Speaker 1: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus from the Quarter of
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Speaker 1: Personae Chorus read by Noel Bedrin.
Speaker 2: Faustus read by David Goldfarb.
Speaker 1: Mephistophilus read by Adam Wybray.
Speaker 3: Wagner read by Chuck Williamson.
Speaker 4: Waldas read by Kevin Johnson.
Speaker 1: Cornelius read by Voppa Hippa Good Angel read Vapela Gonzalez,
Speaker 1: Evil Angel.
Speaker 5: Read by Capricia Page.
Speaker 6: Clown read by Alan Maustone.
Speaker 7: First Scholar read by Lauren Burwell.
Speaker 8: Second Scholar read by Tiffany Hallah Colonna.
Speaker 9: Third Scholar read by Elizabeth Clatt.
Speaker 3: Lucifer read by Chuck Williamson, Bill Zibub.
Speaker 10: Read by Miss Avarice.
Speaker 1: Pride read by al G. Pag Covetousness read by Alan Lapstone,
Speaker 1: Envy read by Christine G.
Speaker 11: Wrath read by Randa Fetterman.
Speaker 12: Glattine read by Charlotte Duckett.
Speaker 5: Sleuth read by Capricia Page Bletchery read.
Speaker 7: By Lauren Burwell.
Speaker 6: Robin read by Alan Maapstone.
Speaker 9: Dick read by Elizabeth Clatt.
Speaker 1: The Pope read by Martin Geeson. Raymond read by Charlotte Duckett.
Speaker 1: Bruno read by Hippo. Cardinal of France read by Larry Womack.
Speaker 1: Archbishop of Rheims read by Algi pag Friar read.
Speaker 13: By Liberty Stump.
Speaker 1: Vintna read by Martino read by Frederick read by Anosimon
Speaker 1: Benvolio read by Cliff Thompson. Emperor Charles the Fifth read
Speaker 1: by Alan Mapstone, Duke of Saxony read by Charlotte Duckett.
Speaker 14: First Soldier read by Tiffany Halla Colonna.
Speaker 1: Second Soldier read by Algi pag Horse Corser.
Speaker 15: Read by Phil Benson. Carter read by Phil Benson.
Speaker 7: Hostess read by Lauren Brewell.
Speaker 1: Duke of van Holt read by John Travivic. Duchess of
Speaker 1: van Holt read by Dwine. Servant to the Duke of
Speaker 1: van Holt read by Algae. Pag old Man read by
Speaker 1: Algae pag Cardinal of.
Speaker 16: Padua read by John Travidic.
Speaker 1: Narrator read by Algae. Pag end of Dramatis Personae Act
Speaker 1: one Seene one into chorus.
Speaker 17: Not marching in the fields of thrasamine, where Mars did
Speaker 17: mate the warlike Carthagen's, nor sporting in the dalliance of love,
Speaker 17: in courts of kings, where state is overturned, nor in
Speaker 17: the pomp of proud audacious deeds, intends our muse to
Speaker 17: vaunt her heavenly verse. Only this, gentles, we must now
Speaker 17: perform the form of Faustus's fortune, good or bad. And
Speaker 17: now to patient judgments we appeal and speak Forefaustus in
Speaker 17: his infancy. Now he is born of parents base of
Speaker 17: stock in Germany, within a town called roads at riper
Speaker 17: years to Wittenberg he went, whereas his kinsman chiefly brought
Speaker 17: him up. So much he profits in divinity, that shortly
Speaker 17: he was graced with Doctor's name, excelling all and sweetly
Speaker 17: can dispute in the heavenly matters of theology, till swollen
Speaker 17: with cunning of a self conceit, his waxen wings did
Speaker 17: mount above his reach, and melting heavens conspir'd his overthrow
Speaker 17: for falling to a devilish exercise and glutted. Now with
Speaker 17: learning's golden gifts he suffits upon cursed necromancy. Nothing so
Speaker 17: sweet as man is to him, which he prefers before
Speaker 17: his chiefest bliss. And this the man that, in his study.
Speaker 1: Sits exit seen too fastest discovered in his study.
Speaker 2: Settle thy studies, Faustus, and begin to sound the depth
Speaker 2: of that thou wilt profess, having commenced, be a divine
Speaker 2: in show yet level at the end of every art,
Speaker 2: and live and die in Aristotle's works. Sweet analytics, tis
Speaker 2: thou hast ravished me benediscerere asked phinis Loggichaeus is to
Speaker 2: dispute well. Logic's chiefest end affords this art no greater miracle.
Speaker 2: Then read no more thou hast attained that end a
Speaker 2: greater subject fitteth faustest wit bid economy, Farewell and Galen.
Speaker 2: Come be a physician. Faustus, heap up gold and be
Speaker 2: eternized for some wondrous cure suumbonum medicine sanitas. The end
Speaker 2: of physic is our body's health. Why Faustus hast thou
Speaker 2: not attained that end? Are not thy bills hung up
Speaker 2: as monuments whereby whole cities have escaped the plague and
Speaker 2: thousand desperate maladies been cured. Yet art thou still, but Faustus,
Speaker 2: and a man couldst thou make men to live eternally,
Speaker 2: or being dead, raise them to life again, then this
Speaker 2: profession were to be esteemed physic farewell. Where is Justinian
Speaker 2: reeds see una e d'em cueres legatour duobus alter rem
Speaker 2: alt valor m ray, et cetera. A petty case of
Speaker 2: paltry legacies reads ex heiredeterre philium non potest pater nissi,
Speaker 2: et cetera, such as the subject of the institute and
Speaker 2: universal body of the law. This study fits a mercenary
Speaker 2: drudge who aims at nothing but external trash to servile
Speaker 2: a deliberal for me. When all is done, divinity is
Speaker 2: best Jerome's Bible. Faustus view it well reads Stipendium Peccati,
Speaker 2: Moore's asked huh stipendium, et cetera. The reward of sin
Speaker 2: is death. That's hard reads see pecassa nagamus val at
Speaker 2: nulla este in nobis veritas. If we say that we
Speaker 2: have no sin, we deceive ourselves and there is no
Speaker 2: truth in us. Why then, be like we must sin
Speaker 2: and so consequently die. I we must die an everlasting death.
Speaker 2: What doctrine call you this keeserasurah? What will be you?
Speaker 2: Shall be divinity? Adieu. These metaphysics of magicians and necromantic
Speaker 2: books are heavenly lines, circles, scenes, letters, and characters. Ay,
Speaker 2: these are those that faust Us most desires. Oh, what
Speaker 2: a world of prophet and delight, of power, of honor
Speaker 2: and omnipotence is promised to the studious eyes. Artisan All
Speaker 2: things that move between the quiet poles shall be at
Speaker 2: my command. Emperors and kings are but obeyed in their
Speaker 2: several provinces. But his dominion that exceeds in this stretcheth
Speaker 2: as far as doth the mind of man. A sound
Speaker 2: magician is a demi god. Here tire my brains to
Speaker 2: gain a deity into Wagner. Wagner, commend me to my
Speaker 2: dearest friends the German Valdaz and Cornelius. Request them earnestly
Speaker 2: to visit me. I will, sir, exit Their conference will
Speaker 2: be a greater help to me than all my labors.
Speaker 2: Plot I ne'er so.
Speaker 1: Fast into good angel and evil angels.
Speaker 8: A fostus lay that jambug aside and gaesnaughtony as it
Speaker 8: chens I so and hit God's heavy wrath palms. I
Speaker 8: head read read a scriptures, that is philosphere.
Speaker 5: Me go forward, Faustus in that famous art wherein all
Speaker 5: nature's treasure is contained. Be thou on earth as Jove
Speaker 5: is in the sky, Lord and commander of these elements,
Speaker 5: y and angels.
Speaker 2: How am I glutted with conceit of this? Shall I
Speaker 2: make spirits? Fetch me what I please? Resolve me of
Speaker 2: all ambiguities, perform what desperate enterprise I will. I'll have
Speaker 2: them fly to India for gold, ransact the ocean for
Speaker 2: orient pearl, and search all corners of the new found
Speaker 2: world for pleasant fruits and princely delicates. I'll have them
Speaker 2: read me strange philosophy and tell the secrets of all
Speaker 2: foreign kings. I'll have them wol all Germany with brass
Speaker 2: and make swift rine circle fair Vertenberg. I'll have them
Speaker 2: fill the public schools with silk, wherew the students shall
Speaker 2: be bravely clad. I'll levy soldiers with the coin they bring,
Speaker 2: and chase the Prince of Parma from our land and
Speaker 2: reign sole king of all the provinces. Yea stranger engines
Speaker 2: for the brunt of war than was the fiery keel
Speaker 2: at Antwerp Bridge. I'll make my servile spirits to invent.
Speaker 1: Into Valdus and Cornelius.
Speaker 2: Come German, Valdez and Cornelius, and make me blessed with
Speaker 2: your sage. Conference Valdez, Sweet Valdez and Cornelius, know that
Speaker 2: your words have won me at the last. To practice
Speaker 2: magic and conceal it arts. Philosophy is o and obscure.
Speaker 2: Both law and physic are for petty wits. Tis magic.
Speaker 2: Magic that hath ravished me. Then, gentle friends aid me
Speaker 2: in this attempt, And I that have, with subtle syllogisms
Speaker 2: graveled the pastors of the German church and made the
Speaker 2: flowering pride of Wittenberg swarm to my problems. As the
Speaker 2: infernal spirits on sweet musyas when he came to Hell,
Speaker 2: will be as cunning as Agrippa was, whose shadow made
Speaker 2: all Europe honor him.
Speaker 4: Faustus, these books, thy wit and our experience shall make
Speaker 4: all nations to canonize us as Indian moors obey their
Speaker 4: Spanish lords. So shall the spirits of every element be
Speaker 4: always serviceable to us. Three like lions, shall they guard
Speaker 4: us when we please? Like elmain rutterers with their horsemen's staves,
Speaker 4: or laplan giants trotting by our sides, sometimes like women
Speaker 4: or unwedded maids, shadowing more beauty in their airy brows
Speaker 4: than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love.
Speaker 4: From Venice, shall they drag huge argacees and from America
Speaker 4: the golden fleece, the yearly stuffs old Philip's treasury. If learned,
Speaker 4: Faustus will be resolute.
Speaker 2: Valdaes, as resolute am I in this as thou to live. Therefore,
Speaker 2: object it not the miracles that magic will perform will
Speaker 2: make thee vow to study nothing else. He that is
Speaker 2: grounded in astrology, enriched with tongues well seen in minerals,
Speaker 2: hath all the principles magic doth require? Then, doubt not Faustus,
Speaker 2: but to be renowned and more frequented for this mystery
Speaker 2: than Heretofore the Delphian oracle. The spirits tell me they
Speaker 2: can dry the sea and fetch the treasure of all
Speaker 2: foreign wrecks, yea, all the wealth that our forefathers hid
Speaker 2: within the massy entrails of the earth. Then tell me, Fostus,
Speaker 2: what shall we three want? Nothing? Cornelius. Oh, this cheers
Speaker 2: my soul. Come show me some demonstrations magical that I
Speaker 2: may conjure in some bushy grove and have these joys
Speaker 2: in full possession.
Speaker 4: Then haste THEE to some solitary grove and bear wise
Speaker 4: bacons and Albertus's works, the Hebrew Psalter and New Testament,
Speaker 4: and whatsoever else is requisite. We will inform THEE. Ere
Speaker 4: our conference sees Valdis.
Speaker 18: First let him know the words of art, and then
Speaker 18: all other ceremonies learned. Foustes me try his cunning by himself.
Speaker 4: First, I'll instruct THEE in the rudiments, and then wilt
Speaker 4: thou be perfecter than I?
Speaker 2: Then come and dine with me, and after meat will
Speaker 2: canvas every quidity thereof. For ere I sleep, I'll try
Speaker 2: what I can do this night, I'll conjure though I die.
Speaker 1: Therefore, exciant scene three into two scholars.
Speaker 7: I wonder what's become a Fostus that was one to
Speaker 7: make our school's ring with Sikh probo.
Speaker 14: That shall we presently know? Here comes his boy.
Speaker 1: Into Wagner Hanasir.
Speaker 7: Where's thy master?
Speaker 3: God in heaven knows?
Speaker 14: Why dost not thou know?
Speaker 13: Then?
Speaker 3: Yes, I know, but that follows not.
Speaker 7: Go to sir, leave your jestine and tell us where
Speaker 7: he is.
Speaker 3: That follows not by force of argument, which you, being licentious,
Speaker 3: should stand upon. Therefore acknowledge your error and be attentive.
Speaker 14: Then you will not tell us.
Speaker 3: You are deceived, for I will tell you. Yet, if
Speaker 3: you were not dunces, you would never ask me such
Speaker 3: a question. For is he not corpus naturale, and is
Speaker 3: not that moby Lay? Then wherefore should you ask me
Speaker 3: such a question? But that I am by nature phileigmatic,
Speaker 3: slow to wrath, and prone to lechery to love, I
Speaker 3: would say it were not for you to come within
Speaker 3: forty foot of the place of execution, although I do
Speaker 3: not doubt, but to see you both hanged the next sessions. Thus,
Speaker 3: having triumphed over you, I will set my countenance like
Speaker 3: a precision and begin to speak fuss Truly, my dear brethren,
Speaker 3: My master is within at dinner with Valds and corneille
Speaker 3: ilias as this wine, if it could speak, would inform
Speaker 3: your worships. And so the Lord bless you, preserve you
Speaker 3: and keep you, my dear brethren.
Speaker 19: Exit, Oh faustus, Then I fear which I have long
Speaker 19: suspected that thou art fallen into that damned art for
Speaker 19: which they too are infamous through the world.
Speaker 14: Were he a stranger not allied to me, the danger
Speaker 14: of his soul would make me moan. But come, let
Speaker 14: us go and inform the Rector. It may be his
Speaker 14: grave counsel may reclaim him.
Speaker 7: I fear me nothing will proclaim.
Speaker 14: Him now, yet let us see what we can do.
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Speaker 1: History of Doctor Faustus from the Quarto of sixteen sixteen
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Speaker 2: Now that the gloomy shadow of the night, longing to
Speaker 2: view Horion's drizzling look, leaps from the antarctic world unto
Speaker 2: the sky and dims the welkin with her pitchy breath,
Speaker 2: Faustus begin thine incantations and try if devils will obey
Speaker 2: thy hest, seeing thou hast prayed and sacrificed to them.
