS. Well, resolve<a href="#note-103" name="noteref-103">103</a> 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? + + MEPHIST. Per inoequalem motum respectu totius. + + FAUSTUS. Well, I am answered. Tell me who made the world? + + MEPHIST. I will not. + + FAUSTUS. Sweet Mephistophilis, tell me. + + MEPHIST. Move me not, for I will not tell thee. + + FAUSTUS. Villain, have I not bound thee to tell me any thing? + + MEPHIST. Ay, that is not against our kingdom; but this is. Think + thou on hell, Faustus, for thou art damned. + + FAUSTUS. Think, Faustus, upon God that made the world. + + MEPHIST. Remember this. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. Ay, go, accursed spirit, to ugly hell! + βTis thou hast damnβd distressed Faustusβ soul. + Isβt not too late? + + Re-enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + + EVIL ANGEL. Too late. + + GOOD ANGEL. Never too late, if Faustus can repent. + + EVIL ANGEL. If thou repent, devils shall tear thee in pieces. + + GOOD ANGEL. Repent, and they shall never raze thy skin. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + + FAUSTUS. Ah, Christ, my Saviour, + Seek to save<a href="#note-104" name="noteref-104">104</a> distressed Faustusβ soul! + + Enter LUCIFER, BELZEBUB, and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + LUCIFER. Christ cannot save thy soul, for he is just: + Thereβs none but I have interest in the same. + + FAUSTUS. O, who art thou that lookβst so terrible? + + LUCIFER. I am Lucifer, + And this is my companion-prince in hell. + + FAUSTUS. O, Faustus, they are come to fetch away thy soul! + + LUCIFER. We come to tell thee thou dost injure us; + Thou talkβst of Christ, contrary to thy promise: + Thou shouldst not think of God: think of the devil, + And of his dam too. + + FAUSTUS. Nor 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. + + LUCIFER. Do so, and we will highly gratify thee. Faustus, we are + come from hell to shew thee some pastime: sit down, and thou + shalt see all the Seven Deadly Sins appear in their proper shapes. + + FAUSTUS. That sight will be as pleasing unto me, + As Paradise was to Adam, the first day + Of his creation. + + LUCIFER. Talk not of Paradise nor creation; but mark this show: + talk of the devil, and nothing else.βCome away! + + Enter the SEVEN DEADLY SINS.<a href="#note-105" name="noteref-105">105</a> + + Now, Faustus, examine them of their several names and dispositions. + + FAUSTUS. What art thou, the first? + + PRIDE. I am Pride. I disdain to have any parents. I am like to + Ovidβs flea; I can creep into every corner of a wench; sometimes, + like a perriwig, I sit upon her brow; or, like a fan of feathers, + I kiss her lips; indeed, I doβwhat do I not? But, fie, what a + scent is here! Iβll not speak another word, except the ground + were perfumed, and covered with cloth of arras. + + FAUSTUS. What art thou, the second? + + COVETOUSNESS. I am Covetousness, begotten of an old churl, in an + old leathern 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! + + FAUSTUS. What art thou, the third? + + WRATH. I am Wrath. I had neither father nor mother: I leapt out + of a lionβs mouth when I was scarce half-an-hour old; and ever + since I have run up and down the world with this case<a href="#note-106" name="noteref-106">106</a> + of rapiers, wounding myself when I had nobody to fight withal. + I was born in hell; and look to it, for some of you shall be + my father. + + FAUSTUS. What art thou, the fourth? + + ENVY. 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 + shouldst see how fat I would be. But must thou sit, and I stand? + come down, with a vengeance! + + FAUSTUS. Away, envious rascal!βWhat art thou, the fifth? + + GLUTTONY. 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 href="#note-107" name="noteref-107">107</a>βa small trifle + to suffice nature. O, I come of a royal parentage! my grandfather + was a Gammon of Bacon, my grandmother a Hogshead of Claret-wine; + my godfathers were these, Peter Pickle-herring and Martin + Martlemas-beef; O, but my godmother, she was a jolly gentlewoman, + and well-beloved 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? + + FAUSTUS. No, Iβll see thee hanged: thou wilt eat up all my victuals. + + GLUTTONY. Then the devil choke thee! + + FAUSTUS. Choke thyself, glutton!βWhat art thou, the sixth? + + SLOTH. 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. Iβll not speak another word for a kingβs ransom. + + FAUSTUS. 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 stock-fish; and the first letter + of my name begins with L.<a href="#note-108" name="noteref-108">108</a> + + FAUSTUS. Away, to hell, to hell!<a href="#note-109" name="noteref-109">109</a> + [Exeunt the SINS.] + + LUCIFER. Now, Faustus, how dost thou like this? + + FAUSTUS. O, this feeds my soul! + + 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. Thou shalt; I will send for thee at midnight.<a href="#note-110" name="noteref-110">110</a> + In meantime take this book; peruse it throughly, + And thou shalt turn thyself into what shape thou wilt. + + FAUSTUS. Great thanks, mighty Lucifer! + This will I keep as chary as my life. + + LUCIFER. Farewell, Faustus, and think on the devil. + + FAUSTUS. Farewell, great Lucifer. + [Exeunt LUCIFER and BELZEBUB.] + + Come, Mephistophilis. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter CHORUS.<a href="#note-111" name="noteref-111">111</a> + + CHORUS. Learned Faustus, + To know the secrets of astronomy<a href="#note-112" name="noteref-112">112</a> + Graven in the book of Joveβs high firmament, + Did mount himself to scale Olympusβ top, + Being seated in a chariot burning bright, + Drawn by the strength of yoky dragonsβ necks. + He now is gone to prove cosmography, + And, as I guess, will first arrive at Rome, + To see the Pope and manner of his court, + And take some part of holy Peterβs feast, + That to this day is highly solemnizβd. + [Exit.] + + Enter FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS.<a href="#note-113" name="noteref-113">113</a> + + FAUSTUS. Having now, my good Mephistophilis, + Passβd with delight the stately town of Trier,<a href="#note-114" name="noteref-114">114</a> + Environβd round with airy mountain-tops, + With walls of flint, and deep-entrenched lakes, + Not to be won by any conquering prince; + From Paris next,<a href="#note-115" name="noteref-115">115</a> coasting the realm of France, + We saw the river Maine fall into Rhine, + Whose banks are set with groves of fruitful vines; + Then up to Naples, rich Campania, + Whose buildings fair and gorgeous to the eye, + The streets straight forth, and pavβd with finest brick, + Quarter the town in four equivalents: + There saw we learned Maroβs golden tomb, + The way he cut,<a href="#note-116" name="noteref-116">116</a> an English mile in length, + Thorough a rock of stone, in one nightβs space; + From thence to Venice, Padua, and the rest, + In one of which a sumptuous temple stands,<a href="#note-117" name="noteref-117">117</a> + That threats the stars with her aspiring top. + Thus hitherto hath Faustus spent his time: + But tell me now what resting-place is this? + Hast thou, as erst I did command, + Conducted me within the walls of Rome? + + MEPHIST. Faustus, I have; and, because we will not be unprovided, + I have taken up his Holinessβ privy-chamber for our use. + + FAUSTUS. I hope his Holiness will bid us welcome. + + MEPHIST. + Tut, βtis no matter; man; weβll be bold with his good cheer. + And now, my Faustus, that thou mayst perceive + What Rome containeth to delight thee with, + Know that this city stands upon seven hills + That underprop the groundwork of the same: + Just through the midst<a href="#note-118" name="noteref-118">118</a> runs flowing Tiberβs stream + With winding banks that cut it in two parts; + Over the which four stately bridges lean, + That make safe passage to each part of Rome: + Upon the bridge callβd Ponte<a href="#note-119" name="noteref-119">119</a> Angelo + Erected is a castle passing strong, + Within whose walls such store of ordnance are, + And double cannons framβd of carved brass, + As match the days within one complete year; + Besides the gates, and high pyramides, + Which Julius Caesar brought from Africa. + + FAUSTUS. Now, by the kingdoms of infernal rule, + Of Styx, of<a href="#note-120" name="noteref-120">120</a> Acheron, and the fiery lake + Of ever-burning Phlegethon, I swear + That I do long to see the monuments + And situation of bright-splendent Rome: + Come, therefore, letβs away. + + MEPHIST. Nay, Faustus, stay: I know youβd fain see the Pope, + And take some part of holy Peterβs feast, + Where thou shalt see a troop of bald-pate friars, + Whose summum bonum is in belly-cheer. + + FAUSTUS. Well, Iβm content to compass then some sport, + And by their folly make us merriment. + Then charm me, that I<a href="#note-121" name="noteref-121">121</a> + May be invisible, to do what I please, + Unseen of any whilst I stay in Rome. + [Mephistophilis charms him.] + + MEPHIST. So, Faustus; now + Do what thou wilt, thou shalt not be discernβd. + + Sound a Sonnet.<a href="#note-122" name="noteref-122">122</a> Enter the POPE and the CARDINAL OF + LORRAIN to the banquet, with FRIARS attending. + + POPE. My Lord of Lorrain, willβt please you draw near? + + FAUSTUS. Fall to, and the devil choke you, an you spare! + + POPE. How now! whoβs that which spake?βFriars, look about. + + FIRST FRIAR. Hereβs 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 the dish.] + + POPE. How now! whoβs that which snatched the meat from me? will + no man look?βMy lord, this dish was sent me from the Cardinal + of Florence. + + FAUSTUS. You say true; Iβll haβt. + [Snatches the dish.] + + POPE. What, again!βMy lord, Iβll drink to your grace. + + FAUSTUS. Iβll pledge your grace. + [Snatches the cup.] + + C. OF LOR. 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.βFriars, prepare a dirge to lay the fury + of this ghost.βOnce again, my lord, fall to. + [The POPE crosses himself.] + + FAUSTUS. What, are you crossing of yourself? + Well, use that trick no more, I would advise you. + [The POPE crosses himself again.] + + Well, thereβs the second time. Aware the third; + I give you fair warning. + [The POPE crosses himself again, and FAUSTUS hits him a box + of the ear; and they all run away.] + + Come on, Mephistophilis; what shall we do? + + MEPHIST. Nay, I know not: we shall be cursed with bell, book, + and candle. + + FAUSTUS. How! bell, book, and candle,βcandle, book, and bell,β + Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell! + Anon you shall hear a hog grunt, a calf bleat, and an ass bray, + Because it is Saint Peterβs holiday. + + Re-enter all the FRIARS to sing the Dirge. + + FIRST FRIAR. + Come, brethren, letβs about our business with good devotion. + + They sing. + + CURSED BE HE THAT STOLE AWAY HIS HOLINESSβ MEAT FROM THE + TABLE! maledicat Dominus! + CURSED BE HE THAT STRUCK HIS HOLINESS A BLOW ON THE FACE! + maledicat Dominus! + CURSED BE HE THAT TOOK FRIAR SANDELO A BLOW ON THE PATE! + maledicat Dominus! + CURSED BE HE THAT DISTURBETH OUR HOLY DIRGE! maledicat + Dominus! + CURSED BE HE THAT TOOK AWAY HIS HOLINESSβ WINE! maledicat + Dominus? [β?β sic] + Et omnes Sancti! Amen! + + [MEPHISTOPHILIS and FAUSTUS beat the FRIARS, and fling + fire-works among them; and so exeunt.] + + Enter CHORUS. + + CHORUS. When Faustus had with pleasure taβen the view + Of rarest things, and royal courts of kings, + He stayβd his course, and so returned home; + Where such as bear his absence but with grief, + I mean his friends and nearβst companions, + Did gratulate his safety with kind words, + And in their conference of what befell, + Touching his journey through the world and air, + They put forth questions of astrology, + Which Faustus answerβd with such learned skill + As they admirβd and wonderβd at his wit. + Now is his fame spread forth in every land: + Amongst the rest the Emperor is one, + Carolus the Fifth, at whose palace now + Faustus is feasted βmongst his noblemen. + What there he did, in trial of his art, + I leave untold; your eyes shall see[βt] performβd. + [Exit.] + + Enter ROBIN<a href="#note-123" name="noteref-123">123</a> the Ostler, with a book in his hand. + + ROBIN. O, this is admirable! here I haβ stolen one of Doctor + Faustusβ conjuring-books, and, iβfaith, I mean to search some + circles for my own use. Now will I make all the maidens in our + parish dance at my pleasure, stark naked, before me; and so + by that means I shall see more than eβer I felt or saw yet. + + Enter RALPH, calling ROBIN. + + RALPH. Robin, prithee, come away; thereβs a gentleman tarries + to have his horse, and he would have his things rubbed and made + clean: he keeps such a chafing with my mistress about it; and + she has sent me to look thee out; prithee, come away. + + ROBIN. Keep out, keep out, or else you are blown up, you are + dismembered, Ralph: keep out, for I am about a roaring piece + of work. + + RALPH. Come, what doest thou with that same book? thou canst + not read? + + ROBIN. Yes, my master and mistress shall find that I can read, + he for his forehead, she for her private study; sheβs born to + bear with me, or else my art fails. + + RALPH. Why, Robin, what book is that? + + ROBIN. What book! why, the most intolerable book for conjuring + that eβer was invented by any brimstone devil. + + RALPH. Canst thou conjure with it? + + ROBIN. I can do all these things easily with it; first, I can + make thee drunk with ippocras<a href="#note-124" name="noteref-124">124</a> at any tabern<a href="#note-125" name="noteref-125">125</a> in Europe + for nothing; thatβs one of my conjuring works. + + RALPH. Our Master Parson says thatβs nothing. + + ROBIN. True, Ralph: and more, Ralph, if thou hast any mind to + Nan Spit, our kitchen-maid, then turn her and wind her to thy own + use, as often as thou wilt, and at midnight. + + RALPH. O, brave, Robin! shall I have Nan Spit, and to mine own + use? On that condition Iβll feed thy devil with horse-bread as + long as he lives, of free cost. + + ROBIN. No more, sweet Ralph: letβs go and make clean our boots, + which lie foul upon our hands, and then to our conjuring in the + devilβs name. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter ROBIN and RALPH<a href="#note-126" name="noteref-126">126</a> with a silver goblet. + + ROBIN. Come, Ralph: did not I tell thee, we were for ever made + by this Doctor Faustusβ book? ecce, signum! hereβs a simple + purchase<a href="#note-127" name="noteref-127">127</a> for horse-keepers: our horses shall eat no hay as + long as this lasts. + + RALPH. But, Robin, here comes the Vintner. + + ROBIN. Hush! Iβll gull him supernaturally. + + Enter VINTNER. + + Drawer,<a href="#note-128" name="noteref-128">128</a> I hope all is paid; God be with you!βCome, Ralph. + + VINTNER. Soft, sir; a word with you. I must yet have a goblet paid + from you, ere you go. + + ROBIN. I a goblet, Ralph, I a goblet!βI scorn you; and you are + but a, &c. I a goblet! search me. + + VINTNER. I mean so, sir, with your favour. + [Searches ROBIN.] + + ROBIN. How say you now? + + VINTNER. I must say somewhat to your fellow.βYou, sir! + + RALPH. Me, sir! me, sir! search your fill. [VINTNER searches him.] + Now, sir, you may be ashamed to burden honest men with a matter + of truth. + + VINTNER. Well, tone<a href="#note-129" name="noteref-129">129</a> of you hath this goblet about you. + + ROBIN. You lie, drawer, βtis afore me [Aside].βSirrah you, Iβll + teach you to impeach honest men;βstand by;βIβll scour you for + a goblet;βstand aside you had best, I charge you in the name of + Belzebub.βLook to the goblet, Ralph [Aside to RALPH]. + + VINTNER. What mean you, sirrah? + + ROBIN. Iβll tell you what I mean. [Reads from a book] Sanctobulorum + Periphrasticonβnay, Iβll tickle you, Vintner.βLook to the goblet, + Ralph [Aside to RALPH].β[Reads] Polypragmos Belseborams framanto + pacostiphos tostu, Mephistophilis, &c. + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS, sets squibs at their backs, and then + exit. They run about. + + VINTNER. O, nomine Domini! what meanest thou, Robin? thou hast no + goblet. + + RALPH. Peccatum peccatorum!βHereβs thy goblet, good Vintner. + [Gives the goblet to VINTNER, who exit.] + + ROBIN. Misericordia pro nobis! what shall I do? Good devil, forgive + me now, and Iβll never rob thy library more. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + MEPHIST. Monarch of Hell,<a href="#note-130" name="noteref-130">130</a> under whose black survey + Great potentates do kneel with awful fear, + Upon whose altars thousand souls do lie, + How am I vexed with these villainsβ charms? + From Constantinople am I hither come, + Only for pleasure of these damned slaves. + + ROBIN. How, from Constantinople! you have had a great journey: + will you take sixpence in your purse to pay for your supper, and + be gone? + + MEPHIST. Well, villains, for your presumption, I transform thee + into an ape, and thee into a dog; and so be gone! + [Exit.] + + ROBIN. How, into an ape! thatβs brave: Iβll have fine sport with + the boys; Iβll get nuts and apples enow. + + RALPH. And I must be a dog. + + ROBIN. Iβfaith, thy head will never be out of the pottage-pot. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter EMPEROR,<a href="#note-131" name="noteref-131">131</a> FAUSTUS, and a KNIGHT, with ATTENDANTS. + + EMPEROR. Master Doctor Faustus,<a href="#note-132" name="noteref-132">132</a> I have heard strange report + of thy knowledge in the black art, how that none in my empire + nor in the whole world can compare with thee for the rare effects + of magic: they say thou hast a familiar spirit, by whom thou canst + accomplish what thou list. This, therefore, is my request, that + thou let me see some proof of thy skill, that mine eyes may be + witnesses to confirm what mine ears have heard reported: and here + I swear to thee, by the honour of mine imperial crown, that, + whatever thou doest, thou shalt be no ways prejudiced or endamaged. + + KNIGHT. Iβfaith, he looks much like a conjurer. + [Aside.] + + FAUSTUS. My gracious sovereign, though I must confess myself far + inferior to the report men have published, and nothing answerable + to the honour of your imperial majesty, yet, for that love and duty + binds me thereunto, I am content to do whatsoever your majesty + shall command me. + + EMPEROR. Then, Doctor Faustus, mark what I shall say. + As I was sometime solitary set + Within my closet, sundry thoughts arose + About the honour of mine ancestors, + How they had won<a href="#note-133" name="noteref-133">133</a> by prowess such exploits, + Got such riches, subduβd so many kingdoms, + As we that do succeed,<a href="#note-134" name="noteref-134">134</a> or they that shall + Hereafter possess our throne, shall + (I fear me) neβer attain to that degree + Of high renown and great authority: + Amongst which kings is Alexander the Great, + Chief spectacle of the worldβs pre-eminence, + The bright<a href="#note-135" name="noteref-135">135</a> shining of whose glorious acts + Lightens the world with his reflecting beams, + As when I hear but motion made of him, + It grieves my soul I never saw the man: + If, therefore, thou, by cunning of thine art, + Canst raise this man from hollow vaults below, + Where lies entombβd this famous conqueror, + And bring with him his beauteous paramour, + Both in their right shapes, gesture, and attire + They usβd to wear during their time of life, + Thou shalt both satisfy my just desire, + And give me cause to praise thee whilst I live. + + FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, I am ready to accomplish your request, + so far forth as by art and power of my spirit I am able to perform. + + KNIGHT. Iβfaith, thatβs just nothing at all. + [Aside.] + + FAUSTUS. But, if it like your grace, it is not in my ability<a href="#note-136" name="noteref-136">136</a> + to present before your eyes the true substantial bodies of those + two deceased princes, which long since are consumed to dust. + + KNIGHT. Ay, marry, Master Doctor, now thereβs a sign of grace in + you, when you will confess the truth. + [Aside.] + + FAUSTUS. But such spirits as can lively resemble Alexander and + his paramour shall appear before your grace, in that manner that + they both<a href="#note-137" name="noteref-137">137</a> lived in, in their most flourishing estate; which + I doubt not shall sufficiently content your imperial majesty. + + EMPEROR. Go to, Master Doctor; let me see them presently. + + KNIGHT. Do you hear, Master Doctor? you bring Alexander and his + paramour before the Emperor! + + FAUSTUS. How then, sir? + + KNIGHT. Iβfaith, thatβs as true as Diana turned me to a stag. + + FAUSTUS. No, sir; but, when Actaeon died, he left the horns for + you.βMephistophilis, be gone. + [Exit MEPHISTOPHILIS.] + + KNIGHT. Nay, an you go to conjuring, Iβll be gone. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. Iβll meet with you anon for interrupting me so. + βHere they are, my gracious lord. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with SPIRITS in the shapes of ALEXANDER + and his PARAMOUR. + + EMPEROR. Master Doctor, I heard this lady, while she lived, had a + wart or mole in her neck: how shall I know whether it be so or no? + + FAUSTUS. Your highness may boldly go and see. + + EMPEROR. Sure, these are no spirits, but the true substantial + bodies of those two deceased princes. + [Exeunt Spirits.] + + FAUSTUS. Wilt please your highness now to send for the knight + that was so pleasant with me here of late? + + EMPEROR. One of you call him forth. + [Exit ATTENDANT.] + + Re-enter the KNIGHT with a pair of horns on his head. + + How now, sir knight! why, I had thought thou hadst been a bachelor, + but now I see thou hast a wife, that not only gives thee horns, + but makes thee wear them. Feel on thy head. + + KNIGHT. Thou damned wretch and execrable dog, + Bred in the concave of some monstrous rock, + How darβst thou thus abuse a gentleman? + Villain, I say, undo what thou hast done! + + FAUSTUS. O, not so fast, sir! thereβs no haste: but, good, are + you remembered how you crossed me in my conference with the + Emperor? I think I have met with you for it. + + EMPEROR. Good Master Doctor, at my entreaty release him: he hath + done penance sufficient. + + FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, not so much for the injury he offered + me here in your presence, as to delight you with some mirth, hath + Faustus worthily requited this injurious knight; which being all + I desire, I am content to release him of his horns:βand, + sir knight, hereafter speak well of scholars.βMephistophilis, + transform him straight.<a href="#note-138" name="noteref-138">138</a> [MEPHISTOPHILIS removes the horns.] + βNow, my good lord, having done my duty, I humbly take my leave. + + EMPEROR. Farewell, Master Doctor: yet, ere you go, + Expect from me a bounteous reward. + [Exeunt EMPEROR, KNIGHT, and ATTENDANTS.] + + FAUSTUS. Now, Mephistophilis,<a href="#note-139" name="noteref-139">139</a> the restless course + That time doth run with calm and silent foot, + Shortening my days and thread of vital life, + Calls for the payment of my latest years: + Therefore, sweet Mephistophilis, let us + Make haste to Wertenberg. + + MEPHIST. What, will you go on horse-back or on foot[?] + + FAUSTUS. Nay, till Iβm past this fair and pleasant green, + Iβll walk on foot. + + Enter a HORSE-COURSER.<a href="#note-140" name="noteref-140">140</a> + + HORSE-COURSER. I have been all this day seeking one Master Fustian: + mass, see where he is!βGod save you, Master Doctor! + + FAUSTUS. What, horse-courser! you are well met. + + HORSE-COURSER. Do you hear, sir? I have brought you forty dollars + for your horse. + + FAUSTUS. I cannot sell him so: if thou likest him for fifty, take + him. + + HORSE-COURSER. Alas, sir, I have no more!βI pray you, speak for + me. + + MEPHIST. I pray you, let him have him: he is an honest fellow, + and he has a great charge, neither wife nor child. + + FAUSTUS. Well, come, give me your money [HORSE-COURSER gives + FAUSTUS the money]: my boy will deliver him to you. But I must + tell you one thing before you have him; ride him not into the + water, at any hand. + + HORSE-COURSER. Why, sir, will he not drink of all waters? + + FAUSTUS. O, yes, he will drink of all waters; but ride him not + into the water: ride him over hedge or ditch, or where thou wilt, + but not into the water. + + HORSE-COURSER. Well, sir.βNow am I made man for ever: Iβll not + leave my horse for forty:<a href="#note-141" name="noteref-141">141</a> if he had but the quality of + hey-ding-ding, hey-ding-ding, Iβd make a brave living on him: + he has a buttock as slick as an eel [Aside].βWell, God bβwiβye, + sir: your boy will deliver him me: but, hark you, sir; if my horse + be sick or ill at ease, if I bring his water to you, youβll tell + me what it is? + + FAUSTUS. Away, you villain! what, dost think I am a horse-doctor? + [Exit HORSE-COURSER.] + + What art thou, Faustus, but a man condemnβd to die? + Thy fatal time doth draw to final end; + Despair doth drive distrust into<a href="#note-142" name="noteref-142">142</a> my thoughts: + Confound these passions with a quiet sleep: + Tush, Christ did call the thief upon the Cross; + Then rest thee, Faustus, quiet in conceit. + [Sleeps in his chair.] + + Re-enter HORSE-COURSER, all wet, crying. + + HORSE-COURSER. Alas, alas! Doctor Fustian, quoth a? mass, Doctor + Lopus<a href="#note-143" name="noteref-143">143</a> was never such a doctor: has given me a purgation, has + purged me of forty dollars; I shall never see them more. But yet, + like an ass as I was, I would not be ruled by him, for he bade me + I should ride him into no water: now I, thinking my horse had had + some rare quality that he would not have had me know of,<a href="#note-144" name="noteref-144">144</a> I, + like a venturous youth, rid him into the deep pond at the townβs + end. I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse + vanished away, and I sat upon a bottle of hay, never so near + drowning in my life. But Iβll seek out my doctor, and have my + forty dollars again, or Iβll make it the dearest horse!βO, + yonder is his snipper-snapper.βDo you hear? you, hey-pass,<a href="#note-145" name="noteref-145">145</a> + whereβs your master? + + MEPHIST. Why, sir, what would you? you cannot speak with him. + + HORSE-COURSER. But I will speak with him. + + MEPHIST. Why, heβs fast asleep: come some other time. + + HORSE-COURSER. Iβll speak with him now, or Iβll break his + glass-windows about his ears. + + MEPHIST. I tell thee, he has not slept this eight nights. + + HORSE-COURSER. An he have not slept this eight weeks, Iβll + speak with him. + + MEPHIST. See, where he is, fast asleep. + + HORSE-COURSER. Ay, this is he.βGod save you, Master Doctor, + Master Doctor, Master Doctor Fustian! forty dollars, forty dollars + for a bottle of hay! + + MEPHIST. Why, thou seest he hears thee not. + + HORSE-COURSER. So-ho, ho! so-ho, ho! [Hollows in his ear.] No, + will you not wake? Iβll make you wake ere I go. [Pulls FAUSTUS + by the leg, and pulls it away.] Alas, I am undone! what shall + I do? + + FAUSTUS. O, my leg, my leg!βHelp, Mephistophilis! call the + officers.βMy leg, my leg! + + MEPHIST. Come, villain, to the constable. + + HORSE-COURSER. O Lord, sir, let me go, and Iβll give you forty + dollars more! + + MEPHIST. Where be they? + + HORSE-COURSER. I have none about me: come to my ostry,<a href="#note-146" name="noteref-146">146</a> + and Iβll give them you. + + MEPHIST. Be gone quickly. + [HORSE-COURSER runs away.] + + FAUSTUS. What, is he gone? farewell he! Faustus has his leg again, + and the Horse-courser, I take it, a bottle of hay for his labour: + well, this trick shall cost him forty dollars more. + + Enter WAGNER. + + How now, Wagner! whatβs the news with thee? + + WAGNER. Sir, the Duke of Vanholt doth earnestly entreat your + company. + + FAUSTUS. The Duke of Vanholt! an honourable gentleman, to whom + I must be no niggard of my cunning.<a href="#note-147" name="noteref-147">147</a>βCome, Mephistophilis, + letβs away to him. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter the DUKE OF VANHOLT, the DUCHESS, and FAUSTUS.<a href="#note-148" name="noteref-148">148</a> + + DUKE. Believe me, Master Doctor, this merriment hath much pleased + me. + + FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, I am glad it contents you so well. + βBut it may be, madam, you take no delight in this. I have heard + that great-bellied women do long for some dainties or other: what + is it, madam? tell me, and you shall have it. + + DUCHESS. Thanks, good Master Doctor: and, for I see your courteous + intent to pleasure me, I will not hide from you the thing my heart + desires; and, were it now summer, as it is January and the dead + time of the winter, I would desire no better meat than a dish + of ripe grapes. + + FAUSTUS. Alas, madam, thatβs nothing!βMephistophilis, be gone. + [Exit MEPHISTOPHILIS.] Were it a greater thing than this, so it + would content you, you should have it. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with grapes. + + Here they be, madam: wilt please you taste on them? + + DUKE. Believe me, Master Doctor, this makes me wonder above the + rest, that being in the dead time of winter and in the month of + January, how you should come by these grapes. + + FAUSTUS. If it like your grace, the year is divided into two + circles over the whole world, that, when it is here winter with + us, in the contrary circle it is summer with them, as in India, + Saba,<a href="#note-149" name="noteref-149">149</a> and farther countries in the east; and by means of a + swift spirit that I have, I had them brought hither, as you see. + βHow do you like them, madam? be they good? + + DUCHESS. Believe me, Master Doctor, they be the best grapes that + eβer I tasted in my life before. + + FAUSTUS. I am glad they content you so, madam. + + DUKE. Come, madam, let us in, where you must well reward this + learned man for the great kindness he hath shewed to you. + + DUCHESS. And so I will, my lord; and, whilst I live, rest + beholding<a href="#note-150" name="noteref-150">150</a> for this courtesy. + + FAUSTUS. I humbly thank your grace. + + DUKE. Come, Master Doctor, follow us, and receive your reward. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter WAGNER.<a href="#note-151" name="noteref-151">151</a> + + WAGNER. I think my master means to die shortly, + For he hath given to me all his goods:<a href="#note-152" name="noteref-152">152</a> + And yet, methinks, if that death were near, + He would not banquet, and carouse, and swill + Amongst the students, as even now he doth, + Who are at supper with such belly-cheer + As Wagner neβer beheld in all his life. + See, where they come! belike the feast is ended. + [Exit.] + + Enter FAUSTUS with two or three SCHOLARS, and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + 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 lived: therefore, Master Doctor, if you will do us + that favour, 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 unfeignβd, + And Faustusβ custom is not to deny + The just requests of those that wish him well, + You shall behold that peerless dame of Greece, + No otherways for pomp and majesty + Than when Sir Paris crossβd the seas with her, + And brought the spoils to rich Dardania. + Be silent, then, for danger is in words. + [Music sounds, and HELEN passeth over the stage.] <a href="#note-153" name="noteref-153">153</a> + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Too simple is my wit to tell her praise, + Whom all the world admires for majesty. + + THIRD SCHOLAR. No marvel though the angry Greeks pursuβd + With ten yearsβ war the rape of such a queen, + Whose heavenly beauty passeth all compare. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Since we have seen the pride of Natureβs works, + And only paragon of excellence, + Let us depart; and for this glorious deed + Happy and blest be Faustus evermore! + + FAUSTUS. Gentlemen, farewell: the same I wish to you. + [Exeunt SCHOLARS.] + + Enter an OLD MAN.<a href="#note-154" name="noteref-154">154</a> + + OLD MAN. Ah, Doctor Faustus, that I might prevail + To guide thy steps unto the way of life, + By which sweet path thou mayst attain the goal + That shall conduct thee to celestial rest! + Break heart, drop blood, and mingle it with tears, + Tears falling from repentant heaviness + Of thy most vile<a href="#note-155" name="noteref-155">155</a> and loathsome filthiness, + The stench whereof corrupts the inward soul + With such flagitious crimes of heinous sin<a href="#note-156" name="noteref-156">156</a> + As no commiseration may expel, + But mercy, Faustus, of thy Saviour sweet, + Whose blood alone must wash away thy guilt. + + FAUSTUS. Where art thou, Faustus? wretch, what hast thou done? + Damnβd art thou, Faustus, damnβd; despair and die! + Hell calls for right, and with a roaring voice + Says, βFaustus, come; thine hour is almost<a href="#note-157" name="noteref-157">157</a> come;β + And Faustus now<a href="#note-158" name="noteref-158">158</a> will come to do thee right. + [MEPHISTOPHILIS gives him a dagger.] + + OLD MAN. Ah, stay, good Faustus, stay thy desperate steps! + I see an angel hovers oβer thy head, + And, with a vial full of precious grace, + Offers to pour the same into thy soul: + Then call for mercy, and avoid despair. + + FAUSTUS. Ah, my sweet friend, I feel + Thy words to comfort my distressed soul! + Leave me a while to ponder on my sins. + + OLD MAN. I go, sweet Faustus; but with heavy cheer, + Fearing the ruin of thy hopeless soul. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. Accursed Faustus, where is mercy now? + I do repent; and yet I do despair: + Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast: + What shall I do to shun the snares of death? + + MEPHIST. Thou traitor, Faustus, I arrest thy soul + For disobedience to my sovereign lord: + Revolt, or Iβll in piece-meal tear thy flesh. + + FAUSTUS. Sweet Mephistophilis, entreat thy lord + To pardon my unjust presumption, + And with my blood again I will confirm + My former vow I made to Lucifer. + + MEPHIST. Do it, then, quickly,<a href="#note-159" name="noteref-159">159</a> with unfeigned heart, + Lest greater danger do attend thy drift. + + FAUSTUS. Torment, sweet friend, that base and crooked age, + That durst dissuade me from thy Lucifer, + With greatest torments that our hell affords. + + MEPHIST. His faith is great; I cannot touch his soul; + But what I may afflict his body with + I will attempt, which is but little worth. + + FAUSTUS. One thing, good servant,<a href="#note-160" name="noteref-160">160</a> let me crave of thee, + To glut the longing of my heartβs desire,β + That I might have unto my paramour + That heavenly Helen which I saw of late, + Whose sweet embracings may extinguish clean + Those<a href="#note-161" name="noteref-161">161</a> thoughts that do dissuade me from my vow, + And keep mine oath I made to Lucifer. + + MEPHIST. Faustus, this,<a href="#note-162" name="noteref-162">162</a> or what else thou shalt desire, + Shall be performβd in twinkling of an eye. + + Re-enter HELEN. + + FAUSTUS. Was this the face that launchβd a thousand ships, + And burnt the topless<a href="#note-163" name="noteref-163">163</a> towers of Iliumβ + Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.β + [Kisses her.] + Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!β + Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. + Here will I dwell, for heaven is<a href="#note-164" name="noteref-164">164</a> in these lips, + And all is dross that is not Helena. + I will be Paris, and for love of thee, + Instead of Troy, shall Wertenberg be sackβd; + 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 fairer than the evening air + Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars; + Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter + When he appearβd to hapless Semele; + More lovely than the monarch of the sky + In wanton Arethusaβs azurβd arms; + And none but thou shalt<a href="#note-165" name="noteref-165">165</a> be my paramour! + [Exeunt.] + + Enter the OLD MAN.<a href="#note-166" name="noteref-166">166</a> + + OLD MAN. Accursed Faustus, miserable man, + That from thy soul excludβst the grace of heaven, + And flyβst the throne of his tribunal-seat! + + Enter DEVILS. + + Satan begins to sift me with his pride: + As in this furnace God shall try my faith, + My faith, vile hell, shall triumph over thee. + Ambitious fiends, see how the heavens smile + At your repulse, and laugh your state to scorn! + Hence, hell! for hence I fly unto my God. + [Exeunt,βon one side, DEVILS, on the other, OLD MAN.] + + Enter FAUSTUS,<a href="#note-167" name="noteref-167">167</a> with SCHOLARS. + + FAUSTUS. Ah, gentlemen! + + FIRST SCHOLAR. What ails Faustus? + + FAUSTUS. Ah, my sweet chamber-fellow, had I lived with thee, + then had I lived still! but now I die eternally. Look, comes + he not? comes he not? + + SECOND SCHOLAR. What means Faustus? + + THIRD SCHOLAR. Belike he is grown into some sickness by being + over-solitary. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. If it be so, weβll have physicians to cure him. + ββTis but a surfeit; never fear, man. + + FAUSTUS. A surfeit of deadly sin, that hath damned both body + and soul. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Yet, Faustus, look up to heaven; remember Godβs + mercies are infinite. + + FAUSTUS. But Faustusβ offence can neβer be pardoned: the serpent + that tempted Eve may be saved, but not Faustus. Ah, gentlemen, + hear me with patience, and tremble not at my speeches! Though + my heart pants and quivers to remember that I have been a student + here these thirty years, O, would I had never seen Wertenberg, + never read book! and what wonders I have done, all Germany can + witness, yea, all the world; for which Faustus hath lost both + Germany and the world, yea, heaven itself, heaven, the seat of + God, the throne of the blessed, the kingdom of joy; and must + remain in hell for ever, hell, ah, hell, for ever! Sweet friends, + what shall become of Faustus, being in hell for ever? + + THIRD SCHOLAR. Yet, Faustus, call on God. + + FAUSTUS. On God, whom Faustus hath abjured! on God, whom Faustus + hath blasphemed! Ah, my God, I would weep! but the devil draws in + my tears. Gush forth blood, instead of tears! yea, life and soul! + O, he stays my tongue! I would lift up my hands; but see, they + hold them, they hold them! + + ALL. Who, Faustus? + + FAUSTUS. Lucifer and Mephistophilis. Ah, gentlemen, I gave them + my soul for my cunning!<a href="#note-168" name="noteref-168">168</a> + + ALL. God forbid! + + FAUSTUS. God forbade it, indeed; but Faustus hath done it: for + vain pleasure of twenty-four years hath Faustus lost eternal joy + and felicity. I writ them a bill with mine own blood: the date + is expired; the time will come, and he will fetch me. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Why did not Faustus tell us of this before,<a href="#note-169" name="noteref-169">169</a> + that divines might have prayed for thee? + + FAUSTUS. Oft have I thought to have done so; but the devil + threatened to tear me in pieces, if I named God, to fetch both + body and soul, if I once gave ear to divinity: and now βtis too + late. Gentlemen, away, lest you perish with me. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. O, what shall we do to save<a href="#note-170" name="noteref-170">170</a> Faustus? + + FAUSTUS. Talk not of me, but save yourselves, and depart. + + THIRD 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 there pray for him. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, pray for me, pray for me; and what noise soever + ye hear,<a href="#note-171" name="noteref-171">171</a> come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Pray thou, and we will pray that God may have + mercy upon thee. + + FAUSTUS. Gentlemen, farewell: if I live till morning, Iβll visit + you; if not, Faustus is gone to hell. + + ALL. Faustus, farewell. + [Exeunt SCHOLARS.βThe clock strikes eleven.] + + FAUSTUS. Ah, Faustus, + Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, + And then thou must be damnβd perpetually! + Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, + That time may cease, and midnight never come; + Fair Natureβs eye, rise, rise again, and make + Perpetual day; or let this hour be but + A year, a month, a week, a natural day, + That Faustus may repent and save his soul! + O lente,<a href="#note-172" name="noteref-172">172</a> lente currite, noctis equi! + The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, + The devil will come, and Faustus must be damnβd. + O, Iβll leap up to my God!βWho pulls me down?β + See, see, where Christβs blood streams in the firmament! + One drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah, my Christ!β + Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ! + Yet will I call on him: O, spare me, Lucifer!β + Where is it now? βtis gone: and see, where God + Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows! + Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me, + And hide me from the heavy wrath of God! + No, no! + Then will I headlong run into the earth: + Earth, gape! O, no, it will not harbour me! + You stars that reignβd at my nativity, + Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, + Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist. + Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud[s], + That, when you<a href="#note-173" name="noteref-173">173</a> vomit forth into the air, + My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths, + So that my soul may but ascend to heaven! + [The clock strikes the half-hour.] + Ah, half the hour is past! βtwill all be past anon + O God, + If thou wilt not have mercy on my soul, + Yet for Christβs sake, whose blood hath ransomβd me, + Impose some end to my incessant pain; + Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years, + A hundred thousand, and at last be savβd! + O, no end is limited to damned souls! + Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul? + Or why is this immortal that thou hast? + Ah, Pythagorasβ metempsychosis, were that true, + This soul should fly from me, and I be changβd + Unto some brutish beast!<a href="#note-174" name="noteref-174">174</a> all beasts are happy, + For, when they die, + Their souls are soon dissolvβd in elements; + But mine must live still to be plaguβd in hell. + Cursβd be the parents that engenderβd me! + No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer + That hath deprivβd thee of the joys of heaven. + [The clock strikes twelve.] + O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, + Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell! + [Thunder and lightning.] + O soul, be changβd into little water-drops, + And fall into the ocean, neβer be found! + + Enter DEVILS. + + My God, my god, look not so fierce on me! + Adders and serpents, let me breathe a while! + Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer! + Iβll burn my books!βAh, Mephistophilis! + [Exeunt DEVILS with FAUSTUS.] <a href="#note-175" name="noteref-175">175</a> + + Enter CHORUS. + + CHORUS. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, + And burned is Apolloβs laurel-bough, + That sometime grew within this learned man. + Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall, + Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, + Only to wonder at unlawful things, + Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits + To practice more than heavenly power permits. + [Exit.] + + Terminat hora diem; terminat auctor opus. +</pre> + +<h2><a name="2H_FOOT"></a> + FOOTNOTES: +</h2> + +<p><a name="note-1"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +1 (<a href="#noteref-1">return</a>)<br/> +[ mateβ i.e. confound, defeat.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-2"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +2 (<a href="#noteref-2">return</a>)<br/> +[ vauntβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βdaunt.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-3"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +3 (<a href="#noteref-3">return</a>)<br/> +[ herβ All the 4tos βhis.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-4"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +4 (<a href="#noteref-4">return</a>)<br/> +[ Whereasβ i.e. where.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-5"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +5 (<a href="#noteref-5">return</a>)<br/> +[ cunningβ i.e. knowledge.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-6"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +6 (<a href="#noteref-6">return</a>)<br/> +[ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βmore.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-7"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +7 (<a href="#noteref-7">return</a>)<br/> +[ FAUSTUS discovered in his studyβ Most probably, the Chorus, +before going out, drew a curtain, and discovered Faustus sitting. +In B. Barnesβs DIVILS CHARTER, 1607, we find; βSCEN. VLTIMA. +ALEXANDER VNBRACED BETWIXT TWO CARDINALLS in his study LOOKING +VPON A BOOKE, whilst a groome draweth the Curtaine.β Sig. L 3.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-8"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +8 (<a href="#noteref-8">return</a>)<br/> +[ Analytics, βtis thou, &c.β Qy. βAnalyticβ? (but such +phraseology was not uncommon).] +</p> +<p><a name="note-9"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +9 (<a href="#noteref-9">return</a>)<br/> +[ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βtheβ (the printer +having mistaken βytβ for βyeβ).] +</p> +<p><a name="note-10"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +10 (<a href="#noteref-10">return</a>)<br/> +[ So the later 4tos (with various spelling).β2to 1604 +βOncaymaeon.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-11"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +11 (<a href="#noteref-11">return</a>)<br/> +[ andβ So the later 4tos.βNot in 4to 1604.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-12"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +12 (<a href="#noteref-12">return</a>)<br/> +[ Couldstβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βWouldst.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-13"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +13 (<a href="#noteref-13">return</a>)<br/> +[ menβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βman.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-14"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +14 (<a href="#noteref-14">return</a>)<br/> +[ legaturβ All the 4tos βlegatus.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-15"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +15 (<a href="#noteref-15">return</a>)<br/> +[ &c.β So two of the later 4tos.βNot in 4to 1604.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-16"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +16 (<a href="#noteref-16">return</a>)<br/> +[ lawβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βChurch.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-17"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +17 (<a href="#noteref-17">return</a>)<br/> +[ Thisβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βHis.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-18"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +18 (<a href="#noteref-18">return</a>)<br/> +[ Too servileβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βThe deuill.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-19"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +19 (<a href="#noteref-19">return</a>)<br/> +[ Che sera, seraβ Lest it should be thought that I am wrong +in not altering the old spelling here, I may quote from Panizziβs +very critical edition of the ORLANDO FURIOSO, + βLa satisfazion ci SERA pronta.β C. xviii. st. 67.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-20"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +20 (<a href="#noteref-20">return</a>)<br/> +[ scenesβ βAnd sooner may a gulling weather-spie + By drawing forth heavens SCEANES tell certainly,β &c. + Donneβs FIRST SATYRE,βp. 327, ed. 1633.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-21"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +21 (<a href="#noteref-21">return</a>)<br/> +[ tireβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βtrie.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-22"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +22 (<a href="#noteref-22">return</a>)<br/> +[ Enter WAGNER, &c.β Perhaps the proper arrangement is,] + βWagner! + Enter WAGNER. + Commend me to my dearest friends,β &c.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-23"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +23 (<a href="#noteref-23">return</a>)<br/> +[ treasureβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βtreasury.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-24"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +24 (<a href="#noteref-24">return</a>)<br/> +[ Joveβ So again, p. 84, first col.,[See Note 59] +: + βSeeing Faustus hath incurrβd eternal death + By desperate thoughts against JOVEβS deity,β &c.: +and I may notice that Marlowe is not singular in applying the name +JOVE to the God of Christians:] + βBeneath our standard of JOUES powerfull sonne [i.e. Christββ. + MIR. FOR MAGISTRATES, p. 642, ed. 1610. + βBut see the judgement of almightie JOUE,β &c. + Id. p. 696. + βO sommo GIOVE per noi crocifisso,β &c. + Pulci,βMORGANTE MAG. C. ii. st. 1.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-25"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +25 (<a href="#noteref-25">return</a>)<br/> +[ these elementsβ So again, βWithin the bowels of THESE +elements,β &c., p. 87, first col,[See Note 90βββTHESEβ being +equivalent to THE. (Not unfrequently in our old writers THESE +is little more than redundant.)] +</p> +<p><a name="note-26"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +26 (<a href="#noteref-26">return</a>)<br/> +[ resolveβ i.e. satisfy, inform.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-27"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +27 (<a href="#noteref-27">return</a>)<br/> +[ silkβ All the 4tos βskillβ (and so the modern editors!).] +</p> +<p><a name="note-28"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +28 (<a href="#noteref-28">return</a>)<br/> +[ theβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βour.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-29"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +29 (<a href="#noteref-29">return</a>)<br/> +[ the fiery keel at Antwerpβs bridgeβ During the blockade +of Antwerp by the Prince of Parma in 1585, βThey of Antuerpe +knowing that the bridge and the Stocadoes were finished, +made a great shippe, to be a meanes to breake all this worke +of the prince of Parmaes: this great shippe was made of masons +worke within, in the manner of a vaulted caue: vpon the hatches +there were layed myll-stones, graue-stones, and others of great +weight; and within the vault were many barrels of powder, ouer +the which there were holes, and in them they had put matches, +hanging at a thred, the which burning vntill they came vnto +the thred, would fall into the powder, and so blow vp all. +And for that they could not haue any one in this shippe to +conduct it, Lanckhaer, a sea captaine of the Hollanders, being +then in Antuerpe, gaue them counsell to tye a great beame at the +end of it, to make it to keepe a straight course in the middest +of the streame. In this sort floated this shippe the fourth of +Aprill, vntill that it came vnto the bridge; where (within a +while after) the powder wrought his effect, with such violence, +as the vessell, and all that was within it, and vpon it, flew in +pieces, carrying away a part of the Stocado and of the bridge. +The marquesse of Roubay Vicont of Gant, Gaspar of Robles lord of +Billy, and the Seignior of Torchies, brother vnto the Seignior +of Bours, with many others, were presently slaine; which were +torne in pieces, and dispersed abroad, both vpon the land and vpon +the water.β Grimestonβs GENERALL HISTORIE OF THE NETHERLANDS, +p. 875, ed. 1609.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-30"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +30 (<a href="#noteref-30">return</a>)<br/> +[ onlyβ Qy. βaloneβ? (This line is not in the later 4tos.)] +</p> +<p><a name="note-31"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +31 (<a href="#noteref-31">return</a>)<br/> +[ vileβ Old ed. βvildβ: but see note ||, p. 68.β(This line +is not in the later 4tos.) +</p> +<pre> + [Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great):] + + Vileβ The 8vo βVildβ; the 4to βWildβ (Both eds. a little + before, have βVILE monster, born of some infernal hagβ, and, + a few lines after, βTo VILE and ignominious servitudeβ:βthe + fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with + their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, + and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, + where we sometimes find βvildβ and sometimes βVILE.β)β] +</pre> +<p><a name="note-32"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +32 (<a href="#noteref-32">return</a>)<br/> +[ concise syllogismsβ Old ed. βConsissylogismes.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-33"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +33 (<a href="#noteref-33">return</a>)<br/> +[ cunningβ i.e. knowing, skilful.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-34"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +34 (<a href="#noteref-34">return</a>)<br/> +[ Agrippaβ i.e. Cornelius Agrippa.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-35"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +35 (<a href="#noteref-35">return</a>)<br/> +[ shadowβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βshadowes.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-36"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +36 (<a href="#noteref-36">return</a>)<br/> +[ spiritsβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βsubiects.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-37"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +37 (<a href="#noteref-37">return</a>)<br/> +[ Almain ruttersβ See note ***, p. 43.] +</p> +<pre> + [Note *** from p. 43. (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + Almains, Ruttersβ Rutters are properlyβGerman troopers + (reiter, reuter). In the third speech after the present one + this line is repeated VERBATIM: but in the first scene of + our authorβs FAUSTUS we have, + βLike ALMAIN RUTTERS with their horsemenβs staves.ββ] +</pre> +<p><a name="note-38"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +38 (<a href="#noteref-38">return</a>)<br/> +[ have theβ So two of the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βin their.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-39"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +39 (<a href="#noteref-39">return</a>)<br/> +[ Fromβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βFor.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-40"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +40 (<a href="#noteref-40">return</a>)<br/> +[ inβ So the later 4tos.βNot in 4to 1604.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-41"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +41 (<a href="#noteref-41">return</a>)<br/> +[ renowmβdβ See note ||, p. 11.] +</p> +<pre> + [Note || from p. 11. (The First Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + renowmedβ i.e. renowned.βSo the 8vo.βThe 4to βrenowned.β + βThe form βRENOWMEDβ (Fr. RENOMME) occurs repeatedly + afterwards in this play, according to the 8vo. It is + occasionally found in writers posterior to Marloweβs + time. e.g. + βOf Constantines great towne RENOUMβD in vaine.β + Verses to King James, prefixed to Lord Stirlingβs + MONARCHICKE TRAGEDIES, ed. 1607.β] +</pre> +<p><a name="note-42"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +42 (<a href="#noteref-42">return</a>)<br/> +[ Albertusββ i.e. Albertus Magnus.βThe correction of I. M. +in Gent. Mag. for Jan. 1841.βAll the 4tos βAlbanus.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-43"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +43 (<a href="#noteref-43">return</a>)<br/> +[ cunningβ i.e. skill.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-44"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +44 (<a href="#noteref-44">return</a>)<br/> +[ Enter two SCHOLARSβ Scene, perhaps, supposed to be before +Faustusβs house, as Wagner presently says, βMy master is within +at dinner.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-45"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +45 (<a href="#noteref-45">return</a>)<br/> +[ uponβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βvponβt.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-46"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +46 (<a href="#noteref-46">return</a>)<br/> +[ speak, wouldβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βspeake, IT would.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-47"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +47 (<a href="#noteref-47">return</a>)<br/> +[ my dear brethrenβ This repetition (not found in the later 4tos) +is perhaps an error of the original compositor.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-48"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +48 (<a href="#noteref-48">return</a>)<br/> +[ Enter FAUSTUS to conjureβ The scene is supposed to be a grove; +see p. 81, last line of sec. col. + [Page 81, second column, last line: + βVALDES. Then haste thee to some solitary grove,ββ] +</p> +<p><a name="note-49"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +49 (<a href="#noteref-49">return</a>)<br/> +[ anagrammatizβdβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βand +Agramithist.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-50"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +50 (<a href="#noteref-50">return</a>)<br/> +[ Thβ abbreviatedβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βThe breuiated.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-51"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +51 (<a href="#noteref-51">return</a>)<br/> +[ erringβ i.e. wandering.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-52"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +52 (<a href="#noteref-52">return</a>)<br/> +[ surgat Mephistophilis, quod tumerarisβ The later 4tos have +βsurgat Mephistophilis DRAGON, quod tumeraris.ββThere is a +corruption here, which seems to defy emendation. For βquod +TUMERARIS,β Mr. J. Crossley, of Manchester, would read (rejecting +the word βDragonβ) βquod TU MANDARESβ (the construction being +βquod tu mandares ut Mephistophilis appareat et surgatβ): but the +βtuβ does not agree with the preceding βvos.ββThe Revd. J. Mitford +proposes βsurgat Mephistophilis, per Dragon (or Dagon) quod NUMEN +EST AERIS.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-53"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +53 (<a href="#noteref-53">return</a>)<br/> +[ dicatusβ So two of the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βdicatis.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-54"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +54 (<a href="#noteref-54">return</a>)<br/> +[ Re-enter Mephistophilis, &c.β According to THE HISTORY OF +DR. FAUSTUS, on which this play is founded, Faustus raises +Mephistophilis in βa thicke wood neere to Wittenberg, called +in the German tongue Spisser Wolt..... Presently, not three +fathom above his head, fell a flame in manner of a lightning, +and changed itselfe into a globe..... Suddenly the globe opened, +and sprung up in the height of a man; so burning a time, in the +end it converted to the shape of a fiery man[?β This pleasant +beast ran about the circle a great while, and, lastly, appeared +in the manner of a Gray Fryer, asking Faustus what was his +request?β Sigs. A 2, A 3, ed. 1648. Again; βAfter Doctor Faustus +had made his promise to the devill, in the morning betimes he +called the spirit before him, and commanded him that he should +alwayes come to him like a fryer after the order of Saint Francis, +with a bell in his hand like Saint Anthony, and to ring it once +or twice before he appeared, that he might know of his certaine +coming.β Id. Sig. A 4.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-55"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +55 (<a href="#noteref-55">return</a>)<br/> +[ came hitherβ So two of the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βcame +NOW hither.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-56"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +56 (<a href="#noteref-56">return</a>)<br/> +[ accidensβ So two of the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βaccident.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-57"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +57 (<a href="#noteref-57">return</a>)<br/> +[ Why, this is hell, nor am I out of itβ Compare Milton, +Par. Lost, iv. 75; + βWhich way I fly is hell; myself am hell.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-58"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +58 (<a href="#noteref-58">return</a>)<br/> +[ theseβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βthose.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-59"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +59 (<a href="#noteref-59">return</a>)<br/> +[ Joveβsβ See note ****, p. 80. [i.e. Note 24] +: ] +</p> +<p><a name="note-60"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +60 (<a href="#noteref-60">return</a>)<br/> +[ four and twentyβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 β24.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-61"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +61 (<a href="#noteref-61">return</a>)<br/> +[ resolveβ i.e. satisfy, inform.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-62"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +62 (<a href="#noteref-62">return</a>)<br/> +[ thoroughβ So one of the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βthrough.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-63"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +63 (<a href="#noteref-63">return</a>)<br/> +[ countryβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βland.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-64"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +64 (<a href="#noteref-64">return</a>)<br/> +[ desirβdβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βdesire.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-65"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +65 (<a href="#noteref-65">return</a>)<br/> +[ Enter WAGNER, &c.β Scene, a street most probably.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-66"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +66 (<a href="#noteref-66">return</a>)<br/> +[ pickadevauntsβ i.e. beards cut to a point.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-67"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +67 (<a href="#noteref-67">return</a>)<br/> +[ byβr ladyβ i.e. by our Lady.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-68"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +68 (<a href="#noteref-68">return</a>)<br/> +[ Qui mihi discipulusβ The first words of W. Lilyβs +AD DISCIPULOS CARMEN DE MORIBUS, +</p> +<pre> + βQui mihi discipulus, puer, es, cupis atque doceri, + Huc ades,β &c.] +</pre> +<p><a name="note-69"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +69 (<a href="#noteref-69">return</a>)<br/> +[ staves-acreβ A species of larkspur.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-70"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +70 (<a href="#noteref-70">return</a>)<br/> +[ verminβ Which the seeds of staves-acre were used to destroy.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-71"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +71 (<a href="#noteref-71">return</a>)<br/> +[ familiarsβ i.e. attendant-demons.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-72"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +72 (<a href="#noteref-72">return</a>)<br/> +[ theirβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βmy.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-73"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +73 (<a href="#noteref-73">return</a>)<br/> +[ slopβ i.e. wide breeches.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-74"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +74 (<a href="#noteref-74">return</a>)<br/> +[ vileβ Old ed. βvild.β See note || p. 68. +</p> +<pre> + [Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + Vileβ The 8vo βVildβ; the 4to βWildβ (Both eds. a little + before, have βVILE monster, born of some infernal hagβ, and, + a few lines after, βTo VILE and ignominious servitudeβ:βthe + fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with + their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, + and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, + where we sometimes find βvildβ and sometimes βVILE.β)] +</pre> +<p><a name="note-75"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +75 (<a href="#noteref-75">return</a>)<br/> +[ vestigiis nostrisβ All the 4tos βvestigias nostras.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-76"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +76 (<a href="#noteref-76">return</a>)<br/> +[ ofβ So the later 4tos.βNot in 4to 1604.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-77"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +77 (<a href="#noteref-77">return</a>)<br/> +[ meβ So the later 4tos.βNot in 4to 1604.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-78"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +78 (<a href="#noteref-78">return</a>)<br/> +[ he livesβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βI liue.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-79"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +79 (<a href="#noteref-79">return</a>)<br/> +[ whyβ So the later 4tos.βNot in 4to 1604.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-80"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +80 (<a href="#noteref-80">return</a>)<br/> +[ Solamen miseris, &c.β An often-cited line of modern Latin +poetry: by whom it was written I know not.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-81"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +81 (<a href="#noteref-81">return</a>)<br/> +[ Whyβ So the later 4tos.βNot in 4to 1604.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-82"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +82 (<a href="#noteref-82">return</a>)<br/> +[ tortureβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βtortures.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-83"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +83 (<a href="#noteref-83">return</a>)<br/> +[ Faustusβ So the later 4tos.βNot in 4to 1604.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-84"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +84 (<a href="#noteref-84">return</a>)<br/> +[ Billβ i.e. writing, deed.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-85"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +85 (<a href="#noteref-85">return</a>)<br/> +[ Hereβs fire; come, Faustus, set it onβ This would not +be intelligible without the assistance of THE HISTORY OF +DR. FAUSTUS, the sixth chapter of which is headed,ββHow Doctor +Faustus set his blood in a saucer on warme ashes, and writ as +followeth.β Sig. B, ed. 1648.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-86"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +86 (<a href="#noteref-86">return</a>)<br/> +[ But what is this inscription, &c.β βHe [Faustusβ tooke +a small penknife and prickt a veine in his left hand; and for +certainty thereupon were seen on his hand these words written, +as if they had been written with blood, O HOMO, FUGE.β +THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, Sig. B, ed. 1648.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-87"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +87 (<a href="#noteref-87">return</a>)<br/> +[ meβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βthee.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-88"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +88 (<a href="#noteref-88">return</a>)<br/> +[ he desiresβ Not in any of the four 4tos. In the tract +just cited, the β3d Articleβ stands thus,ββThat Mephostophiles +should bring him any thing, and doe for him whatsoever.β Sig. A 4, +ed. 1648. A later ed. adds βhe desired.β Marlowe, no doubt, +followed some edition of the HISTORY in which these words, +or something equivalent to them, had been omitted by mistake. +(2to 1661, which I consider as of no authority, has βhe +requireth.β)] +</p> +<p><a name="note-89"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +89 (<a href="#noteref-89">return</a>)<br/> +[ that, &c.β So all the 4tos, ungrammatically.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-90"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +90 (<a href="#noteref-90">return</a>)<br/> +[ theseβ See note Β§, p. 80.[i.e. Note 25] +: ] +</p> +<p><a name="note-91"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +91 (<a href="#noteref-91">return</a>)<br/> +[ thereβ So the later 4tos.βNot in 4to 1604.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-92"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +92 (<a href="#noteref-92">return</a>)<br/> +[ areβ So two of the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βis.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-93"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +93 (<a href="#noteref-93">return</a>)<br/> +[ fondβ i.e. foolish.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-94"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +94 (<a href="#noteref-94">return</a>)<br/> +[ What! walking, disputing, &c.β The later 4tos have βWhat, +SLEEPING, EATING, walking, AND disputing!β But it is evident +that this speech is not given correctly in any of the old eds.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-95"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +95 (<a href="#noteref-95">return</a>)<br/> +[ let me have a wife, &c.β The ninth chapter of THE HISTORY +OF DR. FAUSTUS narrates βHow Doctor Faustus would have married, +and how the Devill had almost killed him for it,β and concludes +as follows. βIt is no jesting [said Mephistophilisβ with us: +hold thou that which thou hast vowed, and we will peforme as we +have promised; and more shall that, thou shalt have thy hearts +desire of what woman soever thou wilt, be she alive or dead, +and so long as thou wilt thou shalt keep her by thee.βThese +words pleased Faustus wonderfull well, and repented himself that +he was so foolish to wish himselfe married, that might have any +woman in the whole city brought him at his command; the which +he practised and persevered in a long time.β Sig. B 3, ed. 1648.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-96"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +96 (<a href="#noteref-96">return</a>)<br/> +[ meβ Not in 4to 1604. (This line is wanting in the later 4tos.)] +</p> +<p><a name="note-97"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +97 (<a href="#noteref-97">return</a>)<br/> +[ noβ So the later 4tos.βNot in 4to 1604.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-98"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +98 (<a href="#noteref-98">return</a>)<br/> +[ Sabaβ i.e. Sabaeaβthe Queen of Sheba.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-99"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +99 (<a href="#noteref-99">return</a>)<br/> +[ iteratingβ i.e. reciting, repeating.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-100"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +100 (<a href="#noteref-100">return</a>)<br/> +[ And argue of divine astrology, &c.β In THE HISTORY OF +DR. FAUSTUS, there are several tedious pages on the subject; +but our dramatist, in the dialogue which follows, has no +particular obligations to them.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-101"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +101 (<a href="#noteref-101">return</a>)<br/> +[ erringβ i.e. wandering.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-102"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +102 (<a href="#noteref-102">return</a>)<br/> +[ freshmenβsβ βA Freshman, tiro, novitius.β Colesβs DICT. +Properly, a student during his first term at the university.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-103"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +103 (<a href="#noteref-103">return</a>)<br/> +[ resolveβ i.e. satisfy, inform.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-104"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +104 (<a href="#noteref-104">return</a>)<br/> +[ Seek to saveβ Qy. βSeek THOU to saveβ? But see note ||, +p. 18.] +</p> +<pre> + [Note ||, from page 18 (The First Part of Tamburlaine The + Great): + + Barbarousβ Qy. βO Barbarousβ? in the next line but one, + βO treacherousβ? and in the last line of the speech, + βO bloodyβ? But we occasionally find in our early dramatists + lines which are defective in the first syllable; and in some + of these instances at least it would almost seem that nothing + has been omitted by the transcriber or printer.β] +</pre> +<p><a name="note-105"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +105 (<a href="#noteref-105">return</a>)<br/> +[ Enter the SEVEN DEADLY SINSβ In THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, +Lucifer amuses Faustus, not by calling up the Seven Deadly Sins, +but by making various devils appear before him, βone after another, +in forme as they were in hell.β βFirst entered Beliall in forme +of a beare,β &c.ββafter him came Beelzebub, in curled haire of +a horseflesh colour,β &c.ββthen came Astaroth, in the forme of +a worme,β &c. &c. During this exhibition, βLucifer himselfe sate +in manner of a man all hairy, but of browne colour, like a +squirrell, curled, and his tayle turning upward on his backe as +the squirrels use: I think he could crack nuts too like a +squirrell.β Sig. D, ed. 1648.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-106"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +106 (<a href="#noteref-106">return</a>)<br/> +[ caseβ i.e. couple.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-107"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +107 (<a href="#noteref-107">return</a>)<br/> +[ beversβ i.e. refreshments between meals.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-108"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +108 (<a href="#noteref-108">return</a>)<br/> +[ L.β All the 4tos βLechery.ββHere I have made the alteration +recommended by Mr. Collier in his Preface to COLERIDGEβS SEVEN +LECTURES ON SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON, p. cviii.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-109"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +109 (<a href="#noteref-109">return</a>)<br/> +[ Away, to hell, to hellβ In 4to 1604, these words stand +on a line by themselves, without a prefix. (In the later 4tos, +the corresponding passage is as follows; + ββββ begins with Lechery. +</p> +<pre> + + LUCIFER. Away to hell, away! On, piper! [Exeunt the SINS. + FAUSTUS. O, how this sight doth delight my soul!β &c.)] +</pre> +<p><a name="note-110"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +110 (<a href="#noteref-110">return</a>)<br/> +[ I will send for thee at midnightβ In THE HISTORY OF DR. +FAUSTUS, we have a particular account of Faustusβs visit +to the infernal regions, Sig. D 2, ed. 1648.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-111"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +111 (<a href="#noteref-111">return</a>)<br/> +[ Enter CHORUSβ Old ed. βEnter WAGNER solus.β That these +lines belong to the Chorus would be evident enough, even if we +had no assistance here from the later 4tos.βThe parts of Wagner +and of the Chorus were most probably played by the same actor: +and hence the error.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-112"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +112 (<a href="#noteref-112">return</a>)<br/> +[ Learned Faustus, + To know the secrets of astronomy, &c.β See the 21st chapter +of THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS,ββHow Doctor Faustus was carried +through the ayre up to the heavens, to see the whole world, +and how the sky and planets ruled,β &c.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-113"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +113 (<a href="#noteref-113">return</a>)<br/> +[ Enter FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILISβ Scene, the Popeβs +privy-chamber.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-114"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +114 (<a href="#noteref-114">return</a>)<br/> +[ Trierβ i.e. Treves or Triers.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-115"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +115 (<a href="#noteref-115">return</a>)<br/> +[ From Paris next, &c.β This description is from THE HISTORY +OF DR. FAUSTUS; βHe came from Paris to Mentz, where the river +of Maine falls into the Rhine: notwithstanding he tarried not +long there, but went into Campania, in the kingdome of Neapol, +in which he saw an innumerable sort of cloysters, nunries, and +churches, and great houses of stone, the streets faire and large, +and straight forth from one end of the towne to the other as a +line; and all the pavement of the city was of bricke, and the +more it rained into the towne, the fairer the streets were: +there saw he the tombe of Virgill, and the highway that he cu[t] +through the mighty hill of stone in one night, the whole length +of an English mile,β &c. Sig. E 2, ed. 1648.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-116"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +116 (<a href="#noteref-116">return</a>)<br/> +[ The way he cut, &c.β During the middle ages Virgil was +regarded as a great magician, and much was written concerning +his exploits in that capacity. The LYFE OF VIRGILIUS, however, +(see Thomsβs EARLY PROSE ROMANCES, vol. ii.,) makes no mention +of the feat in question. But Petrarch speaks of it as follows. +βNon longe a Puteolis Falernus collis attollitur, famoso palmite +nobilis. Inter Falernum et mare mons est saxeus, hominum manibus +confossus, quod vulgus insulsum a Virgilio magicis cantaminibus +factum putant: ita clarorum fama hominum, non veris contenta +laudibus, saepe etiam fabulis viam facit. De quo cum me olim +Robertus regno clarus, sed praeclarus ingenio ac literis, quid +sentirem, multis astantibus, percunctatus esset, humanitate fretus +regia, qua non reges modo sed homines vicit, jocans nusquam me +legisse magicarium fuisse Virgilium respondi: quod ille severissimae +nutu frontis approbans, non illic magici sed ferri vestigia +confessus est. Sunt autem fauces excavati montis angustae sed +longissimae atque atrae: tenebrosa inter horrifica semper nox: +publicum iter in medio, mirum et religioni proximum, belli quoque +immolatum temporibus, sic vero populi vox est, et nullis unquam +latrociniis attentatum, patet: Criptam Neapolitanam dicunt, cujus +et in epistolis ad Lucilium Seneca mentionem fecit. Sub finem fusci +tramitis, ubi primo videri coelum incipit, in aggere edito, ipsius +Virgilii busta visuntur, pervetusti operis, unde haec forsan ab +illo perforati montis fluxit opinio.β ITINERARIUM SYRIACUM,βOPP. +p. 560, ed. Bas.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-117"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +117 (<a href="#noteref-117">return</a>)<br/> +[ From thence to Venice, Padua, and the rest, + In one of which a sumptuous temple stands, &c.β So the +later 4tos.β2to 1604 βIn MIDST of which,β &c.βTHE HISTORY +OF DR. FAUSTUS shews WHAT βsumptuous templeβ is meant: βFrom +thence he came to Venice....He wondred not a little at the +fairenesse of S. Marks Place, and the sumptuous church standing +thereon, called S. Marke, how all the pavement was set with +coloured stones, and all the rood or loft of the church double +gilded over.β Sig. E 2, ed. 1648.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-118"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +118 (<a href="#noteref-118">return</a>)<br/> +[ Just through the midst, &c.