Spare me! what have I done to injure thee?
Oh hear my prayer! for once compassion show!—
’Tis the first time I ever looked on thee.
Faust.
That I should live to see such depth of woe!
Margaret.
Thou hast me now completely in thy might.
Only first give me time to suckle my sweet child.
I hugged it the whole weary night;
They took’t from me in very spite;