2. Sch. Yet Faustus, looke vp to heauen, remember gods mercies are infinite.

1370

Fau. But Faustus offence can nere be pardoned. The Serpent that tempted Eue may be sau'd, but not Faustus : Ah Gentlemen, heare me with patience, and tremble not at my speeches. Though my heart pants and quiuers to remember that I haue beene a student here these thirty yeeres, O would I had neuer seene Wertenberge, neuer read booke and what wonders I haue done, al Germany can witnes, yea all the world, for which Faustus hath lost both Germany, and the world, yea heauen it selfe, heauen the seate of God, the throne of the blessed, the kingdome of ioy, and must remaine in hel for euer, hel, ah hel for euer, sweete friends, what shall become of Faustus, being in hel for euer?

3. Sch. Yet Faustus call on God.

1383

Fau. On God whome Faustus hath abiurde, on God, whome Faustus hath blasphemed: ah my God, I woulde weepe, but the diuel drawes in my teares. Gush foorth bloud, insteade of teares, yea life and soule. Oh he stayes my tong, I would lift vp my hands, but see, they hold them, they hold them.

All. Who Faustus?

Fau. Lucifer and Mephastophilis.

Ah Gentlemen! I gaue them my soule for my cunning.
All. God forbid.

1390

1394

Fau. God forbade it indeede, but Faustus hath done it : for vaine pleasure of 24. yeares hath Faustus lost eternall ioy and felicitie. I writ them a bill with mine owne bloud, the date is expired, the time wil come, and he wil fetch mee.

1. Schol. Why did not Faustus tel vs of this before, that Diuines might haue prayed for thee?

1401

Fau. Oft haue I thought to haue done so, but the diuell

1369-70 remember. . are] and remember mercy is 1616-63 1371-2 The.. Faustus om. 1663 1373 Ah] O 1616-63 me om. 1616 1374 pant & quiuer 1616-63 1376 neuer] nere 1619–63 Wittenberg 1616-63 1379-81 heauen the seate . . ioy om. 1663 1381 ah] O 1616–63 1384 Prefix 2. 1616-63 God] Heaven 1385 On God om. 1663 on God om. 1663 1386 ah. God om. 1663 1388 yea.. soule 1389-90 them . . them] 'em . 'em 1616-63 1393 Ah] O 1616-63

1663
ah] O 1616-31
om. 1663
1392 Lucifer] Why Lucifer 1616-63
1394 God 1604-11:
Heaven 1663
twenty 1616-63

O God 1616-31: Heaven 1663

1396 for] for the 1616-63

1395 God] 24.] foure and

1398 the time wil come] this is the time 1616–63

threatned to teare mee in peeces, if I namde God, to fetch both body and soule, if I once gaue eare to diuinitie and now tis too late: Gentlemen away, lest you perish with me. 2. Sch. O what shal we do to (saue) Faustus? 1406 Faustus. Talke not of me, but saue your selues, and depart.

3. Sch. God wil strengthen me, I wil stay with Faustus. 1. Sch. Tempt not God, sweete friend, but let vs into the next roome, and there pray for him.

1411

Fau. I, pray for me, pray for me, and what noyse soeuer yee heare, come not vnto me, for nothing can rescue me. 2. Sch. Pray thou, and we wil pray that God may haue mercy vpon thee.

1415

Fau. Gentlemen farewel, if I liue til morning, Ile visite you if not, Faustus is gone to hel.

All. Faustus, farewel.

The clocke strikes eleauen.

Fau. Ah Faustus,

Exeunt Sch.

Now hast thou but one bare hower to liue,
And then thou must be damnd perpetually :
Stand stil you euer moouing spheres of heauen,
That time may cease, and midnight neuer come :
Faire Natures eie, rise, rise againe, and make
Perpetuall day, or let this houre be but

1420

1425

A yeere, a moneth, a weeke, a naturall day,

That Faustus may repent, and saue his soule,

O lente, lente curite noctis equi:

1430

The starres mooue stil, time runs, the clocke wil strike,
The diuel wil come, and Faustus must be damnd.
O Ile leape vp to my God who pulles me downe ?
See see where Christs blood streames in the firmament.
One drop would saue my soule, halfe a drop, ah my Christ.
Ah rend not my heart for naming of my Christ,
Yet wil I call on him: oh spare me Lucifer!

1403 God] Heaven 1663 'ts 1616: it is 1620-63 1616-63, Dyce etc. 1616-63

1404 both] me 1616-63

1435

1405 tis]

1406 shal] may 1616-63 saue add. 1411 there om. 1611-63 1413 yee] you

1418+ New passage of 48 lines add. 1616-63'; cf. Appendix, pp. 227-9 1419 Ah 1604-11: O 1616-63 1430 damnd] lost 1663 1431 to my God 1604: vnto my God 1609, 1611: to God Brey.: to heauen 1616-63 1432 om. 1616 1432-4 om. 1663 1433 would. . ah] of bloud will saue me oh 1616-31 1434 Ah om. 1616-31, Wag., Brey. 1435 him] it 1663 Lucifer om. 1663

Where is it now? tis gone: And see where God Stretcheth out his arme, and bends his irefull browes : Mountaines and hilles, come, come, and fall on me,

And hide me from the heauy wrath of God.

No, no.

