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I'll cut away, betimes, from here: She'd take the Devil at his word, I fear.
(To MARGARET)
How fares the heart within your breast?
MARGARET
What means the gentleman?
MEPHISTOPHELES (aside)
Sweet innocent, thou art!
(Aloud.)
Ladies, farewell!
MARGARET
Farewell!
MARTHA
A moment, ere we part!
I'd like to have a legal witness, Where, how, and when he died, to certify his fitness.
Irregular ways I've always hated; I want his death in the weekly paper stated.
MEPHISTOPHELES
Yes, my good dame, a pair of witnesses Always the truth establishes.
I have a friend of high condition, Who'll also add his deposition.
I'll bring him here.
MARTHA
Good Sir, pray do!
MEPHISTOPHELES
And this young lady will be present, too?
A gallant youth! has travelled far: Ladies with him delighted are.
MARGARET
Before him I should blush, ashamed.
MEPHISTOPHELES
Before no king that could be named!
MARTHA
Behind the house, in my garden, then, This eve we'll expect the gentlemen.
XI
A STREET
FAUST MEPHISTOPHELES
FAUST
How is it? under way? and soon complete?
MEPHISTOPHELES
Ah, bravo! Do I find you burning?
Well, Margaret soon will still your yearning: At Neighbor Martha's you'll this evening meet.
A fitter woman ne'er was made To ply the pimp and gypsy trade!
FAUST
Tis well.
MEPHISTOPHELES
Yet something is required from us.
FAUST
One service pays the other thus.
MEPHISTOPHELES
We've but to make a deposition valid That now her husband's limbs, outstretched and pallid, At Padua rest, in consecrated soil.
FAUST
Most wise! And first, of course, we'll make the journey thither?
MEPHISTOPHELES
Sancta simplicitas! no need of such a toil; Depose, with knowledge or without it, either!
FAUST
If you've naught better, then, I'll tear your pretty plan!
