The tragedy of Faust Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Mingled with piercing yells Satanic, Ring down into the vale below. [ War tumult in the Orchestra, passing at last into cheerful military music. Scene in. — T... more »he Rival Emperor's Tent. Throne, Rich Surroundings. Have QUICK- Pillage - Fast. PILLAGE - FAST. We're first upon the field, you see. HAVE QUICK. No raven flies so fast as we. PILLAGE - FAST. Oh, look, what heaps of treasure there! Where to begin ? To finish where ? HAVE QUICK. So crammed the place with plunder stands, I know not where to lay my hands. PILLAGE - FAST. That carpet suits me to a T ; My bed is often too hard for me. HAVE QUICK. A Morgenstern of steel! Just such As I for years have longed for much ! PILLAGE - FAST. That scarlet cloak with golden seams, One like it has often crossed my dreams! Have QUICK (taking the weapon). With this one makes short work. A blow, The fellow's dead, and on we go! You've packed up such a lot, and yet Not managed the right sort to get. Leave all that rubbish where it lay ; Take one of these small chests away! The army's niggard pay they hold ; Its belly's stuffed with solid gold. PILLAGE - FAST. Tis mortal heavy ! More than I Am fit to lift or carry. HAVE QUICK. Quick, stoop! Duck down, and let me pack The box upon your sturdy back. PILLAGE - FAST. Alack, alack ! I'm done for! Whew! It fairly breaks my back in two. [The chest falls and breaks open. Have Quick. There lies the red gold, all aheap; Quick, quick, and up the shiners sweep! Pillage - Fast (crouches down). Into my lap with them! With this We sha'n't do very much amiss. HAVE QUICK. There! That's enough ! Off with you ! Pack ! [She rises. Your apron has a hole. Alack ! Whether you stand or move, no matter, The treasu...« less