Solo. You seem discontented, or else amaz'd At some strange accident: what i'st

Offends you sweet? come drink of this Cordial

To revive thee.

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Faust. Though I must confess I have no great need Of cordial waters, yet i'le drink it, because

It came from an Empresses hand:

Here Solomaine, here's to thee, and all thy mens

Confusion.

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Solo. Hell, Furies, traytors look about,

See what tis that thus disturbs our mirth, and tell me

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Dogs, or by our holy Prophets tomb I swear
Ye all shall die the miserablest death, that
Ever witty cruelty invented: how my soul is
Tortur'd with these villianous charms: some
Musick there to moderate these passions in
My breast: ha! do devils haunt my Palace,
Or are they come to celebrate such meetings
As the Christians use?

I'le find the cause of all these strange events,
And by our counter charmes cross their intents.
Call our Majecian forth, and let him bring
Such necessaries as his Art requires, to force
An answer from this infernal fiend,

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That does disturb our mirth.

Meph. Faustus stand by, and give me leave to act

My part: we spirits take no pleasure in wine,

Or women, all our delights to hurt and torture

Men, which i'le perform on his majecian.

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Vnless he serve a power above me, as we

Have order in our confusion, and different degrees
Amongst us, I'le carry him away out of
His circle, and throw him down into some

Stinking puddle.

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Faust. Why, but tell me Mephostophilis, dar'st thou Attempt to venter on a man in his circle?

Meph. Because thou art ours and sold to Lucifer, and I

Have promis'd to serve thee faithfully, I'le not

Conceal the secrets of our state from thee, thou darling 980
Of great Lucifer: know all those rights and
Spells which mortals use to make us rise,
Appear visible, answer to their demands,

Fullfill their wills, and execute their malice on
Their enemies, are very fables, forg'd at first
In hell, and thrust on credulous mortals

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To deceive 'm.

Nor is there such a power in signes and words, to
Make us to obey, that rule the elements, and in a
Moment, if we had but leave, would turn the
World to a confus'd nothing. 'Tis true we seem

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H3

To come constrain'd, and by the power of their

Charmes but are more willing to be imploy'd to

:

Hurt and kill mankind, then they are willing to engage
Vs in their service, and wheresoe'r we find one bent to our
Familiarity, we fly then willingly to catch him.
Faust. Thanks good Mephostophilis for this discovering
Of your misery.
Enter Conjurer.

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Solo. Majecian shew thy skill, and by thy art inquire What it is that thus disturbs our mirth, and then 1000 Command it forthwith to depart.

Conju. I obey your Royal pleasure.

Within my circle here I stand,

And in my hand, this silver wand

Arm'd with the potent hell gods names

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At which fiends tremble midst the flames.

By fat of infants newly kill'd,

And blood by cruel mothers spill'd,

By Pluto's love to Proserpine,

Which made his Hell-hood sigh and whine,
By Minos and by (a)cus,

By Radament and Serberus,

I do conjure you hellish spirits,
That the infernal vault)es inherits;
Send from your sootty palace hither,
One of your train to tell me whether
He that disturbs the Emperours feast,

Be a Devil, or a Ghost from hell releast.

Meph. A devil.

ΠΟΙΟ

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Conju. Thy name? who sent for thee? why dost not Shew thy self? scornst thou my charmes,

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Which heretofore made thee fly as swift

As lightning to obey my hest? i'le torture thee
For this contempt of me, and sink thee to the

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Bottom of the Seas, or bind thee in the deserts of
Arrabia a thousand years to punish thy disobedience.
Meph. Will you so aud(ac)ious mortal? nay now you move
Me, and because your fears have made you stone cold,

I'le warm you for your threatning me with water,
And for fear you should get a Feavour by this

I quench your heat.

Vnwonted fire, in the next pond you come at,

Conju. Help, help, help.

Sollo. Come my dearest, thy life is worth all ours.

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Exit.

Exeunt.

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The which, in state and high solemnity,
This day is held through Rome and Italy,

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In honour of the Popes triumphant victory.

Faust. Sweete Mephosto philis,) thou pleasest me: Whilst I am here on earth, let me be cloyd

With all things that delight the heart of man.
My foure and twenty yeares of liberty
I'le spend in pleasure and in daliance,

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That Faustus name, whilst this bright frame doth stand,

May be admired through the furthest Land.

Meph. 'Tis well said Faustus, come then stand by me

And thou shalt see them come immediately.
Faust. Nay stay my gentle Mephostophilis,

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And grant me my request, and then I go.

