SCENE 6
[ Enter ROBIN the ostler with a book in his hand .] ROBIN
O this is admirable! here I ha' stolen one of Doctor Faustus conjuring books, and i'faith I mean to search some circles for my own use: now will I make all the maidens in our parish dance at my pleasure stark naked before me, and so by that means I shall see more than ere I felt or saw yet.
[ Enter RAFE calling ROBIN .] RAFE
Robin, prithee come away, there's a gentleman tarries to have his horse, and he would have his things rubbed and made clean. He keeps such a chafing with my mistress about it, and she has sent me to look thee out. Prithee, come away. ROBIN
Keep out, keep out; or else you are blown up, you are dismembered, Rafe. Keep out, for I am about a roaring piece of work. RAFE
Come, what dost thou with that same book? Thou canst not read! ROBIN
Yes, my master and mistress shall find that I can read — he for his forehead, she for her private study. She's born to bear with me, or else my art fails. RAFE
Why Robin, what book is that? ROBIN
What book? Why the most intolerable book for conjuring that ere was invented by any brimstone devil. RAFE
Canst thou conjure with it? ROBIN
I can do all these things easily with it: first, I can make thee drunk with 'ipocrase at any tavern in Europe for nothing, that's one of my conjuring works. RAFE
Our master parson says that's nothing. ROBIN
True, Rafe! And more, Rafe, if thou hast any mind to Nan Spit, our kitchen maid, then turn her and wind her to thy own use, as often as thou wilt, and at midnight. RAFE
O brave Robin! Shall I have Nan Spit, and to mine own use? On that condition I'll feed thy devil with horsebread as long as he lives, of free cost. ROBIN
No more, sweet Rafe; let's go and make clean our boots which lie foul upon our hands, and then to our conjuring in the devil's name.[ Exeunt .]
CHORUS 2
[ Enter WAGNER solus .] WAGNER
Learned Faustus,
To know the secrets of astronomy
Graven in the book of Jove's high firmament,
Did mount himself to scale Olympus' top.
Being seated in a chariot burning bright,
Drawn by the strength of yoked dragons' necks.
He now is gone to prove cosmography,
And, as I guess, will first arrive at Rome
To see the pope, and manner of his court,
And take some part of holy Peter's feast,
That to this day is highly solemnized.[ Exit WAGNER .]
[ Enter ROBIN the ostler with a book in his hand .] ROBIN
O this is admirable! here I ha' stolen one of Doctor Faustus conjuring books, and i'faith I mean to search some circles for my own use: now will I make all the maidens in our parish dance at my pleasure stark naked before me, and so by that means I shall see more than ere I felt or saw yet.
[ Enter RAFE calling ROBIN .] RAFE
Robin, prithee come away, there's a gentleman tarries to have his horse, and he would have his things rubbed and made clean. He keeps such a chafing with my mistress about it, and she has sent me to look thee out. Prithee, come away. ROBIN
Keep out, keep out; or else you are blown up, you are dismembered, Rafe. Keep out, for I am about a roaring piece of work. RAFE
Come, what dost thou with that same book? Thou canst not read! ROBIN
Yes, my master and mistress shall find that I can read — he for his forehead, she for her private study. She's born to bear with me, or else my art fails. RAFE
Why Robin, what book is that? ROBIN
What book? Why the most intolerable book for conjuring that ere was invented by any brimstone devil. RAFE
Canst thou conjure with it? ROBIN
I can do all these things easily with it: first, I can make thee drunk with 'ipocrase at any tavern in Europe for nothing, that's one of my conjuring works. RAFE
Our master parson says that's nothing. ROBIN
True, Rafe! And more, Rafe, if thou hast any mind to Nan Spit, our kitchen maid, then turn her and wind her to thy own use, as often as thou wilt, and at midnight. RAFE
O brave Robin! Shall I have Nan Spit, and to mine own use? On that condition I'll feed thy devil with horsebread as long as he lives, of free cost. ROBIN
No more, sweet Rafe; let's go and make clean our boots which lie foul upon our hands, and then to our conjuring in the devil's name.[ Exeunt .]
CHORUS 2
[ Enter WAGNER solus .] WAGNER
Learned Faustus,
To know the secrets of astronomy
Graven in the book of Jove's high firmament,
Did mount himself to scale Olympus' top.
Being seated in a chariot burning bright,
Drawn by the strength of yoked dragons' necks.
He now is gone to prove cosmography,
And, as I guess, will first arrive at Rome
To see the pope, and manner of his court,
And take some part of holy Peter's feast,
That to this day is highly solemnized.[ Exit WAGNER .]
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