Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,

And then thou must be damn’d perpetually.

Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heav’n,

That time may cease, and midnight never come.

Fair nature’s eye, rise, rise again, and make

Perpetual day; or let this hour be but a year,

A month, a week, a natural day,

That Faustus may repent, and save his soul.

(The Clock strikes Twelve.)

It strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air,