Speaker 2: Within this circle is Jehovah's name forward and backward, and
Speaker 2: agrammatized the abbreviated names of holy saints, figures of every
Speaker 2: adjunct to the heavens, and characters of signs and erring stars,
Speaker 2: by which the spirits are enforced to rise. Then fear
Speaker 2: not faustus, to be resolute and try the utmost magic
Speaker 2: can perform. Thunder sent me hid ya karntis property i
Speaker 2: valeotnumen triplex Johovai igniai e rei a quatanai spiritu salvat orientis,
Speaker 2: princeships Pelzebub Infernayard and this monarcha at Demogorgon properthiaus vos
Speaker 2: utapaot at surgat mephistophilis dragon quotumers periehovam gahanam at consecratu
Speaker 2: ma qua quam nung spargo sit num qua crucis quot
Speaker 2: numfacio at pervotanostra ipsenung surgat novisticatus mephistophilis.
Speaker 1: Into Methstophilus.
Speaker 2: I charge thee to return and change thy shape. Thou
Speaker 2: art too ugly to attend on me go and return
Speaker 2: an old Franciscan friar. That holy shape becomes a devil.
Speaker 1: Best exit Mefistophilus.
Speaker 2: I see there's virtue in my heavenly words. Who would
Speaker 2: not be proficient in this art? How pliant is this Mephistophelus,
Speaker 2: full of obedience and humility. Such is the force of magic,
Speaker 2: And my spells.
Speaker 1: Read into Mefistophelus like a Franciscan friar.
Speaker 20: Now, Faustus, what wouldst thou have me?
Speaker 18: Do?
Speaker 2: I charge THEE wait upon me whilst I live, to
Speaker 2: do whatever Faustus shall command, be it to make the
Speaker 2: moon drop from her sphere, or the ocean to overwhelm
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 20: I am a to great lucifer, and may not follow
Speaker 20: THEE without its leave. No more than he commands must
Speaker 20: we perform.
Speaker 2: Did not he charge THEE to appear to me?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 20: I came hither of mine own accord.
Speaker 2: Did not my conjuring speeches raise THEE?
Speaker 1: Speak?
Speaker 20: That was the cause. But yet per accidents, For when
Speaker 20: we hear one rack the name of God, abjure the
Speaker 20: scriptures and his savior Christ, we fly in hope to
Speaker 20: get its glorious soul. Nor will we come unless he
Speaker 20: use such means, whereby he is in danger to be damned. Therefore,
Speaker 20: the shorddest cut for conjuring is stoutly to dure all
Speaker 20: godliness and pray devoutly to the prince of Hell.
Speaker 2: So Faustus hath already done and holds this principle. There
Speaker 2: is no chief, but only Belzebub, to whom Faustus doth
Speaker 2: dedicate himself. This word damnation terrifies not me, for I
Speaker 2: confound hell in Elysium. My ghost be with the old philosophers.
Speaker 2: But leaving these vain trifles of men's souls, tell me
Speaker 2: what is that Lucifer, thy Lord.
Speaker 20: Art regent, commander of all spirits?
Speaker 2: Was not that Lucifer an angel?
Speaker 20: Once, yes, Faustus and most dearly loved of God?
Speaker 2: How comes it then that he is prince of devils?
Speaker 20: Oh, by a sparring pride and insolence for which God
Speaker 20: threw him from the face of heaven.
Speaker 2: And what are you that live with Lucifer?
Speaker 20: Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, conspired against our God
Speaker 20: with Lucifer, and are for ever damned with Lucifer?
Speaker 2: Where are you damned in hell? How comes it then
Speaker 2: that thou art out of Hell?
Speaker 20: Why this is hell? Nor am I out of it?
Speaker 20: Think'st thou, that I that saw the face of God
Speaker 20: and tasted the eternal joys of heaven, am not tormented
Speaker 20: with ten thousand hells in being deprived of everlasting bliss. O, Faustus,
Speaker 20: leave these frivolous demands which strike a terror to my
Speaker 20: fainting soul.
Speaker 2: What is great Mephistophilus so passionate for being deprived of
Speaker 2: the joys of heaven? Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude,
Speaker 2: and scorn those joys thou never shalt possess. Go bear
Speaker 2: these tidings to Great Lucifer. Seeing Faustus hath incurred eternal
Speaker 2: death by desperate thoughts against Jove's deity, say he surrenders
Speaker 2: up to him his soul, so he will spare him
Speaker 2: four and twenty years, letting him live in all voluptuousness,
Speaker 2: having thee ever to attend on me, to give me
Speaker 2: whatsoever I shall ask, to tell me whatsoever I demand,
Speaker 2: To slay mine enemies and to aid my friends, and
Speaker 2: always be obedient to my will. Go and return to
Speaker 2: Mighty Lucifer, and meet me in my study at midnight,
Speaker 2: and then resolve me of thy master's mind.
Speaker 20: I will Thaustus.
Speaker 2: Exit had I as many souls as there be stars,
Speaker 2: I'd give them all for Mephistophelus. By him, I'll be
Speaker 2: great emperor of the world and make a bridge through
Speaker 2: the moving air to pass the ocean. With a band
Speaker 2: of men, I'll join the hills that bind the afric
Speaker 2: shore and make that country continent to Spain, and both
Speaker 2: contributary to my crown. The Emperor shall not live but
Speaker 2: by my leave, nor any potentate of Germany. Now that
Speaker 2: I have obtained what I desired, I'll live in speculation
Speaker 2: of this art till Mephistophilus return again.
Speaker 1: Exit seen too into Wagner and clown.
Speaker 6: Come hither, syra Bo boy, Oh disgrace to my person.
Speaker 6: Zound's boy, in your face, you have seen many boys
Speaker 6: with beards.
Speaker 3: I'm sure, Sirah hast thou no comings in.
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm going out too. You may see Sir alas
Speaker 6: poor slave.
Speaker 3: See how poverty jest in his nakedness. I know the
Speaker 3: villain's out of service, and so hungry that I know
Speaker 3: he would give his soul to the devil for a
Speaker 3: shoulder of mutton, though it were blood raw, not.
Speaker 6: So neither I need to have it well roasted and
Speaker 6: good sauce to it. If I pay so, dear, I can.
Speaker 3: Tell you, sirah, wilt thou be my man and wait
Speaker 3: on me? And I will make thee go like QUEIMIHI
Speaker 3: d si pulus what in verse? No slave in beaten
Speaker 3: silk and staves acre.
Speaker 6: Staves acre, that's good to kill vermin. Then belike, if
Speaker 6: I serve you, I shall be lousy.
Speaker 3: Why so thou shalt be, whether thou dost it or no.
Speaker 3: For Syrah, if thou dost not presently bind thyself to
Speaker 3: me for seven years, I'll turn all the lice about
Speaker 3: thee into familiars and make them tear thee in pieces.
Speaker 6: Nay, sir, you may save yourself a labor, for they
Speaker 6: are as familiar with me as if they paid for
Speaker 6: their meat and drink.
Speaker 3: I can tell you, well, Syrah, leave your jesting and
Speaker 3: take these guilders gives money.
Speaker 6: Yes, marry, sir, and I thank you too.
Speaker 3: So Now thou art to be at an hour's warning
Speaker 3: whensoever and wheresoever the devil shall fetch thee.
Speaker 6: Here, take your guilders again on none of em.
Speaker 3: Not I thou art pressed prepare thyself, or I will
Speaker 3: presently raise up two devils to carry thee away.
Speaker 6: Bonio Belcher, Belcher and Belcher come here, I'll belch him.
Speaker 6: I'm not afraid of a devil into two devils.
Speaker 3: How now, sir, will you serve me?
Speaker 6: Now, I good Wagner to take away the devils, then.
Speaker 1: Spirits away excient devils.
Speaker 3: Now, Sirah follow me.
Speaker 6: I will, sir, But arc you, master, will you teach
Speaker 6: me this conjuring occupation?
Speaker 3: Hi, Siah, I'll teach thee to turn thyself to a
Speaker 3: dog or a cat, or a mouse or a rat.
Speaker 6: Or anything a dog or cat, or a mouse or
Speaker 6: a rat.
Speaker 3: Oh, brave Wagner, villain me, Master Wagner, And see that
Speaker 3: you walk attentively, and let your right eye be always
Speaker 3: diametrily fixed upon my left heel. That thou mayest quassi
Speaker 3: vestig ease nostrice in seiz terrae.
Speaker 6: Well, sir, I'll warran.
Speaker 1: You exciant Scene three Faustus discovered in his study.
Speaker 2: Now Faustus, must thou needst be damned? Canst thou not
Speaker 2: be saved? What boots it?
Speaker 13: Then?
Speaker 2: To think on God or Heaven? Away with such vain
Speaker 2: fancies and despair? Despair in God and trust in Bellzebub.
Speaker 2: Now go not backward, Faustus, be resolute. Why waver'st thou,
Speaker 2: oh something soundeth in mine? Ear abjure this magic? Turn
Speaker 2: to God again? Why he loves thee, not the God.
Speaker 2: Thou servestest thine own appetite. Wherein is fixed the love
Speaker 2: of Belzebub to him. I'll build an altar and a
Speaker 2: church and offer luke warm blood of new born.
Speaker 1: Babes into good Angel and evil angel.
Speaker 5: Go forward, Faustus, and that famous.
Speaker 8: Art, sweet fastest, leave that execrable.
Speaker 2: Art, contrition, prayer, repentance.
Speaker 8: What of these, oh, the means you bring thee unto heaven?
Speaker 5: Rather illusions, fruits of lunacy that make men foolish, that
Speaker 5: do use the most.
Speaker 8: Sweet fastest, Think of heaven and heavenly things.
Speaker 5: No, Faustest, think of honor and of.
Speaker 1: Wealth, iksy and angels wealth.
Speaker 2: Why the scenery of Emden shall be mine? When Mephistophelus
Speaker 2: shall stand by me? What power can hurt me? Faustest,
Speaker 2: Thou art safe cast, no more doubts. Mephistophelus, come and
Speaker 2: bring glad tidings from great Lucifer. Is not midnight, Come Mephistophelus,
Speaker 2: and bring glad tidings from great Lucifer. Is not midnight,
Speaker 2: Come Mephistophelus, verny vernie Mephistophile.
Speaker 1: Into Mephistophelus.
Speaker 2: Now tell me what saith Lucifer, thy Lord.
Speaker 20: That I shall wait on Faustus whilst he lives, so
Speaker 20: he will buy my service with his soul.
Speaker 2: Already Faustus hath hazarded that for thee.
Speaker 20: Now thou must bequeath it solemnly and write a deed
Speaker 20: of gift with thine own blood for that security, craves Lucifer.
Speaker 20: If thou deny it, I must back to hell.
Speaker 2: Stay Methistophilus, and tell me what good will my soul do?
Speaker 20: Thy lord enlarge his kingdom?
Speaker 2: Is that the reason why he tempts us.
Speaker 20: Thus, solemn men, misres sosios haboo is, Say, Dolores, why.
Speaker 2: Have you any pain that torture others.
Speaker 20: As great as have the human souls of men? But
Speaker 20: tell me, Faustus, shall I have thy soul? And I
Speaker 20: will be thy slave and wait on thee and give
Speaker 20: thee more than thou hast wit to ask.
Speaker 2: I, Methistophelus, I'll give it Thee.
Speaker 20: Then Faustus stab thine arm courageously and bind thy soul,
Speaker 20: that at some certain day great Lucifer may claim it
Speaker 20: as his own, and then be thou as great as Lucifer.
Speaker 2: Faustus stebbing his arm, lo Mephistophilus, for love of thee,
Speaker 2: Faustus hath cut his arm, and with his proper blood
Speaker 2: assures his soul to be great. Lucifers, chief lord and
Speaker 2: regent of perpetual night view. Hear this blood that trickles
Speaker 2: from mine arm, and let it be propitious for my wish.
Speaker 20: But Faustus write it in manner of the deed of
Speaker 20: gift writing.
Speaker 2: Ay, so I do, But Mephistophilus, my blood congeals, and
Speaker 2: I can write no more.
Speaker 20: I'll fetch thee fat, dissolve it straight exit.
Speaker 2: What might the staying of my blood portend? Is it
Speaker 2: unwilling I should write this bill? Why streams it not?
Speaker 2: That I may write afresh? Faustus gives to THEE his soul. Oh,
Speaker 2: there it stayed? Why shouldst thou not? Is not thy
Speaker 2: soul thine own? Then again Faustus gives to THEE his soul.
Speaker 1: Re into Mephistophilus, with the chafer of fire.
Speaker 20: See Faustus, he is fire, said it on?
Speaker 2: So now the blood begins to clear again. Now will
Speaker 2: I make an end? Immediately?
Speaker 1: Rites aside?
Speaker 20: What will not I do to obtain his soul?
Speaker 2: Consumatamest? This bill is ended, and Faustus hath bequeathed his
Speaker 2: soul to Lucifer. But what is this inscription on mine?
Speaker 2: Arm homo fuge? Whither should I fly? If unto God
Speaker 2: he'll throw me down to hell? My senses are deceived?
Speaker 2: Here is nothing writ Oh, yes, I see it plain
Speaker 2: even here is writ homo fuge. Yet shall not Faustus fly?
Speaker 20: I'll fetch him somewhat to delight his mind?
Speaker 1: Aside, and then exit enter devils, giving crowns and rich
Speaker 1: apparel to Faustus. They dance and then depart. Re enter Mephistophelus.
Speaker 2: What means this show?
Speaker 20: Speak Mephistophelus, nothing, Faustus, but delight thy mind and let
Speaker 20: thee see what magic can perform.
Speaker 2: But may I raise such spirits when I please.
Speaker 20: I Faustus, and do greater things than these.
Speaker 2: Then Mephistophelus receive this scroll a deed of gift of
Speaker 2: body and of soul. But yet conditionally that thou perform
Speaker 2: all covenants and articles between us.
Speaker 20: Both Faustus I swear by Hell and Lucifer to affect
Speaker 20: all promises between us both then.
Speaker 2: Hear me read it. Methistophilus reads on these conditions, following, first,
Speaker 2: that Faustus may be a spirit in form and substance. Secondly,
Speaker 2: that Mephistophilus shall be his servant and be by him commanded. Thirdly,
Speaker 2: that Mephistophilus shall do for him and bring him whatsoever
Speaker 2: he desires. Fourthly, that he shall be in his chamber
Speaker 2: or house invisible. Lastly, that he shall appear to the
Speaker 2: said John Faustus at all times, in what shape and
Speaker 2: formsoever he pleas. I John Faustus of Wittenberg, Doctor. By
Speaker 2: these presents, do give both body and soul to Lucifer,
Speaker 2: Prince of the East, and his minister Mephistophelus, And furthermore
Speaker 2: grant unto them that four and twenty years being expired,
Speaker 2: and these articles above written being inviolate, full power to
Speaker 2: fetch or carry the said John Faustus body and soul,
Speaker 2: flesh and blood into their habitation. Wheresoever buy me John Faustus.
