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MEPHIST. Now tell me, Faustus, are we not fitted well? Ne'er serv'd a holy Pope as we shall do. RAYMOND. Behold, my lord, the Cardinals are return'd. Concerning Bruno and the Emperor, Against our state and papal dignity? Then he and thou, and all the world, shall stoop, And therefore, though we would, we cannot err. To hold the Emperors their lawful lords. To light as heavy as the pains of hell. POPE. Pope Julius did abuse the church's rights, CARDINALS of France and Padua. Seven golden seals, fast sealed with seven seals, What hath [123] our holy council there decreed POPE. Welcome, grave fathers: answer presently FAUSTUS. Yes, Mephistophilis; and two such cardinals Behold this silver belt, whereto is fix'd To bind or loose, lock fast, condemn or judge, Is not all power on earth bestow'd on us? And therefore none of his decrees can stand. But, whilst they sleep within the consistory, For him and the succeeding Popes of Rome, Let us salute his reverend fatherhood. In token of our seven-fold power from heaven, In quittance of their late conspiracy Resign or seal, or what so pleaseth us: Or be assured of our dreadful curse, Re-enter FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS, in the shapes of the

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