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

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