The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a FarceMarlowe, Christopher
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The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce
Marlowe, Christopher
Faust, -approximately 1540 -- Drama
_Har._ Oh! I'll fetch you that presently.
[Harlequin _fetches a Chamber-pot of Piss, and a Lamp of Oyl, and pours
on the Sallad_.
_Scar._ O thy Sallad is nothing but Thistles and Netles; and thy Oyl
stinks worse than _Arsefetito_.
_Har._ Bread and Wine be our Fare. Ha! the Bread's alive. [_Bread
stirs._
_Scar._ Or the Devil's in't. Hey! again. [_Bread sinks._
_Har._ My Belly's as empty as a Beggar's Purse.
_Scar._ And mine as full of Wind as a Trumpeter's Cheeks.
[_Table sinks, and Flash of Lightning._
But since we can't Eat, let's Drink: Come, here's Dr. _Faustus_'s
Health.
_Har._ Ay, come; God bless Dr. _Faustus_.
[_Bottles fly up, and the Table sinks._
_Scar._ What all gone: Here's a Banquet stole away like a City Feast.
[_Musick._
_Har._ Ha! here's Musick to delight us.
[_Two Chairs rises._ Harlequin _and_ Scaramouche _sits down, and are
caught fast_.
_Scar._ Ha! the Devil. We are lock'd in.
_Har._ As fast as a Counter Rat.
_Enter several Devils, who black_ Harlequin _and_ Scaramouche's _Faces,
and then squirt Milk upon them_. _After the Dance they both sink._
_Scar. and Har._ O' o, o'----
_The End of the Second Act._
ACT III.
SCENE _a Wood_.
Mephostopholis _and Dr._ Faustus.
_Faust._ How have I been delighted by thy Art; and in Twelve Years have
seen the utmost Limits of the spacious World; feasted my self with all
Varieties; pleasur'd my Fancy with my Magick Art, and liv'd sole Lord
o'er every Thing I wish'd for.
_Meph._ Ay, _Faustus_, is it not a splendid Life?
_Faust._ It is my Spirit; but prithee now retire, while I repose my
self within this Shade, and when I wake attend on me again.
_Meph._ _Faust_, I will. [_Exit._
_Faust._ What art thou, _Faustus_, but a Man condemn'd. Thy Lease of
Years expire apace; and, _Faustus_, then thou must be _Lucifers_: Here
rest my Soul, and in my Sleep my future State be buried.
_Good and bad Angel descends._
_Good An._ _Faustus_, sweet _Faustus_, yet remember Heav'n. Oh! think
upon the everlasting Pain thou must endure, For all thy short Space of
Pleasure.
_Bad An._ Illusions, Fancies, _Faustus_; think of Earth. The Kings thou
shalt command: The Pleasures Rule. Be, _Faustus_, not a whining, pious
Fool. [_Ascend._
_Enter_ Horse-courser.
_Hors._ Oh! what a couz'ning Doctor was this: I riding my Horse into the
Water, thinking some hidden Mystery had been in 'em, found my self on a
Bundle of Straw, and was drag'd by Something in the Water, like a
Bailiff through a Horse-pond. Ha! he's a Sleep: So ho, Mr. Doctor, so
ho. Why Doctor, you couz'ning, wheedling, hypocritical, cheating,
chousing, Son of a Whore; awake, rise, and give me my Mony again, for
your Horse is turn'd into a Bottle of Hay. Why Sirrah, Doctor; 'sfoot I
think he's dead. Way Doctor Scab; you mangy Dog. [_pulls him by the
Leg._ 'Zounds I'm undone, I have pull'd his Leg off.
_Faust._ O help! the Villain has undone me; Murder.
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