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136 FAUST<br />

SIEBEL.<br />

life.<br />

FROSCH.<br />

long.<br />

MEPmSTOPHELES.<br />

He knows the world, and how to make out<br />

Wait, wait, until--I'll have him before<br />

Was I <strong>de</strong>ceived, for just as we<br />

came in<br />

We heard, or thought we heard, a merry chorus<br />

Of practised voices ?-what a rich effect<br />

Music must have along this vaulted roof.<br />

FROSCH. You are a virtuoso then-<br />

MEPmSTOPHELES.<br />

Oh, no!<br />

My skill is next to none-but I love music.<br />

ALTMAYER. Give us a songlIIEPmSTOPHELES.<br />

A hundred, if you please.<br />

SIEBEL. Something original-something brand·new.<br />

MEPmSTOPHELES. We're just returned from Spain,<br />

romantic Spain,<br />

The land of wine and song.<br />

(Sing8.)<br />

Once on a time there was a king,<br />

A lovely queen had he-<br />

But <strong>de</strong>arer far than queen or son,<br />

He loved a big black flea.<br />

FROSCH. A flea! is it possible I heard him right?<br />

A flea! oh, what a guest to grace a palace!<br />

Once on a time, there was a king,<br />

A lovely queen had he-<br />

But <strong>de</strong>arer far than queen or son,<br />

He loved a big black flea!<br />

He called the royal tailor,<br />

Who measures him, and stitches<br />

A coat for the young favourite,<br />

And a little pair of breeches.<br />

BRANDER. Forget not, sire, to charge the tailor<br />

strictly<br />

That they be well and fashionably ma<strong>de</strong>-<br />

<strong>©Biblioteca</strong> <strong>Nacional</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>Colombia</strong>

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