Speaker 20: Be, Faustus, do you deliver this as your deed?
Speaker 2: I take it, and the devil give thee good of it.
Speaker 20: So now, Faustus, ask me what thou wilt first?
Speaker 2: I will question with THEE about Hell? Tell me where
Speaker 2: is the place that men call hell?
Speaker 20: Under the heavens?
Speaker 2: I so are all things else, But whereabouts.
Speaker 20: Within the bowels of these elements, where we are tortured
Speaker 20: and remain forever. Hell have no limits, nor is circumscribed
Speaker 20: at oneself place. But where we are is Hell, and
Speaker 20: where Hell is there must we ever be, and to
Speaker 20: be short. When all the world dissolves and every creature
Speaker 20: shall be purified, all places shall be Hell that are
Speaker 20: not heaven.
Speaker 2: I think Hell's are fable.
Speaker 20: I think so still till I experience change thy mind.
Speaker 2: Why dost thou think that Faustus shall be damned?
Speaker 20: Iye of necessity? For here's the scroll in which thou
Speaker 20: hast given thy soul to lucifer.
Speaker 2: Aye, and body too?
Speaker 1: And what of that?
Speaker 2: Think'st thou that Faustus is so fond to imagine that
Speaker 2: after this life there is any pain. No, these are
Speaker 2: trifles and mere old wives tales.
Speaker 20: But I am an instance to prove the contrary. For
Speaker 20: I tell THEE I am damned.
Speaker 2: Now in hell, nay, and this be hell, I'll willingly
Speaker 2: be damned. What sleeping, eating, walking and disputing. But leaving this,
Speaker 2: let me have a wife, the fairest maid in Germany.
Speaker 2: For I am wanton and lascivious and cannot live without
Speaker 2: a wife.
Speaker 20: Well, Faustus, thou shalt have a wife.
Speaker 1: Mephistophilus fetches in a woman, devil?
Speaker 2: What sight is?
Speaker 20: Yes, Now, Faustus, wilt thou have a wife?
Speaker 2: Here's a hot whore. Indeed, no, I'll know wife.
Speaker 20: Marriage is but a ceremonial toy. And if thou lovest
Speaker 20: me think no more of it, I'll call THEE out
Speaker 20: the fairest courtesans, and bring them every morning to thy bed,
Speaker 20: she whom thine eye shall like thy heart shall have,
Speaker 20: where she as chaste as were Penelope, as wise as
Speaker 20: a saber, or as beautiful as was bright Lucifer before
Speaker 20: his fall. Here take this book, peruse it well. The
Speaker 20: iterating of these lines brings gold. The framing of this
Speaker 20: circle on the ground brings thunder. Well, wind's storm and lightning.
Speaker 20: Pronounce this thrist devoutly to thyself and men in harness
Speaker 20: shall appear to THEE ready to execute what thou commandst.
Speaker 2: Thanks Mephistophilus for this sweet book. This will I keep
Speaker 2: as cherry as.
Speaker 1: My life exciant. End of Act two, Act three of
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Speaker 1: one into Faustus in his study and Mephistophelus.
Speaker 2: When I behold the heavens, then I repent and curse
Speaker 2: thee wicked Mephistophilus, because thou hast deprived me of those joys.
Speaker 20: Twas thine own seeking Faustus, thank thyself, but thinks thou
Speaker 20: heaven is such a glorious thing. I tell THEE Faustus,
Speaker 20: it is not half so fair as thou or any
Speaker 20: man that breathes on earth.
Speaker 2: How proofs th that.
Speaker 20: Twas made for man, then he is more excellent.
Speaker 2: If heaven was made for man, twas made for me.
Speaker 2: I will renounce this magic and repent.
Speaker 1: Into good angel and evil angel.
Speaker 8: Falsness, repent, God will pity thee.
Speaker 5: Thou art a spirit. God cannot pity.
Speaker 2: Thee who buzzeth in mine ears. I am a spirit,
Speaker 2: be I a devil. Yet God may pity me. Yea
Speaker 2: God will pity me if I repent Aye.
Speaker 5: But Faustest never shall repent itchcient angels.
Speaker 2: My heart is hardened. I cannot repent. Scarce can I
Speaker 2: name salvation, faith or heaven? Swords, poison halters, and envenomed
Speaker 2: steel are laid before me to despatch myself. And long
Speaker 2: ere this I should have done the deed, had not
Speaker 2: sweet pleasure conquered deep despair? Have not I made blind
Speaker 2: Homer sing to me of Alexander's love and Enon's death?
Speaker 2: And hath not he that built the walls of Thebes,
Speaker 2: with ravishing sound of his melodious harp made music with
Speaker 2: my Mephistophelus, Why should I die then? Or basely despair?
Speaker 2: I am resolved. Faustus shall not repent. Come Mephistophelus. Let
Speaker 2: us dispute again, And reason of divine astrology speak? Are
Speaker 2: there many spheres above the moon, are all celestial bodies,
Speaker 2: but one globe, as is the substance of this centric Earth.
Speaker 20: As are the elements. Such are the heavens, even from
Speaker 20: the Moon unto the inferior orb mutually folded in each
Speaker 20: other spheres, and jointly move upon one axle tree, whose
Speaker 20: termin is termed the world's wide pole. Nois the names Saturn,
Speaker 20: Mars or Jupiter fegned, but are erring stars.
Speaker 2: But have they all won motion? Both set at tempore.
Speaker 20: Or move from east to west in four and twenty
Speaker 20: hours upon the poles of the world, but differ in
Speaker 20: their motions upon the pose of the zodiac.
Speaker 2: These slender questions, Wagner can decide, hath Mephistophilus no greater skill?
Speaker 2: Who knows not the double motion of the planets. But
Speaker 2: the first is finished in a natural day, the second
Speaker 2: thus Saturn in thirty years, Jupiter in twelve, Mars in four,
Speaker 2: the Sun Venus and Mercury in a year, the Moon
Speaker 2: in twenty eight days. These are freshman's questions. But tell me,
Speaker 2: hath every sphere a dominion or intelligentsia? I? How many
Speaker 2: heavens or spheres are there?
Speaker 20: Nine, the seven planets, the firmament, and the inferior heaven.
Speaker 2: But is there not caylamignium et crystallinum.
Speaker 20: No Faustus they be, But fables resolve me?
Speaker 2: Then in this one question, why are not conjunctions, oppositions, aspects,
Speaker 2: eclipses all at one time? But in some years we
Speaker 2: have more, in.
Speaker 20: Some less pie in arequalum moteen respect to Totius.
Speaker 2: Well I am answered. Now tell me who made the world.
Speaker 2: I will not sweet Mephistophilus, tell me move me not,
Speaker 2: faust Us villain. Have I not bound thee to tell
Speaker 2: me anything.
Speaker 20: I that is not against our kingdom? This is thou
Speaker 20: art damned, Think thou of hell.
Speaker 2: Think Faustus upon God that made the world. Remember this
Speaker 2: exit I go a cursed spirit to ugly hell. Tis
Speaker 2: thou hast damned? Distressed Fausta's soul is.
Speaker 1: Not too late re enter good angel and evil angel.
Speaker 8: Too late, Never too late. If Foster's no repent, If
Speaker 8: thou repent, devils will tear thee in pieces repent, and
Speaker 8: they shall never raise your skin.
Speaker 1: Aixcient angels, Oh Christ, my Savior, my Savior, help to
Speaker 1: save distress it Faustus's soul into Lucifer, Belzebab and Mephestophilus.
Speaker 3: Christ cannot save thy soul, for he is just there's none,
Speaker 3: but I have interest in the same.
Speaker 2: Oh what art thou that lookest so terribly?
Speaker 3: I am Lucifer, and this is my companion prince in Hell.
Speaker 2: Oh, Faustus, they are come to fetch thy soul.
Speaker 10: We are come to tell THEE. Thou dost injure us, thou.
Speaker 3: Callest of Christ. Contrary to thy promise, Thou shouldst not
Speaker 3: think on God, think of the devil and his damn too.
Speaker 2: Nor will Faustus henceforth pardon him for this. And Faustus
Speaker 2: vowsna to look to heaven.
Speaker 3: So shalt thou show thyself an obedient servant, and we
Speaker 3: will highly gratify THEE for it.
Speaker 10: Faustus, we are come from Hell in person to show
Speaker 10: THEE some pastime. Sit down, and thou shalt behold the
Speaker 10: seven deadly Sins appear to THEE in their own proper
Speaker 10: shapes and likeness.
Speaker 2: That site will be as pleasant unto me as Paradise
Speaker 2: was to Adam the first day of his creation.
Speaker 3: Talk not of paradise or creation, but mark the show.
Speaker 3: Go Mephistopheles and fetch them men.
Speaker 1: Mephistophelus brings in the Seven deadly sins.
Speaker 10: Now faustus question them of their names and dispositions, that
Speaker 10: shall I soon?
Speaker 2: What art thou the first?
Speaker 1: Ay am pride, disdained to have any parents? I am
Speaker 1: like to obbens flee. I can creep into every quarner
Speaker 1: of a wench, sometimes like a petty we I sit
Speaker 1: upon her brow, next legging necklace, I hang about her neck. Then,
Speaker 1: like a fan of feathers, I kiss her lips, and then,
Speaker 1: turning myself to a rought smock, do what I list,
Speaker 1: But fi what a smell of hair? I will not
Speaker 1: speak a word more for a king of ransom unless
Speaker 1: the ground be perfumed and covered with a cloth of Arras.
Speaker 2: Thou art a proud nave. Indeed, what art thou? The second?
Speaker 6: I am covetousness, begotten of an old churl in a
Speaker 6: leather bag. And might I now obtain my wish this house,
Speaker 6: you and all should turn to gold, and I might
Speaker 6: lock you safe into my chest, Oh, my sweet gold.
Speaker 2: And what art thou the third?
Speaker 21: I am envy, begotten of a chimney sweeper and an
Speaker 21: oyster wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books burned.
Speaker 21: I am lean with seeing others eat, Oh, that there
Speaker 21: would come a famine over all the world, that all
Speaker 21: might die, and I live alone. Then thou shouldt see
Speaker 21: how fat I'd be. But must thou sit and I
Speaker 21: stand come down with a vengeance.
Speaker 2: Out envious wretch. But what art thou the fourth?
Speaker 22: I am wrath?
Speaker 11: I had neither father nor mother. I leapt out of
Speaker 11: a lion's mouth when I was scarce an hour old,
Speaker 11: and ever since have run up and down the world
Speaker 11: with this kiss of re wounding myself when I could
Speaker 11: get none to fight with all. I was born in hell,
Speaker 11: and look to it, for some of you shall be
Speaker 11: my father.
Speaker 2: And what art thou the fifth?
Speaker 5: I am gluttony?
Speaker 12: My parents are all dead, and the devil a penny.
Speaker 12: They have left me but a small pension, and that
Speaker 12: buys me thirty meals a day, and ten bevers, a
Speaker 12: small trifle to suffice nature. I come of a royal pedigree.
Speaker 12: My father was a gamin of bacon, my mother a
Speaker 12: hogshead of claret wine. My godfather's were these Peter Pickleherring
Speaker 12: and Martin martinmus beef. But my godmother, oh, she was
Speaker 12: an ancient gentlewoman. Her name was Marjorie marshbeer. Now forsters,
Speaker 12: thou hast heard O my progeny, wilt thou bid me
Speaker 12: to supper?
Speaker 20: Not I?
Speaker 12: Then the devil choke thee.
Speaker 2: Choke thyself, glutton, What art thou?
Speaker 5: The sixth, Hey ho, I am sloth? I was begotten
Speaker 5: on a sunny bank. Hey ho, I'll not speak a
Speaker 5: word more for a king's ransom?
Speaker 2: And what are you, mistress Minx? The seventh and last?
Speaker 23: Who I, sir?
Speaker 24: I am one that loves an inch of raw mutton
Speaker 24: better than an ell of fried stockfish. And the first
Speaker 24: letter of my name begins.
Speaker 1: With l.
Speaker 3: Away to Hell, away.
Speaker 1: On pipa tion and the sins.
Speaker 2: Oh, how this sight doth delight my soul?
Speaker 3: Tut Faustus in Hell is all manner of delight?
Speaker 2: Oh might I see Hell and return again safe? How
Speaker 2: happy were I?
Speaker 3: Then, Faustus, thou shalt at midnight, I will sin for thee. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: peruse this book and view it through lee, And thou
Speaker 3: shalt turn thyself into what shape thou wilt.
Speaker 2: Thanks Mighty Lucifer, this will I keep as cherry as
Speaker 2: my life.
Speaker 3: Now, Faustus, farewell.
Speaker 2: Farewell, Great Lucifer ecciant Lucifer and Belgebab. Come Mephistophelus, ecciant
Speaker 2: Shane too into Robin with a book?
Speaker 6: What dick, look to the horses there till I come again.
Speaker 6: I have gotten one of the t Faustus's conjuring books.
Speaker 6: And now we'll have such knavery as passes.
Speaker 9: Into dig what Robin you misc Come away and walk
Speaker 9: the horses.
Speaker 6: I walk the horses, I scorn faith. I have other
Speaker 6: masses in hand. Let the horses walk themselves and they
Speaker 6: will reads a per se a t h e the
Speaker 6: o per se o demi organ gorgan Keep further from me,
Speaker 6: Thou illiterate and unlearned hostler snails.
Speaker 9: What hast thou got there a book? Why thou canst
Speaker 9: not tell their a word aunt that.
Speaker 6: Thou shall see presently keep out of the circle, I say,
Speaker 6: lest I send you into the ostry with a vengeance.
Speaker 9: That's like faith. You'd best leave your foolery for my master.
Speaker 2: Come.
Speaker 9: He'll conjure you faith.
Speaker 6: My master conjure me. I'll tell thee what, and my
Speaker 6: master come here. I'll clap as fair a pair of
Speaker 6: horns on zad as thou ever saw thy life.
Speaker 9: Thou needst not do that, for my mistress hath done it.
Speaker 6: Ay, there be of us here that have waited as
Speaker 6: deep into matters as other men if they were disposed.
Speaker 9: To talk a plague take you. I thought you did
Speaker 9: not sneak up and down after her for nothing, But
Speaker 9: I prithee tell me in good sadness, Robin, is that
Speaker 9: a conjuring book?
Speaker 6: Do but speak what thous have me do? And I'll
Speaker 6: do it. If thou dance naked, put off thy clothes,
Speaker 6: and I'll conjure thee about presently. Or if thou'll go
Speaker 6: but to the tavern with me, I'll give thee white wine,
Speaker 6: red wine, claret wine, sack muscardine, malmsie, and whipping crust
Speaker 6: old belly hold, and will not pay a penny for it.
