Lord Raymond, pray, fall to. I am beholding [132]
To the Bishop of Milan for this so rare a present.

FAUSTUS. I thank you, sir.
[Snatches the dish.]

POPE. How now! who snatch'd the meat from me?
Villains, why speak you not?--
My good Lord Archbishop, here's a most dainty dish
Was sent me from a cardinal in France.

FAUSTUS. I'll have that too.
[Snatches the dish.]

POPE. What Lollards do attend our holiness,
That we receive such [133] great indignity?
Fetch me some wine.

FAUSTUS. Ay, pray, do, for Faustus is a-dry.

POPE. Lord Raymond,
I drink unto your grace.

FAUSTUS. I pledge your grace.
[Snatches the cup.]

POPE. My wine gone too!--Ye lubbers, look about,
And find the man that doth this villany,
Or, by our sanctitude, you all shall die!--
I pray, my lords, have patience at this
Troublesome banquet.

ARCHBISHOP. Please it [134] your Holiness, I think it be some ghost
crept out of Purgatory, and now is come unto your Holiness for his
pardon.

POPE. It may be so.--
Go, then, command our priests to sing a dirge,
To lay the fury of this same troublesome ghost.
[Exit an ATTENDANT.--The POPE crosses himself.]

FAUSTUS. How now! must every bit be spic'd with a cross?--
Nay, then, take that.
[Strikes the POPE.]

POPE. O, I am slain!--Help me, my lords!
O, come and help to bear my body hence!--
Damn'd be his [135] soul for ever for this deed!
[Exeunt all except FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS.]

MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, what will you do now? for I can tell you
you'll be cursed with bell, book, and candle.

FAUSTUS. Bell, book, and candle,--candle, book, and bell,--
Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell!

Re-enter the FRIARS, with bell, book, and candle, for the
Dirge.

FIRST FRIAR. Come, brethren, lets about our business with good
devotion.
[They sing.]

CURSED BE HE THAT STOLE HIS HOLINESS' MEAT FROM THE TABLE!
maledicat Dominus!
CURSED BE HE THAT STRUCK [136] HIS HOLINESS A BLOW ON [137] THE
FACE! maledicat Dominus!
CURSED BE HE THAT STRUCK FRIAR SANDELO A BLOW ON THE PATE!
maledicat Dominus!
CURSED BE HE THAT DISTURBETH OUR HOLY DIRGE! maledicat
Dominus!
CURSED BE HE