To make each priceless pearl his own:

But ’tis not so; and cannot be.

Faust.

My good Sir Knight of pedantry,

Lay not thou down the law to me!

And this, for good and all, be told,

Unless, this very night, I hold

The sweet young maid in my embrace,

’Tis the last time that you shall see my face.

Mephistopheles.