Gott. Sleeper, awake! Thine hour or mine hath come!

Faus. (starting and turning round). Gottfried!

Gott.Ay, Gottfried! Oh, mine enemy!

Arise, destroyer! Thou that layest waste

The flowers of heaven with thy plague-laden blast!

Thou devil-wielded scourge! Thou thief of souls!

Make thine account with God—thy course is run!

Faus. Spare thou thy barbèd words for worthier foes.

There is a voice within my tortured heart

To whose anathemas thine utterance