The Tragicall History
Meph.
As are the Elements such are the Heavens,
Even from the Moone unto the Emperiall Orbe,
Mutually folded in each others Spheares,
And jointly move upon one axle-tree,
Whose termine is termed the worlds wide Pole.
Nor are the names of Saturne, Mars, or Jupiter,
Fain'd, but are Evening starres.
Faust.
But have they all one motion, both situ & tempore?
Meph.
All move from East to West in foure and twenty houres upon the Poles of the world, but differ in their motions upon the Poles of the Zodiacke.
Fau.
These slender questions Wagner can decide:
Hath Mephostophilis no greater skill?
Who knowes not the double motion of the Planets?
That the first is finisht in a naturall day?
The second thus, Saturne in 30 yeares;
Jupiter in 12. Mars in 4. the Sun, Venus and
Mercury in a yeare: the Moone in twenty eight dayes.
These are fresh mens questions: but tell me, hath every
Spheare a Dominion, or Intelligentia?
Meph.
I.
Fau.
How many Heavens, or Spheares are there?
Meph.
Nine, the seaven Planets, the firmament, and the
Emperiall Heaven.
Fau.
But is there not Cœlum Igneum et Chrystallinum?
Meph.
No Faustus, they be but fables.
Fau.
Resolve me then in this one question:
Why are not Conjunctions, Oppositions, Aspects, Eclipses,
al at one time, but in some yeares we have more, in some lesse?
Meph.
Per inæqualem motum respectu totius.
Fau.
Well, I am answear'd: now tell me who made the world?
Meph.
I will not.
Fau.
Sweet Mephostophilis tell me.
Meph.
Move me not Faustus.
Fau.
Villaine have not I bound thee to tell mee any thing?
Meph.
That is not against our kingdome.
This is: thou art damn'd, thinke thou of Hell.
Faust.
Thinke Faustus upon God that made the world.
Meph.
Remember this, Exit.
