Literature, Medieval -- Translations into English; Tales
hell, the while thou art desirous to know the secrets of our kingdom.
And mark, Faustus, hell is the nurse of death, the heat of fire, the
shadow of heaven and earth, the oblivion of all goodness; the pains
unspeakable, the griefs unremovable, the dwelling of the devils.
Dragons, serpents, adders, toads, crocodiles, and all manner of venomous
and noisome creatures; the puddle of sin, the stinking far ascending
from the Stygian lake, brimstone, pitch, and all manner of unclean
metals, the perpetual and unquenchable fire, the end of whose miseries
was never purposed by God. Yea, yea, Faustus, thou sayest I shall, I
must, nay, I will tell thee the secrets of our kingdom, for thou buyest
it dearly, and thou must and shalt be partaker of our torments, that, as
the Lord said, shall never cease, for hell, the woman's belly, and the
earth, are never satisfied; there shalt thou abide horrible torments,
howling, crying, burning, freezing, melting, swimming in a labyrinth of
miseries, scolding, smoking in thine eyes, stinking in thy nose,
hoarseness in thy speech, deafness in thy ears, trembling in thy hands,
biting thine own tongue with pain, thy heart crushed as with a press,
thy bones broken, the devils tossing firebrands unto thee: yea, thy
whole carcass tossed upon muck-forks from one devil to another; yea,
Faustus, then wilt thou wish for death, and he will fly from thee, thine
unspeakable torments shall be every day augmented more and more, for the
greater the sin the greater is the punishment. How likest thou this, my
Faustus? A resolution answerable to thy request.
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