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 said John Faustus body and soule, flesh and blood, into their habitation wheresoever. By me John Faustus. Meph. Speake Faustus, do you deliver this as your Deed?

Faust. I, take it, and the devill give thee good of it.

Meph. So now Faustus aske me what thou wilt.

Faust. First, I will question thee about Hell, Tell mee, where is that place that men call hell?

Meph. Under the Heavens.

Faust. I, so are all things else: but whereabouts?

Meph. Within the bowels of these Elements, Where we are tortur'd, and remaine for ever. Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one selfe place; but where we are is Hell, And where hell is there must we ever be. And to be short, when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

Faust. I thinke hell's a meere fable.

Meph. I, thinke so still, till experience change thy minde.

Faust. Why dost thou thinke that Faustus shall be damnd?

Meph. I of necessity, for here's the scrowle In which thou hast given thy soule to Lucifer.

Faust. I, and body too, but what of that? Thinkst thou that Faustus is so fond to imagine That after this life there is any paine? No, these are trifles, and meere old wives tales.

Meph. But I am an instance to prove the contrary: For I tell thee I am damn'd, and now in hell.

Faust. Nay and this be hell, Ile willingly be damn'd: What sleeping, eating, walking and disputing? But leaving this, let me have a wife, the fairest Maid in Germany, for I am wanton and lascivious and cannot live without a wife.

Meph. Well Faustus, thou shalt have a wife. He fetches in a Woman Devill. Faust. What sight is this? Rh