rom it.

_Faustus_. What a delightful enjoyment it would be to fill so exalted an
imagination as hers with images of pleasure!

_Devil_. The monk has already had the start of you, and has so sharpened
her feelings, and filled her little soul with so much vanity and
self-conceit, and made her piety so carnal, that you have nothing else to
do than give one audible tap at the gate of her heart, in order to be
admitted. Let us now see to what lengths such delusions will lead a
young woman.

_Faustus_. And let it be done quickly.

The Devil was perfectly willing to steal so pure a soul from heaven, and
thereby to consummate more speedily the measure of Faustus's sins. He
suddenly stood in the shape of an old man with a peep-show, and, giving
Faustus the wink, he hurried away into the market-place. He raised his
voice, and invited the people to come and see his peep-show. The
populace flocked around him,--footmen and chambermaids, wives and widows,
boys and graybeards. The Devil showed them all kinds of scenes, which he
accompanied with pious explanations and moral sayings. Each person
stepped back delighted from the peep-show, and charmed the bystanders
with the recital of the wonders he had witnessed. The beautiful Angelica
now looked out of her window; and, hearing the Devil descant in so pious
a tone, she felt an irresistible desire to see the wonders of his box,
and to bestow alms upon the devout old showman. The Devil was sent for.
Even he was struck by her wondrous beauty, her gentle manners, and her
ingenuousness; but he became only so much the more desirous to confuse
her senses and entrap her. She placed her enthusiastic eye to the window
of the box. The Devil preluded with a few proverbs and wise saws, and
unfolded to her view scenes of love, in which he led her fancy so
adroitly from the spiritual to the carnal, that she was scarcely aware of
the gradation. If she were about to turn away her eyes with shame, the
offensive object changed itself at once into a sublime image, which again
attracted her attention. Her cheeks glowed, and she believed herself
gazing upon an unknown and enchanted world. The artful Devil caused the
figure of Faustus to appear in all these scenes. She saw him pursuing a
shadow which resembled her own, and undertaking for its sake the greatest
actions, and exposing himself to dangers of every description. When the
Devil had completely chained her attention, and perceived