This dress, these jewels, are not mine.
Mephistopheles.
’Tis not the dress alone that I admire;
She has a mien, a gait, a look so fine,
That speak the lady more than costliest attire.
Martha.
And now your business, sir? I much desire——
Mephistopheles.
Would God I had a better tale to tell!
Small thanks I should receive, I knew it well.