May God with grace to slake your thirst,
Bless the libation that we bring;
Be every drop a day to increase
Your years in happiness and peace!
Faust.
Your welcome offering I receive; the draught
By kind hands given, with grateful heart be quaffed!
[The people collect round him in a circle.
Old Peasant.
Soothly, Herr Doctor, on this tide,