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    "name": "Faust I (1808)"
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    "num": 12,
    "slug": "12-scene-9-promenade",
    "title": "Scene IX — Promenade",
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    "text": "(Faust, walking thoughtfully up and down. To him Mepuis-\n\nTOPHELES. )\n\nMEPHISTOPHELES.\n\nB* all love ever rejected! By hell-fire hot and un-\nsparing |\nI wish I knew something worse, that I might use it for\nswearing | |\nFaust.\nWhat ails thee? What is 't gripes thee, elf?\nA face like thine beheld I never.\n\n_ MEPHISTOPHELES.\n\nI would myself unto the Devil deliver,\n\nIf I were not a Devil myself !\n\n| Faust.\nThy head is out of order, sadly :\n\nIt much becomes thee to be raving madly.\n\nScene LX. 173\n\nMEPHISTOPHELES.\n\nJust think, the pocket of a priest should get\nThe trinkets left for Margaret!\n\nThe mother saw them, and, instanter,\n\nA secret dread began to haunt her.\n\nKeen scent has she for tainted air;\n\nShe snuffs within her book of prayer,\n\nAnd smells each article, to see\n\nIf sacred or profane it be ;\n\nSo here she guessed, from every gem,\n\nThat not much blessing came with them.\n'My child,\" she said, \" ill-gotten good\nEnsnares the soul, consumes the blood.\nBefore the Mother of God we'll lay it;\nWith heavenly manna she 'll repay it!'''\nBut Margaret thought, with sour grimace,\n'A gift-horse is not out of place,\n\nAnd, truly! godless cannot be\n\nThe one who brought such things to me.\" :\nA parson came, by the mother bidden:\n\nHe saw, at once, where the game was hidden,\nAnd viewed it with a favor stealthy.\n\nHe spake: \"That is the proper view, —\n\n174 Faust.\n\nWho overcometh, winneth too.\n\nThe Holy Church has a stomach healthy:\nHath eaten many a land as forfeit,\n\nAnd never yet complained of surfeit :\n\nThe Church alone, beyond all question,\n\nHas for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.\"\n\nFaust.\n\nA general practice is the same,\n\nWhich Jew and King may also claim.\n\nMEPHISTOPHELES.\n\nThen bagged the spangles, chains, and rings,\nAs if but toadstools were the things,\n\nAnd thanked no less, and thanked no more\nThan if a sack of nuts he bore, —\nPromised them fullest heavenly pay,\n\nAnd deeply edified were they.\n\nFaust.\n\nAnd Margaret ?\nMEPHISTOPHELES.\n\nSits unrestful still,\n\nAnd knows not what she should, or will ;\n\nA\n\nScene LX. 175\n\nThinks on the jewels, day and night,\n\nBut more on him who gave her such delight.\n\n\\\n\nFaust.\n\nThe darling's sorrow gives me pain.\nGet thou a set for her again!\nThe first was not a great display.\n\nMEPHISTOPHELES.\n\nO yes, the gentleman finds it all child's-play !\n\nFaust.\n\nFix and arrange it to my will;\nAnd on her neighbor try thy skill!\nDon't be a Devil stiff as paste,\nBut get fresh jewels to her taste!\n\nMEPHISTOPHELES.\n\nYes, gracious Sir, in all obedience!\n[Exit Faust.\n\nSuch an enamored fool in air would blow\nSun, moon, and all the starry legions,\n\nTo give his sweetheart a diverting show.\n[ Exit.\n\n176 faust.\n\nX.\nTHE NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE,\"",
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