Which of the following is appropriate for a formal audience?
if you are ready, we should start the meeting.
can we start the meeting, people?
let's get this meeting rolling as soon as possible.
when you are through chatting, we'll start the meeting.

The play, doctor faustus, opens with a prologue. by describing faustus's beginnings as a child "base of stock" and his end as his "waxen wings" melted when "heaven conspired" to stop him, the chorus subtly calls to audience's minds, as they begin to view the play, the commonly held idea of the great chain of being the pact with the devil the seven deadly sins the renaissance man