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A07009	The tragicall history of D. Faustus As it hath bene acted by the right honorable the Earle of Nottingham his seruants. Written by Ch. Marl.; Doctor Faustus	Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.	1604 (1604)	STC 17429; ESTC S120173	24,583	46

the Horsecourser I take it a bottle of hey for his labour wel this tricke shal cost him fortie dollers more Enter Wagner How now Vagner what 's the newes with thée Wag. Sir the Duke of Vanholt doth earnestly entreate your company Fau. The Duke of Vanholt an honourable gentleman to whom I must be no niggard of my cunning come Mephastophilis let 's away to him exeunt Enter to them the Duke and the Dutches the Duke speakes Du: Beléeue me maister Doctor this merriment hath much pleased me Fau: My gratious Lord I am glad if contents you so wel but it may be Madame you take no delight in this I haue heard that great bellied women do long for some dainties or other what is it Madame tell me and you shal haue it Dutch Thankes good maister doctor And for I sée your curteous intent to pleasure me I wil not hide from you the thing my heart desires and were it nowe summer as it is Ianuary and the dead time of the winter I would desire no better meate then a dish of ripe grapes Fau: Alas Madame that 's nothing Mephastophilis be gone exit Meph. were it a greater thing then this so it would content you you should haue it enter Mephasto with the grapes here they be madam wilt please you taste on them Du: Beléeue me master Doctor this makes me wonder aboue the rest that being in the dead time of winter and in the month of Ianuary how you shuld come by these grapes Fau: If it like your grace the yéere is diuided into twoo circles ouer the whole worlde that when it is héere winter with vs in the contrary circle it is summer with them as in India Saba and farther countries in the East and by means of a swift spirit that I haue I had them brought hither as ye see how do you like them Madame be they good Dut: Beléeue me Maister doctor they be the best grapes that ere I tasted in my life before Fau: I am glad they content you so Madam Du: Come Madame let vs in where you must wel reward this learned man for the great kindnes he hath shewd to you Dut: And so I wil my Lord and whilst I liue Rest beholding for this curtesie Fau: I humbly thanke your Grace Du: Come maister Doctor follow vs and receiue your reward exeunt enter Wagner solus Wag. I thinke my maister meanes to die shortly For he hath giuen to me al his goodes And yet me thinkes if that death were néere He would not banquet and carowse and swill Amongst the Students as euen now he doth who are at supper with such belly-cheere As Wagner nere beheld in all his life Sée where they come belike the least is ended Enter Faustus with two or three Schollers 1. Sch. Maister Doctor Faustus since our conference about faire Ladies which was the beutifulst in all the world we haue determined with our selues that Helen of Greece was the admirablest Lady that euer liued therefore master Doctor if you wil do vs that fauor as to let vs sée that péerelesse Dame of Greece whome al the world admires for maiesty wée should thinke our selues much beholding vnto you Fau. Gentlemen for that I know your friendship is vnfained and Faustus custome is not to deuie the iust requests of those that wish him well you shall behold that pearelesse dame of Greece no otherwaies for pompe and maiestie then when sir Paris crost the seas with her and brought the spoiles to rich Dardama Be silent then for danger is in words Musicke sounds and Helen passeth ouer the Stage 2. Sch. Too simple is my wit to tell her praise Whom all the world admires soe maiestie 3. Sch. No maruel tho the angry Greekes pursude With tenne yeares warre the rape of such a quéene Whose heauenly beauty passeth all compare 1. Since we haue séene the pride of natures workes And onely Paragon of excellence Enter an old man Let vs depart and for this glorious déed Happy and blest be Faustus euermore Fau. Gentlemen farwel the same I wish to you Exeunt Schollers Old Ah Doctor Faustus that I might preuaile To guide thy steps vnto the way of life By which swéete path thou maist attaine the gole That shall conduct thée to celestial rest Breake heart drop bloud and mingle it with teares Teares falling from repentant heauinesse Of thy most vilde and loathsome filthinesse The stench whereof corrupts the inward soule With such flagitious crimes of hainous sinnes As no commiseration may expel But mercie Faustus of thy Sauiour swéete Whose bloud alone must wash away thy guilt Fau. Where art thou Faustus wretch what hast thou done Damnd art thou Faustus damnd dispaire and die Hell calls for right and with a roaring voyce Sayes Faustus come thine houre is come Mepha giues him a dagger And Faustus will come to do thée right Old Ah stay good Faustus stay thy desperate steps I sée an Angell houers ore thy head And with a violl full of precious grace Offers to powre the same into thy soule Then call for mercie and auoyd dispaire Fau. Ah my swéete friend I féele thy words To comfort my distressed soule Leaue me a while to ponder on my sinnes Old I goe swéete Faustus but with heauy cheare fearing the ruine of thy hopelesse soule Fau. Accursed Faustus where is mercie now I do repent and yet I do dispaire Hell striues with grace for conquest in my breast What shal I do to shun the snares of death Me. Thou traitor Faustus I arrest thy soule For disobedience to my soueraigne Lord Reuolt or I le in peece-meale teare thy flesh Fau: Sweete Mephastophilis intreate thy Lord To pardon my vniust presumption And with my blood againe I wil confirme My former vow I made to Lucifer Me. Do it then quickely with vnfained heart Lest greater danger do attend thy drift Fau: Torment sweete friend that base and crooked age That durst disswade me from thy Lucifer With greatest torments that our hel affoords Me: His faith is great I cannot touch his soule But what I may afflict his body with I wil attempt which is but little worth Fau: One thing good seruant let me craue of thée To glut the longing of my hearts desire That I might haue vnto my paramour That heauenly Helen which I saw of late Whose swéete imbracings may extinguish cleane These thoughts s that do disswade me from my vow And kéepe mine oath I made to Lucifer Me. Faustus this or what else thou shalt desire Shal be performde in twinckling of an eie enter Helen Fau: Was this the face that lancht a thousand shippes And burnt the toplesse Towres of Ilium Swéete Helen make me immortall with a kisse Her lips suckes forth my soule see where it flies Come Helen come giue mée my soule againe Here wil I dwel for heauen be in these lips And all is drosse that is not Helena enter old man I wil be Pacis and for loue of