β This and the next line are +not in 4to 1604. I have inserted them from the later 4tos, as +being absolutely necessary for the sense.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-119"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +119 (<a href="#noteref-119">return</a>)<br/> +[ Ponteβ All the 4tos βPonto.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-120"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +120 (<a href="#noteref-120">return</a>)<br/> +[ ofβ So the later 4tos.βNot in 4to 1604.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-121"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +121 (<a href="#noteref-121">return</a>)<br/> +[ Then charm me, that I, &c.β A corrupted passage.βCompare +THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, Sig. E 3, ed. 1648; where, however, +the Cardinal, whom the Pope entertains, is called the Cardinal +of PAVIA.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-122"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +122 (<a href="#noteref-122">return</a>)<br/> +[ Sonnetβ Variously written, SENNET, SIGNET, SIGNATE, &c.βA +particular set of notes on the trumpet, or cornet, different from +a flourish. See Naresβs GLOSS. in V. SENNET.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-123"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +123 (<a href="#noteref-123">return</a>)<br/> +[ Enter ROBIN, &c.β Scene, near an inn.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-124"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +124 (<a href="#noteref-124">return</a>)<br/> +[ ippocrasβ Or HIPPOCRAS,βa medicated drink composed of wine +(usually red) with spices and sugar. It is generally supposed to +have been so called from HIPPOCRATES (contracted by our earliest +writers to HIPPOCRAS); perhaps because it was strained,βthe woollen +bag used by apothecaries to strain syrups and decoctions for +clarification being termed HIPPOCRATESβ SLEEVE.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-125"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +125 (<a href="#noteref-125">return</a>)<br/> +[ tabernβ i.e. tavern.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-126"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +126 (<a href="#noteref-126">return</a>)<br/> +[ [Exeunt. + Enter ROBIN and RALPH, &c.β A scene is evidently wanting +after the Exeunt of Robin and Ralph.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-127"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +127 (<a href="#noteref-127">return</a>)<br/> +[ purchaseβ i.e. bootyβgain, acquisition.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-128"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +128 (<a href="#noteref-128">return</a>)<br/> +[ Drawerβ There is an inconsistency here: the Vintner +cannot properly be addressed as βDrawer.β The later 4tos are +also inconsistent in the corresponding passage: Dick says, βTHE +VINTNERβS BOY follows us at the hard heels,β and immediately +the βVINTNERβ enters.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-129"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +129 (<a href="#noteref-129">return</a>)<br/> +[ toneβ i.e. the one.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-130"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +130 (<a href="#noteref-130">return</a>)<br/> +[ MEPHISTβ Monarch of hell, &c.β Old ed. thus:β] +</p> +<pre> + βMEPHIST. Vanish vilaines, thβ one like an Ape, an other like + a Beare, the third an Asse, for doing this enterprise. + + Monarch of hell, vnder whose blacke suruey,β &c. +</pre> +<p> +What follows, shews that the words which I have omitted ought +to have no place in the text; nor is there any thing equivalent +to them in the corresponding passage of the play as given in +the later 4tos.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-131"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +131 (<a href="#noteref-131">return</a>)<br/> +[ Enter EMPEROR, &c.β SceneβAn apartment in the Emperorβs +Palace. According to THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, the Emperor +βwas personally, with the rest of the nobles and gentlemen, at +the towne of Inzbrack, where he kept his court.β Sig. G, ed. 1648.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-132"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +132 (<a href="#noteref-132">return</a>)<br/> +[ Master Doctor Faustus, &cβ The greater part of this scene +is closely borrowed from the history just cited: e.g. βFaustus, +I have heard much of thee, that thou art excellent in the black art, +and none like thee in mine empire; for men say that thou hast a +familiar spirit with thee, and that thou canst doe what thou list; +it is therefore (said the Emperor) my request of thee, that thou +let me see a proofe of thy experience: and I vow unto thee, by +the honour of my emperiall crowne, none evill shall happen unto +thee for so doing,β &c. Ibid.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-133"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +133 (<a href="#noteref-133">return</a>)<br/> +[ wonβ May be right: but qy. βdoneβ?] +</p> +<p><a name="note-134"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +134 (<a href="#noteref-134">return</a>)<br/> +[ As we that do succeed, &c.β A corrupted passage (not found +in the later 4tos).] +</p> +<p><a name="note-135"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +135 (<a href="#noteref-135">return</a>)<br/> +[ The bright, &c.β See note ||, p. 18.] +</p> +<pre> + [Note ||, from page 18 (The First Part of Tamburlaine The + Great): + + Barbarousβ Qy. βO Barbarousβ? in the next line but one, + βO treacherousβ? and in the last line of the speech, + βO bloodyβ? But we occasionally find in our early dramatists + lines which are defective in the first syllable; and in + some of these instances at least it would almost seem that + nothing has been omitted by the transcriber or printer.β] +</pre> +<p><a name="note-136"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +136 (<a href="#noteref-136">return</a>)<br/> +[ But, if it like your grace, it is not in my ability, &c.] +βD. Faustus answered, My most excellent lord, I am ready to +accomplish your request in all things, so farre forth as I and +my spirit are able to performe: yet your majesty shall know that +their dead bodies are not able substantially to be brought before +you; but such spirits as have seene Alexander and his Paramour +alive shall appeare unto you, in manner and form as they both +lived in their most flourishing time; and herewith I hope to +please your Imperiall Majesty. Then Faustus went a little aside +to speake to his spirit; but he returned againe presently, saying, +Now, if it please your Majesty, you shall see them; yet, upon this +condition, that you demand no question of them, nor speake unto +them; which the Emperor agreed unto. Wherewith Doctor Faustus opened +the privy-chamber doore, where presently entered the great and mighty +emperor Alexander Magnus, in all things to looke upon as if he +had beene alive; in proportion, a strong set thicke man, of a +middle stature, blacke haire, and that both thicke and curled, +head and beard, red cheekes, and a broad face, with eyes like +a basiliske; he had a compleat harnesse (i.e. suit of armour) +burnished and graven, exceeding rich to look upon: and so, +passing towards the Emperor Carolus, he made low and reverend +courtesie: whereat the Emperour Carolus would have stood up to +receive and greet him with the like reverence; but Faustus tooke +hold on him, and would not permit him to doe it. Shortly after, +Alexander made humble reverence, and went out againe; and comming +to the doore, his paramour met him. She comming in made the Emperour +likewise reverence: she was cloathed in blew velvet, wrought and +imbroidered with pearls and gold; she was also excellent faire, +like milke and blood mixed, tall and slender, with a face round +as an apple. And thus passed [sheβ certaine times up and downe +the house; which the Emperor marking, said to himselfe, Now have +I seene two persons which my heart hath long wished to behold; +and sure it cannot otherwise be (said he to himselfe) but that +the spirits have changed themselves into these formes, and have +but deceived me, calling to minde the woman that raised the prophet +Samuel: and for that the Emperor would be the more satisfied in +the matter, he said, I have often heard that behind, in her neck, +she had a great wart or wen; wherefore he tooke Faustus by the +hand without any words, and went to see if it were also to be +seene on her or not; but she, perceiving that he came to her, +bowed downe her neck, when he saw a great wart; and hereupon she +vanished, leaving the Emperor and the rest well contented.β +THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, Sig. G, ed. 1648.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-137"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +137 (<a href="#noteref-137">return</a>)<br/> +[ bothβ Old ed. βbest.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-138"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +138 (<a href="#noteref-138">return</a>)<br/> +[ Mephistophilis, transform him straightβ According to THE +HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, the knight was not present during Faustusβs +βconferenceβ with the Emperor; nor did he offer the doctor any +insult by doubting his skill in magic. We are there told that +Faustus happening to see the knight asleep, βleaning out of a +window of the great hall,β fixed a huge pair of hartβs horns on +his head; βand, as the knight awaked, thinking to pull in his head, +he hit his hornes against the glasse, that the panes thereof flew +about his eares: thinke here how this good gentleman was vexed, +for he could neither get backward nor forward.β After the emperor +and the courtiers, to their great amusement, had beheld the poor +knight in this condition, Faustus removed the horns. When Faustus, +having taken leave of the emperor, was a league and a half from +the city, he was attacked in a wood by the knight and some of his +companions: they were in armour, and mounted on fair palfreys; +but the doctor quickly overcame them by turning all the bushes +into horsemen, and βso charmed them, that every one, knight and +other, for the space of a whole moneth, did weare a paire of +goates hornes on their browes, and every palfry a paire of oxe +hornes on his head; and this was their penance appointed by +Faustus.β A second attempt of the knight to revenge himself on +Faustus proved equally unsuccessful. Sigs. G 2, I 3, ed. 1648.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-139"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +139 (<a href="#noteref-139">return</a>)<br/> +[ FAUSTUS. Now Mephistophilis, &c.β Here the scene is supposed +to be changed to the βfair and pleasant greenβ which Faustus +presently mentions.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-140"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +140 (<a href="#noteref-140">return</a>)<br/> +[ Horse-courserβ i.e. Horse-dealer.βWe are now to suppose the +scene to be near the home of Faustus, and presently that it is the +interior of his house, for he falls asleep in his chair.ββHow +Doctor Faustus deceived a Horse-courserβ is related in a short +chapter (the 34th) of THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS: βAfter this +manner he served a horse-courser at a faire called Pheiffering,β &c.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-141"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +141 (<a href="#noteref-141">return</a>)<br/> +[ for fortyβ Qy. βfor TWICE forty DOLLARSβ?] +</p> +<p><a name="note-142"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +142 (<a href="#noteref-142">return</a>)<br/> +[ intoβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βvnto.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-143"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +143 (<a href="#noteref-143">return</a>)<br/> +[ Doctor Lopusβ i.e. Doctor Lopez, domestic physician +to Queen Elizabeth, who was put to death for having received +a bribe from the court of Spain to destroy her. He is frequently +mentioned in our early dramas: see my note on Middletonβs WORKS, +iv. 384.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-144"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +144 (<a href="#noteref-144">return</a>)<br/> +[ know ofβ The old ed. has βKNOWNE ofβ; which perhaps is right, +meaningβacquainted with.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-145"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +145 (<a href="#noteref-145">return</a>)<br/> +[ hey-passβ Equivalent toβjuggler.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-146"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +146 (<a href="#noteref-146">return</a>)<br/> +[ ostryβ i.e. inn,βlodging.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-147"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +147 (<a href="#noteref-147">return</a>)<br/> +[ cunningβ i.e. skill.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-148"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +148 (<a href="#noteref-148">return</a>)<br/> +[ [Exeunt. + Enter the DUKE OF VANHOLT, the DUCHESS, and FAUSTUSβ Old ed.; +</p> +<pre> + + βExeunt. + Enter to them the DUKE, the DUTCHESS, the DUKE speakes.β +</pre> +<p> +In the later 4tos a scene intervenes between the βExeuntβ of +Faustus, Mephistophilis, and Wagner, and the entrance of the Duke +of Vanholt, &c.βWe are to suppose that Faustus is now at the court +of the Duke of Vanholt: this is plain, not only from the later 4tos, +βin which Wagner tells Faustus that the Duke βhath sent some of +his men to attend him, with provision fit for his journey,ββbut +from THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, the subjoined portion of which +is closely followed in the present scene. βChap. xxxix. HOW DOCTOR +FAUSTUS PLAYED A MERRY JEST WITH THE DUKE OF ANHOLT IN HIS COURT. +Doctor Faustus on a time went to the Duke of Anholt, who welcommed +him very courteously; this was the moneth of January; where sitting +at the table, he perceived the dutchess to be with child; and +forbearing himselfe untill the meat was taken from the table, +and that they brought in the banqueting dishes [i.e. the dessertβ, +Doctor Faustus said to the dutchesse, Gratious lady, I have alwayes +heard that great-bellied women doe alwayes long for some dainties; +I beseech therefore your grace, hide not your minde from me, but +tell me what you desire to eat. She answered him, Doctor Faustus, +now truly I will not hide from you what my heart doth most desire; +namely, that, if it were now harvest, I would eat my bellyfull of +grapes and other dainty fruit. Doctor Faustus answered hereupon, +Gracious lady, this is a small thing for me to doe, for I can doe +more than this. Wherefore he tooke a plate, and set open one of +the casements of the window, holding it forth; where incontinent +he had his dish full of all manner of fruit, as red and white +grapes, peares, and apples, the which came from out of strange +countries: all these he presented the dutchesse, saying, Madam, +I pray you vouchsafe to taste of this dainty fruit, the which +came from a farre countrey, for there the summer is not yet ended. +The dutchesse thanked Faustus highly, and she fell to her fruit +with full appetite. The Duke of Anholt notwithstanding could not +withhold to ask Faustus with what reason there were such young +fruit to be had at that time of the yeare. Doctor Faustus told +him, May it please your grace to understand that the year is +divided into two circles of the whole world, that when with us it +is winter, in the contrary circle it is notwithstanding summer; +for in India and Saba there falleth or setteth the sunne, so that +it is so warm that they have twice a yeare fruit; and, gracious +lord, I have a swift spirit, the which can in the twinkling of +an eye fulfill my desire in any thing; wherefore I sent him into +those countries, who hath brought this fruit as you see: whereat +the duke was in great admiration.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-149"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +149 (<a href="#noteref-149">return</a>)<br/> +[ Sabaβ i.e. Sabaea.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-150"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +150 (<a href="#noteref-150">return</a>)<br/> +[ beholdingβ i.e. beholden.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-151"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +151 (<a href="#noteref-151">return</a>)<br/> +[ Enter WAGNERβ Scene, a room in the house of Faustus.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-152"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +152 (<a href="#noteref-152">return</a>)<br/> +[ he hath given to me all his goodsβ Compare chap. lvi. of +THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS,ββHow Doctor Faustus made his will, +in which he named his servant Wagner to be his heire.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-153"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +153 (<a href="#noteref-153">return</a>)<br/> +[ HELEN passeth over the stageβ In THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR +FAUSTUS we have the following description of Helen. βThis lady +appeared before them in a most rich gowne of purple velvet, costly +imbrodered; her haire hanged downe loose, as faire as the beaten +gold, and of such length that it reached downe to her hammes; +having most amorous cole-black eyes, a sweet and pleasant round +face, with lips as red as a cherry; her cheekes of a rose colour, +her mouth small, her neck white like a swan; tall and slender of +personage; in summe, there was no imperfect place in her: she +looked round about with a rolling hawkes eye, a smiling and +wanton countenance, which neere-hand inflamed the hearts of all +the students; but that they perswaded themselves she was a spirit, +which made them lightly passe away such fancies.β Sig. H 4, ed. 1648.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-154"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +154 (<a href="#noteref-154">return</a>)<br/> +[ Enter an OLD MANβ See chap. xlviii of THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR +FAUSTUS,ββHow an old man, the neighbour of Faustus, sought to +perswade him to amend his evil life and to fall into repentance,β +βaccording to which history, the Old Manβs exhortation is delivered +at his own house, whither he had invited Faustus to supper.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-155"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +155 (<a href="#noteref-155">return</a>)<br/> +[ vildβ Old ed. βvild.β See note ||, p. 68. +</p> +<pre> + [Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + Vileβ The 8vo βVildβ; the 4to βWildβ (Both eds. a little + before, have βVILE monster, born of some infernal hagβ, and, + a few lines after, βTo VILE and ignominious servitudeβ:βthe + fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with + their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, + and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, + where we sometimes find βvildβ and sometimes βVILE.β)β] +</pre> +<p><a name="note-156"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +156 (<a href="#noteref-156">return</a>)<br/> +[ sinβ Old ed. βsinnesβ (This is not in the later 4tos).] +</p> +<p><a name="note-157"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +157 (<a href="#noteref-157">return</a>)<br/> +[ almostβ So the later 4tos.βNot in 4to 1604.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-158"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +158 (<a href="#noteref-158">return</a>)<br/> +[ nowβ So the later 4tos.βNot in 4to 1604.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-159"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +159 (<a href="#noteref-159">return</a>)<br/> +[ MEPHIST. Do it, then, quickly, &c.β After this speech, +most probably, there ought to be a stage-direction, βFAUSTUS +STABS HIS ARM, AND WRITES ON A PAPER WITH HIS BLOOD. Compare +THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, chap. xlix,ββHow Doctor Faustus +wrote the second time with his owne blood, and gave it to the +Devill.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-160"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +160 (<a href="#noteref-160">return</a>)<br/> +[ One thing, good servant, &c.β βTo the end that this miserable +Faustus might fill the lust of his flesh and live in all manner +of voluptuous pleasure, it came in his mind, after he had slept +his first sleepe, and in the 23 year past of his time, that he +had a great desire to lye with faire Helena of Greece, especially +her whom he had seen and shewed unto the students at Wittenberg: +wherefore he called unto his spirit Mephostophiles, commanding him +to bring to him the faire Helena; which he also did. Whereupon he +fell in love with her, and made her his common concubine and +bed-fellow; for she was so beautifull and delightfull a peece, +that he could not be one houre from her, if he should therefore +have suffered death, she had so stoln away his heart: and, to +his seeming, in time she was with childe, whom Faustus named +Justus Faustus. The childe told Doctor Faustus many things which +were don in forraign countrys; but in the end, when Faustus lost +his life, the mother and the childe vanished away both together.β +THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. I 4, ed. 1648.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-161"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +161 (<a href="#noteref-161">return</a>)<br/> +[ Thoseβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βThese.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-162"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +162 (<a href="#noteref-162">return</a>)<br/> +[ Faustus, thisβ Qy. βThis, Faustusβ?] +</p> +<p><a name="note-163"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +163 (<a href="#noteref-163">return</a>)<br/> +[ toplessβ i.e. not exceeded in height by any.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-164"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +164 (<a href="#noteref-164">return</a>)<br/> +[ isβ So the later 4tos.β2to 1604 βbe.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-165"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +165 (<a href="#noteref-165">return</a>)<br/> +[ shaltβ So all the 4tos; and so I believe Marlowe wrote, +though the grammar requires βshall.β] +</p> +<p><a name="note-166"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +166 (<a href="#noteref-166">return</a>)<br/> +[ Enter the OLD MANβ Scene, a room in the Old Manβs house. +βIn THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS the Old Man makes himself very +merry with the attempts of the evil powers to hurt him. βAbout +two dayes after that he had exhorted Faustus, as the poore man +lay in his bed, suddenly there was a mighty rumbling in the +chamber, the which he was never wont to heare, and he heard as +it had beene the groaning of a sow, which lasted long: whereupon +the good old man began to jest and mocke, and said, Oh, what a +barbarian cry is this? Oh faire bird, what foul musicke is this? +A[hβ, faire angell, that could not tarry two dayes in his place! +beginnest thou now to runne into a poore mans house, where thou +hast no power, and wert not able to keepe thy owne two dayes? +With these and such like words the spirit departed,β &c. +Sig. I 2, ed. 1648.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-167"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +167 (<a href="#noteref-167">return</a>)<br/> +[ Enter Faustus, &c.β Scene, a room in the house of Faustus.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-168"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +168 (<a href="#noteref-168">return</a>)<br/> +[ cunningβ i.e. knowledge, skill.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-169"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +169 (<a href="#noteref-169">return</a>)<br/> +[ Why did not Faustus tell us of this before, &c.β βWherefore +one of them said unto him, Ah, friend Faustus, what have you done +to conceale this matter so long from us? We would, by the helpe +of good divines and the grace of God, have brought you out of this +net, and have torne you out of the bondage and chaines of Satan; +whereas now we feare it is too late, to the utter ruine both of +your body and soule. Doctor Faustus answered, I durst never doe +it, although I often minded to settle my life [myself?β to godly +people to desire counsell and helpe; and once mine old neighbour +counselled me that I should follow his learning and leave all my +conjurations: yet, when I was minded to amend and to follow that +good mans counsell, then came the Devill and would have had me +away, as this night he is like to doe, and said, so soone as I +turned againe to God, he would dispatch me altogether.β THE +HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. K 3, ed. 1648.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-170"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +170 (<a href="#noteref-170">return</a>)<br/> +[ saveβ So the later 4tos.βNot in 4to 1604.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-171"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +171 (<a href="#noteref-171">return</a>)<br/> +[ and what noise soever ye hear, &c.β βLastly, to knit up +my troubled oration, this is my friendly request, that you would +go to rest, and let nothing trouble you; also, if you chance heare +any noyse or rumbling about the house, be not therewith afraid, +for there shall no evill happen unto you,β &c. THE HISTORY OF +DOCTOR FAUSTUS, ubi supra.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-172"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +172 (<a href="#noteref-172">return</a>)<br/> +[ O lente, &c. + βAt si, quem malles, Cephalum complexa teneres, + Clamares, LENTE CURRITE, NOCTIS EQUI.β + Ovid,βAMOR. i. xiii. 39.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-173"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +173 (<a href="#noteref-173">return</a>)<br/> +[ That, when you, &c.β So all the old eds.; and it is certain +that awkward changes of person are sometimes found in passages +of our early poets: but qy., +</p> +<pre> + βThat, when THEY vomit forth into the air, + My limbs may issue from THEIR smoky mouths,β &c.?] +</pre> +<p><a name="note-174"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +174 (<a href="#noteref-174">return</a>)<br/> +[ and I be changβd + Unto some brutish beastβ βNow, thou Faustus, damned wretch, +how happy wert thou, if, as an unreasonable beast, thou mightest +dye without [aβ soule! so shouldst thou not feele any more doubts,β +&c. THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. K. ed. 1648.] +</p> +<p><a name="note-175"><!--Note--></a></p> +<p class="foot"> +175 (<a href="#noteref-175">return</a>)<br/> +[ Exeunt DEVILS with FAUSTUSβ In THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, +his βmiserable and lamentable endβ is described as follows: it +took place, we are informed, at βthe village called Rimlich, +halfe a mile from Wittenberg.βββThe students and the other that +were there, when they had prayed for him, they wept, and so went +forth; but Faustus tarried in the hall; and when the gentlemen +were laid in bed, none of them could sleepe, for that they att[eβnded +to heare if they might be privy of his end. It happened that +betweene twelve and one a clocke at midnight, there blew a mighty +storme of winde against the house, as though it would have blowne +the foundation thereof out of his place. Hereupon the students +began to feare and goe out of their beds, comforting one another; +but they would not stirre out of the chamber; and the host of +the house ran out of doores, thinking the house would fall. The +students lay neere unto the hall wherein Doctor Faustus lay, and +they heard a mighty noyse and hissing, as if the hall had beene +full of snakes and adders. With that, the hall-doore flew open, +wherein Doctor Faustus was, that he began to cry for helpe, +saying, Murther, murther! but it came forth with halfe a voyce, +hollowly: shortly after, they heard him no more. But when it was +day, the students, that had taken no rest that night, arose and +went into the hall, in the which they left Doctor Faustus; where +notwithstanding they found not Faustus, but all the hall lay +sprinkled with blood, his braines cleaving to the wall, for the +devill had beaten him from one wall against another; in one corner +lay his eyes, in another his teeth; a pittifull and fearefull +sight to behold. Then began the students to waile and weepe for +him, and sought for his body in many places. Lastly, they came +into the yard, where they found his body lying on the horse-dung, +most monstrously torne and fearefull to behold, for his head and +all his joynts were dashed in peeces. The fore-named students and +masters that were at his death, have obtained so much, that they +buried him in the village where he was so grievously tormented. +After the which they returned to Wittenberg; and comming into the +house of Faustus, they found the servant of Faustus very sad, +unto whom they opened all the matter, who tooke it exceeding +heavily. There found they also this history of Doctor Faustus +noted and of him written, as is before declared, all save only +his end, the which was after by the students thereto annexed; +further, what his servant had noted thereof, was made in another +booke. And you have heard that he held by him in his life the +spirit of faire Helena, the which had by him one sonne, the which +he named Justus Faustus: even the same day of his death they +vanished away, both mother and sonne. The house before was so +darke that scarce any body could abide therein. The same night +Doctor Faustus appeared unto his servant lively, and shewed unto +him many secret things, the which he had done and hidden in his +lifetime. Likewise there were certaine which saw Doctor Faustus +looke out of the window by night, as they passed by the house.β +Sig. K 3, ed. 1648.] +</p> + +<hr /> + +<div class="mynote"> + +<p> +Original Comments on the preparation of the E-Text: +</p> + +<p class="center"> +SQUARE BRACKETS: +</p> +<p> +The square brackets, i.e. [ ] are copied from the printed book, +without change. The open [Exit brackets use in the book have +been closed [by mh]. +</p> +<p> +For this E-Text version of the book, the footnotes have been +consolidated at the end of the play. +</p> +<p> +Numbering of the footnotes has been changed, and each footnote +is given a unique identity in the form [XXX]. +</p> + +<p class="center"> +CHANGES TO THE TEXT: +</p> +<p> +Character names were expanded. For Example, SECOND SCHOLAR was +SEC. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus + +Author: Christoper Marlowe + +Release Date: January, 1997 [Etext #779] +Posting Date: November 3, 2009 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS *** + + + + +Produced by Gary R. Young + + + + + +THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS + +By Christopher Marlowe + +From The Quarto of 1604 + +Edited by The Rev. Alexander Dyce + + + + + +THE TRAGICALL HISTORY OF D. FAUSTUS. AS IT HATH BENE ACTED +BY THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARLE OF NOTTINGHAM HIS SERUANTS. +WRITTEN BY CH. MARL. + +In reprinting this edition, I have here and there amended the text +by means of the later 4tos,--1616, 1624, 1631.--Of 4to 1663, which +contains various comparatively modern alterations and additions, +I have made no use. + + + + +DRAMATIS PERSONAE. + + THE POPE. + CARDINAL OF LORRAIN. + THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. + DUKE OF VANHOLT. + FAUSTUS. + VALDES, ] friends to FAUSTUS. + CORNELIUS, ] + WAGNER, servant to FAUSTUS. + Clown. + ROBIN. + RALPH. + Vintner. + Horse-courser. + A Knight. + An Old Man. + Scholars, Friars, and Attendants. + + DUCHESS OF VANHOLT + + LUCIFER. + BELZEBUB. + MEPHISTOPHILIS. + Good Angel. + Evil Angel. + The Seven Deadly Sins. + Devils. + Spirits in the shapes of ALEXANDER THE GREAT, of his Paramour + and of HELEN. + + Chorus. + + + + + +THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS + +FROM THE QUARTO OF 1604. + + + Enter CHORUS. + + CHORUS. Not marching now in fields of Thrasymene, + Where Mars did mate[1] the Carthaginians; + Nor sporting in the dalliance of love, + In courts of kings where state is overturn'd; + Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds, + Intends our Muse to vaunt[2] her[3] heavenly verse: + Only this, gentlemen,--we must perform + The form of Faustus' fortunes, good or bad: + To patient judgments we appeal our plaud, + And speak for Faustus in his infancy. + Now is he born, his parents base of stock, + In Germany, within a town call'd Rhodes: + Of riper years, to Wertenberg he went, + Whereas[4] his kinsmen chiefly brought him up. + So soon he profits in divinity, + The fruitful plot of scholarism grac'd, + That shortly he was grac'd with doctor's name, + Excelling all whose sweet delight disputes + In heavenly matters of theology; + Till swoln with cunning,[5] of a self-conceit, + His waxen wings did mount above his reach, + And, melting, heavens conspir'd his overthrow; + For, falling to a devilish exercise, + And glutted now[6] with learning's golden gifts, + He surfeits upon cursed necromancy; + Nothing so sweet as magic is to him, + Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss: + And this the man that in his study sits. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS discovered in his study.[7] + + FAUSTUS. Settle thy studies, Faustus, and begin + To sound the depth of that thou wilt profess: + Having commenc'd, be a divine in shew, + Yet level at the end of every art, + And live and die in Aristotle's works. + Sweet Analytics, 'tis thou[8] hast ravish'd me! + Bene disserere est finis logices. + Is, to dispute well, logic's chiefest end? + Affords this art no greater miracle? + Then read no more; thou hast attain'd that[9] end: + A greater subject fitteth Faustus' wit: + Bid Economy[10] farewell, and[11] Galen come, + Seeing, Ubi desinit philosophus, ibi incipit medicus: + Be a physician, Faustus; heap up gold, + And be eterniz'd for some wondrous cure: + Summum bonum medicinae sanitas, + The end of physic is our body's health. + Why, Faustus, hast thou not attain'd that end? + Is not thy common talk found aphorisms? + Are not thy bills hung up as monuments, + Whereby whole cities have escap'd the plague, + And thousand desperate maladies been eas'd? + Yet art thou still but Faustus, and a man. + Couldst[12] thou make men[13] to live eternally, + Or, being dead, raise them to life again, + Then this profession were to be esteem'd. + Physic, farewell! Where is Justinian? + + [Reads.] + Si una eademque res legatur[14] duobus, alter rem, + alter valorem rei, &c. + + A pretty case of paltry legacies! + + [Reads.] + Exhoereditare filium non potest pater, nisi, &c.[15] + + Such is the subject of the institute, + And universal body of the law:[16] + This[17] study fits a mercenary drudge, + Who aims at nothing but external trash; + Too servile[18] and illiberal for me. + When all is done, divinity is best: + Jerome's Bible, Faustus; view it well. + + [Reads.] + Stipendium peccati mors est. + Ha! + Stipendium, &c. + + The reward of sin is death: that's hard. + + [Reads.] + Si peccasse negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis veritas; + + If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and + there's 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,[19] + What will be, shall be? Divinity, adieu! + These metaphysics of magicians, + And necromantic books are heavenly; + Lines, circles, scenes,[20] letters, and characters; + Ay, these are those that Faustus most desires. + O, what a world of profit and delight, + Of power, of honour, of omnipotence, + Is promis'd to the studious artizan! + All 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, + Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man; + A sound magician is a mighty god: + Here, Faustus, tire[21] thy brains to gain a deity. + + Enter WAGNER.[22] + + Wagner, commend me to my dearest friends, + The German Valdes and Cornelius; + Request them earnestly to visit me. + + WAGNER. I will, sir. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. Their conference will be a greater help to me + Than all my labours, plod I ne'er so fast. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + + GOOD ANGEL. O, Faustus, lay that damned book aside, + And gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soul, + And heap God's heavy wrath upon thy head! + Read, read the Scriptures:--that is blasphemy. + + EVIL ANGEL. Go forward, Faustus, in that famous art + Wherein all Nature's treasure[23] is contain'd: + Be thou on earth as Jove[24] is in the sky, + Lord and commander of these elements.[25] + [Exeunt Angels.] + + FAUSTUS. How am I glutted with conceit of this! + Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, + Resolve[26] 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, + 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 swift Rhine circle fair Wertenberg; + I'll have them fill the public schools with silk,[27] + 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[28] provinces; + Yea, stranger engines for the brunt of war, + Than was the fiery keel at Antwerp's bridge,[29] + I'll make my servile spirits to invent. + + 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: + Yet not your words only,[30] 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; + Divinity is basest of the three, + Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile:[31] + 'Tis magic, magic, that hath ravish'd me. + Then, gentle friends, aid me in this attempt; + And I, that have with concise syllogisms[32] + Gravell'd the pastors of the German church, + And made the flowering pride of Wertenberg + Swarm to my problems, as the infernal spirits + On sweet Musaeus when he came to hell, + Will be as cunning[33] as Agrippa[34] was, + Whose shadow[35] made all Europe honour him. + + VALDES. Faustus, these books, thy wit, and our experience, + Shall make all nations to canonize us. + As Indian Moors obey their Spanish lords, + So shall the spirits[36] of every element + Be always serviceable to us three; + Like lions shall they guard us when we please; + Like Almain rutters[37] with their horsemen's staves, + Or Lapland giants, trotting by our sides; + Sometimes like women, or unwedded maids, + Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows + Than have the[38] white breasts of the queen of love: + From[39] Venice shall they drag huge argosies, + And from America the golden fleece + That yearly stuffs old Philip's treasury; + If learned Faustus will be resolute. + + FAUSTUS. Valdes, as resolute am I in this + As thou to live: therefore object it not. + + CORNELIUS. The miracles that magic will perform + Will make thee vow to study nothing else. + He that is grounded in astrology, + Enrich'd with tongues, well seen in[40] minerals, + Hath all the principles magic doth require: + Then doubt not, Faustus, but to be renowm'd,[41] + And more frequented for this mystery + Than heretofore the Delphian oracle. + The spirits tell me they can dry the sea, + And fetch the treasure of all foreign wrecks, + Ay, all the wealth that our forefathers hid + Within the massy entrails of the earth: + Then tell me, Faustus, what shall we three want? + + FAUSTUS. Nothing, Cornelius. O, this cheers my soul! + Come, shew me some demonstrations magical, + That I may conjure in some lusty grove, + And have these joys in full possession. + + VALDES. Then haste thee to some solitary grove, + And bear wise Bacon's and Albertus'[42] works, + The Hebrew Psalter, and New Testament; + And whatsoever else is requisite + We will inform thee ere our conference cease. + + CORNELIUS. Valdes, first let him know the words of art; + And then, all other ceremonies learn'd, + Faustus may try his cunning[43] by himself. + + VALDES. First I'll instruct thee in the rudiments, + And then wilt thou be perfecter than I. + + FAUSTUS. Then come and dine with me, and, after meat, + We'll canvass every quiddity thereof; + For, ere I sleep, I'll try what I can do: + This night I'll conjure, though I die therefore. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter two SCHOLARS.[44] + + FIRST SCHOLAR. I wonder what's become of Faustus, that was wont + to make our schools ring with sic probo. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. That shall we know, for see, here comes his boy. + + Enter WAGNER. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. How now, sirrah! where's thy master? + + WAGNER. God in heaven knows. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Why, dost not thou know? + + WAGNER. Yes, I know; but that follows not. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Go to, sirrah! leave your jesting, and tell us + where he is. + + WAGNER. That follows not necessary by force of argument, that you, + being licentiates, should stand upon:[45] therefore acknowledge + your error, and be attentive. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Why, didst thou not say thou knewest? + + WAGNER. Have you any witness on't? + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Yes, sirrah, I heard you. + + WAGNER. Ask my fellow if I be a thief. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Well, you will not tell us? + + WAGNER. Yes, sir, I will tell you: yet, if you were not dunces, + you would never ask me such a question; for is not he corpus + naturale? and is not that mobile? then 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 to see you both hanged + the next sessions. Thus having triumphed over you, I will set + my countenance like a precisian, 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[46] inform your worships: and so, the Lord bless you, + preserve you, and keep you, my dear brethren, my dear brethren![47] + [Exit.] + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Nay, then, I fear he is fallen into that damned art + for which they two are infamous through the world. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. 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. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. O, but I fear me nothing can reclaim him! + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Yet let us try what we can do. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter FAUSTUS to conjure.[48] + + FAUSTUS. Now that the gloomy shadow of the earth, + Longing to view Orion's drizzling look, + Leaps from th' antartic 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 pray'd and sacrific'd to them. + Within this circle is Jehovah's name, + Forward and backward anagrammatiz'd,[49] + Th' abbreviated[50] names of holy saints, + Figures of every adjunct to the heavens, + And characters of signs and erring[51] stars, + By which the spirits are enforc'd to rise: + Then fear not, Faustus, but be resolute, + And try the uttermost magic can perform.-- + Sint mihi dei Acherontis propitii! Valeat numen triplex Jehovoe! + Ignei, aerii, aquatani spiritus, salvete! Orientis princeps + Belzebub, inferni ardentis monarcha, et Demogorgon, propitiamus + vos, ut appareat et surgat Mephistophilis, quod tumeraris:[52] + per Jehovam, Gehennam, et consecratam aquam quam nunc spargo, + signumque crucis quod nunc facio, et per vota nostra, ipse nunc + surgat nobis dicatus[53] Mephistophilis! + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + 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 MEPHISTOPHILIS.] + + I 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: + No, Faustus, thou art conjuror laureat, + That canst command great Mephistophilis: + Quin regis Mephistophilis fratris imagine. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS like a Franciscan friar.[54] + + MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, what wouldst thou have me do? + + FAUSTUS. I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live, + To do whatever Faustus shall command, + Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere, + Or the ocean to overwhelm the world. + + MEPHIST. 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? + + MEPHIST. No, I came hither[55] of mine own accord. + + FAUSTUS. Did not my conjuring speeches raise thee? speak. + + MEPHIST. That was the cause, but yet per accidens;[56] + For, when we hear one rack the name of God, + Abjure the Scriptures and his Saviour Christ, + We fly, in hope to get his glorious soul; + Nor will we come, unless he use such means + Whereby he is in danger to be damn'd. + Therefore the shortest cut for conjuring + Is stoutly to abjure the Trinity, + And pray devoutly to the prince of hell. + + FAUSTUS. So Faustus hath + Already done; and holds this principle, + There is no chief but only Belzebub; + 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! + But, leaving these vain trifles of men's souls, + Tell me what is that Lucifer thy lord? + + MEPHIST. Arch-regent and commander of all spirits. + + FAUSTUS. Was not that Lucifer an angel once? + + MEPHIST. Yes, Faustus, and most dearly lov'd of God. + + FAUSTUS. How comes it, then, that he is prince of devils? + + MEPHIST. O, by aspiring pride and insolence; + For which God threw him from the face of heaven. + + FAUSTUS. And what are you that live with Lucifer? + + MEPHIST. Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, + Conspir'd against our God with Lucifer, + And are for ever damn'd with Lucifer. + + FAUSTUS. Where are you damn'd? + + MEPHIST. In hell. + + FAUSTUS. How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell? + + MEPHIST. Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it:[57] + Think'st 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 depriv'd 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? + Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude, + And scorn those joys thou never shalt possess. + Go bear these[58] tidings to great Lucifer: + Seeing Faustus hath incurr'd eternal death + By desperate thoughts against Jove's[59] deity, + Say, he surrenders up to him his soul, + So he will spare him four and twenty[60] 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, + To slay mine enemies, and 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[61] me of thy master's mind. + + MEPHIST. I will, Faustus. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. 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 thorough[62] the moving air, + To pass the ocean with a band of men; + I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore, + And make that country[63] continent to Spain, + And both contributory to my crown: + The Emperor shall not live but by my leave, + Nor any potentate of Germany. + Now that I have obtain'd what I desir'd,[64] + I'll live in speculation of this art, + Till Mephistophilis return again. + [Exit.] + + Enter WAGNER[65] and CLOWN. + + WAGNER. Sirrah boy, come hither. + + CLOWN. How, boy! swowns, boy! I hope you have seen many boys + with such pickadevaunts[66] as I have: boy, quotha! + + WAGNER. Tell me, sirrah, hast thou any comings in? + + CLOWN. Ay, and goings out too; you may see else. + + WAGNER. Alas, poor slave! see how poverty jesteth in his nakedness! + the villain is bare and 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. + + CLOWN. How! my soul to the devil for a shoulder of mutton, though + 'twere blood-raw! not so, good friend: by'r lady,[67] I had need + have it well roasted, and good sauce to it, if I pay so dear. + + WAGNER. Well, wilt thou serve me, and I'll make thee go like + Qui mihi discipulus?[68] + + CLOWN. How, in verse? + + WAGNER. No, sirrah; in beaten silk and staves-acre.[69] + + CLOWN. How, how, knaves-acre! ay, I thought that was all the land + his father left him. Do you hear? I would be sorry to rob you of + your living. + + WAGNER. Sirrah, I say in staves-acre. + + CLOWN. Oho, oho, staves-acre! why, then, belike, if I were your + man, I should be full of vermin.[70] + + WAGNER. So thou shalt, whether thou beest with me or no. But, + sirrah, leave your jesting, and bind yourself presently unto me + for seven years, or I'll turn all the lice about thee into + familiars,[71] and they shall tear thee in pieces. + + CLOWN. 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 their[72] meat and drink. + + WAGNER. Well, do you hear, sirrah? hold, take these guilders. + [Gives money.] + + CLOWN. Gridirons! what be they? + + WAGNER. Why, French crowns. + + CLOWN. 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? + + WAGNER. Why, now, sirrah, thou art at an hour's warning, whensoever + or wheresoever the devil shall fetch thee. + + CLOWN. No, no; here, take your gridirons again. + + WAGNER. Truly, I'll none of them. + + CLOWN. Truly, but you shall. + + WAGNER. Bear witness I gave them him. + + CLOWN. Bear witness I give them you again. + + WAGNER. Well, I will cause two devils presently to fetch thee + away.--Baliol and Belcher! + + CLOWN. Let your Baliol and your Belcher come here, and I'll + knock them, they were never so knocked since they were devils: + say I should kill one of them, what would folks say? "Do ye see + yonder tall fellow in the round slop?[73] he has killed the devil." + So I should be called Kill-devil all the parish over. + + Enter two DEVILS; and the CLOWN runs up and down crying. + + WAGNER. Baliol and Belcher,--spirits, away! + [Exeunt DEVILS.] + + CLOWN. What, are they gone? a vengeance on them! they have vile[74] + long nails. There was a he-devil and a she-devil: I'll tell you + how you shall know them; all he-devils has horns, and all + she-devils has clifts and cloven feet. + + WAGNER. Well, sirrah, follow me. + + CLOWN. But, do you hear? if I should serve you, would you teach + me to raise up Banios and Belcheos? + + WAGNER. I will teach thee to turn thyself to any thing, to a dog, + or a cat, or a mouse, or a rat, or any thing. + + CLOWN. 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 pretty wenches' + plackets! I'll be amongst them, i'faith. + + WAGNER. Well, sirrah, come. + + CLOWN. But, do you hear, Wagner? + + WAGNER. How!--Baliol and Belcher! + + CLOWN. O Lord! I pray, sir, let Banio and Belcher go sleep. + + WAGNER. Villain, call me Master Wagner, and let thy left eye be + diametarily fixed upon my right heel, with quasi vestigiis + nostris[75] insistere. + [Exit.] + + CLOWN. God forgive me, he speaks Dutch fustian. Well, I'll follow + him; I'll serve him, that's flat. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS discovered in his study. + + FAUSTUS. Now, Faustus, must + Thou needs be damn'd, and canst thou not be sav'd: + What boots it, then, to think of God or heaven? + Away with such vain fancies, and despair; + Despair in God, and trust in Belzebub: + Now go not backward; no, Faustus, be resolute: + Why waver'st thou? O, something soundeth in mine ears, + "Abjure this magic, turn to God again!" + Ay, and Faustus will turn to God again. + To God? he loves thee not; + The god thou serv'st is thine own appetite, + Wherein is fix'd the love of Belzebub: + To him I'll build an altar and a church, + And offer lukewarm blood of new-born babes. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + + GOOD ANGEL. Sweet Faustus, leave that execrable art. + + FAUSTUS. Contrition, prayer, repentance--what of them? + + GOOD ANGEL. O, they are means to bring thee unto heaven! + + EVIL ANGEL. Rather illusions, fruits of lunacy, + That make men foolish that do trust them most. + + GOOD ANGEL. Sweet Faustus, think of heaven and heavenly things. + + EVIL ANGEL. No, Faustus; think of honour and of[76] wealth. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + + FAUSTUS. Of wealth! + Why, the signiory of Embden shall be mine. + When Mephistophilis shall stand by me, + What god can hurt thee, Faustus? thou art safe + Cast no more doubts.--Come, Mephistophilis, + And bring glad tidings from great Lucifer;-- + Is't not midnight?--come, Mephistophilis, + Veni, veni, Mephistophile! + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + Now tell me[77] what says Lucifer, thy lord? + + MEPHIST. That I shall wait on Faustus whilst he lives,[78] + So he will buy my service with his soul. + + FAUSTUS. Already Faustus hath hazarded that for thee. + + MEPHIST. But, Faustus, thou must bequeath it solemnly, + And write a deed of gift with thine own blood; + For that security craves great Lucifer. + If thou deny it, I will back to hell. + + FAUSTUS. Stay, Mephistophilis, and tell me, what good will my soul + do thy lord? + + MEPHIST. Enlarge his kingdom. + + FAUSTUS. Is that the reason why[79] he tempts us thus? + + MEPHIST. Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.[80] + + FAUSTUS. Why,[81] have you any pain that torture[82] others! + + MEPHIST. As great as have the human souls of men. + But, tell me, Faustus, shall I have thy soul? + And I will be thy slave, and wait on thee, + And give thee more than thou hast wit to ask. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, Mephistophilis, I give it thee. + + MEPHIST. Then, Faustus,[83] stab thine arm courageously, + And bind thy soul, that at some certain day + Great Lucifer may claim it as his own; + And then be thou as great as Lucifer. + + FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm] 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 the blood that trickles from mine arm, + And let it be propitious for my wish. + + MEPHIST. But, Faustus, thou must + Write it in manner of a deed of gift. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, so I will [Writes]. But, Mephistophilis, + My blood congeals, and I can write no more. + + MEPHIST. I'll fetch thee fire to dissolve it straight. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. What might the staying of my blood portend? + Is it unwilling I should write this bill?[84] + Why streams it not, that I may write afresh? + FAUSTUS GIVES TO THEE HIS SOUL: ah, there it stay'd! + Why shouldst thou not? is not thy soul shine own? + Then write again, FAUSTUS GIVES TO THEE HIS SOUL. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with a chafer of coals. + + MEPHIST. Here's fire; come, Faustus, set it on.[85] + + FAUSTUS. So, now the blood begins to clear again; + Now will I make an end immediately. + [Writes.] + + MEPHIST. O, what will not I do to obtain his soul? + [Aside.] + + FAUSTUS. Consummatum est; this bill is ended, + And Faustus hath bequeath'd his soul to Lucifer. + But what is this inscription[86] on mine arm? + Homo, fuge: whither should I fly? + If unto God, he'll throw me[87] down to hell. + My senses are deceiv'd; here's nothing writ:-- + I see it plain; here in this place is writ, + Homo, fuge: yet shall not Faustus fly. + + MEPHIST. I'll fetch him somewhat to delight his mind. + [Aside, and then exit.] + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with DEVILS, who give crowns + and rich apparel to FAUSTUS, dance, and then depart. + + FAUSTUS. Speak, Mephistophilis, what means this show? + + MEPHIST. Nothing, Faustus, but to delight thy mind withal, + And to shew thee what magic can perform. + + FAUSTUS. But may I raise up spirits when I please? + + MEPHIST. Ay, Faustus, and do greater things than these. + + FAUSTUS. Then there's enough for a thousand souls. + Here, Mephistophilis, receive this scroll, + A deed of gift of body and of soul: + But yet conditionally that thou perform + All articles prescrib'd between us both. + + MEPHIST. Faustus, I swear by hell and Lucifer + To effect all promises between us made! + + FAUSTUS. Then hear me read them. [Reads] ON THESE CONDITIONS + FOLLOWING. 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 HE DESIRES.[88] FOURTHLY, THAT HE SHALL + BE IN HIS CHAMBER OR HOUSE INVISIBLE. LASTLY, THAT HE SHALL APPEAR + TO THE SAID JOHN FAUSTUS, AT ALL TIMES, IN WHAT FORM OR SHAPE + SOEVER HE PLEASE. I, 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,[89] TWENTY-FOUR YEARS BEING EXPIRED, THE ARTICLES + ABOVE-WRITTEN INVIOLATE, FULL POWER TO FETCH OR CARRY THE SAID + JOHN FAUSTUS, BODY AND SOUL, FLESH, BLOOD, OR GOODS, INTO THEIR + HABITATION WHERESOEVER. BY ME, JOHN FAUSTUS. + + MEPHIST. Speak, Faustus, do you deliver this as your deed? + + FAUSTUS. Ay, take it, and the devil give thee good on't! + + MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, ask what thou wilt. + + FAUSTUS. First will I question with thee about hell. + Tell me, where is the place that men call hell? + + MEPHIST. Under the heavens. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, but whereabout? + + MEPHIST. Within the bowels of these[90] elements, + Where we are tortur'd and remain for ever: + Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd + In one self place; for where we are is hell, + And where hell is, there[91] must we ever be: + And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, + And every creature shall be purified, + All places shall be hell that are[92] not heaven. + + FAUSTUS. Come, I think hell's a fable. + + MEPHIST. Ay, think so still, till experience change thy mind. + + FAUSTUS. Why, think'st thou, then, that Faustus shall be damn'd? + + MEPHIST. Ay, of necessity, for here's the scroll + Wherein thou hast given thy soul to Lucifer. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, and body too: but what of that? + Think'st thou that Faustus is so fond[93] to imagine + That, after this life, there is any pain? + Tush, these are trifles and mere old wives' tales. + + MEPHIST. But, Faustus, I am an instance to prove the contrary, + For I am damn'd, and am now in hell. + + FAUSTUS. How! now in hell! + Nay, an this be hell, I'll willingly be damn'd here: + What! walking, disputing, &c.[94] + But, leaving off this, let me have a wife,[95] + The fairest maid in Germany; + For I am wanton and lascivious, + And cannot live without a wife. + + MEPHIST. How! a wife! + I prithee, Faustus, talk not of a wife. + + FAUSTUS. Nay, sweet Mephistophilis, fetch me one, for I will have + one. + + MEPHIST. Well, thou wilt have one? Sit there till I come: I'll + fetch thee a wife in the devil's name. + [Exit.] + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with a DEVIL drest like a WOMAN, + with fire-works. + + MEPHIST. Tell me,[96] Faustus, how dost thou like thy wife? + + FAUSTUS. A plague on her for a hot whore! + + MEPHIST. Tut, Faustus, + Marriage is but a ceremonial toy; + If thou lovest me, think no[97] more of it. + I'll cull thee out the fairest courtezans, + 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, + As wise as Saba,[98] or as beautiful + As was bright Lucifer before his fall. + Hold, take this book, peruse it thoroughly: + [Gives book.] + + The iterating[99] of these lines brings gold; + The framing of this circle on the ground + Brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder, and lightning; + Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thyself, + And men in armour shall appear to thee, + Ready to execute what thou desir'st. + + FAUSTUS. 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. + + MEPHIST. Here they are in this book. + [Turns to them.] + + FAUSTUS. 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. + + MEPHIST. Here they are too. + [Turns to them.] + + FAUSTUS. 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. + + MEPHIST. Here they be. + + FAUSTUS. O, thou art deceived. + + MEPHIST. Tut, I warrant thee. + [Turns to them.] + + FAUSTUS. When I behold the heavens, then I repent, + And curse thee, wicked Mephistophilis, + Because thou hast depriv'd me of those joys. + + MEPHIST. Why, Faustus, + Thinkest thou heaven is such a glorious thing? + I tell thee, 'tis not half so fair as thou, + Or any man that breathes on earth. + + FAUSTUS. How prov'st thou that? + + MEPHIST. 'Twas made for man, therefore is man more excellent. + + FAUSTUS. If it were made for man, 'twas made for me: + I will renounce this magic and repent. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + + GOOD ANGEL. Faustus, repent; yet God will pity thee. + + EVIL ANGEL. Thou 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; + Ay, God will pity me, if I repent. + + EVIL ANGEL. Ay, but Faustus never shall repent. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + + FAUSTUS. My heart's so harden'd, I cannot repent: + Scarce can I name salvation, faith, or heaven, + But fearful echoes thunder in mine ears, + "Faustus, thou art damn'd!" then swords, and knives, + Poison, guns, halters, and envenom'd steel + Are laid before me to despatch myself; + And long ere this I should have slain myself, + Had not sweet pleasure conquer'd deep despair. + Have 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? + Why should I die, then, or basely despair? + I am resolv'd; Faustus shall ne'er repent.-- + Come, Mephistophilis, let us dispute again, + And argue of divine astrology.[100] + Tell me, are there many heavens above the moon + Are all celestial bodies but one globe, + As is the substance of this centric earth? + + MEPHIST. As are the elements, such are the spheres, + Mutually folded in each other's orb, + And, Faustus, + All jointly move upon one axletree, + Whose terminine is term'd the world's wide pole; + Nor are the names of Saturn, Mars, or Jupiter + Feign'd, but are erring[101] stars. + + FAUSTUS. But, tell me, have they all one motion, both situ et + tempore? + + MEPHIST. All jointly move from east to west in twenty-four hours + upon the poles of the world; but differ in their motion upon + the poles of the zodiac. + + FAUSTUS. Tush, + These slender trifles Wagner can decide: + Hath Mephistophilis no greater skill? + Who knows not the double motion of the planets? + The first is finish'd 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[102] suppositions. + But, tell me, hath every sphere a dominion or intelligentia? + + MEPHIST. Ay. + + FAUSTUS. How many heavens or spheres are there? + + MEPHIST. Nine; the seven planets, the firmament, and the empyreal + heaven. + + FAUSTUS. Well, resolve[103] 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? + + MEPHIST. Per inoequalem motum respectu totius. + + FAUSTUS. Well, I am answered. Tell me who made the world? + + MEPHIST. I will not. + + FAUSTUS. Sweet Mephistophilis, tell me. + + MEPHIST. Move me not, for I will not tell thee. + + FAUSTUS. Villain, have I not bound thee to tell me any thing? + + MEPHIST. Ay, that is not against our kingdom; but this is. Think + thou on hell, Faustus, for thou art damned. + + FAUSTUS. Think, Faustus, upon God that made the world. + + MEPHIST. Remember this. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. Ay, go, accursed spirit, to ugly hell! + 'Tis thou hast damn'd distressed Faustus' soul. + Is't not too late? + + Re-enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + + EVIL ANGEL. Too late. + + GOOD ANGEL. Never too late, if Faustus can repent. + + EVIL ANGEL. If thou repent, devils shall tear thee in pieces. + + GOOD ANGEL. Repent, and they shall never raze thy skin. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + + FAUSTUS. Ah, Christ, my Saviour, + Seek to save[104] distressed Faustus' soul! + + Enter LUCIFER, BELZEBUB, and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + LUCIFER. Christ cannot save thy soul, for he is just: + There's none but I have interest in the same. + + FAUSTUS. O, who art thou that look'st so terrible? + + LUCIFER. I am Lucifer, + And this is my companion-prince in hell. + + FAUSTUS. O, Faustus, they are come to fetch away thy soul! + + LUCIFER. We come to tell thee thou dost injure us; + Thou talk'st of Christ, contrary to thy promise: + Thou shouldst not think of God: think of the devil, + And of his dam too. + + FAUSTUS. Nor 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. + + LUCIFER. Do so, and we will highly gratify thee. Faustus, we are + come from hell to shew thee some pastime: sit down, and thou + shalt see all the Seven Deadly Sins appear in their proper shapes. + + FAUSTUS. That sight will be as pleasing unto me, + As Paradise was to Adam, the first day + Of his creation. + + LUCIFER. Talk not of Paradise nor creation; but mark this show: + talk of the devil, and nothing else.--Come away! + + Enter the SEVEN DEADLY SINS.[105] + + Now, Faustus, examine them of their several names and dispositions. + + FAUSTUS. 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 perriwig, 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. + + FAUSTUS. What art thou, the second? + + COVETOUSNESS. I am Covetousness, begotten of an old churl, in an + old leathern 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! + + FAUSTUS. 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[106] + of rapiers, wounding myself when I had nobody to fight withal. + I was born in hell; and look to it, for some of you shall be + my father. + + FAUSTUS. What art thou, the fourth? + + ENVY. 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 + shouldst see how fat I would be. But must thou sit, and I stand? + come down, with a vengeance! + + FAUSTUS. Away, envious rascal!--What art thou, the fifth? + + GLUTTONY. 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,[107]--a small trifle + to suffice nature. O, I come of a royal parentage! my grandfather + was a Gammon of Bacon, my grandmother a Hogshead of Claret-wine; + my godfathers were these, Peter Pickle-herring and Martin + Martlemas-beef; O, but my godmother, she was a jolly gentlewoman, + and well-beloved 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? + + FAUSTUS. No, I'll see thee hanged: thou wilt eat up all my victuals. + + GLUTTONY. Then the devil choke thee! + + FAUSTUS. Choke thyself, glutton!--What art thou, the sixth? + + SLOTH. 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. I'll not speak another word for a king's ransom. + + FAUSTUS. 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 stock-fish; and the first letter + of my name begins with L.[108] + + FAUSTUS. Away, to hell, to hell![109] + [Exeunt the SINS.] + + LUCIFER. Now, Faustus, how dost thou like this? + + FAUSTUS. O, this feeds my soul! + + 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. Thou shalt; I will send for thee at midnight.[110] + In meantime take this book; peruse it throughly, + And thou shalt turn thyself into what shape thou wilt. + + FAUSTUS. Great thanks, mighty Lucifer! + This will I keep as chary as my life. + + LUCIFER. Farewell, Faustus, and think on the devil. + + FAUSTUS. Farewell, great Lucifer. + [Exeunt LUCIFER and BELZEBUB.] + + Come, Mephistophilis. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter CHORUS.[111] + + CHORUS. Learned Faustus, + To know the secrets of astronomy[112] + Graven in the book of Jove's high firmament, + Did mount himself to scale Olympus' top, + Being seated in a chariot burning bright, + Drawn by the strength of yoky dragons' necks. + He now is gone to prove cosmography, + And, as I guess, will first arrive at Rome, + To see the Pope and manner of his court, + And take some part of holy Peter's feast, + That to this day is highly solemniz'd. + [Exit.] + + Enter FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS.[113] + + FAUSTUS. Having now, my good Mephistophilis, + Pass'd with delight the stately town of Trier,[114] + Environ'd round with airy mountain-tops, + With walls of flint, and deep-entrenched lakes, + Not to be won by any conquering prince; + From Paris next,[115] coasting the realm of France, + We saw the river Maine fall into Rhine, + Whose banks are set with groves of fruitful vines; + Then up to Naples, rich Campania, + Whose buildings fair and gorgeous to the eye, + The streets straight forth, and pav'd with finest brick, + Quarter the town in four equivalents: + There saw we learned Maro's golden tomb, + The way he cut,[116] an English mile in length, + Thorough a rock of stone, in one night's space; + From thence to Venice, Padua, and the rest, + In one of which a sumptuous temple stands,[117] + That threats the stars with her aspiring top. + Thus hitherto hath Faustus spent his time: + But tell me now what resting-place is this? + Hast thou, as erst I did command, + Conducted me within the walls of Rome? + + MEPHIST. Faustus, I have; and, because we will not be unprovided, + I have taken up his Holiness' privy-chamber for our use. + + FAUSTUS. I hope his Holiness will bid us welcome. + + MEPHIST. + Tut, 'tis no matter; man; we'll be bold with his good cheer. + And now, my Faustus, that thou mayst perceive + What Rome containeth to delight thee with, + Know that this city stands upon seven hills + That underprop the groundwork of the same: + Just through the midst[118] runs flowing Tiber's stream + With winding banks that cut it in two parts; + Over the which four stately bridges lean, + That make safe passage to each part of Rome: + Upon the bridge call'd Ponte[119] Angelo + Erected is a castle passing strong, + Within whose walls such store of ordnance are, + And double cannons fram'd of carved brass, + As match the days within one complete year; + Besides the gates, and high pyramides, + Which Julius Caesar brought from Africa. + + FAUSTUS. Now, by the kingdoms of infernal rule, + Of Styx, of[120] Acheron, and the fiery lake + Of ever-burning Phlegethon, I swear + That I do long to see the monuments + And situation of bright-splendent Rome: + Come, therefore, let's away. + + MEPHIST. Nay, Faustus, stay: I know you'd fain see the Pope, + And take some part of holy Peter's feast, + Where thou shalt see a troop of bald-pate friars, + Whose summum bonum is in belly-cheer. + + FAUSTUS. Well, I'm content to compass then some sport, + And by their folly make us merriment. + Then charm me, that I[121] + May be invisible, to do what I please, + Unseen of any whilst I stay in Rome. + [Mephistophilis charms him.] + + MEPHIST. So, Faustus; now + Do what thou wilt, thou shalt not be discern'd. + + Sound a Sonnet.[122] Enter the POPE and the CARDINAL OF + LORRAIN to the banquet, with FRIARS attending. + + POPE. My Lord of Lorrain, will't please you draw near? + + FAUSTUS. Fall to, and the devil choke you, an you spare! + + POPE. How now! who's that which spake?--Friars, look about. + + FIRST 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 the dish.] + + POPE. How now! who's that which snatched the meat from me? will + no man look?--My lord, this dish was sent me from the Cardinal + of Florence. + + FAUSTUS. You say true; I'll ha't. + [Snatches the dish.] + + POPE. What, again!--My lord, I'll drink to your grace. + + FAUSTUS. I'll pledge your grace. + [Snatches the cup.] + + C. OF LOR. 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.--Friars, prepare a dirge to lay the fury + of this ghost.--Once again, my lord, fall to. + [The POPE crosses himself.] + + FAUSTUS. What, are you crossing of yourself? + Well, use that trick no more, I would advise you. + [The POPE crosses himself again.] + + Well, there's the second time. Aware the third; + I give you fair warning. + [The POPE crosses himself again, and FAUSTUS hits him a box + of the ear; and they all run away.] + + Come on, Mephistophilis; what shall we do? + + MEPHIST. Nay, I know not: we shall be cursed with bell, book, + and candle. + + FAUSTUS. How! bell, book, and candle,--candle, book, and bell,-- + Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell! + Anon you shall hear a hog grunt, a calf bleat, and an ass bray, + Because it is Saint Peter's holiday. + + Re-enter all the FRIARS to sing the Dirge. + + FIRST FRIAR. + Come, brethren, let's about our business with good devotion. + + They sing. + + CURSED BE HE THAT STOLE AWAY HIS HOLINESS' MEAT FROM THE + TABLE! maledicat Dominus! + CURSED BE HE THAT STRUCK HIS HOLINESS A BLOW ON THE FACE! + maledicat Dominus! + CURSED BE HE THAT TOOK FRIAR SANDELO A BLOW ON THE PATE! + maledicat Dominus! + CURSED BE HE THAT DISTURBETH OUR HOLY DIRGE! maledicat + Dominus! + CURSED BE HE THAT TOOK AWAY HIS HOLINESS' WINE! maledicat + Dominus? ['?' sic] + Et omnes Sancti! Amen! + + [MEPHISTOPHILIS and FAUSTUS beat the FRIARS, and fling + fire-works among them; and so exeunt.] + + Enter CHORUS. + + CHORUS. When Faustus had with pleasure ta'en the view + Of rarest things, and royal courts of kings, + He stay'd his course, and so returned home; + Where such as bear his absence but with grief, + I mean his friends and near'st companions, + Did gratulate his safety with kind words, + And in their conference of what befell, + Touching his journey through the world and air, + They put forth questions of astrology, + Which Faustus answer'd with such learned skill + As they admir'd and wonder'd at his wit. + Now is his fame spread forth in every land: + Amongst the rest the Emperor is one, + Carolus the Fifth, at whose palace now + Faustus is feasted 'mongst his noblemen. + What there he did, in trial of his art, + I leave untold; your eyes shall see['t] perform'd. + [Exit.] + + Enter ROBIN[123] the Ostler, with a book in his hand. + + ROBIN. O, this is admirable! here I ha' stolen one of Doctor + Faustus' conjuring-books, and, i'faith, I mean to search some + circles for my own use. Now will I make all the maidens in our + parish dance at my pleasure, stark naked, before me; and so + by that means I shall see more than e'er I felt or saw yet. + + Enter RALPH, calling ROBIN. + + RALPH. Robin, prithee, come away; there's a gentleman tarries + to have his horse, and he would have his things rubbed and made + clean: he keeps such a chafing with my mistress about it; and + she has sent me to look thee out; prithee, come away. + + ROBIN. Keep out, keep out, or else you are blown up, you are + dismembered, Ralph: keep out, for I am about a roaring piece + of work. + + RALPH. Come, what doest thou with that same book? thou canst + not read? + + ROBIN. Yes, my master and mistress shall find that I can read, + he for his forehead, she for her private study; she's born to + bear with me, or else my art fails. + + RALPH. Why, Robin, what book is that? + + ROBIN. What book! why, the most intolerable book for conjuring + that e'er was invented by any brimstone devil. + + RALPH. Canst thou conjure with it? + + ROBIN. I can do all these things easily with it; first, I can + make thee drunk with ippocras[124] at any tabern[125] in Europe + for nothing; that's one of my conjuring works. + + RALPH. Our Master Parson says that's nothing. + + ROBIN. True, Ralph: and more, Ralph, if thou hast any mind to + Nan Spit, our kitchen-maid, then turn her and wind her to thy own + use, as often as thou wilt, and at midnight. + + RALPH. O, brave, Robin! shall I have Nan Spit, and to mine own + use? On that condition I'll feed thy devil with horse-bread as + long as he lives, of free cost. + + ROBIN. No more, sweet Ralph: let's go and make clean our boots, + which lie foul upon our hands, and then to our conjuring in the + devil's name. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter ROBIN and RALPH[126] with a silver goblet. + + ROBIN. Come, Ralph: did not I tell thee, we were for ever made + by this Doctor Faustus' book? ecce, signum! here's a simple + purchase[127] for horse-keepers: our horses shall eat no hay as + long as this lasts. + + RALPH. But, Robin, here comes the Vintner. + + ROBIN. Hush! I'll gull him supernaturally. + + Enter VINTNER. + + Drawer,[128] I hope all is paid; God be with you!--Come, Ralph. + + VINTNER. Soft, sir; a word with you. I must yet have a goblet paid + from you, ere you go. + + ROBIN. I a goblet, Ralph, I a goblet!--I scorn you; and you are + but a, &c. I a goblet! search me. + + VINTNER. I mean so, sir, with your favour. + [Searches ROBIN.] + + ROBIN. How say you now? + + VINTNER. I must say somewhat to your fellow.--You, sir! + + RALPH. Me, sir! me, sir! search your fill. [VINTNER searches him.] + Now, sir, you may be ashamed to burden honest men with a matter + of truth. + + VINTNER. Well, tone[129] of you hath this goblet about you. + + ROBIN. You lie, drawer, 'tis afore me [Aside].--Sirrah you, I'll + teach you to impeach honest men;--stand by;--I'll scour you for + a goblet;--stand aside you had best, I charge you in the name of + Belzebub.--Look to the goblet, Ralph [Aside to RALPH]. + + VINTNER. What mean you, sirrah? + + ROBIN. I'll tell you what I mean. [Reads from a book] Sanctobulorum + Periphrasticon--nay, I'll tickle you, Vintner.--Look to the goblet, + Ralph [Aside to RALPH].--[Reads] Polypragmos Belseborams framanto + pacostiphos tostu, Mephistophilis, &c. + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS, sets squibs at their backs, and then + exit. They run about. + + VINTNER. O, nomine Domini! what meanest thou, Robin? thou hast no + goblet. + + RALPH. Peccatum peccatorum!--Here's thy goblet, good Vintner. + [Gives the goblet to VINTNER, who exit.] + + ROBIN. Misericordia pro nobis! what shall I do? Good devil, forgive + me now, and I'll never rob thy library more. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + MEPHIST. Monarch of Hell,[130] under whose black survey + Great potentates do kneel with awful fear, + Upon whose altars thousand souls do lie, + How am I vexed with these villains' charms? + From Constantinople am I hither come, + Only for pleasure of these damned slaves. + + ROBIN. How, from Constantinople! you have had a great journey: + will you take sixpence in your purse to pay for your supper, and + be gone? + + MEPHIST. Well, villains, for your presumption, I transform thee + into an ape, and thee into a dog; and so be gone! + [Exit.] + + ROBIN. How, into an ape! that's brave: I'll have fine sport with + the boys; I'll get nuts and apples enow. + + RALPH. And I must be a dog. + + ROBIN. I'faith, thy head will never be out of the pottage-pot. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter EMPEROR,[131] FAUSTUS, and a KNIGHT, with ATTENDANTS. + + EMPEROR. Master Doctor Faustus,[132] I have heard strange report + of thy knowledge in the black art, how that none in my empire + nor in the whole world can compare with thee for the rare effects + of magic: they say thou hast a familiar spirit, by whom thou canst + accomplish what thou list. This, therefore, is my request, that + thou let me see some proof of thy skill, that mine eyes may be + witnesses to confirm what mine ears have heard reported: and here + I swear to thee, by the honour of mine imperial crown, that, + whatever thou doest, thou shalt be no ways prejudiced or endamaged. + + KNIGHT. I'faith, he looks much like a conjurer. + [Aside.] + + FAUSTUS. My gracious sovereign, though I must confess myself far + inferior to the report men have published, and nothing answerable + to the honour of your imperial majesty, yet, for that love and duty + binds me thereunto, I am content to do whatsoever your majesty + shall command me. + + EMPEROR. Then, Doctor Faustus, mark what I shall say. + As I was sometime solitary set + Within my closet, sundry thoughts arose + About the honour of mine ancestors, + How they had won[133] by prowess such exploits, + Got such riches, subdu'd so many kingdoms, + As we that do succeed,[134] or they that shall + Hereafter possess our throne, shall + (I fear me) ne'er attain to that degree + Of high renown and great authority: + Amongst which kings is Alexander the Great, + Chief spectacle of the world's pre-eminence, + The bright[135] shining of whose glorious acts + Lightens the world with his reflecting beams, + As when I hear but motion made of him, + It grieves my soul I never saw the man: + If, therefore, thou, by cunning of thine art, + Canst raise this man from hollow vaults below, + Where lies entomb'd this famous conqueror, + And bring with him his beauteous paramour, + Both in their right shapes, gesture, and attire + They us'd to wear during their time of life, + Thou shalt both satisfy my just desire, + And give me cause to praise thee whilst I live. + + FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, I am ready to accomplish your request, + so far forth as by art and power of my spirit I am able to perform. + + KNIGHT. I'faith, that's just nothing at all. + [Aside.] + + FAUSTUS. But, if it like your grace, it is not in my ability[136] + to present before your eyes the true substantial bodies of those + two deceased princes, which long since are consumed to dust. + + KNIGHT. Ay, marry, Master Doctor, now there's a sign of grace in + you, when you will confess the truth. + [Aside.] + + FAUSTUS. But such spirits as can lively resemble Alexander and + his paramour shall appear before your grace, in that manner that + they both[137] lived in, in their most flourishing estate; which + I doubt not shall sufficiently content your imperial majesty. + + EMPEROR. Go to, Master Doctor; let me see them presently. + + KNIGHT. Do you hear, Master Doctor? you bring Alexander and his + paramour before the Emperor! + + FAUSTUS. How then, sir? + + KNIGHT. I'faith, that's as true as Diana turned me to a stag. + + FAUSTUS. No, sir; but, when Actaeon died, he left the horns for + you.