Speaker 9: Oh, brave prithee, let's do it presently, for I am
Speaker 9: as dry as a dog.
Speaker 1: Come, then that's away ixciant Scene three into chorus.
Speaker 17: Learned Faustus to find the secrets of astronomy Graven in
Speaker 17: the Book of Jove's High Firmament, did mount him up
Speaker 17: to scale Olympus's top, where sitting in the chariot, burning bright,
Speaker 17: drawn by the strength of yoked dragons necks. He views
Speaker 17: the clouds, the planets, and the stars, the tropic zones
Speaker 17: and quarters of the sky, from the bright circle of
Speaker 17: the horned moon, even to the height of Primum, mobile
Speaker 17: and whirling round with this circumference within the concave compass
Speaker 17: of the pole, from east to west, his dragons swiftly glide,
Speaker 17: and in eight days did bring him home again. Not
Speaker 17: long he stayed within his quiet house to rest his
Speaker 17: bones after his weary toil. But new exploits do hail
Speaker 17: him out again, and mounted then upon a dragon's back,
Speaker 17: that with his wings did part the subtle air. He
Speaker 17: now is gone to prove cosmography that measures coasts and
Speaker 17: kingdoms of the Earth, And, as I guess, will first
Speaker 17: arrive at Rome to see the Pope and manner of
Speaker 17: his court, and take some part of Holy Peter's feast,
Speaker 17: through which this day is highly solemnized.
Speaker 1: Exit scene for into Fastus and Mefistophelus.
Speaker 2: Having now my good Methistophelus passed with delight the stately
Speaker 2: town of Trier, environed round with airy mountain tops with
Speaker 2: walls of flint and deep intrenched lakes not to be
Speaker 2: won by any conquering prince from Paris. Next coasting the
Speaker 2: realm of France, we saw the river Mine fall into Rhine,
Speaker 2: whose banks are set with groves of fruitful vines. Then
Speaker 2: up to Naples, rich Campania, whose buildings fair and gorgeous
Speaker 2: to the eye, the streets straight forth and paved with
Speaker 2: finest brick quarter the town in four equivalents. There saw
Speaker 2: we learned Marrow's golden tomb, the way he cut an
Speaker 2: English mile in length through a rock of stone in
Speaker 2: one night's space, from thence to Venice Padua, and the
Speaker 2: rest in one of which a sumptuous temple stands that
Speaker 2: threats the stars with her aspiring top, whose frame is
Speaker 2: paved with sundry colored stones and roofed aloft with curious
Speaker 2: work in gold. Thus hitherto hath Thoust to spend his time.
Speaker 2: But tell me now what resting place is this hast, Thou,
Speaker 2: as erstight did command, conducted me within the walls of Rome.
Speaker 20: I have my faustus, and for proof thereof this is
Speaker 20: the goodly palace of the Pope. And cause we are
Speaker 20: no common guests, I choose his privy chamber for our use.
Speaker 2: I hope his Holiness will bid us welcome.
Speaker 20: All's one, for will be bold with his venison. But now,
Speaker 20: my Faustus, that thou mayst perceive what Rome contains, for
Speaker 20: to delight thine eyes. Know that this city stands upon
Speaker 20: seven hills that underprop the groundwork of the same. Just
Speaker 20: through the midst runs flowing Tiber's stream, with winding banks
Speaker 20: that cut it into parts, over the which too stately
Speaker 20: bridges lean that make safe passage to each part of
Speaker 20: the Rome. Upon the bridge called Ponte Angelo, erected as
Speaker 20: a castle passing strong, where thou shalt see such store
Speaker 20: of ordnance as that the double cannons forged the brass
Speaker 20: do match the number of the days contained within the
Speaker 20: compass of one complete year. Beside the gates and high
Speaker 20: pyramids that Julius Caesar brought from Africa.
Speaker 2: Now by the kingdoms of infernal rule of Styx, of Acheron,
Speaker 2: and the fiery lake of ever burning Phlegethon, I swear
Speaker 2: that I do long to see the monuments and situation
Speaker 2: of bright, splendent Rome. Come. Therefore, let's away.
Speaker 20: Nay stay, my Faustus, I know you'd see the Pope
Speaker 20: and take some part of Holy Peter's feast, the which
Speaker 20: in state and hygh solemnity. This day is held through
Speaker 20: Rome and Italy in honor of the Pope's triumphant victory.
Speaker 2: Sweet Mephistophilus, thou pleasest me whilst I am here on earth,
Speaker 2: let me be cloyed with all things that delight the
Speaker 2: heart of man. My four and twenty years of liberty.
Speaker 2: I'll spend in pleasure and in dalliance that Faustus name,
Speaker 2: whilst this bright frame doth stand may be admired through
Speaker 2: the furthest land tis.
Speaker 20: Well, said Faustus. Come then stand by me, and thou
Speaker 20: shalt see them.
Speaker 2: Come immediately, Nay, stay, my gentle Mephistophilus, and grant me
Speaker 2: my request, And then I go, Thou know'st Within the
Speaker 2: compass of eight days, we view'd the face of heaven,
Speaker 2: of earth and hell, so high our dragon's sword into
Speaker 2: the air, that, looking down the earth appeared to me
Speaker 2: no bigger than my hand. In quantity there did we
Speaker 2: view the kingdoms of the world, And what might please
Speaker 2: mine eye I there beheld? Then in this show, let
Speaker 2: me an actor be that this proud Pope may Faustus
Speaker 2: cunning see.
Speaker 20: Let it be so, my faustus. But first stay and
Speaker 20: view their triumphs as they pass this way, and then
Speaker 20: devise what best contents thy mind. By cunning in thine
Speaker 20: art across the Pope, or dash the pride of this solemnity,
Speaker 20: to make his monks and abbot stand like apes, and
Speaker 20: point like antics at his triple crown. To beat the
Speaker 20: beads about the friar's pates, or clap huge horns upon
Speaker 20: the cardinal's heads, or an evenly Thou canst devise, and
Speaker 20: I'll perform at fastest hark they come this day shall
Speaker 20: make THEE be admired in.
Speaker 1: Rome, into the cardinals and bishops, some bearing croziers, some
Speaker 1: the pillars, monks and friars, singing their procession. Then the
Speaker 1: Pope Raymond, King of Hungary, the Archbishop of Reims, Bruno,
Speaker 1: led in chains and attendants cast down.
Speaker 12: Now a footstool, saxon Bruno stoop, whilst on thy back,
Speaker 12: his Holiness send St. Peter's chair and state pontifical road.
Speaker 18: Lucifer, that state belongs to me. But thus I call
Speaker 18: to Peter, not to THEE, to.
Speaker 25: Me, and Peter, shalt thou groveling lie and crouch before
Speaker 25: the papal dig in it sound trumpets. Then, for thus
Speaker 25: Saint Peter's heir from Bruno's back ascends Saint Peter's chair.
Speaker 1: A flourish while he sins.
Speaker 25: Thus, as the gods creep on with feet of wool
Speaker 25: long air, with iron hands they punish men, so shall
Speaker 25: our sleeping vengeance now arise and smite with death thy
Speaker 25: hated enterprise. Lord Cardinals of France and Padua, go forthwith
Speaker 25: to our holy Consistory, and read amongst the statutes decretal
Speaker 25: what by the Holy Council held at Trent, the Sacred
Speaker 25: Synod hath decreed for him that doth assume the papal
Speaker 25: government without elecxion and a true consent. Away and bring
Speaker 25: us worth with speed.
Speaker 1: We go, my lord, exciant Cardinals of France and Padua,
Speaker 1: Lord Raymond, they converse in dumb chou go haste.
Speaker 2: Thee gentle Mephistophelus follow the Cardinals to the Consistory, And
Speaker 2: as they turn their superstitious books, strike them with sloth
Speaker 2: and drowsy idleness, and make them sleep so sound that
Speaker 2: in their shapes thyself and I may parley with this Pope.
Speaker 2: This proud confronter of the Emperor, and in despite of
Speaker 2: all his wholiness, restore this Bruno to his liberty and
Speaker 2: bear him to the states of Germany. Faustus, I go
Speaker 2: despatch it. Soon the Pope shall curse that Faustus came
Speaker 2: to Rome.
Speaker 1: Excient Faustus and Mephestophilus.
Speaker 18: Pope Edrian, let me have write of law I was
Speaker 18: elected by the Emperor.
Speaker 25: We will pose the Emperor for that deed and curse
Speaker 25: the people that submit to him. Both he and thou
Speaker 25: shalt stand, excommunicate and interdict from Church's privilege and all
Speaker 25: the society of holy men. He grows too proud in
Speaker 25: his authority, lifting his lofty head above the clouds, and
Speaker 25: like a steeple over peers the Church. But we'll pull
Speaker 25: down his haughty insolence. And as Pope Alexander, our progenitor,
Speaker 25: trod on the neck of German, Frederick adding this golden
Speaker 25: sentence to our praise, that Peter's heirs should tread on
Speaker 25: emperors and walk upon the dreadful adder's back, treading the
Speaker 25: lion and the dragon down, and fearless spurn the killing basilisk.
Speaker 25: So will we quell that haughty, schismatic, and by authority
Speaker 25: apostolical depose him from his legal government.
Speaker 18: Oh Julius war to princely sigismond for him and the
Speaker 18: succeeding popes of Rome to hold the emperors their lawful lords.
Speaker 25: Pope Julius did abuse the Church's rights, and therefore none
Speaker 25: of his decrees can stand. Is not all power on
Speaker 25: Earth's bestow'd on us, And therefore though we world we
Speaker 25: cannot err behold the silver belt, where two is fix'd
Speaker 25: seven golden seals, fast seal'd with seven seals, in token
Speaker 25: of our sevenfold power from heav'n to bind or loose, lock, fast,
Speaker 25: condemn or judge, resign, or seal, or whatso pleaseth us.
Speaker 25: Then he and thou and all the world shall stoop
Speaker 25: or be assured of our dreadful cars to light as
Speaker 25: heavy as the pains of Hell.
Speaker 1: Re into Fastus and Mephistophilus in the shapes of the
Speaker 1: cardinals of France and Pedua.
Speaker 20: Now tell me, Faustus, are we not fitted well?
Speaker 2: Yes, Mephistophelus and two such cardinals ne'er serv'd the Holy
Speaker 2: Pope as we shall do. But whilst they sleep within
Speaker 2: the consistory. Let us salute his reverend fatherhood.
Speaker 12: Behold, my Lord, the cardinals are returned.
Speaker 25: Welcome, grave fathers. Answer presently, what hath our holy Council
Speaker 25: their decreed concerning Bruno and the Emperor in quittance of
Speaker 25: their late conspiracy against our state and papal dignity.
Speaker 2: Most Sacred Patron of the Church of Rome, by full
Speaker 2: consent of all the Synod of Priests and prelates, it
Speaker 2: is thus decreed that Bruno and the German Emperor beheld
Speaker 2: as lollards and bold schismatics and proud disturbers of the
Speaker 2: Church's peace. And if that Bruno, by his own assent,
Speaker 2: without enforcement of the German peers, did seek to wear
Speaker 2: the Triple Diadem and by your death to climb Saint
Speaker 2: Peter's chair, the statutes decretal have thus decreed he shall
Speaker 2: be straight, condemned of heresy, and on a pile of fagots,
Speaker 2: burnt to death.
Speaker 25: HIGHTI is enough here take him to your church and
Speaker 25: bear him straight to Ponte Angelo, and in the strongest
Speaker 25: tower enclose him fast. Tomorrow, sit in our consistory with
Speaker 25: all our college of grave cardinals, we will determine of
Speaker 25: his life or death. Here take his triple crown along
Speaker 25: with you, and leave it in the church's treasury. Make
Speaker 25: haste again, my good lord Cardinals, and take our blessing apostolical.
Speaker 20: So so twas never devil thus blessed.
Speaker 2: Before away, sweet Mephistophelus begone, the cardinals will be plagued
Speaker 2: for this anon.
Speaker 1: Y and Fastus and Methistophelus, with Bruno.
Speaker 25: Go presently and bring a banquet force that we may
Speaker 25: solemnize Saint Peter's feast. And with Lord Raymond, King of Hungary,
Speaker 25: drink to our late and happy victory.
Speaker 1: A synod while a banquet is brought in. And then
Speaker 1: enter Faustus and Mephistophelus in their own shapes.
Speaker 20: Now, Faustus, come prepare thyself for mirth. The sleepy cardinals
Speaker 20: are hard at hand to censure Bruno. That is posted hence,
Speaker 20: and on a proud paste steed as swift as thought,
Speaker 20: flies over the outs to fruitful Germany. There to salute
Speaker 20: the woeful emperor.
Speaker 2: The Pope will curse them for their sloth to day
Speaker 2: that slept both Bruno and his crown away. But now
Speaker 2: that Faustus may delight his mind, and by their folly
Speaker 2: makes some merriment. Sweet Mephistophelus, so charm me here that
Speaker 2: I may walk invisible to all, and do whate'er I please, unseen.
Speaker 20: Of any Faustus. Thou shalt then kneel down presently, whilst
Speaker 20: on thy head I lay my hand and charm THEE
Speaker 20: with this magic Wand first where this girdle then appear
Speaker 20: invisible to all. Are hear the planet seven, the gloomy
Speaker 20: air hell and the furious forked hair, Pluto's blue fire,
Speaker 20: and Teacat's tree with magic spells, So compass thee that
Speaker 20: no eye may thy body see. So Faustest, now for
Speaker 20: all their holiness, do what thou wilt. Thou shalt not
Speaker 20: be discerned.
Speaker 2: Thanks Mephistophalus. Now, Friars, take heed, lest Faustus, make your
Speaker 2: shaven crowns to bleed.
Speaker 20: Faustus no more. See where the cardinals come.
Speaker 1: Re enter the cardinals of France and Padua with a book.
Speaker 25: Welcome, Lord Cardinals, Come sit down, Lord Raymond, take your seat.
Speaker 25: Friars attend and see that all seems be in the
Speaker 25: readiness as best beseems this solemn festival.
Speaker 6: First, may it please your sacred holiness to view the
Speaker 6: sentence of the Reverend Cynod concerning Bruto and the Emperor.
Speaker 25: What needs this question? Did I not tell you to
Speaker 25: morrow we would city the conseil story, and they're determined
Speaker 25: of his punishment you brought us world even now it
Speaker 25: was decreed that Bruno and the cursed Emperor where by
Speaker 25: the Holy Council both condemned for lawsed lollards and base schismatics.
Speaker 25: Then wherefore would you have me view that book?
Speaker 20: Your grace, mistakes, you gave us no such charge.
Speaker 3: Deny it not.
