The Works of Christopher Marlowe

Dr. Faustus (B Text)

Act: 1 Scene: 4
Clown
Boy? O disgrace to my person. Zounds! Boy in your
face! You have seen many boys with beards I am sure.
Clown
Yes, and goings out too, you may see sir.
Clown
Not so neither; I had need to have it well roasted,
and good sauce to it, if I pay so dear, I can tell you.
Clown
What, in verse?
Clown
Stavesacre? That's good to kill vermin. Then be-
like if I serve you I shall be lousy.
Clown
Nay, sir, you may save yourself a labour, for they
are as familiar with me, as if they paid for their meat and
drink, I can tell you.
Clown
Yes, marry, sir, and I thank you too.
Clown
Here, take your guilders; I'll none of 'em.
Clown
Belcher and Belcher come here. I'll belch him. I am
not afraid of a devil. Enter two Devils.
Clown
Ay, good Wagner, take away the devil then.
Clown
I will sir, but hark you master, you teach
me this conjuring occupation?
Clown
A dog, or a cat, or a mouse, or a rat? O, brave
Wagner.
Clown
Well, sir, I warrant you. Exeunt.
Act: 2 Scene: 3
Clown
What, Dick, look to the horses there till I come again.
I have gotten one of Doctor Faustus's conjuring books, and
now we'll have such knavery, as't passes.
Robin
I walk the horses, I scorned 'faith, I have other
matters in hand; let the horses walk themselves and they will.
A per se a, t. h. e the: o per se o deny orgon, gorgon. Keep
further from me, O thou illiterate and unlearned hostler.
Robin
That thou shalt see presently. Keep out of the cir-
cle, I say, lest I send you into the ostry with a vengeance.
Robin
My master conjure me? I'll tell thee what, an my
master come here, I'll clap as fair a pair of horns on's
head as e'er thou saw'st in thy life.
Robin
Ay, there be of us here that have waded as deep in-
to matters as other men, if they were disposed to talk.
Robin
Do but speak what thou'd have me to do, and I'll
do't. If thou'd dance naked, put off thy clothes, and I'll
conjure thee about presently. Or if thou'd go but to the ta-
vern with me, I'll give thee white wine, red wine, claret
wine, sack, muskadine, malmesey and whippincrust.
Hold belly hold, and we'll not pay one penny for it.
Robin
Come, then, let's away. Exeunt.
Act: 3 Scene: 3
Robin
'Tis no matter; let him come. If he follow us, I'll so
conjure him, as he was never conjured in his life, I warrant
him. Let me see the cup.
Robin
How, how? We steal a cup? Take heed what you say;
we look not like cup-stealers I can tell you.
Robin
Search me? Ay and spare not. Hold the cup Dick.
Come, come, search me, search me.
Robin
Nay, there you lie; 'tis beyond us both.
Robin
Ay, much. When, can you tell? Dick, make me a cir-
cle, and stand close at my back, and stir not for thy life. Vint-
ner, you shall have your cup anon; say nothing, Dick. O per
se o, demogorgon. Belcher and Mephistophilis.
Robin
By lady sir, you have had a shroud journey of it;
Will it please you to take a shoulder of mutton to supper, and
a tester in your purse, and go back again?
Robin
O brave, an ape? I pray sir, let me have the carry-
ing of him about to show some tricks.
Robin
A dog? That's excellent. Let the maids look well to
their porridge-pots, for I'll into the kitchen presently. Come,
Dick, come. Exeunt the two Clowns.
Act: 4 Scene: 6
Clown
Sirrah Dick, dost thou know why I stand so mute?
Clown
I am eighteen pence on the score, but say nothing.
See if she have forgotten me.
Clown
O, Hostess, how do you? I hope my score stands still.
All
O monstrous! Eat a whole load of hay?
Clown
Yes, yes, that may be, for I have heard of one that
has eat a load of logs.
All
O, brave Doctor!
Clown
And has the Doctor but one leg then? That's excel-
lent, for one of his devils turned me into the likeness of an
ape's face.
Clown
Hark you, we'll into another room and drink
a while, and then we'll go seek out the Doctor.
Act: 4 Scene: 7
Clown
Nay, sir, we will be welcome for our money, and
we will pay for what we take. What ho! Give's half a do-
zen of beer here, and be hanged.
All
O horrible! Had the Doctor three legs?
Clown
Ha'you forgotten me? You think to carry it away
with your hey-pass, and re-pass. Do you remember the
dogs fa--- Exeunt Clowns.