Post by Andrew on Jul 30, 2012 7:23:54 GMT -10
[4.7] Enter the DUKE OF VANHOLT, the DUCHESS, and FAUSTUS.
DUKE. Thanks, master doctor, for these pleasant sights. Nor know I how
sufficiently to recompense your great deserts in erecting that
enchanted castle in the air, the sight whereof so delighted me, as
nothing in the world could please me more.
FAUSTUS. I do think myself, my good lord, highly recompensed in that it
pleaseth your grace to think but well of that which Faustus hath
performed. But, gracious lady, it may be that you have taken no
pleasure in those sights. Therefore, I pray you, tell me what is
the thing you most desire to have; be it in the world, it shall be
yours. I have heard that great-bellied women do long for things are
rare and dainty.
DUCHESS. True, master doctor, and since I find you so kind, I will make
known unto you what my heart desires to have. And were it now
summer, as it is January, a dead time of the winter, I would
request no better meat than a dish of ripe grapes.
FAUSTUS. This is but a small matter. Go, Mephistopheles, away!
[Exit Mephistopheles.]
Madam, I will do more than this for your content.
Enter Mephistopheles again with the grapes.
Here; now taste ye these. They should be good, for they come from a
far country, I can tell you.
DUKE. This makes me wonder more than all the rest, that at this time of
the year, when every tree is barren of his fruit, from whence you
had these ripe grapes.
FAUSTUS. Please it your grace, the year is divided into two circles over the
whole world, so that when it is winter with us, in the contrary
circle it is likewise summer with them, as in India, Saba and such
countries that lie far east, where they have fruit twice a year.
From whence, by means of a swift spirit that I have, I had these
grapes brought, as you see.
DUCHESS. And trust me, they are the sweetest grapes that e'er I tasted.
The Clowns bounce at the gate within.
DUKE. What rude disturbers have we at the gate?
Go, pacify their fury. Set it ope,
And then demand of them what they would have.
They knock again, and call out to talk with Faustus.
SERVANT. Why, how now, masters, what a coil is there?
What is the reason you disturb the Duke?
DICK. We have no reason for it; therefore a fig for him.
SERVANT. Why, saucy varlets, dare you be so bold?
HORSE-C. I hope, sir, we have wit enough to be more bold than welcome.
SERVANT. It appears so. Pray be bold elsewhere, and trouble not the Duke.
DUKE. What would they have?
SERVANT. They all cry out to speak with Doctor Faustus.
CARTER. Ay, and we will speak with him.
DUKE. Will you, sir? Commit the rascals.
DICK. Commit with us! He were as good commit with his father as commit
with us.
FAUSTUS. I do beseech your grace, let them come in; they are good subject
for a merriment.
DUKE. Do as thou wilt, Faustus. I give thee leave.
FAUSTUS. I thank your grace.
Enter Robin, Dick, Carter, and Horse-courser.
Why, how now, my good friends? 'Faith you are too outrageous, but
come near; I have procured your pardons. Welcome all!
ROBIN. Nay, sir, we will be welcome for our money, and we will pay for
what we take. What ho! give's half a dozen of beer here, and be
hanged.
FAUSTUS. Nay, hark you; can you tell me where you are?
CARTER. Ay, marry can I: we are under heaven.
HORSE-C. Ay, ay, the house is good enough to drink in. Zounds, fill us some
beer, or we'll break all the barrels in the house, and dash out all
your brains with your bottles.
FAUSTUS. Be not so furious. Come, you shall have beer.
My lord, beseech you give me leave a while:
I'll gage my credit, 'twill content your grace.
DUKE. With all my heart, kind doctor. Please thyself;
Our servants and our court's at thy command.
FAUSTUS. I humbly thank your grace. Then fetch some beer.
HORSE-C. Ay, marry, there spake a doctor indeed, and 'faith, I'll drink a
health to thy wooden leg for that word.
FAUSTUS. My wooden leg? What dost thou mean by that?
CARTER. Ha, ha, ha! dost hear him, Dick? He has forgot his leg.
