Killing outright with ennui!
Leave that to honest neighbour Paunch!
Thrashing of straw is not for thee:
Besides, into the best of all your knowledge,
You know ’tis not permitted you to launch
With chicken-hearted boys at College.
Ev’n now, methinks, I hear one on the stair.
Faust.
Send him away: I cannot bear—
Mephistopheles.