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Faust-Part18_JOHANN W. GOETHE (1749-1832)_Translated Works(翻译文学)-第2页

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Beware! Stick close! else we shall severed be. Where art thou?



Faust (in the distance)

Here!



Mephistopheles

Already, whirl'd so far away! The master then indeed I needs must play. Give



ground! Squire Voland comes! Sweet folk, give ground! Here, doctor, grasp

me! With a single bound Let us escape this ceaseless jar; Even for me too



mad these people are. Hard by there shineth something with peculiar glare,

Yon brake allureth me; it is not far; Come, come along with me! we'll slip in



there.

Faust



Spirit of contradiction! Lead! I'll follow straight! 'Twas wisely done, however,

to repair On May - night to the Brocken, and when there By our own choice



ourselves to isolate!

Mephistopheles



Mark, of those flames the motley glare! A merry club assembles there. In a

small circle one is not alone.



Faust

I'd rather be above, though, I must own! Already fire and eddying smoke I



view; The impetuous millions to the devil ride; Full many a riddle will be there

untied.



Mephistopheles

Ay! and full many a riddle tied anew. But let the great world rave and riot!



Here will we house ourselves in quiet. A custom 'tis of ancient date, Our

lesser worlds within the great world to create! Young witches there I see,



naked and bare, And old ones, veil'd more prudently. For my sake only

courteous be! The trouble's small, the sport is rare. Of instruments I hear the



cursed din One must get used to it. Come in! come in! There's now no help

for it. I'll step before And introducing you as my good friend, Confer on you



one obligation more. How say you now? 'Tis no such paltry room; Why only

look, you scarce can see the end. A hundred fires in rows disperse the gloom;



They dance, they talk, they cook, make love, and drink: Where could we find

aught better, do you think?



Faust

To introduce us, do you purpose here As devil or as wizard to appear?



Mephistopheles

Though I am wont indeed to strict incognito, Yet upon gala - days one must



one's orders show. No garter have I to distinguish me, Nathless the cloven

foot doth here give dignity. Seest thou yonder snail? Crawling this way she



hies: With searching feelers, she, no doubt, Hath me already scented out;

Here, even if I would, for me there's no disguise. From fire to fire, we'll



saunter at our leisure, The gallant you, I'll cater for your pleasure.

(To a party seated round some expiring embers.)



Old gentleman, apart, why sit ye moping here? Ye in the midst should be of all

this jovial cheer, Girt round with noise and youthful riot; At home one surely



has enough of quiet.

General



In nations put his trust, who may, Whate'er for them one may have done; For

with the people, as with women, they Honour your rising stars alone!



Minister

Now all too far they wander from the right; I praise the good old ways, to



them I hold, Then was the genuine age of gold, When we ourselves were

foremost in men's sight.



Parvenu

Ne'er were we 'mong your dullards found, And what we ought not, that to do



were fair; Yet now are all things turning round and round, When on firm basis

we would them maintain.



Author

Who, as a rule, a treatise now would care To read, of even moderate sense?



As for the rising generation, ne'er Has youth displayed such arrogant

pretence.



Mephistopheles

(suddenly appearing very old)



Since for the last time I the Brocken scale, That folk are ripe for doomsday,

now one sees; And just because my cask begins to fail, So the whole world is



also on the lees.

Huckster - Witch



Stop, gentlemen, nor pass me by, Of wares I have a choice collection: Pray




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