I’ve no disguise. This is my own fair form.
I’m not the horrible embodiment
You doctors of the Church have painted me—
A very Satyr, with a dragon’s tail—
A nursemaid’s devil! Oh, shortsighted priests,
My policy is to allure mankind,
Not to repel them!
Faus.What wouldst thou with me?
Meph. A proper question! Why, you summoned me!
It is a leading principle with me