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   Voice (from below)

   Stay! stay!

   Voice (from above)

   What voice of woe Calls from the cavern'd depths below?

   Voice (from below)

   Take me with you! Oh take me too! Three centuries I climb in vain; And yet
   can ne'er the summit gain! To be with my kindred I am fain。

   Both Choruses

   Broom and pitch … fork; goat and prong; Mounted on these we whirl along;
   Who vainly strives to climb to … night; Is evermore a luckless wight!

   Demi … Witch (below)

   I hobble after; many a day; Already the others are far away! No rest at home
   can I obtain Here too my efforts are in vain!

   Chorus of Witches

     Salve gives the witches strength to rise; A rag for a sail does well enough; A
   goodly ship is every trough; To … night who flies not; never flies。

   Both Choruses

   And when the topmost peak we round; Then alight ye on the ground; The
   heath's wide regions cover ye With your mad swarms of witchery!

   (They let themselves down。)

   Mephistopleles

   They crowd and jostle; whirl and flutter! They whisper; babble; twirl; and
   splutter! They glimmer; sparkle; stink and flare A true witch … element!
   Beware! Stick close! else we shall severed be。 Where art thou?

   Faust (in the distance)

   Here!

   Mephistopheles

   Already; whirl'd so far away! The master then indeed I needs must play。 Give
   ground! Squire Voland comes! Sweet folk; give ground! Here; doctor; grasp
   me! With a single bound Let us escape this ceaseless jar; Even for me too
   mad these people are。 Hard by there shineth something with peculiar glare;
   Yon brake allureth me; it is not far; Come; come along with me! we'll slip in
   there。

   Faust

   Spirit of contradiction! Lead! I'll follow straight! 'Twas wisely done; however;
   to repair On May … night to the Brocken; and when there By our own choice
   ourselves to isolate!

   Mephistopheles

     Mark; of those flames the motley glare! A merry club assembles there。 In a
   small circle one is not alone。

   Faust

   I'd rather be above; though; I must own! Already fire and eddying smoke I
   view; The impetuous millions to the devil ride; Full many a riddle will be there
   untied。

   Mephistopheles

   Ay! and full many a riddle tied anew。 But let the great world rave and riot!
   Here will we house ourselves in quiet。 A custom 'tis of ancient date; Our
   lesser worlds within the great world to create! Young witches there I see;
   naked and bare; And old ones; veil'd more prudently。 For my sake only
   courteous be! The trouble's small; the sport is rare。 Of instruments I hear the
   cursed din One must get used to it。 Come in! come in! There's now no help
   for it。 I'll step before And introducing you as my good friend; Confer on you
   one obligation more。 How say you now? 'Tis no such paltry room; Why only
   look; you scarce can see the end。 A hundred fires in rows disperse the gloom;
   They dance; they talk; they cook; make love; and drink: Where could we find
   aught better; do you think?

   Faust

   To introduce us; do you purpose here As devil or as wizard to appear?

   Mephistopheles

   Though I am wont indeed to strict incognito; Yet upon gala … days one must
   one's orders show。 No garter have I to distinguish me; Nathless the cloven
   foot doth here give dignity。 Seest thou yonder snail? Crawling this way she
   hies: With searching feelers; she; no doubt; Hath me already scented out;
   Here; even if I would; for me there's no disguise。 From fire to fire; we'll
   saunter at our leisure; The gallant you; I'll cater for your pleasure。

   (To a party seated round some expiring embers。)

   Old gentleman; apart; why sit ye moping here? Ye in the midst should be of all
   this jovial cheer; Girt round with noise and youthful riot; At home one surely
   has enough of quiet。

   General

   In nations put his trust; who may; Whate'er for them one may have done; For
   with the people; as with women; they Honour your rising stars alone!

     Minister

   Now all too far they wander from the right; I praise the good old ways; to
   them I hold; Then was the genuine age of gold; When we ourselves were
   foremost in men's sight。

   Parvenu

   Ne'er were we 'mong your dullards found; And what we ought not; that to do
   were fair; Yet now are all things turning round and round; When on firm basis
   we would them maintain。

   Author

   Who; as a rule; a treatise now would care To read; of even moderate sense?
   As for the rising generation; ne'er Has youth displayed such arrogant
   pretence。

   Mephistopheles

   (suddenly appearing very old)

   Since for the last time I the Brocken scale; That folk are ripe for doomsday;
   now one sees; And just because my cask begins to fail; So the whole world is
   also on the lees。

   Huckster … Witch

   Stop; gentlemen; nor pass me by; Of wares I have a choice collection: Pray
   honour them with your inspection。 Lose not his opportunity! Yet nothing in my
   booth you'll find Without its counterpart on earth; there's naught; Which to the
   world; and to mankind; Hath not some direful mischief wrought。 No dagger
   here; which hath not flow'd with blood; No chalice; whence; into some
   healthy frame Hath not been poured hot poison's wasting flood。 No trinket;
   but hath wrought some woman's shame; No weapon but hath cut some
   sacred tie; Or from behind hath stabb'd an enemy。

   Mephistopheles

   Gossip! For wares like these the time's gone by; What's done is past! what's
   past is done! With novelties your booth supply; Us novelties attract alone。

     Faust

   May this wild scene my senses spare! This; may in truth be called a fair!

