Say, devil—paper, parchment, stone, or brass?

With me this coin or that will pass;

Style, or chisel, or pen shall it be?

Thou hast thy choice of all the three.

Mephistopheles.

What need of such a hasty flare

Of words about so paltry an affair?

Paper or parchment, any scrap will do,

Then write in blood your signature thereto.

Faust.