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_ ACT V - SCENE II
[Thunder and lightning. Enter DEVILS with covered
dishes; MEPHISTOPHILIS leads them into FAUSTUS'S
study; then enter WAGNER.]
WAGNER.
I think my master [229] means to die shortly; he has
made his will, and given me his wealth, his house,
his goods, [230] and store of golden plate, besides
two thousand ducats ready-coined. I wonder what he
means: if death were nigh, he would not frolic
thus. He's now at supper with the scholars, where
there's such belly-cheer as Wagner in his life
ne'er [231] saw the like: and, see where they
come! belike the feast is ended. [232]
[Exit.]
[Footnote 229: I think my master, &c.: The alterations which this speech
has undergone will hardly admit of its arrangement as verse:
compare the earlier play, p. 98, first col.
p. 98, first col. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604):
"Enter WAGNER.
WAGNER.
I think my master means to die shortly,
For he hath given to me all his goods:
And yet, methinks, if that death were near,
He would not banquet, and carouse, and swill
Amongst the students, as even now he doth,
Who are at supper with such belly-cheer
As Wagner ne'er beheld in all his life.
See, where they come! belike the feast is ended.
[Exit.:" ]
[Footnote 230: goods: So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "good."]
[Footnote 231: ne'er: so 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "neuer."]
[Footnote 232: ended: so 4tos 1624, 1631, (and so 4to 1604).--2to 1616 "done."] _
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