HORSE-C. Ay, ay, he does not stand much upon that.
FAUSTUS. No, 'faith; not much upon a wooden leg.
CARTER. Good lord, that flesh and blood should be so frail with your
worship! Do not you remember a horse-courser you sold a horse to?
FAUSTUS. Yes, I remember I sold one a horse.
CARTER. And do you remember you bid he should not ride him into the water?
FAUSTUS. Yes, I do very well remember that.
CARTER. And do you remember nothing of your leg?
FAUSTUS. No, in good sooth.
CARTER. Then, I pray, remember your courtesy.
FAUSTUS. I thank you, sir.
CARTER. 'Tis not so much worth. I pray you, tell me one thing.
FAUSTUS. What's that?
CARTER. Be both your legs bedfellows every night together?
FAUSTUS. Wouldst thou make a colossus of me, that thou askest me such
questions?
CARTER. No, truly, sir. I would make nothing of you, but I would fain know
that.
Enter Hostess with drink.
FAUSTUS. Then, I assure thee, certainly they are.
CARTER. I thank you; I am fully satisfied.
FAUSTUS. But wherefore dost thou ask?
CARTER. For nothing, sir. But methinks you should have a wooden bedfellow
of one of 'em.
HORSE-C. Why, do you hear, sir, Did not I pull off one of your legs when you
were asleep?
FAUSTUS. But I have it again, now I am awake. Look you here, sir.
ALL. O horrible! Had the doctor three legs?
CARTER. Do you remember, sir, how you cozened me and ate up my load of...
(Faustus charms him dumb, then the others)
DICK. Do you remember how you made me wear an ape's...
HORSE-C. You whoreson conjuring scab, do you remember how you cozened me
with a ho...
ROBIN. Ha' you forgotten me? You think to carry it away with your hey-pass
and re-pass; do you remember the dog's fa...
[Exeunt Clowns.]
HOSTESS. Who pays for the ale? Hear you, master doctor, now you have sent
away my guests. I pray who shall pay me for my a...
[Exit Hostess.]
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.
DUKE. Thanks, master doctor, for these pleasant sights. Nor know I how
sufficiently to recompense your great deserts in erecting that
enchanted castle in the air, the sight whereof so delighted me, as
nothing in the world could please me more.
FAUSTUS. I do think myself, my good lord, highly recompensed in that it
pleaseth your grace to think but well of that which Faustus hath
performed. But, gracious lady, it may be that you have taken no
pleasure in those sights. Therefore, I pray you, tell me what is
the thing you most desire to have; be it in the world, it shall be
yours. I have heard that great-bellied women do long for things are
rare and dainty.
DUCHESS. True, master doctor, and since I find you so kind, I will make
known unto you what my heart desires to have. And were it now
summer, as it is January, a dead time of the winter, I would
request no better meat than a dish of ripe grapes.
FAUSTUS. This is but a small matter. Go, Mephistopheles, away!
[Exit Mephistopheles.]
Madam, I will do more than this for your content.
Enter Mephistopheles again with the grapes.
Here; now taste ye these. They should be good, for they come from a
far country, I can tell you.
DUKE. This makes me wonder more than all the rest, that at this time of
the year, when every tree is barren of his fruit, from whence you
had these ripe grapes.
FAUSTUS. Please it your grace, the year is divided into two circles over the
whole world, so that when it is winter with us, in the contrary
circle it is likewise summer with them, as in India, Saba and such
countries that lie far east, where they have fruit twice a year.
From whence, by means of a swift spirit that I have, I had these
grapes brought, as you see.
DUCHESS. And trust me, they are the sweetest grapes that e'er I tasted.
The Clowns bounce at the gate within.
DUKE. What rude disturbers have we at the gate?
Go, pacify their fury. Set it ope,
And then demand of them what they would have.
They knock again, and call out to talk with Faustus.
SERVANT. Why, how now, masters, what a coil is there?
What is the reason you disturb the Duke?
