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. 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 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, 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, 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: 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, 1455 1460 Their soules are soone dissolud in elements, 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, O soule, be changde into little water drops, Adders, and Serpents, let me breathe a while : 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 : 1480 Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Whose deepenesse doth intise such forward wits, To practise more than heauenly power permits. 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 |