07 Dec




















DUCHESS. True, Master Doctor; and, since I find you so kind, FAUSTUS. Please it your grace, the year is divided into two were it now summer, as it is January, a dead time of the winter, tell me, what is the thing you most desire to have; be it in the DUKE. This makes me wonder more than all the rest, that at this spirit that I have, I had these grapes brought, as you see. do long for things are rare and dainty. Re-Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS with grapes. circles over the whole world; so that, when it is winter with FAUSTUS. This is but a small matter.--Go, Mephistophilis; away! Madam, I will do more than this for your content. they have fruit twice a-year; from whence, by means of a swift Here now, taste you these: they should be good, for they come [213] I tasted. time of the year, when every tree is barren of his fruit, from that it pleaseth [212] your grace to think but well of that which Faustus hath performed.--But, gracious lady, it may be that you [Exit MEPHISTOPHILIS.] in India, Saba, and such countries that lie far east, where whence you had these ripe grapes. [214] DUCHESS. And, trust me, they are the sweetest grapes that e'er world, it shall be yours: I have heard that great-bellied women I will make known unto you what my heart desires to have; and, have taken no pleasure in those sights; therefore, I pray you us, in the contrary circle it is likewise summer with them, as from a far country, I can tell you. I would request no better meat than a dish of ripe grapes.

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