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.OLD MAN.Ah, Doctor Faustus, that I might prevailTo guide thy steps unto the way of life,By which sweet path thou mayst attain the goalThat shall conduct thee to celestial rest!Break heart, drop blood, and mingle it with tears,Tears falling from repentant heavinessOf thy most vile and loathsome filthiness,The stench whereof corrupts the inward soulWith such flagitious crimes of heinous sinAs no commiseration may expel,But mercy, Faustus, of thy Saviour sweet,Whose blood alone must wash away thy guilt.FAUSTUS.Where art thou, Faustus? wretch, what hast thou done?Damn'd art thou, Faustus, damn'd; despair and die!Hell calls for right, and with a roaring voiceSays, "Faustus, come; thine hour is almost come;"And Faustus now will come to do thee right.[MEPHISTOPHILIS gives him a dagger.]OLD MAN.Ah, stay, good Faustus, stay thy desperate steps!I see an angel hovers o'er thy head,And, with a vial full of precious grace,Offers to pour the same into thy soul:Then call for mercy, and avoid despair.FAUSTUS.Ah, my sweet friend, I feelThy words to comfort my distressed soul!Leave me a while to ponder on my sins.OLD MAN.I go, sweet Faustus; but with heavy cheer,Fearing the ruin of thy hopeless soul.[Exit.]FAUSTUS.Accursed Faustus, where is mercy now?I do repent; and yet I do despair:Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast:What shall I do to shun the snares of death?MEPHIST.Thou traitor, Faustus, I arrest thy soulFor disobedience to my sovereign lord:Revolt, or I'll in piece-meal tear thy flesh.FAUSTUS.Sweet Mephistophilis, entreat thy lordTo pardon my unjust presumption,And with my blood again I will confirmMy former vow I made to Lucifer.MEPHIST.Do it, then, quickly, with unfeigned heart,Lest greater danger do attend thy drift.FAUSTUS.Torment, sweet friend, that base and crooked age,That durst dissuade me from thy Lucifer,With greatest torments that our hell affords.MEPHIST.His faith is great; I cannot touch his soul;But what I may afflict his body withI will attempt, which is but little worth.FAUSTUS.One thing, good servant, let me crave of thee,To glut the longing of my heart's desire,--That I might have unto my paramourThat heavenly Helen which I saw of late,Whose sweet embracings may extinguish cleanThose thoughts that do dissuade me from my vow,And keep mine oath I made to Lucifer.MEPHIST.Faustus, this, or what else thou shalt desire,Shall be perform'd in twinkling of an eye.Re-enter HELEN.FAUSTUS.Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,And burnt the topless towers of Ilium--Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.--[Kisses her.]Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!--Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips,And all is dross that is not Helena.I will be Paris, and for love of thee,Instead of Troy, shall Wertenberg be sack'd;And I will combat with weak Menelaus,And wear thy colours on my plumed crest;Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel,And then return to Helen for a kiss.O, thou art fairer than the evening airClad in the beauty of a thousand stars;Brighter art thou than flaming JupiterWhen he appear'd to hapless Semele;More lovely than the monarch of the skyIn wanton Arethusa's azur'd arms;And none but thou shalt be my paramour![Exeunt.]Enter the OLD MAN.OLD MAN.Accursed Faustus, miserable man,That from thy soul exclud'st the grace of heaven,And fly'st the throne of his tribunal-seat!Enter DEVILS.Satan begins to sift me with his pride:As in this furnace God shall try my faith,My faith, vile hell, shall triumph over thee.Ambitious fiends, see how the heavens smileAt your repulse, and laugh your state to scorn!Hence, hell! for hence I fly unto my God.[Exeunt,--on one side, DEVILS, on the other, OLD MAN.]Enter FAUSTUS, with SCHOLARS.FAUSTUS.Ah, gentlemen!FIRST SCHOLAR.What ails Faustus?FAUSTUS.Ah, my sweet chamber-fellow, had I lived with thee,then had I lived still! but now I die eternally [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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