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said he, "we have rulers over us that send us out, and command us home when they please: and we can act no further than our power is, which we receive from Lucifer, who, you know, for his pride was thrust out of heaven. But, saith the spirit, I am not to tell you any more except you make yourself over to us"
Whereupon Faustus said "I will have my request? but yet I will not be damned with you." Then said the spirit "You must not, nor shall not have your desire, and yet thou art mine, and all the world cannot save thee out of my hands" Then said Faustus, "Get thee hence, and I conjure thee, that thou come to me at night. The spirit then vanished. Faustus then began to consider, how he might obtain his desire, and not give his soul to the devil.
And while Faustus were in these his devilish cogitations, night drew on, and this hellish spirit appeared to Faustus, acquainting him, that now he had got orders from his prince to be obedient to him, and to do for him what soever he desired, provided he would promise to be his, and withal to acquaint him first, what he would have of him? Faustus replied, that his desire was to become a spirit, and that Mephostophiles should be always at his command; that whensoever he called for
