The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus - The Original Classic Edition. Marlowe Christoper

and of soul:

       But yet conditionally that thou perform

       All articles prescrib'd between us both.

       MEPHIST. Faustus, I swear by hell and Lucifer

       To effect all promises between us made!

       FAUSTUS. Then hear me read them. [Reads] ON THESE CONDITIONS FOLLOWING. FIRST, THAT FAUSTUS MAY BE A SPIRIT IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE. SECONDLY, THAT MEPHISTOPHILIS SHALL BE HIS SERVANT,

       AND AT HIS COMMAND. THIRDLY, THAT MEPHISTOPHILIS SHALL DO FOR HIM, AND BRING HIM WHATSOEVER HE DESIRES.88 FOURTHLY, THAT HE SHALL

       BE IN HIS CHAMBER OR HOUSE INVISIBLE. LASTLY, THAT HE SHALL APPEAR TO THE SAID JOHN FAUSTUS, AT ALL TIMES, IN WHAT FORM OR SHAPE SOEVER HE PLEASE. I, JOHN FAUSTUS, OF WERTENBERG, DOCTOR, BY THESE PRESENTS, DO GIVE BOTH BODY AND SOUL TO LUCIFER PRINCE OF

       THE EAST, AND HIS MINISTER MEPHISTOPHILIS; AND FURTHERMORE GRANT UNTO THEM, THAT,89 TWENTY-FOUR YEARS BEING EXPIRED, THE ARTICLES ABOVE-WRITTEN INVIOLATE, FULL POWER TO FETCH OR CARRY THE SAID JOHN FAUSTUS, BODY AND SOUL, FLESH, BLOOD, OR GOODS, INTO THEIR HABITATION WHERESOEVER. BY ME, JOHN FAUSTUS.

       MEPHIST. Speak, Faustus, do you deliver this as your deed? FAUSTUS. Ay, take it, and the devil give thee good on't! MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, ask what thou wilt.

       FAUSTUS. First will I question with thee about hell. Tell me, where is the place that men call hell?

       MEPHIST. Under the heavens. FAUSTUS. Ay, but whereabout?

       MEPHIST. Within the bowels of these90 elements, Where we are tortur'd and remain for ever:

       Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd

       In one self place; for where we are is hell, And where hell is, there91 must we ever be: And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified,

       All places shall be hell that are92 not heaven. FAUSTUS. Come, I think hell's a fable.

       MEPHIST. Ay, think so still, till experience change thy mind. FAUSTUS. Why, think'st thou, then, that Faustus shall be damn'd?

       MEPHIST. Ay, of necessity, for here's the scroll

       Wherein thou hast given thy soul to Lucifer.

       FAUSTUS. Ay, and body too: but what of that? Think'st thou that Faustus is so fond93 to imagine That, after this life, there is any pain?

       Tush, these are trifles and mere old wives' tales.

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       MEPHIST. But, Faustus, I am an instance to prove the contrary, For I am damn'd, and am now in hell.

       FAUSTUS. How! now in hell!