Act 5 — [Scene II.][398]
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[Scene II.][398]
Enter two Scholars.
1 Schol. I wonder what’s become of Faustus that was wont to make our schools ring with sic probo?[399]
2 Schol. That shall we know, for see here comes his boy. 5
Enter Wagner.
1 Schol. How now, sirrah! Where’s thy master?
Wag. God in heaven knows!
2 Schol. Why, dost not thou know?
Wag. Yes, I know. But that follows not. 10
1 Schol. Go to, sirrah! Leave your jesting, and tell us where he is.
Wag. That follows not necessary by force of argument, that you, being licentiate, should stand upon ’t: therefore, acknowledge your 15 error and be attentive.
2 Schol. Why, didst thou not say thou knew’st?
Wag. Have you any witness on ’t?
1 Schol. Yes, sirrah, I heard you. 20
Wag. Ask my fellow if I be a thief.
2 Schol. Well, you will not tell us?
Wag. Yes, sir, I will tell you; yet if you were not dunces, you would never ask me such a question; for is not he corpus naturale?[400] and is not that mobile? Then wherefore should 26 you ask me such a question? But that I am by nature phlegmatic, slow to wrath, and prone to lechery (to love, I would say), it were not for you to come within forty foot of the place 30 of execution, although I do not doubt to see you both hang’d the next sessions. Thus having triumph’d over you, I will set my countenance like a precisian,[401] and begin to speak thus:—Truly, my dear brethren, my master is within at dinner, with Valdes and Cornelius, as this 36 wine, if it could speak, would inform your worships; and so the Lord bless you, preserve you, and keep you, my dear brethren, my dear brethren.40
Exit.
1 Schol. Nay, then, I fear he has fallen into that damned Art, for which they two are infamous through the world.
2 Schol. Were he a stranger, and not allied to me, yet should I grieve for him. But come, let us go and inform the Rector, and see if he 46 by his grave counsel can reclaim him.
1 Schol. O, I fear me nothing can reclaim him.
2 Schol. Yet let us try what we can do. 50
Exeunt.