--Mephistophilis, be gone. + [Exit MEPHISTOPHILIS.] + + KNIGHT. Nay, an you go to conjuring, I'll be gone. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. I'll meet with you anon for interrupting me so. + --Here they are, my gracious lord. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with SPIRITS in the shapes of ALEXANDER + and his PARAMOUR. + + EMPEROR. Master Doctor, I heard this lady, while she lived, had a + wart or mole in her neck: how shall I know whether it be so or no? + + FAUSTUS. Your highness may boldly go and see. + + EMPEROR. Sure, these are no spirits, but the true substantial + bodies of those two deceased princes. + [Exeunt Spirits.] + + FAUSTUS. Wilt please your highness now to send for the knight + that was so pleasant with me here of late? + + EMPEROR. One of you call him forth. + [Exit ATTENDANT.] + + Re-enter the KNIGHT with a pair of horns on his head. + + How now, sir knight! why, I had thought thou hadst been a bachelor, + but now I see thou hast a wife, that not only gives thee horns, + but makes thee wear them. Feel on thy head. + + KNIGHT. Thou damned wretch and execrable dog, + Bred in the concave of some monstrous rock, + How dar'st thou thus abuse a gentleman? + Villain, I say, undo what thou hast done! + + FAUSTUS. O, not so fast, sir! there's no haste: but, good, are + you remembered how you crossed me in my conference with the + Emperor? I think I have met with you for it. + + EMPEROR. Good Master Doctor, at my entreaty release him: he hath + done penance sufficient. + + FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, not so much for the injury he offered + me here in your presence, as to delight you with some mirth, hath + Faustus worthily requited this injurious knight; which being all + I desire, I am content to release him of his horns:--and, + sir knight, hereafter speak well of scholars.--Mephistophilis, + transform him straight.[138] [MEPHISTOPHILIS removes the horns.] + --Now, my good lord, having done my duty, I humbly take my leave. + + EMPEROR. Farewell, Master Doctor: yet, ere you go, + Expect from me a bounteous reward. + [Exeunt EMPEROR, KNIGHT, and ATTENDANTS.] + + FAUSTUS. Now, Mephistophilis,[139] the restless course + That time doth run with calm and silent foot, + Shortening my days and thread of vital life, + Calls for the payment of my latest years: + Therefore, sweet Mephistophilis, let us + Make haste to Wertenberg. + + MEPHIST. What, will you go on horse-back or on foot[?] + + FAUSTUS. Nay, till I'm past this fair and pleasant green, + I'll walk on foot. + + Enter a HORSE-COURSER.[140] + + HORSE-COURSER. I have been all this day seeking one Master Fustian: + mass, see where he is!--God save you, Master Doctor! + + FAUSTUS. What, horse-courser! you are well met. + + HORSE-COURSER. Do you hear, sir? I have brought you forty dollars + for your horse. + + FAUSTUS. I cannot sell him so: if thou likest him for fifty, take + him. + + HORSE-COURSER. Alas, sir, I have no more!--I pray you, speak for + me. + + MEPHIST. I pray you, let him have him: he is an honest fellow, + and he has a great charge, neither wife nor child. + + FAUSTUS. Well, come, give me your money [HORSE-COURSER gives + FAUSTUS the money]: my boy will deliver him to you. But I must + tell you one thing before you have him; ride him not into the + water, at any hand. + + HORSE-COURSER. Why, sir, will he not drink of all waters? + + FAUSTUS. O, yes, he will drink of all waters; but ride him not + into the water: ride him over hedge or ditch, or where thou wilt, + but not into the water. + + HORSE-COURSER. Well, sir.--Now am I made man for ever: I'll not + leave my horse for forty:[141] if he had but the quality of + hey-ding-ding, hey-ding-ding, I'd make a brave living on him: + he has a buttock as slick as an eel [Aside].--Well, God b'wi'ye, + sir: your boy will deliver him me: but, hark you, sir; if my horse + be sick or ill at ease, if I bring his water to you, you'll tell + me what it is? + + FAUSTUS. Away, you villain! what, dost think I am a horse-doctor? + [Exit HORSE-COURSER.] + + What art thou, Faustus, but a man condemn'd to die? + Thy fatal time doth draw to final end; + Despair doth drive distrust into[142] my thoughts: + Confound these passions with a quiet sleep: + Tush, Christ did call the thief upon the Cross; + Then rest thee, Faustus, quiet in conceit. + [Sleeps in his chair.] + + Re-enter HORSE-COURSER, all wet, crying. + + HORSE-COURSER. Alas, alas! Doctor Fustian, quoth a? mass, Doctor + Lopus[143] was never such a doctor: has given me a purgation, has + purged me of forty dollars; I shall never see them more. But yet, + like an ass as I was, I would not be ruled by him, for he bade me + I should ride him into no water: now I, thinking my horse had had + some rare quality that he would not have had me know of,[144] I, + like a venturous youth, rid him into the deep pond at the town's + end. I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse + vanished away, and I sat upon a bottle of hay, never so near + drowning in my life. But I'll seek out my doctor, and have my + forty dollars again, or I'll make it the dearest horse!--O, + yonder is his snipper-snapper.--Do you hear? you, hey-pass,[145] + where's your master? + + MEPHIST. Why, sir, what would you? you cannot speak with him. + + HORSE-COURSER. But I will speak with him. + + MEPHIST. Why, he's fast asleep: come some other time. + + HORSE-COURSER. I'll speak with him now, or I'll break his + glass-windows about his ears. + + MEPHIST. I tell thee, he has not slept this eight nights. + + HORSE-COURSER. An he have not slept this eight weeks, I'll + speak with him. + + MEPHIST. See, where he is, fast asleep. + + HORSE-COURSER. Ay, this is he.--God save you, Master Doctor, + Master Doctor, Master Doctor Fustian! forty dollars, forty dollars + for a bottle of hay! + + MEPHIST. Why, thou seest he hears thee not. + + HORSE-COURSER. So-ho, ho! so-ho, ho! [Hollows in his ear.] No, + will you not wake? I'll make you wake ere I go. [Pulls FAUSTUS + by the leg, and pulls it away.] Alas, I am undone! what shall + I do? + + FAUSTUS. O, my leg, my leg!--Help, Mephistophilis! call the + officers.--My leg, my leg! + + MEPHIST. Come, villain, to the constable. + + HORSE-COURSER. O Lord, sir, let me go, and I'll give you forty + dollars more! + + MEPHIST. Where be they? + + HORSE-COURSER. I have none about me: come to my ostry,[146] + and I'll give them you. + + MEPHIST. Be gone quickly. + [HORSE-COURSER runs away.] + + FAUSTUS. What, is he gone? farewell he! Faustus has his leg again, + and the Horse-courser, I take it, a bottle of hay for his labour: + well, this trick shall cost him forty dollars more. + + Enter WAGNER. + + How now, Wagner! what's the news with thee? + + WAGNER. Sir, the Duke of Vanholt doth earnestly entreat your + company. + + FAUSTUS. The Duke of Vanholt! an honourable gentleman, to whom + I must be no niggard of my cunning.[147]--Come, Mephistophilis, + let's away to him. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter the DUKE OF VANHOLT, the DUCHESS, and FAUSTUS.[148] + + DUKE. Believe me, Master Doctor, this merriment hath much pleased + me. + + FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, I am glad it contents you so well. + --But it may be, madam, you take no delight in this. I have heard + that great-bellied women do long for some dainties or other: what + is it, madam? tell me, and you shall have it. + + DUCHESS. Thanks, good Master Doctor: and, for I see your courteous + intent to pleasure me, I will not hide from you the thing my heart + desires; and, were it now summer, as it is January and the dead + time of the winter, I would desire no better meat than a dish + of ripe grapes. + + FAUSTUS. Alas, madam, that's nothing!--Mephistophilis, be gone. + [Exit MEPHISTOPHILIS.] Were it a greater thing than this, so it + would content you, you should have it. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with grapes. + + Here they be, madam: wilt please you taste on them? + + DUKE. Believe me, Master Doctor, this makes me wonder above the + rest, that being in the dead time of winter and in the month of + January, how you should come by these grapes. + + FAUSTUS. If it like your grace, the year is divided into two + circles over the whole world, that, when it is here winter with + us, in the contrary circle it is summer with them, as in India, + Saba,[149] and farther countries in the east; and by means of a + swift spirit that I have, I had them brought hither, as you see. + --How do you like them, madam? be they good? + + DUCHESS. Believe me, Master Doctor, they be the best grapes that + e'er I tasted in my life before. + + FAUSTUS. I am glad they content you so, madam. + + DUKE. Come, madam, let us in, where you must well reward this + learned man for the great kindness he hath shewed to you. + + DUCHESS. And so I will, my lord; and, whilst I live, rest + beholding[150] for this courtesy. + + FAUSTUS. I humbly thank your grace. + + DUKE. Come, Master Doctor, follow us, and receive your reward. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter WAGNER.[151] + + WAGNER. I think my master means to die shortly, + For he hath given to me all his goods:[152] + And yet, methinks, if that death were near, + He would not banquet, and carouse, and swill + Amongst the students, as even now he doth, + Who are at supper with such belly-cheer + As Wagner ne'er beheld in all his life. + See, where they come! belike the feast is ended. + [Exit.] + + Enter FAUSTUS with two or three SCHOLARS, and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + 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 lived: therefore, Master Doctor, if you will do us + that favour, 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 unfeign'd, + And Faustus' custom is not to deny + The just requests of those that wish him well, + You shall behold that peerless dame of Greece, + No otherways for pomp and majesty + Than when Sir Paris cross'd the seas with her, + And brought the spoils to rich Dardania. + Be silent, then, for danger is in words. + [Music sounds, and HELEN passeth over the stage.[153]] + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Too simple is my wit to tell her praise, + Whom all the world admires for majesty. + + THIRD SCHOLAR. No marvel though the angry Greeks pursu'd + With ten years' war the rape of such a queen, + Whose heavenly beauty passeth all compare. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Since we have seen the pride of Nature's works, + And only paragon of excellence, + Let us depart; and for this glorious deed + Happy and blest be Faustus evermore! + + FAUSTUS. Gentlemen, farewell: the same I wish to you. + [Exeunt SCHOLARS.] + + Enter an OLD MAN.[154] + + OLD MAN. Ah, Doctor Faustus, that I might prevail + To guide thy steps unto the way of life, + By which sweet path thou mayst attain the goal + That shall conduct thee to celestial rest! + Break heart, drop blood, and mingle it with tears, + Tears falling from repentant heaviness + Of thy most vile[155] and loathsome filthiness, + The stench whereof corrupts the inward soul + With such flagitious crimes of heinous sin[156] + As no commiseration may expel, + But mercy, Faustus, of thy Saviour sweet, + Whose blood alone must wash away thy guilt. + + FAUSTUS. Where art thou, Faustus? wretch, what hast thou done? + Damn'd art thou, Faustus, damn'd; despair and die! + Hell calls for right, and with a roaring voice + Says, "Faustus, come; thine hour is almost[157] come;" + And Faustus now[158] will come to do thee right. + [MEPHISTOPHILIS gives him a dagger.] + + OLD MAN. Ah, stay, good Faustus, stay thy desperate steps! + I see an angel hovers o'er thy head, + And, with a vial full of precious grace, + Offers to pour the same into thy soul: + Then call for mercy, and avoid despair. + + FAUSTUS. Ah, my sweet friend, I feel + Thy words to comfort my distressed soul! + Leave me a while to ponder on my sins. + + OLD MAN. I go, sweet Faustus; but with heavy cheer, + Fearing the ruin of thy hopeless soul. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. Accursed Faustus, where is mercy now? + I do repent; and yet I do despair: + Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast: + What shall I do to shun the snares of death? + + MEPHIST. Thou traitor, Faustus, I arrest thy soul + For disobedience to my sovereign lord: + Revolt, or I'll in piece-meal tear thy flesh. + + FAUSTUS. Sweet Mephistophilis, entreat thy lord + To pardon my unjust presumption, + And with my blood again I will confirm + My former vow I made to Lucifer. + + MEPHIST. Do it, then, quickly,[159] with unfeigned heart, + Lest greater danger do attend thy drift. + + FAUSTUS. Torment, sweet friend, that base and crooked age, + That durst dissuade me from thy Lucifer, + With greatest torments that our hell affords. + + MEPHIST. His faith is great; I cannot touch his soul; + But what I may afflict his body with + I will attempt, which is but little worth. + + FAUSTUS. One thing, good servant,[160] let me crave of thee, + To glut the longing of my heart's desire,-- + That I might have unto my paramour + That heavenly Helen which I saw of late, + Whose sweet embracings may extinguish clean + Those[161] thoughts that do dissuade me from my vow, + And keep mine oath I made to Lucifer. + + MEPHIST. Faustus, this,[162] or what else thou shalt desire, + Shall be perform'd in twinkling of an eye. + + Re-enter HELEN. + + FAUSTUS. Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, + And burnt the topless[163] towers of Ilium-- + Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.-- + [Kisses her.] + Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!-- + Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. + Here will I dwell, for heaven is[164] in these lips, + And all is dross that is not Helena. + I will be Paris, and for love of thee, + Instead of Troy, shall Wertenberg be sack'd; + 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 fairer than the evening air + Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars; + Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter + When he appear'd to hapless Semele; + More lovely than the monarch of the sky + In wanton Arethusa's azur'd arms; + And none but thou shalt[165] be my paramour! + [Exeunt.] + + Enter the OLD MAN.[166] + + OLD MAN. Accursed Faustus, miserable man, + That from thy soul exclud'st the grace of heaven, + And fly'st the throne of his tribunal-seat! + + Enter DEVILS. + + Satan begins to sift me with his pride: + As in this furnace God shall try my faith, + My faith, vile hell, shall triumph over thee. + Ambitious fiends, see how the heavens smile + At your repulse, and laugh your state to scorn! + Hence, hell! for hence I fly unto my God. + [Exeunt,--on one side, DEVILS, on the other, OLD MAN.] + + Enter FAUSTUS,[167] with SCHOLARS. + + FAUSTUS. Ah, gentlemen! + + FIRST SCHOLAR. What ails Faustus? + + FAUSTUS. Ah, my sweet chamber-fellow, had I lived with thee, + then had I lived still! but now I die eternally. Look, comes + he not? comes he not? + + SECOND SCHOLAR. What means Faustus? + + THIRD SCHOLAR. Belike he is grown into some sickness by being + over-solitary. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. If it be so, we'll have physicians to cure him. + --'Tis but a surfeit; never fear, man. + + FAUSTUS. A surfeit of deadly sin, that hath damned both body + and soul. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Yet, Faustus, look up to heaven; remember God's + mercies are infinite. + + FAUSTUS. But Faustus' offence can ne'er be pardoned: the serpent + that tempted Eve may be saved, but not Faustus. Ah, gentlemen, + hear me with patience, and tremble not at my speeches! Though + my heart pants and quivers to remember that I have been a student + here these thirty years, O, would I had never seen Wertenberg, + never read book! and what wonders I have done, all Germany can + witness, yea, all the world; for which Faustus hath lost both + Germany and the world, yea, heaven itself, heaven, the seat of + God, the throne of the blessed, the kingdom of joy; and must + remain in hell for ever, hell, ah, hell, for ever! Sweet friends, + what shall become of Faustus, being in hell for ever? + + THIRD SCHOLAR. Yet, Faustus, call on God. + + FAUSTUS. On God, whom Faustus hath abjured! on God, whom Faustus + hath blasphemed! Ah, my God, I would weep! but the devil draws in + my tears. Gush forth blood, instead of tears! yea, life and soul! + O, he stays my tongue! I would lift up my hands; but see, they + hold them, they hold them! + + ALL. Who, Faustus? + + FAUSTUS. Lucifer and Mephistophilis. Ah, gentlemen, I gave them + my soul for my cunning![168] + + ALL. God forbid! + + FAUSTUS. God forbade it, indeed; but Faustus hath done it: for + vain pleasure of twenty-four years hath Faustus lost eternal joy + and felicity. I writ them a bill with mine own blood: the date + is expired; the time will come, and he will fetch me. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Why did not Faustus tell us of this before,[169] + that divines might have prayed for thee? + + FAUSTUS. Oft have I thought to have done so; but the devil + threatened to tear me in pieces, if I named God, to fetch both + body and soul, if I once gave ear to divinity: and now 'tis too + late. Gentlemen, away, lest you perish with me. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. O, what shall we do to save[170] Faustus? + + FAUSTUS. Talk not of me, but save yourselves, and depart. + + THIRD 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 there pray for him. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, pray for me, pray for me; and what noise soever + ye hear,[171] come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Pray thou, and we will pray that God may have + mercy upon thee. + + FAUSTUS. Gentlemen, farewell: if I live till morning, I'll visit + you; if not, Faustus is gone to hell. + + ALL. Faustus, farewell. + [Exeunt SCHOLARS.--The clock strikes eleven.] + + FAUSTUS. Ah, Faustus, + Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, + And then thou must be damn'd perpetually! + Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, + That 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, + That Faustus may repent and save his soul! + O lente,[172] lente currite, noctis equi! + The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, + The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd. + O, I'll leap up to my God!--Who pulls me down?-- + See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! + One drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah, my Christ!-- + Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ! + Yet will I call on him: O, spare me, Lucifer!-- + Where is it now? 'tis gone: and see, where God + Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows! + Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me, + And hide me from the heavy wrath of God! + No, no! + Then will I headlong run into the earth: + Earth, gape! O, no, it will not harbour me! + You stars that reign'd at my nativity, + Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, + Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist. + Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud[s], + That, when you[173] vomit forth into the air, + My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths, + So that my soul may but ascend to heaven! + [The clock strikes the half-hour.] + Ah, half the hour is past! 'twill all be past anon + O God, + If thou wilt not have mercy on my soul, + Yet for Christ's sake, whose blood hath ransom'd me, + Impose some end to my incessant pain; + Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years, + A hundred thousand, and at last be sav'd! + O, no end is limited to damned souls! + Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul? + Or why is this immortal that thou hast? + Ah, Pythagoras' metempsychosis, were that true, + This soul should fly from me, and I be chang'd + Unto some brutish beast![174] all beasts are happy, + For, when they die, + Their souls are soon dissolv'd in elements; + But mine must live still to be plagu'd in hell. + Curs'd be the parents that engender'd me! + No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer + That hath depriv'd thee of the joys of heaven. + [The clock strikes twelve.] + O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, + Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell! + [Thunder and lightning.] + O soul, be chang'd into little water-drops, + And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found! + + Enter DEVILS. + + My God, my god, look not so fierce on me! + Adders and serpents, let me breathe a while! + Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer! + I'll burn my books!--Ah, Mephistophilis! + [Exeunt DEVILS with FAUSTUS.] [175] + + Enter CHORUS. + + CHORUS. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, + And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough, + That sometime grew within this learned man. + Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall, + Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, + Only to wonder at unlawful things, + Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits + To practice more than heavenly power permits. + [Exit.] + + Terminat hora diem; terminat auctor opus. + + + + + +FOOTNOTES: + + +[Footnote 1: mate-- i.e. confound, defeat.] + +[Footnote 2: vaunt-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "daunt."] + +[Footnote 3: her-- All the 4tos "his."] + +[Footnote 4: Whereas-- i.e. where.] + +[Footnote 5: cunning-- i.e. knowledge.] + +[Footnote 6: So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "more."] + +[Footnote 7: FAUSTUS discovered in his study-- Most probably, the Chorus, +before going out, drew a curtain, and discovered Faustus sitting. +In B. Barnes's DIVILS CHARTER, 1607, we find; "SCEN. VLTIMA. +ALEXANDER VNBRACED BETWIXT TWO CARDINALLS in his study LOOKING +VPON A BOOKE, whilst a groome draweth the Curtaine." Sig. L 3.] + +[Footnote 8: Analytics, 'tis thou, &c.-- Qy. "Analytic"? (but such +phraseology was not uncommon).] + +[Footnote 9: So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "the" (the printer +having mistaken "yt" for "ye").] + +[Footnote 10: So the later 4tos (with various spelling).--2to 1604 +"Oncaymaeon."] + +[Footnote 11: and-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 12: Couldst-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "Wouldst."] + +[Footnote 13: men-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "man."] + +[Footnote 14: legatur-- All the 4tos "legatus."] + +[Footnote 15: &c.-- So two of the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 16: law-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "Church."] + +[Footnote 17: This-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "His."] + +[Footnote 18: Too servile-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "The deuill."] + +[Footnote 19: Che sera, sera-- Lest it should be thought that I am wrong +in not altering the old spelling here, I may quote from Panizzi's +very critical edition of the ORLANDO FURIOSO, + "La satisfazion ci SERA pronta." C. xviii. st. 67.] + +[Footnote 20: scenes-- "And sooner may a gulling weather-spie + By drawing forth heavens SCEANES tell certainly," &c. + Donne's FIRST SATYRE,--p. 327, ed. 1633.] + +[Footnote 21: tire-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "trie."] + +[Footnote 22: Enter WAGNER, &c.-- Perhaps the proper arrangement is,] + "Wagner! + Enter WAGNER. + Commend me to my dearest friends," &c.] + +[Footnote 23: treasure-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "treasury."] + +[Footnote 24: Jove-- So again, p. 84, first col.,[See Note 59] +: + "Seeing Faustus hath incurr'd eternal death + By desperate thoughts against JOVE'S deity," &c.: +and I may notice that Marlowe is not singular in applying the name +JOVE to the God of Christians:] + "Beneath our standard of JOUES powerfull sonne [i.e. Christ--". + MIR. FOR MAGISTRATES, p. 642, ed. 1610. + "But see the judgement of almightie JOUE," &c. + Id. p. 696. + "O sommo GIOVE per noi crocifisso," &c. + Pulci,--MORGANTE MAG. C. ii. st. 1.] + +[Footnote 25: these elements-- So again, "Within the bowels of THESE +elements," &c., p. 87, first col,[See Note 90----"THESE" being +equivalent to THE. (Not unfrequently in our old writers THESE +is little more than redundant.)] + +[Footnote 26: resolve-- i.e. satisfy, inform.] + +[Footnote 27: silk-- All the 4tos "skill" (and so the modern editors!).] + +[Footnote 28: the-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "our."] + +[Footnote 29: the fiery keel at Antwerp's bridge-- During the blockade +of Antwerp by the Prince of Parma in 1585, "They of Antuerpe +knowing that the bridge and the Stocadoes were finished, +made a great shippe, to be a meanes to breake all this worke +of the prince of Parmaes: this great shippe was made of masons +worke within, in the manner of a vaulted caue: vpon the hatches +there were layed myll-stones, graue-stones, and others of great +weight; and within the vault were many barrels of powder, ouer +the which there were holes, and in them they had put matches, +hanging at a thred, the which burning vntill they came vnto +the thred, would fall into the powder, and so blow vp all. +And for that they could not haue any one in this shippe to +conduct it, Lanckhaer, a sea captaine of the Hollanders, being +then in Antuerpe, gaue them counsell to tye a great beame at the +end of it, to make it to keepe a straight course in the middest +of the streame. In this sort floated this shippe the fourth of +Aprill, vntill that it came vnto the bridge; where (within a +while after) the powder wrought his effect, with such violence, +as the vessell, and all that was within it, and vpon it, flew in +pieces, carrying away a part of the Stocado and of the bridge. +The marquesse of Roubay Vicont of Gant, Gaspar of Robles lord of +Billy, and the Seignior of Torchies, brother vnto the Seignior +of Bours, with many others, were presently slaine; which were +torne in pieces, and dispersed abroad, both vpon the land and vpon +the water." Grimeston's GENERALL HISTORIE OF THE NETHERLANDS, +p. 875, ed. 1609.] + +[Footnote 30: only-- Qy. "alone"? (This line is not in the later 4tos.)] + +[Footnote 31: vile-- Old ed. "vild": but see note ||, p. 68.--(This line +is not in the later 4tos.) + + [Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great):] + + Vile-- The 8vo "Vild"; the 4to "Wild" (Both eds. a little + before, have "VILE monster, born of some infernal hag", and, + a few lines after, "To VILE and ignominious servitude":--the + fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with + their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, + and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, + where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")--] + +[Footnote 32: concise syllogisms-- Old ed. "Consissylogismes."] + +[Footnote 33: cunning-- i.e. knowing, skilful.] + +[Footnote 34: Agrippa-- i.e. Cornelius Agrippa.] + +[Footnote 35: shadow-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "shadowes."] + +[Footnote 36: spirits-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "subiects."] + +[Footnote 37: Almain rutters-- See note , p. 43.] + + [Note from p. 43. (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + Almains, Rutters-- Rutters are properly--German troopers + (reiter, reuter). In the third speech after the present one + this line is repeated VERBATIM: but in the first scene of + our author's FAUSTUS we have, + "Like ALMAIN RUTTERS with their horsemen's staves."--] + +[Footnote 38: have the-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "in their."] + +[Footnote 39: From-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "For."] + +[Footnote 40: in-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 41: renowm'd-- See note ||, p. 11.] + + [Note || from p. 11. (The First Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + renowmed-- i.e. renowned.--So the 8vo.--The 4to "renowned." + --The form "RENOWMED" (Fr. RENOMME) occurs repeatedly + afterwards in this play, according to the 8vo. It is + occasionally found in writers posterior to Marlowe's + time. e.g. + "Of Constantines great towne RENOUM'D in vaine." + Verses to King James, prefixed to Lord Stirling's + MONARCHICKE TRAGEDIES, ed. 1607.--] + +[Footnote 42: Albertus'-- i.e. Albertus Magnus.--The correction of I. M. +in Gent. Mag. for Jan. 1841.--All the 4tos "Albanus."] + +[Footnote 43: cunning-- i.e. skill.] + +[Footnote 44: Enter two SCHOLARS-- Scene, perhaps, supposed to be before +Faustus's house, as Wagner presently says, "My master is within +at dinner."] + +[Footnote 45: upon-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "vpon't."] + +[Footnote 46: speak, would-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "speake, IT would."] + +[Footnote 47: my dear brethren-- This repetition (not found in the later 4tos) +is perhaps an error of the original compositor.] + +[Footnote 48: Enter FAUSTUS to conjure-- The scene is supposed to be a grove; +see p. 81, last line of sec. col. + [Page 81, second column, last line: + "VALDES. Then haste thee to some solitary grove,"--] + +[Footnote 49: anagrammatiz'd-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "and +Agramithist."] + +[Footnote 50: Th' abbreviated-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "The breuiated."] + +[Footnote 51: erring-- i.e. wandering.] + +[Footnote 52: surgat Mephistophilis, quod tumeraris-- The later 4tos have +"surgat Mephistophilis DRAGON, quod tumeraris."--There is a +corruption here, which seems to defy emendation. For "quod +TUMERARIS," Mr. J. Crossley, of Manchester, would read (rejecting +the word "Dragon") "quod TU MANDARES" (the construction being +"quod tu mandares ut Mephistophilis appareat et surgat"): but the +"tu" does not agree with the preceding "vos."--The Revd. J. Mitford +proposes "surgat Mephistophilis, per Dragon (or Dagon) quod NUMEN +EST AERIS."] + +[Footnote 53: dicatus-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "dicatis."] + +[Footnote 54: Re-enter Mephistophilis, &c.-- According to THE HISTORY OF +DR. FAUSTUS, on which this play is founded, Faustus raises +Mephistophilis in "a thicke wood neere to Wittenberg, called +in the German tongue Spisser Wolt..... Presently, not three +fathom above his head, fell a flame in manner of a lightning, +and changed itselfe into a globe..... Suddenly the globe opened, +and sprung up in the height of a man; so burning a time, in the +end it converted to the shape of a fiery man[?-- This pleasant +beast ran about the circle a great while, and, lastly, appeared +in the manner of a Gray Fryer, asking Faustus what was his +request?" Sigs. A 2, A 3, ed. 1648. Again; "After Doctor Faustus +had made his promise to the devill, in the morning betimes he +called the spirit before him, and commanded him that he should +alwayes come to him like a fryer after the order of Saint Francis, +with a bell in his hand like Saint Anthony, and to ring it once +or twice before he appeared, that he might know of his certaine +coming." Id. Sig. A 4.] + +[Footnote 55: came hither-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "came +NOW hither."] + +[Footnote 56: accidens-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "accident."] + +[Footnote 57: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it-- Compare Milton, +Par. Lost, iv. 75; + "Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell."] + +[Footnote 58: these-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "those."] + +[Footnote 59: Jove's-- See note , p. 80. [i.e. Note 24] +: ] + +[Footnote 60: four and twenty-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "24."] + +[Footnote 61: resolve-- i.e. satisfy, inform.] + +[Footnote 62: thorough-- So one of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "through."] + +[Footnote 63: country-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "land."] + +[Footnote 64: desir'd-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "desire."] + +[Footnote 65: Enter WAGNER, &c.-- Scene, a street most probably.] + +[Footnote 66: pickadevaunts-- i.e. beards cut to a point.] + +[Footnote 67: by'r lady-- i.e. by our Lady.] + +[Footnote 68: Qui mihi discipulus-- The first words of W. Lily's +AD DISCIPULOS CARMEN DE MORIBUS, + + "Qui mihi discipulus, puer, es, cupis atque doceri, + Huc ades," &c.] + +[Footnote 69: staves-acre-- A species of larkspur.] + +[Footnote 70: vermin-- Which the seeds of staves-acre were used to destroy.] + +[Footnote 71: familiars-- i.e. attendant-demons.] + +[Footnote 72: their-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "my."] + +[Footnote 73: slop-- i.e. wide breeches.] + +[Footnote 74: vile-- Old ed. "vild." See note || p. 68. + + [Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + Vile-- The 8vo "Vild"; the 4to "Wild" (Both eds. a little + before, have "VILE monster, born of some infernal hag", and, + a few lines after, "To VILE and ignominious servitude":--the + fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with + their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, + and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, + where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")] + +[Footnote 75: vestigiis nostris-- All the 4tos "vestigias nostras."] + +[Footnote 76: of-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 77: me-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 78: he lives-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "I liue."] + +[Footnote 79: why-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 80: Solamen miseris, &c.-- An often-cited line of modern Latin +poetry: by whom it was written I know not.] + +[Footnote 81: Why-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 82: torture-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "tortures."] + +[Footnote 83: Faustus-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 84: Bill-- i.e. writing, deed.] + +[Footnote 85: Here's fire; come, Faustus, set it on-- This would not +be intelligible without the assistance of THE HISTORY OF +DR. FAUSTUS, the sixth chapter of which is headed,--"How Doctor +Faustus set his blood in a saucer on warme ashes, and writ as +followeth." Sig. B, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 86: But what is this inscription, &c.-- "He [Faustus-- tooke +a small penknife and prickt a veine in his left hand; and for +certainty thereupon were seen on his hand these words written, +as if they had been written with blood, O HOMO, FUGE." +THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, Sig. B, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 87: me-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "thee."] + +[Footnote 88: he desires-- Not in any of the four 4tos. In the tract +just cited, the "3d Article" stands thus,--"That Mephostophiles +should bring him any thing, and doe for him whatsoever." Sig. A 4, +ed. 1648. A later ed. adds "he desired." Marlowe, no doubt, +followed some edition of the HISTORY in which these words, +or something equivalent to them, had been omitted by mistake. +(2to 1661, which I consider as of no authority, has "he +requireth.")] + +[Footnote 89: that, &c.-- So all the 4tos, ungrammatically.] + +[Footnote 90: these-- See note §, p. 80.[i.e. Note 25] +: ] + +[Footnote 91: there-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 92: are-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "is."] + +[Footnote 93: fond-- i.e. foolish.] + +[Footnote 94: What! walking, disputing, &c.-- The later 4tos have "What, +SLEEPING, EATING, walking, AND disputing!" But it is evident +that this speech is not given correctly in any of the old eds.] + +[Footnote 95: let me have a wife, &c.-- The ninth chapter of THE HISTORY +OF DR. FAUSTUS narrates "How Doctor Faustus would have married, +and how the Devill had almost killed him for it," and concludes +as follows. "It is no jesting [said Mephistophilis-- with us: +hold thou that which thou hast vowed, and we will peforme as we +have promised; and more shall that, thou shalt have thy hearts +desire of what woman soever thou wilt, be she alive or dead, +and so long as thou wilt thou shalt keep her by thee.--These +words pleased Faustus wonderfull well, and repented himself that +he was so foolish to wish himselfe married, that might have any +woman in the whole city brought him at his command; the which +he practised and persevered in a long time." Sig. B 3, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 96: me-- Not in 4to 1604. (This line is wanting in the later 4tos.)] + +[Footnote 97: no-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 98: Saba-- i.e. Sabaea--the Queen of Sheba.] + +[Footnote 99: iterating-- i.e. reciting, repeating.] + +[Footnote 100: And argue of divine astrology, &c.-- In THE HISTORY OF +DR. FAUSTUS, there are several tedious pages on the subject; +but our dramatist, in the dialogue which follows, has no +particular obligations to them.] + +[Footnote 101: erring-- i.e. wandering.] + +[Footnote 102: freshmen's-- "A Freshman, tiro, novitius." Coles's DICT. +Properly, a student during his first term at the university.] + +[Footnote 103: resolve-- i.e. satisfy, inform.] + +[Footnote 104: Seek to save-- Qy. "Seek THOU to save"? But see note ||, +p. 18.] + + [Note ||, from page 18 (The First Part of Tamburlaine The + Great): + + Barbarous-- Qy. "O Barbarous"? in the next line but one, + "O treacherous"? and in the last line of the speech, + "O bloody"? But we occasionally find in our early dramatists + lines which are defective in the first syllable; and in some + of these instances at least it would almost seem that nothing + has been omitted by the transcriber or printer.--] + +[Footnote 105: Enter the SEVEN DEADLY SINS-- In THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, +Lucifer amuses Faustus, not by calling up the Seven Deadly Sins, +but by making various devils appear before him, "one after another, +in forme as they were in hell." "First entered Beliall in forme +of a beare," &c.--"after him came Beelzebub, in curled haire of +a horseflesh colour," &c.--"then came Astaroth, in the forme of +a worme," &c. &c. During this exhibition, "Lucifer himselfe sate +in manner of a man all hairy, but of browne colour, like a +squirrell, curled, and his tayle turning upward on his backe as +the squirrels use: I think he could crack nuts too like a +squirrell." Sig. D, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 106: case-- i.e. couple.] + +[Footnote 107: bevers-- i.e. refreshments between meals.] + +[Footnote 108: L.-- All the 4tos "Lechery."--Here I have made the alteration +recommended by Mr. Collier in his Preface to COLERIDGE'S SEVEN +LECTURES ON SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON, p. cviii.] + +[Footnote 109: Away, to hell, to hell-- In 4to 1604, these words stand +on a line by themselves, without a prefix. (In the later 4tos, +the corresponding passage is as follows; + "------ begins with Lechery. + + LUCIFER. Away to hell, away! On, piper! [Exeunt the SINS. + FAUSTUS. O, how this sight doth delight my soul!" &c.)] + +[Footnote 110: I will send for thee at midnight-- In THE HISTORY OF DR. +FAUSTUS, we have a particular account of Faustus's visit +to the infernal regions, Sig. D 2, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 111: Enter CHORUS-- Old ed. "Enter WAGNER solus." That these +lines belong to the Chorus would be evident enough, even if we +had no assistance here from the later 4tos.--The parts of Wagner +and of the Chorus were most probably played by the same actor: +and hence the error.] + +[Footnote 112: Learned Faustus, + To know the secrets of astronomy, &c.-- See the 21st chapter +of THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS,--"How Doctor Faustus was carried +through the ayre up to the heavens, to see the whole world, +and how the sky and planets ruled," &c.] + +[Footnote 113: Enter FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS-- Scene, the Pope's +privy-chamber.] + +[Footnote 114: Trier-- i.e. Treves or Triers.] + +[Footnote 115: From Paris next, &c.-- This description is from THE HISTORY +OF DR. FAUSTUS; "He came from Paris to Mentz, where the river +of Maine falls into the Rhine: notwithstanding he tarried not +long there, but went into Campania, in the kingdome of Neapol, +in which he saw an innumerable sort of cloysters, nunries, and +churches, and great houses of stone, the streets faire and large, +and straight forth from one end of the towne to the other as a +line; and all the pavement of the city was of bricke, and the +more it rained into the towne, the fairer the streets were: +there saw he the tombe of Virgill, and the highway that he cu[t] +through the mighty hill of stone in one night, the whole length +of an English mile," &c. Sig. E 2, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 116: The way he cut, &c.-- During the middle ages Virgil was +regarded as a great magician, and much was written concerning +his exploits in that capacity. The LYFE OF VIRGILIUS, however, +(see Thoms's EARLY PROSE ROMANCES, vol. ii.,) makes no mention +of the feat in question. But Petrarch speaks of it as follows. +"Non longe a Puteolis Falernus collis attollitur, famoso palmite +nobilis. Inter Falernum et mare mons est saxeus, hominum manibus +confossus, quod vulgus insulsum a Virgilio magicis cantaminibus +factum putant: ita clarorum fama hominum, non veris contenta +laudibus, saepe etiam fabulis viam facit. De quo cum me olim +Robertus regno clarus, sed praeclarus ingenio ac literis, quid +sentirem, multis astantibus, percunctatus esset, humanitate fretus +regia, qua non reges modo sed homines vicit, jocans nusquam me +legisse magicarium fuisse Virgilium respondi: quod ille severissimae +nutu frontis approbans, non illic magici sed ferri vestigia +confessus est. Sunt autem fauces excavati montis angustae sed +longissimae atque atrae: tenebrosa inter horrifica semper nox: +publicum iter in medio, mirum et religioni proximum, belli quoque +immolatum temporibus, sic vero populi vox est, et nullis unquam +latrociniis attentatum, patet: Criptam Neapolitanam dicunt, cujus +et in epistolis ad Lucilium Seneca mentionem fecit. Sub finem fusci +tramitis, ubi primo videri coelum incipit, in aggere edito, ipsius +Virgilii busta visuntur, pervetusti operis, unde haec forsan ab +illo perforati montis fluxit opinio." ITINERARIUM SYRIACUM,--OPP. +p. 560, ed. Bas.] + +[Footnote 117: From thence to Venice, Padua, and the rest, + In one of which a sumptuous temple stands, &c.-- So the +later 4tos.--2to 1604 "In MIDST of which," &c.--THE HISTORY +OF DR. FAUSTUS shews WHAT "sumptuous temple" is meant: "From +thence he came to Venice....He wondred not a little at the +fairenesse of S. Marks Place, and the sumptuous church standing +thereon, called S. Marke, how all the pavement was set with +coloured stones, and all the rood or loft of the church double +gilded over." Sig. E 2, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 118: Just through the midst, &c.-- This and the next line are +not in 4to 1604. I have inserted them from the later 4tos, as +being absolutely necessary for the sense.] + +[Footnote 119: Ponte-- All the 4tos "Ponto."] + +[Footnote 120: of-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 121: Then charm me, that I, &c.-- A corrupted passage.--Compare +THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, Sig. E 3, ed. 1648; where, however, +the Cardinal, whom the Pope entertains, is called the Cardinal +of PAVIA.] + +[Footnote 122: Sonnet-- Variously written, SENNET, SIGNET, SIGNATE, &c.--A +particular set of notes on the trumpet, or cornet, different from +a flourish. See Nares's GLOSS. in V. SENNET.] + +[Footnote 123: Enter ROBIN, &c.-- Scene, near an inn.] + +[Footnote 124: ippocras-- Or HIPPOCRAS,--a medicated drink composed of wine +(usually red) with spices and sugar. It is generally supposed to +have been so called from HIPPOCRATES (contracted by our earliest +writers to HIPPOCRAS); perhaps because it was strained,--the woollen +bag used by apothecaries to strain syrups and decoctions for +clarification being termed HIPPOCRATES' SLEEVE.] + +[Footnote 125: tabern-- i.e. tavern.] + +[Footnote 126: [Exeunt. + Enter ROBIN and RALPH, &c.-- A scene is evidently wanting +after the Exeunt of Robin and Ralph.] + +[Footnote 127: purchase-- i.e. booty--gain, acquisition.] + +[Footnote 128: Drawer-- There is an inconsistency here: the Vintner +cannot properly be addressed as "Drawer." The later 4tos are +also inconsistent in the corresponding passage: Dick says, "THE +VINTNER'S BOY follows us at the hard heels," and immediately +the "VINTNER" enters.] + +[Footnote 129: tone-- i.e. the one.] + +[Footnote 130: MEPHIST-- Monarch of hell, &c.-- Old ed. thus:--] + + "MEPHIST. Vanish vilaines, th' one like an Ape, an other like + a Beare, the third an Asse, for doing this enterprise. + + Monarch of hell, vnder whose blacke suruey," &c. + +What follows, shews that the words which I have omitted ought +to have no place in the text; nor is there any thing equivalent +to them in the corresponding passage of the play as given in +the later 4tos.] + +[Footnote 131: Enter EMPEROR, &c.-- Scene--An apartment in the Emperor's +Palace. According to THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, the Emperor +"was personally, with the rest of the nobles and gentlemen, at +the towne of Inzbrack, where he kept his court." Sig. G, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 132: Master Doctor Faustus, &c-- The greater part of this scene +is closely borrowed from the history just cited: e.g. "Faustus, +I have heard much of thee, that thou art excellent in the black art, +and none like thee in mine empire; for men say that thou hast a +familiar spirit with thee, and that thou canst doe what thou list; +it is therefore (said the Emperor) my request of thee, that thou +let me see a proofe of thy experience: and I vow unto thee, by +the honour of my emperiall crowne, none evill shall happen unto +thee for so doing," &c. Ibid.] + +[Footnote 133: won-- May be right: but qy. "done"?] + +[Footnote 134: As we that do succeed, &c.-- A corrupted passage (not found +in the later 4tos).] + +[Footnote 135: The bright, &c.-- See note ||, p. 18.] + + [Note ||, from page 18 (The First Part of Tamburlaine The + Great): + + Barbarous-- Qy. "O Barbarous"? in the next line but one, + "O treacherous"? and in the last line of the speech, + "O bloody"? But we occasionally find in our early dramatists + lines which are defective in the first syllable; and in + some of these instances at least it would almost seem that + nothing has been omitted by the transcriber or printer.--] + +[Footnote 136: But, if it like your grace, it is not in my ability, &c.] +"D. Faustus answered, My most excellent lord, I am ready to +accomplish your request in all things, so farre forth as I and +my spirit are able to performe: yet your majesty shall know that +their dead bodies are not able substantially to be brought before +you; but such spirits as have seene Alexander and his Paramour +alive shall appeare unto you, in manner and form as they both +lived in their most flourishing time; and herewith I hope to +please your Imperiall Majesty. Then Faustus went a little aside +to speake to his spirit; but he returned againe presently, saying, +Now, if it please your Majesty, you shall see them; yet, upon this +condition, that you demand no question of them, nor speake unto +them; which the Emperor agreed unto. Wherewith Doctor Faustus opened +the privy-chamber doore, where presently entered the great and mighty +emperor Alexander Magnus, in all things to looke upon as if he +had beene alive; in proportion, a strong set thicke man, of a +middle stature, blacke haire, and that both thicke and curled, +head and beard, red cheekes, and a broad face, with eyes like +a basiliske; he had a compleat harnesse (i.e. suit of armour) +burnished and graven, exceeding rich to look upon: and so, +passing towards the Emperor Carolus, he made low and reverend +courtesie: whereat the Emperour Carolus would have stood up to +receive and greet him with the like reverence; but Faustus tooke +hold on him, and would not permit him to doe it. Shortly after, +Alexander made humble reverence, and went out againe; and comming +to the doore, his paramour met him. She comming in made the Emperour +likewise reverence: she was cloathed in blew velvet, wrought and +imbroidered with pearls and gold; she was also excellent faire, +like milke and blood mixed, tall and slender, with a face round +as an apple. And thus passed [she-- certaine times up and downe +the house; which the Emperor marking, said to himselfe, Now have +I seene two persons which my heart hath long wished to behold; +and sure it cannot otherwise be (said he to himselfe) but that +the spirits have changed themselves into these formes, and have +but deceived me, calling to minde the woman that raised the prophet +Samuel: and for that the Emperor would be the more satisfied in +the matter, he said, I have often heard that behind, in her neck, +she had a great wart or wen; wherefore he tooke Faustus by the +hand without any words, and went to see if it were also to be +seene on her or not; but she, perceiving that he came to her, +bowed downe her neck, when he saw a great wart; and hereupon she +vanished, leaving the Emperor and the rest well contented." +THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, Sig. G, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 137: both-- Old ed. "best."] + +[Footnote 138: Mephistophilis, transform him straight-- According to THE +HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, the knight was not present during Faustus's +"conference" with the Emperor; nor did he offer the doctor any +insult by doubting his skill in magic. We are there told that +Faustus happening to see the knight asleep, "leaning out of a +window of the great hall," fixed a huge pair of hart's horns on +his head; "and, as the knight awaked, thinking to pull in his head, +he hit his hornes against the glasse, that the panes thereof flew +about his eares: thinke here how this good gentleman was vexed, +for he could neither get backward nor forward." After the emperor +and the courtiers, to their great amusement, had beheld the poor +knight in this condition, Faustus removed the horns. When Faustus, +having taken leave of the emperor, was a league and a half from +the city, he was attacked in a wood by the knight and some of his +companions: they were in armour, and mounted on fair palfreys; +but the doctor quickly overcame them by turning all the bushes +into horsemen, and "so charmed them, that every one, knight and +other, for the space of a whole moneth, did weare a paire of +goates hornes on their browes, and every palfry a paire of oxe +hornes on his head; and this was their penance appointed by +Faustus." A second attempt of the knight to revenge himself on +Faustus proved equally unsuccessful. Sigs. G 2, I 3, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 139: FAUSTUS. Now Mephistophilis, &c.-- Here the scene is supposed +to be changed to the "fair and pleasant green" which Faustus +presently mentions.] + +[Footnote 140: Horse-courser-- i.e. Horse-dealer.--We are now to suppose the +scene to be near the home of Faustus, and presently that it is the +interior of his house, for he falls asleep in his chair.--"How +Doctor Faustus deceived a Horse-courser" is related in a short +chapter (the 34th) of THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS: "After this +manner he served a horse-courser at a faire called Pheiffering," &c.] + +[Footnote 141: for forty-- Qy. "for TWICE forty DOLLARS"?] + +[Footnote 142: into-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "vnto."] + +[Footnote 143: Doctor Lopus-- i.e. Doctor Lopez, domestic physician +to Queen Elizabeth, who was put to death for having received +a bribe from the court of Spain to destroy her. He is frequently +mentioned in our early dramas: see my note on Middleton's WORKS, +iv. 384.] + +[Footnote 144: know of-- The old ed. has "KNOWNE of"; which perhaps is right, +meaning--acquainted with.] + +[Footnote 145: hey-pass-- Equivalent to--juggler.] + +[Footnote 146: ostry-- i.e. inn,--lodging.] + +[Footnote 147: cunning-- i.e. skill.] + +[Footnote 148: [Exeunt. + Enter the DUKE OF VANHOLT, the DUCHESS, and FAUSTUS-- Old ed.; + + "Exeunt. + Enter to them the DUKE, the DUTCHESS, the DUKE speakes." + +In the later 4tos a scene intervenes between the "Exeunt" of +Faustus, Mephistophilis, and Wagner, and the entrance of the Duke +of Vanholt, &c.--We are to suppose that Faustus is now at the court +of the Duke of Vanholt: this is plain, not only from the later 4tos, +--in which Wagner tells Faustus that the Duke "hath sent some of +his men to attend him, with provision fit for his journey,"--but +from THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, the subjoined portion of which +is closely followed in the present scene. "Chap. xxxix. HOW DOCTOR +FAUSTUS PLAYED A MERRY JEST WITH THE DUKE OF ANHOLT IN HIS COURT. +Doctor Faustus on a time went to the Duke of Anholt, who welcommed +him very courteously; this was the moneth of January; where sitting +at the table, he perceived the dutchess to be with child; and +forbearing himselfe untill the meat was taken from the table, +and that they brought in the banqueting dishes [i.e. the dessert--, +Doctor Faustus said to the dutchesse, Gratious lady, I have alwayes +heard that great-bellied women doe alwayes long for some dainties; +I beseech therefore your grace, hide not your minde from me, but +tell me what you desire to eat. She answered him, Doctor Faustus, +now truly I will not hide from you what my heart doth most desire; +namely, that, if it were now harvest, I would eat my bellyfull of +grapes and other dainty fruit. Doctor Faustus answered hereupon, +Gracious lady, this is a small thing for me to doe, for I can doe +more than this. Wherefore he tooke a plate, and set open one of +the casements of the window, holding it forth; where incontinent +he had his dish full of all manner of fruit, as red and white +grapes, peares, and apples, the which came from out of strange +countries: all these he presented the dutchesse, saying, Madam, +I pray you vouchsafe to taste of this dainty fruit, the which +came from a farre countrey, for there the summer is not yet ended. +The dutchesse thanked Faustus highly, and she fell to her fruit +with full appetite. The Duke of Anholt notwithstanding could not +withhold to ask Faustus with what reason there were such young +fruit to be had at that time of the yeare. Doctor Faustus told +him, May it please your grace to understand that the year is +divided into two circles of the whole world, that when with us it +is winter, in the contrary circle it is notwithstanding summer; +for in India and Saba there falleth or setteth the sunne, so that +it is so warm that they have twice a yeare fruit; and, gracious +lord, I have a swift spirit, the which can in the twinkling of +an eye fulfill my desire in any thing; wherefore I sent him into +those countries, who hath brought this fruit as you see: whereat +the duke was in great admiration."] + +[Footnote 149: Saba-- i.e. Sabaea.] + +[Footnote 150: beholding-- i.e. beholden.] + +[Footnote 151: Enter WAGNER-- Scene, a room in the house of Faustus.] + +[Footnote 152: he hath given to me all his goods-- Compare chap. lvi. of +THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS,--"How Doctor Faustus made his will, +in which he named his servant Wagner to be his heire."] + +[Footnote 153: HELEN passeth over the stage-- In THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR +FAUSTUS we have the following description of Helen. "This lady +appeared before them in a most rich gowne of purple velvet, costly +imbrodered; her haire hanged downe loose, as faire as the beaten +gold, and of such length that it reached downe to her hammes; +having most amorous cole-black eyes, a sweet and pleasant round +face, with lips as red as a cherry; her cheekes of a rose colour, +her mouth small, her neck white like a swan; tall and slender of +personage; in summe, there was no imperfect place in her: she +looked round about with a rolling hawkes eye, a smiling and +wanton countenance, which neere-hand inflamed the hearts of all +the students; but that they perswaded themselves she was a spirit, +which made them lightly passe away such fancies." Sig. H 4, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 154: Enter an OLD MAN-- See chap. xlviii of THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR +FAUSTUS,--"How an old man, the neighbour of Faustus, sought to +perswade him to amend his evil life and to fall into repentance," +--according to which history, the Old Man's exhortation is delivered +at his own house, whither he had invited Faustus to supper.] + +[Footnote 155: vild-- Old ed. "vild." See note ||, p. 68. + + [Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + Vile-- The 8vo "Vild"; the 4to "Wild" (Both eds. a little + before, have "VILE monster, born of some infernal hag", and, + a few lines after, "To VILE and ignominious servitude":--the + fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with + their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, + and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, + where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")--] + +[Footnote 156: sin-- Old ed. "sinnes" (This is not in the later 4tos).] + +[Footnote 157: almost-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 158: now-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 159: MEPHIST. Do it, then, quickly, &c.-- After this speech, +most probably, there ought to be a stage-direction, "FAUSTUS +STABS HIS ARM, AND WRITES ON A PAPER WITH HIS BLOOD. Compare +THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, chap. xlix,--"How Doctor Faustus +wrote the second time with his owne blood, and gave it to the +Devill."] + +[Footnote 160: One thing, good servant, &c.-- "To the end that this miserable +Faustus might fill the lust of his flesh and live in all manner +of voluptuous pleasure, it came in his mind, after he had slept +his first sleepe, and in the 23 year past of his time, that he +had a great desire to lye with faire Helena of Greece, especially +her whom he had seen and shewed unto the students at Wittenberg: +wherefore he called unto his spirit Mephostophiles, commanding him +to bring to him the faire Helena; which he also did. Whereupon he +fell in love with her, and made her his common concubine and +bed-fellow; for she was so beautifull and delightfull a peece, +that he could not be one houre from her, if he should therefore +have suffered death, she had so stoln away his heart: and, to +his seeming, in time she was with childe, whom Faustus named +Justus Faustus. The childe told Doctor Faustus many things which +were don in forraign countrys; but in the end, when Faustus lost +his life, the mother and the childe vanished away both together." +THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. I 4, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 161: Those-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "These."] + +[Footnote 162: Faustus, this-- Qy. "This, Faustus"?] + +[Footnote 163: topless-- i.e. not exceeded in height by any.] + +[Footnote 164: is-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "be."] + +[Footnote 165: shalt-- So all the 4tos; and so I believe Marlowe wrote, +though the grammar requires "shall."] + +[Footnote 166: Enter the OLD MAN-- Scene, a room in the Old Man's house. +--In THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS the Old Man makes himself very +merry with the attempts of the evil powers to hurt him. "About +two dayes after that he had exhorted Faustus, as the poore man +lay in his bed, suddenly there was a mighty rumbling in the +chamber, the which he was never wont to heare, and he heard as +it had beene the groaning of a sow, which lasted long: whereupon +the good old man began to jest and mocke, and said, Oh, what a +barbarian cry is this? Oh faire bird, what foul musicke is this? +A[h--, faire angell, that could not tarry two dayes in his place! +beginnest thou now to runne into a poore mans house, where thou +hast no power, and wert not able to keepe thy owne two dayes? +With these and such like words the spirit departed," &c. +Sig. I 2, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 167: Enter Faustus, &c.-- Scene, a room in the house of Faustus.] + +[Footnote 168: cunning-- i.e. knowledge, skill.] + +[Footnote 169: Why did not Faustus tell us of this before, &c.-- "Wherefore +one of them said unto him, Ah, friend Faustus, what have you done +to conceale this matter so long from us? We would, by the helpe +of good divines and the grace of God, have brought you out of this +net, and have torne you out of the bondage and chaines of Satan; +whereas now we feare it is too late, to the utter ruine both of +your body and soule. Doctor Faustus answered, I durst never doe +it, although I often minded to settle my life [myself?-- to godly +people to desire counsell and helpe; and once mine old neighbour +counselled me that I should follow his learning and leave all my +conjurations: yet, when I was minded to amend and to follow that +good mans counsell, then came the Devill and would have had me +away, as this night he is like to doe, and said, so soone as I +turned againe to God, he would dispatch me altogether." THE +HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. K 3, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 170: save-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 171: and what noise soever ye hear, &c.-- "Lastly, to knit up +my troubled oration, this is my friendly request, that you would +go to rest, and let nothing trouble you; also, if you chance heare +any noyse or rumbling about the house, be not therewith afraid, +for there shall no evill happen unto you," &c. THE HISTORY OF +DOCTOR FAUSTUS, ubi supra.] + +[Footnote 172: O lente, &c. + "At si, quem malles, Cephalum complexa teneres, + Clamares, LENTE CURRITE, NOCTIS EQUI." + Ovid,--AMOR. i. xiii. 39.] + +[Footnote 173: That, when you, &c.-- So all the old eds.; and it is certain +that awkward changes of person are sometimes found in passages +of our early poets: but qy., + + "That, when THEY vomit forth into the air, + My limbs may issue from THEIR smoky mouths," &c.?] + +[Footnote 174: and I be chang'd + Unto some brutish beast-- "Now, thou Faustus, damned wretch, +how happy wert thou, if, as an unreasonable beast, thou mightest +dye without [a-- soule! so shouldst thou not feele any more doubts," +&c. THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. K. ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 175: Exeunt DEVILS with FAUSTUS-- In THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, +his "miserable and lamentable end" is described as follows: it +took place, we are informed, at "the village called Rimlich, +halfe a mile from Wittenberg."--"The students and the other that +were there, when they had prayed for him, they wept, and so went +forth; but Faustus tarried in the hall; and when the gentlemen +were laid in bed, none of them could sleepe, for that they att[e--nded +to heare if they might be privy of his end. It happened that +betweene twelve and one a clocke at midnight, there blew a mighty +storme of winde against the house, as though it would have blowne +the foundation thereof out of his place. Hereupon the students +began to feare and goe out of their beds, comforting one another; +but they would not stirre out of the chamber; and the host of +the house ran out of doores, thinking the house would fall. The +students lay neere unto the hall wherein Doctor Faustus lay, and +they heard a mighty noyse and hissing, as if the hall had beene +full of snakes and adders. With that, the hall-doore flew open, +wherein Doctor Faustus was, that he began to cry for helpe, +saying, Murther, murther! but it came forth with halfe a voyce, +hollowly: shortly after, they heard him no more. But when it was +day, the students, that had taken no rest that night, arose and +went into the hall, in the which they left Doctor Faustus; where +notwithstanding they found not Faustus, but all the hall lay +sprinkled with blood, his braines cleaving to the wall, for the +devill had beaten him from one wall against another; in one corner +lay his eyes, in another his teeth; a pittifull and fearefull +sight to behold. Then began the students to waile and weepe for +him, and sought for his body in many places. Lastly, they came +into the yard, where they found his body lying on the horse-dung, +most monstrously torne and fearefull to behold, for his head and +all his joynts were dashed in peeces. The fore-named students and +masters that were at his death, have obtained so much, that they +buried him in the village where he was so grievously tormented. +After the which they returned to Wittenberg; and comming into the +house of Faustus, they found the servant of Faustus very sad, +unto whom they opened all the matter, who tooke it exceeding +heavily. There found they also this history of Doctor Faustus +noted and of him written, as is before declared, all save only +his end, the which was after by the students thereto annexed; +further, what his servant had noted thereof, was made in another +booke. And you have heard that he held by him in his life the +spirit of faire Helena, the which had by him one sonne, the which +he named Justus Faustus: even the same day of his death they +vanished away, both mother and sonne. The house before was so +darke that scarce any body could abide therein. The same night +Doctor Faustus appeared unto his servant lively, and shewed unto +him many secret things, the which he had done and hidden in his +lifetime. Likewise there were certaine which saw Doctor Faustus +looke out of the window by night, as they passed by the house." +Sig. K 3, ed. 1648.] + + + +Original Comments on the preparation of the E-Text: + +SQUARE BRACKETS: + +The square brackets, i.e. [ ] are copied from the printed book, +without change. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus + +Author: Christoper Marlowe + +Release Date: January, 1997 [Etext #779] +Posting Date: November 3, 2009 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS *** + + + + +Produced by Gary R. Young + + + + + +THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS + +By Christopher Marlowe + +From The Quarto of 1604 + +Edited by The Rev. Alexander Dyce + + + + + +THE TRAGICALL HISTORY OF D. FAUSTUS. AS IT HATH BENE ACTED +BY THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARLE OF NOTTINGHAM HIS SERUANTS. +WRITTEN BY CH. MARL. + +In reprinting this edition, I have here and there amended the text +by means of the later 4tos,--1616, 1624, 1631.--Of 4to 1663, which +contains various comparatively modern alterations and additions, +I have made no use. + + + + +DRAMATIS PERSONAE. + + THE POPE. + CARDINAL OF LORRAIN. + THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. + DUKE OF VANHOLT. + FAUSTUS. + VALDES, ] friends to FAUSTUS. + CORNELIUS, ] + WAGNER, servant to FAUSTUS. + Clown. + ROBIN. + RALPH. + Vintner. + Horse-courser. + A Knight. + An Old Man. + Scholars, Friars, and Attendants. + + DUCHESS OF VANHOLT + + LUCIFER. + BELZEBUB. + MEPHISTOPHILIS. + Good Angel. + Evil Angel. + The Seven Deadly Sins. + Devils. + Spirits in the shapes of ALEXANDER THE GREAT, of his Paramour + and of HELEN. + + Chorus. + + + + + +THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS + +FROM THE QUARTO OF 1604. + + + Enter CHORUS. + + CHORUS. Not marching now in fields of Thrasymene, + Where Mars did mate[1] the Carthaginians; + Nor sporting in the dalliance of love, + In courts of kings where state is overturn'd; + Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds, + Intends our Muse to vaunt[2] her[3] heavenly verse: + Only this, gentlemen,--we must perform + The form of Faustus' fortunes, good or bad: + To patient judgments we appeal our plaud, + And speak for Faustus in his infancy. + Now is he born, his parents base of stock, + In Germany, within a town call'd Rhodes: + Of riper years, to Wertenberg he went, + Whereas[4] his kinsmen chiefly brought him up. + So soon he profits in divinity, + The fruitful plot of scholarism grac'd, + That shortly he was grac'd with doctor's name, + Excelling all whose sweet delight disputes + In heavenly matters of theology; + Till swoln with cunning,[5] of a self-conceit, + His waxen wings did mount above his reach, + And, melting, heavens conspir'd his overthrow; + For, falling to a devilish exercise, + And glutted now[6] with learning's golden gifts, + He surfeits upon cursed necromancy; + Nothing so sweet as magic is to him, + Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss: + And this the man that in his study sits. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS discovered in his study.[7] + + FAUSTUS. Settle thy studies, Faustus, and begin + To sound the depth of that thou wilt profess: + Having commenc'd, be a divine in shew, + Yet level at the end of every art, + And live and die in Aristotle's works. + Sweet Analytics, 'tis thou[8] hast ravish'd me! + Bene disserere est finis logices. + Is, to dispute well, logic's chiefest end? + Affords this art no greater miracle? + Then read no more; thou hast attain'd that[9] end: + A greater subject fitteth Faustus' wit: + Bid Economy[10] farewell, and[11] Galen come, + Seeing, Ubi desinit philosophus, ibi incipit medicus: + Be a physician, Faustus; heap up gold, + And be eterniz'd for some wondrous cure: + Summum bonum medicinae sanitas, + The end of physic is our body's health. + Why, Faustus, hast thou not attain'd that end? + Is not thy common talk found aphorisms? + Are not thy bills hung up as monuments, + Whereby whole cities have escap'd the plague, + And thousand desperate maladies been eas'd? + Yet art thou still but Faustus, and a man. + Couldst[12] thou make men[13] to live eternally, + Or, being dead, raise them to life again, + Then this profession were to be esteem'd. + Physic, farewell! Where is Justinian? + + [Reads.] + Si una eademque res legatur[14] duobus, alter rem, + alter valorem rei, &c. + + A pretty case of paltry legacies! + + [Reads.] + Exhoereditare filium non potest pater, nisi, &c.[15] + + Such is the subject of the institute, + And universal body of the law:[16] + This[17] study fits a mercenary drudge, + Who aims at nothing but external trash; + Too servile[18] and illiberal for me. + When all is done, divinity is best: + Jerome's Bible, Faustus; view it well. + + [Reads.] + Stipendium peccati mors est. + Ha! + Stipendium, &c. + + The reward of sin is death: that's hard. + + [Reads.] + Si peccasse negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis veritas; + + If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and + there's 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,[19] + What will be, shall be? Divinity, adieu! + These metaphysics of magicians, + And necromantic books are heavenly; + Lines, circles, scenes,[20] letters, and characters; + Ay, these are those that Faustus most desires. + O, what a world of profit and delight, + Of power, of honour, of omnipotence, + Is promis'd to the studious artizan! + All 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, + Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man; + A sound magician is a mighty god: + Here, Faustus, tire[21] thy brains to gain a deity. + + Enter WAGNER.[22] + + Wagner, commend me to my dearest friends, + The German Valdes and Cornelius; + Request them earnestly to visit me. + + WAGNER. I will, sir. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. Their conference will be a greater help to me + Than all my labours, plod I ne'er so fast. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + + GOOD ANGEL. O, Faustus, lay that damned book aside, + And gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soul, + And heap God's heavy wrath upon thy head! + Read, read the Scriptures:--that is blasphemy. + + EVIL ANGEL. Go forward, Faustus, in that famous art + Wherein all Nature's treasure[23] is contain'd: + Be thou on earth as Jove[24] is in the sky, + Lord and commander of these elements.[25] + [Exeunt Angels.] + + FAUSTUS. How am I glutted with conceit of this! + Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, + Resolve[26] 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, + 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 swift Rhine circle fair Wertenberg; + I'll have them fill the public schools with silk,[27] + 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[28] provinces; + Yea, stranger engines for the brunt of war, + Than was the fiery keel at Antwerp's bridge,[29] + I'll make my servile spirits to invent. + + 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: + Yet not your words only,[30] 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; + Divinity is basest of the three, + Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile:[31] + 'Tis magic, magic, that hath ravish'd me. + Then, gentle friends, aid me in this attempt; + And I, that have with concise syllogisms[32] + Gravell'd the pastors of the German church, + And made the flowering pride of Wertenberg + Swarm to my problems, as the infernal spirits + On sweet Musaeus when he came to hell, + Will be as cunning[33] as Agrippa[34] was, + Whose shadow[35] made all Europe honour him. + + VALDES. Faustus, these books, thy wit, and our experience, + Shall make all nations to canonize us. + As Indian Moors obey their Spanish lords, + So shall the spirits[36] of every element + Be always serviceable to us three; + Like lions shall they guard us when we please; + Like Almain rutters[37] with their horsemen's staves, + Or Lapland giants, trotting by our sides; + Sometimes like women, or unwedded maids, + Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows + Than have the[38] white breasts of the queen of love: + From[39] Venice shall they drag huge argosies, + And from America the golden fleece + That yearly stuffs old Philip's treasury; + If learned Faustus will be resolute. + + FAUSTUS. Valdes, as resolute am I in this + As thou to live: therefore object it not. + + CORNELIUS. The miracles that magic will perform + Will make thee vow to study nothing else. + He that is grounded in astrology, + Enrich'd with tongues, well seen in[40] minerals, + Hath all the principles magic doth require: + Then doubt not, Faustus, but to be renowm'd,[41] + And more frequented for this mystery + Than heretofore the Delphian oracle. + The spirits tell me they can dry the sea, + And fetch the treasure of all foreign wrecks, + Ay, all the wealth that our forefathers hid + Within the massy entrails of the earth: + Then tell me, Faustus, what shall we three want? + + FAUSTUS. Nothing, Cornelius. O, this cheers my soul! + Come, shew me some demonstrations magical, + That I may conjure in some lusty grove, + And have these joys in full possession. + + VALDES. Then haste thee to some solitary grove, + And bear wise Bacon's and Albertus'[42] works, + The Hebrew Psalter, and New Testament; + And whatsoever else is requisite + We will inform thee ere our conference cease. + + CORNELIUS. Valdes, first let him know the words of art; + And then, all other ceremonies learn'd, + Faustus may try his cunning[43] by himself. + + VALDES. First I'll instruct thee in the rudiments, + And then wilt thou be perfecter than I. + + FAUSTUS. Then come and dine with me, and, after meat, + We'll canvass every quiddity thereof; + For, ere I sleep, I'll try what I can do: + This night I'll conjure, though I die therefore. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter two SCHOLARS.[44] + + FIRST SCHOLAR. I wonder what's become of Faustus, that was wont + to make our schools ring with sic probo. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. That shall we know, for see, here comes his boy. + + Enter WAGNER. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. How now, sirrah! where's thy master? + + WAGNER. God in heaven knows. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Why, dost not thou know? + + WAGNER. Yes, I know; but that follows not. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Go to, sirrah! leave your jesting, and tell us + where he is. + + WAGNER. That follows not necessary by force of argument, that you, + being licentiates, should stand upon:[45] therefore acknowledge + your error, and be attentive. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Why, didst thou not say thou knewest? + + WAGNER. Have you any witness on't? + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Yes, sirrah, I heard you. + + WAGNER. Ask my fellow if I be a thief. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Well, you will not tell us? + + WAGNER. Yes, sir, I will tell you: yet, if you were not dunces, + you would never ask me such a question; for is not he corpus + naturale? and is not that mobile? then 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 to see you both hanged + the next sessions. Thus having triumphed over you, I will set + my countenance like a precisian, 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[46] inform your worships: and so, the Lord bless you, + preserve you, and keep you, my dear brethren, my dear brethren![47] + [Exit.] + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Nay, then, I fear he is fallen into that damned art + for which they two are infamous through the world. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. 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. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. O, but I fear me nothing can reclaim him! + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Yet let us try what we can do. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter FAUSTUS to conjure.[48] + + FAUSTUS. Now that the gloomy shadow of the earth, + Longing to view Orion's drizzling look, + Leaps from th' antartic 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 pray'd and sacrific'd to them. + Within this circle is Jehovah's name, + Forward and backward anagrammatiz'd,[49] + Th' abbreviated[50] names of holy saints, + Figures of every adjunct to the heavens, + And characters of signs and erring[51] stars, + By which the spirits are enforc'd to rise: + Then fear not, Faustus, but be resolute, + And try the uttermost magic can perform.-- + Sint mihi dei Acherontis propitii! Valeat numen triplex Jehovoe! + Ignei, aerii, aquatani spiritus, salvete! Orientis princeps + Belzebub, inferni ardentis monarcha, et Demogorgon, propitiamus + vos, ut appareat et surgat Mephistophilis, quod tumeraris:[52] + per Jehovam, Gehennam, et consecratam aquam quam nunc spargo, + signumque crucis quod nunc facio, et per vota nostra, ipse nunc + surgat nobis dicatus[53] Mephistophilis! + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + 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 MEPHISTOPHILIS.] + + I 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: + No, Faustus, thou art conjuror laureat, + That canst command great Mephistophilis: + Quin regis Mephistophilis fratris imagine. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS like a Franciscan friar.[54] + + MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, what wouldst thou have me do? + + FAUSTUS. I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live, + To do whatever Faustus shall command, + Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere, + Or the ocean to overwhelm the world. + + MEPHIST. 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? + + MEPHIST. No, I came hither[55] of mine own accord. + + FAUSTUS. Did not my conjuring speeches raise thee? speak. + + MEPHIST. That was the cause, but yet per accidens;[56] + For, when we hear one rack the name of God, + Abjure the Scriptures and his Saviour Christ, + We fly, in hope to get his glorious soul; + Nor will we come, unless he use such means + Whereby he is in danger to be damn'd. + Therefore the shortest cut for conjuring + Is stoutly to abjure the Trinity, + And pray devoutly to the prince of hell. + + FAUSTUS. So Faustus hath + Already done; and holds this principle, + There is no chief but only Belzebub; + 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! + But, leaving these vain trifles of men's souls, + Tell me what is that Lucifer thy lord? + + MEPHIST. Arch-regent and commander of all spirits. + + FAUSTUS. Was not that Lucifer an angel once? + + MEPHIST. Yes, Faustus, and most dearly lov'd of God. + + FAUSTUS. How comes it, then, that he is prince of devils? + + MEPHIST. O, by aspiring pride and insolence; + For which God threw him from the face of heaven. + + FAUSTUS. And what are you that live with Lucifer? + + MEPHIST. Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, + Conspir'd against our God with Lucifer, + And are for ever damn'd with Lucifer. + + FAUSTUS. Where are you damn'd? + + MEPHIST. In hell. + + FAUSTUS. How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell? + + MEPHIST. Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it:[57] + Think'st 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 depriv'd 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? + Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude, + And scorn those joys thou never shalt possess. + Go bear these[58] tidings to great Lucifer: + Seeing Faustus hath incurr'd eternal death + By desperate thoughts against Jove's[59] deity, + Say, he surrenders up to him his soul, + So he will spare him four and twenty[60] 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, + To slay mine enemies, and 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[61] me of thy master's mind. + + MEPHIST. I will, Faustus. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. 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 thorough[62] the moving air, + To pass the ocean with a band of men; + I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore, + And make that country[63] continent to Spain, + And both contributory to my crown: + The Emperor shall not live but by my leave, + Nor any potentate of Germany. + Now that I have obtain'd what I desir'd,[64] + I'll live in speculation of this art, + Till Mephistophilis return again. + [Exit.] + + Enter WAGNER[65] and CLOWN. + + WAGNER. Sirrah boy, come hither. + + CLOWN. How, boy! swowns, boy! I hope you have seen many boys + with such pickadevaunts[66] as I have: boy, quotha! + + WAGNER. Tell me, sirrah, hast thou any comings in? + + CLOWN. Ay, and goings out too; you may see else. + + WAGNER. Alas, poor slave! see how poverty jesteth in his nakedness! + the villain is bare and 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. + + CLOWN. How! my soul to the devil for a shoulder of mutton, though + 'twere blood-raw! not so, good friend: by'r lady,[67] I had need + have it well roasted, and good sauce to it, if I pay so dear. + + WAGNER. Well, wilt thou serve me, and I'll make thee go like + Qui mihi discipulus?[68] + + CLOWN. How, in verse? + + WAGNER. No, sirrah; in beaten silk and staves-acre.[69] + + CLOWN. How, how, knaves-acre! ay, I thought that was all the land + his father left him. Do you hear? I would be sorry to rob you of + your living. + + WAGNER. Sirrah, I say in staves-acre. + + CLOWN. Oho, oho, staves-acre! why, then, belike, if I were your + man, I should be full of vermin.[70] + + WAGNER. So thou shalt, whether thou beest with me or no. But, + sirrah, leave your jesting, and bind yourself presently unto me + for seven years, or I'll turn all the lice about thee into + familiars,[71] and they shall tear thee in pieces. + + CLOWN. 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 their[72] meat and drink. + + WAGNER. Well, do you hear, sirrah? hold, take these guilders. + [Gives money.] + + CLOWN. Gridirons! what be they? + + WAGNER. Why, French crowns. + + CLOWN. 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? + + WAGNER. Why, now, sirrah, thou art at an hour's warning, whensoever + or wheresoever the devil shall fetch thee. + + CLOWN. No, no; here, take your gridirons again. + + WAGNER. Truly, I'll none of them. + + CLOWN. Truly, but you shall. + + WAGNER. Bear witness I gave them him. + + CLOWN. Bear witness I give them you again. + + WAGNER. Well, I will cause two devils presently to fetch thee + away.--Baliol and Belcher! + + CLOWN. Let your Baliol and your Belcher come here, and I'll + knock them, they were never so knocked since they were devils: + say I should kill one of them, what would folks say? "Do ye see + yonder tall fellow in the round slop?[73] he has killed the devil." + So I should be called Kill-devil all the parish over. + + Enter two DEVILS; and the CLOWN runs up and down crying. + + WAGNER. Baliol and Belcher,--spirits, away! + [Exeunt DEVILS.] + + CLOWN. What, are they gone? a vengeance on them! they have vile[74] + long nails. There was a he-devil and a she-devil: I'll tell you + how you shall know them; all he-devils has horns, and all + she-devils has clifts and cloven feet. + + WAGNER. Well, sirrah, follow me. + + CLOWN. But, do you hear? if I should serve you, would you teach + me to raise up Banios and Belcheos? + + WAGNER. I will teach thee to turn thyself to any thing, to a dog, + or a cat, or a mouse, or a rat, or any thing. + + CLOWN. 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 pretty wenches' + plackets! I'll be amongst them, i'faith. + + WAGNER. Well, sirrah, come. + + CLOWN. But, do you hear, Wagner? + + WAGNER. How!--Baliol and Belcher! + + CLOWN. O Lord! I pray, sir, let Banio and Belcher go sleep. + + WAGNER. Villain, call me Master Wagner, and let thy left eye be + diametarily fixed upon my right heel, with quasi vestigiis + nostris[75] insistere. + [Exit.] + + CLOWN. God forgive me, he speaks Dutch fustian. Well, I'll follow + him; I'll serve him, that's flat. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS discovered in his study. + + FAUSTUS. Now, Faustus, must + Thou needs be damn'd, and canst thou not be sav'd: + What boots it, then, to think of God or heaven? + Away with such vain fancies, and despair; + Despair in God, and trust in Belzebub: + Now go not backward; no, Faustus, be resolute: + Why waver'st thou? O, something soundeth in mine ears, + "Abjure this magic, turn to God again!" + Ay, and Faustus will turn to God again. + To God? he loves thee not; + The god thou serv'st is thine own appetite, + Wherein is fix'd the love of Belzebub: + To him I'll build an altar and a church, + And offer lukewarm blood of new-born babes. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + + GOOD ANGEL. Sweet Faustus, leave that execrable art. + + FAUSTUS. Contrition, prayer, repentance--what of them? + + GOOD ANGEL. O, they are means to bring thee unto heaven! + + EVIL ANGEL. Rather illusions, fruits of lunacy, + That make men foolish that do trust them most. + + GOOD ANGEL. Sweet Faustus, think of heaven and heavenly things. + + EVIL ANGEL. No, Faustus; think of honour and of[76] wealth. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + + FAUSTUS. Of wealth! + Why, the signiory of Embden shall be mine. + When Mephistophilis shall stand by me, + What god can hurt thee, Faustus? thou art safe + Cast no more doubts.--Come, Mephistophilis, + And bring glad tidings from great Lucifer;-- + Is't not midnight?--come, Mephistophilis, + Veni, veni, Mephistophile! + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + Now tell me[77] what says Lucifer, thy lord? + + MEPHIST. That I shall wait on Faustus whilst he lives,[78] + So he will buy my service with his soul. + + FAUSTUS. Already Faustus hath hazarded that for thee. + + MEPHIST. But, Faustus, thou must bequeath it solemnly, + And write a deed of gift with thine own blood; + For that security craves great Lucifer. + If thou deny it, I will back to hell. + + FAUSTUS. Stay, Mephistophilis, and tell me, what good will my soul + do thy lord? + + MEPHIST. Enlarge his kingdom. + + FAUSTUS. Is that the reason why[79] he tempts us thus? + + MEPHIST. Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.[80] + + FAUSTUS. Why,[81] have you any pain that torture[82] others! + + MEPHIST. As great as have the human souls of men. + But, tell me, Faustus, shall I have thy soul? + And I will be thy slave, and wait on thee, + And give thee more than thou hast wit to ask. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, Mephistophilis, I give it thee. + + MEPHIST. Then, Faustus,[83] stab thine arm courageously, + And bind thy soul, that at some certain day + Great Lucifer may claim it as his own; + And then be thou as great as Lucifer. + + FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm] 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 the blood that trickles from mine arm, + And let it be propitious for my wish. + + MEPHIST. But, Faustus, thou must + Write it in manner of a deed of gift. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, so I will [Writes]. But, Mephistophilis, + My blood congeals, and I can write no more. + + MEPHIST. I'll fetch thee fire to dissolve it straight. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. What might the staying of my blood portend? + Is it unwilling I should write this bill?[84] + Why streams it not, that I may write afresh? + FAUSTUS GIVES TO THEE HIS SOUL: ah, there it stay'd! + Why shouldst thou not? is not thy soul shine own? + Then write again, FAUSTUS GIVES TO THEE HIS SOUL. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with a chafer of coals. + + MEPHIST. Here's fire; come, Faustus, set it on.[85] + + FAUSTUS. So, now the blood begins to clear again; + Now will I make an end immediately. + [Writes.] + + MEPHIST. O, what will not I do to obtain his soul? + [Aside.] + + FAUSTUS. Consummatum est; this bill is ended, + And Faustus hath bequeath'd his soul to Lucifer. + But what is this inscription[86] on mine arm? + Homo, fuge: whither should I fly? + If unto God, he'll throw me[87] down to hell. + My senses are deceiv'd; here's nothing writ:-- + I see it plain; here in this place is writ, + Homo, fuge: yet shall not Faustus fly. + + MEPHIST. I'll fetch him somewhat to delight his mind. + [Aside, and then exit.] + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with DEVILS, who give crowns + and rich apparel to FAUSTUS, dance, and then depart. + + FAUSTUS. Speak, Mephistophilis, what means this show? + + MEPHIST. Nothing, Faustus, but to delight thy mind withal, + And to shew thee what magic can perform. + + FAUSTUS. But may I raise up spirits when I please? + + MEPHIST. Ay, Faustus, and do greater things than these. + + FAUSTUS. Then there's enough for a thousand souls. + Here, Mephistophilis, receive this scroll, + A deed of gift of body and of soul: + But yet conditionally that thou perform + All articles prescrib'd between us both. + + MEPHIST. Faustus, I swear by hell and Lucifer + To effect all promises between us made! + + FAUSTUS. Then hear me read them. [Reads] ON THESE CONDITIONS + FOLLOWING. 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 HE DESIRES.[88] FOURTHLY, THAT HE SHALL + BE IN HIS CHAMBER OR HOUSE INVISIBLE. LASTLY, THAT HE SHALL APPEAR + TO THE SAID JOHN FAUSTUS, AT ALL TIMES, IN WHAT FORM OR SHAPE + SOEVER HE PLEASE. I, 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,[89] TWENTY-FOUR YEARS BEING EXPIRED, THE ARTICLES + ABOVE-WRITTEN INVIOLATE, FULL POWER TO FETCH OR CARRY THE SAID + JOHN FAUSTUS, BODY AND SOUL, FLESH, BLOOD, OR GOODS, INTO THEIR + HABITATION WHERESOEVER. BY ME, JOHN FAUSTUS. + + MEPHIST. Speak, Faustus, do you deliver this as your deed? + + FAUSTUS. Ay, take it, and the devil give thee good on't! + + MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, ask what thou wilt. + + FAUSTUS. First will I question with thee about hell. + Tell me, where is the place that men call hell? + + MEPHIST. Under the heavens. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, but whereabout? + + MEPHIST. Within the bowels of these[90] elements, + Where we are tortur'd and remain for ever: + Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd + In one self place; for where we are is hell, + And where hell is, there[91] must we ever be: + And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, + And every creature shall be purified, + All places shall be hell that are[92] not heaven. + + FAUSTUS. Come, I think hell's a fable. + + MEPHIST. Ay, think so still, till experience change thy mind. + + FAUSTUS. Why, think'st thou, then, that Faustus shall be damn'd? + + MEPHIST. Ay, of necessity, for here's the scroll + Wherein thou hast given thy soul to Lucifer. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, and body too: but what of that? + Think'st thou that Faustus is so fond[93] to imagine + That, after this life, there is any pain? + Tush, these are trifles and mere old wives' tales. + + MEPHIST. But, Faustus, I am an instance to prove the contrary, + For I am damn'd, and am now in hell. + + FAUSTUS. How! now in hell! + Nay, an this be hell, I'll willingly be damn'd here: + What! walking, disputing, &c.[94] + But, leaving off this, let me have a wife,[95] + The fairest maid in Germany; + For I am wanton and lascivious, + And cannot live without a wife. + + MEPHIST. How! a wife! + I prithee, Faustus, talk not of a wife. + + FAUSTUS. Nay, sweet Mephistophilis, fetch me one, for I will have + one. + + MEPHIST. Well, thou wilt have one? Sit there till I come: I'll + fetch thee a wife in the devil's name. + [Exit.] + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with a DEVIL drest like a WOMAN, + with fire-works. + + MEPHIST. Tell me,[96] Faustus, how dost thou like thy wife? + + FAUSTUS. A plague on her for a hot whore! + + MEPHIST. Tut, Faustus, + Marriage is but a ceremonial toy; + If thou lovest me, think no[97] more of it. + I'll cull thee out the fairest courtezans, + 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, + As wise as Saba,[98] or as beautiful + As was bright Lucifer before his fall. + Hold, take this book, peruse it thoroughly: + [Gives book.] + + The iterating[99] of these lines brings gold; + The framing of this circle on the ground + Brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder, and lightning; + Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thyself, + And men in armour shall appear to thee, + Ready to execute what thou desir'st. + + FAUSTUS. 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. + + MEPHIST. Here they are in this book. + [Turns to them.] + + FAUSTUS. 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. + + MEPHIST. Here they are too. + [Turns to them.] + + FAUSTUS. 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. + + MEPHIST. Here they be. + + FAUSTUS. O, thou art deceived. + + MEPHIST. Tut, I warrant thee. + [Turns to them.] + + FAUSTUS. When I behold the heavens, then I repent, + And curse thee, wicked Mephistophilis, + Because thou hast depriv'd me of those joys. + + MEPHIST. Why, Faustus, + Thinkest thou heaven is such a glorious thing? + I tell thee, 'tis not half so fair as thou, + Or any man that breathes on earth. + + FAUSTUS. How prov'st thou that? + + MEPHIST. 'Twas made for man, therefore is man more excellent. + + FAUSTUS. If it were made for man, 'twas made for me: + I will renounce this magic and repent. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + + GOOD ANGEL. Faustus, repent; yet God will pity thee. + + EVIL ANGEL. Thou 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; + Ay, God will pity me, if I repent. + + EVIL ANGEL. Ay, but Faustus never shall repent. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + + FAUSTUS. My heart's so harden'd, I cannot repent: + Scarce can I name salvation, faith, or heaven, + But fearful echoes thunder in mine ears, + "Faustus, thou art damn'd!" then swords, and knives, + Poison, guns, halters, and envenom'd steel + Are laid before me to despatch myself; + And long ere this I should have slain myself, + Had not sweet pleasure conquer'd deep despair. + Have 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? + Why should I die, then, or basely despair? + I am resolv'd; Faustus shall ne'er repent.-- + Come, Mephistophilis, let us dispute again, + And argue of divine astrology.[100] + Tell me, are there many heavens above the moon + Are all celestial bodies but one globe, + As is the substance of this centric earth? + + MEPHIST. As are the elements, such are the spheres, + Mutually folded in each other's orb, + And, Faustus, + All jointly move upon one axletree, + Whose terminine is term'd the world's wide pole; + Nor are the names of Saturn, Mars, or Jupiter + Feign'd, but are erring[101] stars. + + FAUSTUS. But, tell me, have they all one motion, both situ et + tempore? + + MEPHIST. All jointly move from east to west in twenty-four hours + upon the poles of the world; but differ in their motion upon + the poles of the zodiac. + + FAUSTUS. Tush, + These slender trifles Wagner can decide: + Hath Mephistophilis no greater skill? + Who knows not the double motion of the planets? + The first is finish'd 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[102] suppositions. + But, tell me, hath every sphere a dominion or intelligentia? + + MEPHIST. Ay. + + FAUSTUS. How many heavens or spheres are there? + + MEPHIST. Nine; the seven planets, the firmament, and the empyreal + heaven. + + FAUSTUS. Well, resolve[103] 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? + + MEPHIST. Per inoequalem motum respectu totius. + + FAUSTUS. Well, I am answered. Tell me who made the world? + + MEPHIST. I will not. + + FAUSTUS. Sweet Mephistophilis, tell me. + + MEPHIST. Move me not, for I will not tell thee. + + FAUSTUS. Villain, have I not bound thee to tell me any thing? + + MEPHIST. Ay, that is not against our kingdom; but this is. Think + thou on hell, Faustus, for thou art damned. + + FAUSTUS. Think, Faustus, upon God that made the world. + + MEPHIST. Remember this. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. Ay, go, accursed spirit, to ugly hell! + 'Tis thou hast damn'd distressed Faustus' soul. + Is't not too late? + + Re-enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + + EVIL ANGEL. Too late. + + GOOD ANGEL. Never too late, if Faustus can repent. + + EVIL ANGEL. If thou repent, devils shall tear thee in pieces. + + GOOD ANGEL. Repent, and they shall never raze thy skin. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + + FAUSTUS. Ah, Christ, my Saviour, + Seek to save[104] distressed Faustus' soul! + + Enter LUCIFER, BELZEBUB, and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + LUCIFER. Christ cannot save thy soul, for he is just: + There's none but I have interest in the same. + + FAUSTUS. O, who art thou that look'st so terrible? + + LUCIFER. I am Lucifer, + And this is my companion-prince in hell. + + FAUSTUS. O, Faustus, they are come to fetch away thy soul! + + LUCIFER. We come to tell thee thou dost injure us; + Thou talk'st of Christ, contrary to thy promise: + Thou shouldst not think of God: think of the devil, + And of his dam too. + + FAUSTUS. Nor 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. + + LUCIFER. Do so, and we will highly gratify thee. Faustus, we are + come from hell to shew thee some pastime: sit down, and thou + shalt see all the Seven Deadly Sins appear in their proper shapes. + + FAUSTUS. That sight will be as pleasing unto me, + As Paradise was to Adam, the first day + Of his creation. + + LUCIFER. Talk not of Paradise nor creation; but mark this show: + talk of the devil, and nothing else.--Come away! + + Enter the SEVEN DEADLY SINS.[105] + + Now, Faustus, examine them of their several names and dispositions. + + FAUSTUS. 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 perriwig, 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. + + FAUSTUS. What art thou, the second? + + COVETOUSNESS. I am Covetousness, begotten of an old churl, in an + old leathern 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! + + FAUSTUS. 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[106] + of rapiers, wounding myself when I had nobody to fight withal. + I was born in hell; and look to it, for some of you shall be + my father. + + FAUSTUS. What art thou, the fourth? + + ENVY. 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 + shouldst see how fat I would be. But must thou sit, and I stand? + come down, with a vengeance! + + FAUSTUS. Away, envious rascal!--What art thou, the fifth? + + GLUTTONY. 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,[107]--a small trifle + to suffice nature. O, I come of a royal parentage! my grandfather + was a Gammon of Bacon, my grandmother a Hogshead of Claret-wine; + my godfathers were these, Peter Pickle-herring and Martin + Martlemas-beef; O, but my godmother, she was a jolly gentlewoman, + and well-beloved 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? + + FAUSTUS. No, I'll see thee hanged: thou wilt eat up all my victuals. + + GLUTTONY. Then the devil choke thee! + + FAUSTUS. Choke thyself, glutton!--What art thou, the sixth? + + SLOTH. 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. I'll not speak another word for a king's ransom. + + FAUSTUS. 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 stock-fish; and the first letter + of my name begins with L.[108] + + FAUSTUS. Away, to hell, to hell![109] + [Exeunt the SINS.] + + LUCIFER. Now, Faustus, how dost thou like this? + + FAUSTUS. O, this feeds my soul! + + 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. Thou shalt; I will send for thee at midnight.[110] + In meantime take this book; peruse it throughly, + And thou shalt turn thyself into what shape thou wilt. + + FAUSTUS. Great thanks, mighty Lucifer! + This will I keep as chary as my life. + + LUCIFER. Farewell, Faustus, and think on the devil. + + FAUSTUS. Farewell, great Lucifer. + [Exeunt LUCIFER and BELZEBUB.] + + Come, Mephistophilis. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter CHORUS.[111] + + CHORUS. Learned Faustus, + To know the secrets of astronomy[112] + Graven in the book of Jove's high firmament, + Did mount himself to scale Olympus' top, + Being seated in a chariot burning bright, + Drawn by the strength of yoky dragons' necks. + He now is gone to prove cosmography, + And, as I guess, will first arrive at Rome, + To see the Pope and manner of his court, + And take some part of holy Peter's feast, + That to this day is highly solemniz'd. + [Exit.] + + Enter FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS.[113] + + FAUSTUS. Having now, my good Mephistophilis, + Pass'd with delight the stately town of Trier,[114] + Environ'd round with airy mountain-tops, + With walls of flint, and deep-entrenched lakes, + Not to be won by any conquering prince; + From Paris next,[115] coasting the realm of France, + We saw the river Maine fall into Rhine, + Whose banks are set with groves of fruitful vines; + Then up to Naples, rich Campania, + Whose buildings fair and gorgeous to the eye, + The streets straight forth, and pav'd with finest brick, + Quarter the town in four equivalents: + There saw we learned Maro's golden tomb, + The way he cut,[116] an English mile in length, + Thorough a rock of stone, in one night's space; + From thence to Venice, Padua, and the rest, + In one of which a sumptuous temple stands,[117] + That threats the stars with her aspiring top. + Thus hitherto hath Faustus spent his time: + But tell me now what resting-place is this? + Hast thou, as erst I did command, + Conducted me within the walls of Rome? + + MEPHIST. Faustus, I have; and, because we will not be unprovided, + I have taken up his Holiness' privy-chamber for our use. + + FAUSTUS. I hope his Holiness will bid us welcome. + + MEPHIST. + Tut, 'tis no matter; man; we'll be bold with his good cheer. + And now, my Faustus, that thou mayst perceive + What Rome containeth to delight thee with, + Know that this city stands upon seven hills + That underprop the groundwork of the same: + Just through the midst[118] runs flowing Tiber's stream + With winding banks that cut it in two parts; + Over the which four stately bridges lean, + That make safe passage to each part of Rome: + Upon the bridge call'd Ponte[119] Angelo + Erected is a castle passing strong, + Within whose walls such store of ordnance are, + And double cannons fram'd of carved brass, + As match the days within one complete year; + Besides the gates, and high pyramides, + Which Julius Caesar brought from Africa. + + FAUSTUS. Now, by the kingdoms of infernal rule, + Of Styx, of[120] Acheron, and the fiery lake + Of ever-burning Phlegethon, I swear + That I do long to see the monuments + And situation of bright-splendent Rome: + Come, therefore, let's away. + + MEPHIST. Nay, Faustus, stay: I know you'd fain see the Pope, + And take some part of holy Peter's feast, + Where thou shalt see a troop of bald-pate friars, + Whose summum bonum is in belly-cheer. + + FAUSTUS. Well, I'm content to compass then some sport, + And by their folly make us merriment. + Then charm me, that I[121] + May be invisible, to do what I please, + Unseen of any whilst I stay in Rome. + [Mephistophilis charms him.] + + MEPHIST. So, Faustus; now + Do what thou wilt, thou shalt not be discern'd. + + Sound a Sonnet.[122] Enter the POPE and the CARDINAL OF + LORRAIN to the banquet, with FRIARS attending. + + POPE. My Lord of Lorrain, will't please you draw near? + + FAUSTUS. Fall to, and the devil choke you, an you spare! + + POPE. How now! who's that which spake?--Friars, look about. + + FIRST 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 the dish.] + + POPE. How now! who's that which snatched the meat from me? will + no man look?--My lord, this dish was sent me from the Cardinal + of Florence. + + FAUSTUS. You say true; I'll ha't. + [Snatches the dish.] + + POPE. What, again!--My lord, I'll drink to your grace. + + FAUSTUS. I'll pledge your grace. + [Snatches the cup.] + + C. OF LOR. 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.--Friars, prepare a dirge to lay the fury + of this ghost.--Once again, my lord, fall to. + [The POPE crosses himself.] + + FAUSTUS. What, are you crossing of yourself? + Well, use that trick no more, I would advise you. + [The POPE crosses himself again.] + + Well, there's the second time. Aware the third; + I give you fair warning. + [The POPE crosses himself again, and FAUSTUS hits him a box + of the ear; and they all run away.] + + Come on, Mephistophilis; what shall we do? + + MEPHIST. Nay, I know not: we shall be cursed with bell, book, + and candle. + + FAUSTUS. How! bell, book, and candle,--candle, book, and bell,-- + Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell! + Anon you shall hear a hog grunt, a calf bleat, and an ass bray, + Because it is Saint Peter's holiday. + + Re-enter all the FRIARS to sing the Dirge. + + FIRST FRIAR. + Come, brethren, let's about our business with good devotion. + + They sing. + + CURSED BE HE THAT STOLE AWAY HIS HOLINESS' MEAT FROM THE + TABLE! maledicat Dominus! + CURSED BE HE THAT STRUCK HIS HOLINESS A BLOW ON THE FACE! + maledicat Dominus! + CURSED BE HE THAT TOOK FRIAR SANDELO A BLOW ON THE PATE! + maledicat Dominus! + CURSED BE HE THAT DISTURBETH OUR HOLY DIRGE! maledicat + Dominus! + CURSED BE HE THAT TOOK AWAY HIS HOLINESS' WINE! maledicat + Dominus? ['?' sic] + Et omnes Sancti! Amen! + + [MEPHISTOPHILIS and FAUSTUS beat the FRIARS, and fling + fire-works among them; and so exeunt.] + + Enter CHORUS. + + CHORUS. When Faustus had with pleasure ta'en the view + Of rarest things, and royal courts of kings, + He stay'd his course, and so returned home; + Where such as bear his absence but with grief, + I mean his friends and near'st companions, + Did gratulate his safety with kind words, + And in their conference of what befell, + Touching his journey through the world and air, + They put forth questions of astrology, + Which Faustus answer'd with such learned skill + As they admir'd and wonder'd at his wit. + Now is his fame spread forth in every land: + Amongst the rest the Emperor is one, + Carolus the Fifth, at whose palace now + Faustus is feasted 'mongst his noblemen. + What there he did, in trial of his art, + I leave untold; your eyes shall see['t] perform'd. + [Exit.] + + Enter ROBIN[123] the Ostler, with a book in his hand. + + ROBIN. O, this is admirable! here I ha' stolen one of Doctor + Faustus' conjuring-books, and, i'faith, I mean to search some + circles for my own use. Now will I make all the maidens in our + parish dance at my pleasure, stark naked, before me; and so + by that means I shall see more than e'er I felt or saw yet. + + Enter RALPH, calling ROBIN. + + RALPH. Robin, prithee, come away; there's a gentleman tarries + to have his horse, and he would have his things rubbed and made + clean: he keeps such a chafing with my mistress about it; and + she has sent me to look thee out; prithee, come away. + + ROBIN. Keep out, keep out, or else you are blown up, you are + dismembered, Ralph: keep out, for I am about a roaring piece + of work. + + RALPH. Come, what doest thou with that same book? thou canst + not read? + + ROBIN. Yes, my master and mistress shall find that I can read, + he for his forehead, she for her private study; she's born to + bear with me, or else my art fails. + + RALPH. Why, Robin, what book is that? + + ROBIN. What book! why, the most intolerable book for conjuring + that e'er was invented by any brimstone devil. + + RALPH. Canst thou conjure with it? + + ROBIN. I can do all these things easily with it; first, I can + make thee drunk with ippocras[124] at any tabern[125] in Europe + for nothing; that's one of my conjuring works. + + RALPH. Our Master Parson says that's nothing. + + ROBIN. True, Ralph: and more, Ralph, if thou hast any mind to + Nan Spit, our kitchen-maid, then turn her and wind her to thy own + use, as often as thou wilt, and at midnight. + + RALPH. O, brave, Robin! shall I have Nan Spit, and to mine own + use? On that condition I'll feed thy devil with horse-bread as + long as he lives, of free cost. + + ROBIN. No more, sweet Ralph: let's go and make clean our boots, + which lie foul upon our hands, and then to our conjuring in the + devil's name. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter ROBIN and RALPH[126] with a silver goblet. + + ROBIN. Come, Ralph: did not I tell thee, we were for ever made + by this Doctor Faustus' book? ecce, signum! here's a simple + purchase[127] for horse-keepers: our horses shall eat no hay as + long as this lasts. + + RALPH. But, Robin, here comes the Vintner. + + ROBIN. Hush! I'll gull him supernaturally. + + Enter VINTNER. + + Drawer,[128] I hope all is paid; God be with you!--Come, Ralph. + + VINTNER. Soft, sir; a word with you. I must yet have a goblet paid + from you, ere you go. + + ROBIN. I a goblet, Ralph, I a goblet!--I scorn you; and you are + but a, &c. I a goblet! search me. + + VINTNER. I mean so, sir, with your favour. + [Searches ROBIN.] + + ROBIN. How say you now? + + VINTNER. I must say somewhat to your fellow.--You, sir! + + RALPH. Me, sir! me, sir! search your fill. [VINTNER searches him.] + Now, sir, you may be ashamed to burden honest men with a matter + of truth. + + VINTNER. Well, tone[129] of you hath this goblet about you. + + ROBIN. You lie, drawer, 'tis afore me [Aside].--Sirrah you, I'll + teach you to impeach honest men;--stand by;--I'll scour you for + a goblet;--stand aside you had best, I charge you in the name of + Belzebub.--Look to the goblet, Ralph [Aside to RALPH]. + + VINTNER. What mean you, sirrah? + + ROBIN. I'll tell you what I mean. [Reads from a book] Sanctobulorum + Periphrasticon--nay, I'll tickle you, Vintner.--Look to the goblet, + Ralph [Aside to RALPH].--[Reads] Polypragmos Belseborams framanto + pacostiphos tostu, Mephistophilis, &c. + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS, sets squibs at their backs, and then + exit. They run about. + + VINTNER. O, nomine Domini! what meanest thou, Robin? thou hast no + goblet. + + RALPH. Peccatum peccatorum!--Here's thy goblet, good Vintner. + [Gives the goblet to VINTNER, who exit.] + + ROBIN. Misericordia pro nobis! what shall I do? Good devil, forgive + me now, and I'll never rob thy library more. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + MEPHIST. Monarch of Hell,[130] under whose black survey + Great potentates do kneel with awful fear, + Upon whose altars thousand souls do lie, + How am I vexed with these villains' charms? + From Constantinople am I hither come, + Only for pleasure of these damned slaves. + + ROBIN. How, from Constantinople! you have had a great journey: + will you take sixpence in your purse to pay for your supper, and + be gone? + + MEPHIST. Well, villains, for your presumption, I transform thee + into an ape, and thee into a dog; and so be gone! + [Exit.] + + ROBIN. How, into an ape! that's brave: I'll have fine sport with + the boys; I'll get nuts and apples enow. + + RALPH. And I must be a dog. + + ROBIN. I'faith, thy head will never be out of the pottage-pot. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter EMPEROR,[131] FAUSTUS, and a KNIGHT, with ATTENDANTS. + + EMPEROR. Master Doctor Faustus,[132] I have heard strange report + of thy knowledge in the black art, how that none in my empire + nor in the whole world can compare with thee for the rare effects + of magic: they say thou hast a familiar spirit, by whom thou canst + accomplish what thou list. This, therefore, is my request, that + thou let me see some proof of thy skill, that mine eyes may be + witnesses to confirm what mine ears have heard reported: and here + I swear to thee, by the honour of mine imperial crown, that, + whatever thou doest, thou shalt be no ways prejudiced or endamaged. + + KNIGHT. I'faith, he looks much like a conjurer. + [Aside.] + + FAUSTUS. My gracious sovereign, though I must confess myself far + inferior to the report men have published, and nothing answerable + to the honour of your imperial majesty, yet, for that love and duty + binds me thereunto, I am content to do whatsoever your majesty + shall command me. + + EMPEROR. Then, Doctor Faustus, mark what I shall say. + As I was sometime solitary set + Within my closet, sundry thoughts arose + About the honour of mine ancestors, + How they had won[133] by prowess such exploits, + Got such riches, subdu'd so many kingdoms, + As we that do succeed,[134] or they that shall + Hereafter possess our throne, shall + (I fear me) ne'er attain to that degree + Of high renown and great authority: + Amongst which kings is Alexander the Great, + Chief spectacle of the world's pre-eminence, + The bright[135] shining of whose glorious acts + Lightens the world with his reflecting beams, + As when I hear but motion made of him, + It grieves my soul I never saw the man: + If, therefore, thou, by cunning of thine art, + Canst raise this man from hollow vaults below, + Where lies entomb'd this famous conqueror, + And bring with him his beauteous paramour, + Both in their right shapes, gesture, and attire + They us'd to wear during their time of life, + Thou shalt both satisfy my just desire, + And give me cause to praise thee whilst I live. + + FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, I am ready to accomplish your request, + so far forth as by art and power of my spirit I am able to perform. + + KNIGHT. I'faith, that's just nothing at all. + [Aside.] + + FAUSTUS. But, if it like your grace, it is not in my ability[136] + to present before your eyes the true substantial bodies of those + two deceased princes, which long since are consumed to dust. + + KNIGHT. Ay, marry, Master Doctor, now there's a sign of grace in + you, when you will confess the truth. + [Aside.] + + FAUSTUS. But such spirits as can lively resemble Alexander and + his paramour shall appear before your grace, in that manner that + they both[137] lived in, in their most flourishing estate; which + I doubt not shall sufficiently content your imperial majesty. + + EMPEROR. Go to, Master Doctor; let me see them presently. + + KNIGHT. Do you hear, Master Doctor? you bring Alexander and his + paramour before the Emperor! + + FAUSTUS. How then, sir? + + KNIGHT. I'faith, that's as true as Diana turned me to a stag. + + FAUSTUS. No, sir; but, when Actaeon died, he left the horns for + you.--Mephistophilis, be gone. + [Exit MEPHISTOPHILIS.] + + KNIGHT. Nay, an you go to conjuring, I'll be gone. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. I'll meet with you anon for interrupting me so. + --Here they are, my gracious lord. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with SPIRITS in the shapes of ALEXANDER + and his PARAMOUR. + + EMPEROR. Master Doctor, I heard this lady, while she lived, had a + wart or mole in her neck: how shall I know whether it be so or no? + + FAUSTUS. Your highness may boldly go and see. + + EMPEROR. Sure, these are no spirits, but the true substantial + bodies of those two deceased princes. + [Exeunt Spirits.] + + FAUSTUS. Wilt please your highness now to send for the knight + that was so pleasant with me here of late? + + EMPEROR. One of you call him forth. + [Exit ATTENDANT.] + + Re-enter the KNIGHT with a pair of horns on his head. + + How now, sir knight! why, I had thought thou hadst been a bachelor, + but now I see thou hast a wife, that not only gives thee horns, + but makes thee wear them. Feel on thy head. + + KNIGHT. Thou damned wretch and execrable dog, + Bred in the concave of some monstrous rock, + How dar'st thou thus abuse a gentleman? + Villain, I say, undo what thou hast done! + + FAUSTUS. O, not so fast, sir! there's no haste: but, good, are + you remembered how you crossed me in my conference with the + Emperor? I think I have met with you for it. + + EMPEROR. Good Master Doctor, at my entreaty release him: he hath + done penance sufficient. + + FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, not so much for the injury he offered + me here in your presence, as to delight you with some mirth, hath + Faustus worthily requited this injurious knight; which being all + I desire, I am content to release him of his horns:--and, + sir knight, hereafter speak well of scholars.--Mephistophilis, + transform him straight.[138] [MEPHISTOPHILIS removes the horns.] + --Now, my good lord, having done my duty, I humbly take my leave. + + EMPEROR. Farewell, Master Doctor: yet, ere you go, + Expect from me a bounteous reward. + [Exeunt EMPEROR, KNIGHT, and ATTENDANTS.] + + FAUSTUS. Now, Mephistophilis,[139] the restless course + That time doth run with calm and silent foot, + Shortening my days and thread of vital life, + Calls for the payment of my latest years: + Therefore, sweet Mephistophilis, let us + Make haste to Wertenberg. + + MEPHIST. What, will you go on horse-back or on foot[?] + + FAUSTUS. Nay, till I'm past this fair and pleasant green, + I'll walk on foot. + + Enter a HORSE-COURSER.[140] + + HORSE-COURSER. I have been all this day seeking one Master Fustian: + mass, see where he is!--God save you, Master Doctor! + + FAUSTUS. What, horse-courser! you are well met. + + HORSE-COURSER. Do you hear, sir? I have brought you forty dollars + for your horse. + + FAUSTUS. I cannot sell him so: if thou likest him for fifty, take + him. + + HORSE-COURSER. Alas, sir, I have no more!--I pray you, speak for + me. + + MEPHIST. I pray you, let him have him: he is an honest fellow, + and he has a great charge, neither wife nor child. + + FAUSTUS. Well, come, give me your money [HORSE-COURSER gives + FAUSTUS the money]: my boy will deliver him to you. But I must + tell you one thing before you have him; ride him not into the + water, at any hand. + + HORSE-COURSER. Why, sir, will he not drink of all waters? + + FAUSTUS. O, yes, he will drink of all waters; but ride him not + into the water: ride him over hedge or ditch, or where thou wilt, + but not into the water. + + HORSE-COURSER. Well, sir.--Now am I made man for ever: I'll not + leave my horse for forty:[141] if he had but the quality of + hey-ding-ding, hey-ding-ding, I'd make a brave living on him: + he has a buttock as slick as an eel [Aside].--Well, God b'wi'ye, + sir: your boy will deliver him me: but, hark you, sir; if my horse + be sick or ill at ease, if I bring his water to you, you'll tell + me what it is? + + FAUSTUS. Away, you villain! what, dost think I am a horse-doctor? + [Exit HORSE-COURSER.] + + What art thou, Faustus, but a man condemn'd to die? + Thy fatal time doth draw to final end; + Despair doth drive distrust into[142] my thoughts: + Confound these passions with a quiet sleep: + Tush, Christ did call the thief upon the Cross; + Then rest thee, Faustus, quiet in conceit. + [Sleeps in his chair.] + + Re-enter HORSE-COURSER, all wet, crying. + + HORSE-COURSER. Alas, alas! Doctor Fustian, quoth a? mass, Doctor + Lopus[143] was never such a doctor: has given me a purgation, has + purged me of forty dollars; I shall never see them more. But yet, + like an ass as I was, I would not be ruled by him, for he bade me + I should ride him into no water: now I, thinking my horse had had + some rare quality that he would not have had me know of,[144] I, + like a venturous youth, rid him into the deep pond at the town's + end. I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse + vanished away, and I sat upon a bottle of hay, never so near + drowning in my life. But I'll seek out my doctor, and have my + forty dollars again, or I'll make it the dearest horse!--O, + yonder is his snipper-snapper.--Do you hear? you, hey-pass,[145] + where's your master? + + MEPHIST. Why, sir, what would you? you cannot speak with him. + + HORSE-COURSER. But I will speak with him. + + MEPHIST. Why, he's fast asleep: come some other time. + + HORSE-COURSER. I'll speak with him now, or I'll break his + glass-windows about his ears. + + MEPHIST. I tell thee, he has not slept this eight nights. + + HORSE-COURSER. An he have not slept this eight weeks, I'll + speak with him. + + MEPHIST. See, where he is, fast asleep. + + HORSE-COURSER. Ay, this is he.--God save you, Master Doctor, + Master Doctor, Master Doctor Fustian! forty dollars, forty dollars + for a bottle of hay! + + MEPHIST. Why, thou seest he hears thee not. + + HORSE-COURSER. So-ho, ho! so-ho, ho! [Hollows in his ear.] No, + will you not wake? I'll make you wake ere I go. [Pulls FAUSTUS + by the leg, and pulls it away.] Alas, I am undone! what shall + I do? + + FAUSTUS. O, my leg, my leg!--Help, Mephistophilis! call the + officers.--My leg, my leg! + + MEPHIST. Come, villain, to the constable. + + HORSE-COURSER. O Lord, sir, let me go, and I'll give you forty + dollars more! + + MEPHIST. Where be they? + + HORSE-COURSER. I have none about me: come to my ostry,[146] + and I'll give them you. + + MEPHIST. Be gone quickly. + [HORSE-COURSER runs away.] + + FAUSTUS. What, is he gone? farewell he! Faustus has his leg again, + and the Horse-courser, I take it, a bottle of hay for his labour: + well, this trick shall cost him forty dollars more. + + Enter WAGNER. + + How now, Wagner! what's the news with thee? + + WAGNER. Sir, the Duke of Vanholt doth earnestly entreat your + company. + + FAUSTUS. The Duke of Vanholt! an honourable gentleman, to whom + I must be no niggard of my cunning.[147]--Come, Mephistophilis, + let's away to him. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter the DUKE OF VANHOLT, the DUCHESS, and FAUSTUS.[148] + + DUKE. Believe me, Master Doctor, this merriment hath much pleased + me. + + FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, I am glad it contents you so well. + --But it may be, madam, you take no delight in this. I have heard + that great-bellied women do long for some dainties or other: what + is it, madam? tell me, and you shall have it. + + DUCHESS. Thanks, good Master Doctor: and, for I see your courteous + intent to pleasure me, I will not hide from you the thing my heart + desires; and, were it now summer, as it is January and the dead + time of the winter, I would desire no better meat than a dish + of ripe grapes. + + FAUSTUS. Alas, madam, that's nothing!--Mephistophilis, be gone. + [Exit MEPHISTOPHILIS.] Were it a greater thing than this, so it + would content you, you should have it. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with grapes. + + Here they be, madam: wilt please you taste on them? + + DUKE. Believe me, Master Doctor, this makes me wonder above the + rest, that being in the dead time of winter and in the month of + January, how you should come by these grapes. + + FAUSTUS. If it like your grace, the year is divided into two + circles over the whole world, that, when it is here winter with + us, in the contrary circle it is summer with them, as in India, + Saba,[149] and farther countries in the east; and by means of a + swift spirit that I have, I had them brought hither, as you see. + --How do you like them, madam? be they good? + + DUCHESS. Believe me, Master Doctor, they be the best grapes that + e'er I tasted in my life before. + + FAUSTUS. I am glad they content you so, madam. + + DUKE. Come, madam, let us in, where you must well reward this + learned man for the great kindness he hath shewed to you. + + DUCHESS. And so I will, my lord; and, whilst I live, rest + beholding[150] for this courtesy. + + FAUSTUS. I humbly thank your grace. + + DUKE. Come, Master Doctor, follow us, and receive your reward. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter WAGNER.[151] + + WAGNER. I think my master means to die shortly, + For he hath given to me all his goods:[152] + And yet, methinks, if that death were near, + He would not banquet, and carouse, and swill + Amongst the students, as even now he doth, + Who are at supper with such belly-cheer + As Wagner ne'er beheld in all his life. + See, where they come! belike the feast is ended. + [Exit.] + + Enter FAUSTUS with two or three SCHOLARS, and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + 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 lived: therefore, Master Doctor, if you will do us + that favour, 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 unfeign'd, + And Faustus' custom is not to deny + The just requests of those that wish him well, + You shall behold that peerless dame of Greece, + No otherways for pomp and majesty + Than when Sir Paris cross'd the seas with her, + And brought the spoils to rich Dardania. + Be silent, then, for danger is in words. + [Music sounds, and HELEN passeth over the stage.[153]] + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Too simple is my wit to tell her praise, + Whom all the world admires for majesty. + + THIRD SCHOLAR. No marvel though the angry Greeks pursu'd + With ten years' war the rape of such a queen, + Whose heavenly beauty passeth all compare. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Since we have seen the pride of Nature's works, + And only paragon of excellence, + Let us depart; and for this glorious deed + Happy and blest be Faustus evermore! + + FAUSTUS. Gentlemen, farewell: the same I wish to you. + [Exeunt SCHOLARS.] + + Enter an OLD MAN.[154] + + OLD MAN. Ah, Doctor Faustus, that I might prevail + To guide thy steps unto the way of life, + By which sweet path thou mayst attain the goal + That shall conduct thee to celestial rest! + Break heart, drop blood, and mingle it with tears, + Tears falling from repentant heaviness + Of thy most vile[155] and loathsome filthiness, + The stench whereof corrupts the inward soul + With such flagitious crimes of heinous sin[156] + As no commiseration may expel, + But mercy, Faustus, of thy Saviour sweet, + Whose blood alone must wash away thy guilt. + + FAUSTUS. Where art thou, Faustus? wretch, what hast thou done? + Damn'd art thou, Faustus, damn'd; despair and die! + Hell calls for right, and with a roaring voice + Says, "Faustus, come; thine hour is almost[157] come;" + And Faustus now[158] will come to do thee right. + [MEPHISTOPHILIS gives him a dagger.] + + OLD MAN. Ah, stay, good Faustus, stay thy desperate steps! + I see an angel hovers o'er thy head, + And, with a vial full of precious grace, + Offers to pour the same into thy soul: + Then call for mercy, and avoid despair. + + FAUSTUS. Ah, my sweet friend, I feel + Thy words to comfort my distressed soul! + Leave me a while to ponder on my sins. + + OLD MAN. I go, sweet Faustus; but with heavy cheer, + Fearing the ruin of thy hopeless soul. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS. Accursed Faustus, where is mercy now? + I do repent; and yet I do despair: + Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast: + What shall I do to shun the snares of death? + + MEPHIST. Thou traitor, Faustus, I arrest thy soul + For disobedience to my sovereign lord: + Revolt, or I'll in piece-meal tear thy flesh. + + FAUSTUS. Sweet Mephistophilis, entreat thy lord + To pardon my unjust presumption, + And with my blood again I will confirm + My former vow I made to Lucifer. + + MEPHIST. Do it, then, quickly,[159] with unfeigned heart, + Lest greater danger do attend thy drift. + + FAUSTUS. Torment, sweet friend, that base and crooked age, + That durst dissuade me from thy Lucifer, + With greatest torments that our hell affords. + + MEPHIST. His faith is great; I cannot touch his soul; + But what I may afflict his body with + I will attempt, which is but little worth. + + FAUSTUS. One thing, good servant,[160] let me crave of thee, + To glut the longing of my heart's desire,-- + That I might have unto my paramour + That heavenly Helen which I saw of late, + Whose sweet embracings may extinguish clean + Those[161] thoughts that do dissuade me from my vow, + And keep mine oath I made to Lucifer. + + MEPHIST. Faustus, this,[162] or what else thou shalt desire, + Shall be perform'd in twinkling of an eye. + + Re-enter HELEN. + + FAUSTUS. Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, + And burnt the topless[163] towers of Ilium-- + Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.-- + [Kisses her.] + Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!-- + Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. + Here will I dwell, for heaven is[164] in these lips, + And all is dross that is not Helena. + I will be Paris, and for love of thee, + Instead of Troy, shall Wertenberg be sack'd; + 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 fairer than the evening air + Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars; + Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter + When he appear'd to hapless Semele; + More lovely than the monarch of the sky + In wanton Arethusa's azur'd arms; + And none but thou shalt[165] be my paramour! + [Exeunt.] + + Enter the OLD MAN.[166] + + OLD MAN. Accursed Faustus, miserable man, + That from thy soul exclud'st the grace of heaven, + And fly'st the throne of his tribunal-seat! + + Enter DEVILS. + + Satan begins to sift me with his pride: + As in this furnace God shall try my faith, + My faith, vile hell, shall triumph over thee. + Ambitious fiends, see how the heavens smile + At your repulse, and laugh your state to scorn! + Hence, hell! for hence I fly unto my God. + [Exeunt,--on one side, DEVILS, on the other, OLD MAN.] + + Enter FAUSTUS,[167] with SCHOLARS. + + FAUSTUS. Ah, gentlemen! + + FIRST SCHOLAR. What ails Faustus? + + FAUSTUS. Ah, my sweet chamber-fellow, had I lived with thee, + then had I lived still! but now I die eternally. Look, comes + he not? comes he not? + + SECOND SCHOLAR. What means Faustus? + + THIRD SCHOLAR. Belike he is grown into some sickness by being + over-solitary. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. If it be so, we'll have physicians to cure him. + --'Tis but a surfeit; never fear, man. + + FAUSTUS. A surfeit of deadly sin, that hath damned both body + and soul. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Yet, Faustus, look up to heaven; remember God's + mercies are infinite. + + FAUSTUS. But Faustus' offence can ne'er be pardoned: the serpent + that tempted Eve may be saved, but not Faustus. Ah, gentlemen, + hear me with patience, and tremble not at my speeches! Though + my heart pants and quivers to remember that I have been a student + here these thirty years, O, would I had never seen Wertenberg, + never read book! and what wonders I have done, all Germany can + witness, yea, all the world; for which Faustus hath lost both + Germany and the world, yea, heaven itself, heaven, the seat of + God, the throne of the blessed, the kingdom of joy; and must + remain in hell for ever, hell, ah, hell, for ever! Sweet friends, + what shall become of Faustus, being in hell for ever? + + THIRD SCHOLAR. Yet, Faustus, call on God. + + FAUSTUS. On God, whom Faustus hath abjured! on God, whom Faustus + hath blasphemed! Ah, my God, I would weep! but the devil draws in + my tears. Gush forth blood, instead of tears! yea, life and soul! + O, he stays my tongue! I would lift up my hands; but see, they + hold them, they hold them! + + ALL. Who, Faustus? + + FAUSTUS. Lucifer and Mephistophilis. Ah, gentlemen, I gave them + my soul for my cunning![168] + + ALL. God forbid! + + FAUSTUS. God forbade it, indeed; but Faustus hath done it: for + vain pleasure of twenty-four years hath Faustus lost eternal joy + and felicity. I writ them a bill with mine own blood: the date + is expired; the time will come, and he will fetch me. + + FIRST SCHOLAR. Why did not Faustus tell us of this before,[169] + that divines might have prayed for thee? + + FAUSTUS. Oft have I thought to have done so; but the devil + threatened to tear me in pieces, if I named God, to fetch both + body and soul, if I once gave ear to divinity: and now 'tis too + late. Gentlemen, away, lest you perish with me. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. O, what shall we do to save[170] Faustus? + + FAUSTUS. Talk not of me, but save yourselves, and depart. + + THIRD 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 there pray for him. + + FAUSTUS. Ay, pray for me, pray for me; and what noise soever + ye hear,[171] come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me. + + SECOND SCHOLAR. Pray thou, and we will pray that God may have + mercy upon thee. + + FAUSTUS. Gentlemen, farewell: if I live till morning, I'll visit + you; if not, Faustus is gone to hell. + + ALL. Faustus, farewell. + [Exeunt SCHOLARS.--The clock strikes eleven.] + + FAUSTUS. Ah, Faustus, + Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, + And then thou must be damn'd perpetually! + Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, + That 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, + That Faustus may repent and save his soul! + O lente,[172] lente currite, noctis equi! + The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, + The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd. + O, I'll leap up to my God!--Who pulls me down?-- + See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! + One drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah, my Christ!-- + Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ! + Yet will I call on him: O, spare me, Lucifer!-- + Where is it now? 'tis gone: and see, where God + Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows! + Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me, + And hide me from the heavy wrath of God! + No, no! + Then will I headlong run into the earth: + Earth, gape! O, no, it will not harbour me! + You stars that reign'd at my nativity, + Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, + Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist. + Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud[s], + That, when you[173] vomit forth into the air, + My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths, + So that my soul may but ascend to heaven! + [The clock strikes the half-hour.] + Ah, half the hour is past! 'twill all be past anon + O God, + If thou wilt not have mercy on my soul, + Yet for Christ's sake, whose blood hath ransom'd me, + Impose some end to my incessant pain; + Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years, + A hundred thousand, and at last be sav'd! + O, no end is limited to damned souls! + Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul? + Or why is this immortal that thou hast? + Ah, Pythagoras' metempsychosis, were that true, + This soul should fly from me, and I be chang'd + Unto some brutish beast![174] all beasts are happy, + For, when they die, + Their souls are soon dissolv'd in elements; + But mine must live still to be plagu'd in hell. + Curs'd be the parents that engender'd me! + No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer + That hath depriv'd thee of the joys of heaven. + [The clock strikes twelve.] + O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, + Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell! + [Thunder and lightning.] + O soul, be chang'd into little water-drops, + And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found! + + Enter DEVILS. + + My God, my god, look not so fierce on me! + Adders and serpents, let me breathe a while! + Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer! + I'll burn my books!--Ah, Mephistophilis! + [Exeunt DEVILS with FAUSTUS.] [175] + + Enter CHORUS. + + CHORUS. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, + And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough, + That sometime grew within this learned man. + Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall, + Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, + Only to wonder at unlawful things, + Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits + To practice more than heavenly power permits. + [Exit.] + + Terminat hora diem; terminat auctor opus. + + + + + +FOOTNOTES: + + +[Footnote 1: mate-- i.e. confound, defeat.] + +[Footnote 2: vaunt-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "daunt."] + +[Footnote 3: her-- All the 4tos "his."] + +[Footnote 4: Whereas-- i.e. where.] + +[Footnote 5: cunning-- i.e. knowledge.] + +[Footnote 6: So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "more."] + +[Footnote 7: FAUSTUS discovered in his study-- Most probably, the Chorus, +before going out, drew a curtain, and discovered Faustus sitting. +In B. Barnes's DIVILS CHARTER, 1607, we find; "SCEN. VLTIMA. +ALEXANDER VNBRACED BETWIXT TWO CARDINALLS in his study LOOKING +VPON A BOOKE, whilst a groome draweth the Curtaine." Sig. L 3.] + +[Footnote 8: Analytics, 'tis thou, &c.-- Qy. "Analytic"? (but such +phraseology was not uncommon).] + +[Footnote 9: So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "the" (the printer +having mistaken "yt" for "ye").] + +[Footnote 10: So the later 4tos (with various spelling).--2to 1604 +"Oncaymaeon."] + +[Footnote 11: and-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 12: Couldst-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "Wouldst."] + +[Footnote 13: men-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "man."] + +[Footnote 14: legatur-- All the 4tos "legatus."] + +[Footnote 15: &c.-- So two of the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 16: law-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "Church."] + +[Footnote 17: This-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "His."] + +[Footnote 18: Too servile-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "The deuill."] + +[Footnote 19: Che sera, sera-- Lest it should be thought that I am wrong +in not altering the old spelling here, I may quote from Panizzi's +very critical edition of the ORLANDO FURIOSO, + "La satisfazion ci SERA pronta." C. xviii. st. 67.] + +[Footnote 20: scenes-- "And sooner may a gulling weather-spie + By drawing forth heavens SCEANES tell certainly," &c. + Donne's FIRST SATYRE,--p. 327, ed. 1633.] + +[Footnote 21: tire-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "trie."] + +[Footnote 22: Enter WAGNER, &c.-- Perhaps the proper arrangement is,] + "Wagner! + Enter WAGNER. + Commend me to my dearest friends," &c.] + +[Footnote 23: treasure-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "treasury."] + +[Footnote 24: Jove-- So again, p. 84, first col.,[See Note 59] +: + "Seeing Faustus hath incurr'd eternal death + By desperate thoughts against JOVE'S deity," &c.: +and I may notice that Marlowe is not singular in applying the name +JOVE to the God of Christians:] + "Beneath our standard of JOUES powerfull sonne [i.e. Christ--". + MIR. FOR MAGISTRATES, p. 642, ed. 1610. + "But see the judgement of almightie JOUE," &c. + Id. p. 696. + "O sommo GIOVE per noi crocifisso," &c. + Pulci,--MORGANTE MAG. C. ii. st. 1.] + +[Footnote 25: these elements-- So again, "Within the bowels of THESE +elements," &c., p. 87, first col,[See Note 90----"THESE" being +equivalent to THE. (Not unfrequently in our old writers THESE +is little more than redundant.)] + +[Footnote 26: resolve-- i.e. satisfy, inform.] + +[Footnote 27: silk-- All the 4tos "skill" (and so the modern editors!).] + +[Footnote 28: the-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "our."] + +[Footnote 29: the fiery keel at Antwerp's bridge-- During the blockade +of Antwerp by the Prince of Parma in 1585, "They of Antuerpe +knowing that the bridge and the Stocadoes were finished, +made a great shippe, to be a meanes to breake all this worke +of the prince of Parmaes: this great shippe was made of masons +worke within, in the manner of a vaulted caue: vpon the hatches +there were layed myll-stones, graue-stones, and others of great +weight; and within the vault were many barrels of powder, ouer +the which there were holes, and in them they had put matches, +hanging at a thred, the which burning vntill they came vnto +the thred, would fall into the powder, and so blow vp all. +And for that they could not haue any one in this shippe to +conduct it, Lanckhaer, a sea captaine of the Hollanders, being +then in Antuerpe, gaue them counsell to tye a great beame at the +end of it, to make it to keepe a straight course in the middest +of the streame. In this sort floated this shippe the fourth of +Aprill, vntill that it came vnto the bridge; where (within a +while after) the powder wrought his effect, with such violence, +as the vessell, and all that was within it, and vpon it, flew in +pieces, carrying away a part of the Stocado and of the bridge. +The marquesse of Roubay Vicont of Gant, Gaspar of Robles lord of +Billy, and the Seignior of Torchies, brother vnto the Seignior +of Bours, with many others, were presently slaine; which were +torne in pieces, and dispersed abroad, both vpon the land and vpon +the water." Grimeston's GENERALL HISTORIE OF THE NETHERLANDS, +p. 875, ed. 1609.] + +[Footnote 30: only-- Qy. "alone"? (This line is not in the later 4tos.)] + +[Footnote 31: vile-- Old ed. "vild": but see note ||, p. 68.--(This line +is not in the later 4tos.) + + [Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great):] + + Vile-- The 8vo "Vild"; the 4to "Wild" (Both eds. a little + before, have "VILE monster, born of some infernal hag", and, + a few lines after, "To VILE and ignominious servitude":--the + fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with + their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, + and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, + where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")--] + +[Footnote 32: concise syllogisms-- Old ed. "Consissylogismes."] + +[Footnote 33: cunning-- i.e. knowing, skilful.] + +[Footnote 34: Agrippa-- i.e. Cornelius Agrippa.] + +[Footnote 35: shadow-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "shadowes."] + +[Footnote 36: spirits-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "subiects."] + +[Footnote 37: Almain rutters-- See note , p. 43.] + + [Note from p. 43. (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + Almains, Rutters-- Rutters are properly--German troopers + (reiter, reuter). In the third speech after the present one + this line is repeated VERBATIM: but in the first scene of + our author's FAUSTUS we have, + "Like ALMAIN RUTTERS with their horsemen's staves."--] + +[Footnote 38: have the-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "in their."] + +[Footnote 39: From-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "For."] + +[Footnote 40: in-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 41: renowm'd-- See note ||, p. 11.] + + [Note || from p. 11. (The First Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + renowmed-- i.e. renowned.--So the 8vo.--The 4to "renowned." + --The form "RENOWMED" (Fr. RENOMME) occurs repeatedly + afterwards in this play, according to the 8vo. It is + occasionally found in writers posterior to Marlowe's + time. e.g. + "Of Constantines great towne RENOUM'D in vaine." + Verses to King James, prefixed to Lord Stirling's + MONARCHICKE TRAGEDIES, ed. 1607.--] + +[Footnote 42: Albertus'-- i.e. Albertus Magnus.--The correction of I. M. +in Gent. Mag. for Jan. 1841.--All the 4tos "Albanus."] + +[Footnote 43: cunning-- i.e. skill.] + +[Footnote 44: Enter two SCHOLARS-- Scene, perhaps, supposed to be before +Faustus's house, as Wagner presently says, "My master is within +at dinner."] + +[Footnote 45: upon-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "vpon't."] + +[Footnote 46: speak, would-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "speake, IT would."] + +[Footnote 47: my dear brethren-- This repetition (not found in the later 4tos) +is perhaps an error of the original compositor.] + +[Footnote 48: Enter FAUSTUS to conjure-- The scene is supposed to be a grove; +see p. 81, last line of sec. col. + [Page 81, second column, last line: + "VALDES. Then haste thee to some solitary grove,"--] + +[Footnote 49: anagrammatiz'd-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "and +Agramithist."] + +[Footnote 50: Th' abbreviated-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "The breuiated."] + +[Footnote 51: erring-- i.e. wandering.] + +[Footnote 52: surgat Mephistophilis, quod tumeraris-- The later 4tos have +"surgat Mephistophilis DRAGON, quod tumeraris."--There is a +corruption here, which seems to defy emendation. For "quod +TUMERARIS," Mr. J. Crossley, of Manchester, would read (rejecting +the word "Dragon") "quod TU MANDARES" (the construction being +"quod tu mandares ut Mephistophilis appareat et surgat"): but the +"tu" does not agree with the preceding "vos."--The Revd. J. Mitford +proposes "surgat Mephistophilis, per Dragon (or Dagon) quod NUMEN +EST AERIS."] + +[Footnote 53: dicatus-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "dicatis."] + +[Footnote 54: Re-enter Mephistophilis, &c.-- According to THE HISTORY OF +DR. FAUSTUS, on which this play is founded, Faustus raises +Mephistophilis in "a thicke wood neere to Wittenberg, called +in the German tongue Spisser Wolt..... Presently, not three +fathom above his head, fell a flame in manner of a lightning, +and changed itselfe into a globe..... Suddenly the globe opened, +and sprung up in the height of a man; so burning a time, in the +end it converted to the shape of a fiery man[?-- This pleasant +beast ran about the circle a great while, and, lastly, appeared +in the manner of a Gray Fryer, asking Faustus what was his +request?" Sigs. A 2, A 3, ed. 1648. Again; "After Doctor Faustus +had made his promise to the devill, in the morning betimes he +called the spirit before him, and commanded him that he should +alwayes come to him like a fryer after the order of Saint Francis, +with a bell in his hand like Saint Anthony, and to ring it once +or twice before he appeared, that he might know of his certaine +coming." Id. Sig. A 4.] + +[Footnote 55: came hither-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "came +NOW hither."] + +[Footnote 56: accidens-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "accident."] + +[Footnote 57: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it-- Compare Milton, +Par. Lost, iv. 75; + "Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell."] + +[Footnote 58: these-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "those."] + +[Footnote 59: Jove's-- See note , p. 80. [i.e. Note 24] +: ] + +[Footnote 60: four and twenty-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "24."] + +[Footnote 61: resolve-- i.e. satisfy, inform.] + +[Footnote 62: thorough-- So one of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "through."] + +[Footnote 63: country-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "land."] + +[Footnote 64: desir'd-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "desire."] + +[Footnote 65: Enter WAGNER, &c.-- Scene, a street most probably.] + +[Footnote 66: pickadevaunts-- i.e. beards cut to a point.] + +[Footnote 67: by'r lady-- i.e. by our Lady.] + +[Footnote 68: Qui mihi discipulus-- The first words of W. Lily's +AD DISCIPULOS CARMEN DE MORIBUS, + + "Qui mihi discipulus, puer, es, cupis atque doceri, + Huc ades," &c.] + +[Footnote 69: staves-acre-- A species of larkspur.] + +[Footnote 70: vermin-- Which the seeds of staves-acre were used to destroy.] + +[Footnote 71: familiars-- i.e. attendant-demons.] + +[Footnote 72: their-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "my."] + +[Footnote 73: slop-- i.e. wide breeches.] + +[Footnote 74: vile-- Old ed. "vild." See note || p. 68. + + [Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + Vile-- The 8vo "Vild"; the 4to "Wild" (Both eds. a little + before, have "VILE monster, born of some infernal hag", and, + a few lines after, "To VILE and ignominious servitude":--the + fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with + their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, + and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, + where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")] + +[Footnote 75: vestigiis nostris-- All the 4tos "vestigias nostras."] + +[Footnote 76: of-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 77: me-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 78: he lives-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "I liue."] + +[Footnote 79: why-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 80: Solamen miseris, &c.-- An often-cited line of modern Latin +poetry: by whom it was written I know not.] + +[Footnote 81: Why-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 82: torture-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "tortures."] + +[Footnote 83: Faustus-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 84: Bill-- i.e. writing, deed.] + +[Footnote 85: Here's fire; come, Faustus, set it on-- This would not +be intelligible without the assistance of THE HISTORY OF +DR. FAUSTUS, the sixth chapter of which is headed,--"How Doctor +Faustus set his blood in a saucer on warme ashes, and writ as +followeth." Sig. B, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 86: But what is this inscription, &c.-- "He [Faustus-- tooke +a small penknife and prickt a veine in his left hand; and for +certainty thereupon were seen on his hand these words written, +as if they had been written with blood, O HOMO, FUGE." +THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, Sig. B, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 87: me-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "thee."] + +[Footnote 88: he desires-- Not in any of the four 4tos. In the tract +just cited, the "3d Article" stands thus,--"That Mephostophiles +should bring him any thing, and doe for him whatsoever." Sig. A 4, +ed. 1648. A later ed. adds "he desired." Marlowe, no doubt, +followed some edition of the HISTORY in which these words, +or something equivalent to them, had been omitted by mistake. +(2to 1661, which I consider as of no authority, has "he +requireth.")] + +[Footnote 89: that, &c.-- So all the 4tos, ungrammatically.] + +[Footnote 90: these-- See note Sec., p. 80.[i.e. Note 25] +: ] + +[Footnote 91: there-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 92: are-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "is."] + +[Footnote 93: fond-- i.e. foolish.] + +[Footnote 94: What! walking, disputing, &c.-- The later 4tos have "What, +SLEEPING, EATING, walking, AND disputing!" But it is evident +that this speech is not given correctly in any of the old eds.] + +[Footnote 95: let me have a wife, &c.-- The ninth chapter of THE HISTORY +OF DR. FAUSTUS narrates "How Doctor Faustus would have married, +and how the Devill had almost killed him for it," and concludes +as follows. "It is no jesting [said Mephistophilis-- with us: +hold thou that which thou hast vowed, and we will peforme as we +have promised; and more shall that, thou shalt have thy hearts +desire of what woman soever thou wilt, be she alive or dead, +and so long as thou wilt thou shalt keep her by thee.--These +words pleased Faustus wonderfull well, and repented himself that +he was so foolish to wish himselfe married, that might have any +woman in the whole city brought him at his command; the which +he practised and persevered in a long time." Sig. B 3, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 96: me-- Not in 4to 1604. (This line is wanting in the later 4tos.)] + +[Footnote 97: no-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 98: Saba-- i.e. Sabaea--the Queen of Sheba.] + +[Footnote 99: iterating-- i.e. reciting, repeating.] + +[Footnote 100: And argue of divine astrology, &c.-- In THE HISTORY OF +DR. FAUSTUS, there are several tedious pages on the subject; +but our dramatist, in the dialogue which follows, has no +particular obligations to them.] + +[Footnote 101: erring-- i.e. wandering.] + +[Footnote 102: freshmen's-- "A Freshman, tiro, novitius." Coles's DICT. +Properly, a student during his first term at the university.] + +[Footnote 103: resolve-- i.e. satisfy, inform.] + +[Footnote 104: Seek to save-- Qy. "Seek THOU to save"? But see note ||, +p. 18.] + + [Note ||, from page 18 (The First Part of Tamburlaine The + Great): + + Barbarous-- Qy. "O Barbarous"? in the next line but one, + "O treacherous"? and in the last line of the speech, + "O bloody"? But we occasionally find in our early dramatists + lines which are defective in the first syllable; and in some + of these instances at least it would almost seem that nothing + has been omitted by the transcriber or printer.--] + +[Footnote 105: Enter the SEVEN DEADLY SINS-- In THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, +Lucifer amuses Faustus, not by calling up the Seven Deadly Sins, +but by making various devils appear before him, "one after another, +in forme as they were in hell." "First entered Beliall in forme +of a beare," &c.--"after him came Beelzebub, in curled haire of +a horseflesh colour," &c.--"then came Astaroth, in the forme of +a worme," &c. &c. During this exhibition, "Lucifer himselfe sate +in manner of a man all hairy, but of browne colour, like a +squirrell, curled, and his tayle turning upward on his backe as +the squirrels use: I think he could crack nuts too like a +squirrell." Sig. D, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 106: case-- i.e. couple.] + +[Footnote 107: bevers-- i.e. refreshments between meals.] + +[Footnote 108: L.-- All the 4tos "Lechery."--Here I have made the alteration +recommended by Mr. Collier in his Preface to COLERIDGE'S SEVEN +LECTURES ON SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON, p. cviii.] + +[Footnote 109: Away, to hell, to hell-- In 4to 1604, these words stand +on a line by themselves, without a prefix. (In the later 4tos, +the corresponding passage is as follows; + "------ begins with Lechery. + + LUCIFER. Away to hell, away! On, piper! [Exeunt the SINS. + FAUSTUS. O, how this sight doth delight my soul!" &c.)] + +[Footnote 110: I will send for thee at midnight-- In THE HISTORY OF DR. +FAUSTUS, we have a particular account of Faustus's visit +to the infernal regions, Sig. D 2, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 111: Enter CHORUS-- Old ed. "Enter WAGNER solus." That these +lines belong to the Chorus would be evident enough, even if we +had no assistance here from the later 4tos.--The parts of Wagner +and of the Chorus were most probably played by the same actor: +and hence the error.] + +[Footnote 112: Learned Faustus, + To know the secrets of astronomy, &c.-- See the 21st chapter +of THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS,--"How Doctor Faustus was carried +through the ayre up to the heavens, to see the whole world, +and how the sky and planets ruled," &c.] + +[Footnote 113: Enter FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS-- Scene, the Pope's +privy-chamber.] + +[Footnote 114: Trier-- i.e. Treves or Triers.] + +[Footnote 115: From Paris next, &c.-- This description is from THE HISTORY +OF DR. FAUSTUS; "He came from Paris to Mentz, where the river +of Maine falls into the Rhine: notwithstanding he tarried not +long there, but went into Campania, in the kingdome of Neapol, +in which he saw an innumerable sort of cloysters, nunries, and +churches, and great houses of stone, the streets faire and large, +and straight forth from one end of the towne to the other as a +line; and all the pavement of the city was of bricke, and the +more it rained into the towne, the fairer the streets were: +there saw he the tombe of Virgill, and the highway that he cu[t] +through the mighty hill of stone in one night, the whole length +of an English mile," &c. Sig. E 2, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 116: The way he cut, &c.-- During the middle ages Virgil was +regarded as a great magician, and much was written concerning +his exploits in that capacity. The LYFE OF VIRGILIUS, however, +(see Thoms's EARLY PROSE ROMANCES, vol. ii.,) makes no mention +of the feat in question. But Petrarch speaks of it as follows. +"Non longe a Puteolis Falernus collis attollitur, famoso palmite +nobilis. Inter Falernum et mare mons est saxeus, hominum manibus +confossus, quod vulgus insulsum a Virgilio magicis cantaminibus +factum putant: ita clarorum fama hominum, non veris contenta +laudibus, saepe etiam fabulis viam facit. De quo cum me olim +Robertus regno clarus, sed praeclarus ingenio ac literis, quid +sentirem, multis astantibus, percunctatus esset, humanitate fretus +regia, qua non reges modo sed homines vicit, jocans nusquam me +legisse magicarium fuisse Virgilium respondi: quod ille severissimae +nutu frontis approbans, non illic magici sed ferri vestigia +confessus est. Sunt autem fauces excavati montis angustae sed +longissimae atque atrae: tenebrosa inter horrifica semper nox: +publicum iter in medio, mirum et religioni proximum, belli quoque +immolatum temporibus, sic vero populi vox est, et nullis unquam +latrociniis attentatum, patet: Criptam Neapolitanam dicunt, cujus +et in epistolis ad Lucilium Seneca mentionem fecit. Sub finem fusci +tramitis, ubi primo videri coelum incipit, in aggere edito, ipsius +Virgilii busta visuntur, pervetusti operis, unde haec forsan ab +illo perforati montis fluxit opinio." ITINERARIUM SYRIACUM,--OPP. +p. 560, ed. Bas.] + +[Footnote 117: From thence to Venice, Padua, and the rest, + In one of which a sumptuous temple stands, &c.-- So the +later 4tos.--2to 1604 "In MIDST of which," &c.--THE HISTORY +OF DR. FAUSTUS shews WHAT "sumptuous temple" is meant: "From +thence he came to Venice....He wondred not a little at the +fairenesse of S. Marks Place, and the sumptuous church standing +thereon, called S. Marke, how all the pavement was set with +coloured stones, and all the rood or loft of the church double +gilded over." Sig. E 2, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 118: Just through the midst, &c.-- This and the next line are +not in 4to 1604. I have inserted them from the later 4tos, as +being absolutely necessary for the sense.] + +[Footnote 119: Ponte-- All the 4tos "Ponto."] + +[Footnote 120: of-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 121: Then charm me, that I, &c.-- A corrupted passage.--Compare +THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, Sig. E 3, ed. 1648; where, however, +the Cardinal, whom the Pope entertains, is called the Cardinal +of PAVIA.] + +[Footnote 122: Sonnet-- Variously written, SENNET, SIGNET, SIGNATE, &c.--A +particular set of notes on the trumpet, or cornet, different from +a flourish. See Nares's GLOSS. in V. SENNET.] + +[Footnote 123: Enter ROBIN, &c.-- Scene, near an inn.] + +[Footnote 124: ippocras-- Or HIPPOCRAS,--a medicated drink composed of wine +(usually red) with spices and sugar. It is generally supposed to +have been so called from HIPPOCRATES (contracted by our earliest +writers to HIPPOCRAS); perhaps because it was strained,--the woollen +bag used by apothecaries to strain syrups and decoctions for +clarification being termed HIPPOCRATES' SLEEVE.] + +[Footnote 125: tabern-- i.e. tavern.] + +[Footnote 126: [Exeunt. + Enter ROBIN and RALPH, &c.-- A scene is evidently wanting +after the Exeunt of Robin and Ralph.] + +[Footnote 127: purchase-- i.e. booty--gain, acquisition.] + +[Footnote 128: Drawer-- There is an inconsistency here: the Vintner +cannot properly be addressed as "Drawer." The later 4tos are +also inconsistent in the corresponding passage: Dick says, "THE +VINTNER'S BOY follows us at the hard heels," and immediately +the "VINTNER" enters.] + +[Footnote 129: tone-- i.e. the one.] + +[Footnote 130: MEPHIST-- Monarch of hell, &c.