DICK. We have no reason for it; therefore a fig for him.
SERVANT. Why, saucy varlets, dare you be so bold?
HORSE-C. I hope, sir, we have wit enough to be more bold than welcome.
SERVANT. It appears so. Pray be bold elsewhere, and trouble not the Duke.
DUKE. What would they have?
SERVANT. They all cry out to speak with Doctor Faustus.
CARTER. Ay, and we will speak with him.
DUKE. Will you, sir? Commit the rascals.
DICK. Commit with us! He were as good commit with his father as commit
with us.
FAUSTUS. I do beseech your grace, let them come in; they are good subject
for a merriment.
DUKE. Do as thou wilt, Faustus. I give thee leave.
FAUSTUS. I thank your grace.
Enter Robin, Dick, Carter, and Horse-courser.
Why, how now, my good friends? 'Faith you are too outrageous, but
come near; I have procured your pardons. Welcome all!
ROBIN. Nay, sir, we will be welcome for our money, and we will pay for
what we take. What ho! give's half a dozen of beer here, and be
hanged.
FAUSTUS. Nay, hark you; can you tell me where you are?
CARTER. Ay, marry can I: we are under heaven.
HORSE-C. Ay, ay, the house is good enough to drink in. Zounds, fill us some
beer, or we'll break all the barrels in the house, and dash out all
your brains with your bottles.
FAUSTUS. Be not so furious. Come, you shall have beer.
My lord, beseech you give me leave a while:
I'll gage my credit, 'twill content your grace.
DUKE. With all my heart, kind doctor. Please thyself;
Our servants and our court's at thy command.
FAUSTUS. I humbly thank your grace. Then fetch some beer.
HORSE-C. Ay, marry, there spake a doctor indeed, and 'faith, I'll drink a
health to thy wooden leg for that word.
FAUSTUS. My wooden leg? What dost thou mean by that?
CARTER. Ha, ha, ha! dost hear him, Dick? He has forgot his leg.
HORSE-C. Ay, ay, he does not stand much upon that.
FAUSTUS. No, 'faith; not much upon a wooden leg.
CARTER. Good lord, that flesh and blood should be so frail with your
worship! Do not you remember a horse-courser you sold a horse to?
FAUSTUS. Yes, I remember I sold one a horse.
CARTER. And do you remember you bid he should not ride him into the water?
FAUSTUS. Yes, I do very well remember that.
CARTER. And do you remember nothing of your leg?
FAUSTUS. No, in good sooth.
CARTER. Then, I pray, remember your courtesy.
FAUSTUS. I thank you, sir.
CARTER. 'Tis not so much worth. I pray you, tell me one thing.
FAUSTUS. What's that?
CARTER. Be both your legs bedfellows every night together?
FAUSTUS. Wouldst thou make a colossus of me, that thou askest me such
questions?
CARTER. No, truly, sir. I would make nothing of you, but I would fain know
that.
Enter Hostess with drink.
FAUSTUS. Then, I assure thee, certainly they are.
CARTER. I thank you; I am fully satisfied.
FAUSTUS. But wherefore dost thou ask?
CARTER. For nothing, sir. But methinks you should have a wooden bedfellow
of one of 'em.
HORSE-C. Why, do you hear, sir, Did not I pull off one of your legs when you
were asleep?
FAUSTUS. But I have it again, now I am awake. Look you here, sir.
ALL. O horrible! Had the doctor three legs?
CARTER. Do you remember, sir, how you cozened me and ate up my load of...
(Faustus charms him dumb, then the others)
DICK. Do you remember how you made me wear an ape's...
HORSE-C. You whoreson conjuring scab, do you remember how you cozened me
with a ho...
ROBIN. Ha' you forgotten me? You think to carry it away with your hey-pass
and re-pass; do you remember the dog's fa...
[Exeunt Clowns.]
HOSTESS. Who pays for the ale? Hear you, master doctor, now you have sent
away my guests. I pray who shall pay me for my a...
[Exit Hostess.]
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.
