The goblin-foot upon the threshold there—
Faust.
The pentagram stands in your way![n6]
Ha! tell me then, thou imp of sin,
If this be such a potent spell
To bar thy going out, how cam’st thou in?
What could have cheated such a son of hell?
Mephistopheles.
Look at it well, the drawing is not true;
One angle, that towards the door, you see,