Our Lady of Troy
9
Wagner [hurriedly]
You told them, master, how the bells were rung
At Rome to flout the devil. Tell them now
How you became Mahomet.
Faustus
Ha! Mahomet!
To see me clad in linen setting forth
A crocodility of hours and houris!
The sultan prayed to me; but Moslem faith
Is no theology for scholars. Phew!
I'll warrant there were heretics enough
Fouling the sacred porches where I taught.
Wagner
And then the serpent!
Faustus
Ah, the golden snake
I turned to gold.
Wagner
The burning fiery ice!
