WIST QuotationsApr 29

A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

CHORUS: Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
   And burnèd is Apollo’s laurel bough,
   That sometime grew within this learnèd man.
   Faustus is gone. Regard his hellish fall,
   Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise
   Only to wonder at unlawful things,
   Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits,
   To practise more than heavenly power permits.

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Epilogue (1594; 1604 “A” text)

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Marlowe, Christopher - The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Epilogue (1594; 1604 "A" text) | WIST Quotations

CHORUS: Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burnèd is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learnèd man. Faustus is gone. Regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward…

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