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,