do you come to trouble me?
Do you not know that tears never interrupt the course of justice?"

The unhappy friend looked humbly to the ground.

_Faustus_. Mighty sir, you have spoken well: tears are like water; they
merely spoil the eyes of those that shed them. But do you know that my
friend has right on his side?

_Judge_. Master Faustus, I know you for a man who plays away his money
at ducks-and-drakes, and who has a loose tongue. Right and law are very
different things: if he has the first for him, it is no reason that he
should have the second.

_Faustus_. You say that right and law are two different things:
something like judge and justice, perhaps.

_Judge_. Master Faustus, I have already said that I know you.

_Faustus_. Perhaps we are mistaken in each other, most enlightened sir.
But it is mere waste of soap to attempt to wash a blackamoor white. (_He
opened the door_, _and in stalked the Devil_.) Here is a gentleman who
will lay before you a document, which I hope will give the cause of my
friend a new aspect.

When the Judge saw the richly-dressed Leviathan, he assumed a more
friendly countenance, and asked them all to be seated.

_Faustus_. We can settle the whole business standing. (_To the Devil_)
Produce the document which we have found.

The Devil counted out of his purse five hundred gold guilders; he then
stopped and looked at the Judge.

_Judge_. The document is by no means a bad one, gentlemen; but the
adverse party has long ago given me one of equal weight.

The Devil continued counting till he had told out a thousand; he then
stopped.

_Judge_. In truth, I had overlooked this circumstance. Such vouchers,
however, are not to be withstood.

He then gathered up the gold and secured it in his coffer.

_Faustus_. I hope now that right and law will go together.

_Judge_. Master Faustus, you understand the art of appeasing the
bitterest enemies.

Faustus, whom the servility of the Judge as much offended as his former
rudeness, whispered to the Devil, in going away, "Do thou avenge justice
on this wretch."

Thereupon he left his friend, without waiting for his thanks, and went
about with the Devil to discharge his debts. He then paid visits to his
other friends, showered gold upon them by handfuls, even on those who had
forsaken him in his adversity; and he felt happy in being able to give
unbridled scope to his generosity and greatness of soul. The Devil,
however,