Doctor Faustus - Scene 11
SCENE 11
[ FAUSTUS and MEPHASTOPHILIS return to the stage. Enter to them the DUKE and the DUCHESS ; the DUKE speaks .] DUKE
Believe me, master doctor, this merriment hath much pleased me. FAUSTUS
My gracious Lord, I am glad it contents you so well: but it may be, madam, you take no delight in this; I have heard that great-bellied women do long for some dainties or other — what is it, madam? Tell me, and you shall have it. DUCHESS
Thanks, good master doctor; and for I see your courteous intent to pleasure me, I will not hide from you the thing my heart desires. And were it now summer, as it is January and the dead of winter, I would desire no better meat than a dish of ripe grapes. FAUSTUS
Alas madam, that's nothing! Mephastophilis, begone! [ Exit MEPHASTOPHILIS .] Were it a greater thing than this, so it would content you, you should have it. [ Enter MEPHASTOPHILIS with the grapes .] Here they be, madam; will't please you taste on them? DUKE
Believe me, master doctor, this makes me wonder above the rest: that being in the dead time of winter, and in the month of January, how you should come by these grapes? FAUSTUS
If it like your grace, the year is divided into two circles over the whole world, that when it is here winter with us, in the contrary circle it is summer with them, as in India, Saba, and farther countries in the east; and by means of a swift spirit that I have, I had them brought hither, as ye see. How do you like them, madam; be they good? DUCHESS
Believe me, master doctor, they be the best grapes that ere I tasted in my life before. FAUSTUS
I am glad they content you so, madam. DUKE
Come madam, let us in, where you must well reward this learned man for the great kindness he hath showed to you. DUCHESS
And so I will, my lord; and whilst I live, rest beholding for this courtesy. FAUSTUS
I humbly thank your grace. DUKE
Come, master doctor, follow us, and receive your reward.
[ Exeunt .]
CHORUS 4
[ Enter WAGNER solus .] WAGNER
I think my master means to die shortly,
For he hath given to me all his goods!
And yet methinks, if that death were near,
He would not banquet, and carouse, and swill
Amongst the students, as even now he doth,
Who are at supper with such belly-cheer
As Wagner ne'er beheld in all his life.
See where they come: belike the feast is ended.
[ Exit .]
[ FAUSTUS and MEPHASTOPHILIS return to the stage. Enter to them the DUKE and the DUCHESS ; the DUKE speaks .] DUKE
Believe me, master doctor, this merriment hath much pleased me. FAUSTUS
My gracious Lord, I am glad it contents you so well: but it may be, madam, you take no delight in this; I have heard that great-bellied women do long for some dainties or other — what is it, madam? Tell me, and you shall have it. DUCHESS
Thanks, good master doctor; and for I see your courteous intent to pleasure me, I will not hide from you the thing my heart desires. And were it now summer, as it is January and the dead of winter, I would desire no better meat than a dish of ripe grapes. FAUSTUS
Alas madam, that's nothing! Mephastophilis, begone! [ Exit MEPHASTOPHILIS .] Were it a greater thing than this, so it would content you, you should have it. [ Enter MEPHASTOPHILIS with the grapes .] Here they be, madam; will't please you taste on them? DUKE
Believe me, master doctor, this makes me wonder above the rest: that being in the dead time of winter, and in the month of January, how you should come by these grapes? FAUSTUS
If it like your grace, the year is divided into two circles over the whole world, that when it is here winter with us, in the contrary circle it is summer with them, as in India, Saba, and farther countries in the east; and by means of a swift spirit that I have, I had them brought hither, as ye see. How do you like them, madam; be they good? DUCHESS
Believe me, master doctor, they be the best grapes that ere I tasted in my life before. FAUSTUS
I am glad they content you so, madam. DUKE
Come madam, let us in, where you must well reward this learned man for the great kindness he hath showed to you. DUCHESS
And so I will, my lord; and whilst I live, rest beholding for this courtesy. FAUSTUS
I humbly thank your grace. DUKE
Come, master doctor, follow us, and receive your reward.
[ Exeunt .]
CHORUS 4
[ Enter WAGNER solus .] WAGNER
I think my master means to die shortly,
For he hath given to me all his goods!
And yet methinks, if that death were near,
He would not banquet, and carouse, and swill
Amongst the students, as even now he doth,
Who are at supper with such belly-cheer
As Wagner ne'er beheld in all his life.
See where they come: belike the feast is ended.
[ Exit .]
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