Speaker 12: We all are witnesses that Bruno here was late delivered
Speaker 12: you with his rich triple crown, to be reserved and
Speaker 12: put in the Church's treasury.
Speaker 25: By Holy Paul. We saw them, not by Peter. You
Speaker 25: shall die unless you bring them forth in me mediately
Speaker 25: hailed them to prison, laid their limbs with chives, false
Speaker 25: prelets for this hateful treachery. Curst, be your souls to haddish.
Speaker 1: Misery, excient attendants with the two cardinals, so.
Speaker 2: They are safe now, faustus to the feast. The Pope
Speaker 2: had never such a frolic.
Speaker 25: Guest, Lord Archbishop of Race, sit down with us.
Speaker 1: Hey, thank your holiness, fall too.
Speaker 2: The devil choke you and you spare?
Speaker 1: Who is that spoke?
Speaker 25: Friars? Look about, Lord Raymond, pray fall too. I am
Speaker 25: beholding to the Bishop of Milan for this so rare
Speaker 25: a present.
Speaker 2: I thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: Snatches the dish.
Speaker 25: How now who snatched the meat?
Speaker 13: Me?
Speaker 25: Villains? Why speak you not? My good lord Archbishop. Here's
Speaker 25: a most dainty dish was sent me from a cardinal
Speaker 25: in France.
Speaker 1: I'll have that too, snatches the dish.
Speaker 25: What lolt to attend our holiness that we receive such
Speaker 25: great indignity? Oh, fetch me some wine?
Speaker 2: I pray do for faustus is a dry.
Speaker 25: Lord Raymond, I drink unto your grace.
Speaker 2: I pledge your grace.
Speaker 1: Snatches the cap My.
Speaker 25: Wine gone too, Ye lubbers, look about and finds the
Speaker 25: man that does this villainy or buy our sanctitude? You
Speaker 25: all shall die? I pray My lords have patience and
Speaker 25: the troublesome banquet please.
Speaker 1: It, your Holiness. I think it be some ghost crept
Speaker 1: out of purgatray and now has come unto your Holiness
Speaker 1: for his pardon.
Speaker 25: It may be so, go, then, command our priests to
Speaker 25: sing a dirge to lay the fury of the same troublesome.
Speaker 1: Coast exit an attendant. The Pope crosses himself.
Speaker 2: How now must every bit be spiced with a cross.
Speaker 1: Nay, then take that strikes the Pope.
Speaker 25: Oh I am slain. Help me, my lord, Oh, come
Speaker 25: and help me to bear my body hence damn to
Speaker 25: be his soul forever.
Speaker 1: For this deed exceant all except Faustus and Methstophelus.
Speaker 20: Now, Faustus, what will you do now? For I can
Speaker 20: tell you you will be a curst of bell, book
Speaker 20: and candle.
Speaker 2: Bell, book and candle, candle, book and bell, forward and
Speaker 2: backward to curse Faustus to hell.
Speaker 1: Re enter the friars with bill, booken candle for the dirge.
Speaker 20: Come, brotherren, that's about our business, with good devotion.
Speaker 1: They sing.
Speaker 13: Cursed, be heave that stole his hoeen has meat.
Speaker 6: From the tablet.
Speaker 3: Cursed be he.
Speaker 13: That struck he's holthean has uh blow.
Speaker 26: On the face, lady cut me.
Speaker 13: Cursed, be heave that straw, look fry your sound.
Speaker 6: Dull a blow on thepa.
Speaker 1: Maity cast army.
Speaker 6: Cursed behave.
Speaker 13: That t ist herb beor hole Holy.
Speaker 27: Mahty Conomy, cursed behave that took away his holy.
Speaker 28: Haaswa Maty Cat, domys alty Cat, domys mady car.
Speaker 25: Dominus, blty hards.
Speaker 1: Mephistophelus and Faustus beat the friars and fling fireworks among them.
Speaker 1: An exciant end of Act three, Act four, The Tragical
Speaker 1: History of Doctor Faustus from a Quarter of sixteen sixteen
Speaker 1: by Christopher Marlowe. This is a liberyvox recording. All libyvox
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Speaker 1: Robin and Dick with a cup.
Speaker 9: Sarah, Robin, we were best look that your devil can
Speaker 9: answer the stealing of this same cup for the Ventnor's
Speaker 9: boy follows us at the hard heels.
Speaker 6: Tis no muster. Let him come follow us. I'lso conjure him,
Speaker 6: as he was never conjured in his life. I warrant him.
Speaker 29: Let me see the cup here it is, gives the
Speaker 29: cap to Robin Yonder he comes now, Robin, now or
Speaker 29: never show thy cunning into vintna.
Speaker 18: Oh are you here? I am glad I found you.
Speaker 18: You are a couple of fine companions. Pray, where's the
Speaker 18: cup you stole from the tavern?
Speaker 6: How how we steal a cup?
Speaker 2: Take eve?
Speaker 6: What you say? We look not like cup stealers.
Speaker 18: I can tell you never deny it, for I know
Speaker 18: you have it, and I'll search.
Speaker 6: You, search me, ah, and spare not hold the cup.
Speaker 1: Dick aside to Dick giving him the cap, Come come
Speaker 1: search me, search me. Vintna searches him.
Speaker 18: Come on, Sarah, let me search you now, aye aye?
Speaker 1: Do do aside to Robin giving him the cap, hold
Speaker 1: the cup.
Speaker 9: Robin, I fear not your searching. We scorn to steal
Speaker 9: your cups.
Speaker 1: I can tell you, Vintner searches him.
Speaker 18: Never outface me for the matter. For sure the cup
Speaker 18: is between you two.
Speaker 6: Nay there you lie tis beyond us both.
Speaker 18: A plague take you. I thought it was your neighbory
Speaker 18: to take it away. Come give it me again?
Speaker 6: Hi much? When can you tell Dick make me a
Speaker 6: circle and stand close at my back and stir not
Speaker 6: for thy life. Vintner, you shall have your cup, and
Speaker 6: on say nothing.
Speaker 1: Dick read from a book.
Speaker 6: Oh paer say, oh demo, gorgon Belcher and Mephistophelus into Mephistophelus.
Speaker 20: You, princely legions of infernal rule? Am I vexed by
Speaker 20: these villains charms from Constantinople? Have they brought me now?
Speaker 20: Only for pleasure of these damned slaves?
Speaker 1: Exit Vintner, By.
Speaker 6: Lady, Sir, you have had a shrewd journey of it.
Speaker 6: Will it please you to take a shoulder of mutton
Speaker 6: to supper and a tester in your purse and go
Speaker 6: back again?
Speaker 18: Ay?
Speaker 9: I pray you artily, sir, for we called you, But
Speaker 9: in jest I promise.
Speaker 20: You depurge the rashness of this cursed deed. First, be
Speaker 20: thou turned to this ugliest shape for apish deeds, transformed
Speaker 20: to an ape.
Speaker 6: Oh, brave an ape, I pray, sir. Let me have
Speaker 6: the carrying of him about to show some tricks.
Speaker 20: And so thou shalt be thou transformed to a dog
Speaker 20: and carry him upon thy back. Away be gone a dog.
Speaker 6: That's excellent. Let the maids look well to their porridge
Speaker 6: pots for all into the kitchen. Presently come Dick, Come.
Speaker 1: Xey and Robin and Dick.
Speaker 20: Now, with the flames of ever burning fire, I'll wing
Speaker 20: myself and forthwith fly a maine unto my foustess, to
Speaker 20: the Great Turk's court.
Speaker 1: Exit Scene two into Martado and Frederick at several doors.
Speaker 18: What hoe, officers, gentlemen, high, to the presence to attend
Speaker 18: the Emperor. Good Frederick, see the rooms be avoid its trade.
Speaker 18: His majesty is coming to the hall. Go back and
Speaker 18: see the state in readiness.
Speaker 23: But whereas Bruno, our elected Pope, that on a fur
Speaker 23: is back in post from Rome, will not his grace
Speaker 23: consort the Emperor?
Speaker 18: Oh yes, And with him comes the German conjurer, the
Speaker 18: learned forsts, fame of Wittenberg, the wonder of the world,
Speaker 18: for magic art. And he intends to show Great Carolus
Speaker 18: the race of all his taut progenitors, and bring in
Speaker 18: presence of his majesty the royal shapes and perfect semblances
Speaker 18: of Alexander and his beauteous paramore.
Speaker 23: Where is Benvolu fast asleep?
Speaker 18: I warrant you his rouse with stoops of rainish wine,
Speaker 18: so kindly as the night to Bruno's health, that all
Speaker 18: this day the sluggard keeps his bid.
Speaker 23: See see his windows open.
Speaker 18: We'll call to him, what ho Benvolio.
Speaker 1: Into binfolio above at a window in his nightcap, buttoning,
Speaker 1: w what the devil ail?
Speaker 3: You? Two?
Speaker 18: Speak softly, sir, lest the devil hear you. P Pausts
Speaker 18: at the court is late arrived and at his heels
Speaker 18: a thousand furious wait to accomplish whatsoever? The doctor, please?
Speaker 26: What of this?
Speaker 18: Come? Leave my chamber first, and thou shalt see this
Speaker 18: conjurer perform such rare exploits before the Pope and Royal
Speaker 18: Emperor as never yet was seen in Germany?
Speaker 26: Has not the Pope enough of conjuring?
Speaker 25: Yet?
Speaker 26: He was upon the devil's back late enough, And if
Speaker 26: he be so far in love with him, I would
Speaker 26: he would post with him to Rome again.
Speaker 23: Speak, wilt thou come and see this sport?
Speaker 26: Not?
Speaker 18: I wilt thou stand in that window and see it?
Speaker 13: Then?
Speaker 18: Hi?
Speaker 26: Can I fall not asleep?
Speaker 18: In the meantime the Emperor is at hand, who comes
Speaker 18: to see what wonders by black spells may come past me?
Speaker 26: Will go you attend the Emperor? I am content for
Speaker 26: this once to thrust my head out at a window before.
Speaker 26: They say, if a man be drunk overnight, the devil
Speaker 26: cannot hurt him in the morning. If that be true.
Speaker 26: I have a charm in my head shall control him
Speaker 26: as well as the conjuror. I warrant you.
Speaker 1: Y and Frederic and Martino. Scene three a senate into Charles,
Speaker 1: the German Emperor, Bruno, Duke of Sexony, Fastus, Mephistophilus, Frederic,
Speaker 1: Martino and attendants.
Speaker 6: Wonder of men, renowned magician Thrice learned Faustus, welcome to
Speaker 6: our court. This deed of thine, in setting Bruno free
Speaker 6: from his and our professed enemy, shall add more excellence
Speaker 6: unto Thine art than if by powerful necromantic spells thou
Speaker 6: couldst command the world's obedience forever. Be beloved of Carolus.
Speaker 6: And if this Bruno, thou hast late redeemed in peace,
Speaker 6: possess the Triple Diadem, and sit in Peter's chair despite
Speaker 6: of chance, thou shalt be famous through all Italy and
Speaker 6: honored of the German Emperor.
Speaker 2: These gracious words, most Royal Carolus, shall make poor Faustus,
Speaker 2: to his utmost power, both love and serve the German Emperor,
Speaker 2: and lay his life at Holy Bruno's feet for proof
Speaker 2: whereof if so your grace be pleased, the doctor stands
Speaker 2: prepared by power of art, to cast his magic charms
Speaker 2: that shall pierce through the ebben gates of ever burning hell,
Speaker 2: and hail the stubborn furies from their caves to compass
Speaker 2: whatsoe'er your grace commands.
Speaker 1: Aside blood.
Speaker 26: He speaks terribly, but for all that I do not
Speaker 26: greatly believe him. He looks as like a conjurer as
Speaker 26: the Pope to a costermonger.
Speaker 6: Then, Faustus, as though late didst promise us we would
Speaker 6: behold that famous conqueror, Great Alexander and his paramour in
Speaker 6: their true shapes and state majestical, that we may wonder
Speaker 6: at their excellence.
Speaker 2: Your Majesty shall see them presently, Mephistophilus away and with
Speaker 2: a solemn noise of trumpet sound present before this royal Emperor,
Speaker 2: Great Alexander and his beauteous parable.
Speaker 20: More Faustus, I will exit.
Speaker 26: Well, master doctor, and your devils come not away quickly.
Speaker 26: You shall have me asleep presently, Zoons, I could eat
Speaker 26: myself or anger to think I have been such an
Speaker 26: ass all this while, to stand gaping after the Devil's
Speaker 26: governor and can see nothing.
Speaker 2: I'll make you feel something, Anon, if my art fail
Speaker 2: me not, My lord, I must forewarn your majesty that
Speaker 2: when my spirits present the royal shapes of Alexander and
Speaker 2: his paramour, your grace demands no questions of the king,
Speaker 2: but in dumb silence, let them come and go.
Speaker 6: Be it as fast as please. We are content.
Speaker 26: Ay, ay, I'm content too. And thou bring Alexander and
Speaker 26: his paramour before the Emperor. I'll be actian and turn myself.
Speaker 2: In to a stag, and I'll play Diana and send
Speaker 2: you the horns.
Speaker 1: Presently, senate enter at one door the Emperor Alexander, of
Speaker 1: the other Darius. They meet. Darius is thrown down, Alexander
Speaker 1: kills him, takes off his crown, and, offering to go out,
Speaker 1: his paramour meets him. He embraceth her and sets darius
Speaker 1: crown upon her head, and, coming back, both salute the Emperor, who,
Speaker 1: leaving his state, offers to embrace them, which foust a
Speaker 1: scene suddenly stays him. Then trumpets cease and music sounds.
Speaker 2: My gracious lord, you do forget yourself. These are but shadows,
Speaker 2: not substantial.
Speaker 6: Oh pardon me, my thoughts are so ravished with sight
Speaker 6: of this renawned emperor that in mine arms. I would
Speaker 6: have compassed him, But Faustus, since I may not speak
Speaker 6: to them to satisfy my longing thoughts at full, let
Speaker 6: me this tell THEE. I have heard it said that
Speaker 6: this fair lady, whilst she lived on earth, had on
Speaker 6: her neck a little wart or mole. How may I
Speaker 6: prove that saying to be true?
Speaker 2: Your majesty? May boldly go and.
Speaker 6: See Faustus, I see it plain, and in this sight
Speaker 6: thou better pleasest me than if I gained another monarchy.
Speaker 2: Away begone exit show see see, my gracious lord. What
Speaker 2: strange beast is yaron that thrusts his head out at window?
Speaker 6: Oh, wondrous sight? See jugo saxony, Two spreading horns, most
Speaker 6: strangely fastened upon the head of young Benvoglio.
Speaker 12: What is his sleep or dead?
Speaker 2: He sleeps, my lord, dreams, not of his horns.
