of Doctor Faustus.
When all is done Divinity is best:
Jeromes Bible Faustus, view it well:
Stipendium peccati mors est: ha! Stipendium, &c.
The reward of sinne is death? thats hard:
Si peccasse negamus, fallimur, & nulla est in nobis veritas:
If we say that we have no sinne
We deceive our selves, and there is no truth in us.
Why then belike we must sinne,
And so consequently die.
I, we must die an everlasting death.
What doctrine call you this? Che sera, sera:
What will be, shall be: Divinity adieu.
These Metaphysicks of Magicians,
And negromanticke bookes are heavenly,
Lines, circles, Letters, Characters:
I, these are those that Faustus most desires.
O what a world of profit and delight,
Of power, of honour, and omnipotence
Is promis'd to the studious Artisan!
All things that move betweene the quiet Poles,
Shall be at my command: Emperors and Kings
Are but obey'd in their severall Provinces:
But his dominion that exceeds in this,
Stretcheth as far as doth the minde of man:
A sound Magician is a Demi-god,
Here tire my braines to gaine a Deity. Enter Wag.
Wagner commend me to my dearest friends,
The Germane Valdes and Cornelius,
Request them earnestly to visit me.
Wag.
I will sir. Exit.
Faust.
Their conference will be a greater helpe to me,
Than all my labours, plod I nere so fast.
Enter the Angell and Spirit.
Good Ang.
O Faustus, lay that damned booke aside,
And gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soule,
And heape Gods heavy wrath upon thy head.
