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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.
M
EPH
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Speak, Faustus, do you deliver this as your deed?
F
AUST
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Ay, take it, and the Devil give thee good on't!
M
EPH
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Now, Faustus, ask what thou wilt.
F
AUST
.
First will I question with thee about Hell.
Tell me where is the place that men call Hell?
M
EPH
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Under the Heavens.
F
AUST
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Ay, but whereabout?
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EPH
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Within the bowels of these elements,
Where we are tortured and remain for ever;
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
In one self place; for where we are is Hell,
And where Hell is there
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must we ever be:
And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be Hell that is not Heaven
F
AUST
.
Come, I think Hell's a fable.
M
EPH
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Y
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think so still, till experience change thy mind.
F
AUST
.
Why, think'st thou then that Faustus shall be damned?
M
EPH
.
Ay, of necessity, for here's the scroll
Wherein thou hast given thy soul to Lucifer.
F
AUST
.
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.
M
EPH
.
But, Faustus, I am an instance to prove the contrary,
For I am damned, and am now in Hell.
F
AUST
.
How! now in Hell?
Nay, an this be Hell, I'll willingly be damned here;
What?
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walking, disputing, &c.?
But, leaving off this, let me have a wife,
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The fairest maid in Germany;
For I am wanton and lascivious,
And cannot live without a wife.
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EPH
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Well, Faustus, thou shall have a wife.
[MEPHISTOPHILIS fetches in a woman-devil,
Faust. What sight is this?
M
EPH
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Now, Faustus, wilt thou have a wife?
F
AUST
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Here's a hot whore, indeed! No, I'll no wife.
M
EPH
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Marriage is but,” &c.
M
EPH
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How — a wife?
I prithee, Faustus, talk not of a wife.
F
AUST
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Nay, sweet Mephistophilis, fetch me one, for I will have one.
M
EPH
.
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
fireworks.
M
EPH
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Tell me,
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Faustus, how dost thou like thy wife?
F
AUST
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A plague on her for a hot whore!
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EPH
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Tut, Faustus,
Marriage is but a ceremonial toy;
And
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if thou lovest me, think no
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more of it.
I'll cull thee out the fairest courtesans,
And bring them every morning to thy bed;
She whom thine eye shall like, thy heart shall have,
Be she as chaste as was Penelope,
As wise as Saba, or as beautiful
As was bright Lucifer before his fall.
Here, take this book, peruse it thoroughly: [Gives a book.
The iterating of these lines brings gold;
The framing of this circle on the ground
Brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and
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lightning:
Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thyself,
And men in armour
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shall appear to thee,
Ready to execute what thou desir'st
F
AUST
.
Thanks,
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This will I keep as chary as my life.
[Exeunt.”
Then begins a new scene —
(“Enter (csc) WAGNER solus.
Wag. Learned Faustus,
To know the secrets,” &c.)
which should come later.:— 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.
M
EPH
.
Here they are, in this book.
[Turns to them.
F
AUST
.
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.
M
EPH
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Here they are too.
[Turns to them.
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AUST
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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.
M
EPH
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Here they be.
F
AUST
.
O, thou art deceived.
M
EPH
.
Tut, I warrant thee.
[Turns to them Exeunt.
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SCENE VI.
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Enter FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS.
F
AUST
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When I behold the heavens, then I repent, And curse thee, wicked
Mephistophilis, Because thou hast deprived me of those joys.
M
EPH
.
Why,
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