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For this time thou thy words may'st spare!

This is no place for riddles, friend;

They are these gentlemen's affair—

Solve them! an ear I'll gladly lend.

My old fool's gone, far, far away, I fear;

Take thou his place, come, stand beside me here!

[MEPHISTOPHELES ascends and places himself at the EMPEROR'S left.]

Murmur of the Crowd

Here's a new fool—for plague anew!

Whence cometh he?—How passed he through?

The old one fell—he squander'd hath.—

He was a tub—now 'tis a lath.—