Then wil I headlong runne into the earth:
Earth gape. O no, it wil not harbour me:
You starres that raignd at my natiuitie,
Whose influence hath alotted death and hel,
Now draw vp Faustus like a foggy mist,
Into the intrailes of yon labring_cloude,
That when you vomite foorth into the ayre,
My limbes may issue from your smoaky mouthes,
So that my soule may but ascend to heauen:
Ah, halfe the houre is past :

Twil all be past anone:

Oh God,

1440

1445

The watch strikes.

1451

If thou wilt not haue mercy on my soule,

Yet for Christs sake, whose bloud hath ransomd me,
Impose some end to my incessant paine.
Let Faustus liue in hel a thousand yeeres,
A hundred thousand, and at last be sau'd.
O no end is limited to damned soules,
Why wert thou not a creature wanting soule ?
Or, why is this immortall that thou hast ?
Ah Pythagoras metemsucosis, were that true,
This soule should flie from me, and I be changde
Vnto some brutish beast: al beasts are happy,
For when they die,

1455

1460

Their soules are soone dissolud in elements,
But mine must liue still to be plagde in hel :
Curst be the parents that ingendred me:
No Faustus, curse thy selfe, curse Lucifer,

1465

That hath depriude thee of the ioyes of heauen:

The clocke striketh twelue.

1437 out 1440 no

1444 yon] your

1436-7 And see. . browes 1604-11: And see a threatning Arme, an (and 1624, 1631) angry Brow 1616-31: om. 1663 1604: forth 1609, 1611 1439 God] heauen 1616-63 om. 1616-63 1442 Earth gape] Gape earth 1616-63 hath] haue 1619–31 1446 intrailes] entrance 1611 1620-63 clouds 1663, Dyce, Ward 1447 you] they conj. Dyce 1448 your] their conj. Dyce 1449 So . . but] But let my soule mount, and 1616-63 1450 S.D. The clock strikes the half-hour Dyce 1450 Ah] O 1616-63 1452-4 Instead of these lines Qq 161663 have O, if my soule must suffer for my sinne, 1458 O om. 1616-63, Wag., Brey. 1462 I] Ile 1663 1463 Vnto] Into 161663 1469 S.D. clooke 1604 striketh] strikes 1611-63

1470

O it strikes, it strikes: now body turne to ayre,
Or Lucifer wil beare thee quicke to hel:
Thunder and lightning.

O soule, be changde into little water drops,
And fal into the Ocean, nere be found:
My God, my God, looke not so fierce on me :
Enter diuels.

Adders, and Serpents, let me breathe a while :
Vgly hell gape not, come not Lucifer,

1475

Ile burne my bookes, ah Mephastophilis. (Exeunt with him. Enter Chorus.

(Chor.) Cut is the branch that might haue growne ful

straight,

And burned is Apolloes Laurel bough,

That sometime grew within this learned man :
Faustus is gone, regard his hellish fall,

1480

Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise,
Onely to wonder at vnlawful things,

Whose deepenesse doth intise such forward wits,

To practise more than heauenly power permits.
Terminat hora diem, Terminat Author opus.

1485

1470 O om. 1616-63

1471 S.D. om. 1616-63

1472 little]

small 1616-63 1474 My God, my God] O mercy heauen 1616-63 1474 S.D. Thunder, and enter the deuils after 1473 1616-63 1477 ah] Oh 1616-63 1477 S.D. Exeunt 1616: om. 1619-63 +18 new lines add. 1616-63; cf. Appendix, p. 229

add. 1611-63

1477

1485+ FINIS

APPENDIX TO DR. FAUSTUS

Instead of 11. 351-432, the quartos of 1616-63 have the following:

Enter Wagner and the Clowne.

Wag.

Come hither sirra boy.

351

Clo. Boy? O disgrace to my person: Zounds boy in your face, you haue seene many boyes with beards, I am sure. Wag. Sirra, hast thou no commings in? Clow. Yes, and goings out too, you may see sir.

355

Wag. Alas poore slaue, see how pouerty iests in his nakednesse, I know the Villaines out of seruice, and so hungry, that I know he would giue his soule to the deuill for a shoulder of Mutton, tho it were bloud raw.

Clo. Not so neither; I had need to haue it well rosted, and good sauce to it, if I pay so deere, I can tell you. 361

Wag. Sirra, wilt thou be my man and waite on me? and I will make thee go, like Qui mihi discipulus. Clow. What, in Verse?

Wag. No slaue, in beaten silke, and staues-aker.

365

Clow. Staues-aker? that's good to kill Vermine: then, belike if I serue you, I shall be lousy.

Wag. Why so thou shalt be, whether thou dost it or no : for sirra, if thou dost not presently bind thy selfe to me for seuen yeares, I'le turne all the lice about thee into Familiars, and make them tare thee in peeces.

371

Clow. Nay sir, you may saue your selfe a labour, for they are as familiar with me, as if they payd for their meate and drinke, I can tell you.

Wag. Well sirra, leaue your iesting, and take these Guilders. (Gives money.)

Clow. Yes marry sir, and I thanke you to. 376 Wag. So, now thou art to bee at an howres warning, whensoeuer, and wheresoeuer the deuill shall fetch thee. Clow. Here, take your Guilders, I'le none of 'em. Wag. Not I, thou art prest, prepare thy selfe, for I will presently raise vp two deuils to carry thee away: Banio, Belcher.

355 Yes om. 1663

354 Sirra om. 1620-63 aker] stauracin or stauracia conj. Tancock

372 saue] spare 1631, 1663 379 Guilders 1616:

365 staues

369 not om. 1663

Guilders againe