-- Old ed. thus:--] + + "MEPHIST. Vanish vilaines, th' one like an Ape, an other like + a Beare, the third an Asse, for doing this enterprise. + + Monarch of hell, vnder whose blacke suruey," &c. + +What follows, shews that the words which I have omitted ought +to have no place in the text; nor is there any thing equivalent +to them in the corresponding passage of the play as given in +the later 4tos.] + +[Footnote 131: Enter EMPEROR, &c.-- Scene--An apartment in the Emperor's +Palace. According to THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, the Emperor +"was personally, with the rest of the nobles and gentlemen, at +the towne of Inzbrack, where he kept his court." Sig. G, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 132: Master Doctor Faustus, &c-- The greater part of this scene +is closely borrowed from the history just cited: e.g. "Faustus, +I have heard much of thee, that thou art excellent in the black art, +and none like thee in mine empire; for men say that thou hast a +familiar spirit with thee, and that thou canst doe what thou list; +it is therefore (said the Emperor) my request of thee, that thou +let me see a proofe of thy experience: and I vow unto thee, by +the honour of my emperiall crowne, none evill shall happen unto +thee for so doing," &c. Ibid.] + +[Footnote 133: won-- May be right: but qy. "done"?] + +[Footnote 134: As we that do succeed, &c.-- A corrupted passage (not found +in the later 4tos).] + +[Footnote 135: The bright, &c.-- See note ||, p. 18.] + + [Note ||, from page 18 (The First Part of Tamburlaine The + Great): + + Barbarous-- Qy. "O Barbarous"? in the next line but one, + "O treacherous"? and in the last line of the speech, + "O bloody"? But we occasionally find in our early dramatists + lines which are defective in the first syllable; and in + some of these instances at least it would almost seem that + nothing has been omitted by the transcriber or printer.--] + +[Footnote 136: But, if it like your grace, it is not in my ability, &c.] +"D. Faustus answered, My most excellent lord, I am ready to +accomplish your request in all things, so farre forth as I and +my spirit are able to performe: yet your majesty shall know that +their dead bodies are not able substantially to be brought before +you; but such spirits as have seene Alexander and his Paramour +alive shall appeare unto you, in manner and form as they both +lived in their most flourishing time; and herewith I hope to +please your Imperiall Majesty. Then Faustus went a little aside +to speake to his spirit; but he returned againe presently, saying, +Now, if it please your Majesty, you shall see them; yet, upon this +condition, that you demand no question of them, nor speake unto +them; which the Emperor agreed unto. Wherewith Doctor Faustus opened +the privy-chamber doore, where presently entered the great and mighty +emperor Alexander Magnus, in all things to looke upon as if he +had beene alive; in proportion, a strong set thicke man, of a +middle stature, blacke haire, and that both thicke and curled, +head and beard, red cheekes, and a broad face, with eyes like +a basiliske; he had a compleat harnesse (i.e. suit of armour) +burnished and graven, exceeding rich to look upon: and so, +passing towards the Emperor Carolus, he made low and reverend +courtesie: whereat the Emperour Carolus would have stood up to +receive and greet him with the like reverence; but Faustus tooke +hold on him, and would not permit him to doe it. Shortly after, +Alexander made humble reverence, and went out againe; and comming +to the doore, his paramour met him. She comming in made the Emperour +likewise reverence: she was cloathed in blew velvet, wrought and +imbroidered with pearls and gold; she was also excellent faire, +like milke and blood mixed, tall and slender, with a face round +as an apple. And thus passed [she-- certaine times up and downe +the house; which the Emperor marking, said to himselfe, Now have +I seene two persons which my heart hath long wished to behold; +and sure it cannot otherwise be (said he to himselfe) but that +the spirits have changed themselves into these formes, and have +but deceived me, calling to minde the woman that raised the prophet +Samuel: and for that the Emperor would be the more satisfied in +the matter, he said, I have often heard that behind, in her neck, +she had a great wart or wen; wherefore he tooke Faustus by the +hand without any words, and went to see if it were also to be +seene on her or not; but she, perceiving that he came to her, +bowed downe her neck, when he saw a great wart; and hereupon she +vanished, leaving the Emperor and the rest well contented." +THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, Sig. G, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 137: both-- Old ed. "best."] + +[Footnote 138: Mephistophilis, transform him straight-- According to THE +HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, the knight was not present during Faustus's +"conference" with the Emperor; nor did he offer the doctor any +insult by doubting his skill in magic. We are there told that +Faustus happening to see the knight asleep, "leaning out of a +window of the great hall," fixed a huge pair of hart's horns on +his head; "and, as the knight awaked, thinking to pull in his head, +he hit his hornes against the glasse, that the panes thereof flew +about his eares: thinke here how this good gentleman was vexed, +for he could neither get backward nor forward." After the emperor +and the courtiers, to their great amusement, had beheld the poor +knight in this condition, Faustus removed the horns. When Faustus, +having taken leave of the emperor, was a league and a half from +the city, he was attacked in a wood by the knight and some of his +companions: they were in armour, and mounted on fair palfreys; +but the doctor quickly overcame them by turning all the bushes +into horsemen, and "so charmed them, that every one, knight and +other, for the space of a whole moneth, did weare a paire of +goates hornes on their browes, and every palfry a paire of oxe +hornes on his head; and this was their penance appointed by +Faustus." A second attempt of the knight to revenge himself on +Faustus proved equally unsuccessful. Sigs. G 2, I 3, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 139: FAUSTUS. Now Mephistophilis, &c.-- Here the scene is supposed +to be changed to the "fair and pleasant green" which Faustus +presently mentions.] + +[Footnote 140: Horse-courser-- i.e. Horse-dealer.--We are now to suppose the +scene to be near the home of Faustus, and presently that it is the +interior of his house, for he falls asleep in his chair.--"How +Doctor Faustus deceived a Horse-courser" is related in a short +chapter (the 34th) of THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS: "After this +manner he served a horse-courser at a faire called Pheiffering," &c.] + +[Footnote 141: for forty-- Qy. "for TWICE forty DOLLARS"?] + +[Footnote 142: into-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "vnto."] + +[Footnote 143: Doctor Lopus-- i.e. Doctor Lopez, domestic physician +to Queen Elizabeth, who was put to death for having received +a bribe from the court of Spain to destroy her. He is frequently +mentioned in our early dramas: see my note on Middleton's WORKS, +iv. 384.] + +[Footnote 144: know of-- The old ed. has "KNOWNE of"; which perhaps is right, +meaning--acquainted with.] + +[Footnote 145: hey-pass-- Equivalent to--juggler.] + +[Footnote 146: ostry-- i.e. inn,--lodging.] + +[Footnote 147: cunning-- i.e. skill.] + +[Footnote 148: [Exeunt. + Enter the DUKE OF VANHOLT, the DUCHESS, and FAUSTUS-- Old ed.; + + "Exeunt. + Enter to them the DUKE, the DUTCHESS, the DUKE speakes." + +In the later 4tos a scene intervenes between the "Exeunt" of +Faustus, Mephistophilis, and Wagner, and the entrance of the Duke +of Vanholt, &c.--We are to suppose that Faustus is now at the court +of the Duke of Vanholt: this is plain, not only from the later 4tos, +--in which Wagner tells Faustus that the Duke "hath sent some of +his men to attend him, with provision fit for his journey,"--but +from THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, the subjoined portion of which +is closely followed in the present scene. "Chap. xxxix. HOW DOCTOR +FAUSTUS PLAYED A MERRY JEST WITH THE DUKE OF ANHOLT IN HIS COURT. +Doctor Faustus on a time went to the Duke of Anholt, who welcommed +him very courteously; this was the moneth of January; where sitting +at the table, he perceived the dutchess to be with child; and +forbearing himselfe untill the meat was taken from the table, +and that they brought in the banqueting dishes [i.e. the dessert--, +Doctor Faustus said to the dutchesse, Gratious lady, I have alwayes +heard that great-bellied women doe alwayes long for some dainties; +I beseech therefore your grace, hide not your minde from me, but +tell me what you desire to eat. She answered him, Doctor Faustus, +now truly I will not hide from you what my heart doth most desire; +namely, that, if it were now harvest, I would eat my bellyfull of +grapes and other dainty fruit. Doctor Faustus answered hereupon, +Gracious lady, this is a small thing for me to doe, for I can doe +more than this. Wherefore he tooke a plate, and set open one of +the casements of the window, holding it forth; where incontinent +he had his dish full of all manner of fruit, as red and white +grapes, peares, and apples, the which came from out of strange +countries: all these he presented the dutchesse, saying, Madam, +I pray you vouchsafe to taste of this dainty fruit, the which +came from a farre countrey, for there the summer is not yet ended. +The dutchesse thanked Faustus highly, and she fell to her fruit +with full appetite. The Duke of Anholt notwithstanding could not +withhold to ask Faustus with what reason there were such young +fruit to be had at that time of the yeare. Doctor Faustus told +him, May it please your grace to understand that the year is +divided into two circles of the whole world, that when with us it +is winter, in the contrary circle it is notwithstanding summer; +for in India and Saba there falleth or setteth the sunne, so that +it is so warm that they have twice a yeare fruit; and, gracious +lord, I have a swift spirit, the which can in the twinkling of +an eye fulfill my desire in any thing; wherefore I sent him into +those countries, who hath brought this fruit as you see: whereat +the duke was in great admiration."] + +[Footnote 149: Saba-- i.e. Sabaea.] + +[Footnote 150: beholding-- i.e. beholden.] + +[Footnote 151: Enter WAGNER-- Scene, a room in the house of Faustus.] + +[Footnote 152: he hath given to me all his goods-- Compare chap. lvi. of +THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS,--"How Doctor Faustus made his will, +in which he named his servant Wagner to be his heire."] + +[Footnote 153: HELEN passeth over the stage-- In THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR +FAUSTUS we have the following description of Helen. "This lady +appeared before them in a most rich gowne of purple velvet, costly +imbrodered; her haire hanged downe loose, as faire as the beaten +gold, and of such length that it reached downe to her hammes; +having most amorous cole-black eyes, a sweet and pleasant round +face, with lips as red as a cherry; her cheekes of a rose colour, +her mouth small, her neck white like a swan; tall and slender of +personage; in summe, there was no imperfect place in her: she +looked round about with a rolling hawkes eye, a smiling and +wanton countenance, which neere-hand inflamed the hearts of all +the students; but that they perswaded themselves she was a spirit, +which made them lightly passe away such fancies." Sig. H 4, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 154: Enter an OLD MAN-- See chap. xlviii of THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR +FAUSTUS,--"How an old man, the neighbour of Faustus, sought to +perswade him to amend his evil life and to fall into repentance," +--according to which history, the Old Man's exhortation is delivered +at his own house, whither he had invited Faustus to supper.] + +[Footnote 155: vild-- Old ed. "vild." See note ||, p. 68. + + [Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + Vile-- The 8vo "Vild"; the 4to "Wild" (Both eds. a little + before, have "VILE monster, born of some infernal hag", and, + a few lines after, "To VILE and ignominious servitude":--the + fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with + their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, + and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, + where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")--] + +[Footnote 156: sin-- Old ed. "sinnes" (This is not in the later 4tos).] + +[Footnote 157: almost-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 158: now-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 159: MEPHIST. Do it, then, quickly, &c.-- After this speech, +most probably, there ought to be a stage-direction, "FAUSTUS +STABS HIS ARM, AND WRITES ON A PAPER WITH HIS BLOOD. Compare +THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, chap. xlix,--"How Doctor Faustus +wrote the second time with his owne blood, and gave it to the +Devill."] + +[Footnote 160: One thing, good servant, &c.-- "To the end that this miserable +Faustus might fill the lust of his flesh and live in all manner +of voluptuous pleasure, it came in his mind, after he had slept +his first sleepe, and in the 23 year past of his time, that he +had a great desire to lye with faire Helena of Greece, especially +her whom he had seen and shewed unto the students at Wittenberg: +wherefore he called unto his spirit Mephostophiles, commanding him +to bring to him the faire Helena; which he also did. Whereupon he +fell in love with her, and made her his common concubine and +bed-fellow; for she was so beautifull and delightfull a peece, +that he could not be one houre from her, if he should therefore +have suffered death, she had so stoln away his heart: and, to +his seeming, in time she was with childe, whom Faustus named +Justus Faustus. The childe told Doctor Faustus many things which +were don in forraign countrys; but in the end, when Faustus lost +his life, the mother and the childe vanished away both together." +THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. I 4, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 161: Those-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "These."] + +[Footnote 162: Faustus, this-- Qy. "This, Faustus"?] + +[Footnote 163: topless-- i.e. not exceeded in height by any.] + +[Footnote 164: is-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "be."] + +[Footnote 165: shalt-- So all the 4tos; and so I believe Marlowe wrote, +though the grammar requires "shall."] + +[Footnote 166: Enter the OLD MAN-- Scene, a room in the Old Man's house. +--In THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS the Old Man makes himself very +merry with the attempts of the evil powers to hurt him. "About +two dayes after that he had exhorted Faustus, as the poore man +lay in his bed, suddenly there was a mighty rumbling in the +chamber, the which he was never wont to heare, and he heard as +it had beene the groaning of a sow, which lasted long: whereupon +the good old man began to jest and mocke, and said, Oh, what a +barbarian cry is this? Oh faire bird, what foul musicke is this? +A[h--, faire angell, that could not tarry two dayes in his place! +beginnest thou now to runne into a poore mans house, where thou +hast no power, and wert not able to keepe thy owne two dayes? +With these and such like words the spirit departed," &c. +Sig. I 2, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 167: Enter Faustus, &c.-- Scene, a room in the house of Faustus.] + +[Footnote 168: cunning-- i.e. knowledge, skill.] + +[Footnote 169: Why did not Faustus tell us of this before, &c.-- "Wherefore +one of them said unto him, Ah, friend Faustus, what have you done +to conceale this matter so long from us? We would, by the helpe +of good divines and the grace of God, have brought you out of this +net, and have torne you out of the bondage and chaines of Satan; +whereas now we feare it is too late, to the utter ruine both of +your body and soule. Doctor Faustus answered, I durst never doe +it, although I often minded to settle my life [myself?-- to godly +people to desire counsell and helpe; and once mine old neighbour +counselled me that I should follow his learning and leave all my +conjurations: yet, when I was minded to amend and to follow that +good mans counsell, then came the Devill and would have had me +away, as this night he is like to doe, and said, so soone as I +turned againe to God, he would dispatch me altogether." THE +HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. K 3, ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 170: save-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] + +[Footnote 171: and what noise soever ye hear, &c.-- "Lastly, to knit up +my troubled oration, this is my friendly request, that you would +go to rest, and let nothing trouble you; also, if you chance heare +any noyse or rumbling about the house, be not therewith afraid, +for there shall no evill happen unto you," &c. THE HISTORY OF +DOCTOR FAUSTUS, ubi supra.] + +[Footnote 172: O lente, &c. + "At si, quem malles, Cephalum complexa teneres, + Clamares, LENTE CURRITE, NOCTIS EQUI." + Ovid,--AMOR. i. xiii. 39.] + +[Footnote 173: That, when you, &c.-- So all the old eds.; and it is certain +that awkward changes of person are sometimes found in passages +of our early poets: but qy., + + "That, when THEY vomit forth into the air, + My limbs may issue from THEIR smoky mouths," &c.?] + +[Footnote 174: and I be chang'd + Unto some brutish beast-- "Now, thou Faustus, damned wretch, +how happy wert thou, if, as an unreasonable beast, thou mightest +dye without [a-- soule! so shouldst thou not feele any more doubts," +&c. THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. K. ed. 1648.] + +[Footnote 175: Exeunt DEVILS with FAUSTUS-- In THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, +his "miserable and lamentable end" is described as follows: it +took place, we are informed, at "the village called Rimlich, +halfe a mile from Wittenberg."--"The students and the other that +were there, when they had prayed for him, they wept, and so went +forth; but Faustus tarried in the hall; and when the gentlemen +were laid in bed, none of them could sleepe, for that they att[e--nded +to heare if they might be privy of his end. It happened that +betweene twelve and one a clocke at midnight, there blew a mighty +storme of winde against the house, as though it would have blowne +the foundation thereof out of his place. Hereupon the students +began to feare and goe out of their beds, comforting one another; +but they would not stirre out of the chamber; and the host of +the house ran out of doores, thinking the house would fall. The +students lay neere unto the hall wherein Doctor Faustus lay, and +they heard a mighty noyse and hissing, as if the hall had beene +full of snakes and adders. With that, the hall-doore flew open, +wherein Doctor Faustus was, that he began to cry for helpe, +saying, Murther, murther! but it came forth with halfe a voyce, +hollowly: shortly after, they heard him no more. But when it was +day, the students, that had taken no rest that night, arose and +went into the hall, in the which they left Doctor Faustus; where +notwithstanding they found not Faustus, but all the hall lay +sprinkled with blood, his braines cleaving to the wall, for the +devill had beaten him from one wall against another; in one corner +lay his eyes, in another his teeth; a pittifull and fearefull +sight to behold. Then began the students to waile and weepe for +him, and sought for his body in many places. Lastly, they came +into the yard, where they found his body lying on the horse-dung, +most monstrously torne and fearefull to behold, for his head and +all his joynts were dashed in peeces. The fore-named students and +masters that were at his death, have obtained so much, that they +buried him in the village where he was so grievously tormented. +After the which they returned to Wittenberg; and comming into the +house of Faustus, they found the servant of Faustus very sad, +unto whom they opened all the matter, who tooke it exceeding +heavily. There found they also this history of Doctor Faustus +noted and of him written, as is before declared, all save only +his end, the which was after by the students thereto annexed; +further, what his servant had noted thereof, was made in another +booke. And you have heard that he held by him in his life the +spirit of faire Helena, the which had by him one sonne, the which +he named Justus Faustus: even the same day of his death they +vanished away, both mother and sonne. The house before was so +darke that scarce any body could abide therein. The same night +Doctor Faustus appeared unto his servant lively, and shewed unto +him many secret things, the which he had done and hidden in his +lifetime. Likewise there were certaine which saw Doctor Faustus +looke out of the window by night, as they passed by the house." +Sig. K 3, ed. 1648.] + + + +Original Comments on the preparation of the E-Text: + +SQUARE BRACKETS: + +The square brackets, i.e. [ ] are copied from the printed book, +without change. 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ALEXANDER DYCE. + + + + + +THE TRAGICALL HISTORY OF D. FAUSTUS. AS IT HATH BENE ACTED +BY THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARLE OF NOTTINGHAM HIS SERUANTS. +WRITTEN BY CH. MARL. + +In reprinting this edition, I have here and there amended the text +by means of the later 4tos,--1616, 1624, 1631.--Of 4to 1663, which +contains various comparatively modern alterations and additions, +I have made no use. + + + + + +DRAMATIS PERSONAE. + +THE POPE. +CARDINAL OF LORRAIN. +THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. +DUKE OF VANHOLT. +FAUSTUS. +VALDES, ] friends to FAUSTUS. +CORNELIUS, ] +WAGNER, servant to FAUSTUS. +Clown. +ROBIN. +RALPH. +Vintner. +Horse-courser. +A Knight. +An Old Man. +Scholars, Friars, and Attendants. + +DUCHESS OF VANHOLT + +LUCIFER. +BELZEBUB. +MEPHISTOPHILIS. +Good Angel. +Evil Angel. +The Seven Deadly Sins. +Devils. +Spirits in the shapes of ALEXANDER THE GREAT, of his Paramour + and of HELEN. + +Chorus. + + + + + +THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS +FROM THE QUARTO OF 1604. + + Enter CHORUS. + +CHORUS. Not marching now in fields of Thrasymene, +Where Mars did mate<1> the Carthaginians; +Nor sporting in the dalliance of love, +In courts of kings where state is overturn'd; +Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds, +Intends our Muse to vaunt<2> her<3> heavenly verse: +Only this, gentlemen,--we must perform +The form of Faustus' fortunes, good or bad: +To patient judgments we appeal our plaud, +And speak for Faustus in his infancy. +Now is he born, his parents base of stock, +In Germany, within a town call'd Rhodes: +Of riper years, to Wertenberg he went, +Whereas<4> his kinsmen chiefly brought him up. +So soon he profits in divinity, +The fruitful plot of scholarism grac'd, +That shortly he was grac'd with doctor's name, +Excelling all whose sweet delight disputes +In heavenly matters of theology; +Till swoln with cunning,<5> of a self-conceit, +His waxen wings did mount above his reach, +And, melting, heavens conspir'd his overthrow; +For, falling to a devilish exercise, +And glutted now<6> with learning's golden gifts, +He surfeits upon cursed necromancy; +Nothing so sweet as magic is to him, +Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss: +And this the man that in his study sits. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS discovered in his study.<7> + +FAUSTUS. Settle thy studies, Faustus, and begin +To sound the depth of that thou wilt profess: +Having commenc'd, be a divine in shew, +Yet level at the end of every art, +And live and die in Aristotle's works. +Sweet Analytics, 'tis thou<8> hast ravish'd me! +Bene disserere est finis logices. +Is, to dispute well, logic's chiefest end? +Affords this art no greater miracle? +Then read no more; thou hast attain'd that<9> end: +A greater subject fitteth Faustus' wit: +Bid Economy<10> farewell, and<11> Galen come, +Seeing, Ubi desinit philosophus, ibi incipit medicus: +Be a physician, Faustus; heap up gold, +And be eterniz'd for some wondrous cure: +Summum bonum medicinae sanitas, +The end of physic is our body's health. +Why, Faustus, hast thou not attain'd that end? +Is not thy common talk found aphorisms? +Are not thy bills hung up as monuments, +Whereby whole cities have escap'd the plague, +And thousand desperate maladies been eas'd? +Yet art thou still but Faustus, and a man. +Couldst<12> thou make men<13> to live eternally, +Or, being dead, raise them to life again, +Then this profession were to be esteem'd. +Physic, farewell! Where is Justinian? + + [Reads.] +Si una eademque res legatur<14> duobus, alter rem, +alter valorem rei, &c. + +A pretty case of paltry legacies! + + [Reads.] +Exhoereditare filium non potest pater, nisi, &c.<15> + +Such is the subject of the institute, +And universal body of the law:<16> +This<17> study fits a mercenary drudge, +Who aims at nothing but external trash; +Too servile<18> and illiberal for me. +When all is done, divinity is best: +Jerome's Bible, Faustus; view it well. + + [Reads.] +Stipendium peccati mors est. + Ha! + Stipendium, &c. + +The reward of sin is death: that's hard. + + [Reads.] +Si peccasse negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis veritas; + +If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and +there's 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,<19> +What will be, shall be? Divinity, adieu! +These metaphysics of magicians, +And necromantic books are heavenly; +Lines, circles, scenes,<20> letters, and characters; +Ay, these are those that Faustus most desires. +O, what a world of profit and delight, +Of power, of honour, of omnipotence, +Is promis'd to the studious artizan! +All 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, +Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man; +A sound magician is a mighty god: +Here, Faustus, tire<21> thy brains to gain a deity. + + Enter WAGNER.<22> + +Wagner, commend me to my dearest friends, +The German Valdes and Cornelius; +Request them earnestly to visit me. + +WAGNER. I will, sir. + [Exit.] + +FAUSTUS. Their conference will be a greater help to me +Than all my labours, plod I ne'er so fast. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + +GOOD ANGEL. O, Faustus, lay that damned book aside, +And gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soul, +And heap God's heavy wrath upon thy head! +Read, read the Scriptures:--that is blasphemy. + +EVIL ANGEL. Go forward, Faustus, in that famous art +Wherein all Nature's treasure<23> is contain'd: +Be thou on earth as Jove<24> is in the sky, +Lord and commander of these elements.<25> + [Exeunt Angels.] + +FAUSTUS. How am I glutted with conceit of this! +Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, +Resolve<26> 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, +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 swift Rhine circle fair Wertenberg; +I'll have them fill the public schools with silk,<27> +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<28> provinces; +Yea, stranger engines for the brunt of war, +Than was the fiery keel at Antwerp's bridge,<29> +I'll make my servile spirits to invent. + + 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: +Yet not your words only,<30> 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; +Divinity is basest of the three, +Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile:<31> +'Tis magic, magic, that hath ravish'd me. +Then, gentle friends, aid me in this attempt; +And I, that have with concise syllogisms<32> +Gravell'd the pastors of the German church, +And made the flowering pride of Wertenberg +Swarm to my problems, as the infernal spirits +On sweet Musaeus when he came to hell, +Will be as cunning<33> as Agrippa<34> was, +Whose shadow<35> made all Europe honour him. + +VALDES. Faustus, these books, thy wit, and our experience, +Shall make all nations to canonize us. +As Indian Moors obey their Spanish lords, +So shall the spirits<36> of every element +Be always serviceable to us three; +Like lions shall they guard us when we please; +Like Almain rutters<37> with their horsemen's staves, +Or Lapland giants, trotting by our sides; +Sometimes like women, or unwedded maids, +Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows +Than have the<38> white breasts of the queen of love: +From<39> Venice shall they drag huge argosies, +And from America the golden fleece +That yearly stuffs old Philip's treasury; +If learned Faustus will be resolute. + +FAUSTUS. Valdes, as resolute am I in this +As thou to live: therefore object it not. + +CORNELIUS. The miracles that magic will perform +Will make thee vow to study nothing else. +He that is grounded in astrology, +Enrich'd with tongues, well seen in<40> minerals, +Hath all the principles magic doth require: +Then doubt not, Faustus, but to be renowm'd,<41> +And more frequented for this mystery +Than heretofore the Delphian oracle. +The spirits tell me they can dry the sea, +And fetch the treasure of all foreign wrecks, +Ay, all the wealth that our forefathers hid +Within the massy entrails of the earth: +Then tell me, Faustus, what shall we three want? + +FAUSTUS. Nothing, Cornelius. O, this cheers my soul! +Come, shew me some demonstrations magical, +That I may conjure in some lusty grove, +And have these joys in full possession. + +VALDES. Then haste thee to some solitary grove, +And bear wise Bacon's and Albertus'<42> works, +The Hebrew Psalter, and New Testament; +And whatsoever else is requisite +We will inform thee ere our conference cease. + +CORNELIUS. Valdes, first let him know the words of art; +And then, all other ceremonies learn'd, +Faustus may try his cunning<43> by himself. + +VALDES. First I'll instruct thee in the rudiments, +And then wilt thou be perfecter than I. + +FAUSTUS. Then come and dine with me, and, after meat, +We'll canvass every quiddity thereof; +For, ere I sleep, I'll try what I can do: +This night I'll conjure, though I die therefore. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter two SCHOLARS.<44> + +FIRST SCHOLAR. I wonder what's become of Faustus, that was wont +to make our schools ring with sic probo. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. That shall we know, for see, here comes his boy. + + Enter WAGNER. + +FIRST SCHOLAR. How now, sirrah! where's thy master? + +WAGNER. God in heaven knows. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Why, dost not thou know? + +WAGNER. Yes, I know; but that follows not. + +FIRST SCHOLAR. Go to, sirrah! leave your jesting, and tell us +where he is. + +WAGNER. That follows not necessary by force of argument, that you, +being licentiates, should stand upon:<45> therefore acknowledge +your error, and be attentive. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Why, didst thou not say thou knewest? + +WAGNER. Have you any witness on't? + +FIRST SCHOLAR. Yes, sirrah, I heard you. + +WAGNER. Ask my fellow if I be a thief. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Well, you will not tell us? + +WAGNER. Yes, sir, I will tell you: yet, if you were not dunces, +you would never ask me such a question; for is not he corpus +naturale? and is not that mobile? then 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 to see you both hanged +the next sessions. Thus having triumphed over you, I will set +my countenance like a precisian, 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<46> inform your worships: and so, the Lord bless you, +preserve you, and keep you, my dear brethren, my dear brethren!<47> + [Exit.] + +FIRST SCHOLAR. Nay, then, I fear he is fallen into that damned art +for which they two are infamous through the world. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. 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. + +FIRST SCHOLAR. O, but I fear me nothing can reclaim him! + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Yet let us try what we can do. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter FAUSTUS to conjure.<48> + +FAUSTUS. Now that the gloomy shadow of the earth, +Longing to view Orion's drizzling look, +Leaps from th' antartic 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 pray'd and sacrific'd to them. +Within this circle is Jehovah's name, +Forward and backward anagrammatiz'd,<49> +Th' abbreviated<50> names of holy saints, +Figures of every adjunct to the heavens, +And characters of signs and erring<51> stars, +By which the spirits are enforc'd to rise: +Then fear not, Faustus, but be resolute, +And try the uttermost magic can perform.-- +Sint mihi dei Acherontis propitii! Valeat numen triplex Jehovoe! +Ignei, aerii, aquatani spiritus, salvete! Orientis princeps +Belzebub, inferni ardentis monarcha, et Demogorgon, propitiamus +vos, ut appareat et surgat Mephistophilis, quod tumeraris:<52> +per Jehovam, Gehennam, et consecratam aquam quam nunc spargo, +signumque crucis quod nunc facio, et per vota nostra, ipse nunc +surgat nobis dicatus<53> Mephistophilis! + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +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 MEPHISTOPHILIS.] + +I 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: +No, Faustus, thou art conjuror laureat, +That canst command great Mephistophilis: +Quin regis Mephistophilis fratris imagine. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS like a Franciscan friar.<54> + +MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, what wouldst thou have me do? + +FAUSTUS. I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live, +To do whatever Faustus shall command, +Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere, +Or the ocean to overwhelm the world. + +MEPHIST. 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? + +MEPHIST. No, I came hither<55> of mine own accord. + +FAUSTUS. Did not my conjuring speeches raise thee? speak. + +MEPHIST. That was the cause, but yet per accidens;<56> +For, when we hear one rack the name of God, +Abjure the Scriptures and his Saviour Christ, +We fly, in hope to get his glorious soul; +Nor will we come, unless he use such means +Whereby he is in danger to be damn'd. +Therefore the shortest cut for conjuring +Is stoutly to abjure the Trinity, +And pray devoutly to the prince of hell. + +FAUSTUS. So Faustus hath +Already done; and holds this principle, +There is no chief but only Belzebub; +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! +But, leaving these vain trifles of men's souls, +Tell me what is that Lucifer thy lord? + +MEPHIST. Arch-regent and commander of all spirits. + +FAUSTUS. Was not that Lucifer an angel once? + +MEPHIST. Yes, Faustus, and most dearly lov'd of God. + +FAUSTUS. How comes it, then, that he is prince of devils? + +MEPHIST. O, by aspiring pride and insolence; +For which God threw him from the face of heaven. + +FAUSTUS. And what are you that live with Lucifer? + +MEPHIST. Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, +Conspir'd against our God with Lucifer, +And are for ever damn'd with Lucifer. + +FAUSTUS. Where are you damn'd? + +MEPHIST. In hell. + +FAUSTUS. How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell? + +MEPHIST. Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it:<57> +Think'st 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 depriv'd 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? +Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude, +And scorn those joys thou never shalt possess. +Go bear these<58> tidings to great Lucifer: +Seeing Faustus hath incurr'd eternal death +By desperate thoughts against Jove's<59> deity, +Say, he surrenders up to him his soul, +So he will spare him four and twenty<60> 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, +To slay mine enemies, and 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<61> me of thy master's mind. + +MEPHIST. I will, Faustus. + [Exit.] + +FAUSTUS. 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 thorough<62> the moving air, +To pass the ocean with a band of men; +I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore, +And make that country<63> continent to Spain, +And both contributory to my crown: +The Emperor shall not live but by my leave, +Nor any potentate of Germany. +Now that I have obtain'd what I desir'd,<64> +I'll live in speculation of this art, +Till Mephistophilis return again. + [Exit.] + + Enter WAGNER<65> and CLOWN. + +WAGNER. Sirrah boy, come hither. + +CLOWN. How, boy! swowns, boy! I hope you have seen many boys +with such pickadevaunts<66> as I have: boy, quotha! + +WAGNER. Tell me, sirrah, hast thou any comings in? + +CLOWN. Ay, and goings out too; you may see else. + +WAGNER. Alas, poor slave! see how poverty jesteth in his nakedness! +the villain is bare and 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. + +CLOWN. How! my soul to the devil for a shoulder of mutton, though +'twere blood-raw! not so, good friend: by'r lady,<67> I had need +have it well roasted, and good sauce to it, if I pay so dear. + +WAGNER. Well, wilt thou serve me, and I'll make thee go like +Qui mihi discipulus?<68> + +CLOWN. How, in verse? + +WAGNER. No, sirrah; in beaten silk and staves-acre.<69> + +CLOWN. How, how, knaves-acre! ay, I thought that was all the land +his father left him. Do you hear? I would be sorry to rob you of +your living. + +WAGNER. Sirrah, I say in staves-acre. + +CLOWN. Oho, oho, staves-acre! why, then, belike, if I were your +man, I should be full of vermin.<70> + +WAGNER. So thou shalt, whether thou beest with me or no. But, +sirrah, leave your jesting, and bind yourself presently unto me +for seven years, or I'll turn all the lice about thee into +familiars,<71> and they shall tear thee in pieces. + +CLOWN. 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 their<72> meat and drink. + +WAGNER. Well, do you hear, sirrah? hold, take these guilders. + [Gives money.] + +CLOWN. Gridirons! what be they? + +WAGNER. Why, French crowns. + +CLOWN. 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? + +WAGNER. Why, now, sirrah, thou art at an hour's warning, whensoever +or wheresoever the devil shall fetch thee. + +CLOWN. No, no; here, take your gridirons again. + +WAGNER. Truly, I'll none of them. + +CLOWN. Truly, but you shall. + +WAGNER. Bear witness I gave them him. + +CLOWN. Bear witness I give them you again. + +WAGNER. Well, I will cause two devils presently to fetch thee +away.--Baliol and Belcher! + +CLOWN. Let your Baliol and your Belcher come here, and I'll +knock them, they were never so knocked since they were devils: +say I should kill one of them, what would folks say? "Do ye see +yonder tall fellow in the round slop?<73> he has killed the devil." +So I should be called Kill-devil all the parish over. + + Enter two DEVILS; and the CLOWN runs up and down crying. + +WAGNER. Baliol and Belcher,--spirits, away! + [Exeunt DEVILS.] + +CLOWN. What, are they gone? a vengeance on them! they have vile<74> +long nails. There was a he-devil and a she-devil: I'll tell you +how you shall know them; all he-devils has horns, and all +she-devils has clifts and cloven feet. + +WAGNER. Well, sirrah, follow me. + +CLOWN. But, do you hear? if I should serve you, would you teach +me to raise up Banios and Belcheos? + +WAGNER. I will teach thee to turn thyself to any thing, to a dog, +or a cat, or a mouse, or a rat, or any thing. + +CLOWN. 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 pretty wenches' +plackets! I'll be amongst them, i'faith. + +WAGNER. Well, sirrah, come. + +CLOWN. But, do you hear, Wagner? + +WAGNER. How!--Baliol and Belcher! + +CLOWN. O Lord! I pray, sir, let Banio and Belcher go sleep. + +WAGNER. Villain, call me Master Wagner, and let thy left eye be +diametarily fixed upon my right heel, with quasi vestigiis +nostris<75> insistere. + [Exit.] + +CLOWN. God forgive me, he speaks Dutch fustian. Well, I'll follow +him; I'll serve him, that's flat. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS discovered in his study. + +FAUSTUS. Now, Faustus, must +Thou needs be damn'd, and canst thou not be sav'd: +What boots it, then, to think of God or heaven? +Away with such vain fancies, and despair; +Despair in God, and trust in Belzebub: +Now go not backward; no, Faustus, be resolute: +Why waver'st thou? O, something soundeth in mine ears, +"Abjure this magic, turn to God again!" +Ay, and Faustus will turn to God again. +To God? he loves thee not; +The god thou serv'st is thine own appetite, +Wherein is fix'd the love of Belzebub: +To him I'll build an altar and a church, +And offer lukewarm blood of new-born babes. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + +GOOD ANGEL. Sweet Faustus, leave that execrable art. + +FAUSTUS. Contrition, prayer, repentance--what of them? + +GOOD ANGEL. O, they are means to bring thee unto heaven! + +EVIL ANGEL. Rather illusions, fruits of lunacy, +That make men foolish that do trust them most. + +GOOD ANGEL. Sweet Faustus, think of heaven and heavenly things. + +EVIL ANGEL. No, Faustus; think of honour and of<76> wealth. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + +FAUSTUS. Of wealth! +Why, the signiory of Embden shall be mine. +When Mephistophilis shall stand by me, +What god can hurt thee, Faustus? thou art safe +Cast no more doubts.--Come, Mephistophilis, +And bring glad tidings from great Lucifer;-- +Is't not midnight?--come, Mephistophilis, +Veni, veni, Mephistophile! + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +Now tell me<77> what says Lucifer, thy lord? + +MEPHIST. That I shall wait on Faustus whilst he lives,<78> +So he will buy my service with his soul. + +FAUSTUS. Already Faustus hath hazarded that for thee. + +MEPHIST. But, Faustus, thou must bequeath it solemnly, +And write a deed of gift with thine own blood; +For that security craves great Lucifer. +If thou deny it, I will back to hell. + +FAUSTUS. Stay, Mephistophilis, and tell me, what good will my soul +do thy lord? + +MEPHIST. Enlarge his kingdom. + +FAUSTUS. Is that the reason why<79> he tempts us thus? + +MEPHIST. Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.<80> + +FAUSTUS. Why,<81> have you any pain that torture<82> others! + +MEPHIST. As great as have the human souls of men. +But, tell me, Faustus, shall I have thy soul? +And I will be thy slave, and wait on thee, +And give thee more than thou hast wit to ask. + +FAUSTUS. Ay, Mephistophilis, I give it thee. + +MEPHIST. Then, Faustus,<83> stab thine arm courageously, +And bind thy soul, that at some certain day +Great Lucifer may claim it as his own; +And then be thou as great as Lucifer. + +FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm] 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 the blood that trickles from mine arm, +And let it be propitious for my wish. + +MEPHIST. But, Faustus, thou must +Write it in manner of a deed of gift. + +FAUSTUS. Ay, so I will [Writes]. But, Mephistophilis, +My blood congeals, and I can write no more. + +MEPHIST. I'll fetch thee fire to dissolve it straight. + [Exit.] + +FAUSTUS. What might the staying of my blood portend? +Is it unwilling I should write this bill?<84> +Why streams it not, that I may write afresh? +FAUSTUS GIVES TO THEE HIS SOUL: ah, there it stay'd! +Why shouldst thou not? is not thy soul shine own? +Then write again, FAUSTUS GIVES TO THEE HIS SOUL. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with a chafer of coals. + +MEPHIST. Here's fire; come, Faustus, set it on.<85> + +FAUSTUS. So, now the blood begins to clear again; +Now will I make an end immediately. + [Writes.] + +MEPHIST. O, what will not I do to obtain his soul? + [Aside.] + +FAUSTUS. Consummatum est; this bill is ended, +And Faustus hath bequeath'd his soul to Lucifer. +But what is this inscription<86> on mine arm? +Homo, fuge: whither should I fly? +If unto God, he'll throw me<87> down to hell. +My senses are deceiv'd; here's nothing writ:-- +I see it plain; here in this place is writ, +Homo, fuge: yet shall not Faustus fly. + +MEPHIST. I'll fetch him somewhat to delight his mind. + [Aside, and then exit.] + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with DEVILS, who give crowns + and rich apparel to FAUSTUS, dance, and then depart. + +FAUSTUS. Speak, Mephistophilis, what means this show? + +MEPHIST. Nothing, Faustus, but to delight thy mind withal, +And to shew thee what magic can perform. + +FAUSTUS. But may I raise up spirits when I please? + +MEPHIST. Ay, Faustus, and do greater things than these. + +FAUSTUS. Then there's enough for a thousand souls. +Here, Mephistophilis, receive this scroll, +A deed of gift of body and of soul: +But yet conditionally that thou perform +All articles prescrib'd between us both. + +MEPHIST. Faustus, I swear by hell and Lucifer +To effect all promises between us made! + +FAUSTUS. Then hear me read them. [Reads] ON THESE CONDITIONS +FOLLOWING. 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 HE DESIRES.<88> FOURTHLY, THAT HE SHALL +BE IN HIS CHAMBER OR HOUSE INVISIBLE. LASTLY, THAT HE SHALL APPEAR +TO THE SAID JOHN FAUSTUS, AT ALL TIMES, IN WHAT FORM OR SHAPE +SOEVER HE PLEASE. I, 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,<89> TWENTY-FOUR YEARS BEING EXPIRED, THE ARTICLES +ABOVE-WRITTEN INVIOLATE, FULL POWER TO FETCH OR CARRY THE SAID +JOHN FAUSTUS, BODY AND SOUL, FLESH, BLOOD, OR GOODS, INTO THEIR +HABITATION WHERESOEVER. BY ME, JOHN FAUSTUS. + +MEPHIST. Speak, Faustus, do you deliver this as your deed? + +FAUSTUS. Ay, take it, and the devil give thee good on't! + +MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, ask what thou wilt. + +FAUSTUS. First will I question with thee about hell. +Tell me, where is the place that men call hell? + +MEPHIST. Under the heavens. + +FAUSTUS. Ay, but whereabout? + +MEPHIST. Within the bowels of these<90> elements, +Where we are tortur'd and remain for ever: +Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd +In one self place; for where we are is hell, +And where hell is, there<91> must we ever be: +And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, +And every creature shall be purified, +All places shall be hell that are<92> not heaven. + +FAUSTUS. Come, I think hell's a fable. + +MEPHIST. Ay, think so still, till experience change thy mind. + +FAUSTUS. Why, think'st thou, then, that Faustus shall be damn'd? + +MEPHIST. Ay, of necessity, for here's the scroll +Wherein thou hast given thy soul to Lucifer. + +FAUSTUS. Ay, and body too: but what of that? +Think'st thou that Faustus is so fond<93> to imagine +That, after this life, there is any pain? +Tush, these are trifles and mere old wives' tales. + +MEPHIST. But, Faustus, I am an instance to prove the contrary, +For I am damn'd, and am now in hell. + +FAUSTUS. How! now in hell! +Nay, an this be hell, I'll willingly be damn'd here: +What! walking, disputing, &c.<94> +But, leaving off this, let me have a wife,<95> +The fairest maid in Germany; +For I am wanton and lascivious, +And cannot live without a wife. + +MEPHIST. How! a wife! +I prithee, Faustus, talk not of a wife. + +FAUSTUS. Nay, sweet Mephistophilis, fetch me one, for I will have +one. + +MEPHIST. Well, thou wilt have one? Sit there till I come: I'll +fetch thee a wife in the devil's name. + [Exit.] + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with a DEVIL drest like a WOMAN, + with fire-works. + +MEPHIST. Tell me,<96> Faustus, how dost thou like thy wife? + +FAUSTUS. A plague on her for a hot whore! + +MEPHIST. Tut, Faustus, +Marriage is but a ceremonial toy; +If thou lovest me, think no<97> more of it. +I'll cull thee out the fairest courtezans, +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, +As wise as Saba,<98> or as beautiful +As was bright Lucifer before his fall. +Hold, take this book, peruse it thoroughly: + [Gives book.] + +The iterating<99> of these lines brings gold; +The framing of this circle on the ground +Brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder, and lightning; +Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thyself, +And men in armour shall appear to thee, +Ready to execute what thou desir'st. + +FAUSTUS. 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. + +MEPHIST. Here they are in this book. + [Turns to them.] + +FAUSTUS. 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. + +MEPHIST. Here they are too. + [Turns to them.] + +FAUSTUS. 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. + +MEPHIST. Here they be. + +FAUSTUS. O, thou art deceived. + +MEPHIST. Tut, I warrant thee. + [Turns to them.] + +FAUSTUS. When I behold the heavens, then I repent, +And curse thee, wicked Mephistophilis, +Because thou hast depriv'd me of those joys. + +MEPHIST. Why, Faustus, +Thinkest thou heaven is such a glorious thing? +I tell thee, 'tis not half so fair as thou, +Or any man that breathes on earth. + +FAUSTUS. How prov'st thou that? + +MEPHIST. 'Twas made for man, therefore is man more excellent. + +FAUSTUS. If it were made for man, 'twas made for me: +I will renounce this magic and repent. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + +GOOD ANGEL. Faustus, repent; yet God will pity thee. + +EVIL ANGEL. Thou 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; +Ay, God will pity me, if I repent. + +EVIL ANGEL. Ay, but Faustus never shall repent. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + +FAUSTUS. My heart's so harden'd, I cannot repent: +Scarce can I name salvation, faith, or heaven, +But fearful echoes thunder in mine ears, +"Faustus, thou art damn'd!" then swords, and knives, +Poison, guns, halters, and envenom'd steel +Are laid before me to despatch myself; +And long ere this I should have slain myself, +Had not sweet pleasure conquer'd deep despair. +Have 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? +Why should I die, then, or basely despair? +I am resolv'd; Faustus shall ne'er repent.-- +Come, Mephistophilis, let us dispute again, +And argue of divine astrology.<100> +Tell me, are there many heavens above the moon +Are all celestial bodies but one globe, +As is the substance of this centric earth? + +MEPHIST. As are the elements, such are the spheres, +Mutually folded in each other's orb, +And, Faustus, +All jointly move upon one axletree, +Whose terminine is term'd the world's wide pole; +Nor are the names of Saturn, Mars, or Jupiter +Feign'd, but are erring<101> stars. + +FAUSTUS. But, tell me, have they all one motion, both situ et +tempore? + +MEPHIST. All jointly move from east to west in twenty-four hours +upon the poles of the world; but differ in their motion upon +the poles of the zodiac. + +FAUSTUS. Tush, +These slender trifles Wagner can decide: +Hath Mephistophilis no greater skill? +Who knows not the double motion of the planets? +The first is finish'd 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<102> suppositions. +But, tell me, hath every sphere a dominion or intelligentia? + +MEPHIST. Ay. + +FAUSTUS. How many heavens or spheres are there? + +MEPHIST. Nine; the seven planets, the firmament, and the empyreal +heaven. + +FAUSTUS. Well, resolve<103> 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? + +MEPHIST. Per inoequalem motum respectu totius. + +FAUSTUS. Well, I am answered. Tell me who made the world? + +MEPHIST. I will not. + +FAUSTUS. Sweet Mephistophilis, tell me. + +MEPHIST. Move me not, for I will not tell thee. + +FAUSTUS. Villain, have I not bound thee to tell me any thing? + +MEPHIST. Ay, that is not against our kingdom; but this is. Think +thou on hell, Faustus, for thou art damned. + +FAUSTUS. Think, Faustus, upon God that made the world. + +MEPHIST. Remember this. + [Exit.] + +FAUSTUS. Ay, go, accursed spirit, to ugly hell! +'Tis thou hast damn'd distressed Faustus' soul. +Is't not too late? + + Re-enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + +EVIL ANGEL. Too late. + +GOOD ANGEL. Never too late, if Faustus can repent. + +EVIL ANGEL. If thou repent, devils shall tear thee in pieces. + +GOOD ANGEL. Repent, and they shall never raze thy skin. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + +FAUSTUS. Ah, Christ, my Saviour, +Seek to save<104> distressed Faustus' soul! + + Enter LUCIFER, BELZEBUB, and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +LUCIFER. Christ cannot save thy soul, for he is just: +There's none but I have interest in the same. + +FAUSTUS. O, who art thou that look'st so terrible? + +LUCIFER. I am Lucifer, +And this is my companion-prince in hell. + +FAUSTUS. O, Faustus, they are come to fetch away thy soul! + +LUCIFER. We come to tell thee thou dost injure us; +Thou talk'st of Christ, contrary to thy promise: +Thou shouldst not think of God: think of the devil, +And of his dam too. + +FAUSTUS. Nor 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. + +LUCIFER. Do so, and we will highly gratify thee. Faustus, we are +come from hell to shew thee some pastime: sit down, and thou +shalt see all the Seven Deadly Sins appear in their proper shapes. + +FAUSTUS. That sight will be as pleasing unto me, +As Paradise was to Adam, the first day +Of his creation. + +LUCIFER. Talk not of Paradise nor creation; but mark this show: +talk of the devil, and nothing else.--Come away! + + Enter the SEVEN DEADLY SINS.<105> + +Now, Faustus, examine them of their several names and dispositions. + +FAUSTUS. 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 perriwig, 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. + +FAUSTUS. What art thou, the second? + +COVETOUSNESS. I am Covetousness, begotten of an old churl, in an +old leathern 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! + +FAUSTUS. 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<106> +of rapiers, wounding myself when I had nobody to fight withal. +I was born in hell; and look to it, for some of you shall be +my father. + +FAUSTUS. What art thou, the fourth? + +ENVY. 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 +shouldst see how fat I would be. But must thou sit, and I stand? +come down, with a vengeance! + +FAUSTUS. Away, envious rascal!--What art thou, the fifth? + +GLUTTONY. 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,<107>--a small trifle +to suffice nature. O, I come of a royal parentage! my grandfather +was a Gammon of Bacon, my grandmother a Hogshead of Claret-wine; +my godfathers were these, Peter Pickle-herring and Martin +Martlemas-beef; O, but my godmother, she was a jolly gentlewoman, +and well-beloved 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? + +FAUSTUS. No, I'll see thee hanged: thou wilt eat up all my victuals. + +GLUTTONY. Then the devil choke thee! + +FAUSTUS. Choke thyself, glutton!--What art thou, the sixth? + +SLOTH. 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. I'll not speak another word for a king's ransom. + +FAUSTUS. 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 stock-fish; and the first letter +of my name begins with L.<108> + +FAUSTUS. Away, to hell, to hell!<109> + [Exeunt the SINS.] + +LUCIFER. Now, Faustus, how dost thou like this? + +FAUSTUS. O, this feeds my soul! + +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. Thou shalt; I will send for thee at midnight.<110> +In meantime take this book; peruse it throughly, +And thou shalt turn thyself into what shape thou wilt. + +FAUSTUS. Great thanks, mighty Lucifer! +This will I keep as chary as my life. + +LUCIFER. Farewell, Faustus, and think on the devil. + +FAUSTUS. Farewell, great Lucifer. + [Exeunt LUCIFER and BELZEBUB.] + +Come, Mephistophilis. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter CHORUS.<111> + +CHORUS. Learned Faustus, +To know the secrets of astronomy<112> +Graven in the book of Jove's high firmament, +Did mount himself to scale Olympus' top, +Being seated in a chariot burning bright, +Drawn by the strength of yoky dragons' necks. +He now is gone to prove cosmography, +And, as I guess, will first arrive at Rome, +To see the Pope and manner of his court, +And take some part of holy Peter's feast, +That to this day is highly solemniz'd. + [Exit.] + + Enter FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS.<113> + +FAUSTUS. Having now, my good Mephistophilis, +Pass'd with delight the stately town of Trier,<114> +Environ'd round with airy mountain-tops, +With walls of flint, and deep-entrenched lakes, +Not to be won by any conquering prince; +From Paris next,<115> coasting the realm of France, +We saw the river Maine fall into Rhine, +Whose banks are set with groves of fruitful vines; +Then up to Naples, rich Campania, +Whose buildings fair and gorgeous to the eye, +The streets straight forth, and pav'd with finest brick, +Quarter the town in four equivalents: +There saw we learned Maro's golden tomb, +The way he cut,<116> an English mile in length, +Thorough a rock of stone, in one night's space; +From thence to Venice, Padua, and the rest, +In one of which a sumptuous temple stands,<117> +That threats the stars with her aspiring top. +Thus hitherto hath Faustus spent his time: +But tell me now what resting-place is this? +Hast thou, as erst I did command, +Conducted me within the walls of Rome? + +MEPHIST. Faustus, I have; and, because we will not be unprovided, +I have taken up his Holiness' privy-chamber for our use. + +FAUSTUS. I hope his Holiness will bid us welcome. + +MEPHIST. +Tut, 'tis no matter; man; we'll be bold with his good cheer. +And now, my Faustus, that thou mayst perceive +What Rome containeth to delight thee with, +Know that this city stands upon seven hills +That underprop the groundwork of the same: +Just through the midst<118> runs flowing Tiber's stream +With winding banks that cut it in two parts; +Over the which four stately bridges lean, +That make safe passage to each part of Rome: +Upon the bridge call'd Ponte<119> Angelo +Erected is a castle passing strong, +Within whose walls such store of ordnance are, +And double cannons fram'd of carved brass, +As match the days within one complete year; +Besides the gates, and high pyramides, +Which Julius Caesar brought from Africa. + +FAUSTUS. Now, by the kingdoms of infernal rule, +Of Styx, of<120> Acheron, and the fiery lake +Of ever-burning Phlegethon, I swear +That I do long to see the monuments +And situation of bright-splendent Rome: +Come, therefore, let's away. + +MEPHIST. Nay, Faustus, stay: I know you'd fain see the Pope, +And take some part of holy Peter's feast, +Where thou shalt see a troop of bald-pate friars, +Whose summum bonum is in belly-cheer. + +FAUSTUS. Well, I'm content to compass then some sport, +And by their folly make us merriment. +Then charm me, that I<121> +May be invisible, to do what I please, +Unseen of any whilst I stay in Rome. + [Mephistophilis charms him.] + +MEPHIST. So, Faustus; now +Do what thou wilt, thou shalt not be discern'd. + + Sound a Sonnet.<122> Enter the POPE and the CARDINAL OF + LORRAIN to the banquet, with FRIARS attending. + +POPE. My Lord of Lorrain, will't please you draw near? + +FAUSTUS. Fall to, and the devil choke you, an you spare! + +POPE. How now! who's that which spake?--Friars, look about. + +FIRST 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 the dish.] + +POPE. How now! who's that which snatched the meat from me? will +no man look?--My lord, this dish was sent me from the Cardinal +of Florence. + +FAUSTUS. You say true; I'll ha't. + [Snatches the dish.] + +POPE. What, again!--My lord, I'll drink to your grace. + +FAUSTUS. I'll pledge your grace. + [Snatches the cup.] + +C. OF LOR. 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.--Friars, prepare a dirge to lay the fury +of this ghost.--Once again, my lord, fall to. + [The POPE crosses himself.] + +FAUSTUS. What, are you crossing of yourself? +Well, use that trick no more, I would advise you. + [The POPE crosses himself again.] + +Well, there's the second time. Aware the third; +I give you fair warning. + [The POPE crosses himself again, and FAUSTUS hits him a box + of the ear; and they all run away.] + +Come on, Mephistophilis; what shall we do? + +MEPHIST. Nay, I know not: we shall be cursed with bell, book, +and candle. + +FAUSTUS. How! bell, book, and candle,--candle, book, and bell,-- +Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell! +Anon you shall hear a hog grunt, a calf bleat, and an ass bray, +Because it is Saint Peter's holiday. + + Re-enter all the FRIARS to sing the Dirge. + +FIRST FRIAR. +Come, brethren, let's about our business with good devotion. + + They sing. + +CURSED BE HE THAT STOLE AWAY HIS HOLINESS' MEAT FROM THE +TABLE! maledicat Dominus! +CURSED BE HE THAT STRUCK HIS HOLINESS A BLOW ON THE FACE! +maledicat Dominus! +CURSED BE HE THAT TOOK FRIAR SANDELO A BLOW ON THE PATE! +maledicat Dominus! +CURSED BE HE THAT DISTURBETH OUR HOLY DIRGE! maledicat +Dominus! +CURSED BE HE THAT TOOK AWAY HIS HOLINESS' WINE! maledicat +Dominus? <'?' sic> + Et omnes Sancti! Amen! + + [MEPHISTOPHILIS and FAUSTUS beat the FRIARS, and fling + fire-works among them; and so exeunt.] + + Enter CHORUS. + +CHORUS. When Faustus had with pleasure ta'en the view +Of rarest things, and royal courts of kings, +He stay'd his course, and so returned home; +Where such as bear his absence but with grief, +I mean his friends and near'st companions, +Did gratulate his safety with kind words, +And in their conference of what befell, +Touching his journey through the world and air, +They put forth questions of astrology, +Which Faustus answer'd with such learned skill +As they admir'd and wonder'd at his wit. +Now is his fame spread forth in every land: +Amongst the rest the Emperor is one, +Carolus the Fifth, at whose palace now +Faustus is feasted 'mongst his noblemen. +What there he did, in trial of his art, +I leave untold; your eyes shall see['t] perform'd. + [Exit.] + + Enter ROBIN<123> the Ostler, with a book in his hand. + +ROBIN. O, this is admirable! here I ha' stolen one of Doctor +Faustus' conjuring-books, and, i'faith, I mean to search some +circles for my own use. Now will I make all the maidens in our +parish dance at my pleasure, stark naked, before me; and so +by that means I shall see more than e'er I felt or saw yet. + + Enter RALPH, calling ROBIN. + +RALPH. Robin, prithee, come away; there's a gentleman tarries +to have his horse, and he would have his things rubbed and made +clean: he keeps such a chafing with my mistress about it; and +she has sent me to look thee out; prithee, come away. + +ROBIN. Keep out, keep out, or else you are blown up, you are +dismembered, Ralph: keep out, for I am about a roaring piece +of work. + +RALPH. Come, what doest thou with that same book? thou canst +not read? + +ROBIN. Yes, my master and mistress shall find that I can read, +he for his forehead, she for her private study; she's born to +bear with me, or else my art fails. + +RALPH. Why, Robin, what book is that? + +ROBIN. What book! why, the most intolerable book for conjuring +that e'er was invented by any brimstone devil. + +RALPH. Canst thou conjure with it? + +ROBIN. I can do all these things easily with it; first, I can +make thee drunk with ippocras<124> at any tabern<125> in Europe +for nothing; that's one of my conjuring works. + +RALPH. Our Master Parson says that's nothing. + +ROBIN. True, Ralph: and more, Ralph, if thou hast any mind to +Nan Spit, our kitchen-maid, then turn her and wind her to thy own +use, as often as thou wilt, and at midnight. + +RALPH. O, brave, Robin! shall I have Nan Spit, and to mine own +use? On that condition I'll feed thy devil with horse-bread as +long as he lives, of free cost. + +ROBIN. No more, sweet Ralph: let's go and make clean our boots, +which lie foul upon our hands, and then to our conjuring in the +devil's name. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter ROBIN and RALPH<126> with a silver goblet. + +ROBIN. Come, Ralph: did not I tell thee, we were for ever made +by this Doctor Faustus' book? ecce, signum! here's a simple +purchase<127> for horse-keepers: our horses shall eat no hay as +long as this lasts. + +RALPH. But, Robin, here comes the Vintner. + +ROBIN. Hush! I'll gull him supernaturally. + + Enter VINTNER. + +Drawer,<128> I hope all is paid; God be with you!--Come, Ralph. + +VINTNER. Soft, sir; a word with you. I must yet have a goblet paid +from you, ere you go. + +ROBIN. I a goblet, Ralph, I a goblet!--I scorn you; and you are +but a, &c. I a goblet! search me. + +VINTNER. I mean so, sir, with your favour. + [Searches ROBIN.] + +ROBIN. How say you now? + +VINTNER. I must say somewhat to your fellow.--You, sir! + +RALPH. Me, sir! me, sir! search your fill. [VINTNER searches him.] +Now, sir, you may be ashamed to burden honest men with a matter +of truth. + +VINTNER. Well, tone<129> of you hath this goblet about you. + +ROBIN. You lie, drawer, 'tis afore me [Aside].--Sirrah you, I'll +teach you to impeach honest men;--stand by;--I'll scour you for +a goblet;--stand aside you had best, I charge you in the name of +Belzebub.--Look to the goblet, Ralph [Aside to RALPH]. + +VINTNER. What mean you, sirrah? + +ROBIN. I'll tell you what I mean. [Reads from a book] Sanctobulorum +Periphrasticon--nay, I'll tickle you, Vintner.--Look to the goblet, +Ralph [Aside to RALPH].--[Reads] Polypragmos Belseborams framanto +pacostiphos tostu, Mephistophilis, &c. + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS, sets squibs at their backs, and then + exit. They run about. + +VINTNER. O, nomine Domini! what meanest thou, Robin? thou hast no +goblet. + +RALPH. Peccatum peccatorum!--Here's thy goblet, good Vintner. + [Gives the goblet to VINTNER, who exit.] + +ROBIN. Misericordia pro nobis! what shall I do? Good devil, forgive +me now, and I'll never rob thy library more. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +MEPHIST. Monarch of Hell,<130> under whose black survey +Great potentates do kneel with awful fear, +Upon whose altars thousand souls do lie, +How am I vexed with these villains' charms? +From Constantinople am I hither come, +Only for pleasure of these damned slaves. + +ROBIN. How, from Constantinople! you have had a great journey: +will you take sixpence in your purse to pay for your supper, and +be gone? + +MEPHIST. Well, villains, for your presumption, I transform thee +into an ape, and thee into a dog; and so be gone! + [Exit.] + +ROBIN. How, into an ape! that's brave: I'll have fine sport with +the boys; I'll get nuts and apples enow. + +RALPH. And I must be a dog. + +ROBIN. I'faith, thy head will never be out of the pottage-pot. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter EMPEROR,<131> FAUSTUS, and a KNIGHT, with ATTENDANTS. + +EMPEROR. Master Doctor Faustus,<132> I have heard strange report +of thy knowledge in the black art, how that none in my empire +nor in the whole world can compare with thee for the rare effects +of magic: they say thou hast a familiar spirit, by whom thou canst +accomplish what thou list. This, therefore, is my request, that +thou let me see some proof of thy skill, that mine eyes may be +witnesses to confirm what mine ears have heard reported: and here +I swear to thee, by the honour of mine imperial crown, that, +whatever thou doest, thou shalt be no ways prejudiced or endamaged. + +KNIGHT. I'faith, he looks much like a conjurer. + [Aside.] + +FAUSTUS. My gracious sovereign, though I must confess myself far +inferior to the report men have published, and nothing answerable +to the honour of your imperial majesty, yet, for that love and duty +binds me thereunto, I am content to do whatsoever your majesty +shall command me. + +EMPEROR. Then, Doctor Faustus, mark what I shall say. +As I was sometime solitary set +Within my closet, sundry thoughts arose +About the honour of mine ancestors, +How they had won<133> by prowess such exploits, +Got such riches, subdu'd so many kingdoms, +As we that do succeed,<134> or they that shall +Hereafter possess our throne, shall +(I fear me) ne'er attain to that degree +Of high renown and great authority: +Amongst which kings is Alexander the Great, +Chief spectacle of the world's pre-eminence, +The bright<135> shining of whose glorious acts +Lightens the world with his reflecting beams, +As when I hear but motion made of him, +It grieves my soul I never saw the man: +If, therefore, thou, by cunning of thine art, +Canst raise this man from hollow vaults below, +Where lies entomb'd this famous conqueror, +And bring with him his beauteous paramour, +Both in their right shapes, gesture, and attire +They us'd to wear during their time of life, +Thou shalt both satisfy my just desire, +And give me cause to praise thee whilst I live. + +FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, I am ready to accomplish your request, +so far forth as by art and power of my spirit I am able to perform. + +KNIGHT. I'faith, that's just nothing at all. + [Aside.] + +FAUSTUS. But, if it like your grace, it is not in my ability<136> +to present before your eyes the true substantial bodies of those +two deceased princes, which long since are consumed to dust. + +KNIGHT. Ay, marry, Master Doctor, now there's a sign of grace in +you, when you will confess the truth. + [Aside.] + +FAUSTUS. But such spirits as can lively resemble Alexander and +his paramour shall appear before your grace, in that manner that +they both<137> lived in, in their most flourishing estate; which +I doubt not shall sufficiently content your imperial majesty. + +EMPEROR. Go to, Master Doctor; let me see them presently. + +KNIGHT. Do you hear, Master Doctor? you bring Alexander and his +paramour before the Emperor! + +FAUSTUS. How then, sir? + +KNIGHT. I'faith, that's as true as Diana turned me to a stag. + +FAUSTUS. No, sir; but, when Actaeon died, he left the horns for +you.--Mephistophilis, be gone. + [Exit MEPHISTOPHILIS.] + +KNIGHT. Nay, an you go to conjuring, I'll be gone. + [Exit.] + +FAUSTUS. I'll meet with you anon for interrupting me so. +--Here they are, my gracious lord. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with SPIRITS in the shapes of ALEXANDER + and his PARAMOUR. + +EMPEROR. Master Doctor, I heard this lady, while she lived, had a +wart or mole in her neck: how shall I know whether it be so or no? + +FAUSTUS. Your highness may boldly go and see. + +EMPEROR. Sure, these are no spirits, but the true substantial +bodies of those two deceased princes. + [Exeunt Spirits.] + +FAUSTUS. Wilt please your highness now to send for the knight +that was so pleasant with me here of late? + +EMPEROR. One of you call him forth. + [Exit ATTENDANT.] + + Re-enter the KNIGHT with a pair of horns on his head. + +How now, sir knight! why, I had thought thou hadst been a bachelor, +but now I see thou hast a wife, that not only gives thee horns, +but makes thee wear them. Feel on thy head. + +KNIGHT. Thou damned wretch and execrable dog, +Bred in the concave of some monstrous rock, +How dar'st thou thus abuse a gentleman? +Villain, I say, undo what thou hast done! + +FAUSTUS. O, not so fast, sir! there's no haste: but, good, are +you remembered how you crossed me in my conference with the +Emperor? I think I have met with you for it. + +EMPEROR. Good Master Doctor, at my entreaty release him: he hath +done penance sufficient. + +FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, not so much for the injury he offered +me here in your presence, as to delight you with some mirth, hath +Faustus worthily requited this injurious knight; which being all +I desire, I am content to release him of his horns:--and, +sir knight, hereafter speak well of scholars.--Mephistophilis, +transform him straight.<138> [MEPHISTOPHILIS removes the horns.] +--Now, my good lord, having done my duty, I humbly take my leave. + +EMPEROR. Farewell, Master Doctor: yet, ere you go, +Expect from me a bounteous reward. + [Exeunt EMPEROR, KNIGHT, and ATTENDANTS.] + +FAUSTUS. Now, Mephistophilis,<139> the restless course +That time doth run with calm and silent foot, +Shortening my days and thread of vital life, +Calls for the payment of my latest years: +Therefore, sweet Mephistophilis, let us +Make haste to Wertenberg. + +MEPHIST. What, will you go on horse-back or on foot<?> + +FAUSTUS. Nay, till I'm past this fair and pleasant green, +I'll walk on foot. + + Enter a HORSE-COURSER.<140> + +HORSE-COURSER. I have been all this day seeking one Master Fustian: +mass, see where he is!--God save you, Master Doctor! + +FAUSTUS. What, horse-courser! you are well met. + +HORSE-COURSER. Do you hear, sir? I have brought you forty dollars +for your horse. + +FAUSTUS. I cannot sell him so: if thou likest him for fifty, take +him. + +HORSE-COURSER. Alas, sir, I have no more!--I pray you, speak for +me. + +MEPHIST. I pray you, let him have him: he is an honest fellow, +and he has a great charge, neither wife nor child. + +FAUSTUS. Well, come, give me your money [HORSE-COURSER gives +FAUSTUS the money]: my boy will deliver him to you. But I must +tell you one thing before you have him; ride him not into the +water, at any hand. + +HORSE-COURSER. Why, sir, will he not drink of all waters? + +FAUSTUS. O, yes, he will drink of all waters; but ride him not +into the water: ride him over hedge or ditch, or where thou wilt, +but not into the water. + +HORSE-COURSER. Well, sir.--Now am I made man for ever: I'll not +leave my horse for forty:<141> if he had but the quality of +hey-ding-ding, hey-ding-ding, I'd make a brave living on him: +he has a buttock as slick as an eel [Aside].--Well, God b'wi'ye, +sir: your boy will deliver him me: but, hark you, sir; if my horse +be sick or ill at ease, if I bring his water to you, you'll tell +me what it is? + +FAUSTUS. Away, you villain! what, dost think I am a horse-doctor? + [Exit HORSE-COURSER.] + +What art thou, Faustus, but a man condemn'd to die? +Thy fatal time doth draw to final end; +Despair doth drive distrust into<142> my thoughts: +Confound these passions with a quiet sleep: +Tush, Christ did call the thief upon the Cross; +Then rest thee, Faustus, quiet in conceit. + [Sleeps in his chair.] + + Re-enter HORSE-COURSER, all wet, crying. + +HORSE-COURSER. Alas, alas! Doctor Fustian, quoth a? mass, Doctor +Lopus<143> was never such a doctor: has given me a purgation, has +purged me of forty dollars; I shall never see them more. But yet, +like an ass as I was, I would not be ruled by him, for he bade me +I should ride him into no water: now I, thinking my horse had had +some rare quality that he would not have had me know of,<144> I, +like a venturous youth, rid him into the deep pond at the town's +end. I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse +vanished away, and I sat upon a bottle of hay, never so near +drowning in my life. But I'll seek out my doctor, and have my +forty dollars again, or I'll make it the dearest horse!--O, +yonder is his snipper-snapper.--Do you hear? you, hey-pass,<145> +where's your master? + +MEPHIST. Why, sir, what would you? you cannot speak with him. + +HORSE-COURSER. But I will speak with him. + +MEPHIST. Why, he's fast asleep: come some other time. + +HORSE-COURSER. I'll speak with him now, or I'll break his +glass-windows about his ears. + +MEPHIST. I tell thee, he has not slept this eight nights. + +HORSE-COURSER. An he have not slept this eight weeks, I'll +speak with him. + +MEPHIST. See, where he is, fast asleep. + +HORSE-COURSER. Ay, this is he.--God save you, Master Doctor, +Master Doctor, Master Doctor Fustian! forty dollars, forty dollars +for a bottle of hay! + +MEPHIST. Why, thou seest he hears thee not. + +HORSE-COURSER. So-ho, ho! so-ho, ho! [Hollows in his ear.] No, +will you not wake? I'll make you wake ere I go. [Pulls FAUSTUS +by the leg, and pulls it away.] Alas, I am undone! what shall +I do? + +FAUSTUS. O, my leg, my leg!--Help, Mephistophilis! call the +officers.--My leg, my leg! + +MEPHIST. Come, villain, to the constable. + +HORSE-COURSER. O Lord, sir, let me go, and I'll give you forty +dollars more! + +MEPHIST. Where be they? + +HORSE-COURSER. I have none about me: come to my ostry,<146> +and I'll give them you. + +MEPHIST. Be gone quickly. + [HORSE-COURSER runs away.] + +FAUSTUS. What, is he gone? farewell he! Faustus has his leg again, +and the Horse-courser, I take it, a bottle of hay for his labour: +well, this trick shall cost him forty dollars more. + + Enter WAGNER. + +How now, Wagner! what's the news with thee? + +WAGNER. Sir, the Duke of Vanholt doth earnestly entreat your +company. + +FAUSTUS. The Duke of Vanholt! an honourable gentleman, to whom +I must be no niggard of my cunning.<147>--Come, Mephistophilis, +let's away to him. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter the DUKE OF VANHOLT, the DUCHESS, and FAUSTUS.<148> + +DUKE. Believe me, Master Doctor, this merriment hath much pleased +me. + +FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, I am glad it contents you so well. +--But it may be, madam, you take no delight in this. I have heard +that great-bellied women do long for some dainties or other: what +is it, madam? tell me, and you shall have it. + +DUCHESS. Thanks, good Master Doctor: and, for I see your courteous +intent to pleasure me, I will not hide from you the thing my heart +desires; and, were it now summer, as it is January and the dead +time of the winter, I would desire no better meat than a dish +of ripe grapes. + +FAUSTUS. Alas, madam, that's nothing!--Mephistophilis, be gone. +[Exit MEPHISTOPHILIS.] Were it a greater thing than this, so it +would content you, you should have it. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with grapes. + +Here they be, madam: wilt please you taste on them? + +DUKE. Believe me, Master Doctor, this makes me wonder above the +rest, that being in the dead time of winter and in the month of +January, how you should come by these grapes. + +FAUSTUS. If it like your grace, the year is divided into two +circles over the whole world, that, when it is here winter with +us, in the contrary circle it is summer with them, as in India, +Saba,<149> and farther countries in the east; and by means of a +swift spirit that I have, I had them brought hither, as you see. +--How do you like them, madam? be they good? + +DUCHESS. Believe me, Master Doctor, they be the best grapes that +e'er I tasted in my life before. + +FAUSTUS. I am glad they content you so, madam. + +DUKE. Come, madam, let us in, where you must well reward this +learned man for the great kindness he hath shewed to you. + +DUCHESS. And so I will, my lord; and, whilst I live, rest +beholding<150> for this courtesy. + +FAUSTUS. I humbly thank your grace. + +DUKE. Come, Master Doctor, follow us, and receive your reward. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter WAGNER.<151> + +WAGNER. I think my master means to die shortly, +For he hath given to me all his goods:<152> +And yet, methinks, if that death were near, +He would not banquet, and carouse, and swill +Amongst the students, as even now he doth, +Who are at supper with such belly-cheer +As Wagner ne'er beheld in all his life. +See, where they come! belike the feast is ended. + [Exit.] + + Enter FAUSTUS with two or three SCHOLARS, and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +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 lived: therefore, Master Doctor, if you will do us +that favour, 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 unfeign'd, +And Faustus' custom is not to deny +The just requests of those that wish him well, +You shall behold that peerless dame of Greece, +No otherways for pomp and majesty +Than when Sir Paris cross'd the seas with her, +And brought the spoils to rich Dardania. +Be silent, then, for danger is in words. + [Music sounds, and HELEN passeth over the stage.<153>] + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Too simple is my wit to tell her praise, +Whom all the world admires for majesty. + +THIRD SCHOLAR. No marvel though the angry Greeks pursu'd +With ten years' war the rape of such a queen, +Whose heavenly beauty passeth all compare. + +FIRST SCHOLAR. Since we have seen the pride of Nature's works, +And only paragon of excellence, +Let us depart; and for this glorious deed +Happy and blest be Faustus evermore! + +FAUSTUS. Gentlemen, farewell: the same I wish to you. + [Exeunt SCHOLARS.] + + Enter an OLD MAN.