Speaker 6: This sport is excellent. We'll call him. Wake him? What
Speaker 6: ho Benvolio, Oh plague upon you let me sleep? Awhile
Speaker 6: I blame THEE not to sleep much, having such a
Speaker 6: head of thine own.
Speaker 12: Look up, Benvolio tis The Emperor.
Speaker 26: Calls the Emperor, Where, oh zoons my head?
Speaker 30: Nay?
Speaker 6: And thy horns. Hold tis no matter for thy head,
Speaker 6: for that's armed sufficiently.
Speaker 2: Why how now, sir knight, what hanged by the horns?
Speaker 2: This is most horrible. Fie fie, pull in your head
Speaker 2: for shame. Let not all the world wonder at you.
Speaker 26: Zoons, doctor, this is your villainy.
Speaker 2: Oh, say not so, sir. The doctor has no skill,
Speaker 2: no art, no cunning to present and these lords or
Speaker 2: bring before this royal Emperor, the mighty monarch war like Alexander,
Speaker 2: if Faustus do it, you are straight resolved in bold
Speaker 2: Actaean's shape to turn a stag. And therefore, my lord,
Speaker 2: so please, your majesty, I'll raise a kennel of hounds
Speaker 2: shall hunt him, so as all his footmanship shall scarce
Speaker 2: prevail to keep his carcass from their bloody fangs. Ho
Speaker 2: bell him off argeron asteroth.
Speaker 31: Hold hold zod, He'll raise up a kennel of devils.
Speaker 31: I think anon, good, my Lord, entreat for me, s blood,
Speaker 31: I am never able to endure these torments.
Speaker 6: Then, good, monster, doctor, let me entreat you to remove
Speaker 6: his horns. He has done penance now sufficiently.
Speaker 2: My gracious lord, not so much for injury done to
Speaker 2: me as to delight your majesty with some mirth. Faustus
Speaker 2: justly requited this injurious night, which, being all I desire,
Speaker 2: I am content to remove his horns. Mephistophelus transform him.
Speaker 1: Mephistophilus removes the horns.
Speaker 2: And hereafter, sir, look you speak well of scholars.
Speaker 1: Aside, and then exit above speak well of ye.
Speaker 26: S blood and scholars be such cuckold makers to clap
Speaker 26: horns of honest men's heads. Of this order, I'll ne'er
Speaker 26: trust smooth faces and small roughsmore. But an I be
Speaker 26: not revenged for this? Would I might be turned to
Speaker 26: a gaping oyster and drink nothing but salt water.
Speaker 6: Come, Faustus, while the emperor lives in recompense of this
Speaker 6: thy high dessert, Thou shoul't command the state of Germany
Speaker 6: and live, beloved of my carolous.
Speaker 1: Exciant Scene four into Benvolia, Martina Frederic and soldiers.
Speaker 18: Nay sweep, and volio let Us sway thy thoughts from
Speaker 18: this attempt against the conjurer away.
Speaker 26: You love me not to urge me. Thus shall I
Speaker 26: let slip so great an injury? When every servile groom
Speaker 26: jests at my wrongs, and in their rustic gambols proudly
Speaker 26: say Benvolio's head was graced with horns. Today, Oh, may
Speaker 26: these eyelids never close again. To with my sword, I
Speaker 26: have that conjuror slain. If you will aid me in
Speaker 26: this enterprise, then draw your weapons and be resolute. If
Speaker 26: not depart here will Benvolio die, But Faustus death shall
Speaker 26: quit my infamy.
Speaker 23: Nay, we will stay with thee, betide what may, and
Speaker 23: kill that doctor if he come this way.
Speaker 26: Then, Gentle Frederick, tie thee to the grove, and place
Speaker 26: our servants and our followers close in an ambush there
Speaker 26: behind the trees. By this I know the Conjurer is near.
Speaker 26: I saw him kneel and kiss the Emperor's hand and
Speaker 26: take his leave laden with rich rewards. Then soldiers, boldly fight.
Speaker 26: If Faustut die, take you the wealth, leave us the victory.
Speaker 23: Come, soldiers, follow me onto the grove. Who kills him
Speaker 23: shall have gold and end this love.
Speaker 1: Exit Frederic and soldiers. My head is.
Speaker 26: Lighter than it was by the horns, But yet my
Speaker 26: heart's more ponderous than my head and pants. Until I
Speaker 26: see that conjurer dead.
Speaker 18: Where shall we place us elanodio.
Speaker 26: Here will we stay to bide the first assault? Oh word,
Speaker 26: that damned did hell hound? But in place thou shouldst
Speaker 26: see me quit my foul disgrace.
Speaker 23: Re into Frederick, close close, the conjurer is at hand,
Speaker 23: and all alone comes walking in his gown. Be ready, then,
Speaker 23: and strike the peasant.
Speaker 26: Down mine be that honor. Then now sword strike home
Speaker 26: for horns he gave.
Speaker 1: I'll have his head, and on ce c he comes
Speaker 1: into fastest with a false head.
Speaker 26: No words. This blow ends all hell, take his soul.
Speaker 26: His body thus.
Speaker 1: Must fall stebs fastest, falling.
Speaker 32: Ah, grown you massa doctor, break may his heart with groans,
Speaker 32: Dear Frederick, see thus will I end his griefs Immediately
Speaker 32: strike with a willing.
Speaker 1: Hen Benvolie, strike shall fastest head.
Speaker 9: His head is up.
Speaker 26: The devil's dead. The furies now may laugh.
Speaker 23: Was this that stern aspect, that awful frown made the
Speaker 23: grim monarch of infernal spirits tremble and quake at his
Speaker 23: commanding charms?
Speaker 18: Was this that them hid whose art conspired when Volio's
Speaker 18: shame before the emperor.
Speaker 26: I that's the head, and there the body lies justly
Speaker 26: rewarded for his villainies.
Speaker 23: Come, let's devise how we may add more shame to
Speaker 23: the black scandal of his hated name.
Speaker 26: First on his head in quittance of my wrongs, I'll
Speaker 26: nail huge forked horns and let them hang within the
Speaker 26: window where he yoked me first, that all the world
Speaker 26: may see my just revenge.
Speaker 18: What use shall we put his bit to?
Speaker 26: We'll sell it to a chimney sweeper. It'll wear out
Speaker 26: ten birch and brooms.
Speaker 32: I warrant you what shall his eyes do?
Speaker 26: We'll pull out his eyes, and they shall serve for
Speaker 26: buttons to his lips to keep his tongue from catching cold.
Speaker 18: An excellent policy. And now, sirs, having divided him, what
Speaker 18: shall the body do?
Speaker 1: Fastest rises zoons, the devil's alive again.
Speaker 23: Give him his head for God's sake.
Speaker 2: Nay, keep it, Faustus will have head and hands, Aye,
Speaker 2: all your hearts to recompense this deednew you not traitors.
Speaker 2: I was limited for four and twenty years to breathe
Speaker 2: on earth, And had you cut my body with your
Speaker 2: swords or hued this flesh and bones as small as sand,
Speaker 2: Yet in a minute had my spirit returned, and I
Speaker 2: had breathed a man made free from harm? But wherefore
Speaker 2: do I dally my revenge? Astrath Belimoth, Mephistopheles.
Speaker 1: Into Mephistophilus and other devils.
Speaker 2: Go horse these traitors on your fiery backs, and mount
Speaker 2: aloft with them as high as heaven. Thence, pitch them
Speaker 2: headlong to the lowest hell. Yet stay, the world shall
Speaker 2: see their misery, and hell shall after plague their treachery.
Speaker 2: Go Bellimoth, and take this caitiff, hence, and hurl him
Speaker 2: in some lake of mud and dirt. Take thou this other,
Speaker 2: drag him through the woods amongst the pricking thorns and
Speaker 2: sharpest briars, Whilst with my gentle Mefistophilus, this traitor flies
Speaker 2: unto some steepy rock that, rolling down may break the
Speaker 2: villain's bones, as he intended to dismember me.
Speaker 1: Fly.
Speaker 2: Hence, despatch my charge immediately.
Speaker 23: Piteous Gentlefotus, save our lives away.
Speaker 1: He must needs go that the devil drives excient Mefistophilus
Speaker 1: and devils, with Benvolia, Martina and Frederic into the ambushed soldiers.
Speaker 14: Come, sirs, prepare yourselves in readiness, make haste to help
Speaker 14: these noble gentlemen, I heard them parley with the conjuror
Speaker 14: see where he comes?
Speaker 1: Dispatch and kill less?
Speaker 26: Leave?
Speaker 2: What's here? An ambush to betray my life? Then, Faustus,
Speaker 2: try thy skill base peasants stand for lo these trees
Speaker 2: remove at command and stand as bulwarks TwixT yourselves and
Speaker 2: me to shield me from your hated treachery. Yet to
Speaker 2: encounter this your weak attempt behold. An army comes in continent.
Speaker 1: Faustus strikes the door and enter a devil playing on
Speaker 1: a drum after him, another bearing an ensign and divers
Speaker 1: with weapons Mephistophelus with fireworks. They set upon the soldiers,
Speaker 1: drive them out, and excient enter at several doors. Benvolio,
Speaker 1: Frederic and Martine, their heads and faces bloody and besmeared
Speaker 1: with mud and dirt, all having horns on their heads.
Speaker 18: What ho and Bolio here?
Speaker 26: What Frederick?
Speaker 25: Oh?
Speaker 23: Oh help me, gentle friend. Where's Martina?
Speaker 1: Year?
Speaker 18: Frederick here half smothered in a lake of mud and dirt,
Speaker 18: through which the furies wrecked me by the heels.
Speaker 23: Martino see Benvolio's horns.
Speaker 18: Again, Oh misery? How now Benvoglio defend me?
Speaker 26: Heaven? Shall I be haunted still.
Speaker 18: Nay, fear not men. We have no power to kill
Speaker 18: my friends.
Speaker 26: Transform it thus, oh hellish spite, your heads are all
Speaker 26: set with horns. You hit it right, it is your
Speaker 26: own you mean feel on your head zoons horns again.
Speaker 18: Nay, chafe not men. We all are sped.
Speaker 26: What devil attends this damned magician, that spite of spite,
Speaker 26: our wrongs are doubled.
Speaker 23: What may we do that we may hide our shames?
Speaker 26: If we should follow him to work revenge, he long
Speaker 26: ass's ears to these huge horns and make us laughing
Speaker 26: stocks to all the world.
Speaker 18: What shall we then do?
Speaker 33: Diebenvodio, I have a castle joining near these woods, and
Speaker 33: thither will repair and live obscure till time shall alter
Speaker 33: these our brutish shapes.
Speaker 26: Sif black disgrace hath thus eclipsed our fame, we'll rather
Speaker 26: die with grief than live with shame.
Speaker 1: Ixcian Scene five. Interfastus a horse corser and Methhistophelus.
Speaker 15: Ill beseach you worship accepted these forty.
Speaker 2: Dollars, friend, that can'st not buy so good a horse
Speaker 2: or so small a price. I have no great need
Speaker 2: to sell him, but if thou likest him for ten
Speaker 2: dollars more, take him. Because I see that thou hast
Speaker 2: a good mind to him.
Speaker 15: I beseech you, sir, accept of this. I'm a very
Speaker 15: poor man and have lost very much of light by horseflesh,
Speaker 15: and this bargain will set me up again.
Speaker 2: Well, I will not stand with thee.
Speaker 1: Give me the money, horse course, he gives fast as
Speaker 1: the money.
Speaker 2: Now, sir, I must tell you that you may ride
Speaker 2: him or hedge and ditch and spare him not. But
Speaker 2: do you hear in any case, ride him not into
Speaker 2: the water, oh.
Speaker 15: Sir, not into the water. Why will he not drink
Speaker 15: of all waters?
Speaker 2: Yes, he will drink of all waters. But ride him
Speaker 2: not into the water, or hedge and ditch, or where
Speaker 2: thou wilt, but not into the water. Go bid the hostler,
Speaker 2: deliver him unto you, and remember what I say.
Speaker 15: I warrant you, sir, Oh, joyful day. Now I'm a
Speaker 15: made man forever exit.
Speaker 2: Ah, what are thou faustus but a man condemned to die?
Speaker 2: Thy fatal time draws to a final end. Despair doth
Speaker 2: drive distrust into my thoughts. Confound these passions with a
Speaker 2: quiet sleep, tush Christ did call the thief upon the cross,
Speaker 2: then asked thee Faustus quiet in conceit he.
Speaker 1: Sits to sleep, re enter the horse courser.
Speaker 15: Wait, oh, a cousining doctor?
Speaker 18: Was this?
Speaker 15: I riding my hoarse into the water, thinking some in
Speaker 15: a mystery of being in the oars. I had nothing
Speaker 15: under me but a little straw, and had much ado
Speaker 15: to escape drowning. Well, I'll go rouse him and make
Speaker 15: him give me my forty dollars again, Oh, sir a doctor,
Speaker 15: you cousining scab, master doctor, awake and rise and give
Speaker 15: me my money again, for your horse's turned to a
Speaker 15: bottle of ay, Master doctor.
Speaker 1: He pulls off fastest leg.
Speaker 15: Alas I'm undone, What shall I do? I've pulled off
Speaker 15: his leg.
Speaker 2: Oh, help help the villain hath murdered.
Speaker 1: Me aside murder and not murder.
Speaker 15: Now he has but one leg. I'll outrun him and
Speaker 15: cast his leg into some ditch or other, and then runs.
Speaker 2: Out Stop him, Stop him, stop him, ha ha ha ha.
Speaker 2: Faust's hath his leg again, and the horse course are
Speaker 2: a bundle of hay for his forty dollars.
Speaker 1: Into Wagner.
Speaker 2: How now, Wagner, what news with thee.
Speaker 3: If it please you, the Duke of van Holt doth
Speaker 3: earnestly entreat your company, and hath sent some of his
Speaker 3: men to attend you with provision fit for your journey.
Speaker 2: The Duke of van Holt's an honorable gentleman, and one
Speaker 2: to whom I must be no niggard of my cunning.
Speaker 1: Come away, excellent seen six into Robin Dick, the horse,
Speaker 1: courser and the carter.
Speaker 15: Come, my masters, I'll bring you to the best beer
Speaker 15: in Europe?
Speaker 1: What a host?
Speaker 15: Where be these oars?
Speaker 1: Into hostess?
Speaker 20: How now?
Speaker 9: What lack you?
Speaker 7: What my old guess? Welcome, Sir Dick?
Speaker 6: Dost thou know why stands from you?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 9: Robin?
Speaker 6: Why ist I am eighteenpence on the score? But say nothing?
Speaker 6: See if she have forgotten me?
Speaker 7: Who's this that stands so solemnly by himself? What my
Speaker 7: old guest?
