And make swift Rhine circle fair Wertenberg;
I’ll have them fill the public schools with silk,
Wherewith the students shall be bravely clad.
For this he is willing to pay his soul, which Theology has so long declared to be the price of mastering the world.
This word damnation terrifies not him,
For he confounds hell in Elysium:
His ghost be with the old philosophers!
The ‘Good Angel’ warns him:
O Faustus, lay that damned book aside,
And gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soul,