FAUST
Overseer!
MEPHISTOPHELES
Here!
FAUST
However possible,
Collect a crowd of men with vigor,
Spur by indulgence, praise, or rigor,—
Reward, allure, conscript, compel!
Each day report me, and correctly note
How grows in length the undertaken moat.
MEPHISTOPHELES [half aloud]
When they to me the information gave,
They spake not of a moat, but of—a grave.
FAUST