...Now hast thou but one bare hour to ,ive, And then thou must be damned perpetually, Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease...rise again, and make Perpetual day ! or let this hour bj but . A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and pave his soul. O li'ftte...

...cries to the hours to stop with no rhetorical figure of speech, but with a terrible reality of agony: Let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save bii soul. Time to repent, time to recoil from the horrible gulf into which he is being sucked. He would...

...strikes cleren. Fauat. O Faustus!— Now hast thou but one bare hour to live. ****** Stand still, ye ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease,...make Perpetual day ; or let this hour be but A year, u month, a week, a natural day, That Fanstus may repeut and save his soul. The stars move still, —...

...finden sich einige bemerkenswerthe Aehnlichkeiten zwischen Faustus und den Quellen. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come That Faustus may repent and save bis soul entspricht in EFB (Cap. LX): Ah, that I could carry the heavens...

...Now hast them but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damn'd perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease,...be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Fanstus may repent and save his soul! The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil...

...strikes eleven. Faust. O Faustus!— Now hast thou but one bare hour to live. ****** Stand still, ye art of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair. ON A GIRDLE. I'erpetual day; or let this hour bo but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustns may repent...

...Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damn'd perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease...natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul ! O lente lente currite, noctis equi ! The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The...

...about to expire, he communes with himself, and counts the minutes of his last hour : " Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease,...rise, rise again, and make Perpetual day ; or let ihis hour be hut A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent, and save his sou]...

...hour : " Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come1 Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again, and make Perpetual day • or let (his hour be hut A year, a month, a week, a natural Hay, That Faustus may repent, and save his soul...

...Faust speaks : " Ah ! Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live. And then thou must be damned perpetually ! Stand still, yon ever-moving spheres...natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul. ****** [The clock strikes the half-hour.] Ah ! the half-hour is past; 'twill all be past anon. Oh,...