Mephistopheles monologue (Act 7) — Faust: A Tragedy

There you are right! One thing alone gives me concern, The time is short, and we have much to learn. There is a way, if you would know it, Just take into your pay a poet; Then let the learned gentleman sweep Through the wide realms of imagination And every noble qualification, Upon your honored crown upheap, The strength of the lion, The wild deer's agility, The fire of the south, With the north's durability. Then let his invention the secret unfold, To be crafty and cunning, yet generous and bold; And teach your youthful blood, as poets can, To fall in love according to a plan. Myself have a shrewd notion where we might Enlist a cunning craftsman of this nature, And Mr. Microcosmus he is hight.