And tied with pink ribbon, quite neat, but not gaudy,
And written in Latin, - the best you can find.
I'll have thy name seen in the Hub's Advertiser,
And even throw in there an honor or two;
And none in this world shall be ever the wiser,
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If what I now ask thou wilt willingly do.
FAUST(aside). Oh! Perplexity! can it be right
Aught to accept from one so dark and dread!
And yet if I but get the parchment signed,
Where is the odds? - I do conjure thee, speak!
MEPH. I ask thee to use, in return for this favor,
Thy thoughts in my service a year and a day,
To call me thy comrade, and not thy enslaver,
And all I command thee at once to obey.
But if, foolish mortal, thou art not obedient,
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