   Mephistopheles

   Upward the eddying concourse throng; Thinking to push; thyself art push'd
   along。

   Faust

   Who's that; pray?

   Mephistopheles

   Mark her well! That's Lilith。

   Faust

   Who?

   Mephistopheles

   Adam's first wife。 Of her rich locks beware! That charm in which she's
   parallel'd by few; When in its toils a youth she doth ensnare; He will not soon
   escape; I promise you。

   Faust

     There sit a pair; the old one with the young; Already they have bravely
   danced and sprung!

   Mephistopheles

   Here there is no repose to … day。 Another dance begins; we'll join it; come
   away!

   Faust

   (dancing with the young one)

   Once a fair vision came to me; There in I saw an apple … tree; Two beauteous
   apples charmed mine eyes; I climb'd forthwith to reach the prize。

   The Fair One

   Apples still fondly ye desire; From paradise it hath been so。 Feelings of joy
   my breast inspire That such too in my garden grow。

   Mephistopheles (with the old one)

   Once a weird vision came to me; Therein I saw a rifted tree。 It had a 。 。 。 。 。 。 ;
   But as it was it pleased me too。

   The Old One

   I beg most humbly to salute The gallant with the cloven foot! Let him a 。 。 。
   have ready here; If he a 。 。 。 does not fear。

   Proctophantasmist

     Accursed mob! How dare ye thus to meet? Have I not shown and
   demonstrated too; That ghosts stand not on ordinary feet? Yet here ye dance;
   as other mortals do!

   The Fair One (dancing)

   Then at our ball; what doth he here?

   Faust (dancing)

   Oh! He must everywhere appear。 He must adjudge; when others dance; If on
   each step his say's not said; So is that step as good as never made。 He's most
   annoyed; so soon as we advance; If ye would circle in one narrow round; As
   he in his old mill; then doubtless he Your dancing would approve; … especially
   If ye forthwith salute him with respect profound!

   Proctophantasmist

   Still here! what arrogance! unheard of quite! Vanish; we now have fill'd the
   world with light! Laws are unheeded by the devil's host; Wise as we are; yet
   Tegel hath its ghost! How long at this conceit I've swept with all my might;
   Lost is the labour: 'tis unheard of quite!

   The Fair One

   Cease here to teaze us any more; I pray。

   Proctophantasmist

   Spirits; I plainly to your face declare: No spiritual control myself will bear;
   Since my own spirit can exert no sway。

   (The dancing continues。)

   To … night; I see; I shall in naught succeed; But I'm prepar'd my travels to
   pursue; And hope; before my final step indeed; To triumph over bards and
   devils too。

     Mephistopheles

   Now in some puddle will he take his station; Such is his mode of seeking
   consolation; Where leeches; feasting on his rump; will drain Spirits alike and
   spirit from his brain。

   (To Faust; who has left the dance。)

   But why the charming damsel leave; I pray; Who to you in the dance so
   sweetly sang?

   Faust

   Ah; in the very middle of her lay; Out of her mouth a small red mouse there
   sprang。

   Mephistopheles

   Suppose there did! One must not be too nice。 'Twas well it was not grey; let
   that suffice。 Who 'mid his pleasures for a trifle cares?

   Faust

   Then saw I 

   Mephistopheles

   What?

   Faust

     Mephisto; seest thou there Standing far off; a lone child; pale and fair? Slow
   from the spot her drooping form she tears; And seems with shackled feet to
   move along; I own; within me the delusion' strong; That she the likeness of my
   Gretchen wears。

   Mephistopheles

   Gaze not upon her! 'Tis not good! Forbear! 'Tis lifeless; magical; a shape of
   air; An idol。 Such to meet with; bodes no good; That rigid look of hers doth
   freeze man's blood; And well … nigh petrifies his heart to stone: The story of
   Medusa thou hast known。

   Faust

   Ay; verily! a corpse's eyes are those; Which there was no fond loving hand to
   close。 That is the bosom I so fondly press'd; That my sweet Gretchen's form;
   so oft caress'd!

   Mephistopheles

   Deluded fool! 'Tis magic; I declare! To each she doth his lov'd one's image
   wear。

   Faust

   What bliss! what torture! vainly I essay To turn me from that piteous look
   away。 How strangely doth a single crimson line Around that lovely neck 

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