Yet thou wilt think, Belford, that I could forgive her for the reproach.

MEPHISTOPHELES Take spade and hoe thyself;dig on Great shalt thou be through peasant toil A herd of golden calves anon Themselves shall tear from out the soil; Then straight, with rapture newly born, Thyself thou canst, thy sweet-heart wilt adorn.

" "An thou wilt eat, my lord?

That I'll do this That am so false and weak, And have so often done amiss, And did my covenants break? I mean, Lordall this shall be done If thou my heart wilt raise; And as the work must be thine own, So also shall the praise.

And yet I was, if thou with thought impartial wilt reflect, Not without cause incensed with thee, for all thy strange neglect.

Get thy will tipped with the heavenly grace, and resolution against all discouragements, and then thou goest full speed for heaven; but if thou falter in thy will, and be not found there, thou wilt run hobbling and halting all the way thou runnest, and also to be sure thou wilt fall short at last.