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WITCH'S KITCHEN
Now be
The square of Three :
Thus the Witch
Makes you rich;
Drop Four
From your score:
From Five and Six
You should fix
To take Seven and Eight away,
Then all is clear as day.
And Nine is One,
And Ten is None,
This is the Witch's One·times·one.
FAUST. She seems in earnest, old deceiver!
-How like the ravings of a fever!
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MEPIDSTOPRELES. There is an endless volume of this
stuff-
,I ought to know it-I've lost time enough
PUZzling it out-for downright contradiction
Is, to the wise and fools, an equal mystery.
My friend, in the old almanack of history,
You'll find such jumbles made of fact and fiction;
And by the help of this, or some such juggle,
Errors spread wide ;-truth suffers in the struggle.
Doctrines are lisped by infants; taught in schools,
And are believed: for who contends with fools ?
To customary words men still will link
Their faith-poor dolts-imagining they think!
THE WITCH . The height, the might,
Of wisdom's light,
The knowledge from the wide world hidden,
Cheers humblest minds :
Who seeks not finds :
The welcome guest is the unbidden.
FAUST. This nonsense, so like meaning, splits
1.Iy skull. I soon would lose my wits :
Methinks, a million fools in choir
Are raving and will never tire.
MEPIDSTOPHELES.
sibyl!
Enough! enough! incomparable
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