Upon thy head my spell of strongest might!
[The clouds vanish, and Mephistopheles comes forward from behind the fireplace, dressed like an itinerant scholar.
Scene V.
Faust and Mephistopheles.
Mephistopheles.
What’s all the noise about? I’m here at leisure
To work your worship’s will and pleasure.
Faust.
So, so! such kernel cracked from such a shell!
A travelling scholar! the jest likes me well!