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WITCH'S KITCHEN 143<br />
Meats, simple, undisguised-and live, in short,<br />
Beast-like, 'mong beasts-<strong>de</strong>em it no <strong>de</strong>gradation<br />
Thyself to spread the dung upon the field,<br />
The growth of which thou art to reap-this is<br />
In<strong>de</strong>ed the best way to repair life's powers,<br />
And wear at eighty a hale countenance.<br />
FAUST. This cannot be--I am not used to it<br />
:Nor can I learn to take up now the spa<strong>de</strong><br />
Such narrow life would never do for me.<br />
MEPIDSTOPHELES. We must recur then to the witch.<br />
FAUST.<br />
Why so?<br />
'-What's the particular use of an old hag<br />
In the matter? Can't you cook the draught yourself ?<br />
lI1EPIDSTOPHELES. That were a pretty waste of time<br />
-why, man,<br />
A thousand bridges might be built, before<br />
'Tis done-it asks not skill and science only,<br />
But patience must brood over it-the spirit<br />
~ silence must remain for years fermenting;<br />
Tune, and time only, clears and strengthens it,<br />
AU things belonging to it are mysterious-<br />
Its powers and its ingredients won<strong>de</strong>rful<br />
True--'twas the <strong>de</strong>vil that first invented it,<br />
Bwut yet the <strong>de</strong>vil can't make it-look-look, yon<strong>de</strong>rhat<br />
a handsome crew they are-both maid and<br />
man.-<br />
('Z'o the APES.) It seems the mistress is from home.<br />
T THE APES. Gone from home-to the rout,<br />
hrough the chimney she went out;<br />
aone to carouse<br />
On the chimney stone on the top of the house!<br />
L MEPIDSTOPHELES. \Vill she stay<br />
ong away?<br />
"\V APES.<br />
'Twixt the time she comes and goes,<br />
e can scarcely warm our toes.<br />
lItEPIDSTOPHELES. What think you of these <strong>de</strong>ar<br />
young creatures?<br />
FAUST. All makes me sick-voice, form, and features!<br />
?t!:EPIDSTOPHELES.<br />
Well, I must own, I greatly relish<br />
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