Name not the lovely maid again!

Bring not that overmastering desire

Once more to tempt my poor bewildered brain!

Mephistopheles.

What then? she deems that you are gone for ever;

And half and half methinks you are.

Faust.

No! I am nigh, and were I ne’er so far,

I could forget her, I could lose her never;

I envy ev’n the body of the Lord,