The Works of Goethe Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: International Pub. Co. Subjects: Drama / Continental European Literary Criticism / European / German Poetry / Continental European Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missi... more »ng text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ALTMAYER. Well, after that, Doubt miracles who may, I won't, that's flat. Scene in. -- Witches' Kitchen. A large caldron suspended above the fire upon a low hearth. Through the fumes that ascend from it various figures are visible. A female ape sits beside the caldron skimming it, and -watching that it does not boil over. The male ape with the young ones sits near her, and warms himself. Walls and ceiling are decorated with witches' furniture of the most fantastic kind. Faust, Mephistopheles. Faust. I loathe this wizard rubbish. You maintain That in this chaos of a crazy brain . I shall my wasted strength repair ? Take counsel of an aged hag ? Oh, shame I Can the foul mess that simmers there Strike thirty winters from my frame ? If you know nothing better, I despair! Already do I feel, to hope were vain. Hath nature, hath some soul of noble strain, Discovered no elixir anywhere ? MEPHISTOPHELES. Now with your old sagacity you speak! There is a natural recipe for youth; but you For that must in another volume seek, And there it makes a striking chapter, too I FAUST. What is its nature ? Tell me, what ? MEPHISTOPHELES. Look you! A remedy, to be got Sans sorcery, gold, or medicine. Hence to the fields at once! Begin To hack and delve with might and main, Yourself and your desires confine Within the very narrowest line ; On simple food yourself sustain, With beasts live as a beast, and think it not a bore Your...« less