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    "name": "Faust I (1808)"
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    "num": 10,
    "slug": "10-scene-7-a-street",
    "title": "Scene VII — A Street",
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    "text": "Faust.\n\nAIR lady, let it not offend you,\n\nThat arm and escort I would lend you!\n\nM ARGARET.93\n\nI'm neither lady, neither fair,\n\nAnd home I can go without your care.\n\n[She releases herself, and exit.\n\nFaust.\n\nBy Heaven, the girl is wondrous fair !\nOf all I've seen, beyond compare;\n\nSo sweetly virtuous and pure,\n\nsnd yet a little pert, be sure!\n\nThe lip so red, the cheek's clear dawn,\nIl] not forget while the world rolls on!\n\nScene VII. 159\n\nHow she cast down her timid eyes,\nDeep in my heart imprinted lies:\nHow short and sharp of speech was she,*\n\nWhy, 't was a real ecstasy !\n(MEPHISTOPHELES enters.)\n\nFaust.\nHear, of that girl I'd have possession!\n\nMEPHISTOPHELES.\n\nWhich, then?\n\nFaust.\n\nThe one who just went by.\n\nMEPHISTOPHELES.\n\nShe, there? She's coming from confession,\nOf every sin absolved; for I,\n\nBehind her chair, was listening nigh.\n\nSo innocent is she, indeed,\n\nThat to confess she had no need.\n\nI have no power o'er souls so green.\n\nFaust.\n\nAnd yet, she's older than fourteen.\n\n160 Faust.\n\nMEPHISTOPHELES.\n\nHow now! You're talking like Jack Rake,\nWho every flower for himself would take,\nAnd fancies there are no favors more,\n\nNor honors, save for him in store;\n\nYet always does n't the thing succeed.\n\nFaust.\n\nMost Worthy Pedagogue, take heed ! 95\nLet not a word of moral law be spoken!\nI claim, I tell thee, all my right;\n\nAnd if that image of delight\n\nRest not within mine arms to-night,\n\nAt midnight is our compact broken.\n\nMEPHISTOPHELES.\nBut think, the chances of the case!\n\nI need, at least, a fortnight's space,\n\nTo find an opportune occasion.\n\nFaust.\nHad I but seven hours for all,\n\nI should not on the Devil call,\n\nBut win her by my own persuasion.\n\nScene VI. 161\n\nMEPHISTOPHELES.\n\nYou almost like a Frenchman prate;\n\nYet, pray, don't take it as annoyance !\nWhy, all at once, exhaust the joyance?\nYour bliss is by no means so great\n\nAs if you'd use, to get control,\n\nAll sorts of tender rigmarole,\n\nAnd knead and shape her to your thought,\n\nAs in Italian tales 't is taught.%\n\nFaust.\n\nWithout that, I have appetite.\n\nMEPHISTOPHELES.\n\nBut now, leave jesting out of sight!\nI tell you, once for all, that speed\nWith this fair girl will not succeed :\nBy storm she cannot captured be;\n\nWe must make use of strategy.\n\nFaust.\n\nGet me something the angel keeps!\nLead me thither where she sleeps!\n\n162 — Faust.\n\nGet me a kerchief from her breast, —\n\nA garter that her knee has pressed !\n\nMEPHISTOPHELES.\n\nThat you may see how much I'd fain\nFurther and satisfy your pain,\nWe will no longer lose a minute ;\n\nI'll find her room to-day, and take you in it.\n\nFaust.\n\nAnd shall I see — possess her?\n\nMEPHISTOPHELES.\nNo!\nUnto a neighbor she must go,\nAnd meanwhile thou, alone, mayst glow\nWith every hope of future pleasure,\n\nBreathing her atmosphere in fullest measure.\n\nFaust.\nCan we go thither?\n\nMEPHISTOPHELES.\n\n'T is too early yet.\n\nScene VII 163\n\nFaust.\n\nA gift for her I bid thee get!\n[ Exit.\n\nMEPHISTOPHELES.\n\nPresents at once? That's good: he's certain to get at her!\nFull many a pleasant place I know,\nAnd treasures, buried long ago:\n\nI must, perforce, look up the matter.\n[ Exit.\n\n164 faust.\n\nVIII.\nEVENING.\nA SMALL, NEATLY KEPT CHAMBER.",
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