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 Faust. Gramarcy Wagner. Welcome Gentlemen.

1 Now worthy Faustus, me thinks your looks are chang'd.

Faust. Oh Gentlemen.

2. What ayles Faustus?

Faust. Ah my sweet Chamber-fellow, had I liv'd with thee, Then had I liv'd still, but now must die eternally. Looke sirs, comes he not, comes he not?

1. O my deare Faustus, what imports this feare?

2. Is all our pleasure turn'd to melancholy?

3. He is not well with being over solitary.

2 If it be so, weele have Physitians, and Faustus shall be cur'd.

3 Tis but a surfet, feare nothing.

Faust. A surfet of deadly sinne, that hath damn'd both body and soule.

2 Yet Faustus looke up to heaven, and remember mercy is infinite.

Faust. But Faustus offence can nere be pardoned: The Serpent that tempted Eve may be saved, But not Faustus: O Gentlemen, heare with patience, and tremble not at my speeches, though my heart pant and quiver to remember that I have been a Student here these 30. years. O would I had nere seene Wittenberge, never read booke, and what wonders I have done, all Germany can witnesse, yea all the world: for which Faustus hath lost both Germany and the world, yea Heaven it selfe: Heaven, the seat of God, the Throne of the blessed, the Kingdome of joy, and must remaine in Hell for ever. Hell, O Hell for ever. Sweet friends, what shall become of Faustus being in Hell for ever?

2 Yet Faustus call on God.

Faust. On God, whom Faustus hath abjur'd? On God, whom Faustus hath blasphem'd? O my God, I would weepe, but the Devill drawes in my teares. Gush forth bloud in stead of teares, yea life and soule: Oh he staies my tongue: I would lift up my hands, but see they hold 'em, they hold 'em?

All. Who Faustus?

Faust. Why Lucifer and Mephostophilis, O Gentlemen, Rh