Edward II. Doctor Faustus. The massacre at Paris. Dido queen of CarthageW. Pickering, 1826 - Dramatists, English |
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ACHA Achates Æneas ANNA ARCHBISH arms art thou Ascanius Baldock bear BENV Benvolio blood brother cardinals Carthage CLOWN conjurer crown cursed death devil DICK DIDO Dido's Doctor Faustus dost doth duke of Guise earl Edward emperor Eneas England EPER Epernoune Exit eyes fair farewell Faustus fear friends Ganymede Gaveston gentle grace grief hand hast thou hate hath head hear heart heaven hell hence holy honour HORSE-C Iarbas ILIONEUS Isabel KENT king of France Lancaster leave live look lord Lucifer madam majesty Master Doctor Matrevis MEPH Mephostophilis Mortimer MOUNTSORREL murder Navarre ne'er noble Pembroke's men PLESHE Pope pray prince QUEEN realm SCENE SCHO SERGESTUS sirrah soldiers soul speak SPEN Spencer stay sweet sword tell thee thine thou art thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thyself traitor Troy unto villain Warwick
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Page 121 - Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates...
Page 196 - The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. O I'll leap up to my God!
Page 105 - And there in mire and puddle have I stood This ten days' space; and, lest that I should sleep, One plays continually upon a drum. They give me bread and water, being a king; So that, for want of sleep and sustenance, My mind's distempered, and my body's numb'd, And whether I have limbs or no I know not.
Page 196 - Ah, Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned 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...
Page 119 - Such is the subject of the Institute, And universal body of the Law. This study fits a mercenary drudge, Who aims at nothing but external trash, Too servile and illiberal for me. When all is done, Divinity is best. Jerome's Bible, Faustus : view it well. Stipendium peccati mors est : ha ! Stipendium, &c. The reward of sin is death : that's hard.
Page 105 - Tell Isabel the queen, I look'd not thus, When for her sake I ran at tilt in France, And there unhorsed the duke of Cleremont.
Page 122 - Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love: From Venice shall they drag huge argosies, And from America the golden fleece That yearly stuffs old Philip's treasury; If learned Faustus will be resolute. Faust. Valdes, as resolute am I in this As thou to live : therefore object it not.
Page 127 - I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live, To do whatever Faustus shall command, Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere, Or the ocean to overwhelm the world. Meph. I am a servant to great Lucifer, And may not follow thee without his leave: No more than he commands must we perform.
Page 105 - These looks of thine can harbour nought but death: I see my tragedy written in thy brows. Yet stay a while; forbear thy bloody hand, And let me see the stroke before it comes, That even then when I shall lose my life, My mind may be more steadfast on my God.
Page 192 - Though my heart pants and quivers to remember that I have been a student here these thirty years, O, would I had never seen Wittenberg, never read book ! And what wonders I have done, all Germany can witness, yea, all the world; for which Faustus hath lost both Germany and the world, yea heaven itself, heaven, the seat of God, the throne of the blessed, the kingdom of joy; and must remain in hell for ever, hell, ah, hell, for ever!