<154> + +OLD MAN. Ah, Doctor Faustus, that I might prevail +To guide thy steps unto the way of life, +By which sweet path thou mayst attain the goal +That shall conduct thee to celestial rest! +Break heart, drop blood, and mingle it with tears, +Tears falling from repentant heaviness +Of thy most vile<155> and loathsome filthiness, +The stench whereof corrupts the inward soul +With such flagitious crimes of heinous sin<156> +As no commiseration may expel, +But mercy, Faustus, of thy Saviour sweet, +Whose blood alone must wash away thy guilt. + +FAUSTUS. Where art thou, Faustus? wretch, what hast thou done? +Damn'd art thou, Faustus, damn'd; despair and die! +Hell calls for right, and with a roaring voice +Says, "Faustus, come; thine hour is almost<157> come;" +And Faustus now<158> will come to do thee right. + [MEPHISTOPHILIS gives him a dagger.] + +OLD MAN. Ah, stay, good Faustus, stay thy desperate steps! +I see an angel hovers o'er thy head, +And, with a vial full of precious grace, +Offers to pour the same into thy soul: +Then call for mercy, and avoid despair. + +FAUSTUS. Ah, my sweet friend, I feel +Thy words to comfort my distressed soul! +Leave me a while to ponder on my sins. + +OLD MAN. I go, sweet Faustus; but with heavy cheer, +Fearing the ruin of thy hopeless soul. + [Exit.] + +FAUSTUS. Accursed Faustus, where is mercy now? +I do repent; and yet I do despair: +Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast: +What shall I do to shun the snares of death? + +MEPHIST. Thou traitor, Faustus, I arrest thy soul +For disobedience to my sovereign lord: +Revolt, or I'll in piece-meal tear thy flesh. + +FAUSTUS. Sweet Mephistophilis, entreat thy lord +To pardon my unjust presumption, +And with my blood again I will confirm +My former vow I made to Lucifer. + +MEPHIST. Do it, then, quickly,<159> with unfeigned heart, +Lest greater danger do attend thy drift. + +FAUSTUS. Torment, sweet friend, that base and crooked age, +That durst dissuade me from thy Lucifer, +With greatest torments that our hell affords. + +MEPHIST. His faith is great; I cannot touch his soul; +But what I may afflict his body with +I will attempt, which is but little worth. + +FAUSTUS. One thing, good servant,<160> let me crave of thee, +To glut the longing of my heart's desire,-- +That I might have unto my paramour +That heavenly Helen which I saw of late, +Whose sweet embracings may extinguish clean +Those<161> thoughts that do dissuade me from my vow, +And keep mine oath I made to Lucifer. + +MEPHIST. Faustus, this,<162> or what else thou shalt desire, +Shall be perform'd in twinkling of an eye. + + Re-enter HELEN. + +FAUSTUS. Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, +And burnt the topless<163> towers of Ilium-- +Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.-- + [Kisses her.] +Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!-- +Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. +Here will I dwell, for heaven is<164> in these lips, +And all is dross that is not Helena. +I will be Paris, and for love of thee, +Instead of Troy, shall Wertenberg be sack'd; +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 fairer than the evening air +Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars; +Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter +When he appear'd to hapless Semele; +More lovely than the monarch of the sky +In wanton Arethusa's azur'd arms; +And none but thou shalt<165> be my paramour! + [Exeunt.] + + Enter the OLD MAN.<166> + +OLD MAN. Accursed Faustus, miserable man, +That from thy soul exclud'st the grace of heaven, +And fly'st the throne of his tribunal-seat! + + Enter DEVILS. + +Satan begins to sift me with his pride: +As in this furnace God shall try my faith, +My faith, vile hell, shall triumph over thee. +Ambitious fiends, see how the heavens smile +At your repulse, and laugh your state to scorn! +Hence, hell! for hence I fly unto my God. + [Exeunt,--on one side, DEVILS, on the other, OLD MAN.] + + Enter FAUSTUS,<167> with SCHOLARS. + +FAUSTUS. Ah, gentlemen! + +FIRST SCHOLAR. What ails Faustus? + +FAUSTUS. Ah, my sweet chamber-fellow, had I lived with thee, +then had I lived still! but now I die eternally. Look, comes +he not? comes he not? + +SECOND SCHOLAR. What means Faustus? + +THIRD SCHOLAR. Belike he is grown into some sickness by being +over-solitary. + +FIRST SCHOLAR. If it be so, we'll have physicians to cure him. +--'Tis but a surfeit; never fear, man. + +FAUSTUS. A surfeit of deadly sin, that hath damned both body +and soul. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Yet, Faustus, look up to heaven; remember God's +mercies are infinite. + +FAUSTUS. But Faustus' offence can ne'er be pardoned: the serpent +that tempted Eve may be saved, but not Faustus. Ah, gentlemen, +hear me with patience, and tremble not at my speeches! Though +my heart pants and quivers to remember that I have been a student +here these thirty years, O, would I had never seen Wertenberg, +never read book! and what wonders I have done, all Germany can +witness, yea, all the world; for which Faustus hath lost both +Germany and the world, yea, heaven itself, heaven, the seat of +God, the throne of the blessed, the kingdom of joy; and must +remain in hell for ever, hell, ah, hell, for ever! Sweet friends, +what shall become of Faustus, being in hell for ever? + +THIRD SCHOLAR. Yet, Faustus, call on God. + +FAUSTUS. On God, whom Faustus hath abjured! on God, whom Faustus +hath blasphemed! Ah, my God, I would weep! but the devil draws in +my tears. Gush forth blood, instead of tears! yea, life and soul! +O, he stays my tongue! I would lift up my hands; but see, they +hold them, they hold them! + +ALL. Who, Faustus? + +FAUSTUS. Lucifer and Mephistophilis. Ah, gentlemen, I gave them +my soul for my cunning!<168> + +ALL. God forbid! + +FAUSTUS. God forbade it, indeed; but Faustus hath done it: for +vain pleasure of twenty-four years hath Faustus lost eternal joy +and felicity. I writ them a bill with mine own blood: the date +is expired; the time will come, and he will fetch me. + +FIRST SCHOLAR. Why did not Faustus tell us of this before,<169> +that divines might have prayed for thee? + +FAUSTUS. Oft have I thought to have done so; but the devil +threatened to tear me in pieces, if I named God, to fetch both +body and soul, if I once gave ear to divinity: and now 'tis too +late. Gentlemen, away, lest you perish with me. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. O, what shall we do to save<170> Faustus? + +FAUSTUS. Talk not of me, but save yourselves, and depart. + +THIRD 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 there pray for him. + +FAUSTUS. Ay, pray for me, pray for me; and what noise soever +ye hear,<171> come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Pray thou, and we will pray that God may have +mercy upon thee. + +FAUSTUS. Gentlemen, farewell: if I live till morning, I'll visit +you; if not, Faustus is gone to hell. + +ALL. Faustus, farewell. + [Exeunt SCHOLARS.--The clock strikes eleven.] + +FAUSTUS. Ah, Faustus, +Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, +And then thou must be damn'd perpetually! +Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, +That 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, +That Faustus may repent and save his soul! +O lente,<172> lente currite, noctis equi! +The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, +The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd. +O, I'll leap up to my God!--Who pulls me down?-- +See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! +One drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah, my Christ!-- +Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ! +Yet will I call on him: O, spare me, Lucifer!-- +Where is it now? 'tis gone: and see, where God +Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows! +Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me, +And hide me from the heavy wrath of God! +No, no! +Then will I headlong run into the earth: +Earth, gape! O, no, it will not harbour me! +You stars that reign'd at my nativity, +Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, +Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist. +Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud[s], +That, when you<173> vomit forth into the air, +My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths, +So that my soul may but ascend to heaven! + [The clock strikes the half-hour.] +Ah, half the hour is past! 'twill all be past anon +O God, +If thou wilt not have mercy on my soul, +Yet for Christ's sake, whose blood hath ransom'd me, +Impose some end to my incessant pain; +Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years, +A hundred thousand, and at last be sav'd! +O, no end is limited to damned souls! +Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul? +Or why is this immortal that thou hast? +Ah, Pythagoras' metempsychosis, were that true, +This soul should fly from me, and I be chang'd +Unto some brutish beast!<174> all beasts are happy, +For, when they die, +Their souls are soon dissolv'd in elements; +But mine must live still to be plagu'd in hell. +Curs'd be the parents that engender'd me! +No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer +That hath depriv'd thee of the joys of heaven. + [The clock strikes twelve.] +O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, +Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell! + [Thunder and lightning.] +O soul, be chang'd into little water-drops, +And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found! + + Enter DEVILS. + +My God, my god, look not so fierce on me! +Adders and serpents, let me breathe a while! +Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer! +I'll burn my books!--Ah, Mephistophilis! + [Exeunt DEVILS with FAUSTUS.<175>] + + Enter CHORUS. + +CHORUS. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, +And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough, +That sometime grew within this learned man. +Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall, +Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, +Only to wonder at unlawful things, +Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits +To practice more than heavenly power permits. + [Exit.] + +Terminat hora diem; terminat auctor opus. + + +<1> mate] i.e. confound, defeat. + +<2> vaunt] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "daunt." + +<3> her] All the 4tos "his." + +<4> Whereas] i.e. where. + +<5> cunning] i.e. knowledge. + +<6> now] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "more." + +<7> FAUSTUS discovered in his study] Most probably, the Chorus, +before going out, drew a curtain, and discovered Faustus sitting. +In B. Barnes's DIVILS CHARTER, 1607, we find; "SCEN. VLTIMA. +ALEXANDER VNBRACED BETWIXT TWO CARDINALLS in his study LOOKING +VPON A BOOKE, whilst a groome draweth the Curtaine." Sig. L 3. + +<8> Analytics, 'tis thou, &c.] Qy. "Analytic"? (but such +phraseology was not uncommon). + +<9> that] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "the" (the printer +having mistaken "yt" for "ye"). + +<10> Economy] So the later 4tos (with various spelling).--2to 1604 +"Oncaymaeon." + +<11> and] So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604. + +<12> Couldst] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "Wouldst." + +<13> men] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "man." + +<14> legatur] All the 4tos "legatus." + +<15> &c.] So two of the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604. + +<16> law] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "Church." + +<17> This] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "His." + +<18> Too servile] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "The deuill." + +<19> Che sera, sera] Lest it should be thought that I am wrong +in not altering the old spelling here, I may quote from Panizzi's +very critical edition of the ORLANDO FURIOSO, + "La satisfazion ci SERA pronta." C. xviii. st. 67. + +<20> scenes] "And sooner may a gulling weather-spie + By drawing forth heavens SCEANES tell certainly," &c. + Donne's FIRST SATYRE,--p. 327, ed. 1633. + +<21> tire] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "trie." + +<22> Enter WAGNER, &c.] Perhaps the proper arrangement is,-- + "Wagner! + Enter WAGNER. + Commend me to my dearest friends," &c. + +<23> treasure] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "treasury." + +<24> Jove] So again, p. 84, first col.,<See Note 59> + "Seeing Faustus hath incurr'd eternal death + By desperate thoughts against JOVE'S deity," &c.: +and I may notice that Marlowe is not singular in applying the name +JOVE to the God of Christians:-- + "Beneath our standard of JOUES powerfull sonne [i.e. Christ]". + MIR. FOR MAGISTRATES, p. 642, ed. 1610. + "But see the judgement of almightie JOUE," &c. + Id. p. 696. + "O sommo GIOVE per noi crocifisso," &c. + Pulci,--MORGANTE MAG. C. ii. st. 1. + +<25> these elements] So again, "Within the bowels of THESE +elements," &c., p. 87, first col,<See Note 90>--"THESE" being +equivalent to THE. (Not unfrequently in our old writers THESE +is little more than redundant.) + +<26> resolve] i.e. satisfy, inform. + +<27> silk] All the 4tos "skill" (and so the modern editors!). + +<28> the] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "our." + +<29> the fiery keel at Antwerp's bridge] During the blockade +of Antwerp by the Prince of Parma in 1585, "They of Antuerpe +knowing that the bridge and the Stocadoes were finished, +made a great shippe, to be a meanes to breake all this worke +of the prince of Parmaes: this great shippe was made of masons +worke within, in the manner of a vaulted caue: vpon the hatches +there were layed myll-stones, graue-stones, and others of great +weight; and within the vault were many barrels of powder, ouer +the which there were holes, and in them they had put matches, +hanging at a thred, the which burning vntill they came vnto +the thred, would fall into the powder, and so blow vp all. +And for that they could not haue any one in this shippe to +conduct it, Lanckhaer, a sea captaine of the Hollanders, being +then in Antuerpe, gaue them counsell to tye a great beame at the +end of it, to make it to keepe a straight course in the middest +of the streame. In this sort floated this shippe the fourth of +Aprill, vntill that it came vnto the bridge; where (within a +while after) the powder wrought his effect, with such violence, +as the vessell, and all that was within it, and vpon it, flew in +pieces, carrying away a part of the Stocado and of the bridge. +The marquesse of Roubay Vicont of Gant, Gaspar of Robles lord of +Billy, and the Seignior of Torchies, brother vnto the Seignior +of Bours, with many others, were presently slaine; which were +torne in pieces, and dispersed abroad, both vpon the land and vpon +the water." Grimeston's GENERALL HISTORIE OF THE NETHERLANDS, +p. 875, ed. 1609. + +<30> only] Qy. "alone"? (This line is not in the later 4tos.) + +<31> vile] Old ed. "vild": but see note ||, p. 68.--(This line +is not in the later 4tos.) + + <Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + Vile] The 8vo "Vild"; the 4to "Wild" (Both eds. a little + before, have "VILE monster, born of some infernal hag", and, + a few lines after, "To VILE and ignominious servitude":--the + fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with + their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, + and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, + where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")> + +<32> concise syllogisms] Old ed. "Consissylogismes." + +<33> cunning] i.e. knowing, skilful. + +<34> Agrippa] i.e. Cornelius Agrippa. + +<35> shadow] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "shadowes." + +<36> spirits] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "subiects." + +<37> Almain rutters] See note , p. 43. + + <Note from p. 43. (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + Almains, Rutters] Rutters are properly--German troopers + (reiter, reuter). In the third speech after the present one + this line is repeated VERBATIM: but in the first scene of + our author's FAUSTUS we have,-- + "Like ALMAIN RUTTERS with their horsemen's staves."> + +<38> have the] So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "in their." + +<39> From] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "For." + +<40> in] So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604. + +<41> renowm'd] See note ||, p. 11. + + <Note || from p. 11. (The First Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + renowmed] i.e. renowned.--So the 8vo.--The 4to "renowned." + --The form "RENOWMED" (Fr. RENOMME) occurs repeatedly + afterwards in this play, according to the 8vo. It is + occasionally found in writers posterior to Marlowe's + time. e.g. + "Of Constantines great towne RENOUM'D in vaine." + Verses to King James, prefixed to Lord Stirling's + MONARCHICKE TRAGEDIES, ed. 1607.> + +<42> Albertus'] i.e. Albertus Magnus.--The correction of I. M. +in Gent. Mag. for Jan. 1841.--All the 4tos "Albanus." + +<43> cunning] i.e. skill. + +<44> Enter two SCHOLARS] Scene, perhaps, supposed to be before +Faustus's house, as Wagner presently says, "My master is within +at dinner." + +<45> upon] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "vpon't." + +<46> speak, would] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "speake, IT would." + +<47> my dear brethren] This repetition (not found in the later 4tos) +is perhaps an error of the original compositor. + +<48> Enter FAUSTUS to conjure] The scene is supposed to be a grove; +see p. 81, last line of sec. col. + <Page 81, second column, last line: + "VALDES. Then haste thee to some solitary grove,"> + +<49> anagrammatiz'd] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "and +Agramithist." + +<50> Th' abbreviated] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "The breuiated." + +<51> erring] i.e. wandering. + +<52> surgat Mephistophilis, quod tumeraris] The later 4tos have +"surgat Mephistophilis DRAGON, quod tumeraris."--There is a +corruption here, which seems to defy emendation. For "quod +TUMERARIS," Mr. J. Crossley, of Manchester, would read (rejecting +the word "Dragon") "quod TU MANDARES" (the construction being +"quod tu mandares ut Mephistophilis appareat et surgat"): but the +"tu" does not agree with the preceding "vos."--The Revd. J. Mitford +proposes "surgat Mephistophilis, per Dragon (or Dagon) quod NUMEN +EST AERIS." + +<53> dicatus] So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "dicatis." + +<54> Re-enter Mephistophilis, &c.] According to THE HISTORY OF +DR. FAUSTUS, on which this play is founded, Faustus raises +Mephistophilis in "a thicke wood neere to Wittenberg, called +in the German tongue Spisser Wolt..... Presently, not three +fathom above his head, fell a flame in manner of a lightning, +and changed itselfe into a globe..... Suddenly the globe opened, +and sprung up in the height of a man; so burning a time, in the +end it converted to the shape of a fiery man[?] This pleasant +beast ran about the circle a great while, and, lastly, appeared +in the manner of a Gray Fryer, asking Faustus what was his +request?" Sigs. A 2, A 3, ed. 1648. Again; "After Doctor Faustus +had made his promise to the devill, in the morning betimes he +called the spirit before him, and commanded him that he should +alwayes come to him like a fryer after the order of Saint Francis, +with a bell in his hand like Saint Anthony, and to ring it once +or twice before he appeared, that he might know of his certaine +coming." Id. Sig. A 4. + +<55> came hither] So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "came +NOW hither." + +<56> accidens] So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "accident." + +<57> Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it] Compare Milton, +Par. Lost, iv. 75; + "Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell." + +<58> these] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "those." + +<59> Jove's] See note , p. 80. <i.e. Note 24> + +<60> four and twenty] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "24." + +<61> resolve] i.e. satisfy, inform. + +<62> thorough] So one of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "through." + +<63> country] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "land." + +<64> desir'd] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "desire." + +<65> Enter WAGNER, &c.] Scene, a street most probably. + +<66> pickadevaunts] i.e. beards cut to a point. + +<67> by'r lady] i.e. by our Lady. + +<68> Qui mihi discipulus] The first words of W. Lily's +AD DISCIPULOS CARMEN DE MORIBUS,-- + "Qui mihi discipulus, puer, es, cupis atque doceri, + Huc ades," &c. + +<69> staves-acre] A species of larkspur. + +<70> vermin] Which the seeds of staves-acre were used to destroy. + +<71> familiars] i.e. attendant-demons. + +<72> their] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "my." + +<73> slop] i.e. wide breeches. + +<74> vile] Old ed. "vild." See note || p. 68. + + <Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + Vile] The 8vo "Vild"; the 4to "Wild" (Both eds. a little + before, have "VILE monster, born of some infernal hag", and, + a few lines after, "To VILE and ignominious servitude":--the + fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with + their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, + and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, + where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")> + +<75> vestigiis nostris] All the 4tos "vestigias nostras." + +<76> of] So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604. + +<77> me] So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604. + +<78> he lives] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "I liue." + +<79> why] So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604. + +<80> Solamen miseris, &c.] An often-cited line of modern Latin +poetry: by whom it was written I know not. + +<81> Why] So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604. + +<82> torture] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "tortures." + +<83> Faustus] So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604. + +<84> Bill] i.e. writing, deed. + +<85> Here's fire; come, Faustus, set it on] This would not +be intelligible without the assistance of THE HISTORY OF +DR. FAUSTUS, the sixth chapter of which is headed,--"How Doctor +Faustus set his blood in a saucer on warme ashes, and writ as +followeth." Sig. B, ed. 1648. + +<86> But what is this inscription, &c.] "He [Faustus] tooke +a small penknife and prickt a veine in his left hand; and for +certainty thereupon were seen on his hand these words written, +as if they had been written with blood, O HOMO, FUGE." +THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, Sig. B, ed. 1648. + +<87> me] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "thee." + +<88> he desires] Not in any of the four 4tos. In the tract +just cited, the "3d Article" stands thus,--"That Mephostophiles +should bring him any thing, and doe for him whatsoever." Sig. A 4, +ed. 1648. A later ed. adds "he desired." Marlowe, no doubt, +followed some edition of the HISTORY in which these words, +or something equivalent to them, had been omitted by mistake. +(2to 1661, which I consider as of no authority, has "he +requireth.") + +<89> that, &c.] So all the 4tos, ungrammatically. + +<90> these] See note §, p. 80.<i.e. Note 25> + +<91> there] So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604. + +<92> are] So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "is." + +<93> fond] i.e. foolish. + +<94> What! walking, disputing, &c.] The later 4tos have "What, +SLEEPING, EATING, walking, AND disputing!" But it is evident +that this speech is not given correctly in any of the old eds. + +<95> let me have a wife, &c.] The ninth chapter of THE HISTORY +OF DR. FAUSTUS narrates "How Doctor Faustus would have married, +and how the Devill had almost killed him for it," and concludes +as follows. "It is no jesting [said Mephistophilis] with us: +hold thou that which thou hast vowed, and we will peforme as we +have promised; and more shall that, thou shalt have thy hearts +desire of what woman soever thou wilt, be she alive or dead, +and so long as thou wilt thou shalt keep her by thee.--These +words pleased Faustus wonderfull well, and repented himself that +he was so foolish to wish himselfe married, that might have any +woman in the whole city brought him at his command; the which +he practised and persevered in a long time." Sig. B 3, ed. 1648. + +<96> me] Not in 4to 1604. (This line is wanting in the later 4tos.) + +<97> no] So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604. + +<98> Saba] i.e. Sabaea--the Queen of Sheba. + +<99> iterating] i.e. reciting, repeating. + +<100> And argue of divine astrology, &c.] In THE HISTORY OF +DR. FAUSTUS, there are several tedious pages on the subject; +but our dramatist, in the dialogue which follows, has no +particular obligations to them. + +<101> erring] i.e. wandering. + +<102> freshmen's] "A Freshman, tiro, novitius." Coles's DICT. +Properly, a student during his first term at the university. + +<103> resolve] i.e. satisfy, inform. + +<104> Seek to save] Qy. "Seek THOU to save"? But see note ||, +p. 18. + + <Note ||, from page 18 (The First Part of Tamburlaine The + Great): + + Barbarous] Qy. "O Barbarous"? in the next line but one, + "O treacherous"? and in the last line of the speech, + "O bloody"? But we occasionally find in our early dramatists + lines which are defective in the first syllable; and in some + of these instances at least it would almost seem that nothing + has been omitted by the transcriber or printer.> + +<105> Enter the SEVEN DEADLY SINS] In THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, +Lucifer amuses Faustus, not by calling up the Seven Deadly Sins, +but by making various devils appear before him, "one after another, +in forme as they were in hell." "First entered Beliall in forme +of a beare," &c.--"after him came Beelzebub, in curled haire of +a horseflesh colour," &c.--"then came Astaroth, in the forme of +a worme," &c. &c. During this exhibition, "Lucifer himselfe sate +in manner of a man all hairy, but of browne colour, like a +squirrell, curled, and his tayle turning upward on his backe as +the squirrels use: I think he could crack nuts too like a +squirrell." Sig. D, ed. 1648. + +<106> case] i.e. couple. + +<107> bevers] i.e. refreshments between meals. + +<108> L.] All the 4tos "Lechery."--Here I have made the alteration +recommended by Mr. Collier in his Preface to COLERIDGE'S SEVEN +LECTURES ON SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON, p. cviii. + +<109> Away, to hell, to hell] In 4to 1604, these words stand +on a line by themselves, without a prefix. (In the later 4tos, +the corresponding passage is as follows; + "------ begins with Lechery. + LUCIFER. Away to hell, away! On, piper! [Exeunt the SINS. + FAUSTUS. O, how this sight doth delight my soul!" &c.) + +<110> I will send for thee at midnight] In THE HISTORY OF DR. +FAUSTUS, we have a particular account of Faustus's visit +to the infernal regions, Sig. D 2, ed. 1648. + +<111> Enter CHORUS] Old ed. "Enter WAGNER solus." That these +lines belong to the Chorus would be evident enough, even if we +had no assistance here from the later 4tos.--The parts of Wagner +and of the Chorus were most probably played by the same actor: +and hence the error. + +<112> Learned Faustus, + To know the secrets of astronomy, &c.] See the 21st chapter +of THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS,--"How Doctor Faustus was carried +through the ayre up to the heavens, to see the whole world, +and how the sky and planets ruled," &c. + +<113> Enter FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS] Scene, the Pope's +privy-chamber. + +<114> Trier] i.e. Treves or Triers. + +<115> From Paris next, &c.] This description is from THE HISTORY +OF DR. FAUSTUS; "He came from Paris to Mentz, where the river +of Maine falls into the Rhine: notwithstanding he tarried not +long there, but went into Campania, in the kingdome of Neapol, +in which he saw an innumerable sort of cloysters, nunries, and +churches, and great houses of stone, the streets faire and large, +and straight forth from one end of the towne to the other as a +line; and all the pavement of the city was of bricke, and the +more it rained into the towne, the fairer the streets were: +there saw he the tombe of Virgill, and the highway that he cu<t> +through the mighty hill of stone in one night, the whole length +of an English mile," &c. Sig. E 2, ed. 1648. + +<116> The way he cut, &c.] During the middle ages Virgil was +regarded as a great magician, and much was written concerning +his exploits in that capacity. The LYFE OF VIRGILIUS, however, +(see Thoms's EARLY PROSE ROMANCES, vol. ii.,) makes no mention +of the feat in question. But Petrarch speaks of it as follows. +"Non longe a Puteolis Falernus collis attollitur, famoso palmite +nobilis. Inter Falernum et mare mons est saxeus, hominum manibus +confossus, quod vulgus insulsum a Virgilio magicis cantaminibus +factum putant: ita clarorum fama hominum, non veris contenta +laudibus, saepe etiam fabulis viam facit. De quo cum me olim +Robertus regno clarus, sed praeclarus ingenio ac literis, quid +sentirem, multis astantibus, percunctatus esset, humanitate fretus +regia, qua non reges modo sed homines vicit, jocans nusquam me +legisse magicarium fuisse Virgilium respondi: quod ille severissimae +nutu frontis approbans, non illic magici sed ferri vestigia +confessus est. Sunt autem fauces excavati montis angustae sed +longissimae atque atrae: tenebrosa inter horrifica semper nox: +publicum iter in medio, mirum et religioni proximum, belli quoque +immolatum temporibus, sic vero populi vox est, et nullis unquam +latrociniis attentatum, patet: Criptam Neapolitanam dicunt, cujus +et in epistolis ad Lucilium Seneca mentionem fecit. Sub finem fusci +tramitis, ubi primo videri coelum incipit, in aggere edito, ipsius +Virgilii busta visuntur, pervetusti operis, unde haec forsan ab +illo perforati montis fluxit opinio." ITINERARIUM SYRIACUM,--OPP. +p. 560, ed. Bas. + +<117> From thence to Venice, Padua, and the rest, + In one of which a sumptuous temple stands, &c.] So the +later 4tos.--2to 1604 "In MIDST of which," &c.--THE HISTORY +OF DR. FAUSTUS shews WHAT "sumptuous temple" is meant: "From +thence he came to Venice. ...He wondred not a little at the +fairenesse of S. Marks Place, and the sumptuous church standing +thereon, called S. Marke, how all the pavement was set with +coloured stones, and all the rood or loft of the church double +gilded over." Sig. E 2, ed. 1648. + +<118> Just through the midst, &c.] This and the next line are +not in 4to 1604. I have inserted them from the later 4tos, as +being absolutely necessary for the sense. + +<119> Ponte] All the 4tos "Ponto." + +<120> of] So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604. + +<121> Then charm me, that I, &c.] A corrupted passage.--Compare +THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, Sig. E 3, ed. 1648; where, however, +the Cardinal, whom the Pope entertains, is called the Cardinal +of PAVIA. + +<122> Sonnet] Variously written, SENNET, SIGNET, SIGNATE, &c.--A +particular set of notes on the trumpet, or cornet, different from +a flourish. See Nares's GLOSS. in V. SENNET. + +<123> Enter ROBIN, &c.] Scene, near an inn. + +<124> ippocras] Or HIPPOCRAS,--a medicated drink composed of wine +(usually red) with spices and sugar. It is generally supposed to +have been so called from HIPPOCRATES (contracted by our earliest +writers to HIPPOCRAS); perhaps because it was strained,--the woollen +bag used by apothecaries to strain syrups and decoctions for +clarification being termed HIPPOCRATES' SLEEVE. + +<125> tabern] i.e. tavern. + +<126> [Exeunt. + Enter ROBIN and RALPH, &c.] A scene is evidently wanting +after the Exeunt of Robin and Ralph. + +<127> purchase] i.e. booty--gain, acquisition. + +<128> Drawer] There is an inconsistency here: the Vintner +cannot properly be addressed as "Drawer." The later 4tos are +also inconsistent in the corresponding passage: Dick says, "THE +VINTNER'S BOY follows us at the hard heels," and immediately +the "VINTNER" enters. + +<129> tone] i.e. the one. + +<130>MEPHIST. Monarch of hell, &c.] Old ed. thus:-- + + "MEPHIST. Vanish vilaines, th' one like an Ape, an other like + a Beare, the third an Asse, for doing this enterprise. + + Monarch of hell, vnder whose blacke suruey," &c. + +What follows, shews that the words which I have omitted ought +to have no place in the text; nor is there any thing equivalent +to them in the corresponding passage of the play as given in +the later 4tos. + +<131> Enter EMPEROR, &c.] Scene--An apartment in the Emperor's +Palace. According to THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, the Emperor +"was personally, with the rest of the nobles and gentlemen, at +the towne of Inzbrack, where he kept his court." Sig. G, ed. 1648. + +<132> Master Doctor Faustus, &c] The greater part of this scene +is closely borrowed from the history just cited: e.g. "Faustus, +I have heard much of thee, that thou art excellent in the black art, +and none like thee in mine empire; for men say that thou hast a +familiar spirit with thee, and that thou canst doe what thou list; +it is therefore (said the Emperor) my request of thee, that thou +let me see a proofe of thy experience: and I vow unto thee, by +the honour of my emperiall crowne, none evill shall happen unto +thee for so doing," &c. Ibid. + +<133> won] May be right: but qy. "done"? + +<134> As we that do succeed, &c.] A corrupted passage (not found +in the later 4tos). + +<135> The bright, &c.] See note ||, p. 18. + + <Note ||, from page 18 (The First Part of Tamburlaine The + Great): + + Barbarous] Qy. "O Barbarous"? in the next line but one, + "O treacherous"? and in the last line of the speech, + "O bloody"? But we occasionally find in our early dramatists + lines which are defective in the first syllable; and in + some of these instances at least it would almost seem that + nothing has been omitted by the transcriber or printer.> + +<136> But, if it like your grace, it is not in my ability, &c.] +"D. Faustus answered, My most excellent lord, I am ready to +accomplish your request in all things, so farre forth as I and +my spirit are able to performe: yet your majesty shall know that +their dead bodies are not able substantially to be brought before +you; but such spirits as have seene Alexander and his Paramour +alive shall appeare unto you, in manner and form as they both +lived in their most flourishing time; and herewith I hope to +please your Imperiall Majesty. Then Faustus went a little aside +to speake to his spirit; but he returned againe presently, saying, +Now, if it please your Majesty, you shall see them; yet, upon this +condition, that you demand no question of them, nor speake unto +them; which the Emperor agreed unto. Wherewith Doctor Faustus opened +the privy-chamber doore, where presently entered the great and mighty +emperor Alexander Magnus, in all things to looke upon as if he +had beene alive; in proportion, a strong set thicke man, of a +middle stature, blacke haire, and that both thicke and curled, +head and beard, red cheekes, and a broad face, with eyes like +a basiliske; he had a compleat harnesse [i.e. suit of armour] +burnished and graven, exceeding rich to look upon: and so, +passing towards the Emperor Carolus, he made low and reverend +courtesie: whereat the Emperour Carolus would have stood up to +receive and greet him with the like reverence; but Faustus tooke +hold on him, and would not permit him to doe it. Shortly after, +Alexander made humble reverence, and went out againe; and comming +to the doore, his paramour met him. She comming in made the Emperour +likewise reverence: she was cloathed in blew velvet, wrought and +imbroidered with pearls and gold; she was also excellent faire, +like milke and blood mixed, tall and slender, with a face round +as an apple. And thus passed [she] certaine times up and downe +the house; which the Emperor marking, said to himselfe, Now have +I seene two persons which my heart hath long wished to behold; +and sure it cannot otherwise be (said he to himselfe) but that +the spirits have changed themselves into these formes, and have +but deceived me, calling to minde the woman that raised the prophet +Samuel: and for that the Emperor would be the more satisfied in +the matter, he said, I have often heard that behind, in her neck, +she had a great wart or wen; wherefore he tooke Faustus by the +hand without any words, and went to see if it were also to be +seene on her or not; but she, perceiving that he came to her, +bowed downe her neck, when he saw a great wart; and hereupon she +vanished, leaving the Emperor and the rest well contented." +THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, Sig. G, ed. 1648. + +<137> both] Old ed. "best." + +<138> Mephistophilis, transform him straight] According to THE +HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, the knight was not present during Faustus's +"conference" with the Emperor; nor did he offer the doctor any +insult by doubting his skill in magic. We are there told that +Faustus happening to see the knight asleep, "leaning out of a +window of the great hall," fixed a huge pair of hart's horns on +his head; "and, as the knight awaked, thinking to pull in his head, +he hit his hornes against the glasse, that the panes thereof flew +about his eares: thinke here how this good gentleman was vexed, +for he could neither get backward nor forward." After the emperor +and the courtiers, to their great amusement, had beheld the poor +knight in this condition, Faustus removed the horns. When Faustus, +having taken leave of the emperor, was a league and a half from +the city, he was attacked in a wood by the knight and some of his +companions: they were in armour, and mounted on fair palfreys; +but the doctor quickly overcame them by turning all the bushes +into horsemen, and "so charmed them, that every one, knight and +other, for the space of a whole moneth, did weare a paire of +goates hornes on their browes, and every palfry a paire of oxe +hornes on his head; and this was their penance appointed by +Faustus." A second attempt of the knight to revenge himself on +Faustus proved equally unsuccessful. Sigs. G 2, I 3, ed. 1648. + +<139> FAUSTUS. Now Mephistophilis, &c.] Here the scene is supposed +to be changed to the "fair and pleasant green" which Faustus +presently mentions. + +<140> Horse-courser] i.e. Horse-dealer.--We are now to suppose the +scene to be near the home of Faustus, and presently that it is the +interior of his house, for he falls asleep in his chair.--"How +Doctor Faustus deceived a Horse-courser" is related in a short +chapter (the 34th) of THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS: "After this +manner he served a horse-courser at a faire called Pheiffering," &c. + +<141> for forty] Qy. "for TWICE forty DOLLARS"? + +<142> into] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "vnto." + +<143> Doctor Lopus] i.e. Doctor Lopez, domestic physician +to Queen Elizabeth, who was put to death for having received +a bribe from the court of Spain to destroy her. He is frequently +mentioned in our early dramas: see my note on Middleton's WORKS, +iv. 384. + +<144> know of] The old ed. has "KNOWNE of"; which perhaps is right, +meaning--acquainted with. + +<145> hey-pass] Equivalent to--juggler. + +<146> ostry] i.e. inn,--lodging. + +<147> cunning] i.e. skill. + +<148> [Exeunt. + Enter the DUKE OF VANHOLT, the DUCHESS, and FAUSTUS] Old ed.; + + "Exeunt. + Enter to them the DUKE, the DUTCHESS, the DUKE speakes." + +In the later 4tos a scene intervenes between the "Exeunt" of +Faustus, Mephistophilis, and Wagner, and the entrance of the Duke +of Vanholt, &c.--We are to suppose that Faustus is now at the court +of the Duke of Vanholt: this is plain, not only from the later 4tos, +--in which Wagner tells Faustus that the Duke "hath sent some of +his men to attend him, with provision fit for his journey,"--but +from THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, the subjoined portion of which +is closely followed in the present scene. "Chap. xxxix. HOW DOCTOR +FAUSTUS PLAYED A MERRY JEST WITH THE DUKE OF ANHOLT IN HIS COURT. +Doctor Faustus on a time went to the Duke of Anholt, who welcommed +him very courteously; this was the moneth of January; where sitting +at the table, he perceived the dutchess to be with child; and +forbearing himselfe untill the meat was taken from the table, +and that they brought in the banqueting dishes [i.e. the dessert], +Doctor Faustus said to the dutchesse, Gratious lady, I have alwayes +heard that great-bellied women doe alwayes long for some dainties; +I beseech therefore your grace, hide not your minde from me, but +tell me what you desire to eat. She answered him, Doctor Faustus, +now truly I will not hide from you what my heart doth most desire; +namely, that, if it were now harvest, I would eat my bellyfull of +grapes and other dainty fruit. Doctor Faustus answered hereupon, +Gracious lady, this is a small thing for me to doe, for I can doe +more than this. Wherefore he tooke a plate, and set open one of +the casements of the window, holding it forth; where incontinent +he had his dish full of all manner of fruit, as red and white +grapes, peares, and apples, the which came from out of strange +countries: all these he presented the dutchesse, saying, Madam, +I pray you vouchsafe to taste of this dainty fruit, the which +came from a farre countrey, for there the summer is not yet ended. +The dutchesse thanked Faustus highly, and she fell to her fruit +with full appetite. The Duke of Anholt notwithstanding could not +withhold to ask Faustus with what reason there were such young +fruit to be had at that time of the yeare. Doctor Faustus told +him, May it please your grace to understand that the year is +divided into two circles of the whole world, that when with us it +is winter, in the contrary circle it is notwithstanding summer; +for in India and Saba there falleth or setteth the sunne, so that +it is so warm that they have twice a yeare fruit; and, gracious +lord, I have a swift spirit, the which can in the twinkling of +an eye fulfill my desire in any thing; wherefore I sent him into +those countries, who hath brought this fruit as you see: whereat +the duke was in great admiration." + +<149> Saba] i.e. Sabaea. + +<150> beholding] i.e. beholden. + +<151> Enter WAGNER] Scene, a room in the house of Faustus. + +<152> he hath given to me all his goods] Compare chap. lvi. of +THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS,--"How Doctor Faustus made his will, +in which he named his servant Wagner to be his heire." + +<153> HELEN passeth over the stage] In THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR +FAUSTUS we have the following description of Helen. "This lady +appeared before them in a most rich gowne of purple velvet, costly +imbrodered; her haire hanged downe loose, as faire as the beaten +gold, and of such length that it reached downe to her hammes; +having most amorous cole-black eyes, a sweet and pleasant round +face, with lips as red as a cherry; her cheekes of a rose colour, +her mouth small, her neck white like a swan; tall and slender of +personage; in summe, there was no imperfect place in her: she +looked round about with a rolling hawkes eye, a smiling and +wanton countenance, which neere-hand inflamed the hearts of all +the students; but that they perswaded themselves she was a spirit, +which made them lightly passe away such fancies." Sig. H 4, ed. 1648. + +<154> Enter an OLD MAN] See chap. xlviii of THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR +FAUSTUS,--"How an old man, the neighbour of Faustus, sought to +perswade him to amend his evil life and to fall into repentance," +--according to which history, the Old Man's exhortation is delivered +at his own house, whither he had invited Faustus to supper. + +<155> vild] Old ed. "vild." See note ||, p. 68. + + <Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + Vile] The 8vo "Vild"; the 4to "Wild" (Both eds. a little + before, have "VILE monster, born of some infernal hag", and, + a few lines after, "To VILE and ignominious servitude":--the + fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with + their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, + and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, + where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")> + +<156> sin] Old ed. "sinnes" (This is not in the later 4tos). + +<157> almost] So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604. + +<158> now] So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604. + +<159> MEPHIST. Do it, then, quickly, &c.] After this speech, +most probably, there ought to be a stage-direction, "FAUSTUS +STABS HIS ARM, AND WRITES ON A PAPER WITH HIS BLOOD. Compare +THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, chap. xlix,--"How Doctor Faustus +wrote the second time with his owne blood, and gave it to the +Devill." + +<160> One thing, good servant, &c.] "To the end that this miserable +Faustus might fill the lust of his flesh and live in all manner +of voluptuous pleasure, it came in his mind, after he had slept +his first sleepe, and in the 23 year past of his time, that he +had a great desire to lye with faire Helena of Greece, especially +her whom he had seen and shewed unto the students at Wittenberg: +wherefore he called unto his spirit Mephostophiles, commanding him +to bring to him the faire Helena; which he also did. Whereupon he +fell in love with her, and made her his common concubine and +bed-fellow; for she was so beautifull and delightfull a peece, +that he could not be one houre from her, if he should therefore +have suffered death, she had so stoln away his heart: and, to +his seeming, in time she was with childe, whom Faustus named +Justus Faustus. The childe told Doctor Faustus many things which +were don in forraign countrys; but in the end, when Faustus lost +his life, the mother and the childe vanished away both together." +THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. I 4, ed. 1648. + +<161> Those] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "These." + +<162> Faustus, this] Qy. "This, Faustus"? + +<163> topless] i.e. not exceeded in height by any. + +<164> is] So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "be." + +<165> shalt] So all the 4tos; and so I believe Marlowe wrote, +though the grammar requires "shall." + +<166> Enter the OLD MAN] Scene, a room in the Old Man's house. +--In THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS the Old Man makes himself very +merry with the attempts of the evil powers to hurt him. "About +two dayes after that he had exhorted Faustus, as the poore man +lay in his bed, suddenly there was a mighty rumbling in the +chamber, the which he was never wont to heare, and he heard as +it had beene the groaning of a sow, which lasted long: whereupon +the good old man began to jest and mocke, and said, Oh, what a +barbarian cry is this? Oh faire bird, what foul musicke is this? +A[h], faire angell, that could not tarry two dayes in his place! +beginnest thou now to runne into a poore mans house, where thou +hast no power, and wert not able to keepe thy owne two dayes? +With these and such like words the spirit departed," &c. +Sig. I 2, ed. 1648. + +<167> Enter Faustus, &c.] Scene, a room in the house of Faustus. + +<168> cunning] i.e. knowledge, skill. + +<169> Why did not Faustus tell us of this before, &c.] "Wherefore +one of them said unto him, Ah, friend Faustus, what have you done +to conceale this matter so long from us? We would, by the helpe +of good divines and the grace of God, have brought you out of this +net, and have torne you out of the bondage and chaines of Satan; +whereas now we feare it is too late, to the utter ruine both of +your body and soule. Doctor Faustus answered, I durst never doe +it, although I often minded to settle my life [myself?] to godly +people to desire counsell and helpe; and once mine old neighbour +counselled me that I should follow his learning and leave all my +conjurations: yet, when I was minded to amend and to follow that +good mans counsell, then came the Devill and would have had me +away, as this night he is like to doe, and said, so soone as I +turned againe to God, he would dispatch me altogether." THE +HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. K 3, ed. 1648. + +<170> save] So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604. + +<171> and what noise soever ye hear, &c.] "Lastly, to knit up +my troubled oration, this is my friendly request, that you would +go to rest, and let nothing trouble you; also, if you chance heare +any noyse or rumbling about the house, be not therewith afraid, +for there shall no evill happen unto you," &c. THE HISTORY OF +DOCTOR FAUSTUS, ubi supra. + +<172> O lente, &c.] + "At si, quem malles, Cephalum complexa teneres, + Clamares, LENTE CURRITE, NOCTIS EQUI." + Ovid,--AMOR. i. xiii. 39. + +<173> That, when you, &c.] So all the old eds.; and it is certain +that awkward changes of person are sometimes found in passages +of our early poets: but qy.,-- + "That, when THEY vomit forth into the air, + My limbs may issue from THEIR smoky mouths," &c.? + +<174> and I be chang'd + Unto some brutish beast] "Now, thou Faustus, damned wretch, +how happy wert thou, if, as an unreasonable beast, thou mightest +dye without [a] soule! so shouldst thou not feele any more doubts," +&c. THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. K. ed. 1648. + +<175> Exeunt DEVILS with FAUSTUS] In THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, +his "miserable and lamentable end" is described as follows: it +took place, we are informed, at "the village called Rimlich, +halfe a mile from Wittenberg."--"The students and the other that +were there, when they had prayed for him, they wept, and so went +forth; but Faustus tarried in the hall; and when the gentlemen +were laid in bed, none of them could sleepe, for that they att<e>nded +to heare if they might be privy of his end. It happened that +betweene twelve and one a clocke at midnight, there blew a mighty +storme of winde against the house, as though it would have blowne +the foundation thereof out of his place. Hereupon the students +began to feare and goe out of their beds, comforting one another; +but they would not stirre out of the chamber; and the host of +the house ran out of doores, thinking the house would fall. The +students lay neere unto the hall wherein Doctor Faustus lay, and +they heard a mighty noyse and hissing, as if the hall had beene +full of snakes and adders. With that, the hall-doore flew open, +wherein Doctor Faustus was, that he began to cry for helpe, +saying, Murther, murther! but it came forth with halfe a voyce, +hollowly: shortly after, they heard him no more. But when it was +day, the students, that had taken no rest that night, arose and +went into the hall, in the which they left Doctor Faustus; where +notwithstanding they found not Faustus, but all the hall lay +sprinkled with blood, his braines cleaving to the wall, for the +devill had beaten him from one wall against another; in one corner +lay his eyes, in another his teeth; a pittifull and fearefull +sight to behold. Then began the students to waile and weepe for +him, and sought for his body in many places. Lastly, they came +into the yard, where they found his body lying on the horse-dung, +most monstrously torne and fearefull to behold, for his head and +all his joynts were dashed in peeces. The fore-named students and +masters that were at his death, have obtained so much, that they +buried him in the village where he was so grievously tormented. +After the which they returned to Wittenberg; and comming into the +house of Faustus, they found the servant of Faustus very sad, +unto whom they opened all the matter, who tooke it exceeding +heavily. There found they also this history of Doctor Faustus +noted and of him written, as is before declared, all save only +his end, the which was after by the students thereto annexed; +further, what his servant had noted thereof, was made in another +booke. And you have heard that he held by him in his life the +spirit of faire Helena, the which had by him one sonne, the which +he named Justus Faustus: even the same day of his death they +vanished away, both mother and sonne. The house before was so +darke that scarce any body could abide therein. The same night +Doctor Faustus appeared unto his servant lively, and shewed unto +him many secret things, the which he had done and hidden in his +lifetime. Likewise there were certaine which saw Doctor Faustus +looke out of the window by night, as they passed by the house." +Sig. K 3, ed. 1648. + +****End of E-Text**** + + +Comments on the preparation of the E-Text: + +ANGLE BRACKETS: + +Any place where angle brackets are used, i.e. < >, it is +a change made during the preparation of this E-Text. +The original printed book did not use these < > characters. + +SQUARE BRACKETS: + +The square brackets, i.e. [ ] are copied from the printed book, +without change. 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ALEXANDER DYCE. + + + + + +THE TRAGICALL HISTORY OF D. FAUSTUS. AS IT HATH BENE ACTED +BY THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARLE OF NOTTINGHAM HIS SERUANTS. +WRITTEN BY CH. MARL. + +In reprinting this edition, I have here and there amended the text +by means of the later 4tos,--1616, 1624, 1631.--Of 4to 1663, which +contains various comparatively modern alterations and additions, +I have made no use. + + + + + +DRAMATIS PERSONAE. + +THE POPE. +CARDINAL OF LORRAIN. +THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. +DUKE OF VANHOLT. +FAUSTUS. +VALDES, ] friends to FAUSTUS. +CORNELIUS, ] +WAGNER, servant to FAUSTUS. +Clown. +ROBIN. +RALPH. +Vintner. +Horse-courser. +A Knight. +An Old Man. +Scholars, Friars, and Attendants. + +DUCHESS OF VANHOLT + +LUCIFER. +BELZEBUB. +MEPHISTOPHILIS. +Good Angel. +Evil Angel. +The Seven Deadly Sins. +Devils. +Spirits in the shapes of ALEXANDER THE GREAT, of his Paramour + and of HELEN. + +Chorus. + + + + + +THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS +FROM THE QUARTO OF 1604. + + Enter CHORUS. + +CHORUS. Not marching now in fields of Thrasymene, +Where Mars did mate the Carthaginians; +Nor sporting in the dalliance of love, +In courts of kings where state is overturn'd; +Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds, +Intends our Muse to vaunt her heavenly verse: +Only this, gentlemen,--we must perform +The form of Faustus' fortunes, good or bad: +To patient judgments we appeal our plaud, +And speak for Faustus in his infancy. +Now is he born, his parents base of stock, +In Germany, within a town call'd Rhodes: +Of riper years, to Wertenberg he went, +Whereas his kinsmen chiefly brought him up. +So soon he profits in divinity, +The fruitful plot of scholarism grac'd, +That shortly he was grac'd with doctor's name, +Excelling all whose sweet delight disputes +In heavenly matters of theology; +Till swoln with cunning, of a self-conceit, +His waxen wings did mount above his reach, +And, melting, heavens conspir'd his overthrow; +For, falling to a devilish exercise, +And glutted now with learning's golden gifts, +He surfeits upon cursed necromancy; +Nothing so sweet as magic is to him, +Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss: +And this the man that in his study sits. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS discovered in his study. + +FAUSTUS. Settle thy studies, Faustus, and begin +To sound the depth of that thou wilt profess: +Having commenc'd, be a divine in shew, +Yet level at the end of every art, +And live and die in Aristotle's works. +Sweet Analytics, 'tis thou hast ravish'd me! +Bene disserere est finis logices. +Is, to dispute well, logic's chiefest end? +Affords this art no greater miracle? +Then read no more; thou hast attain'd that end: +A greater subject fitteth Faustus' wit: +Bid Economy farewell, and Galen come, +Seeing, Ubi desinit philosophus, ibi incipit medicus: +Be a physician, Faustus; heap up gold, +And be eterniz'd for some wondrous cure: +Summum bonum medicinae sanitas, +The end of physic is our body's health. +Why, Faustus, hast thou not attain'd that end? +Is not thy common talk found aphorisms? +Are not thy bills hung up as monuments, +Whereby whole cities have escap'd the plague, +And thousand desperate maladies been eas'd? +Yet art thou still but Faustus, and a man. +Couldst thou make men to live eternally, +Or, being dead, raise them to life again, +Then this profession were to be esteem'd. +Physic, farewell! Where is Justinian? + + [Reads.] +Si una eademque res legatur duobus, alter rem, +alter valorem rei, &c. + +A pretty case of paltry legacies! + + [Reads.] +Exhoereditare filium non potest pater, nisi, &c. + +Such is the subject of the institute, +And universal body of the law: +This study fits a mercenary drudge, +Who aims at nothing but external trash; +Too servile and illiberal for me. +When all is done, divinity is best: +Jerome's Bible, Faustus; view it well. + + [Reads.] +Stipendium peccati mors est. + Ha! + Stipendium, &c. + +The reward of sin is death: that's hard. + + [Reads.] +Si peccasse negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis veritas; + +If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and +there's 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! +These 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 profit and delight, +Of power, of honour, of omnipotence, +Is promis'd to the studious artizan! +All 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, +Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man; +A sound magician is a mighty god: +Here, Faustus, tire thy brains to gain a deity. + + Enter WAGNER. + +Wagner, commend me to my dearest friends, +The German Valdes and Cornelius; +Request them earnestly to visit me. + +WAGNER. I will, sir. + [Exit.] + +FAUSTUS. Their conference will be a greater help to me +Than all my labours, plod I ne'er so fast. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + +GOOD ANGEL. O, Faustus, lay that damned book aside, +And gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soul, +And heap God's heavy wrath upon thy head! +Read, read the Scriptures:--that is blasphemy. + +EVIL ANGEL. Go forward, Faustus, in that famous art +Wherein all Nature's treasure is contain'd: +Be thou on earth as Jove is in the sky, +Lord and commander of these elements. + [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 fly 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 swift Rhine circle fair 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, +And reign sole king of all the provinces; +Yea, stranger engines for the brunt of war, +Than was the fiery keel at Antwerp's bridge, +I'll make my servile spirits to invent. + + 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: +Yet 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; +Divinity is basest of the three, +Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile: +'Tis magic, magic, that hath ravish'd me. +Then, gentle friends, aid me in this attempt; +And I, that have with concise syllogisms +Gravell'd the pastors of the German church, +And made the flowering pride of Wertenberg +Swarm to my problems, as the infernal spirits +On sweet Musaeus when he came to hell, +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. +As Indian Moors obey their Spanish lords, +So shall the spirits of every element +Be always serviceable to us three; +Like lions shall they guard us when we please; +Like Almain rutters with their horsemen's staves, +Or Lapland giants, trotting by our sides; +Sometimes like women, or unwedded maids, +Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows +Than have the white breasts of the queen of love: +From Venice shall they drag huge argosies, +And from America the golden fleece +That yearly stuffs old Philip's treasury; +If learned Faustus will be resolute. + +FAUSTUS. Valdes, as resolute am I in this +As thou to live: therefore object it not. + +CORNELIUS. The miracles that magic will perform +Will make thee vow to study nothing else. +He that is grounded in astrology, +Enrich'd with tongues, well seen in minerals, +Hath all the principles magic doth require: +Then doubt not, Faustus, but to be renowm'd, +And more frequented for this mystery +Than heretofore the Delphian oracle. +The spirits tell me they can dry the sea, +And fetch the treasure of all foreign wrecks, +Ay, all the wealth that our forefathers hid +Within the massy entrails of the earth: +Then tell me, Faustus, what shall we three want? + +FAUSTUS. Nothing, Cornelius. O, this cheers my soul! +Come, shew me some demonstrations magical, +That I may conjure in some lusty grove, +And have these joys in full possession. + +VALDES. Then haste thee to some solitary grove, +And bear wise Bacon's and Albertus' works, +The Hebrew Psalter, and New Testament; +And whatsoever else is requisite +We will inform thee ere our conference cease. + +CORNELIUS. Valdes, first let him know the words of art; +And then, all other ceremonies learn'd, +Faustus may try his cunning by himself. + +VALDES. First I'll instruct thee in the rudiments, +And then wilt thou be perfecter than I. + +FAUSTUS. Then come and dine with me, and, after meat, +We'll canvass every quiddity thereof; +For, ere I sleep, I'll try what I can do: +This night I'll conjure, though I die therefore. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter two SCHOLARS. + +FIRST SCHOLAR. I wonder what's become of Faustus, that was wont +to make our schools ring with sic probo. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. That shall we know, for see, here comes his boy. + + Enter WAGNER. + +FIRST SCHOLAR. How now, sirrah! where's thy master? + +WAGNER. God in heaven knows. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Why, dost not thou know? + +WAGNER. Yes, I know; but that follows not. + +FIRST SCHOLAR. Go to, sirrah! leave your jesting, and tell us +where he is. + +WAGNER. That follows not necessary by force of argument, that you, +being licentiates, should stand upon: therefore acknowledge +your error, and be attentive. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Why, didst thou not say thou knewest? + +WAGNER. Have you any witness on't? + +FIRST SCHOLAR. Yes, sirrah, I heard you. + +WAGNER. Ask my fellow if I be a thief. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Well, you will not tell us? + +WAGNER. Yes, sir, I will tell you: yet, if you were not dunces, +you would never ask me such a question; for is not he corpus +naturale? and is not that mobile? then 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 to see you both hanged +the next sessions. Thus having triumphed over you, I will set +my countenance like a precisian, 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, my dear brethren! + [Exit.] + +FIRST SCHOLAR. Nay, then, I fear he is fallen into that damned art +for which they two are infamous through the world. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. 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. + +FIRST SCHOLAR. O, but I fear me nothing can reclaim him! + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Yet let us try what we can do. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter FAUSTUS to conjure. + +FAUSTUS. Now that the gloomy shadow of the earth, +Longing to view Orion's drizzling look, +Leaps from th' antartic 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 pray'd and sacrific'd to them. +Within this circle is Jehovah's name, +Forward and backward anagrammatiz'd, +Th' abbreviated names of holy saints, +Figures of every adjunct to the heavens, +And characters of signs and erring stars, +By which the spirits are enforc'd to rise: +Then fear not, Faustus, but be resolute, +And try the uttermost magic can perform.-- +Sint mihi dei Acherontis propitii! Valeat numen triplex Jehovoe! +Ignei, aerii, aquatani spiritus, salvete! Orientis princeps +Belzebub, inferni ardentis monarcha, et Demogorgon, propitiamus +vos, ut appareat et surgat Mephistophilis, quod tumeraris: +per Jehovam, Gehennam, et consecratam aquam quam nunc spargo, +signumque crucis quod nunc facio, et per vota nostra, ipse nunc +surgat nobis dicatus Mephistophilis! + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +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 MEPHISTOPHILIS.] + +I 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: +No, Faustus, thou art conjuror laureat, +That canst command great Mephistophilis: +Quin regis Mephistophilis fratris imagine. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS like a Franciscan friar. + +MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, what wouldst thou have me do? + +FAUSTUS. I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live, +To do whatever Faustus shall command, +Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere, +Or the ocean to overwhelm the world. + +MEPHIST. 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? + +MEPHIST. No, I came hither of mine own accord. + +FAUSTUS. Did not my conjuring speeches raise thee? speak. + +MEPHIST. That was the cause, but yet per accidens; +For, when we hear one rack the name of God, +Abjure the Scriptures and his Saviour Christ, +We fly, in hope to get his glorious soul; +Nor will we come, unless he use such means +Whereby he is in danger to be damn'd. +Therefore the shortest cut for conjuring +Is stoutly to abjure the Trinity, +And pray devoutly to the prince of hell. + +FAUSTUS. So Faustus hath +Already done; and holds this principle, +There is no chief but only Belzebub; +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! +But, leaving these vain trifles of men's souls, +Tell me what is that Lucifer thy lord? + +MEPHIST. Arch-regent and commander of all spirits. + +FAUSTUS. Was not that Lucifer an angel once? + +MEPHIST. Yes, Faustus, and most dearly lov'd of God. + +FAUSTUS. How comes it, then, that he is prince of devils? + +MEPHIST. O, by aspiring pride and insolence; +For which God threw him from the face of heaven. + +FAUSTUS. And what are you that live with Lucifer? + +MEPHIST. Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, +Conspir'd against our God with Lucifer, +And are for ever damn'd with Lucifer. + +FAUSTUS. Where are you damn'd? + +MEPHIST. In hell. + +FAUSTUS. How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell? + +MEPHIST. Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it: +Think'st 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 depriv'd 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? +Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude, +And scorn those joys thou never shalt possess. +Go bear these tidings to great Lucifer: +Seeing Faustus hath incurr'd eternal death +By desperate thoughts against Jove's deity, +Say, he surrenders up to him his soul, +So 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, +To slay mine enemies, and 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. + +MEPHIST. I will, Faustus. + [Exit.] + +FAUSTUS. 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 thorough the moving air, +To pass the ocean with a band of men; +I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore, +And make that country continent to Spain, +And both contributory to my crown: +The Emperor shall not live but by my leave, +Nor any potentate of Germany. +Now that I have obtain'd what I desir'd, +I'll live in speculation of this art, +Till Mephistophilis return again. + [Exit.] + + Enter WAGNER and CLOWN. + +WAGNER. Sirrah boy, come hither. + +CLOWN. How, boy! swowns, boy! I hope you have seen many boys +with such pickadevaunts as I have: boy, quotha! + +WAGNER. Tell me, sirrah, hast thou any comings in? + +CLOWN. Ay, and goings out too; you may see else. + +WAGNER. Alas, poor slave! see how poverty jesteth in his nakedness! +the villain is bare and 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. + +CLOWN. How! my soul to the devil for a shoulder of mutton, 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. + +WAGNER. Well, wilt thou serve me, and I'll make thee go like +Qui mihi discipulus? + +CLOWN. How, in verse? + +WAGNER. No, sirrah; in beaten silk and staves-acre. + +CLOWN. How, how, knaves-acre! ay, I thought that was all the land +his father left him. Do you hear? I would be sorry to rob you of +your living. + +WAGNER. Sirrah, I say in staves-acre. + +CLOWN. Oho, oho, staves-acre! why, then, belike, if I were your +man, I should be full of vermin. + +WAGNER. So thou shalt, whether thou beest with me or no. But, +sirrah, leave your jesting, and bind yourself presently unto me +for seven years, or I'll turn all the lice about thee into +familiars, and they shall tear thee in pieces. + +CLOWN. 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 their meat and drink. + +WAGNER. Well, do you hear, sirrah? hold, take these guilders. + [Gives money.] + +CLOWN. Gridirons! what be they? + +WAGNER. Why, French crowns. + +CLOWN. 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? + +WAGNER. Why, now, sirrah, thou art at an hour's warning, whensoever +or wheresoever the devil shall fetch thee. + +CLOWN. No, no; here, take your gridirons again. + +WAGNER. Truly, I'll none of them. + +CLOWN. Truly, but you shall. + +WAGNER. Bear witness I gave them him. + +CLOWN. Bear witness I give them you again. + +WAGNER. Well, I will cause two devils presently to fetch thee +away.--Baliol and Belcher! + +CLOWN. Let your Baliol and your Belcher come here, and I'll +knock them, they were never so knocked since they were devils: +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 devil." +So I should be called Kill-devil all the parish over. + + Enter two DEVILS; and the CLOWN runs up and down crying. + +WAGNER. Baliol and Belcher,--spirits, away! + [Exeunt DEVILS.] + +CLOWN. What, are they gone? a vengeance on them! they have vile +long nails. There was a he-devil and a she-devil: I'll tell you +how you shall know them; all he-devils has horns, and all +she-devils has clifts and cloven feet. + +WAGNER. Well, sirrah, follow me. + +CLOWN. But, do you hear? if I should serve you, would you teach +me to raise up Banios and Belcheos? + +WAGNER. I will teach thee to turn thyself to any thing, to a dog, +or a cat, or a mouse, or a rat, or any thing. + +CLOWN. 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 pretty wenches' +plackets! I'll be amongst them, i'faith. + +WAGNER. Well, sirrah, come. + +CLOWN. But, do you hear, Wagner? + +WAGNER. How!--Baliol and Belcher! + +CLOWN. O Lord! I pray, sir, let Banio and Belcher go sleep. + +WAGNER. Villain, call me Master Wagner, and let thy left eye be +diametarily fixed upon my right heel, with quasi vestigiis +nostris insistere. + [Exit.] + +CLOWN. God forgive me, he speaks Dutch fustian. Well, I'll follow +him; I'll serve him, that's flat. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS discovered in his study. + +FAUSTUS. Now, Faustus, must +Thou needs be damn'd, and canst thou not be sav'd: +What boots it, then, to think of God or heaven? +Away with such vain fancies, and despair; +Despair in God, and trust in Belzebub: +Now go not backward; no, Faustus, be resolute: +Why waver'st thou? O, something soundeth in mine ears, +"Abjure this magic, turn to God again!" +Ay, and Faustus will turn to God again. +To God? he loves thee not; +The god thou serv'st is thine own appetite, +Wherein is fix'd the love of Belzebub: +To him I'll build an altar and a church, +And offer lukewarm blood of new-born babes. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + +GOOD ANGEL. Sweet Faustus, leave that execrable art. + +FAUSTUS. Contrition, prayer, repentance--what of them? + +GOOD ANGEL. O, they are means to bring thee unto heaven! + +EVIL ANGEL. Rather illusions, fruits of lunacy, +That make men foolish that do trust them most. + +GOOD ANGEL. Sweet Faustus, think of heaven and heavenly things. + +EVIL ANGEL. No, Faustus; think of honour and of wealth. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + +FAUSTUS. Of wealth! +Why, the signiory of Embden shall be mine. +When Mephistophilis shall stand by me, +What god can hurt thee, Faustus? thou art safe +Cast no more doubts.--Come, Mephistophilis, +And bring glad tidings from great Lucifer;-- +Is't not midnight?--come, Mephistophilis, +Veni, veni, Mephistophile! + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +Now tell me what says Lucifer, thy lord? + +MEPHIST. That I shall wait on Faustus whilst he lives, +So he will buy my service with his soul. + +FAUSTUS. Already Faustus hath hazarded that for thee. + +MEPHIST. But, Faustus, thou must bequeath it solemnly, +And write a deed of gift with thine own blood; +For that security craves great Lucifer. +If thou deny it, I will back to hell. + +FAUSTUS. Stay, Mephistophilis, and tell me, what good will my soul +do thy lord? + +MEPHIST. Enlarge his kingdom. + +FAUSTUS. Is that the reason why he tempts us thus? + +MEPHIST. Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. + +FAUSTUS. Why, have you any pain that torture others! + +MEPHIST. As great as have the human souls of men. +But, tell me, Faustus, shall I have thy soul? +And I will be thy slave, and wait on thee, +And give thee more than thou hast wit to ask. + +FAUSTUS. Ay, Mephistophilis, I give it thee. + +MEPHIST. Then, Faustus, stab thine arm courageously, +And bind thy soul, that at some certain day +Great Lucifer may claim it as his own; +And then be thou as great as Lucifer. + +FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm] 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 the blood that trickles from mine arm, +And let it be propitious for my wish. + +MEPHIST. But, Faustus, thou must +Write it in manner of a deed of gift. + +FAUSTUS. Ay, so I will [Writes]. But, Mephistophilis, +My blood congeals, and I can write no more. + +MEPHIST. I'll fetch thee fire 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 HIS SOUL: ah, there it stay'd! +Why shouldst thou not? is not thy soul shine own? +Then write again, FAUSTUS GIVES TO THEE HIS SOUL. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with a chafer of coals. + +MEPHIST. Here's fire; come, Faustus, set it on. + +FAUSTUS. So, now the blood begins to clear again; +Now will I make an end immediately. + [Writes.] + +MEPHIST. O, what will not I do to obtain his soul? + [Aside.] + +FAUSTUS. Consummatum est; this bill is ended, +And Faustus hath bequeath'd 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. +My senses are deceiv'd; here's nothing writ:-- +I see it plain; here in this place is writ, +Homo, fuge: yet shall not Faustus fly. + +MEPHIST. I'll fetch him somewhat to delight his mind. + [Aside, and then exit.] + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with DEVILS, who give crowns + and rich apparel to FAUSTUS, dance, and then depart. + +FAUSTUS. Speak, Mephistophilis, what means this show? + +MEPHIST. Nothing, Faustus, but to delight thy mind withal, +And to shew thee what magic can perform. + +FAUSTUS. But may I raise up spirits when I please? + +MEPHIST. Ay, Faustus, and do greater things than these. + +FAUSTUS. Then there's enough for a thousand souls. +Here, Mephistophilis, receive this scroll, +A deed of gift of body and of soul: +But yet conditionally that thou perform +All articles prescrib'd between us both. + +MEPHIST. Faustus, I swear by hell and Lucifer +To effect all promises between us made! + +FAUSTUS. Then hear me read them. [Reads] ON THESE CONDITIONS +FOLLOWING. 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 HE DESIRES. FOURTHLY, THAT HE SHALL +BE IN HIS CHAMBER OR HOUSE INVISIBLE. LASTLY, THAT HE SHALL APPEAR +TO THE SAID JOHN FAUSTUS, AT ALL TIMES, IN WHAT FORM OR SHAPE +SOEVER HE PLEASE. I, 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, TWENTY-FOUR YEARS BEING EXPIRED, THE ARTICLES +ABOVE-WRITTEN INVIOLATE, FULL POWER TO FETCH OR CARRY THE SAID +JOHN FAUSTUS, BODY AND SOUL, FLESH, BLOOD, OR GOODS, INTO THEIR +HABITATION WHERESOEVER. BY ME, JOHN FAUSTUS. + +MEPHIST. Speak, Faustus, do you deliver this as your deed? + +FAUSTUS. Ay, take it, and the devil give thee good on't! + +MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, ask what thou wilt. + +FAUSTUS. First will I question with thee about hell. +Tell me, where is the place that men call hell? + +MEPHIST. Under the heavens. + +FAUSTUS. Ay, but whereabout? + +MEPHIST. Within the bowels of these elements, +Where we are tortur'd and remain for ever: +Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd +In one self place; for where we are is hell, +And where hell is, there must we ever be: +And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, +And every creature shall be purified, +All places shall be hell that are not heaven. + +FAUSTUS. Come, I think hell's a fable. + +MEPHIST. Ay, think so still, till experience change thy mind. + +FAUSTUS. Why, think'st thou, then, that Faustus shall be damn'd? + +MEPHIST. Ay, of necessity, for here's the scroll +Wherein thou hast given thy soul to Lucifer. + +FAUSTUS. Ay, and body too: but what of that? +Think'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. + +MEPHIST. But, Faustus, I am an instance to prove the contrary, +For I am damn'd, and am now in hell. + +FAUSTUS. How! now in hell! +Nay, an this be hell, I'll willingly be damn'd here: +What! walking, disputing, &c. +But, leaving off this, let me have a wife, +The fairest maid in Germany; +For I am wanton and lascivious, +And cannot live without a wife. + +MEPHIST. How! a wife! +I prithee, Faustus, talk not of a wife. + +FAUSTUS. Nay, sweet Mephistophilis, fetch me one, for I will have +one. + +MEPHIST. Well, thou wilt have one? Sit there till I come: I'll +fetch thee a wife in the devil's name. + [Exit.] + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with a DEVIL drest like a WOMAN, + with fire-works. + +MEPHIST. Tell me, Faustus, how dost thou like thy wife? + +FAUSTUS. A plague on her for a hot whore! + +MEPHIST. Tut, Faustus, +Marriage is but a ceremonial toy; +If thou lovest me, think no more of it. +I'll cull thee out the fairest courtezans, +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, +As wise as Saba, or as beautiful +As was bright Lucifer before his fall. +Hold, take this book, peruse it thoroughly: + [Gives book.] + +The iterating of these lines brings gold; +The framing of this circle on the ground +Brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder, and lightning; +Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thyself, +And men in armour shall appear to thee, +Ready to execute what thou desir'st. + +FAUSTUS. 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. + +MEPHIST. Here they are in this book. + [Turns to them.] + +FAUSTUS. 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. + +MEPHIST. Here they are too. + [Turns to them.] + +FAUSTUS. 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. + +MEPHIST. Here they be. + +FAUSTUS. O, thou art deceived. + +MEPHIST. Tut, I warrant thee. + [Turns to them.] + +FAUSTUS. When I behold the heavens, then I repent, +And curse thee, wicked Mephistophilis, +Because thou hast depriv'd me of those joys. + +MEPHIST. Why, Faustus, +Thinkest thou heaven is such a glorious thing? +I tell thee, 'tis not half so fair as thou, +Or any man that breathes on earth. + +FAUSTUS. How prov'st thou that? + +MEPHIST. 'Twas made for man, therefore is man more excellent. + +FAUSTUS. If it were made for man, 'twas made for me: +I will renounce this magic and repent. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + +GOOD ANGEL. Faustus, repent; yet God will pity thee. + +EVIL ANGEL. Thou 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; +Ay, God will pity me, if I repent. + +EVIL ANGEL. Ay, but Faustus never shall repent. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + +FAUSTUS. My heart's so harden'd, I cannot repent: +Scarce can I name salvation, faith, or heaven, +But fearful echoes thunder in mine ears, +"Faustus, thou art damn'd!" then swords, and knives, +Poison, guns, halters, and envenom'd steel +Are laid before me to despatch myself; +And long ere this I should have slain myself, +Had not sweet pleasure conquer'd deep despair. +Have 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? +Why should I die, then, or basely despair? +I am resolv'd; Faustus shall ne'er repent.-- +Come, Mephistophilis, let us dispute again, +And argue of divine astrology. +Tell me, are there many heavens above the moon +Are all celestial bodies but one globe, +As is the substance of this centric earth? + +MEPHIST. As are the elements, such are the spheres, +Mutually folded in each other's orb, +And, Faustus, +All jointly move upon one axletree, +Whose terminine is term'd the world's wide pole; +Nor are the names of Saturn, Mars, or Jupiter +Feign'd, but are erring stars. + +FAUSTUS. But, tell me, have they all one motion, both situ et +tempore? + +MEPHIST. All jointly move from east to west in twenty-four hours +upon the poles of the world; but differ in their motion upon +the poles of the zodiac. + +FAUSTUS. Tush, +These slender trifles Wagner can decide: +Hath Mephistophilis no greater skill? +Who knows not the double motion of the planets? +The first is finish'd 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? + +MEPHIST. Ay. + +FAUSTUS. How many heavens or spheres are there? + +MEPHIST. Nine; the seven planets, the firmament, and the empyreal +heaven. + +FAUSTUS. 