Doctor Faustus, by C. Marlowe. Lust's dominion. Mother Bombie; Midas, by John Lyly |
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See where Christ's blood streams in the firmament * : One drop of blood will save me : oh , my Christ ! Rend not my heart for naming of my Christ ; Yet will I call on him . Oh , spare me , Lucifer ! Where is it now ? — ' tis gone !
See where Christ's blood streams in the firmament * : One drop of blood will save me : oh , my Christ ! Rend not my heart for naming of my Christ ; Yet will I call on him . Oh , spare me , Lucifer ! Where is it now ? — ' tis gone !
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Page 347 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 80 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul ! See, where it flies ! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for Heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
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Page 31 - Ay, and body too: but what of that? Think'st thou that Faustus is so fond to imagine That, after this life, there is any pain? Tush, these are trifles and mere old wives
Page 87 - 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.
Page 86 - 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! O lente, lente, currite noctis equi!
Page 32 - When I behold the heavens, then I repent, And curse thee, wicked Mephistophilis, Because thou hast deprived me of those joys.
Page vii - ... plays. This however is certain, that he is the first who taught either tragedy or comedy to please, there being no theatrical piece of any older writer, of which the name is known, except to antiquaries and collectors of books, which are sought because they are scarce, and would not have been scarce, had they been much esteemed.
Page 22 - So he will spare him four and twenty years, Letting him live in all voluptuousness; Having thee ever to attend on me; To give me whatsoever I shall ask, To tell me whatsoever I demand, To slay mine enemies, and aid my friends, And always be obedient to my will.
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| Title | Doctor Faustus, by C. Marlowe. Lust's dominion. Mother Bombie; Midas, by John Lyly Volume 1 of Old English Plays: Being a Selection from the Early Dramatic Writers, Charles Wentworth Dilke |
| Author | Charles Wentworth Dilke |
| Publisher | Whittingham and Rowland, 1814 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 8 Nov 2007 |
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