Speaker 6: Oh hostess? How do you? I hope my score stands still?
Speaker 7: I there's no doubt of that for me, thinks you
Speaker 7: make no haste to wipe it out?
Speaker 9: Why oast, as I say, fetch us some beer, you shall.
Speaker 1: Presently look up into the hall there ho exit drink
Speaker 1: is presently brought.
Speaker 9: In Come says, what shall we do now till my
Speaker 9: nostess comes.
Speaker 15: Marry, sir, I'll tell you the bravest tale our conjurers
Speaker 15: served me. You know Dr Faustus, Oh a play take
Speaker 15: him here? Someone's of course to know him. Did he
Speaker 15: conjure the too? I'll tell you how he served me.
Speaker 15: As I was going to Wittenburg the other day with
Speaker 15: a load of a he met me and asked me
Speaker 15: what he should give me for as much a as
Speaker 15: he could eat. Now, sir, I, thinking that a little
Speaker 15: would serve his turn, bade him take as much as
Speaker 15: he would for three farthings. So he presently gave me
Speaker 15: me money and fell to eating. As I'm a cursing man,
Speaker 15: he never left eating till he had eat up or
Speaker 15: my load of.
Speaker 6: Hay, load of hay, Yes, yes, that may be, for
Speaker 6: I ever heard of one that has eat a load
Speaker 6: of lugs?
Speaker 15: Now, sirs, usually hear our villainously he served me. I
Speaker 15: went to him yesterday to buy a horse of him,
Speaker 15: and he would buy, no means sell him under forty dollars. So, sir,
Speaker 15: because I knew him to be such a horse as
Speaker 15: would run over edge and ditch and never tire, I
Speaker 15: gave him his money. So when I had my horse,
Speaker 15: Dr Faustus bade me ride him night and day, and
Speaker 15: spare him no time. Butckworthy in any case, ride him
Speaker 15: not into the water, now, sir A, thinking the horse
Speaker 15: had some quality that he would not have me know of,
Speaker 15: what did I but rid him into a great river.
Speaker 15: And when I came just in the midst my horse
Speaker 15: vanished away. And I say it straddling upon a bottle.
Speaker 18: Of a Oh brave god dap.
Speaker 15: But usually how bravely I served him for it? I
Speaker 15: went me home to his house, and there I found
Speaker 15: him asleep. I kept hallooing and whooping in his ears,
Speaker 15: but all could not wake him. Ah, I, seeing that,
Speaker 15: took him by the leg and never rested pulling till
Speaker 15: I pulled me his leg.
Speaker 2: Why off?
Speaker 1: And now tis owe me mine austri.
Speaker 6: And as the doctor, but one leg? Then that's excellent,
Speaker 6: for one of his devils turned me into the likeness
Speaker 6: of an ape's face.
Speaker 15: Some more, drink, Hostess, hark you will.
Speaker 6: Into another Roman. Drink a while, and then we'll go
Speaker 6: seek out the doctor.
Speaker 1: Excellent Scene seven into the Duke of van Holt, his
Speaker 1: duchess Faustus, Mefistophilus and attendants.
Speaker 16: Thanks, Master Doctor, for these pleasant sights. Nor know I
Speaker 16: how sufficiently to recompense your great deserts in erecting that
Speaker 16: enchanted castle in the air, The sight whereof so delighted
Speaker 16: me as nothing in the world could please me more.
Speaker 2: I do think myself, my good Lord, highly recompensed in
Speaker 2: that it pleaseth your grace to think but well of
Speaker 2: that which Faustus have performed. But gracious lady, it may
Speaker 2: be that you have taken no pleasure in those sights.
Speaker 2: Therefore I pray you tell me what is the thing
Speaker 2: you most desire to have? Be it in the world,
Speaker 2: It shall be yours. I have heard that great bellied
Speaker 2: women do long for things are rare and dainty.
Speaker 34: Two, master Doctor, And since I find you so kind,
Speaker 34: I will make known unto you what my heart desires
Speaker 34: to have. And were it now summer, as it is January,
Speaker 34: a dead time of the winter, I would request no
Speaker 34: better meat than a dish of ripe grapes.
Speaker 2: This is but a small matter. Go Mephistophelus away, exwed Mefistophilus, Madam,
Speaker 2: I will do more than this for your contempt re.
Speaker 1: Into mefistophilus with grapes here.
Speaker 2: Now taste you these They should be good, for they
Speaker 2: come from a far country.
Speaker 35: I can tell you this makes me wonder more more
Speaker 35: than all the rest, that at this time of the year,
Speaker 35: when every tree is barren of his fruit, from whence
Speaker 35: you had these ripe grapes?
Speaker 2: Please it your grace. The year is divided into two
Speaker 2: circles over the whole world, so that when it is
Speaker 2: winter with us in the contrary circle, it is likewise
Speaker 2: summer with them, as in India, souther and such countries
Speaker 2: that lie far east, where they have fruit twice a
Speaker 2: year from whence, by means of a swift spirit that
Speaker 2: I have, I had these grapes brought, as you see, and.
Speaker 34: Trust me they are the sweetest grapes the e're I tasted.
Speaker 1: The clowns bounce at the gate within?
Speaker 35: What rude disturbers have We at the gate go pacify
Speaker 35: their fury, set it op, and then demand of them
Speaker 35: what they would have?
Speaker 1: They knock again and call out to talk with fastest.
Speaker 1: Why here, their masters? What a coal is here? What
Speaker 1: is the reason you disturbed the duke within?
Speaker 9: We have no reason for it? Therefore, a fake for him?
Speaker 1: Why shall she Vallet do you be so bold within?
Speaker 15: I hope, sir, we have wit enough to be more
Speaker 15: bold and.
Speaker 1: Welcome Psho pray be bold ilschwe and trouble. Not a duke.
Speaker 20: What would they have?
Speaker 1: They all cry here to speak with doctor faistus within ay,
Speaker 1: and we will speak with him. Will you, sir, commit
Speaker 1: the rascals within?
Speaker 9: Commit with us? He were as good commit with his
Speaker 9: father as commit with us.
Speaker 2: I do beseech your grace. Let them come in. They're
Speaker 2: a good subject for a merriment.
Speaker 16: Do as thou wilt, Faustus, I give thee lead.
Speaker 1: I thank your grace into Robin deck Kata and horse Corser.
Speaker 2: Why how now, my good friends, faith you are too outrageous,
Speaker 2: but come near. I have procured your pardons.
Speaker 6: Welcome all, nay, sir, we'll be welcome for our money,
Speaker 6: and we'll pay for what we take. What give us
Speaker 6: half a dozen of beer and be anged?
Speaker 2: Nay, hark you can you tell me where you are?
Speaker 25: Aye?
Speaker 15: Marry can I we're under heaven?
Speaker 1: Ay that shay Sho spoke. Now you e what place?
Speaker 28: Aye?
Speaker 2: Aye?
Speaker 15: The ass is good enough to drink in zounds fillis
Speaker 15: and beer. Will break all the barrels in the house,
Speaker 15: and dash out all your brains with your bottles.
Speaker 2: Be not so furious. Come you shall have beer. My lord,
Speaker 2: beseech you give me leave a while. I'll gauge my
Speaker 2: credit content your grace with all my heart.
Speaker 16: Kind doctor, please thyself, our servants, and our courts at
Speaker 16: thy command.
Speaker 2: I humbly thank your grace. Then fetch some beer.
Speaker 15: Ay, marry, there spake a doctor. Indeed, have faith. I'll
Speaker 15: drink health to th wooden leg.
Speaker 2: For that word, my wooden leg. What dost thou mean
Speaker 2: by that?
Speaker 1: Ah?
Speaker 15: Ha ha, dost dear him, dick, he's forgot his leg?
Speaker 6: Aye?
Speaker 15: Aye, he does not stand much upon that.
Speaker 2: No, faith, not much upon a wooden leg.
Speaker 15: Good Lord, that flesh and blood should be so frail
Speaker 15: with your worship. Do you not remember a horse course?
Speaker 15: So you sold a horse too?
Speaker 2: Yes? I remember I sold one a horse.
Speaker 15: And do you remember your bid he should not ride
Speaker 15: him into the water?
Speaker 30: Yes?
Speaker 2: I do very well remember that.
Speaker 15: And do you remember nothing of your life?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 15: In good sooth, then I pray you remember your courtesy.
Speaker 15: I thank you, sir, tis not so much worth. I
Speaker 15: pray you tell me one thing.
Speaker 2: What's that be?
Speaker 15: Both your legs bedfellows every night together?
Speaker 2: Wouldst thou make a colossus of me? That thou askest
Speaker 2: me such questions?
Speaker 15: No, truly, sir, I would make nothing of you, but
Speaker 15: I would fain.
Speaker 1: Know that into hostas with drink.
Speaker 2: Then I assure thee certainly they are.
Speaker 15: I thank you. I'm fully satisfied. But wherefore dost thou
Speaker 15: ask for nothing? Sir? But methinks you should have a
Speaker 15: wooden bedfellow or one of them? Why do you he sir?
Speaker 15: Didn't I pull off one of your legs when you
Speaker 15: were asleep?
Speaker 2: But I have it again now I am awake. Look
Speaker 2: you here, sir, oh horrible?
Speaker 15: Do you remember, sir? Are you cousined me and eats
Speaker 15: up all my lord.
Speaker 1: Of Faustus in the middle of each speech charms them dumb?
Speaker 9: Do you remember how you made me wear an apse
Speaker 9: ye ow.
Speaker 15: Sun conjuring scab? Do you remember how you cousin me
Speaker 15: with a hot.
Speaker 6: Are you forgotten me? You think to carry it away
Speaker 6: with your hay pass and repass?
Speaker 1: Do you remember the dogs fat exiant clowns who pays
Speaker 1: for the ale?
Speaker 7: Hear you, master doctor? Now you have sent away my guests,
Speaker 7: I pray, who shall pay me for us?
Speaker 1: Exit? Hostis my lord.
Speaker 23: We are much.
Speaker 16: Beholding to this learned man, so are we, Madam, which
Speaker 16: we will recompense with all the love and kindness that
Speaker 16: we may. His artful sport drives all sad thoughts away.
Speaker 1: Exciant end of Act four, Act five of the Tragical
Speaker 1: History of Doctor Faustus from the Quarter of sixteen sixteen
Speaker 1: by Christopher Marlowe. This is a libriyvox recording. All libyvox
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Speaker 1: and lightning. Enter devils with covered dishes. Mephistophilus leads them
Speaker 1: into Fausta's study. Then enter Wagner.
Speaker 3: I think my master means to die shortly. He has
Speaker 3: made his will and given me his wealth, his house,
Speaker 3: his goods, and store of golden plate, besides two thousand
Speaker 3: ducats ready coined. Wonder what he means if death were nigh,
Speaker 3: he would not frolic. Thus he's now at supper with
Speaker 3: the scholars, where there's such belly cheer as Wagner in
Speaker 3: his life ne'er saw the like and see where they come.
Speaker 1: But like the feast is ended, Exit into fastest. Mephistophilus
Speaker 1: and two or three scholars.
Speaker 7: Master Doctor Faustus, since a conference about fair ladies, which
Speaker 7: was the beautifulest in the world, we have determined with
Speaker 7: ourselves that Helen of Greece was the admirablest lady that
Speaker 7: ever lived. Therefore, Master Doctor, if you will do us
Speaker 7: so much favor as to let us see that peerless
Speaker 7: Dame of Greece, whom all the world admires her majesty,
Speaker 7: we would think ourselves much beholding.
Speaker 2: Unto you, gentlemen, for that I know your friendship is unfeigned.
Speaker 2: It is not faust As customed to deny the just
Speaker 2: request of those that wish him well. You shall behold
Speaker 2: that peerless Dame of Greece no otherwise for pomp or
Speaker 2: majesty than when Sir Peris crossed the seas with her
Speaker 2: and brought the spoils to rich Dardania. Be silent, then,
Speaker 2: for danger is in words.
Speaker 1: Music sounds Mechistophlus brings in Helen she passeth over the stage.
Speaker 14: Was this fair Helen, whose admired worth made Greece with
Speaker 14: ten years war afflict poor Troy.
Speaker 9: Too simple is my wit to tell her worth whom
Speaker 9: all the world admires for majesty.
Speaker 7: Now we have seen the pride of Nature's work. We'll
Speaker 7: take our leaves, and for this blessed sight, happy, blessed,
Speaker 7: be fostest.
Speaker 2: Evermore, gentlemen, farewell the same wish I.
Speaker 1: To you, excient scholars, scene too into an old man. Oo,
Speaker 1: gentle fellow, leave this damned art, this magic. They will
Speaker 1: charm thy soul to hell, and quite bereave thee of salvation.
Speaker 1: Though thou hast now offended like a man, do not
Speaker 1: persever in it like a devil.
Speaker 30: Yet yet thou hast an amiable soul. If sin by
Speaker 30: custom grow not into nature, then Foust's will repentance come
Speaker 30: too late? Then thou art banish'd from the sight of heav'n.
Speaker 30: No mortal can express the pains of hell. It may
Speaker 30: be this my exhortation seems harsh and all unpleasant. Let
Speaker 30: it not for a gentle son. I speak it not
Speaker 30: in wrath or envy of thee, but intend a love
Speaker 30: and pity of thy future misery. And sir, have hop'd
Speaker 30: that this my kind rebuke, shaking thy body, may amend
Speaker 30: thy soul?
Speaker 2: Where art thou, Faustus, wretch? What hast thou done? Hell
Speaker 2: claims his right, and with a roaring voice says, Faustus come.
Speaker 2: Thine hour is almost come, and Faustus now will come
Speaker 2: to do THEE right.
Speaker 1: Mepristophilus gives him a dagger.
Speaker 30: Oh, stay good, Faustus, stay thy desperate steps. I see
Speaker 30: an angel hobber o'er thy head, and with a vile
Speaker 30: full of precious grace, offers to pour the same into
Speaker 30: thy soul. Then call for mercy and avoid despair.
Speaker 2: O friend, I feel thy words to comfort my distressed soul.
Speaker 2: Leave me awhile to ponder on my sins.
Speaker 30: Faustus, I leave thee, but with grief of heart, fearing
Speaker 30: the enemy of thy hapless soon.
Speaker 2: Exit, accursed, Faustus, wretch, what hast thou done? I do repent,
Speaker 2: and yet I do despair. Hell strives with grace for
Speaker 2: conquest in my breast. What shall I do to shun
Speaker 2: the snares of death?
Speaker 20: Thou traitor, Faustus, I arrest thyself for disobedience to my
Speaker 20: sovereign lord. Revolt or our impiece meal tear thy flesh,
Speaker 20: I I.
