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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Clarke, Harry, and Taylor, Bayard
MARGARET
Farewell!
MARTHA
A moment, ere we part!
I’d like to have a legal witness, Where, how, and when he died, to certify his fitness. Irregular ways I’ve always hated; I want his death in the weekly paper stated.
MEPHISTOPHELES
Yes, my good dame, a pair of witnesses Always the truth establishes. I have a friend of high condition, Who’ll also add his deposition. I’ll bring him here.
MARTHA
Good Sir, pray do!
MEPHISTOPHELES
And this young lady will be present, too? A gallant youth! has travelled far: Ladies with him delighted are.
MARGARET
Before him I should blush, ashamed.
MEPHISTOPHELES
Before no king that could be named!
MARTHA
Behind the house, in my garden, then, This eve we’ll expect the gentlemen.