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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A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

GOOD ANGEL: And now, poor soul, must thy good angel leave thee,
   The jaws of hell are open to receive thee. (Exit)

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 19), l. 2015ff (1594; 1616 “B” text)

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A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

FAUSTUS: No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer,
   That hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven.
      (The clock striketh twelve.)
   O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air,
   Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell.
      (Thunder and lightning.)
   O soul, be changed into little water drops,
   And fall into the ocean, ne’er be found!
   My God, my God, look not so fierce on me!
      (Enter Devils.)
   Adders, and serpents, let me breathe a while!
   Ugly hell, gape not. Come not Lucifer!
   I’ll burn my books! Ah, Mephistophilis!
      (Exeunt Devils with Faustus.)

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 19), l. 1498ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

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A quotation from Kit Marlowe

FAUSTUS. Ah, Faustus,
   Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
   And then thou must be damn’d perpetually!
   Stand still, you ever-moving Spheres of Heaven,
   That time may cease, and midnight never come;
   Fair Nature’s eye, rise, rise again, and make
   Perpetual day; or let this hour be but
   A year, a month, a week, a natural day,
   That Faustus may repent and save his soul!

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 14), l. 1451ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

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A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

   FAUSTUS: Lucifer and Mephistophilis. Ah, gentlemen! I gave them my soul for my cunning!
   ALL: God forbid!
   FAUSTUS: God forbade it, indeed; but Faustus hath done it.

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 14), l. 32ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

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A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

FAUSTUS: Si peccasse negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis veritas;
   “If we say that we have no sin,
   We deceive ourselves, and there’s no truth in us.”
   Why, then, belike we must sin,
   And so consequently die.
   Ay, we must die an everlasting death.

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 1, sc. 1 (sc. 1), l. 70ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

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A quotation from Kit Marlowe

BAD ANGEL: He that loves pleasure, must for pleasure fall.

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 4 (sc. 19), l. 2032 (5.4.2032) (1594; 1616 “B” text)

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A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

FAUSTUS: Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships,
   And burnt the topless towers of Ilium —
   Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. —
      [They kiss]
   Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! —
   Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.
      [They kiss again]
   Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips,
   And all is dross that is not Helena.

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 1 (sc. 13), l. 1358ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

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A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

   FAUSTUS. Come, I think hell’s a fable.
   MEPHISTOPHILES: Ay, think so still, till experience change thy mind.

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 2, sc. 1 (sc. 5), l. 573ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

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