For life cut off from life—a breathing man,

Wrapped in a winding-sheet of his own weaving!

A living heart, inurned and sepulchred!

Enter Gottfried, disguised as a monk.

Gott. Good brother, pax vobiscum.

Faus.Benedicite!

Gott. Art thou the monk who, in the world without,

Was known as Faustus?

Faus.Ay, the very same.

Gott. I am a travelling Dominican