Having commenc'd, be a Divine in show,
Yet level at the end of every art,

And live and die in Aristotle's works.
Sweet Analytics, 'tis thou hast ravish'd me.
Bene disserere est finis Logices.

Is, to dispute well, Logic's chiefest end?
Affords this art no greater miracle?

Then read no more; thou hast attain'd that end.
A greater subject fitteth Faustus' wit.

Bid Economy farewell: and Galen come.
Be a physician, Faustus, heap up gold,
And be eterniz'd for some wond'rous cure.
Summum bonum medicinæ sanitas:
The end of physic is our bodies' health.
Why, Faustus: hast thou not attain'd that end?
Are not thy bills hung up as monuments,
Whereby whole cities have escap'd the plague,
And divers desperate maladies been cured?
Yet art thou still but Faustus, and a man.
Couldst thou make men but live eternally,
Or being dead raise men to life again,
Then this profession were to be esteem'd.
Physic, farewell. Where is Justinian?
Si una eademque res legatur duobus,
Alter rem, alter valorem rei, &c.
A petty case of paltry legacies.

Exhereditari filium non potest pater, nisi, &c.

Such is the subject of the Institute,

And universal body of the Law.

This study fits a mercenary drudge,

Who aims at nothing but eternal trash,

Too servile and illiberal for me.

When all is done, Divinity is best.

Jerome's Bible, Faustus: view it well.

Stipendium peccati mors est: ha! Stipendium, &c.
The reward of sin is death: that's hard.

Si peccasse negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis

veritas.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us.

Why then belike we must sin, and so consequently die.
Aye, we must die an everlasting death.
What doctrine call you this? Che sera sera:
What will be shall be. Divinity adieu.

These Metaphysics of Magicians,
And necromantic books, are heavenly.
Lines, Circles, Letters, Characters:

Aye, these are those that Faustus most desires.
O what a world of profit and delight,
Of power, of honour, of omnipotence,
Is promis'd to the studious artizan !

All things that move between the quiet poles
Shall be at my command. Emperors and Kings
Are but obey'd in their several provinces ;
But his dominion that exceeds in this,
Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man :
A sound Magician is a Demigod.
Here tire my brains to gain a deity.

How am I glutted with conceit of this!
Shall I make Spirits fetch me what I please?
Resolve me of all ambiguities?

Perform what desperate enterprises I will?
I'll have them fly to India for gold,

Ransack the ocean for orient pearl,

And search all corners of the new-found world
For pleasant fruits and princely delicates.
I'll have them read me strange philosophy;

And tell the secrets of all foreign kings:
I'll have them wall all Germany with brass,
And with swift Rhine circle all Wirtemberg:
I'll have them fill the public schools with skill,
Wherewith the students shall be bravely clad:
I'll levy soldiers with the coin they bring,
And chase the Prince of Parma from our land;
And reign sole king of all the provinces ;
Yea, stranger engines for the brunt of war,
Than was the fiery keel at Antwerp bridge,
I'll make my servile Spirits to invent.
Come, German Valdes, and Cornelius,
And make me wise with your sage conference.

Enter VALDES and CORNELIUS.

Faust. Valdes, sweet Valdes, and Cornelius,
Know that your words have won me at the last
To practise magic and concealed Arts.
Philosophy is odious and obscure :

Both Law and Physic are for petty wits:
'Tis Magic, Magic, that hath ravish'd me.
Then gentle friends aid me in this attempt;
And I that have with subtil syllogisms
Gravell'd the Pastors of the German Church,
And made the flowering pride of Wirtemberg
Swarm to my probelms, as th' infernal Spirits
On sweet Musæus when he came to hell,
Will be as cunning as Agrippa was,

Whose shadow made all Europe honour him.

Vald. Faustus, these books, thy wit, and our experience,

Shall make all nations canonize us.

As Indian Moors obey their Spanish Lords,

So shall the Spirits of every Element

Be always serviceable to us three:

Like Lions shall they guard us when we please;
Like Almain Rutters with their horsemen's staves,
Or Lapland Giants trotting by our sides :
Sometimes like Women, or unwedded Maids,
Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows
Than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love.
Corn. The miracles that magic will perform,
Will make thee vow to study nothing else.

He that is grounded in astrology,

Inricht with tongues, well seen in minerals,

Hath all the principles magic doth require.

Faust. Come, show me some demonstrations magical, That I may conjure in some bushy grove,

And have these joys in full possession.

Vald. Then haste thee to some solitary grove,
And bear wise Bacon's and Albanus' works,
The Hebrew Psalter, and New Testatment;
And whatsoever else is requisite

We will inform thee, ere our conference cease.

Faustus being instructed in the elements of magic by his friends Valdes and Cornelius, sells his soul to the devil, to have an Evil Spirit at his command for twenty-four years.—When the years are expired, the devils claim his soul.

FAUSTUS-the night of his death. WAGNER, his servant. Faust. Say, Wagner, thou hast perused my Will, How dost thou like it?

Wag. Sir, so wondrous well,

As in all humble duty I do yield

My life and lasting service for love.

your

Three Scholars enter.

Faust. Gramercy, Wagner.

Welcome, Gentlemen.

[Exit.

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First Sch. Now, worthy Faustus, methinks your looks are chang'd.

Faust. Oh, Gentlemen.

Sec. Sch. What ails Faustus?

Faust. Ah, my sweet chamber-fellow, had I lived with thee, then had I liv'd still, but now must die eternally. Look, Sirs, comes he not? comes he not?

First Sch. Oh my dear Faustus, what imports this fear?

Sec. Sch. Is all our pleasure turned to melancholy? Third Sch. He is not well with being over solitary. Sec. Sch. If it be so, we will have physicians, and Faustus shall be cured.

Third Sch. 'Tis but a surfeit, Sir; fear nothing. Faust. A surfeit of a deadly sin that hath damn'd both body and soul.

Sec. Sch. Yet, Faustus, look up to heaven, and remember mercy is infinite.

Faust. But Faustus' offence can ne'er be pardoned. The serpent that tempted Eve may be saved, but not Faustus. O Gentlemen, hear me with patience, and tremble not at my speeches. Though my heart pant and quiver to remember that I have been a student here these thirty years. O would I had ne'er seen Wirtemberg, never read book! and what wonders have I done, all Germany can witness, yea, all the world: for which, Faustus hath lost both Germany and the world: yea, heaven itself, heaven the seat of God, the throne of the blessed, the kingdom of joy, and must remain in hell for ever. Hell, O hell, for ever. Sweet friends, what shall become of Faustus being in hell for ever?

Sec. Sch. Yet Faustus call on God.

Faust. On God whom Faustus hath abjured? on God whom Faustus hath blasphemed? O my God, I