Thou know'st within the compasse of eight daies,

We view'd the face of heauen, of earth and hell.
So high our Dragons soar'd into the aire,
That looking downe the earth appear'd to me,
No bigger then my hand in quantity.
There did we view the Kingdomes of the world,
And what might please mine eye, I there beheld.
Then in this shew let me an Actor be,
That this proud Pope may Faustus cunning see.
Meph. Let it be so my Faustus, but first stay,
And view their triumphs, as they passe this way.
And then deuise what best contents thy minde,
By cunning in thine Art to crosse the Pope,
Or dash the pride of this solemnity;

To make his Monkes and Abbots stand like Apes,
And point like Antiques at his triple Crowne:
To beate the beades about the Friers Pates,
Or clap huge hornes, vpon the Cardinals heads:
Or any villany thou canst deuise,

And I'le performe it Faustus: heark they come :
This day shall make thee be admir'd in Rome.

Enter the Cardinals and Bishops,

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some bearing Crosiers, some the Pillars, Monkes and Friers, singing their Procession: Then the Pope, and Raymond King of Hungary, with Bruno led in chaines.

Pope. Cast downe our Foot-stoole.
Ray. Saxon Bruno stoope,

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Whilst on thy backe his hollinesse ascends

Saint Peters Chaire and State Pontificall.

Bru. Proud Lucifer, that State belongs to me:

But thus I fall to Peter, not to thee.

Pope. To me and Peter, shalt thou groueling lie,

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And crouch before the Papall dignity:

Sound Trumpets then, for thus Saint Peters Heire,
From Bruno's backe, ascends Saint Peters Chaire.

A Flourish while he ascends.

Thus, as the Gods creepe on with feete of wool,
Long ere with Iron hands they punish men,
So shall our sleeping vengeance now arise,
And smite with death thy hated enterprise.
Lord Cardinals of France and Padua,
Go forth-with to our holy Consistory,
And read amongst the Statutes Decretall,
What by the holy Councell held at Trent,
The sacred Sinod hath decreed for him,
That doth assume the Papall gouernment,
Without election, and a true consent :
Away and bring vs word with speed.
1 Card. We go my Lord.

Pope. Lord Raymond.

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Exeunt Cardinals.

Faust. Go hast thee gentle Mephostophilis,

Follow the Cardinals to the Consistory;

And as they turne their superstitious Bookes,

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Strike them with sloth, and drowsy idlenesse ;

And make them sleepe so sound, that in their shapes,

Thy selfe and I, may parly with this Pope :

This proud confronter of the Emperour,

And in despite of all his Holinesse

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Restore this Bruno to his liberty,

And beare him to the States of Germany.
Meph. Faustus, I goe.

Bruno. Pope Adrian let me haue some right of Law,

Faust. Dispatch it soone,

The Pope shall curse that Faustus came to Rome.

I was elected by the Emperour.

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Exit Faustus and Meph.

Pope. We will depose the Emperour for that deed,

And like a Steeple ouer-peeres the Church.
But wee'le pul downe his haughty insolence:
And as Pope Alexander our Progenitour,
Trode on the neck of Germane Fredericke,
Adding this golden sentence to our praise;

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That Peters heires should tread on Emperours,
And walke vpon the dreadfull Adders backe,
Treading the Lyon, and the Dragon downe,
And fearelesse spurne the killing Basiliske :
So will we quell that haughty Schismatique ;
And by authority Apostolicall

Depose him from his Regall Gouernment.

Bru. Pope Iulius swore to Princely Sigismond,
For him, and the succeeding Popes of Rome,
To hold the Emperours their lawful Lords.

Pope. Pope Iulius did abuse the Churches Rites,
And therefore none of his Decrees can stand.
Is not all power on earth bestowed on vs ?
And therefore tho we would we cannot erre.
Behold this Siluer Belt whereto is fixt

Seuen golden seales fast sealed with seuen seales,
In token of our seuen-fold power from heauen,
To binde or loose, lock fast, condemne, or iudge,
Resigne, or seale, or what so pleaseth vs.
Then he and thou, and all the world shall stoope,
Or be assured of our dreadfull curse,
To light as heauy as the paines of hell.

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Enter Faustus and Mephosto. like the Cardinals.
Meph. Now tell me Faustus, are we not fitted well?
Faust. Yes Mephosto. and two such Cardinals
Ne're seru'd a holy Pope, as we shall do.

But whilst they sleepe within the Consistory,
Let vs salute his reuerend Father-hood.

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Ray. Behold my Lord, the Cardinals are return'd. Pope. Welcome graue Fathers, answere presently, What haue our holy Councell there decreed, Concerning Bruno and the Emperour,

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In quittance of their late conspiracie

Against our State, and Papall dignitic?

Faust. Most sacred Patron of the Church of Rome,

By full consent of all the Synod

Of Priests and Prelates, it is thus decreed :
That Bruno, and the Germane Emperour
Be held as Lollords, and bold Schismatiques,
And proud disturbers of the Churches peace.
And if that Bruno by his owne assent,
Without inforcement of the German Peeres,
Did seeke to weare the triple Dyadem,
And by your death to clime S. Peters Chaire,
The Statutes Decretall haue thus decreed,

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He shall be streight condemn'd of heresie,

And on a pile of Fagots burnt to death.

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