Faust. Why, Lucifer and Mephistophilis. O gentlemen, I gave them my soul for my cunning! All. O, God forbid! Faust. God forbade it, indeed; but Faustus hath done it for the vain pleasure of four-andtwenty years hath Faustus lost eternal joy and felicity. I writ them a bill with mine own blood: the date is expired; this is the time, and he will fetch me. First Schol. Why did not Faustus tell us of this before, that divines might have prayed for thee? Faust. Oft have I thought to have done so; but the devil threatened to tear me in pieces, if I named God, to fetch me body and soul, if I once gave ear to divinity: and now 'tis too late. Gentlemen, away, lest you perish with me. Sec. Schol. O, what may we do to save Faustus? What, weep'st thou? 'tis too late; despair! Farewell: Fools that will laugh on earth must weep in hell. [Exit.* Enter Good Angel and Evil Angel at several doors. G. Ang. O Faustus, if thou hadst given ear to me, Innumerable joys had follow'd thee! E. Ang. Gave ear to me, And now must taste hell-pains + perpetually. E. Ang. Nothing, but vex thee more, Hell or the devil had had no power on thee: Faust. Talk not of me, but save yourselves, Hadst thou kept on that way, Faustus, behold, and depart. Third Schol. God will strengthen me; I will stay with Faustus. First Schol. Tempt not God, sweet friend; but let us into the next room, and pray for him. Faust. Ay, pray for me, pray for me; and what noise soever you hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me. Sec. Schol. Pray thou, and we will pray that God may have mercy upon thee. Faust. Gentlemen, farewell: if I live till morning, I'll visit you; if not, Faustus is gone to hell. Meph. Ay, Faustus, now thou hast no hope of heaven; Therefore despair; think only upon hell, Hath robb'd me of eternal happiness! Meph. I do confess it, Faustus, and rejoice: 'Twas I that, when thou wert i'the way to heaven, Damm'd up thy passage; when thou took'st the book To view the Scriptures, then I turn'd the leaves, And led thine eye.t * 'tis] So 4to 1616.-2tos 1624, 1631, "it is." And led thine eye] A portion of this line has evidently dropt out. [Music, while a throne descends. In what resplendent glory thou hadst sit‡ In yonder throne, like those bright-shining saints, And triumph'd over hell! That hast thou lost; And now, poor soul, must thy good angel leave thee: The jaws of hell are open § to receive thee. [Exit. The throne ascends. E. Ang. Now, Faustus, let thine eyes with horror stare [Hell is discovered. Into that vast perpetual torture-house : There are the Furies tossing damned souls On burning forks; there bodies boil || in lead; There are live quarters broiling on the coals, That ne'er can die; this ever-burning chair Is for o'er-tortur'd souls to rest them in; These that are fed with sops of flaming fire, Were gluttons, and lov'd only delicates, And laugh'd to see the poor starve at their gates: But yet all these are nothing; thou shalt see Ten thousand tortures that more horrid be. Faust. O, I have seen enough to torture me! E. Ang. Nay, thou must feel them, taste the smart of all: * Exit] It seems doubtful whether Lucifer and Belzebub should also make their exeunt here, or whether they remain to witness the catastrophe: see p. 132, first col. thell-pains] So 4tos 1624, 1631.-2to 1616 "hels paines." sit] So 4tos 1624, 1631.-2to 1616 "set." § are open] So 4to 1616.-2tos 1624, 1631, "is readie." || boil] So 4tos 1624, 1631.-2to 1616 “broyle.” He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall: [Exit. Hell disappears.-The clock strikes eleven. Faust. O Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, No end is limited to damned souls. Their souls are soon dissolv'd in elements; It strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, The devil will come, and Faustus must be And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found! damn'd. O, I'll leap up to heaven!-Who pulls me down? Thunder. Enter Devils. O, mercy, heaven! look not so fierce on me! See, where Christ's blood streams in the Adders and serpents, let me breathe a while! firmament!* One drop of blood will save me: O my Christ! Rend not my heart for naming of my Christ; Yet will I call on him: O, spare me, Lucifer!— Where is it now? 'tis gone: And, see, a threatening arm, an angry brow! Then will I headlong run into the earth: * See, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament] So 4tos 1624, 1631.-Not in 4to 1616. tan] So 4to 1616.-2tos 1624, 1631, "and." hath] So 4to 1616.-2tos 1624, 1631, "haue." § yon] So 4to 1616.-2tos 1624, 1631, "your." you, &c.] See note, p. 101. O, if, &c.] 2to 1604, in the corresponding passage, has "Oh, God, if," &c. (seo p. 101, sec. col.), and that reading seems necessary for the sense. ** at last] So 4to 1616.-2tos 1624, 1631, "at the last." Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer! [Exeunt Devils with FAUSTUS. Enter Scholars.* First Schol. Come, gentlemen, let us go visit For such a dreadful night was never seen; All torn asunder by the hand of death! Third Schol. The devils whom Faustus serv'd have torn him thus; For, twixt the hours of twelve and one, methought, I heard him shriek and call aloud for help; Sec. Schol. Well, gentlemen, though Faustus' BALLAD OF FAUSTUS. [In the course of the notes on the earlier Faustus several extracts have been given from the prose History of Doctor Faustus; and the following ballad on the same subject may properly find a place here. It is now re-printed from a copy in The Roxburghe Collection, vol. ii. 235, Brit. Museum.] The Judgment of God shewed upon one John Faustus, Doctor in Divinity. |