The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe

Author:Christopher Marlowe
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.

140 be damned here. What? Walking, disputing, etc.? But leaving

off this, let me have a wife, the fairest maid in Germany, for

I am wanton and lascivious and cannot live without a wife.

MEPHISTOPHELES How, a wife? I prithee, Faustus, talk not of a wife.

FAUSTUS Nay, sweet Mephistopheles, fetch me one, for I will have one.

MEPHISTOPHELES Well, thou wilt have one. Sit there till I come. I’ll fetch thee a wife, in the devil’s name.

[Exit MEPHISTOPHELES, then re-]enter with a DEVIL dressed like a woman, with fireworks.

MEPHISTOPHELES Tell, Faustus, how dost thou like thy wife?

150

FAUSTUS A plague on her for a hot whore!

MEPHISTOPHELES Tut, Faustus, marriage is but a ceremonial toy.

If thou lovest me, think no more of it.

[Exit DEVIL.]

I’ll cull thee out the fairest courtesans

And bring them ev’ry morning to thy bed.

She whom thine eye shall like, thy heart shall have,

Be she as chaste as was Penelope,

As wise as Saba, or as beautiful

As was bright Lucifer before his fall.

[Presenting a book]

Hold, take this book. Peruse it thoroughly.

160 The iterating of these lines brings gold;

The framing of this circle on the ground

Brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder, and lightning.

Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thyself,

And men in armour shall appear to thee,

Ready to execute what thou desir’st.

FAUSTUS Thanks, Mephistopheles. Yet fain would I have a book wherein I might behold all spells and incantations, that I might raise up spirits when I please.

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