about midnight
Agreed ; such a man would please me for his rarity . The spirit now returned with the baggage , and was sent forward to Mayence to bespeak a lodging in an hotel . Faustus , for secret reasons which the Devil guessed , proposed spending the night with a hermit who dwelt in the hill of Homburg , and who was renowned through the whole neighbourhood for his piety . They reached the hermitage about midnight , and knocked at the door . The solitary opened it ; and Faustus , who had dressed himself in the richest clothes which the Devil had provided for him , begged pardon for disturbing the repose of the holy man , and said that the night had surprised him and his companion while hunting , and had separated them from their attendants , and that they should be obliged by his giving them house-room for a few hours . The hermit looked on the ground , and replied , with a deep sigh : `` He who lives for heaven seldom abandons himself to dangerous repose . You have not disturbed me ; and , if you wish to stay here till sunrise , you must take things as you find them .