In the _Urfaust_, also, we have, with a few verbal alterations, the Scene in which Faust communicates to his famulus Wagner his cynical view of the value of human knowledge. In the _Urfaust_, however, are lacking the Scenes that follow in the completed poem--Faust's soliloquy and meditated suicide, the Easter walk, the appearance of Mephistopheles in the shape of a poodle, and the compact that follows. In place of these scenes we have but one, in which Mephistopheles, without previous introduction, is represented as a professor giving advice to a raw student who has come to consult him as to his future course of conduct and study. Of all the Scenes in the _Urfaust_ this is the feeblest, and its immaturity, as well as its evident references to Goethe's own experiences at Leipzig, suggest that it was the earliest written. This Scene is followed by another reminiscent of Leipzig--the Scene in Auerbach's cellar, which mainly differs from the later form in being written in prose and not in verse--Faust and not Mephistopheles playing the conjuror in drawing wine from a table. In the completed poem we are next introduced to the Witches' Kitchen, where Faust is rejuvenated, and where he sees Margaret's image in a mirror--the reader being thus prepared for the tragedy that is to follow. In the _Urfaust_ we pass with no connecting link from the Scene in Auerbach's Cellar to Faust's meeting with Margaret and the successive Scenes which depict her self-abandonment to Faust and her consequent misery and ruin. The content of these Scenes is virtually the same in both forms--the most important difference being that, while the concluding Prison Scene is in prose in the _Urfaust_, it is in verse in the later form. Of the three songs which Margaret sings, only the first, "There was a King in Thule," was retouched. In the _Urfaust_ the duel between Valentin and Mephistopheles does not occur, and we have only Valentin's soliloquy on the ruin of his sister; and the scenes, _Wald und Hoehle_, the _Walpurgis Nacht_, the _Walpurgisnachtstraum_, generally condemned by critics as inartistic irrelevancies, are likewise lacking.[241] [Footnote 241: The words "[Sie] ist gerettet" are not in the _Urfaust_.]