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The Inevitable Day

The clock strikes midnight, signaling that Faustus only has one hour left to live before being damned to Hell forever. Faustus desperately pleads with the forces of nature and time to stop or slow down so that he may have more time to repent and save his soul. As the clock strikes midnight, Faustus realizes his time is up and calls upon God for mercy before the devils arrive to take his soul to Hell as was agreed upon in his pact with Lucifer.

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The Inevitable Day

The clock strikes midnight, signaling that Faustus only has one hour left to live before being damned to Hell forever. Faustus desperately pleads with the forces of nature and time to stop or slow down so that he may have more time to repent and save his soul. As the clock strikes midnight, Faustus realizes his time is up and calls upon God for mercy before the devils arrive to take his soul to Hell as was agreed upon in his pact with Lucifer.

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The Inevitable Day

Faustus, O Faustus [The clock strikes the half hour.]

Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,


And then thou must be damned perpetually!
O, half the hour is past! 'twill all be past anon!
Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven, O God!
That time may cease, and midnight never come;
If thou wilt not have mercy on my soul,
Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Yet for Christ's sake whose blood hath
Perpetual day; or let this hour be but ransomed me,
A year, a month, a week, a natural day,
That Faustus may repent and save his soul! Impose some end to my incessant pain;
Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years—
O lente, lente, currite noctis equi! A hundred thousand, and—at last—be saved!
(O run slowly, slowly, horses of the night ) No end is limited to damned souls.
Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul?
The stars move still, time runs, the clock will Or why is this immortal that thou hast?
strike, Oh, Pythagoras' metempsychosis! Were that
The Devil will come, and Faustus must be true,
damned.
O, I'll leap up to Heaven! Who pulls me down? This soul should fly from me, and I be changed
See,where Christ's blood streams in the Unto some brutish beast! all beasts are happy,
firmament! For, when they die,
One drop of blood will save me: oh, my
Christ! Their souls are soon dissolved to elements;
But mine must live, still to be plagued in hell.
R end not my heart for naming of my Christ! Curst be the parents that engendered me!
Yet will I call on him: O spare me, Lucifer! No, Faustus: curse thyself: curse Lucifer
Where is it now? 'tis gone; and see where God That hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven.
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful
brows! [The clock strikes twelve.]
Mountains and hills come, come and fall on me,
It strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air,
And hide me from the heavy wrath ofHeaven! Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell!
No, no!
[Thunder and lightning.]
Then will I headlong run into the earth;
gape, Earth,open, Earth! O no, it will not O soul, be changed into small water-drops,
harbour me! And fall into the ocean--ne'er be found.
You stars that reigned at my nativity,
Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, [Enter Devils.]
Now draw up Faustus like a foggy mist
Into the entrails of yon labouring clouds, My God, my God, look not so fierce on me!
That when you vomit forth into the air, Adders and serpents, let me breathe a while!
My limbs may issue from their smoky mouths, Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer!
But my soul mount and ascend to Heaven! I'll burn my books!—Ah Mephistophilis!
[Exeunt Devils with FAUSTUS.]

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