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Their souls are soon dissolv'd in elements;
But mine must live still to be plagu❜d in hell.
Curs'd be the parents that engender'd me!
No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer,
That hath depriv'd thee of the joys of heav'n.
[The clock strikes twelve.]

It strikes, it strikes! now, body, turn to air,
Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell.
O soul! be chang'd into small water-drops,
And fall into the ocean; ne'er be found.

Thunder. Enter the DEVILS.

Oh! mercy, heav'n, look not so fierce on me!
Adders and serpents, let me breathe awhile!—
Ugly hell, gape not! - Come not, Lucifer!
I'll burn my books!-Oh, Mephostophilis! [Exeunt.
Enter the SCHOLARS.

1 Scнo. Come, gentlemen, let us go visit Faustus, For such a dreadful night was never seen Since first the world's creation did begin; Such fearful shrieks and cries were never heard; Pray heaven the Doctor have escap'd the danger. 2 Scuo. Oh, help us, heavens! see, here are Faustus' limbs,

All torn asunder by the hand of death.

3 Schо. The devils whom Faustus serv'd have

torn him thus;

For twixt the hours of twelve and one, methought
I heard him shriek and cry aloud for help;
At which self-time the house seem'd all on fire,

With dreadful horror of these damned fiends.

As

2 Schо. Well, gentlemen, though Faustus' end be such

every christian heart laments to think on; Yet, for he was a scholar once admir'd

For wondrous knowledge in our German schools,
We'll give his mangled limbs due burial;

And all the students, clothed in mourning black,
Shall wait upon his heavy funeral.

Enter CHORUS.

[Exeunt.

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,

That sometime grew within this learned man :
Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall,
Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise,
Only to wonder at unlawful things;

Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits,

To

practice more than heavenly power permits.

Terminat hora diem, terminat author opus.

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