Scene V - Page 2

Doctor Faustus | Scene V - Page 2

MEPHIST.: Ay, of necessity, for here's the scroll
Wherein thou hast given thy soul to Lucifer.(135)

FAUSTUS.: Ay, and body too; but what of that?
Think'st thou that Faustus is so fond to imagine
That, after this life, there is any pain?
Tush; these are trifles and mere old wives' tales.

MEPHIST.: But, Faustus, I am an instance to prove the(140)
contrary,
For I am damned, and am now in hell.

FAUSTUS.: How! now in hell?
Nay, an this be hell, I'll willingly be damned here;
What? walking, disputing, &c.?(145)
But, leaving off this, let me have a wife,
The fairest maid in Germany;
For I am wanton and lascivious,
And cannot live without a wife.

MEPHIST.: Well—thou wilt have one? Sit there till I come:
I'll fetch thee a wife in the Devil's name.(155)

[Exit.]

Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with a Devil dressed like a woman, with fireworks.

MEPHIST.: Tut, Faustus,
Marriage is but a ceremonial toy;
If thou lovest me, think no more of it.(160)
I'll cull thee out the fairest courtesans,
And bring them every morning to thy bed;
She whom thine eye shall like, thy heart shall have,
Be she as chaste as was Penelope,
As wise as Saba, or as beautiful(165)
As was bright Lucifer before his fall.
Here, take this book, peruse it thoroughly:

[Gives a book.]
The iterating of these lines brings gold;
The framing of this circle on the ground
Brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning;(170)
Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thyself,
And men in armour shall appear to thee,
Ready to execute what thou desir'st.

FAUSTUS.: Thanks, Mephistophilis: yet fain would I have a
book wherein I might behold all spells and incantations,(175)
that I might raise up spirits when I please.

[Turns to them.]

FAUSTUS.: Now would I have a book where I might see all
characters and planets of the heavens, that I might know
their motions and dispositions.(180)

[Turns to them.]

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

[Turns to them. Exeunt.]

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