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? + +MEPHIST. Per inoequalem motum respectu totius. + +FAUSTUS. Well, I am answered. Tell me who made the world? + +MEPHIST. I will not. + +FAUSTUS. Sweet Mephistophilis, tell me. + +MEPHIST. Move me not, for I will not tell thee. + +FAUSTUS. Villain, have I not bound thee to tell me any thing? + +MEPHIST. Ay, that is not against our kingdom; but this is. Think +thou on hell, Faustus, for thou art damned. + +FAUSTUS. Think, Faustus, upon God that made the world. + +MEPHIST. Remember this. + [Exit.] + +FAUSTUS. Ay, go, accursed spirit, to ugly hell! +'Tis thou hast damn'd distressed Faustus' soul. +Is't not too late? + + Re-enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + +EVIL ANGEL. Too late. + +GOOD ANGEL. Never too late, if Faustus can repent. + +EVIL ANGEL. If thou repent, devils shall tear thee in pieces. + +GOOD ANGEL. Repent, and they shall never raze thy skin. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + +FAUSTUS. Ah, Christ, my Saviour, +Seek to save distressed Faustus' soul! + + Enter LUCIFER, BELZEBUB, and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +LUCIFER. Christ cannot save thy soul, for he is just: +There's none but I have interest in the same. + +FAUSTUS. O, who art thou that look'st so terrible? + +LUCIFER. I am Lucifer, +And this is my companion-prince in hell. + +FAUSTUS. O, Faustus, they are come to fetch away thy soul! + +LUCIFER. We come to tell thee thou dost injure us; +Thou talk'st of Christ, contrary to thy promise: +Thou shouldst not think of God: think of the devil, +And of his dam too. + +FAUSTUS. Nor 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. + +LUCIFER. Do so, and we will highly gratify thee. Faustus, we are +come from hell to shew thee some pastime: sit down, and thou +shalt see all the Seven Deadly Sins appear in their proper shapes. + +FAUSTUS. That sight will be as pleasing unto me, +As Paradise was to Adam, the first day +Of his creation. + +LUCIFER. 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. + +FAUSTUS. 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 perriwig, 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. + +FAUSTUS. What art thou, the second? + +COVETOUSNESS. I am Covetousness, begotten of an old churl, in an +old leathern 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! + +FAUSTUS. 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 myself when I had nobody to fight withal. +I was born in hell; and look to it, for some of you shall be +my father. + +FAUSTUS. What art thou, the fourth? + +ENVY. 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 +shouldst see how fat I would be. But must thou sit, and I stand? +come down, with a vengeance! + +FAUSTUS. Away, envious rascal!--What art thou, the fifth? + +GLUTTONY. 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 Hogshead of Claret-wine; +my godfathers were these, Peter Pickle-herring and Martin +Martlemas-beef; O, but my godmother, she was a jolly gentlewoman, +and well-beloved 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? + +FAUSTUS. No, I'll see thee hanged: thou wilt eat up all my victuals. + +GLUTTONY. Then the devil choke thee! + +FAUSTUS. Choke thyself, glutton!--What art thou, the sixth? + +SLOTH. 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. I'll not speak another word for a king's ransom. + +FAUSTUS. 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 stock-fish; and the first letter +of my name begins with L. + +FAUSTUS. Away, to hell, to hell! + [Exeunt the SINS.] + +LUCIFER. Now, Faustus, how dost thou like this? + +FAUSTUS. O, this feeds my soul! + +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. Thou shalt; I will send for thee at midnight. +In meantime take this book; peruse it throughly, +And thou shalt turn thyself into what shape thou wilt. + +FAUSTUS. Great thanks, mighty Lucifer! +This will I keep as chary as my life. + +LUCIFER. Farewell, Faustus, and think on the devil. + +FAUSTUS. Farewell, great Lucifer. + [Exeunt LUCIFER and BELZEBUB.] + +Come, Mephistophilis. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter CHORUS. + +CHORUS. Learned Faustus, +To know the secrets of astronomy +Graven in the book of Jove's high firmament, +Did mount himself to scale Olympus' top, +Being seated in a chariot burning bright, +Drawn by the strength of yoky dragons' necks. +He now is gone to prove cosmography, +And, as I guess, will first arrive at Rome, +To see the Pope and manner of his court, +And take some part of holy Peter's feast, +That to this day is highly solemniz'd. + [Exit.] + + Enter FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +FAUSTUS. Having now, my good Mephistophilis, +Pass'd with delight the stately town of Trier, +Environ'd round with airy mountain-tops, +With walls of flint, and deep-entrenched lakes, +Not to be won by any conquering prince; +From Paris next, coasting the realm of France, +We saw the river Maine fall into Rhine, +Whose banks are set with groves of fruitful vines; +Then up to Naples, rich Campania, +Whose buildings fair and gorgeous to the eye, +The streets straight forth, and pav'd with finest brick, +Quarter the town in four equivalents: +There saw we learned Maro's golden tomb, +The way he cut, an English mile in length, +Thorough a rock of stone, in one night's space; +From thence to Venice, Padua, and the rest, +In one of which a sumptuous temple stands, +That threats the stars with her aspiring top. +Thus hitherto hath Faustus spent his time: +But tell me now what resting-place is this? +Hast thou, as erst I did command, +Conducted me within the walls of Rome? + +MEPHIST. Faustus, I have; and, because we will not be unprovided, +I have taken up his Holiness' privy-chamber for our use. + +FAUSTUS. I hope his Holiness will bid us welcome. + +MEPHIST. +Tut, 'tis no matter; man; we'll be bold with his good cheer. +And now, my Faustus, that thou mayst perceive +What Rome containeth to delight thee with, +Know that this city stands upon seven hills +That underprop the groundwork of the same: +Just through the midst runs flowing Tiber's stream +With winding banks that cut it in two parts; +Over the which four stately bridges lean, +That make safe passage to each part of Rome: +Upon the bridge call'd Ponte Angelo +Erected is a castle passing strong, +Within whose walls such store of ordnance are, +And double cannons fram'd of carved brass, +As match the days within one complete year; +Besides the gates, and high pyramides, +Which Julius Caesar brought from Africa. + +FAUSTUS. Now, by the kingdoms of infernal rule, +Of Styx, of Acheron, and the fiery lake +Of ever-burning Phlegethon, I swear +That I do long to see the monuments +And situation of bright-splendent Rome: +Come, therefore, let's away. + +MEPHIST. Nay, Faustus, stay: I know you'd fain see the Pope, +And take some part of holy Peter's feast, +Where thou shalt see a troop of bald-pate friars, +Whose summum bonum is in belly-cheer. + +FAUSTUS. Well, I'm content to compass then some sport, +And by their folly make us merriment. +Then charm me, that I +May be invisible, to do what I please, +Unseen of any whilst I stay in Rome. + [Mephistophilis charms him.] + +MEPHIST. So, Faustus; now +Do what thou wilt, thou shalt not be discern'd. + + Sound a Sonnet. Enter the POPE and the CARDINAL OF + LORRAIN to the banquet, with FRIARS attending. + +POPE. My Lord of Lorrain, will't please you draw near? + +FAUSTUS. Fall to, and the devil choke you, an you spare! + +POPE. How now! who's that which spake?--Friars, look about. + +FIRST 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 the dish.] + +POPE. How now! who's that which snatched the meat from me? will +no man look?--My lord, this dish was sent me from the Cardinal +of Florence. + +FAUSTUS. You say true; I'll ha't. + [Snatches the dish.] + +POPE. What, again!--My lord, I'll drink to your grace. + +FAUSTUS. I'll pledge your grace. + [Snatches the cup.] + +C. OF LOR. 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.--Friars, prepare a dirge to lay the fury +of this ghost.--Once again, my lord, fall to. + [The POPE crosses himself.] + +FAUSTUS. What, are you crossing of yourself? +Well, use that trick no more, I would advise you. + [The POPE crosses himself again.] + +Well, there's the second time. Aware the third; +I give you fair warning. + [The POPE crosses himself again, and FAUSTUS hits him a box + of the ear; and they all run away.] + +Come on, Mephistophilis; what shall we do? + +MEPHIST. Nay, I know not: we shall be cursed with bell, book, +and candle. + +FAUSTUS. How! bell, book, and candle,--candle, book, and bell,-- +Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell! +Anon you shall hear a hog grunt, a calf bleat, and an ass bray, +Because it is Saint Peter's holiday. + + Re-enter all the FRIARS to sing the Dirge. + +FIRST FRIAR. +Come, brethren, let's about our business with good devotion. + + They sing. + +CURSED BE HE THAT STOLE AWAY HIS HOLINESS' MEAT FROM THE +TABLE! maledicat Dominus! +CURSED BE HE THAT STRUCK HIS HOLINESS A BLOW ON THE FACE! +maledicat Dominus! +CURSED BE HE THAT TOOK FRIAR SANDELO A BLOW ON THE PATE! +maledicat Dominus! +CURSED BE HE THAT DISTURBETH OUR HOLY DIRGE! maledicat +Dominus! +CURSED BE HE THAT TOOK AWAY HIS HOLINESS' WINE! maledicat +Dominus? sic> + Et omnes Sancti! Amen! + + [MEPHISTOPHILIS and FAUSTUS beat the FRIARS, and fling + fire-works among them; and so exeunt.] + + Enter CHORUS. + +CHORUS. When Faustus had with pleasure ta'en the view +Of rarest things, and royal courts of kings, +He stay'd his course, and so returned home; +Where such as bear his absence but with grief, +I mean his friends and near'st companions, +Did gratulate his safety with kind words, +And in their conference of what befell, +Touching his journey through the world and air, +They put forth questions of astrology, +Which Faustus answer'd with such learned skill +As they admir'd and wonder'd at his wit. +Now is his fame spread forth in every land: +Amongst the rest the Emperor is one, +Carolus the Fifth, at whose palace now +Faustus is feasted 'mongst his noblemen. +What there he did, in trial of his art, +I leave untold; your eyes shall see['t] perform'd. + [Exit.] + + Enter ROBIN the Ostler, with a book in his hand. + +ROBIN. O, this is admirable! here I ha' stolen one of Doctor +Faustus' conjuring-books, and, i'faith, I mean to search some +circles for my own use. Now will I make all the maidens in our +parish dance at my pleasure, stark naked, before me; and so +by that means I shall see more than e'er I felt or saw yet. + + Enter RALPH, calling ROBIN. + +RALPH. Robin, prithee, come away; there's a gentleman tarries +to have his horse, and he would have his things rubbed and made +clean: he keeps such a chafing with my mistress about it; and +she has sent me to look thee out; prithee, come away. + +ROBIN. Keep out, keep out, or else you are blown up, you are +dismembered, Ralph: keep out, for I am about a roaring piece +of work. + +RALPH. Come, what doest thou with that same book? thou canst +not read? + +ROBIN. Yes, my master and mistress shall find that I can read, +he for his forehead, she for her private study; she's born to +bear with me, or else my art fails. + +RALPH. Why, Robin, what book is that? + +ROBIN. What book! why, the most intolerable book for conjuring +that e'er was invented by any brimstone devil. + +RALPH. Canst thou conjure with it? + +ROBIN. I can do all these things easily with it; first, I can +make thee drunk with ippocras at any tabern in Europe +for nothing; that's one of my conjuring works. + +RALPH. Our Master Parson says that's nothing. + +ROBIN. True, Ralph: and more, Ralph, if thou hast any mind to +Nan Spit, our kitchen-maid, then turn her and wind her to thy own +use, as often as thou wilt, and at midnight. + +RALPH. O, brave, Robin! shall I have Nan Spit, and to mine own +use? On that condition I'll feed thy devil with horse-bread as +long as he lives, of free cost. + +ROBIN. No more, sweet Ralph: let's go and make clean our boots, +which lie foul upon our hands, and then to our conjuring in the +devil's name. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter ROBIN and RALPH with a silver goblet. + +ROBIN. Come, Ralph: did not I tell thee, we were for ever made +by this Doctor Faustus' book? ecce, signum! here's a simple +purchase for horse-keepers: our horses shall eat no hay as +long as this lasts. + +RALPH. But, Robin, here comes the Vintner. + +ROBIN. Hush! I'll gull him supernaturally. + + Enter VINTNER. + +Drawer, I hope all is paid; God be with you!--Come, Ralph. + +VINTNER. Soft, sir; a word with you. I must yet have a goblet paid +from you, ere you go. + +ROBIN. I a goblet, Ralph, I a goblet!--I scorn you; and you are +but a, &c. I a goblet! search me. + +VINTNER. I mean so, sir, with your favour. + [Searches ROBIN.] + +ROBIN. How say you now? + +VINTNER. I must say somewhat to your fellow.--You, sir! + +RALPH. Me, sir! me, sir! search your fill. [VINTNER searches him.] +Now, sir, you may be ashamed to burden honest men with a matter +of truth. + +VINTNER. Well, tone of you hath this goblet about you. + +ROBIN. You lie, drawer, 'tis afore me [Aside].--Sirrah you, I'll +teach you to impeach honest men;--stand by;--I'll scour you for +a goblet;--stand aside you had best, I charge you in the name of +Belzebub.--Look to the goblet, Ralph [Aside to RALPH]. + +VINTNER. What mean you, sirrah? + +ROBIN. I'll tell you what I mean. [Reads from a book] Sanctobulorum +Periphrasticon--nay, I'll tickle you, Vintner.--Look to the goblet, +Ralph [Aside to RALPH].--[Reads] Polypragmos Belseborams framanto +pacostiphos tostu, Mephistophilis, &c. + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS, sets squibs at their backs, and then + exit. They run about. + +VINTNER. O, nomine Domini! what meanest thou, Robin? thou hast no +goblet. + +RALPH. Peccatum peccatorum!--Here's thy goblet, good Vintner. + [Gives the goblet to VINTNER, who exits.] + +ROBIN. Misericordia pro nobis! what shall I do? Good devil, forgive +me now, and I'll never rob thy library more. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +MEPHIST. Monarch of Hell, under whose black survey +Great potentates do kneel with awful fear, +Upon whose altars thousand souls do lie, +How am I vexed with these villains' charms? +From Constantinople am I hither come, +Only for pleasure of these damned slaves. + +ROBIN. How, from Constantinople! you have had a great journey: +will you take sixpence in your purse to pay for your supper, and +be gone? + +MEPHIST. Well, villains, for your presumption, I transform thee +into an ape, and thee into a dog; and so be gone! + [Exit.] + +ROBIN. How, into an ape! that's brave: I'll have fine sport with +the boys; I'll get nuts and apples enow. + +RALPH. And I must be a dog. + +ROBIN. I'faith, thy head will never be out of the pottage-pot. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter EMPEROR, FAUSTUS, and a KNIGHT, with ATTENDANTS. + +EMPEROR. Master Doctor Faustus, I have heard strange report +of thy knowledge in the black art, how that none in my empire +nor in the whole world can compare with thee for the rare effects +of magic: they say thou hast a familiar spirit, by whom thou canst +accomplish what thou list. This, therefore, is my request, that +thou let me see some proof of thy skill, that mine eyes may be +witnesses to confirm what mine ears have heard reported: and here +I swear to thee, by the honour of mine imperial crown, that, +whatever thou doest, thou shalt be no ways prejudiced or endamaged. + +KNIGHT. I'faith, he looks much like a conjurer. + [Aside.] + +FAUSTUS. My gracious sovereign, though I must confess myself far +inferior to the report men have published, and nothing answerable +to the honour of your imperial majesty, yet, for that love and duty +binds me thereunto, I am content to do whatsoever your majesty +shall command me. + +EMPEROR. Then, Doctor Faustus, mark what I shall say. +As I was sometime solitary set +Within my closet, sundry thoughts arose +About the honour of mine ancestors, +How they had won by prowess such exploits, +Got such riches, subdu'd so many kingdoms, +As we that do succeed, or they that shall +Hereafter possess our throne, shall +(I fear me) ne'er attain to that degree +Of high renown and great authority: +Amongst which kings is Alexander the Great, +Chief spectacle of the world's pre-eminence, +The bright shining of whose glorious acts +Lightens the world with his reflecting beams, +As when I hear but motion made of him, +It grieves my soul I never saw the man: +If, therefore, thou, by cunning of thine art, +Canst raise this man from hollow vaults below, +Where lies entomb'd this famous conqueror, +And bring with him his beauteous paramour, +Both in their right shapes, gesture, and attire +They us'd to wear during their time of life, +Thou shalt both satisfy my just desire, +And give me cause to praise thee whilst I live. + +FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, I am ready to accomplish your request, +so far forth as by art and power of my spirit I am able to perform. + +KNIGHT. I'faith, that's just nothing at all. + [Aside.] + +FAUSTUS. But, if it like your grace, it is not in my ability +to present before your eyes the true substantial bodies of those +two deceased princes, which long since are consumed to dust. + +KNIGHT. Ay, marry, Master Doctor, now there's a sign of grace in +you, when you will confess the truth. + [Aside.] + +FAUSTUS. But such spirits as can lively resemble Alexander and +his paramour shall appear before your grace, in that manner that +they both lived in, in their most flourishing estate; which +I doubt not shall sufficiently content your imperial majesty. + +EMPEROR. Go to, Master Doctor; let me see them presently. + +KNIGHT. Do you hear, Master Doctor? you bring Alexander and his +paramour before the Emperor! + +FAUSTUS. How then, sir? + +KNIGHT. I'faith, that's as true as Diana turned me to a stag. + +FAUSTUS. No, sir; but, when Actaeon died, he left the horns for +you.--Mephistophilis, be gone. + [Exit MEPHISTOPHILIS.] + +KNIGHT. Nay, an you go to conjuring, I'll be gone. + [Exit.] + +FAUSTUS. I'll meet with you anon for interrupting me so. +--Here they are, my gracious lord. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with SPIRITS in the shapes of ALEXANDER + and his PARAMOUR. + +EMPEROR. Master Doctor, I heard this lady, while she lived, had a +wart or mole in her neck: how shall I know whether it be so or no? + +FAUSTUS. Your highness may boldly go and see. + +EMPEROR. Sure, these are no spirits, but the true substantial +bodies of those two deceased princes. + [Exeunt Spirits.] + +FAUSTUS. Wilt please your highness now to send for the knight +that was so pleasant with me here of late? + +EMPEROR. One of you call him forth. + [Exit ATTENDANT.] + + Re-enter the KNIGHT with a pair of horns on his head. + +How now, sir knight! why, I had thought thou hadst been a bachelor, +but now I see thou hast a wife, that not only gives thee horns, +but makes thee wear them. Feel on thy head. + +KNIGHT. Thou damned wretch and execrable dog, +Bred in the concave of some monstrous rock, +How dar'st thou thus abuse a gentleman? +Villain, I say, undo what thou hast done! + +FAUSTUS. O, not so fast, sir! there's no haste: but, good, are +you remembered how you crossed me in my conference with the +Emperor? I think I have met with you for it. + +EMPEROR. Good Master Doctor, at my entreaty release him: he hath +done penance sufficient. + +FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, not so much for the injury he offered +me here in your presence, as to delight you with some mirth, hath +Faustus worthily requited this injurious knight; which being all +I desire, I am content to release him of his horns:--and, +sir knight, hereafter speak well of scholars.--Mephistophilis, +transform him straight. [MEPHISTOPHILIS removes the horns.] +--Now, my good lord, having done my duty, I humbly take my leave. + +EMPEROR. Farewell, Master Doctor: yet, ere you go, +Expect from me a bounteous reward. + [Exeunt EMPEROR, KNIGHT, and ATTENDANTS.] + +FAUSTUS. Now, Mephistophilis, the restless course +That time doth run with calm and silent foot, +Shortening my days and thread of vital life, +Calls for the payment of my latest years: +Therefore, sweet Mephistophilis, let us +Make haste to Wertenberg. + +MEPHIST. What, will you go on horse-back or on footFAUSTUS. Nay, till I'm past this fair and +pleasant green, +I'll walk on foot. + + Enter a HORSE-COURSER. + +HORSE-COURSER. I have been all this day seeking one Master Fustian: +mass, see where he is!--God save you, Master Doctor! + +FAUSTUS. What, horse-courser! you are well met. + +HORSE-COURSER. Do you hear, sir? I have brought you forty dollars +for your horse. + +FAUSTUS. I cannot sell him so: if thou likest him for fifty, take +him. + +HORSE-COURSER. Alas, sir, I have no more!--I pray you, speak for +me. + +MEPHIST. I pray you, let him have him: he is an honest fellow, +and he has a great charge, neither wife nor child. + +FAUSTUS. Well, come, give me your money [HORSE-COURSER gives +FAUSTUS the money]: my boy will deliver him to you. But I must +tell you one thing before you have him; ride him not into the +water, at any hand. + +HORSE-COURSER. Why, sir, will he not drink of all waters? + +FAUSTUS. O, yes, he will drink of all waters; but ride him not +into the water: ride him over hedge or ditch, or where thou wilt, +but not into the water. + +HORSE-COURSER. Well, sir.--Now am I made man for ever: I'll not +leave my horse for forty: if he had but the quality of +hey-ding-ding, hey-ding-ding, I'd make a brave living on him: +he has a buttock as slick as an eel [Aside].--Well, God b'wi'ye, +sir: your boy will deliver him me: but, hark you, sir; if my horse +be sick or ill at ease, if I bring his water to you, you'll tell +me what it is? + +FAUSTUS. Away, you villain! what, dost think I am a horse-doctor? + [Exit HORSE-COURSER.] + +What art thou, Faustus, but a man condemn'd to die? +Thy fatal time doth draw to final end; +Despair doth drive distrust into my thoughts: +Confound these passions with a quiet sleep: +Tush, Christ did call the thief upon the Cross; +Then rest thee, Faustus, quiet in conceit. + [Sleeps in his chair.] + + Re-enter HORSE-COURSER, all wet, crying. + +HORSE-COURSER. Alas, alas! Doctor Fustian, quoth a? mass, Doctor +Lopus was never such a doctor: has given me a purgation, has +purged me of forty dollars; I shall never see them more. But yet, +like an ass as I was, I would not be ruled by him, for he bade me +I should ride him into no water: now I, thinking my horse had had +some rare quality that he would not have had me know of, I, +like a venturous youth, rid him into the deep pond at the town's +end. I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse +vanished away, and I sat upon a bottle of hay, never so near +drowning in my life. But I'll seek out my doctor, and have my +forty dollars again, or I'll make it the dearest horse!--O, +yonder is his snipper-snapper.--Do you hear? you, hey-pass, +where's your master? + +MEPHIST. Why, sir, what would you? you cannot speak with him. + +HORSE-COURSER. But I will speak with him. + +MEPHIST. Why, he's fast asleep: come some other time. + +HORSE-COURSER. I'll speak with him now, or I'll break his +glass-windows about his ears. + +MEPHIST. I tell thee, he has not slept this eight nights. + +HORSE-COURSER. An he have not slept this eight weeks, I'll +speak with him. + +MEPHIST. See, where he is, fast asleep. + +HORSE-COURSER. Ay, this is he.--God save you, Master Doctor, +Master Doctor, Master Doctor Fustian! forty dollars, forty dollars +for a bottle of hay! + +MEPHIST. Why, thou seest he hears thee not. + +HORSE-COURSER. So-ho, ho! so-ho, ho! [Hollows in his ear.] No, +will you not wake? I'll make you wake ere I go. [Pulls FAUSTUS +by the leg, and pulls it away.] Alas, I am undone! what shall +I do? + +FAUSTUS. O, my leg, my leg!--Help, Mephistophilis! call the +officers.--My leg, my leg! + +MEPHIST. Come, villain, to the constable. + +HORSE-COURSER. O Lord, sir, let me go, and I'll give you forty +dollars more! + +MEPHIST. Where be they? + +HORSE-COURSER. I have none about me: come to my ostry, +and I'll give them you. + +MEPHIST. Be gone quickly. + [HORSE-COURSER runs away.] + +FAUSTUS. What, is he gone? farewell he! Faustus has his leg again, +and the Horse-courser, I take it, a bottle of hay for his labour: +well, this trick shall cost him forty dollars more. + + Enter WAGNER. + +How now, Wagner! what's the news with thee? + +WAGNER. Sir, the Duke of Vanholt doth earnestly entreat your +company. + +FAUSTUS. The Duke of Vanholt! an honourable gentleman, to whom +I must be no niggard of my cunning.--Come, Mephistophilis, +let's away to him. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter the DUKE OF VANHOLT, the DUCHESS, and FAUSTUS. + +DUKE. Believe me, Master Doctor, this merriment hath much pleased +me. + +FAUSTUS. My gracious lord, I am glad it contents you so well. +--But it may be, madam, you take no delight in this. I have heard +that great-bellied women do long for some dainties or other: what +is it, madam? tell me, and you shall have it. + +DUCHESS. Thanks, good Master Doctor: and, for I see your courteous +intent to pleasure me, I will not hide from you the thing my heart +desires; and, were it now summer, as it is January and the dead +time of the winter, I would desire no better meat than a dish +of ripe grapes. + +FAUSTUS. Alas, madam, that's nothing!--Mephistophilis, be gone. +[Exit MEPHISTOPHILIS.] Were it a greater thing than this, so it +would content you, you should have it. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with grapes. + +Here they be, madam: wilt please you taste on them? + +DUKE. Believe me, Master Doctor, this makes me wonder above the +rest, that being in the dead time of winter and in the month of +January, how you should come by these grapes. + +FAUSTUS. If it like your grace, the year is divided into two +circles over the whole world, that, when it is here winter with +us, in the contrary circle it is summer with them, as in India, +Saba, and farther countries in the east; and by means of a +swift spirit that I have, I had them brought hither, as you see. +--How do you like them, madam? be they good? + +DUCHESS. Believe me, Master Doctor, they be the best grapes that +e'er I tasted in my life before. + +FAUSTUS. I am glad they content you so, madam. + +DUKE. Come, madam, let us in, where you must well reward this +learned man for the great kindness he hath shewed to you. + +DUCHESS. And so I will, my lord; and, whilst I live, rest +beholding for this courtesy. + +FAUSTUS. I humbly thank your grace. + +DUKE. Come, Master Doctor, follow us, and receive your reward. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter WAGNER. + +WAGNER. I think my master means to die shortly, +For he hath given to me all his goods: +And yet, methinks, if that death were near, +He would not banquet, and carouse, and swill +Amongst the students, as even now he doth, +Who are at supper with such belly-cheer +As Wagner ne'er beheld in all his life. +See, where they come! belike the feast is ended. + [Exit.] + + Enter FAUSTUS with two or three SCHOLARS, and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +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 lived: therefore, Master Doctor, if you will do us +that favour, 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 unfeign'd, +And Faustus' custom is not to deny +The just requests of those that wish him well, +You shall behold that peerless dame of Greece, +No otherways for pomp and majesty +Than when Sir Paris cross'd the seas with her, +And brought the spoils to rich Dardania. +Be silent, then, for danger is in words. + [Music sounds, and HELEN passeth over the stage.] + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Too simple is my wit to tell her praise, +Whom all the world admires for majesty. + +THIRD SCHOLAR. No marvel though the angry Greeks pursu'd +With ten years' war the rape of such a queen, +Whose heavenly beauty passeth all compare. + +FIRST SCHOLAR. Since we have seen the pride of Nature's works, +And only paragon of excellence, +Let us depart; and for this glorious deed +Happy and blest be Faustus evermore! + +FAUSTUS. Gentlemen, farewell: the same I wish to you. + [Exeunt SCHOLARS.] + + Enter an OLD MAN. + +OLD MAN. Ah, Doctor Faustus, that I might prevail +To guide thy steps unto the way of life, +By which sweet path thou mayst attain the goal +That shall conduct thee to celestial rest! +Break heart, drop blood, and mingle it with tears, +Tears falling from repentant heaviness +Of thy most vile and loathsome filthiness, +The stench whereof corrupts the inward soul +With such flagitious crimes of heinous sin +As no commiseration may expel, +But mercy, Faustus, of thy Saviour sweet, +Whose blood alone must wash away thy guilt. + +FAUSTUS. Where art thou, Faustus? wretch, what hast thou done? +Damn'd art thou, Faustus, damn'd; despair and die! +Hell calls for right, and with a roaring voice +Says, "Faustus, come; thine hour is almost come;" +And Faustus now will come to do thee right. + [MEPHISTOPHILIS gives him a dagger.] + +OLD MAN. Ah, stay, good Faustus, stay thy desperate steps! +I see an angel hovers o'er thy head, +And, with a vial full of precious grace, +Offers to pour the same into thy soul: +Then call for mercy, and avoid despair. + +FAUSTUS. Ah, my sweet friend, I feel +Thy words to comfort my distressed soul! +Leave me a while to ponder on my sins. + +OLD MAN. I go, sweet Faustus; but with heavy cheer, +Fearing the ruin of thy hopeless soul. + [Exit.] + +FAUSTUS. Accursed Faustus, where is mercy now? +I do repent; and yet I do despair: +Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast: +What shall I do to shun the snares of death? + +MEPHIST. Thou traitor, Faustus, I arrest thy soul +For disobedience to my sovereign lord: +Revolt, or I'll in piece-meal tear thy flesh. + +FAUSTUS. Sweet Mephistophilis, entreat thy lord +To pardon my unjust presumption, +And with my blood again I will confirm +My former vow I made to Lucifer. + +MEPHIST. Do it, then, quickly, with unfeigned heart, +Lest greater danger do attend thy drift. + +FAUSTUS. Torment, sweet friend, that base and crooked age, +That durst dissuade me from thy Lucifer, +With greatest torments that our hell affords. + +MEPHIST. His faith is great; I cannot touch his soul; +But what I may afflict his body with +I will attempt, which is but little worth. + +FAUSTUS. One thing, good servant, let me crave of thee, +To glut the longing of my heart's desire,-- +That I might have unto my paramour +That heavenly Helen which I saw of late, +Whose sweet embracings may extinguish clean +Those thoughts that do dissuade me from my vow, +And keep mine oath I made to Lucifer. + +MEPHIST. Faustus, this, or what else thou shalt desire, +Shall be perform'd in twinkling of an eye. + + Re-enter HELEN. + +FAUSTUS. Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, +And burnt the topless towers of Ilium-- +Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.-- + [Kisses her.] +Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!-- +Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. +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 Wertenberg be sack'd; +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 fairer than the evening air +Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars; +Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter +When he appear'd to hapless Semele; +More lovely than the monarch of the sky +In wanton Arethusa's azur'd arms; +And none but thou shalt be my paramour! + [Exeunt.] + + Enter the OLD MAN. + +OLD MAN. Accursed Faustus, miserable man, +That from thy soul exclud'st the grace of heaven, +And fly'st the throne of his tribunal-seat! + + Enter DEVILS. + +Satan begins to sift me with his pride: +As in this furnace God shall try my faith, +My faith, vile hell, shall triumph over thee. +Ambitious fiends, see how the heavens smile +At your repulse, and laugh your state to scorn! +Hence, hell! for hence I fly unto my God. + [Exeunt,--on one side, DEVILS, on the other, OLD MAN.] + + Enter FAUSTUS, with SCHOLARS. + +FAUSTUS. Ah, gentlemen! + +FIRST SCHOLAR. What ails Faustus? + +FAUSTUS. Ah, my sweet chamber-fellow, had I lived with thee, +then had I lived still! but now I die eternally. Look, comes +he not? comes he not? + +SECOND SCHOLAR. What means Faustus? + +THIRD SCHOLAR. Belike he is grown into some sickness by being +over-solitary. + +FIRST SCHOLAR. If it be so, we'll have physicians to cure him. +--'Tis but a surfeit; never fear, man. + +FAUSTUS. A surfeit of deadly sin, that hath damned both body +and soul. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Yet, Faustus, look up to heaven; remember God's +mercies are infinite. + +FAUSTUS. But Faustus' offence can ne'er be pardoned: the serpent +that tempted Eve may be saved, but not Faustus. Ah, gentlemen, +hear me with patience, and tremble not at my speeches! Though +my heart pants and quivers to remember that I have been a student +here these thirty years, O, would I had never seen Wertenberg, +never read book! and what wonders I have done, all Germany can +witness, yea, all the world; for which Faustus hath lost both +Germany and the world, yea, heaven itself, heaven, the seat of +God, the throne of the blessed, the kingdom of joy; and must +remain in hell for ever, hell, ah, hell, for ever! Sweet friends, +what shall become of Faustus, being in hell for ever? + +THIRD SCHOLAR. Yet, Faustus, call on God. + +FAUSTUS. On God, whom Faustus hath abjured! on God, whom Faustus +hath blasphemed! Ah, my God, I would weep! but the devil draws in +my tears. Gush forth blood, instead of tears! yea, life and soul! +O, he stays my tongue! I would lift up my hands; but see, they +hold them, they hold them! + +ALL. Who, Faustus? + +FAUSTUS. Lucifer and Mephistophilis. Ah, gentlemen, I gave them +my soul for my cunning! + +ALL. God forbid! + +FAUSTUS. God forbade it, indeed; but Faustus hath done it: for +vain pleasure of twenty-four years hath Faustus lost eternal joy +and felicity. I writ them a bill with mine own blood: the date +is expired; the time will come, and he will fetch me. + +FIRST SCHOLAR. Why did not Faustus tell us of this before, +that divines might have prayed for thee? + +FAUSTUS. Oft have I thought to have done so; but the devil +threatened to tear me in pieces, if I named God, to fetch both +body and soul, if I once gave ear to divinity: and now 'tis too +late. Gentlemen, away, lest you perish with me. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. O, what shall we do to save Faustus? + +FAUSTUS. Talk not of me, but save yourselves, and depart. + +THIRD 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 there pray for him. + +FAUSTUS. Ay, pray for me, pray for me; and what noise soever +ye hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Pray thou, and we will pray that God may have +mercy upon thee. + +FAUSTUS. Gentlemen, farewell: if I live till morning, I'll visit +you; if not, Faustus is gone to hell. + +ALL. Faustus, farewell. + [Exeunt SCHOLARS.--The clock strikes eleven.] + +FAUSTUS. Ah, Faustus, +Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, +And then thou must be damn'd perpetually! +Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, +That 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, +That Faustus may repent and save his soul! +O lente, lente currite, noctis equi! +The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, +The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd. +O, I'll leap up to my God!--Who pulls me down?-- +See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! +One drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah, my Christ!-- +Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ! +Yet will I call on him: O, spare me, Lucifer!-- +Where is it now? 'tis gone: and see, where God +Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows! +Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me, +And hide me from the heavy wrath of God! +No, no! +Then will I headlong run into the earth: +Earth, gape! O, no, it will not harbour me! +You stars that reign'd at my nativity, +Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, +Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist. +Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud[s], +That, when you vomit forth into the air, +My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths, +So that my soul may but ascend to heaven! + [The clock strikes the half-hour.] +Ah, half the hour is past! 'twill all be past anon +O God, +If thou wilt not have mercy on my soul, +Yet for Christ's sake, whose blood hath ransom'd me, +Impose some end to my incessant pain; +Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years, +A hundred thousand, and at last be sav'd! +O, no end is limited to damned souls! +Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul? +Or why is this immortal that thou hast? +Ah, Pythagoras' metempsychosis, were that true, +This soul should fly from me, and I be chang'd +Unto some brutish beast! all beasts are happy, +For, when they die, +Their souls are soon dissolv'd in elements; +But mine must live still to be plagu'd in hell. +Curs'd be the parents that engender'd me! +No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer +That hath depriv'd thee of the joys of heaven. + [The clock strikes twelve.] +O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, +Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell! + [Thunder and lightning.] +O soul, be chang'd into little water-drops, +And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found! + + Enter DEVILS. + +My God, my god, look not so fierce on me! +Adders and serpents, let me breathe a while! +Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer! +I'll burn my books!--Ah, Mephistophilis! + [Exeunt DEVILS with FAUSTUS.] + + Enter CHORUS. + +CHORUS. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, +And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough, +That sometime grew within this learned man. +Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall, +Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, +Only to wonder at unlawful things, +Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits +To practice more than heavenly power permits. + [Exit.] + +Terminat hora diem; terminat auctor opus. + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg Etext of The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus + + + + + +Comments on the preparation of the E-Text: + +ANGLE BRACKETS: + +Any place where angle brackets are used, i.e. < >, it is +a change made during the preparation of this E-Text. +The original printed book did not use these < > characters. + +SQUARE BRACKETS: + +The square brackets, i.e. [ ] are copied from the printed book, +without change. The open [Exit brackets use in the book have +been closed [by mh]. + + +CHANGES TO THE TEXT: + +Character names were expanded. 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Printed at London for +John Wright, and are to be sold at his shop without Newgate, +1624, 4to. + +The Tragicall Historie of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. +With new Additions. Written by Ch. Mar. Printed at London for +John Wright, and are to be sold at his shop without Newgate, +1631, 4to. + +In a few places I have amended the text of this play by means of +4to 1604.--I have made no use of the comparatively modern edition, +4to 1663. + + + + + +DRAMATIS PERSONAE. + +THE POPE. +THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. +RAYMOND, king of Hungary. +DUKE OF SAXONY. +BRUNO. +DUKE OF VANHOLT. +MARTINO, > +FREDERICK, > gentlemen. +BENVOLIO, > +FAUSTUS. +VALDES, > friends to FAUSTUS. +CORNELIUS, > +WAGNER, servant to FAUSTUS. +Clown. +ROBIN. +DICK. +Vintner. +Horse-courser. +Carter. +An Old Man. +Scholars, Cardinals, ARCHBISHOP OF RHEIMS, Bishops, Monks, + Friars, Soldiers, and Attendants. + +DUCHESS OF VANHOLT. +Hostess. + +LUCIFER. +BELZEBUB. +MEPHISTOPHILIS. +Good Angel. +Evil Angel. +The Seven Deadly Sins. +Devils. +Spirits in the shapes of ALEXANDER THE GREAT, of his Paramour, + of DARIUS, and of HELEN. + +Chorus. + + + + + +THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS +FROM THE QUARTO OF 1616. + + Enter CHORUS. + +CHORUS. Not marching in the fields of Thrasymene, +Where Mars did mate the warlike Carthagens;<1> +Nor sporting in the dalliance of love, +In courts of kings where state is overturn'd; +Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds, +Intends our Muse to vaunt her<2> heavenly verse: +Only this, gentles,--we must now perform +The form of Faustus' fortunes, good or bad: +And now to patient judgments we appeal, +And speak for Faustus in his infancy. +Now is he born of parents base of stock, +In Germany, within a town call'd Rhodes: +At riper years, to Wittenberg he went, +Whereas his kinsmen chiefly brought him up. +So much he profits in divinity, +That shortly he was grac'd with doctor's name, +Excelling all, and sweetly can dispute +In th' heavenly matters of theology; +Till swoln with cunning, of<3> a self-conceit, +His waxen wings did mount above his reach, +And, melting, heavens conspir'd his overthrow; +For, falling to a devilish exercise, +And glutted now with learning's golden gifts, +He surfeits upon<4> cursed necromancy; +Nothing so sweet as magic is to him, +Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss: +And this the man that in his study sits. + [Exit.] + + FAUSTUS discovered in his study. + +FAUSTUS. Settle thy studies, Faustus, and begin +To sound the depth of that thou wilt profess: +Having commenc'd, 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 ravish'd me! +Bene disserere est finis logices. +Is, to dispute well, logic's chiefest end? +Affords this art no greater miracle? +Then read no more; thou hast attain'd that end: +A greater subject fitteth Faustus' wit: +Bid Economy farewell, and Galen come: +Be a physician, Faustus; heap up gold, +And be eterniz'd for some wondrous cure: +Summum bonum medicinoe sanitas, +The end of physic is our body's health. +Why, Faustus, hast thou not attain'd that end? +Are not thy bills hung up as monuments, +Whereby whole cities have escap'd the plague, +And thousand<5> desperate maladies been cur'd? +Yet art thou still but Faustus, and a man. +Couldst thou make men to live eternally, +Or, being dead, raise them<6> to life again, +Then this profession were to be esteem'd. +Physic, farewell! Where is Justinian? + + [Reads.] +Si una eademque res legatur<7> duobus, alter rem, +alter valorem rei, &c. + +A petty<8> case of paltry legacies! + + [Reads.] +Exhoereditare filium non potest pater, nisi, &c.<9> + +Such is the subject of the institute, +And universal body of the law: +This study fits a mercenary drudge, +Who aims at nothing but external trash; +Too servile and illiberal for me. +When all is done, divinity is best: +Jerome's Bible, Faustus; view it well. + + [Reads.] +Stipendium peccati mors est. + Ha! + Stipendium, &c. + +The reward of sin is death: that's hard. + + [Reads.] +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! +These metaphysics of magicians, +And necromantic books are heavenly; +Lines, circles, scenes, letters, and characters;<10> +Ay, these are those that Faustus most desires. +O, what a world of profit and delight, +Of power, of honour, and omnipotence, +Is promis'd to the studious artizan! +All things that move between the quiet poles +Shall be at my command: emperors and kings +Are but obeyed in their several provinces; +But his dominion that exceeds in this, +Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man; +A sound magician is a demigod: +Here tire, my brains, to gain<11> a deity. + + Enter WAGNER. + +Wagner, commend me to my dearest friends, +The German Valdes and Cornelius; +Request them earnestly to visit me. + +WAGNER. I will, sir. + [Exit.] + +FAUSTUS. Their conference will be a greater help to me +Than all my labours, plod I ne'er so fast. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + +GOOD ANGEL. O, Faustus, lay that damned book aside, +And gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soul, +And heap God's heavy wrath upon thy head! +Read, read the Scriptures:--that is blasphemy. + +EVIL ANGEL. Go forward, Faustus, in that famous art +Wherein all Nature's treasure is contain'd: +Be thou on earth as Jove is in the sky, +Lord and commander of these<12> elements. + [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<13> I will? +I'll have them fly 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 swift Rhine circle fair<14> Wertenberg; +I'll have them fill the public schools with silk,<15> +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; +Yea, stranger engines for the brunt of war, +Than was the fiery keel at Antwerp-bridge, +I'll make my servile spirits to invent. + + Enter VALDES and CORNELIUS. + +Come, German Valdes, and Cornelius, +And make me blest<16> 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; +Both law and physic are for petty wits: +'Tis magic, magic that hath ravish'd me. +Then, gentle friends, aid me in this attempt; +And I, that have with subtle syllogisms +Gravell'd the pastors of the German church, +And made the flowering pride of Wittenberg +Swarm<17> to my problems, as th' infernal spirits +On sweet Musaeus when he came to hell, +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<18> canonize us. +As Indian Moors obey their Spanish lords, +So shall the spirits of every element +Be always serviceable to us three; +Like lions shall they guard us when we please; +Like Almain rutters with their horsemen's staves, +Or Lapland giants, trotting by our sides; +Sometimes like women, or unwedded maids, +Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows +Than have<19> the white breasts of the queen of love: +>From Venice shall they<20> drag huge<21> argosies, +And from America the golden fleece +That yearly stuffs<22> old Philip's treasury; +If learned Faustus will be resolute. + +FAUSTUS. Valdes, as resolute am I in this +As thou to live: therefore object it not. + +CORNELIUS. The miracles that magic will perform +Will make thee vow to study nothing else. +He that is grounded in astrology, +Enrich'd with tongues, well seen in minerals, +Hath all the principles magic doth require: +Then doubt not, Faustus, but to be renowm'd,<23> +And more frequented for this mystery +Than heretofore the Delphian oracle. +The spirits tell me they can dry the sea, +And fetch the treasure of all foreign wrecks, +Yea, all the wealth that our forefathers hid +Within the massy entrails of the earth: +Then tell me, Faustus, what shall we three want? + +FAUSTUS. Nothing, Cornelius. O, this cheers my soul! +Come, shew me some demonstrations magical, +That I may conjure in some bushy grove, +And have these joys in full possession. + +VALDES. Then haste thee to some solitary grove, +And bear wise Bacon's and Albertus'<24> works, +The Hebrew Psalter, and New Testament; +And whatsoever else is requisite +We will inform thee ere our conference cease. + +CORNELIUS. Valdes, first let him know the words of art; +And then, all other ceremonies learn'd, +Faustus may try his cunning by himself. + +VALDES. First I'll instruct thee in the rudiments, +And then wilt thou be perfecter than I. + +FAUSTUS. Then come and dine with me, and, after meat, +We'll canvass every quiddity thereof; +For, ere I sleep, I'll try what I can do: +This night I'll conjure, though I die therefore. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter two SCHOLARS. + +FIRST SCHOLAR. I wonder what's become of Faustus, that was wont +to make our schools ring with sic probo. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. That shall we presently know; here comes his boy. + + Enter WAGNER. + +FIRST 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 he is. + +WAGNER. That follows not by force of argument, which you, being +licentiates, should stand upon: therefore acknowledge your +error, and be attentive. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Then 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 question; for is he not +corpus naturale? and is not that mobile? then 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. Thus having triumphed over you, I will set +my countenance like a precisian, 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 that which I have long suspected, +That thou art fall'n into that<25> damned art +For which they two are infamous through the world. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Were he a stranger, not allied to me, +The danger of his soul would make me mourn. +But, come, let us go and inform the Rector: +It may be his grave counsel may reclaim him.<26> + +FIRST SCHOLAR. I fear me nothing will reclaim him now. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Yet let us see what we can do. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter FAUSTUS.<27> + +FAUSTUS. Now that the gloomy shadow of the night, +Longing to view Orion's drizzling look, +Leaps from th' antartic world unto the sky, +And dims the welkin with her<28> pitchy breath, +Faustus, begin thine incantations, +And try if devils will obey thy hest, +Seeing thou hast pray'd and sacrific'd to them. +Within this circle is Jehovah's name, +Forward and backward anagrammatiz'd, +Th' abbreviated names of holy saints, +Figures of every adjunct to the heavens, +And characters of signs and erring<29> stars, +By which the spirits are enforc'd to rise: +Then fear not, Faustus, to be resolute, +And try the utmost magic can perform. + [Thunder.] +Sint mihi dii Acherontis propitii! Valeat numen triplex Jehovoe! +Ignei, aerii, aquatani spiritus, salvete! Orientis princeps +Belzebub, inferni ardentis monarcha, et Demogorgon, propitiamus +vos, ut appareat et surgat Mephistophilis Dragon, quod tumeraris:<30> +per Jehovam, Gehennam, et consecratam aquam quam nunc spargo, +signumque crucis quod nunc facio, et per vota nostra, ipse nunc +surgat nobis dicatus<31> Mephistophilis! + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +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 MEPHISTOPHILIS.] + +I 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. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS like a Franciscan friar. + +MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, what wouldst thou have me do? + +FAUSTUS. I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live, +To do whatever Faustus shall command, +Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere, +Or the ocean to overwhelm the world. + +MEPHIST. 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? + +MEPHIST. No, I came hither<32> of mine own accord. + +FAUSTUS. Did not my conjuring speeches<33> raise thee? speak! + +MEPHIST. That was the cause, but yet per accidens;<34> +For, when we hear one rack the name of God, +Abjure the Scriptures and his Saviour Christ, +We fly, in hope to get his glorious soul; +Nor will we come, unless he use such means +Whereby he is in danger to be damn'd. +Therefore 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, +There is no chief but only Belzebub; +To whom Faustus doth dedicate himself. +This word "damnation" terrifies not me, +For I confound hell in Elysium: +My ghost be with the old philosophers! +But, leaving these vain trifles of men's souls, +Tell me what is that Lucifer thy lord? + +MEPHIST. Arch-regent and commander of all spirits. + +FAUSTUS. Was not that Lucifer an angel once? + +MEPHIST. Yes, Faustus, and most dearly lov'd of God. + +FAUSTUS. How comes it, then, that he is prince of devils? + +MEPHIST. O, by aspiring pride and insolence; +For which God threw him from the face of heaven. + +FAUSTUS. And what are you that live with Lucifer? + +MEPHIST. Unhappy spirits that fell<35> with Lucifer, +Conspir'd against our God with Lucifer, +And are for ever damn'd with Lucifer. + +FAUSTUS. Where are you damn'd? + +MEPHIST. In hell. + +FAUSTUS. How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell? + +MEPHIST. Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it: +Think'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 depriv'd of everlasting bliss? +O, Faustus, leave these frivolous demands, +Which strike<36> a terror to my fainting soul! + +FAUSTUS. What, is great Mephistophilis so passionate +For being deprived of the joys of heaven? +Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude, +And scorn those joys thou never shalt possess. +Go bear these tidings to great Lucifer: +Seeing Faustus hath incurr'd eternal death +By desperate thoughts against Jove's deity, +Say, he surrenders up to him his soul, +So 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, +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. + +MEPHIST. I will, Faustus. + [Exit.] + +FAUSTUS. 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 thorough<37> the moving air, +To pass the ocean with a band of men; +I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore, +And make that country continent to Spain, +And both contributary to my crown: +The Emperor shall not live but by my leave, +Nor any potentate of Germany. +Now that I have obtain'd what I desir'd, +I'll live in speculation of this art, +Till Mephistophilis return again. + [Exit.] + + Enter WAGNER and CLOWN. + +WAGNER. Come hither, sirrah boy. + +CLOWN. Boy! O, disgrace to my person! zounds, boy in your face! +You have seen many boys with beards, I am sure. + +WAGNER. Sirrah,<38> hast thou no comings in? + +CLOWN. 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. + +CLOWN. 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? + +CLOWN. What, in verse? + +WAGNER. No, slave; in beaten silk and staves-acre. + +CLOWN. Staves-acre! that's good to kill vermin: then, 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. + +CLOWN. Nay, sir, you may save<39> yourself a labour, 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. + [Gives money.] + +CLOWN. 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. + +CLOWN. Here, take your guilders again;<40> I'll none of 'em. + +WAGNER. Not I; thou art pressed: prepare thyself, or<41> I will +presently raise up two devils to carry thee away.--Banio! Belcher! + +CLOWN. Belcher! an 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? + +CLOWN. Ay, good Wagner; take away the devil[s], then. + +WAGNER. Spirits, away! + [Exeunt DEVILS.] +Now, sirrah, follow me. + +CLOWN. I will, sir: but hark you, master; will you teach me this +conjuring occupation? + +WAGNER. Ay, sirrah, I'll teach thee to turn thyself to a dog, +or a cat, or a mouse, or a rat, or any thing. + +CLOWN. 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 diametrally fixed +upon my left heel, that thou mayst quasi vestigiis nostris<42> +insistere. + +CLOWN. Well, sir, I warrant you. + [Exeunt.] + + FAUSTUS discovered in his study. + +FAUSTUS. Now, Faustus, +Must thou needs be damn'd, canst thou not be sav'd. +What boots it, then, to think on God or heaven? +Away with such vain fancies, and despair; +Despair in God, and trust in Belzebub: +Now, go not backward,<43> Faustus; be resolute: +Why<44> waver'st thou? O, something soundeth in mine ear, +"Abjure this magic, turn to God again!" +Why, he loves thee not; +The god thou serv'st is thine own appetite, +Wherein is fix'd the love of Belzebub: +To him I'll build an altar and a church, +And offer lukewarm blood of new-born babes. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + +EVIL ANGEL. Go forward, Faustus, in that famous<45> art. + +GOOD ANGEL. Sweet Faustus, leave that execrable art. + +FAUSTUS. Contrition, prayer, repentance--what of<46> these? + +GOOD ANGEL. O, they are means to bring thee unto heaven! + +EVIL ANGEL. Rather illusions, fruits of lunacy, +That make men<47> foolish that do use them most. + +GOOD ANGEL. Sweet Faustus, think of heaven and heavenly things. + +EVIL ANGEL. No, Faustus; think of honour and of wealth. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + +FAUSTUS. Wealth! +Why, the signiory of Embden shall be mine. +When Mephistophilis shall stand by me, +What power can hurt me? Faustus, thou art safe: +Cast no more doubts.--Mephistophilis, come, +And bring glad tidings from great Lucifer;-- +Is't not midnight?--come Mephistophilis, +And bring glad tidings from great Lucifer;-- +Is't not midnight?--come Mephistophilis, +Veni, veni, Mephistophile!<48> + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +Now tell me what saith Lucifer, thy lord? + +MEPHIST. That I shall wait on Faustus whilst he lives, +So he will buy my service with his soul. + +FAUSTUS. Already Faustus hath hazarded that for thee. + +MEPHIST. But now thou must bequeath it solemnly, +And write a deed of gift with thine own 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? + +MEPHIST. Enlarge his kingdom. + +FAUSTUS. Is that the reason why he tempts us thus? + +MEPHIST. Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. + +FAUSTUS. Why, have you any pain that torture others? + +MEPHIST. As great as have the human souls of men. +But, tell me, Faustus, shall I have thy soul? +And I will be thy slave, and wait on thee, +And give thee more than thou hast wit to ask. + +FAUSTUS. Ay, Mephistophilis, I'll give it thee.<49> + +MEPHIST. Then, Faustus, stab thine<50> arm courageously, +And bind thy soul, that at some certain day +Great Lucifer may claim it as his own; +And<51> then be thou as great as Lucifer. + +FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, +Faustus hath cut his arm, and with his proper blood +Assures his 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<52> wish. + +MEPHIST. But, Faustus, +Write it in manner of a deed of gift. + +FAUSTUS. [Writing] Ay, so I do. But, Mephistophilis, +My blood congeals, and I can write no more. + +MEPHIST. I'll fetch thee fire to dissolve it straight. + [Exit.] + +FAUSTUS. What might the staying of my blood portend? +Is it<53> unwilling I should write this bill? +Why streams it not, that I may write afresh? +FAUSTUS GIVES TO THEE HIS SOUL: O, there it stay'd! +Why shouldst thou not? is not thy soul thine own? +Then write again, FAUSTUS GIVES TO THEE HIS SOUL.<54> + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with the chafer of fire. + +MEPHIST. See, Faustus, here is fire; set it on. + +FAUSTUS. So, now the blood begins to clear again; +Now will I make an<55> end immediately. + [Writes.] + +MEPHIST. What will not I do to obtain his soul? + [Aside.] + +FAUSTUS. Consummatum est; this bill is ended, +And Faustus hath bequeath'd his soul to Lucifer. +But what is this inscription on mine arm? +Homo, fuge: whither should<56> I fly? +If unto God,<57> he'll throw me down to hell. +My senses are deceiv'd; here's nothing writ:-- +O, yes, I see it plain; even here is writ, +Homo, fuge: yet shall not Faustus fly. + +MEPHIST. I'll fetch him somewhat to delight his mind. + [Aside, and then exit.] + + Enter DEVILS, giving crowns and rich apparel to FAUSTUS. + They dance, and then depart. + + Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +FAUSTUS. What means this show? speak, Mephistophilis. + +MEPHIST. Nothing, Faustus, but to delight thy mind, +And let thee see what magic can perform. + +FAUSTUS. But may I raise such spirits when I please? + +MEPHIST. Ay, Faustus, and do greater things than these. + +FAUSTUS. Then, Mephistophilis, receive this scroll,<58> +A deed of gift of body and of soul: +But yet conditionally that thou perform +All covenants and articles between us both! + +MEPHIST. Faustus, I swear by hell and Lucifer +To effect all promises between us both! + +FAUSTUS. Then hear me read it, Mephistophilis. + [Reads.] +ON THESE CONDITIONS FOLLOWING. FIRST, THAT FAUSTUS MAY BE A +SPIRIT IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE. SECONDLY, THAT MEPHISTOPHILIS +SHALL BE HIS SERVANT, AND BE BY HIM COMMANDED. THIRDLY, THAT +MEPHISTOPHILIS SHALL DO FOR HIM, AND BRING HIM WHATSOEVER HE +DESIRES.<59> FOURTHLY, THAT HE SHALL BE IN HIS CHAMBER OR HOUSE +INVISIBLE. LASTLY, THAT HE SHALL APPEAR TO THE SAID JOHN FAUSTUS, +AT ALL TIMES, IN WHAT SHAPE AND FORM SOEVER HE PLEASE. I, JOHN +FAUSTUS, OF WITTENBERG, 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, FOUR-AND- +TWENTY YEARS BEING EXPIRED, AND THESE ARTICLES ABOVE-WRITTEN +BEING INVIOLATE, FULL POWER TO FETCH OR CARRY THE SAID JOHN FAUSTUS, +BODY AND SOUL, FLESH AND<60> BLOOD, INTO THEIR HABITATION WHERESOEVER. +BY ME, JOHN FAUSTUS. + +MEPHIST. Speak, Faustus, do you deliver this as your deed? + +FAUSTUS. Ay, take it, and the devil give thee good of it! + +MEPHIST. So, now, Faustus, ask me what thou wilt. + +FAUSTUS. First I will question with<61> thee about hell. +Tell me, where is the<62> place that men call hell? + +MEPHIST. Under the heavens. + +FAUSTUS. Ay, so are all things else; but whereabouts? + +MEPHIST. Within the bowels of these elements, +Where we are tortur'd and remain for ever: +Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd +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 purified, +All places shall be hell that are<63> not heaven. + +FAUSTUS. I think hell's a fable.<64> + +MEPHIST. Ay, think so still, till experience change thy mind. + +FAUSTUS. Why, dost thou think that Faustus shall be damn'd? + +MEPHIST. Ay, of necessity, for here's the scroll +In which thou hast given thy soul to Lucifer. + +FAUSTUS. Ay, and body too; and what of that? +Think'st thou that Faustus is so fond to imagine +That, after this life, there is any pain? +No, these are trifles and mere old wives' tales. + +MEPHIST. But I am an instance to prove the contrary, +For I tell thee I am damn'd and now in hell. + +FAUSTUS. Nay, an this be hell, I'll willingly be damn'd: +What! sleeping, eating, walking, and disputing! +But, leaving this, let me have a wife, +The fairest maid in Germany; +For I am wanton and lascivious, +And cannot live without a wife. + +MEPHIST. Well, Faustus, thou shalt have a wife. + + [MEPHISTOPHILIS fetches in a WOMAN-DEVIL.] + +FAUSTUS. What sight is this? + +MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, wilt thou have a wife? + +FAUSTUS. Here's a hot whore, indeed: no, I'll no wife. + +MEPHIST. Marriage is but a ceremonial toy, +And, if thou lov'st me, think no more of it. +I'll cull thee out the fairest courtezans, +And bring them every morning to thy bed: +She whom thine<65> eye shall like, thy<66> heart shall have, +Were she as chaste as was<67> Penelope, +As wise as Saba, or as beautiful +As was bright Lucifer before his fall. +Here, take this book, peruse it well: +The iterating of these lines brings gold; +The framing of this circle on the ground +Brings thunder, whirlwinds, storm, and lightning; +Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thyself, +And men in harness<68> shall appear to thee, +Ready to execute what thou command'st. + +FAUSTUS. Thanks, Mephistophilis, for this sweet book: +This will I keep as chary as my life. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter FAUSTUS, in his study, and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +FAUSTUS. When I behold the heavens,<69> then I repent, +And curse thee, wicked Mephistophilis, +Because thou hast depriv'd me of those joys. + +MEPHIST. 'Twas thine<70> own seeking, Faustus; thank thyself. +But, think'st thou heaven is<71> such a glorious thing? +I tell thee, Faustus, it is not half so fair +As thou, or any man that breathes<72> on earth. + +FAUSTUS. How prov'st thou that? + +MEPHIST. 'Twas made for man; then he's more excellent. + +FAUSTUS. If heaven was made for man, 'twas made for me: +I will renounce this magic and repent. + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + +GOOD ANGEL. Faustus, repent; yet God will pity thee. + +EVIL ANGEL. Thou art a spirit; God cannot pity thee. + +FAUSTUS. Who buzzeth in mine ears<73> I am a spirit? +Be I a devil, yet God may pity me; +Yea, God will pity me, if I repent. + +EVIL ANGEL. Ay, but Faustus never shall repent. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + +FAUSTUS. My heart is harden'd, I cannot repent; +Scarce can I name salvation, faith, or heaven: +Swords, poisons, halters, and envenom'd steel +Are laid before me to despatch myself; +And long ere this I<74> should have done the deed, +Had not sweet pleasure conquer'd deep despair. +Have 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? +Why should I die, then, or basely despair? +I am resolv'd; Faustus shall not 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? + +MEPHIST. As are the elements, such are the heavens, +Even from the moon unto th' empyreal orb, +Mutually folded in each other's spheres, +And jointly move upon one axletree, +Whose termine<75> is term'd the world's wide pole; +Nor are the names of Saturn, Mars, or Jupiter +Feign'd, but are erring<76> stars. + +FAUSTUS. But have they all one motion, both situ et tempore? + +MEPHIST. All move from east to west in four-and-twenty +hours upon the poles of the world; but differ in their motions +upon the poles of the zodiac. + +FAUSTUS. These slender questions Wagner can decide: +Hath Mephistophilis no greater skill? +Who knows not the double motion<77> of the planets? +That the first is finish'd in a natural day; +The second thus; Saturn in thirty years; Jupiter in twelve; +Mars in four; the Sun, Venus, and Mercury in a year; the Moon +in twenty-eight days. These are freshmen's questions. But +tell me, hath every sphere a dominion or intelligentia? + +MEPHIST. Ay. + +FAUSTUS. How many heavens or spheres are there? + +MEPHIST. Nine; the seven planets, the firmament, and the empyreal +heaven. + +FAUSTUS. But is there not coelum igneum et crystallinum? + +MEPHIST. No, Faustus, they be but fables. + +FAUSTUS. Resolve me, then, in this one question; why are not +conjunctions, oppositions, aspects, eclipses, all at one time, +but in some years we have more, in some less? + +MEPHIST. Per inoequalem motum respectu totius. + +FAUSTUS. Well, I am answered. Now tell me who made the world? + +MEPHIST. I will not. + +FAUSTUS. Sweet Mephistophilis, tell me. + +MEPHIST. Move me not, Faustus. + +FAUSTUS. Villain, have I not bound thee to tell me any thing? + +MEPHIST. Ay,<78> that is not against our kingdom; this is. +Thou art damned; think thou of hell. + +FAUSTUS. Think, Faustus, upon God that made the world. + +MEPHIST. Remember this. + [Exit.] + +FAUSTUS. Ay, go, accursed spirit, to ugly hell! +'Tis thou hast damn'd distressed Faustus' soul. +Is't not too late? + + Re-enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL. + +EVIL ANGEL. Too late. + +GOOD ANGEL. Never too late, if Faustus will repent. + +EVIL ANGEL. If thou repent, devils will tear thee in pieces. + +GOOD ANGEL. Repent, and they shall never raze thy skin. + [Exeunt ANGELS.] + +FAUSTUS. O Christ, my Saviour, my Saviour +Help to save distressed Faustus' soul! + + Enter LUCIFER, BELZEBUB, and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +LUCIFER. Christ cannot save thy soul, for he is just: +There'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! + +BELZEBUB. We are come to tell thee thou dost injure us. + +LUCIFER. Thou call'st of Christ, contrary to thy promise. + +BELZEBUB. Thou shouldst not think on God. + +LUCIFER. Think of the devil. + +BELZEBUB. And his dam too. + +FAUSTUS. Nor will Faustus henceforth: pardon him for this, +And Faustus vows never to look to heaven. + +LUCIFER. So shalt thou shew thyself an obedient servant, +And we will highly gratify thee for it. + +BELZEBUB. Faustus, we are come from hell in person to shew thee +some pastime: sit down, and thou shalt behold the Seven Deadly +Sins appear to thee in their own proper shapes and likeness. + +FAUSTUS. That sight will be as pleasant unto me, +As Paradise was to Adam the first day +Of his creation. + +LUCIFER. Talk not of Paradise or creation; but mark the show.-- +Go, Mephistophilis, and<79> fetch them in. + + MEPHISTOPHILIS brings in the SEVEN DEADLY SINS. + +BELZEBUB. Now, Faustus, question them of their names and +dispositions. + +FAUSTUS. That shall I soon.--What art thou, the<80> 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 perriwig, I sit upon her brow; next, like a necklace, I hang +about her neck; then, like a fan of feathers, I kiss her lips;<81> +and then, turning myself to a wrought smock, do what I list. +But, fie, 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. Thou art a proud knave, indeed.--What art thou, the 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! + +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 +shouldst 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<82> up and down the world with this<83> case of +rapiers, wounding myself when I could get none to fight withal. +I was born in hell; and look to it, for some of you shall be my +father. + +FAUSTUS. And what art thou, the fifth? + +GLUTTONY. I am Gluttony. My parents are all dead, and the devil +a penny they have left me, but a small pension, and that buys me +thirty meals a-day and ten bevers,--a small trifle to suffice +nature. I come<84> of a royal pedigree: my father was a Gammon +of Bacon, my mother was a Hogshead of Claret-wine; my godfathers +were these, Peter Pickled-herring and Martin Martlemas-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. Then the devil choke thee! + +FAUSTUS. Choke thyself, glutton!--What art thou, the sixth? + +SLOTH. Heigho! I am Sloth. I was begotten on a sunny bank. +Heigho! 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,<85> sir? I am one that loves an inch of raw +mutton better than an ell of fried stock-fish; and the first +letter of my name begins with L.<86> + +LUCIFER. Away to hell, away! On, piper! + [Exeunt the SINS.] + +FAUSTUS. O, how this sight doth delight my soul! + +LUCIFER. Tut,<87> Faustus, in hell is all manner of delight. + +FAUSTUS. O, might I see hell, and return again safe, +How happy were I then! + +LUCIFER. Faustus, thou shalt; at midnight I will send for thee. +Meanwhile peruse this book and view it throughly, +And thou shalt turn thyself into what shape thou wilt. + +FAUSTUS. Thanks, mighty Lucifer! +This will I keep as chary as my life. + +LUCIFER. Now, Faustus, farewell. + +FAUSTUS. Farewell, great Lucifer. + [Exeunt LUCIFER and BELZEBUB.] + +Come, Mephistophilis. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter ROBIN,<88> with a book. + +ROBIN. What, Dick! look to the horses there, till I come again. +I have gotten one of Doctor Faustus' 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. I walk the horses! I scorn't, faith:<89> I have other +matters in hand: let the horses walk themselves, an they will.-- + [Reads.] +A per se, a; t, h, e, the; o per se, o; Demy orgon gorgon.-- +Keep further from me, O thou illiterate and unlearned hostler! + +DICK. 'Snails, what hast thou got there? a book! why, thou canst +not tell<90> ne'er a word on't. + +ROBIN. That thou shalt see presently: keep out of the circle, +I say, lest I send you into the ostry with a vengeance. + +DICK. That'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<91> pair of horns on's head as +e'er thou sawest in thy life. + +DICK. Thou need'st<92> not do that, for my mistress hath done it. + +ROBIN. Ay, there be of us here that have waded as deep into +matters as other men, if they were disposed to talk. + +DICK. A plague take you! I thought you did not sneak up and down +after her for nothing. But, I prithee, tell me in good sadness, +Robin, is that a conjuring-book? + +ROBIN. Do but speak what thou'lt have me to do, and I'll do't: +if thou'lt dance naked, put off thy clothes, and I'll conjure +thee about presently; or, if thou'lt go but to the tavern with +me, I'll give thee white wine, red wine, claret-wine, sack, +muscadine, malmsey, and whippincrust, hold, belly, hold;<93> and +we'll not pay one penny for it. + +DICK. 0, brave! Prithee,<94> let's to it presently, for I am as +dry as a dog. + +ROBIN. Come, then, let's away. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter CHORUS. + +CHORUS. Learned Faustus, +To find the secrets of astronomy +Graven in the book of Jove's high firmament, +Did mount him<95> up to scale Olympus' top; +Where, sitting in a chariot burning bright, +Drawn by the strength of yoked dragons' necks, +He views<96> the clouds, the planets, and the stars, +The 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<97> circumference, +Within the concave compass of the pole, +>From east to west his dragons swiftly glide, +And in eight days did bring him home again. +Not long he stay'd within his quiet house, +To rest his bones after his weary toil; +But new exploits do hale him out again: +And, mounted then upon a dragon's back, +That with his wings did part the subtle air, +He now is gone to prove cosmography, +That measures coasts and kingdoms of the earth; +And, as I guess, will first arrive at Rome, +To see the Pope and manner of his court, +And take some part of holy Peter's feast, +The which this day is highly solemniz'd. + [Exit.] + + Enter FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +FAUSTUS. Having now, my good Mephistophilis, +Pass'd with delight the stately town of Trier, +Environ'd round<98> with airy mountain-tops, +With walls of flint, and deep-entrenched lakes, +Not to be won by any conquering prince; +>From Paris next, coasting the realm of France, +We saw the river Maine fall into Rhine,<99> +Whose banks are set with groves of fruitful vines; +Then up to<100> Naples, rich Campania, +Whose buildings fair and gorgeous to the eye, +The streets straight forth, and pav'd with finest brick, +Quarter the town in four equivalents:<101> +There saw we learned Maro's golden tomb; +The way he cut, an English mile in length, +Thorough<102> a rock of stone, in one night's space; +>From thence to Venice, Padua, and the rest,<103> +In one of which a sumptuous temple stands, +That threats the stars with her aspiring top, +Whose frame is pav'd with sundry-colour'd stones, +And roof'd aloft with curious work in gold. +Thus hitherto hath Faustus spent his time: +But tell me<104> now, what resting-place is this? +Hast thou, as erst I did command, +Conducted me within the walls of Rome? + +MEPHIST. I have, my Faustus; and, for proof thereof, +This 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<105> welcome. + +MEPHIST. All's one, for we'll be bold with his venison. +But now, my Faustus, that thou mayst perceive +What Rome contains for to delight thine eyes, +Know that this city stands upon seven hills +That underprop the groundwork of the same: +Just through<106> the midst runs flowing Tiber's stream, +With winding banks that cut it in two parts; +Over the which two stately bridges lean, +That make safe passage to each part of Rome: +Upon the bridge call'd Ponte<107> Angelo +Erected is a castle passing strong, +Where thou shalt see such store of ordnance, +As that the double cannons, forg'd of brass, +Do match<108> the number of the days contain'd +Within the compass of one complete year; +Beside the gates, and high pyramides, +That Julius Caesar brought from Africa. + +FAUSTUS. Now, by the kingdoms of infernal rule, +Of Styx, of Acheron, and the fiery lake +Of ever-burning Phlegethon, I swear +That I do long to see the<109> monuments +And situation of bright-splendent Rome: +Come, therefore, let's away. + +MEPHIST. Nay, stay, my Faustus: I know you'd see the Pope, +And take some part of holy Peter's feast, +The which, in state and<110> high solemnity, +This day, is held through Rome and Italy, +In honour of the Pope's triumphant victory. + +FAUSTUS. Sweet Mephistophilis, thou pleasest me. +Whilst I am here on earth, let me be cloy'd +With all things that delight the heart of man: +My four-and-twenty years of liberty +I'll spend in pleasure and in dalliance, +That Faustus' name, whilst<111> this bright frame doth stand, +May be admir'd thorough<112> the furthest land. + +MEPHIST. 'Tis well said, Faustus. Come, then, stand by me, +And thou shalt see them come immediately. + +FAUSTUS. Nay, stay, my gentle Mephistophilis, +And grant me my<113> request, and then I go. +Thou know'st, within the compass of eight days +We view'd the face of heaven, of earth, and hell; +So high our dragons soar'd into the air, +That, looking down, the earth appear'd to me +No bigger than my hand in quantity; +There did we view the kingdoms of the world, +And what might please mine eye I there beheld. +Then in this show let me an actor be, +That this proud Pope may Faustus' cunning<114> see. + +MEPHIST. Let it be so, my Faustus. But, first, stay, +And view their triumphs as they pass this way; +And then devise what best contents thy mind, +By cunning in thine art to cross the Pope, +Or dash the pride of this<115> solemnity; +To make his monks and abbots stand like apes, +And point like antics at<116> his triple crown; +To beat the beads about the friars' pates, +Or clap huge horns upon the Cardinals' heads; +Or any villany thou canst devise; +And I'll perform it,<117> Faustus. Hark! they come: +This day shall make thee be admir'd in Rome. + + Enter the CARDINALS and BISHOPS, some bearing crosiers, some + the pillars; MONKS and FRIARS, singing their procession; + then the POPE, RAYMOND king of Hungary, the ARCHBISHOP + OF RHEIMS, BRUNO led in chains, and ATTENDANTS. + +POPE. Cast down our footstool. + +RAYMOND. Saxon Bruno, stoop, +Whilst on thy back his Holiness ascends +Saint Peter's chair and state pontifical. + +BRUNO. Proud Lucifer, that state belongs to me; +But thus I fall to Peter, not to thee. + +POPE. To me and Peter shalt thou grovelling 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 flourish while he ascends.] +Thus, 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.<118>-- +Lord Cardinals of France and Padua, +Go forthwith to our<119> holy consistory, +And read, amongst the statutes decretal, +What, by the holy council held at Trent, +The sacred synod hath decreed for him +That doth assume the Papal government +Without election and a true consent: +Away, and bring us word with speed. + +CARDINAL OF FRANCE. We go, my lord. + [Exeunt CARDINALS of France and Padua.] + +POPE. Lord Raymond. + [They converse in dumb show.] + +FAUSTUS. Go, haste 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 +Thyself and I may parley with this<120> Pope, +This 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. + +MEPHIST. Faustus, I go. + +FAUSTUS. Despatch it soon: +The Pope shall curse, that Faustus came to Rome. + [Exeunt FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS.] + +BRUNO. Pope Adrian, let me have right<121> of law: +I was elected by the Emperor. + +POPE. We will depose the Emperor for that deed, +And curse the people that submit to him: +Both he and thou shall<122> stand excommunicate, +And interdict from church's privilege +And all society of holy men. +He grows too proud in his authority, +Lifting his lofty 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, +Adding this golden sentence to our praise, +"That Peter's heirs should tread on Emperors, +And walk upon the dreadful adder's back, +Treading the lion and the dragon down, +And fearless spurn the killing basilisk," +So will we quell that haughty schismatic, +And, by authority apostolical, +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 rights, +And therefore none of his decrees can stand. +Is not all power on earth bestow'd on us? +And therefore, though we would, we cannot err. +Behold this silver belt, whereto is fix'd +Seven golden seals, fast sealed with seven seals, +In token of our seven-fold power from heaven, +To bind or loose, lock fast, condemn or judge, +Resign or seal, or what so pleaseth us: +Then 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. + + Re-enter FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS, in the shapes of the + CARDINALS of France and Padua. + +MEPHIST. Now tell me, Faustus, are we not fitted well? + +FAUSTUS. Yes, Mephistophilis; and two such cardinals +Ne'er serv'd a holy Pope as we shall do. +But, whilst they sleep within the consistory, +Let us salute his reverend fatherhood. + +RAYMOND. Behold, my lord, the Cardinals are return'd. + +POPE. Welcome, grave fathers: answer presently +What hath<123> 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<124> +Of priests and prelates, it is thus decreed,-- +That Bruno and the German Emperor +Be held as Lollards and bold schismatics, +And proud disturbers of the church's peace; +And if that Bruno, by his own assent, +Without enforcement of the German peers, +Did seek to wear the triple diadem, +And by your death to climb Saint Peter's chair, +The statutes decretal have thus decreed,-- +He shall be straight condemn'd of heresy, +And on a pile of faggots burnt to death. + +POPE. It is enough. Here, take him to your charge, +And bear him straight to Ponte<125> Angelo, +And in the strongest tower enclose him fast. +To-morrow, sitting in our consistory, +With all our college of grave cardinals, +We will determine of his life or death. +Here, take his<126> triple crown along with you, +And leave it in the church's treasury. +Make haste again, my good Lord Cardinals, +And take our blessing apostolical. + +MEPHIST. So, so; was never devil thus bless'd before. + +FAUSTUS. Away, sweet Mephistophilis, be gone; +The Cardinals will be plagu'd for this anon. + [Exeunt FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS with BRUNO.] + +POPE. Go presently and bring a banquet forth, +That we may solemnize Saint Peter's feast, +And with Lord Raymond, King of Hungary, +Drink to our late and happy victory. + + A Sennet<127> while the banquet is brought in; and then enter + FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS in their own shapes. + +MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, come, prepare thyself for mirth: +The sleepy Cardinals are hard at hand, +To censure Bruno, that is posted hence, +And on a proud-pac'd steed, as swift as thought, +Flies o'er the Alps to fruitful Germany, +There to salute the woful Emperor. + +FAUSTUS. The Pope will curse them for their sloth to-day, +That slept both Bruno and his crown away. +But now, that Faustus may delight his mind, +And by their folly make some merriment, +Sweet Mephistophilis, so charm me here, +That I may walk invisible to all, +And do whate'er I please, unseen of any. + +MEPHIST. Faustus, thou shalt: then kneel down presently, +Whilst on thy head I lay my hand, +And charm thee with this magic wand. +First, wear this girdle; then appear +Invisible to all are here: +The planets seven, the gloomy air, +Hell, and the Furies' forked hair, +Pluto's blue fire, and Hecat's tree, +With magic spells so compass thee, +That no eye may thy body see! +So, Faustus, now, for all their holiness, +Do what thou wilt, thou shalt not be discern'd. + +FAUSTUS. Thanks, Mephistophilis.