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WITCH'S KITCHEN<br />

147<br />

Let but your own fancy mingle<br />

With the jargon and the jingle,<br />

As you listen to the lays;<br />

Bring the meaning you are gleaning,<br />

Give the poet all the praise.<br />

FAUST (as before). My heart's on fice-let us<br />

<strong>de</strong>part .<br />

.A MEPHISTOPHELES. This is the true poetic artnd<br />

I have never met with prettier poets,<br />

COuld they but keep the secrets of their tra<strong>de</strong>.<br />

[The cauldron, which the Female CAT.APE has forgotten<br />

to attend to, begins to boil otler--a great<br />

blaze arises, and streams up the chimney.-THE<br />

WITCH comes down through the flame with<br />

horrid screams.<br />

b TIlE WITCH.<br />

Ou! Ou! Ou! Ou!<br />

arnned beast! cursed sow !-<br />

~hhe ~ot has boiled over-the broth's overturned,<br />

e liquor is lost, and the Mist ress is burned!<br />

Damned beast­<br />

And what is this?<br />

[Seeinq FAUST and MEPHISTOPHELES.<br />

And who are ye ?<br />

What brings ye here?<br />

Who sent ye here?<br />

May fiery pain<br />

Burn bone and brain !<br />

[Dips the skimming ladle in the cauldron, and<br />

sprinkles the flames at FAUST, MEPlilSTOPHELES,<br />

and the CAT-ApEs-the APES whine.<br />

AiEPHISTOPHELES (flourishes the fan, and breaks pots<br />

1I II and glasses). Broken, broken!<br />

ai -broth splashing,<br />

l?aa.sses crashing,<br />

It ~ent for the words you've spoken!<br />

~ 18.a.ll in sport, my honey!<br />

l\. oth~g but a frolic funny !<br />

li'i~tPlll~<br />

time, old carrion odious,<br />

Y WIth thy voice melodious!<br />

[Tru: WITCH steps back with rage and a tonishment.<br />

L~<br />

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

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