Make ends meet

On German boards, you're well aware, The taste of each may have full sway;

Therefore in bringing out your play, Nor scenes nor mechanism spare!

Heaven's lamps employ, the greatest and the least, Be lavish of the stellar

lights, Water, and fire, and rocky heights, Spare not at all, nor birds, nor

beast, Thus let creation's ample sphere Forthwith in this our narrow booth

appear, And with considerate speed, through fancy's spell, Journey from

heaven, thence through the world, to hell!

The Lord, The Heavenly Hosts. Afterwards Mephistopheles.