--Now, friars, take heed, +Lest Faustus make your shaven crowns to bleed. + +MEPHIST. Faustus, no more: see, where the Cardinals come! + + Re-enter the CARDINALS of France and Padua with a book. + +POPE. Welcome, Lord Cardinals; come, sit down.-- +Lord Raymond, take your seat.--Friars, attend, +And see that all things be<128> in readiness, +As best beseems this solemn festival. + +CARDINAL OF FRANCE. 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, +To-morrow we would sit i' the consistory, +And there determine of his punishment? +You brought us word even now, it was decreed +That Bruno and the cursed Emperor +Were by the holy council both condemn'd +For loathed Lollards and base schismatics: +Then wherefore would you have me view that book? + +CARDINAL OF FRANCE. Your grace mistakes; you gave us no such charge. + +RAYMOND. Deny it not; we all are witnesses +That Bruno here was late deliver'd you, +With his rich triple crown to be reserv'd +And put into the church's treasury. + +BOTH CARDINALS. By holy Paul, we saw them not! + +POPE. By Peter, you shall die, +Unless you bring them forth immediately!-- +Hale them to<129> prison, lade their limbs with gyves.-- +False prelates, for this hateful treachery +Curs'd be your souls to hellish misery! + [Exeunt ATTENDANTS with the two CARDINALS.] + +FAUSTUS. So, they are safe. Now, Faustus, to the feast: +The Pope had never such a frolic guest. + +POPE. Lord Archbishop of Rheims, sit down with us. + +ARCHBISHOP.<130> I thank your Holiness. + +FAUSTUS. Fall to; the devil choke you,<131> an you spare! + +POPE. Who is that spoke?--Friars, look about.-- +Lord Raymond, pray, fall to. I am beholding<132> +To the Bishop of Milan for this so rare a present. + +FAUSTUS. I thank you, sir. + [Snatches the dish.] + +POPE. How now! who snatch'd 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. + [Snatches the dish.] + +POPE. What Lollards do attend our holiness, +That we receive such<133> great indignity? +Fetch me some wine. + +FAUSTUS. Ay, pray, do, for Faustus is a-dry. + +POPE. Lord Raymond, +I drink unto your grace. + +FAUSTUS. I pledge your grace. + [Snatches the cup.] + +POPE. My wine gone too!--Ye lubbers, look about, +And find the man that doth this villany, +Or, by our sanctitude, you all shall die!-- +I pray, my lords, have patience at this +Troublesome banquet. + +ARCHBISHOP. Please it<134> your Holiness, I think it be some ghost +crept out of Purgatory, and now is come unto your Holiness for his +pardon. + +POPE. It may be so.-- +Go, then, command our priests to sing a dirge, +To lay the fury of this same troublesome ghost. + [Exit an ATTENDANT.--The POPE crosses himself.] + +FAUSTUS. How now! must every bit be spic'd with a cross?-- +Nay, then, take that. + [Strikes the POPE.] + +POPE. O, I am slain!--Help me, my lords! +O, come and help to bear my body hence!-- +Damn'd be his<135> soul for ever for this deed! + [Exeunt all except FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS.] + +MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, what will you do now? for I can tell 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! + + Re-enter the FRIARS, with bell, book, and candle, for the + Dirge. + +FIRST FRIAR. Come, brethren, lets about our business with good +devotion. + [They sing.] + +CURSED BE HE THAT STOLE HIS HOLINESS' MEAT FROM THE TABLE! +maledicat Dominus! +CURSED BE HE THAT STRUCK<136> HIS HOLINESS A BLOW ON<137> 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! +CURSED BE HE THAT TOOK AWAY HIS HOLINESS' WINE! maledicat +Dominus! + + [MEPHISTOPHILIS and FAUSTUS beat the FRIARS, and fling + fire-works among them, and exeunt.] + + Enter ROBIN and DICK with a cup. + +DICK. Sirrah Robin, we were best look that your devil can answer +the stealing of this same<138> cup, for the Vintner's boy follows +us at the hard heels.<139> + +ROBIN. 'Tis no matter; let him come: an he follow us, I'll so +conjure him as he was never conjured in his life, I warrant him. +Let me see the cup. + +DICK. Here 'tis. + [Gives the cup to ROBIN.] +Yonder he comes: now, Robin, now or never shew thy cunning. + + Enter VINTNER.<140> + +VINTNER. O, are you here? I am glad I have found you. You are +a couple of fine 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 [Aside to DICK, giving him the cup].-- +Come, come, search me, search me. + + [VINTNER searches him.] + +VINTNER. Come on, sirrah, let me search you now. + +DICK. Ay, ay, do, do. +--Hold the cup, Robin [Aside to ROBIN, giving him the cup].-- +I fear not your searching: we scorn to steal your<141> cups, +I can tell you. + + [VINTNER searches him.] + +VINTNER. Never out-face 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. + +ROBIN. Ay, much!<142> 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.--[Reads from +a book] O per se, O; Demogorgon; Belcher, and Mephistophilis! + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +MEPHIST. 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. + [Exit VINTNER.] + +ROBIN. By lady,<143> sir, you have had a shrewd journey of it! +will it please you to<144> take a shoulder of mutton to supper, +and a tester<145> in your purse, and go back again? + +DICK. Ay, I pray you heartily, sir; for we called you but in jest, +I promise you. + +MEPHIST. 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 shew some tricks. + +MEPHIST. And so thou shalt: be thou transformed to a dog, and +carry him upon thy back. Away! be gone! + +ROBIN. A dog! that's excellent: let the maids look well to their +porridge-pots, for I'll into the kitchen presently.--Come, Dick, +come. + [Exeunt ROBIN and DICK.] + +MEPHIST. Now with the flames of ever-burning fire +I'll wing myself, and forthwith fly amain<sic> +Unto my Faustus, to the Great Turk's court. + [Exit.] + + Enter MARTINO and FREDERICK at several doors. + +MARTINO. What, ho, officers, gentlemen! +Hie to the presence to attend the Emperor.-- +Good Frederick, see the rooms be voided straight: +His majesty is coming to the hall; +Go back, and see the state<146> in readiness. + +FREDERICK. But where is Bruno, our elected Pope, +That 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 conjurer, +The learned Faustus, fame of Wittenberg, +The wonder of the world for magic art; +And he intends to shew great Carolus +The race of all his stout progenitors, +And bring in presence of his majesty +The royal shapes and perfect<147> semblances +Of Alexander and his beauteous paramour. + +FREDERICK. Where is Benvolio? + +MARTINO. Fast asleep, I warrant you; +He took his rouse<148> with stoops of Rhenish wine +So kindly yesternight to Bruno's health, +That all this day the sluggard keeps his bed. + +FREDERICK. See, see, his window's ope! we'll call to him. + +MARTINO. What, ho! Benvolio! + + Enter BENVOLIO above, at a window, in his nightcap, buttoning. + +BENVOLIO. What a devil ail you two? + +MARTINO. Speak softly, sir, lest the devil hear you; +For Faustus at the court is late arriv'd, +And at his heels a<149> thousand Furies wait, +To accomplish whatsoe'er the doctor please. + +BENVOLIO. What of this? + +MARTINO. Come, leave thy chamber first, and thou shalt see +This conjurer 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: +An if he be so far in love with him, +I would he would post with him to Rome again! + +FREDERICK. Speak, wilt thou come and see this sport? + +BENVOLIO. Not I. + +MARTINO. Wilt thou stand in thy window, and see it, then? + +BENVOLIO. Ay, an I fall not asleep i' the mean time. + +MARTINO. The Emperor is at hand, who comes to see +What wonders by black spells may compass'd be. + +BENVOLIO. Well, go you attend the Emperor. I am content, for +this once, to thrust my head out at a<150> window; for they +say, if a man be drunk over night, the devil cannot hurt him +in the morning: if that be true, I have a charm in my head, +shall control him as well as the conjurer, I warrant you. + [Exeunt FREDERICK and MARTINO.] + + A Sennet. Enter CHARLES the German Emperor, BRUNO, + DUKE OF SAXONY, FAUSTUS, MEPHISTOPHILIS, FREDERICK, + MARTINO, and Attendants. + +EMPEROR. Wonder of men, renowm'd<151> magician, +Thrice-learned Faustus, welcome to our court. +This deed of thine, in setting Bruno free +>From his and our professed enemy, +Shall add more excellence unto thine art +Than if by powerful necromantic spells +Thou couldst command the world's obedience: +For ever be belov'd of Carolus! +And if this Bruno, thou hast late redeem'd, +In peace possess the triple diadem, +And sit in Peter's chair, despite of chance, +Thou shalt be famous through<152> all Italy, +And honour'd of the German Emperor. + +FAUSTUS. These<153> gracious words, most royal Carolus, +Shall make poor Faustus, to his utmost power, +Both love and serve the German Emperor, +And lay his life at holy Bruno's feet: +For proof whereof, if so your grace be pleas'd, +The doctor stands prepar'd by power of art +To cast his magic charms, that shall pierce through<154> +The ebon gates of ever-burning hell, +And hale the stubborn Furies from their caves, +To compass whatsoe'er your grace commands. + +BENVOLIO. Blood, he speaks terribly! but, for all that, I do not +greatly believe him: he looks as like a<153> conjurer as the Pope +to a costermonger. [Aside.] + +EMPEROR. Then, Faustus, as thou late didst promise us, +We would behold that famous conqueror, +Great Alexander, and his paramour, +In their true shapes and state majestical, +That 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<156> royal Emperor +Great Alexander and his beauteous paramour. + +MEPHIST. Faustus, I will. + [Exit.] + +BENVOLIO. Well, Master Doctor, an your devils come not away +quickly, you shall have me asleep presently: zounds, I could +eat myself for anger, to think I have been such an ass all this +while, to stand gaping after the devil's governor, and can see +nothing! + +FAUSTUS. +I'll make you feel something anon, if my art fail me not.-- +My lord, I must forewarn your majesty, +That, when my spirits present the royal shapes +Of Alexander and his paramour, +Your grace demand<157> 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: an thou bring Alexander +and his paramour before the Emperor, I'll be Actaeon, and turn +myself to a stag. + +FAUSTUS. And I'll play Diana, and send you the horns presently. + + Sennet. Enter, at one door,<158> the EMPEROR ALEXANDER, at + the other, DARIUS. They meet. DARIUS is thrown down; + ALEXANDER kills him, takes off his crown, and, offering to + go out, his PARAMOUR meets him. He embraceth her, and sets + DARIUS' crown upon her head; and, coming back, both salute + the EMPEROR, who, leaving his state,<159> offers to embrace + them; which FAUSTUS seeing, suddenly stays him. Then trumpets + cease, and music sounds. + +My gracious lord, you do forget yourself; +These<160> are but shadows, not substantial. + +EMPEROR. O, pardon me! my thoughts are so ravish'd +With sight of this renowmed<161> emperor, +That in mine arms I would have compass'd him. +But, Faustus, since I may not speak to them, +To satisfy my longing thoughts<162> at full, +Let me this tell thee: I have heard it said +That this fair lady, whilst<163> she liv'd 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 +Than if I gain'd<164> another monarchy. + +FAUSTUS. Away! be gone! [Exit show.]--See, see, my gracious +lord! what strange beast is yon, that thrusts his head out at +window?<165> + +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. This 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. The Emperor! where?--O, zounds, my head! + +EMPEROR. Nay, an thy horns hold, 'tis no matter for thy head, +for that's armed sufficiently. + +FAUSTUS. Why, how now, Sir Knight! what, hanged by the horns! +this is<166> most horrible: fie, fie, pull in your head, for +shame! let not all the world wonder at you. + +BENVOLIO. Zounds, doctor, this is<167> your villany! + +FAUSTUS. O, say not so, sir! the doctor has no skill, +No art, no cunning, to present these lords, +Or bring before this royal Emperor +The mighty monarch, warlike Alexander. +If Faustus do it, you are straight resolv'd, +In bold Actaeon'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<168> all his footmanship shall scarce prevail +To keep his carcass from their bloody fangs.-- +Ho, Belimoth, Argiron, Asteroth!<169> + +BENVOLIO. Hold, hold!--Zounds, he'll raise up a kennel of devils, +I think, anon.--Good my lord, entreat for me.--'Sblood, I am never +able to endure these torments. + +EMPEROR. Then, good Master Doctor, +Let me entreat you to remove his horns; +He has<170> done penance now sufficiently. + +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; which being all I desire, I am +content to remove his horns.<171>--Mephistophilis, transform him +[MEPHISTOPHILIS removes the horns]:--and hereafter, sir,<172> +look you speak well of scholars. + +BENVOLIO. Speak well of ye! 'sblood, an scholars be such +cuckold-makers, to clap horns of<173> honest men's heads o' this +order, I'll ne'er trust smooth faces and small ruffs more.--But, +an I be not revenged for this, would I might be turned to a +gaping oyster, and drink nothing but salt water! + [Aside, and then exit above.] + +EMPEROR. Come, Faustus: while the Emperor lives, +In recompense of this thy high desert, +Thou shalt command the state of Germany, +And live belov'd of mighty Carolus. + [Exeunt.] + +Enter BENVOLIO, MARTINO, FREDERICK, and SOLDIERS. + +MARTINO. Nay, sweet Benvolio, let us sway<174> thy thoughts +>From this attempt against the conjurer.<175> + +BENVOLIO. Away! you love me not, to urge me thus: +Shall I let slip so great an injury, +When every servile groom jests at my wrongs, +And in their rustic gambols proudly say, +"Benvolio's head was grac'd with horns today?" +O, may these eyelids never close again, +Till with my sword I have that<176> conjurer slain! +If you will aid me in this enterprise, +Then draw your weapons and be resolute; +If not, depart: here will Benvolio die, +But Faustus' death shall quit my<177> infamy. + +FREDERICK. Nay, we will stay with thee, betide what may, +And kill that<178> doctor, if he come this way. + +BENVOLIO. Then, gentle Frederick, hie thee to the grove, +And place our servants and our followers +Close in an<179> ambush there behind the trees. +By this, I know the conjurer is near: +I saw him kneel, and kiss the Emperor's hand, +And take his leave, laden with rich rewards. +Then, soldiers, boldly<180> fight: if Faustus die, +Take you the wealth, leave us the victory. + +FREDERICK. Come, soldiers, follow me unto the grove: +Who kills him shall have gold and endless love. + [Exit FREDERICK with SOLDIERS.] + +BENVOLIO. My head is lighter, than it was, by the horns; +But yet my heart's<181> more ponderous than my head, +And pants until I see that<182> conjurer dead. + +MARTINO. Where shall we place ourselves, Benvolio? + +BENVOLIO. Here will we stay to bide the first assault: +O, were that damned hell-hound but in place, +Thou soon shouldst see me quit my foul disgrace! + + Re-enter FREDERICK. + +FREDERICK. Close, close! the conjurer is at hand, +And all alone comes walking in his gown; +Be ready, then, and strike the<183> peasant down. + +BENVOLIO. Mine be that honour, then. Now, sword, strike home! +For horns he gave I'll have his head anon. + +MARTINO. See, see, he comes! + + Enter FAUSTUS with a false head. + +BENVOLIO. No words. This blow ends all: +Hell take his soul! his body thus must fall. + [Stabs FAUSTUS.] + +FAUSTUS. [falling.] O! + +FREDERICK. Groan you, Master Doctor? + +BENVOLIO. Break may his heart with groans!--Dear Frederick, see, +Thus will I end his griefs immediately. + +MARTINO. Strike with a willing hand. + [BENVOLIO strikes off FAUSTUS' head.] + His head is off. + +BENVOLIO. The devil's dead; the Furies now<184> may laugh. + +FREDERICK. Was this that stern aspect, that awful frown, +Made the grim monarch of infernal spirits +Tremble and quake at his commanding charms? + +MARTINO. Was this that damned head, whose art<185> conspir'd +Benvolio's shame before the Emperor? + +BENVOLIO. Ay, that's the head, and there<186> the body lies, +Justly rewarded for his villanies. + +FREDERICK. Come, let's devise how we may add more shame +To the black scandal of his hated name. + +BENVOLIO. First, on his head, in quittance of my wrongs, +I'll nail huge forked horns, and let them hang +Within the window where he yok'd me first, +That all the world may see my just revenge. + +MARTINO. What use shall we put his beard to? + +BENVOLIO. We'll sell it to a chimney-sweeper: it will wear out +ten birchen brooms, I warrant you. + +FREDERICK. What shall his<187> eyes do? + +BENVOLIO. We'll pull<188> out his eyes; and they shall serve for +buttons to his lips, to keep his tongue from catching cold. + +MARTINO. An excellent policy! and now, sirs, having divided him, +what shall the body do? + [FAUSTUS rises.] + +BENVOLIO. Zounds, the devil's alive again! + +FREDERICK. Give him his head, for God's sake. + +FAUSTUS. Nay, keep it: Faustus will have heads and hands, +Ay, all<189> your hearts to recompense this deed. +Knew you not, traitors, I was limited +For four-and-twenty years to breathe on earth? +And, had you cut my body with your swords, +Or hew'd this flesh and bones as small as sand, +Yet in a minute had my spirit return'd, +And I had breath'd a man, made free from harm. +But wherefore do I dally my revenge?-- +Asteroth, Belimoth, Mephistophilis? + + Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS, and other Devils. + +Go, horse these traitors on your fiery backs, +And mount aloft with them as high as heaven: +Thence pitch them headlong to the lowest hell. +Yet, stay: the world shall see their misery, +And hell shall after plague their treachery. +Go, Belimoth, and take this caitiff hence, +And hurl him in some lake of mud and dirt. +Take thou this other, drag him through<190> the woods +Amongst<191> the pricking thorns and sharpest briers; +Whilst, with my gentle Mephistophilis, +This traitor flies unto some steepy rock, +That, rolling down, may break the villain's bones, +As he intended to dismember me. +Fly hence; despatch my charge immediately. + +FREDERICK. Pity us, gentle Faustus! save our lives! + +FAUSTUS. Away! + +FREDERICK. He must needs go that the devil drives. + [Exeunt MEPHISTOPHILIS and DEVILS with BENVOLIO, MARTINO, + and FREDERICK.] + + Enter the ambushed SOLDIERS.<192> + +FIRST SOLDIER. Come, sirs, prepare yourselves in readiness; +Make haste to help these noble gentlemen: +I heard them parley with the conjurer. + +SECOND SOLDIER. See, where he comes! despatch and kill the slave. + +FAUSTUS. What's here? an ambush to betray my life! +Then, Faustus, try thy skill.--Base peasants, stand! +For, lo, these<193> trees remove at my command, +And stand as bulwarks 'twixt yourselves and me, +To shield me from your hated treachery! +Yet, to encounter this your weak attempt, +Behold, an army comes incontinent! + [FAUSTUS strikes the door,<194> and enter a DEVIL playing + on a drum; after him another, bearing an ensign; and divers + with weapons; MEPHISTOPHILIS with fire-works. They set upon + the SOLDIERS, drive them out, and exeunt.] + + 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. + +MARTINO. What, ho, Benvolio! + +BENVOLIO. Here.--What, Frederick, ho! + +FREDERICK. O, help me, gentle friend!--Where is Martino? + +MARTINO. Dear Frederick, here, +Half smother'd in a lake of mud and dirt, +Through which the Furies dragg'd me by the heels. + +FREDERICK. Martino, see, Benvolio's horns again! + +MARTINO. O, misery!--How now, Benvolio! + +BENVOLIO. Defend me, heaven! shall I be haunted still? + +MARTINO. Nay, fear not, man; we have no power to kill. + +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,<195> horns again! + +MARTINO. Nay, chafe not, man; we all are<196> sped. + +BENVOLIO. What devil attends this damn'd magician, +That, spite of spite, our wrongs are doubled? + +FREDERICK. What may we do, that we may hide our shames? + +BENVOLIO. If we should follow him to work revenge, +He'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, +Till time shall alter these<197> our brutish shapes: +Sith black disgrace hath thus eclips'd our fame, +We'll rather die with grief than live with shame. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter FAUSTUS, a HORSE-COURSER, and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +HORSE-COURSER. I beseech your worship, accept of these forty dollars. + +FAUSTUS. Friend, thou canst not buy so good a horse for so small +a price. I have no great need to sell him: but, if thou likest +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-flesh, and +this bargain will set me up again. + +FAUSTUS. Well, I will not stand with thee: give me the money +[HORSE-COURSER gives FAUSTUS 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 for ever. + [Exit.] + +FAUSTUS. What art thou, Faustus, but a man condemn'd to die? +Thy fatal time draws to a final end; +Despair doth drive distrust into my thoughts: +Confound these passions with a quiet sleep: +Tush, Christ did call the thief upon the Cross; +Then rest thee, Faustus, quiet in conceit. + [He sits to sleep.] + + Re-enter the HORSE-COURSER, wet. + +HORSE-COURSER. 0, 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<198> drowning. Well, I'll go rouse him, and +make him 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 off FAUSTUS' leg]. Alas, I am undone! what +shall I do? I have pulled off his leg. + +FAUSTUS. O, help, help! the villain hath murdered me. + +HORSE-COURSER. Murder or not murder, now he has<199> but one leg, +I'll outrun him, and cast this leg into some ditch or other. + [Aside, and then runs out.] + +FAUSTUS. Stop him, stop him, stop him!--Ha, ha, ha! Faustus hath +his 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,<200> with provision fit for your journey. + +FAUSTUS. The Duke of Vanholt's an honourable gentleman, and one +to whom I must be no niggard of my cunning. Come, away! + [Exeunt. + + Enter ROBIN, DICK, the HORSE-COURSER, and a CARTER. + +CARTER. Come, my masters, I'll bring you to the best beer in +Europe.--What, ho, hostess! where be these whores? + + Enter HOSTESS. + +HOSTESS. How now! what lack you? What, my old guess!<201> welcome. + +ROBIN. Sirrah Dick, dost thou<202> know why I stand so mute? + +DICK. No, Robin: why is't? + +ROBIN. I am eighteen-pence on the score. but say nothing; see +if she have forgotten me. + +HOSTESS. Who's this that stands so solemnly by himself? What, +my old guest! + +ROBIN. O, hostess, how do you? I hope my score stands still. + +HOSTESS. Ay, there's no doubt of that; for methinks you make no +haste to wipe it out. + +DICK. Why, hostess, I say, fetch us some beer. + +HOSTESS. You shall presently.--Look up into the hall there, ho! + [Exit.--Drink is presently brought in.] + +DICK. Come, sirs, what shall we do now<203> till mine hostess comes? + +CARTER. Marry, sir,<204> I'll tell you the bravest tale how a +conjurer served me. You know Doctor Faustus? + +HORSE-COURSER. Ay, a plague take him! here's some on's have cause +to know him. Did he conjure thee too? + +CARTER. I'll tell you how he served me. As I was going to +Wittenberg, t'other day,<205> with a load of hay, he met me, and +asked me what he should give me for as much hay as he could eat. +Now, sir, I thinking that a little would serve his turn, bad him +take as much as he would for three farthings: so he presently +gave me my<206> money and fell to eating; and, as I am a cursen<207> +man, he never left eating till he 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 villanously he +served me. I went to him yesterday to buy a horse of him, and +he would by no means sell him under forty dollars. So, sir, +because I knew him to be such a horse as would run over hedge +and ditch and never tire, I gave him his money. So, when I had +my horse, Doctor Faustus bad me ride him night and day, and spare +him no time; but, quoth he, in any case, ride him not into the +water. Now, sir, I thinking the horse had had some quality<208> +that he would not have me know of, what did I but rid<209> him +into a great river? and when I came just in the midst, my horse +vanished away, and I sate straddling upon a bottle of hay. + +ALL. O, brave doctor! + +HORSE-COURSER. But you shall hear how bravely I served him for +it. I went me home to his house, and there I found him asleep. +I kept a hallooing and whooping in his ears; but all could not +wake him. I, seeing that, took him by the leg, and never rested +pulling till I had pulled me his leg quite off; and now 'tis at +home in mine hostry. + +ROBIN. And has the doctor but one leg, then? that's excellent; +for one of his devils turned me into the likeness of an ape's face. + +CARTER. Some more drink, hostess! + +ROBIN. Hark you, we'll into another room and drink a while, and +then we'll go seek out the doctor. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter the DUKE OF VANHOLT, his DUCHESS, FAUSTUS, MEPHISTOPHILIS, + and ATTENDANTS. + +DUKE. Thanks, Master Doctor, for these pleasant sights; nor know +I how sufficiently to recompense your great deserts in erecting +that enchanted castle in the air,<210> the sight whereof so +delighted<211> me as nothing in the world could please me more. + +FAUSTUS. I do think myself, my good lord, highly recompensed in +that it pleaseth<212> your grace to think but well of that which +Faustus hath performed.--But, gracious lady, it may be that you +have taken no pleasure in those sights; therefore, 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 find 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. This is but a small matter.--Go, Mephistophilis; away! + [Exit MEPHISTOPHILIS.] +Madam, I will do more than this for your content. + + Re-Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with grapes. + +Here now, taste you these: they should be good, for they come<213> +from a far country, I can tell you. + +DUKE. This makes me wonder more than all the rest, that at this +time of the year, when every tree is barren of his fruit, from +whence you had these ripe grapes.<214> + +FAUSTUS. Please it your grace, the year is divided into two +circles over the whole world; so that, when it is winter with +us, in the contrary circle it is likewise summer with them, as +in India, Saba, and such countries that lie far east, where +they have fruit twice a-year; from whence, by means of a swift +spirit that I have, I had these grapes brought, as you see. + +DUCHESS. And, trust me, they are the sweetest grapes that e'er +I tasted. + + [The CLOWNS bounce<215> at the gate, within.] + +DUKE. What rude disturbers have we at the gate? +Go, pacify their fury, set it ope, +And then demand of them what they would have. + + [They knock again, and call out to talk with FAUSTUS.] + +SERVANT. Why, how now, masters! what a coil is there! +What is the reason you disturb the Duke? + +DICK [within]. We have no reason for it; therefore a fig for him! + +SERVANT. Why, saucy varlets, dare you be so bold? + +HORSE-COURSER [within]. I hope, sir, we have wit enough to be +more bold than welcome. + +SERVANT. It appears so: pray, be bold elsewhere, and trouble +not the Duke. + +DUKE. What would they have? + +SERVANT. They all cry out to speak with Doctor Faustus. + +CARTER [within]. Ay, and we will speak with him. + +DUKE. Will you, sir?--Commit the rascals. + +DICK [within]. Commit with us! he were as good commit with his +father as commit with us. + +FAUSTUS. I do beseech your grace, let them come in; +They are good subject for<216> a merriment. + +DUKE. Do as thou wilt, Faustus; I give thee leave. + +FAUSTUS. I thank your grace. + + Enter ROBIN, DICK, CARTER, and HORSE-COURSER. + +Why, how now, my good friends! +Faith, you are too outrageous: but, come near; +I have procur'd your pardons:<217> 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<218> where you are? + +CARTER. Ay, marry, can I; we are under heaven. + +SERVANT. Ay; but, Sir Saucebox, know you in what place? + +HORSE-COURSER. Ay, ay, the house is good enough to drink in. +--Zouns, fill us some beer, or we'll break all the barrels in +the house, and dash out all your brains with your bottles! + +FAUSTUS. Be not so furious: come, you shall have beer.-- +My lord, beseech you give me leave a while; +I'll gage my credit 'twill content your grace. + +DUKE. With all my heart, kind doctor; please thyself; +Our servants and our court's at thy command. + +FAUSTUS. I humbly thank your grace.--Then fetch some beer. + +HORSE-COURSER. Ay, marry, there spake<219> 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 him,<220> Dick? he has forgot his +leg. + +HORSE-COURSER. Ay, ay, he does not stand much upon that. + +FAUSTUS. No, faith; not much upon a wooden leg. + +CARTER. Good Lord, that flesh 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 him<221> +into the water? + +FAUSTUS. Yes, I do very well remember that. + +CARTER. And do you remember nothing of your leg? + +FAUSTUS. No, in good sooth. + +CARTER. Then, I pray you,<222> remember your courtesy. + +FAUSTUS. I<223> thank you, sir. + +CARTER. 'Tis not so much worth. I pray you, tell me one thing. + +FAUSTUS. What's that? + +CARTER. Be both your legs bed-fellows every night together? + +FAUSTUS. Wouldst thou make a Colossus of me, that thou askest me +such questions? + +CARTER. No, truly, sir; I would make nothing of you; but I would +fain know that. + + Enter HOSTESS with drink. + +FAUSTUS. Then, I assure thee certainly, they are. + +CARTER. I thank you; I am fully satisfied. + +FAUSTUS. But wherefore dost thou ask? + +CARTER. For nothing, sir: but methinks you should have a wooden +bed-fellow of one of 'em. + +HORSE-COURSER. Why, do you hear, sir? did not I<224> pull off +one of your legs when you were asleep? + +FAUSTUS. But I have it again, now I am awake: look you here, sir. + +ALL. O, horrible! had the doctor three legs? + +CARTER. Do you remember, sir, how you cozened me, and eat up my +load of---- + + [FAUSTUS, in the middle of each speech, charms them 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'<225> you forgotten me? you think to carry it away with +your hey-pass and re-pass: do you remember the dog's fa---- + [Exeunt CLOWNS.] + +HOSTESS. Who pays for the ale? hear you, Master Doctor; now you +have sent away my guess,<226> I pray who shall pay me for my a---- + [Exit HOSTESS.] + +DUCHESS. My lord, +We are much beholding<227> to this learned man. + +DUKE. So are we, madam; which we will recompense +With all the love and kindness that we may: +His artful sport<228> drives all sad thoughts away. + [Exeunt.] + + Thunder and lightning. Enter DEVILS with covered dishes; + MEPHISTOPHILIS leads them into FAUSTUS'S study; then enter + WAGNER. + +WAGNER. I think my master<229> means to die shortly; he has made +his will, and given me his wealth, his house, his goods,<230> and +store of golden plate, besides two thousand ducats ready-coined. +I wonder what he means: if death were nigh, he would not frolic +thus. He's now at supper with the scholars, where there's such +belly-cheer as Wagner in his life ne'er<231> saw the like: and, +see where they come! belike the feast is ended.<232> + [Exit.] + + Enter FAUSTUS, MEPHISTOPHILIS, and two or three 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 lived: therefore, Master Doctor, if +you will do us so much favour 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 unfeign'd, +It is not Faustus' custom to deny +The just request of those that wish him well: +You shall behold that peerless dame of Greece, +No otherwise for pomp or majesty +Than when Sir Paris cross'd 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' war<233> afflict poor Troy? + +THIRD SCHOLAR. Too simple is my wit<234> 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! + +FAUSTUS. Gentlemen, farewell: the same wish I to you. + [Exeunt SCHOLARS.] + + Enter an OLD MAN. + +OLD MAN. O gentle Faustus, leave this damned art, +This magic, that will charm thy soul to hell, +And quite bereave thee of salvation! +Though thou hast now offended like a man, +Do not persever in it like a devil: +Yet, yet thou hast an amiable soul, +If sin by custom grow not into nature; +Then, Faustus, will repentance come too late; +Then thou art banish'd from the sight of heaven: +No mortal can express the pains of hell. +It may be, this my exhortation +Seems harsh and all unpleasant: let it not; +For, gentle son, I speak it not in wrath, +Or envy of thee,<235> but in tender love, +And pity of thy future misery; +And so have hope that this my kind rebuke, +Checking thy body, may amend thy soul. + +FAUSTUS. 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;" +And Faustus now will come to do thee right. + + [MEPHISTOPHILIS gives him a dagger.] + +OLD MAN. O, stay, good Faustus, stay thy desperate steps! +I see an angel hover o'er thy head, +And, with a vial full of precious grace, +Offers to pour the same into thy soul: +Then call for mercy, and avoid despair. + +FAUSTUS. O friend, I feel +Thy words to comfort my distressed soul! +Leave me a while to ponder on my sins. + +OLD MAN. Faustus, I leave thee; but with grief of heart, +Fearing the enemy of thy hapless soul. + [Exit.] + +FAUSTUS. Accursed Faustus, wretch, what hast thou done? +I do repent; and yet I do despair: +Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast: +What shall I do to shun the snares of death? + +MEPHIST. Thou traitor, Faustus, I arrest thy soul +For disobedience to my sovereign lord: +Revolt, or I'll in piece-meal tear thy flesh. + +FAUSTUS. I do repent I e'er offended him. +Sweet Mephistophilis, entreat thy lord +To pardon my unjust presumption, +And with my blood again I will confirm +The former vow I made to Lucifer. + +MEPHIST.<236> Do it, then, Faustus, with unfeigned heart, +Lest greater dangers do attend thy drift. + +FAUSTUS. Torment, sweet friend, that base and aged man, +That durst dissuade me from thy Lucifer, +With greatest torments<237> that our hell affords. + +MEPHIST. His faith is great; I cannot touch his soul; +But what I may afflict<238> his body with +I will attempt, which is but little worth. + +FAUSTUS. One thing, good servant, let me crave of thee, +To glut the longing of my heart's desire,-- +That I may have unto my paramour +That heavenly Helen which I saw of late, +Whose sweet embraces may extinguish clean<239> +Those thoughts that do dissuade me from my vow, +And keep my oath<240> I made to Lucifer. + +MEPHIST. This, or what else my Faustus shall desire, +Shall be perform'd in twinkling of an eye. + + Re-enter HELEN, passing over the stage between two CUPIDS. + +FAUSTUS. Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, +And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?-- +Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.-- + [Kisses her.] +Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!-- +Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. +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 sack'd; +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 fairer than the evening<241> air +Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars; +Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter +When he appear'd to hapless Semele; +More lovely than the monarch of the sky +In wanton Arethusa's azur'd<242> arms; +And none but thou shalt<243> be my paramour! + [Exeunt.] + + Thunder. Enter LUCIFER, BELZEBUB, and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +LUCIFER. Thus from infernal Dis do we ascend +To view the subjects of our monarchy, +Those 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: the time is come +Which makes it forfeit. + +MEPHIST. And, this gloomy night, +Here, in this room, will wretched Faustus be. + +BELZEBUB. And here we'll stay, +To mark him how he doth demean himself. + +MEPHIST. How should he but in desperate lunacy? +Fond worldling, now his heart-blood dries with grief; +His conscience kills it; and his<244> labouring brain +Begets a world of idle fantasies +To over-reach the devil; but all in vain; +His store of pleasures must be sauc'd with pain. +He and his servant Wagner are at hand; +Both come from drawing Faustus' latest will. +See, where they come! + + Enter FAUSTUS and WAGNER. + +FAUSTUS. Say, Wagner,--thou hast perus<'>d my will,-- +How dost thou like it? + +WAGNER. Sir, So wondrous well, +As in all humble duty I do yield +My life and lasting service for your love. + +FAUSTUS. Gramercy,<245> Wagner. + + Enter SCHOLARS. + +Welcome, Gentlemen. + [Exit WAGNER.] + +FIRST SCHOLAR. Now, worthy Faustus, methinks your looks are chang'd. + +FAUSTUS. O, gentlemen! + +SECOND SCHOLAR. What ails Faustus? + +FAUSTUS. Ah, my sweet chamber-fellow, had I lived with thee, +then had I lived still! but now must die eternally. Look, sirs, +comes he not? comes he not? + +FIRST SCHOLAR. O my dear Faustus, what imports this fear? + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Is all our pleasure turn'd to melancholy? + +THIRD SCHOLAR. He is not well with being over-solitary. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. If it be so, we'll have physicians, +And Faustus shall be cur'd. + +THIRD SCHOLAR. 'Tis but a surfeit, sir;<246> fear nothing. + +FAUSTUS. A surfeit of deadly<247> sin, that hath damned both +body and soul. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Yet, Faustus, look up to heaven, and remember +mercy is infinite. + +FAUSTUS. But Faustus' offence can ne'er be pardoned: the serpent +that tempted Eve may be saved, but not Faustus. O gentlemen, +hear me<248> with patience, and tremble not at my speeches! Though +my heart pant and quiver to remember that I have been a student +here these thirty years, O, would I had never<249> seen Wittenberg, +never read book! and what wonders I have done, all Germany can +witness, yea, all the world; for which Faustus hath lost both +Germany and the world, yea, heaven itself, heaven, the seat of +God, the throne of the blessed, the kingdom of joy; and must +remain in hell for ever, hell. O, hell, for ever! Sweet friends, +what shall become of Faustus, being in hell for ever? + +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! +O, he stays my tongue! I would lift up my hands; but see, they +hold 'em, they hold 'em? <'?' sic> + +ALL. Who, Faustus? + +FAUSTUS. Why, Lucifer and Mephistophilis. O gentlemen, I gave +them my soul for my cunning! + +ALL. O, God forbid! + +FAUSTUS. God forbade it, indeed; but Faustus hath done it: for +the vain pleasure of four-and-twenty years hath Faustus lost +eternal joy and felicity. I writ them a bill with mine own blood: +the date is expired; this is the time, and he will fetch me. + +FIRST SCHOLAR. Why did not Faustus tell us of this before, +that divines might have prayed for thee? + +FAUSTUS. Oft have I thought to have done so; but the devil +threatened to tear me in pieces, if I named God, to fetch me +body and soul, if I once gave ear to divinity: and now 'tis<250> +too late. Gentlemen, away, lest you perish with me. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. O, what may we do to save Faustus? + +FAUSTUS. Talk not of me, but save yourselves, and depart. + +THIRD 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 him. + +FAUSTUS. Ay, pray for me, pray for me; and what noise soever +you hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Pray thou, and we will pray that God may have mercy +upon thee. + +FAUSTUS. Gentlemen, farewell: if I live till morning, I'll visit +you; if not, Faustus is gone to hell. + +ALL. Faustus, farewell. + [Exeunt SCHOLARS.] + +MEPHIST. Ay, Faustus, now thou hast no hope of heaven; +Therefore despair; think only upon hell, +For that must be thy mansion, there to dwell. + +FAUSTUS. O thou bewitching fiend, 'twas thy temptation +Hath robb'd me of eternal happiness! + +MEPHIST. I do confess it, Faustus, and rejoice: +'Twas I that, when thou wert i'the way to heaven, +Damm'd up thy passage; when thou took'st the book +To view the Scriptures, then I turn'd the leaves, +And led thine eye.<251> +What, weep'st thou? 'tis too late; despair! Farewell: +Fools that will laugh on earth must weep in hell. + [Exit.]<252> + + Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL at several doors. + +GOOD ANGEL. 0 Faustus, if thou hadst given ear to me, +Innumerable joys had follow'd thee! +But thou didst love the world. + +EVIL ANGEL. Gave ear to me, +And now must taste hell-pains<253> perpetually. + +GOOD ANGEL. O, what will all thy riches, pleasures, pomps, +Avail thee now? + +EVIL ANGEL. Nothing, but vex thee more, +To want in hell, that had on earth such store. + +GOOD ANGEL. 0, thou hast lost celestial happiness, +Pleasures unspeakable, bliss without end +Hadst thou affected sweet divinity, +Hell or the devil had had no power on thee: +Hadst thou kept on that way, Faustus, behold, + [Music, while a throne descends.] +In what resplendent glory thou hadst sit<254> +In yonder throne, like those bright-shining saints, +And triumph'd over hell! That hast thou lost; +And now, poor soul, must thy good angel leave thee: +The jaws of hell are open<255> to receive thee. + [Exit. The throne ascends.] + +EVIL ANGEL. Now, Faustus, let thine eyes with horror stare + [Hell is discovered.] +Into that vast perpetual torture-house: +There are the Furies tossing damned souls +On burning forks; there bodies boil<256> in lead; +There are live quarters broiling on the coals, +That ne'er can die; this ever-burning chair +Is for o'er-tortur'd souls to rest them in; +These that are fed with sops of flaming fire, +Were gluttons, and lov'd only delicates, +And laugh'd to see the poor starve at their gates: +But yet all these are nothing; thou shalt see +Ten thousand tortures that more horrid be. + +FAUSTUS. O, I have seen enough to torture me! + +EVIL ANGEL. Nay, thou must feel them, taste the smart of all: +He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall: +And so I leave thee, Faustus, till anon; +Then wilt thou tumble in confusion. + [Exit. Hell disappears.--The clock strikes eleven.] + +FAUSTUS. O Faustus, +Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, +And then thou must be damn'd perpetually! +Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, +That 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, +That Faustus may repent and save his soul! +O lente, lente currite, noctis equi! +The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, +The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd. +O, I'll leap up to heaven!--Who pulls me down?-- +See, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament!<257> +One drop of blood will save me: O my Christ!-- +Rend not my heart for naming of my Christ; +Yet will I call on him: O, spare me, Lucifer!-- +Where is it now? 'tis gone: +And, see, a threatening arm, an<258> angry brow! +Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me, +And hide me from the heavy wrath of heaven! +No! +Then will I headlong run into the earth: +Gape, earth! O, no, it will not harbour me! +You stars that reign'd at my nativity, +Whose influence hath<259> allotted death and hell, +Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist, +Into the entrails of yon<260> labouring cloud[s], +That, when you<261> vomit forth into the air, +My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths; +But let my soul mount and ascend to heaven! + [The clock strikes the half-hour.] +O, half the hour is past! 'twill all be past anon. +O, if<262> my soul must suffer for my sin, +Impose some end to my incessant pain; +Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years, +A hundred thousand, and at last<263> be sav'd! +No end is limited to damned souls. +Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul? +Or why is this immortal that thou hast? +O, Pythagoras' metempsychosis, were that true, +This soul should fly from me, and I be chang'd +Into some brutish beast! all beasts are happy, +For, when they die, +Their souls are soon dissolv'd in elements; +But mine must live still to be plagu'd in hell. +Curs'd be the parents that engender'd me! +No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer +That hath depriv'd thee of the joys of heaven. + [The clock strikes twelve.] +It strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, +Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell! +O soul, be chang'd into small water-drops, +And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found! + + Thunder. Enter DEVILS. + +O, mercy, heaven! look not so fierce on me! +Adders and serpents, let me breathe a while! +Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer! +I'll burn my books!--O Mephistophilis! + [Exeunt DEVILS with FAUSTUS.] + + Enter SCHOLARS.<264> + +FIRST SCHOLAR. Come, gentlemen, let us go visit Faustus, +For such a dreadful night was never seen; +Since first the world's creation did begin, +Such fearful shrieks and cries were never heard: +Pray heaven the doctor have escap'd the danger. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. +O, help us, heaven!<265> see, here are Faustus' limbs, +All torn asunder by the hand of death! + +THIRD SCHOLAR. +The devils whom Faustus serv'd have<266> torn him thus; +For, twixt the hours of twelve and one, methought, +I heard him shriek and call aloud for help; +At which self<267> time the house seem'd all on fire +With dreadful horror of these damned fiends. + +SECOND SCHOLAR. Well, gentlemen, though Faustus' end be such +As every Christian heart laments to think on, +Yet, for he was a scholar once admir'd +For wondrous knowledge in our German schools, +We'll give his mangled limbs due burial; +And all the students, cloth'd in mourning black, +Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter CHORUS. + +CHORUS. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, +And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough, +That sometime grew within this learned man. +Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall, +Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, +Only to wonder at unlawful things, +Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits +To practise more than heavenly power permits. + [Exit.] + +Terminat hora diem; terminat auctor opus. + +<1> Carthagens] So 4tos 1616, 1624, (and compare 4to 1604, +p. 79).--2to 1631 "Carthagen." + + <p. 79. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604): + + "Where Mars did mate the Carthaginians;"> + +<2> her] Old eds. "his." + +<3> of] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "and." + +<4> upon] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624<,> 1631<,> "on the." + +<5> thousand] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "diuers." + +<6> them] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "men." + +<7> legatur] Old eds. "legatus." + +<8> petty] I may notice that 4to 1604 has "pretty," which is +perhaps the right reading. + +<9> &c.] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--Not in 4to 1616. + +<10> circles, scenes, letters, and characters] So 4to 1604 (see +note , p. 80).--The later 4tos "circles, letters, characters." + + <Note , from p. 80. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604): + + "scenes] "And sooner may a gulling weather-spie + By drawing forth heavens SCEANES tell certainly," &c. + Donne's FIRST SATYRE,--p. 327, ed. 1633."> + +<11> gain] So 4tos 1624, 1631 (and so 4to 1604).--2to 1616 "get." + +<12> these] See note §, p. 80. + + <Note §, from p. 80. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604): + + "these elements] So again, "Within the bowels of THESE + elements," &c., <on> p. 87, first col,--"THESE" being + equivalent to THE. (Not unfrequently in our old writers + THESE is little more than redundant.)"> + +<13> enterprise] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "enterprises." + +<14> make swift Rhine circle fair] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, +"WITH swift Rhine circle ALL." + +<15> silk] Old eds. "skill." + +<16> blest] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "wise." + +<17> Swarm] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "Sworne." + +<18> to] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<19> have] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "has." + +<20> shall they] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "they shall." + +<21> huge] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "whole." + +<22> stuffs] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "stuff'd." + +<23> renowm'd] So 4to 1616 (See note ||, p. 11).--2tos 1624, +1631, "renown'd." + + <Note ||, from p. 11. (The First Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + "renowmed] i.e. renowned.--So the 8vo.--The 4to "renowned." + --The form "RENOWMED" (Fr. RENOMME) occurs repeatedly + afterwards in this play, according to the 8vo. It is + occasionally found in writers posterior to Marlowe's + time. e.g. + "Of Constantines great towne RENOUM'D in vaine." + Verses to King James, prefixed to Lord Stirling's + MONARCHICKE TRAGEDIES, ed. 1607."> + +<24> Albertus'] Old eds. "Albanus." + +<25> that] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--2to 1631 "the." + +<26> him] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<27> Enter Faustus] Old eds. "Thunder. Enter Lucifer and +4 deuils, Faustus to them with this speech,"--wrongly. + +<28> her] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "his." + +<29> erring] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "euening." + +<30> Mephistophilis Dragon, quod tumeraris] See note *, p. 83. + + <Note *, from p. 83. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604): + + "surgat Mephistophilis, quod tumeraris] The later 4tos have + "surgat Mephistophilis DRAGON, quod tumeraris."--There is a + corruption here, which seems to defy emendation. For "quod + TUMERARIS," Mr. J. Crossley, of Manchester, would read + (rejecting the word "Dragon") "quod TU MANDARES" (the + construction being "quod tu mandares ut Mephistophilis + appareat et surgat"): but the "tu" does not agree with the + preceding "vos."--The Revd. J. Mitford proposes "surgat + Mephistophilis, per Dragon (or Dagon) quod NUMEN EST AERIS.""> + +<31> dicatus] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "dicatis." + +<32> came hither] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "came NOW hether." + +<33> speeches] So 4to 1604.--Not in the later 4tos. + +<34> accidens] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "accident." + +<35> fell] So 4to 1604.--The later 4tos "liue." + +<36> strike] So 4to 1631.--2tos 1616, 1624, "strikes." + +<37> thorough] So 4to 1631.--2tos 1616, 1624, "through." + +<38> Sirrah] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<39> save] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--2to 1631 "spare." + +<40> again] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--Not in 4to 1616. + +<41> or] Old eds. "for." + +<42> vestigiis nostris] Old eds. "vestigias nostras." + +<43> backward] So 4to 1616 (and so 4to 1604).--2tos 1624, 1631, +"backe." + +<44> Why] So 4to 1616 (and so 4to 1604).--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<45> that famous] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "that MOST famous." + +<46> of] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "be." + +<47> men] So 4tos 1624, 1631 (and so 4to 1604).--2to 1616 "them." + +<48> Mephistophile] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "Mephostophilis." + +<49> thee] So 4to 1604.--The later 4tos "him." + +<50> thine] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "thy." + +<51> And] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<52> my] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "thy." + +<53> Is it] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "It is." + +<54> soul] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<55> an] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--Not in 4to 1624. + +<56> should] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--2to 1631 "shall." + +<57> God] So 4to 1604.--The later 4tos "heauen." + +<58> this scroll] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<59> he desires] Not in the 4tos. See note , p. 86. + + <Note , from p. 86. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604): + + "he desires] Not in any of the four 4tos. In the tract just + cited, <i.e. THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, ed. 1648.> the + "3d Article" stands thus,--"That Mephostophiles should bring + him any thing, and doe for him whatsoever." Sig. A 4, ed. + 1648. A later ed. adds "he desired." Marlowe, no doubt, + followed some edition of the HISTORY in which these words, + or something equivalent to them, had been omitted by mistake. + (2to 1661, which I consider as of no authority, has "he + requireth.")"> + + +<60> and] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--Not in 4to 1616. + +<61> with] So 4to 1604.--Not in the later 4tos. + +<62> the] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "that." + +<63> are] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "is." + +<64> hell's a fable] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "hell's a +MEERE fable." + +<65> thine] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--2to 1631 "thy." + +<66> thy] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "thine." + +<67> was] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "were." + +<68> harness] i.e. armour. + +<69> This will I keep as chary as my life. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter FAUSTUS, in his study, and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + FAUSTUS. When I behold the heavens, &c.] + +Old eds. (that is, 4tos 1616, 1624, 1631) thus; + +"This will I keepe, as chary as my life. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter WAGNER solus. + +WAGNER. Learned Faustus +To know the secrets of Astronomy +Grauen in the booke of Joues high firmament, +Did mount himselfe to scale Olympus top, +Being seated in a chariot burning bright, +Drawne by the strength of yoaky [2to 1624 "yoaked"] Dragons necks, +He now is gone to proue Cosmography, +And as I gesse will first arriue at Rome, +To see the Pope and manner of his Court; +And take some part of holy Peters feast, +That to [2tos 1624, 1631, "on"] this day is highly solemnized. + Exit WAGNER. + + Enter FAUSTUS in his Study, and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + +FAUSTUS. When I behold the heauens," &c. + +The lines which I have here omitted belong to a subsequent part +of the play, where they will be found with considerable additions, +and are rightly assigned to the CHORUS. (As given in the present +place by the 4tos 1616, 1624, 1631, these lines exhibit the text +of the earlier FAUSTUS; see p. 90, sec. col.) It would seem that +something was intended to intervene here between the exit of Faustus +and Mephistophilis, and their re-appearance on the stage: compare, +however, the preceding play, p. 88, first col. + + + <p. 90, sec. col. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604): + + "FAUSTUS. Great thanks, mighty Lucifer! + This will I keep as chary as my life. + + LUCIFER. Farewell, Faustus, and think on the devil. + + FAUSTUS. Farewell, great Lucifer. + [Exeunt LUCIFER and BELZEBUB.] + + Come, Mephistophilis. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter CHORUS. + + CHORUS. Learned Faustus, + To know the secrets of astronomy + Graven in the book of Jove's high firmament, + Did mount himself to scale Olympus' top, + Being seated in a chariot burning bright, + Drawn by the strength of yoky dragons' necks. + He now is gone to prove cosmography, + And, as I guess, will first arrive at Rome, + To see the Pope and manner of his court, + And take some part of holy Peter's feast, + That to this day is highly solemniz'd. + [Exit.] + + Enter FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS. + + FAUSTUS. Having now, my good Mephistophilis, + Pass'd with delight the stately town of Trier," etc.> + + + <p. 88, first col. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604):> + + <This part of the play does not have any relevance to characters + leaving the stage and re-entering.> + + + <Perhaps the editor meant p. 93, first column.> + + <p. 93, first col. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604): + + "RALPH. O, brave, Robin! shall I have Nan Spit, and to mine + own use? On that condition I'll feed thy devil with horse- + bread as long as he lives, of free cost. + + ROBIN. No more, sweet Ralph: let's go and make clean our + boots, which lie foul upon our hands, and then to our conjuring + in the devil's name. + [Exeunt.] + + Enter ROBIN and RALPH with a silver goblet. + + ROBIN. Come, Ralph: did not I tell thee, we were for ever + made by this Doctor Faustus' book? ecce, signum! here's a + simple purchase for horse-keepers: our horses shall eat + no hay as long as this lasts. + + RALPH. But, Robin, here comes the Vintner."> + +<70> thine] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--2to 1631 "thy." + +<71> is] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<72> breathes] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "breathe." + +<73> ears] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "eare." + +<74> this I] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "this TIME I." + +<75> termine] I may notice that 4to 1604 (see p. 88, sec. col.) +has "terminine," which at least is better for the metre. + + <p. 88, second column, (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604): + + "Whose terminine is term'd the world's wide pole;"> + +<76> erring] So 4to 1604.--The later 4tos "euening." + +<77> motion] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "motions." + +<78> Ay] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<79> and] So 4to 1631.--Not in 4tos 1616, 1624. + +<80> the] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--Not in 4to 1624. + +<81> lips] So 4to 1604.--Not in the later 4tos. + +<82> and ever since have run] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, +"and HAUE EUER SINCE run." + +<83> this] So 4to 1604.--The later 4tos "these." + +<84> come] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "came." + +<85> I] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "I I." + +<86> L] Old eds. "Lechery." See note , p. 90. + + <Note , from p. 90. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604): + + "L.] All the 4tos "Lechery."--Here I have made the alteration + recommended by Mr. Collier in his Preface to COLERIDGE'S + SEVEN LECTURES ON SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON, p. cviii."> + +<87> Tut] So 4to 1604.--The later 4tos "But." + +<88> Robin] Old eds. "the Clowne" (and so frequently afterwards): +but he is evidently a distinct person from the "Clown," Wagner's +attendant, who has previously appeared (see p. 111). Most probably +the parts of the Clown and Robin were played by the same actor; +and hence the confusion in the old eds. + + <P. 111. (this play): + + "Enter WAGNER and CLOWN. + + WAGNER. Come hither, sirrah boy." etc.> + +<89> faith] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631 "i'faith." (And so +afterwards in this scene.) + +<90> not tell] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<91> as fair a] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "a faire." + +<92> need'st] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--2to 1631 "needs." + +<93> hold, belly, hold] Compare Florio's DICT., 1611; "IOSA, +GOOD STORE, hold-bellie-hold." + +<94> Prithee] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "I prithee." + +<95> him] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--Not in 4to 1631. + +<96> He views] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "To view." + +<97> with this] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "with HIS." This +passage is sufficiently obscure. + +<98> round] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<99> Rhine] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "Rhines." + +<100> up to] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "vnto." + +<101> Quarter the town in four equivalents] So 4to 1604.--Not +in the later 4tos. + +<102> Thorough] so 4to 1631.--2tos 1616, 1624, "Through." + +<103> rest] So 4to 1604.--The later 4tos "East." + +<104> me] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--Not in 4to 1624. + +<105> us] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "you." + +<106> through] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--2to 1631 "thorow." + +<107> Ponte] Old eds. "Ponto." + +<108> match] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "watch." + +<109> the] so 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "those." + +<110> in state and] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "this day with." + +<111> whilst] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "while." + +<112> thorough] So 4to 1631.--2tos 1616, 1624, "through." + +<113> my] Qy. "one"? + +<114> cunning] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "comming." (And so +in the fourth line of the next speech.) + +<115> this] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "his." + +<116> at] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "to." + +<117> it] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<118> And smite with death thy hated enterprise] So 4to 1616. +--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<119> our] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "the." + +<120> this] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "the." + +<121> have right] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "haue SOME right." + +<122> shall] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "shalt." + +<123> hath] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "haue." + +<124> synod] Qy. "HOLY synod"? + +<125> Ponte] Old eds. "Ponto." + +<126> his] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "this." + +<127> Sennet] Old eds. "Senit" and "Sonet". See note ||, p. 91. + + <Note ||, from p. 91. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604): + + "Sonnet] Variously written, SENNET, SIGNET, SIGNATE, &c.--A + particular set of notes on the trumpet, or cornet, different + from a flourish. See Nares's GLOSS. in V. SENNET."> + +<128> be] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--2to 1631 "are." + +<129> them to] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "them FORTH to." + +<130> Archbishop.] Old eds. "Bish." and "Bishop" (and so afterwards). + +<131> you] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--Not in 4to 1624. + +<132> beholding] So 4to 1616 (see note , p. 98).--2tos 1624, +1631, "beholden." + + <Note , from p. 98. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604): + + "beholding] i.e. beholden."> + +<133> such] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "this." + +<134> it] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<135> his] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "this." + +<136> struck] Here the old eds. have "stroke" and "strooke:" +but in the next clause they all agree in having "strucke." + +<137> on] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--Not in 4to 1616. + +<138> same] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--Not in 4to 1631. + +<139> at the hard heels] The modern editors, ignorant of the old +phraseology, thought that they corrected this passage in printing +"hard at the heels." + +<140> Vintner] So all the old eds.; and presently Robin addresses +this person as "vintner:" yet Dick has just spoken of him as "the +Vintner's boy." See note ||, p. 93. + + <Note ||, from p. 93. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604): + + "Drawer] There is an inconsistency here: the Vintner cannot + properly be addressed as "Drawer." The later 4tos are also + inconsistent in the corresponding passage: Dick says, "THE + VINTNER'S BOY follows us at the hard heels," and immediately + the "VINTNER" enters."> + +<141> your] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--Not in 4to 1624. + +<142> much] Equivalent to--by no means, not at all. This ironical +exclamation is very common in our old dramatists. (Mr. Hunter, +--NEW ILLUST. OF SHAKESPEARE, ii. 56,--explains it very differently.) + +<143> By lady] i.e. By our Lady. + +<144> to] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--Not in 4to 1631. + +<145> tester] i.e. sixpence. + +<146> the state] i.e. the raised chair or throne, with a canopy. + +<147> perfect] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "warlike." + +<148> rouse] i.e. bumper. + +<149> a] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "ten." + +<150> a] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--2to 1631 "the." + +<151> renowm'd] Old eds. "renown'd"; but earlier, p. 109, first +col., 4to 1616 has "renowm'd": <see note 23> and see note ||, p. 11. + + <Note ||, from p. 11. (The First Part of Tamburlaine the + Great): + + "renowmed] i.e. renowned.--So the 8vo.--The 4to "renowned." + --The form "RENOWMED" (Fr. RENOMME) occurs repeatedly + afterwards in this play, according to the 8vo. It is + occasionally found in writers posterior to Marlowe's + time. e.g. + "Of Constantines great towne RENOUM'D in vaine." + Verses to King James, prefixed to Lord Stirling's + MONARCHICKE TRAGEDIES, ed. 1607."> + +<152> through] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--2to 1631 "thorow." + +<153> These] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "Those." + +<154> through] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--2to 1631 "thorow." + +<155> a] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--Not in 4to 1616. + +<156> this] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "the." + +<157> demand] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "demands." + +<158> door] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--Not in 4to 1616. + +<159> state] See note §, p. 122.<i.e. note 146>--So 4tos 1616, +1631.--2to 1624 "seat." + +<160> These] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "They." + +<161> renowmed] Old eds. "renowned." See note , p. 123. +<i.e. note 151> + +<162> thoughts] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "thought." + +<163> whilst] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "while." + +<164> I gain'd] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "I HAD gain'd." + +<165> at window] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "at THE window." + +<166> is] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--Not in 4to 1616. + +<167> this is] So 4to 1624 (and rightly, as the next line +proves).--2tos 1616, 1631, "is this." + +<168> As] So 4to 1616.--2to 1624 "That."--2to 1631 "And." + +<169> Belimoth....Asteroth] Old eds. here "Belimote (and "Belimot") +....Asterote": but see p. 126, first col. + + <P. 126. (this play): + + "But wherefore do I dally my revenge?-- + Asteroth, Belimoth, Mephistophilis?"> + +<170> has] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "hath." + +<171> horns] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "horne." + +<172> sir] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--Not in 4to 1624. + +<173> of] i.e. on. + +<174> sway] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "stay." + +<175> this attempt against the conjurer] See note, * p. 95. + + <Note *, from p. 95. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604): + + "Mephistophilis, transform him straight] According to THE + HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, the knight was not present during + Faustus's "conference" with the Emperor; nor did he offer + the doctor any insult by doubting his skill in magic. We + are there told that Faustus happening to see the knight + asleep, "leaning out of a window of the great hall," fixed + a huge pair of hart's horns on his head; "and, as the knight + awaked, thinking to pull in his head, he hit his hornes + against the glasse, that the panes thereof flew about his + eares: thinke here how this good gentleman was vexed, for + he could neither get backward nor forward." After the emperor + and the courtiers, to their great amusement, had beheld the + poor knight in this condition, Faustus removed the horns. + When Faustus, having taken leave of the emperor, was a league + and a half from the city, he was attacked in a wood by the + knight and some of his companions: they were in armour, and + mounted on fair palfreys; but the doctor quickly overcame + them by turning all the bushes into horsemen, and "so + charmed them, that every one, knight and other, for the + space of a whole moneth, did weare a paire of goates + hornes on their browes, and every palfry a paire of oxe + hornes on his head; and this was their penance appointed + by Faustus." A second attempt of the knight to revenge + himself on Faustus proved equally unsuccessful. Sigs. G 2, + I 3, ed. 1648."> + +<176> that] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "the." + +<177> my] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "thy." + +<178> that] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "the." + +<179> an] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<180> boldly] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "brauely." + +<181> heart's] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "heart." + +<182> that] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "the." + +<183> the] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "that." + +<184> now] so 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<185> art] Old eds. "heart" (which, after all, may be right). + +<186> there] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "here." + +<187> his] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--Not in 3to<sic> 1616. + +<188> pull] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "put." + +<189> all] Old eds. "call." + +<190> through] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--2to 1631 "thorow." + +<191> Amongst] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "Among." + +<192> Enter the ambushed Soldiers] Here (though it seems that +Faustus does not quit the stage) a change of scene is supposed. + +<193> these] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "the." + +<194> the door] i.e. the stage-door,--the writer here addressing +himself to THE ACTOR only, for the scene lies in a wood. + +<195> Zounds] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616, "Zons." + +<196> all are] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "are all." + +<197> these] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "this." + +<198> escape] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "scape." + +<199> has] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--2to 1631 "hath." + +<200> you] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<201> guess] A corruption of guests (very frequent in our early +dramatists) which occurs again at p. 130. first col. So 4to +1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "guests." <See note 226.> + +<202> thou] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<203> now] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<204> sir] Qy. "sirs"? but see the next speech of the Carter, +and the next speech but one of the Horse-courser, who, in his +narrative, uses both "sirs" and "sir." + +<205> As I was going to Wittenberg, t'other day, &c.] See THE +HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Chap. xxxv,--"How Doctor Faustus eat +a load of hay."--The Carter does not appear in the earlier play. + +<206> my] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<207> cursen] i.e. christened. + +<208> some quality] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "some RARE +quality." + +<209> rid] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "ride." + +<210> that enchanted castle in the air] This is not mentioned in +the earlier play: but see THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Chap xl, +--"How Doctor Faustus through his charmes made a great Castle in +presence of the Duke of Anholt." + +<211> delighted] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "delighteth." + +<212> it pleaseth] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "it HATH PLEASED." + +<213> come] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "came." + +<214> these ripe grapes] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "these +grapes." + +<215> The Clowns bounce, &c] 2to 1616 "The CLOWNE bounce." 2tos +1624, 1631, "The CLOWNE BOUNCETH." (In the next stage-direction +all the 4tos have "THEY knock again," &c.) + +<216> for] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "to." + +<217> pardons] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "pardon." + +<218> me] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<219> spake] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "spoke." + +<220> Dost hear him] So 4to 1616.--2to 1624 "dost THOU heare ME." +2to 1631 "dost THOU heare him." + +<221> him] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--Not in 4to 1616. + +<222> you] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--Not in 4to 1616 (but compare the +Carter's next speech). + +<223> I] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631. + +<224> not I] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "I not." + +<225> Ha'] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "Haue." + +<226> guess] See note §, p. 127. <i.e. note 201> So 4to 1616. +--2tos 1624, 1631, "guests." + +<227> beholding] So 4tos 1616, 1624, (see note , p. 98).--2to +1631 "beholden." + + <Note , from p. 98. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604): + + "beholding] i.e. beholden."> + +<228> sport] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "sports." + +<229> I think my master, &c.] The alterations which this speech +has undergone will hardly admit of its arrangement as verse: +compare the earlier play, p. 98, first col. + + <p. 98, first col. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604): + + "Enter WAGNER. + + WAGNER. I think my master means to die shortly, + For he hath given to me all his goods: + And yet, methinks, if that death were near, + He would not banquet, and carouse, and swill + Amongst the students, as even now he doth, + Who are at supper with such belly-cheer + As Wagner ne'er beheld in all his life. + See, where they come! belike the feast is ended. + [Exit.]"> + + +<230> goods] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "good." + +<231> ne'er] so 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "neuer." + +<232> ended] so 4tos 1624, 1631, (and so 4to 1604).--2to 1616 "done." + +<233> war] Old eds. "warres." + +<234> wit] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--2to 1631 "will." + +<235> Or envy of thee] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "Or OF enuie +TO thee." + +<236> MEPHIST.] This and the next prefix are omitted in the old +eds. + +<237> torments] So 4tos 1624, 1631 (and so 4to 1604).--2to 1616 +"torment." + +<238> I may afflict] So 4to 1616.--2to 1624 "I afflict."--2to +1631 "I CAN afflict." + +<239> clean] So 4to 1604.--The later 4tos "clear." + +<240> oath] So 4to 1604.--The later 4tos "vow." + +<241> evening] So 4to 1604.--The later 4tos "euenings." + +<242> azur'd] So 4to 1624 (a reading which I prefer only because +it is also that of 4to 1604.)--2tos 1616, 1631, "azure." + +<243> shalt] See note *, p. 100. + + <Note *, from p. 100. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604): + + "shalt] So all the 4tos; and so I believe Marlowe wrote, + though the grammar requires "shall.""> + +<244> his] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--Not in 4to 1624. + +<245> Gramercy] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "Gramercies." + +<246> sir] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--Not in 4to 1631. + +<247> of deadly] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "of A deadly." + +<248> me] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--Not in 4to 1616. + +<249> never] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "nere." + +<250> 'tis] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "IT is." + +<251> And led thine eye] A portion of this line has evidently +dropt out. + +<252> Exit] It seems doubtful whether Lucifer and Belzebub should +also make their exeunt here, or whether they remain to witness +the catastrophe: see p. 132, first col. + + <P. 132, first column. (this play): + + "MEPHIST. And, this gloomy night, + Here, in this room, will wretched Faustus be. + + BELZEBUB. And here we'll stay, + To mark him how he doth demean himself." etc.> + +<253> hell-pains] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "HELS paines." + +<254> sit] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "set." + +<255> are open] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "IS READIE." + +<256> boil] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "BROYLE." + +<257> See, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament] So 4tos +1624, 1631.--Not in 4to 1616. + +<258> an] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "and." + +<259> hath] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "haue." + +<260> yon] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "your." + +<261> you, &c.] See note *, p. 101. + + <Note *, from p. 101. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604): + + "That, when you, &c.] So all the old eds.; and it is certain + that awkward changes of person are sometimes found in passages + of our early poets: but qy.,-- + "That, when THEY vomit forth into the air, + My limbs may issue from THEIR smoky mouths," &c.?"> + +<262> 0, if, &c.] 2to 1604, in the corresponding passage, has +"Oh, GOD, if," &c. (see p. 101, sec. col.), and that reading +seems necessary for the sense. + + <P. 101, sec. col. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604): + + "Ah, half the hour is past! 'twill all be past anon + O God, + If thou wilt not have mercy on my soul, + Yet for Christ's sake, whose blood hath ransom'd me, + Impose some end to my incessant pain;" etc.> + +<263> at last] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "at THE last." + +<264> Enter Scholars] Here, of course, a change of scene is +supposed. (This is not in the earlier play.) + +<265> heaven] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "heauens." + +<266> devils . . . . have] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, +"DIUELL . . . . HATH." + +<267> self] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "same." + + + + + +End of The Project Gutenberg Etext of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus +This is Etext #811, you may also be interested in the edition at #779 + diff --git a/old/drfsta10.zip b/old/drfsta10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e875b4e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/drfsta10.zip |