Speaker 2: Do repent I have offended him. Sweet Methistophilus, entreat thy
Speaker 2: Lord to pardon my unjust presumption, and with my blood
Speaker 2: again I will confirm the former vow I made to Lucifer.
Speaker 20: Do it, then, faustus with unfeigned heart, lest greater dangers
Speaker 20: to attend thy.
Speaker 2: Drift torment, Sweet friend, that base and aged man that
Speaker 2: durst dissuade me from thy Lucifer with greatest torments that
Speaker 2: our hell affords.
Speaker 20: His faith is great. I cannot touch his soul. But
Speaker 20: what I may afflict his body with I will attempt,
Speaker 20: which is but little.
Speaker 2: Worth one thing, Good servant, Let me crave of thee
Speaker 2: to glut the longing of my heart's desire, that I
Speaker 2: may have unto my paramour, that heavenly Helen which I
Speaker 2: saw of late, whose sweet embraces may extinguish clean those
Speaker 2: thoughts that do dissuade me from my vow, and keep
Speaker 2: my oath I made to Lucifer.
Speaker 20: This, what else my foustest shall desire, shall be performed
Speaker 20: In twinkling of an eye.
Speaker 1: Re enter Helen passing over the stage between two cupids.
Speaker 2: Was this the face that launched a thousand ships and
Speaker 2: burnt the topless towers of Ilium. Sweet Helen, make me
Speaker 2: immortal with a kiss. Kisses her her lips, suck forth
Speaker 2: my soul, see where it flies. Come Helen, Come give
Speaker 2: me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven
Speaker 2: is in these lips, and all is dross that is
Speaker 2: not Helena. I will be Paris, and for love of
Speaker 2: thee instead of Troy. Shall Wittenberg be sacked, and I
Speaker 2: will combat with weak men Alaus and wear thy colors
Speaker 2: on my plumed crest. Yea, I will wound Achilles in
Speaker 2: the heel, and then return to Helen for a kiss.
Speaker 1: Oh, thou art.
Speaker 2: Fairer than the evening ere clad in the beauty of
Speaker 2: our thousand stars. Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter when
Speaker 2: he appeared to hapless Semile, more lovely than the monarch
Speaker 2: of the sky and wanton arethusas hazard arms and none,
Speaker 2: but thou shalt be my parable.
Speaker 1: Ecciant scene three thunder into Lucifer Bilgibab and Methestophilus.
Speaker 3: Thus from infernal dis do we ascend to view the
Speaker 3: subjects of our monarchy, those souls which sin seals the
Speaker 3: black sons of hell, among which, as chief Faustus, we
Speaker 3: come to thee, bringing with us lasting damnation to wait
Speaker 3: upon thy soul. The time is come which makes it.
Speaker 20: Forfeit, and this gloomy knight. Here in this room will
Speaker 20: wretched Faustus be, and.
Speaker 10: Here will stay to mark him? How he darth demean himself?
Speaker 20: How should he but in desperate lunacy fond wordling. Now
Speaker 20: his heart blood dries with grief, his conscience kills it,
Speaker 20: and his laboring brain begets a world of idle fantasies
Speaker 20: to overreach the devil the dawn in vain. His store
Speaker 20: of pleasures may be sourced with pain. He and his
Speaker 20: servant Wagner are at hand. Both come from drawing Faustest's
Speaker 20: last will see where they come into.
Speaker 1: Faustus and Wagner, say.
Speaker 2: Wagner, thou hast perused my will? How dost thou like it?
Speaker 1: Sir?
Speaker 3: So wondrous? Well as in all humble duty, I do
Speaker 3: yield my life and lasting service for your.
Speaker 1: Love, mercy Wagner into scholars.
Speaker 2: Welcome, gentlemen, now worthy Faustus.
Speaker 7: Methinks your looks.
Speaker 22: Are changed, Oh gentlemen, what ails Faustus?
Speaker 2: Ah my sweet chamber, fellow. Had I lived with thee,
Speaker 2: then had I lived still? But now must die eternally?
Speaker 2: Look Sirs, comes, he not comes? He not.
Speaker 14: Oh, my dear Faustus, what imports this fear is all
Speaker 14: our pleasure turned to melancholy.
Speaker 9: He is not well with being over solitary.
Speaker 14: If it be so, we'll have physicians, and Faustus shall
Speaker 14: be cured.
Speaker 9: Tis but a surfeit, sir, fear nothing, a.
Speaker 2: Surfeit of deadly sin that hath damned both body and soul.
Speaker 14: Yet Faustus, look up to Heaven and remember mercy is infinite.
Speaker 2: But Faustus offense can ne'er be pardoned. The serpent that
Speaker 2: tempted Eve may be saved, but not Foulstus. Oh gentlemen,
Speaker 2: hear me with patience and tremble not at my speeches,
Speaker 2: though my heart pant and quiver, to remember that I
Speaker 2: have been a student here these thirty years. Oh, would
Speaker 2: I had never seen Wittenberg, never read book, And what
Speaker 2: wonders I have done? All Germany can witness, YEA, all
Speaker 2: the world for which Faustus hath lost, both Germany and
Speaker 2: the world. YEA, Heaven itself, Heaven, the seat of God
Speaker 2: of the throne of the blessed, the Kingdom of Joy,
Speaker 2: and must remain in hell forever, Oh Hell forever, sweet friends,
Speaker 2: What shall become of Faustus being in hell for ever?
Speaker 18: Yet?
Speaker 22: Faustus call on God, on God whom Foustus hath abjured,
Speaker 22: on God whom Faustus hath blessphemed, Oh, my.
Speaker 2: God, I would weep, but the devil draws in my tears,
Speaker 2: gush forth blood instead of tears, yea life and soul. Oh,
Speaker 2: he stays my tongue. I would lift up my hands,
Speaker 2: but see they hold em. They hold em?
Speaker 18: Who fast?
Speaker 2: It is why Lucifer and Mephistophilus, Oh gentlemen, I gave
Speaker 2: them my soul for my cunning. Oh God forbid, God
Speaker 2: forbade it, indeed, but Faustus hath done it for the
Speaker 2: vain pleasure of four and twenty years? Have Faustus lost
Speaker 2: eternal joy and felicity? I writ them a bill with
Speaker 2: mine own blood. The date is expired, This is the time,
Speaker 2: and he will fetch me.
Speaker 7: Why did not Faustus tell us of this before that
Speaker 7: divines might pray for thee.
Speaker 2: Oft Have I thought to have done so? But the
Speaker 2: devil threatened to tear me in pieces if I named
Speaker 2: God to fetch me body and soul. If I once
Speaker 2: gave ear to divinity. And now tis too late, gentlemen,
Speaker 2: away lest you perish with me.
Speaker 14: Oh, what may we do to save Faustus?
Speaker 2: Talk not of me, but save yoursels and depart.
Speaker 9: God will strengthen me. I will stay with Faustus, tempt.
Speaker 7: Not God's sweet friend. But let us into the next
Speaker 7: room and pray for him.
Speaker 2: I pray for me. Pray for me, And what noise
Speaker 2: soever you hear, come not unto me, for nothing can
Speaker 2: rescue me.
Speaker 14: Pray thou, and we will pray that God may have
Speaker 14: mercy upon thee.
Speaker 2: Gentlemen, farewell. If I live till morning, I'll visit you.
Speaker 2: If not, Faustus is gone to Hell.
Speaker 1: Faustus, farewell, ixciant scholars.
Speaker 20: I Faustus, now thou hast no hope of heaven. Therefore
Speaker 20: despair think only upon Hell, for that must be thy
Speaker 20: mansion there to dwell.
Speaker 2: Oh, thou bewitching fiend, Twas thy temptation hath robbed me
Speaker 2: of eternal happiness.
Speaker 20: I do confess it, Faustus, and rejoice Twas I that
Speaker 20: when thou wert in the way to heaven. Damn'd up
Speaker 20: thy passage. When thou tookst the book to view the scriptures.
Speaker 20: Then I turned the leaves and led thine eye. What
Speaker 20: weep'st Thou tis too late, despair farewell, fools that will
Speaker 20: laugh on earth must weep in.
Speaker 1: Hell, Exit into good angel, an evil angel at several
Speaker 1: doors of fostress.
Speaker 8: If thou hadst given air to me anyrable choice that
Speaker 8: fought thee, but thou didst lo after else.
Speaker 5: Gave ear to me, and now must taste hell pains perpetually.
Speaker 8: Oh, what will all thy richest pleasures harms avail thee?
Speaker 5: Now nothing but vex thee more to want in Hell
Speaker 5: that had on earth such.
Speaker 8: Store, Oh thou hast lost ilest i unhappiness, pleasures, unspeakable,
Speaker 8: blessed with that end? Had tho effectuate sweet divinity hell?
Speaker 8: Or the devil had had no power in thee. Hadst
Speaker 8: thou kept on that way fostress, Behold.
Speaker 1: Music while a throne descends.
Speaker 8: In what re splendid glory. Thus had sat in yonder
Speaker 8: throne like those bright shining saints and frime over hell?
Speaker 8: Thou hast thou lost and now poor soul must dri
Speaker 8: good angel, look thee. The jaws of Hella open to
Speaker 8: receive thee.
Speaker 1: Exit the throne esens.
Speaker 5: Now Faustus, let thine eyes with horror.
Speaker 1: Stare Hill is discovered into that.
Speaker 5: Vast, perpetual torture house. There are the furies tossing damned
Speaker 5: souls on burning forks. There bodies boil in lead. There
Speaker 5: are live quarters broiling on the coals, that ne'er can die.
Speaker 5: This ever, burning chair is for the oer tortured souls
Speaker 5: to rest. The men these that are fed with SOPs
Speaker 5: of flaming fire were gluttons, and loved only delicates, and
Speaker 5: laughed to see the poor starve at their gates. But
Speaker 5: yet all these are nothing. Thou shalt see ten thousand
Speaker 5: tortures that more horrid.
Speaker 2: Be Oh, I have seen enough to torture me.
Speaker 5: Nay, thou must feel them, taste the smart of all,
Speaker 5: he that love's pleasure must for pleasure fall. And so
Speaker 5: I leave thee faustest till Anon. Then wilt thou humble
Speaker 5: in confusion?
Speaker 1: Exit Hill disappears. The clock strikes eleven.
Speaker 2: Oh, Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live?
Speaker 2: And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you
Speaker 2: ever moving spheres of heaven, that time may cease, and
Speaker 2: midnight never come. Fair Nature's eye rise, rise again and
Speaker 2: make perpetual day. Or let this hour be but a year,
Speaker 2: a month, a week, a natural day, that Faustus may
Speaker 2: repent and save his soul. Oh, lente, lente, courite noctisequi
Speaker 2: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike,
Speaker 2: the devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd. Oh
Speaker 2: I'll leap up to heaven who pulls me down? See
Speaker 2: where Christ's blood streams in the firmament. One drop of
Speaker 2: blood will save me? Oh, my Christ rend not my
Speaker 2: heart for naming of my Christ? Yet will I call
Speaker 2: on him? Oh, spare me, Lucifer. Where is it? Now?
Speaker 2: Tis gone? And see a threatening arm, an angry brow,
Speaker 2: Mountains and hills come come and fall on me and
Speaker 2: highid me from the heavy wrath of heaven. No then
Speaker 2: will I headlong run into the earth, gape earth, Oh no,
Speaker 2: it will not harbor me. You stars that reigned at
Speaker 2: my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and Hell now
Speaker 2: draw up Faustus like a foggy mist into the entrails
Speaker 2: of yon, laboring clouds, that when you vomit forth into
Speaker 2: the air. My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths.
Speaker 2: But let my soul mount and ascend to heaven.
Speaker 1: The clock strikes the half hour.
Speaker 2: Oh, half the hour is past. Twill all be pasted, Anon, Oh,
Speaker 2: if my soul must suffer for my sin, impose some
Speaker 2: end to my incessant pain. Let Faustus live in hell
Speaker 2: a thousand years, one hundred thousand, and at last be saved.
Speaker 2: No end is limited to damaged sol. Why wert thou
Speaker 2: not a creature wanting soul? Or why is this immortal
Speaker 2: that thou hast o Pythagoras attempt psychosis? Were that true,
Speaker 2: this soul should fly from me and I be changed
Speaker 2: into some brutish beast. All beasts are happy, for when
Speaker 2: they die, their souls are soon dissolved in elements. But
Speaker 2: mine must live still to be plagued in hell. Cursed
Speaker 2: be the parents that engendered me, No Faustus, curse thyself,
Speaker 2: Curse Lucifer that hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven.
Speaker 1: The clock strikes twelve, It strikes, it strikes.
Speaker 2: Now, body turn to air, or Lucifer will bear thee
Speaker 2: quick to hell. O soul be changed into small water
Speaker 2: drops and fall into the ocean.
Speaker 1: Ne'er be found thunder into devils.
Speaker 2: Oh mercy, Heaven, look not so fierce on me, adders
Speaker 2: and serpents. Let me breathe a while ugly, hel caape
Speaker 2: not come, not Lucifer, I'll burn my books, Oh.
Speaker 1: Mephistophalus ixcient devils with fastest scene four into scholars.
Speaker 7: Come, gentlemen, let us go visit Faustus, for such a
Speaker 7: dreadful night was never seen since first the world's creation
Speaker 7: did begin. Such fearful shrieks and cries were never heard.
Speaker 7: Pray Heaven the doctor have escaped the danger.
Speaker 14: Oh help us Heaven. See here are faustus limbs, all
Speaker 14: torn asunder by the hand of death.
Speaker 9: The devils whom Faustus served have torn him thus for
Speaker 9: TwixT the hours of twelve and one methought, I heard
Speaker 9: him shriek and call aloud for help, at which self
Speaker 9: time the house seem'd all on fire, with dreadful horror
Speaker 9: of these damned fiends.
Speaker 14: Well, gentlemen, though faustest and be such as every Christian
Speaker 14: heart laments to think on yet, for he was a
Speaker 14: scholar once admired for wondrous knowledge in our German schools,
Speaker 14: will give his mangled limbs to burial, and all the students,
Speaker 14: clothed in morning black shall wait upon his heavy funeral.
Speaker 1: Ixcient Scene five Intercorus.
Speaker 17: Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
Speaker 17: and Bernard is Apollo's laurel bough that sometimes grew within
Speaker 17: this learned man. Faustus is gone. Regard his hellish fall,
Speaker 17: whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise only to wonder
Speaker 17: at unlawful things, whose deepness doth entice such forward wits
Speaker 17: to practice more than heavenly power permits.
Speaker 1: Exit terminut order d M terminut alcta opus end of
Speaker 1: Act five, end of the Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Speaker 1: from the Quarter of sixteen sixteen by Christopher Marlowe