Doctor Faustus upon this arose where he sat,[14] and said, I will have my request, and yet I will not be damned. The Spirit answered, Then shalt thou want thy desire, and yet art thou mine notwithstanding: if any man would detain thee it is in vain, for thine infidelity hath confounded thee. Hereupon spake Faustus: Get thee hence from me, and take Saint Valentine’s farewell and Crisam[15] with thee, yet I conjure thee that thou be here at evening, and bethink thyself on that I have asked thee, and ask thy Prince’s counsel therein. Mephostophiles the Spirit, thus answered, vanished away, leaving Faustus in his study, where he sat pondering with himself how he might obtain his request of the Devil without loss of his soul: yet fully he was resolved in himself, rather than to want his pleasure, to do whatsoever the Spirit and his Lord should condition upon. [Footnote 14: A mistranslation of the German text, “entsetzt sich darob,” i.e. “was terrified at this.”] [Footnote 15: Saint Valentine’s sickness is epilepsy. Crisam is Gk. _chrisma_, a composition of oil and balm.] CHAPTER IV _The second time of the Spirit’s appearing to Faustus in his house, and of their parley_ Faustus continuing in his Devilish cogitations, never moving out of the place where the Spirit left him (such was his fervent love to the Devil) the night approaching, this swift flying Spirit appeared to Faustus, offering himself with all submission to his service, with full authority from his Prince to do whatsoever he would request, if so be Faustus would promise to be his: this answer I bring thee, and an answer must thou make by me again, yet will I hear what is thy desire, because thou hast sworn me to be here at this time. Doctor Faustus gave him this answer, though faintly (for his soul’s sake), That his request was none other but to become a Devil, or at the least a limb of him, and that the Spirit should agree unto these Articles as followeth. 1. That he might be a Spirit in shape and quality. 2. That Mephostophiles should be his servant, and at his commandment. 3. That Mephostophiles should bring him anything, and do for him whatsoever. 4. That at all times he should be in his house, invisible to all men, except only to himself, and at his commandment to shew himself. 5. Lastly, that Mephostophiles should at all times appear at his command, in what form or shape soever he would. Upon these points the Spirit answered Doctor Faustus, that all this should be granted him and fulfilled, and more if he would agree unto him upon certain Articles as followeth. First, that Doctor Faustus should give himself to his Lord Lucifer, body and soul. Secondly, for confirmation of the same, he should make him a writing, written with his own blood. Thirdly, that he would be an enemy to all Christian people. Fourthly, that he would deny his Christian belief.