THE TRAGICALL History of D. Faustus As it hath bene Acted by the Right Honorable the Earle of Nottingham his seruants Written by Ch. Marl. LONDON Printed by V. S. for Thomas Bushell 1604 The tragicall Historie of Doctor Faustus Enter Chorus NOt marching now in fields of Thracimene Where Mars did mate the Carthaginians Nor sporting in the dalliance of loue In courts of Kings where state is ouerturnd Nor in the pompe of prowd audacious deedes Intends our Muse to daunt his heauenly verse Onely this Gentlemen we must performe The forme of Faustus fortunes good or bad To patient Iudgements we appeale our plaude And speake for Faustus in his infancie Now is he borne his parents base of stocke In Germany within a towne calld Rhodes Of riper yéeres to Wertenberg he went Whereas his kinsmen chiefly brought him vp So soone hée profites in Diuinitie The fruitfull plot of Scholerisme grac't That shortly he was grac't with Doctors name Excelling all whose swéete delight disputes In heauenly matters of Theologie Till swolne with cunning of a selfe conceit His waxen wings did mount aboue his reach And melting heauens conspirde his ouerthrow For falling to a diuelish exercise And glutted more with learnings golden gifts He surffets vpon cursed Negromancy Nothing so sweete as magicke is to him Which he preferres before his chiefest blisse And this the man that in his study sits Exit Enter Faustus in his Study Faustus Settle thy studies Faustus and beginne To sound the deapth of that thou wilt professe Hauing commencde be a Diuine in shew Yet leuell at the end of euery Art And liue and die in Aristotles workes Sweete Anulatikes t is thou hast rauisht me Bene disserere est finis logicis Is to dispute well Logickes chiefest end Affoords this Art no greater myracle Then reade no more thou hast attaind the end A greater subiect fitteth Faustus wit Bid Oncaymaeon farewell Galen come Séeing vbi desinit philosophus ibi incipit medicus Be a physition Faustus heape vp golde And be eternizde for some wondrous cure Summum bonum medicinae sanitas The end of physicke is our bodies health Why Faustus hast thou not attaind that end Is not thy common talke sound Aphorismes Are not thy billes hung vp as monuments whereby whole Citties haue escapt the plague And thousand desprate maladies béene easde Yet art thou still but Faustus and a man wouldst thou make man to liue eternally Or being dead raise them to life againe Then this profession were to be estéemd Physicke farewell where is Iustinian Si 〈…〉 res legatus duobus Alter rem alter valorem rei c. A pretty case of paltry legacies Ex 〈…〉 nisi Such is the subiect of the institute And vniuersall body of the Church His study fittes a mercenary drudge who aimes at nothing but externall trash The deuill and illiberall for me when all is done Diuinitie is best Ieromes Bible Faustus view it well Stipendium peccati mors est ha Stipendium c. The reward of sinne is death that 's hard Si peccasse negamus fallimur nulla est in nobis veritas If we say that we haue no sinne We deceiue our selues and there 's no truth in vs Why then belike we must sinne And so consequently die I we must die an euerlasting death What doctrine call you this Che sera sera What wil be shall be Diuinitie adieu These Metaphisickes of Magicians And Negromantike bookes are heauenly Lines circles sceanes letters and characters I these are those that Faustus most desires O what a world of profit and delight Of power of honor of omnipotence Is promised to the studious Artizan All things that mooue betweene the quiet poles Shal be at my commaund Emperours and Kings Are but obeyd in their seuerall prouinces Nor can they raise the winde or rend the cloudes But his dominion that excéedes in this Stretcheth as farre as doth the minde of man A sound Magician is a mighty god Héere Faustus trie thy braines to gaine a deitie Enter Wagner Wagner commend me to my deerest friends The Germaine Valdes and Cornelius Request them earnestly to visite me Wag. I wil sir exit Fau. Their conference will be a greater help to me Thn all my labours plodde I nere so fast Enter the good Angell and the euill Angell Good A. O Faustus lay that damned booke aside And gaze not on it lest it tempt thy soule And heape Gods heauy wrath vpon thy head Reade reade the scriptures that is blasphemy Euill An. Go forward Faustus in that famous art Wherein all natures treasury is containd Be thou on earth as Ioue is in the skie Lord and commaunder of these Elements Exeunt Fau. How am I glutted with conceit of this Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please Resolue me of all ambiguities Performe what desperate enterprise I will I le haue them flye to India for gold Ransacke the Ocean for orient pearle And search all corners of the new found world For pleasant fruites and princely delicates I le haue them reade mée straunge philosophie And tell the secrets of all forraine kings I le haue them wall all Iermany with brasse And make swift Rhine circle faire Wertenberge I le haue them fill the publike schooles with skill Wherewith the students shal be brauely clad I le leuy souldiers with the coyne they bring And chase the Prince of Parma from our land And raigne sole king of all our prouinces Yea stranger engines for the brunt of warre Then was the fiery kéele at Antwarpes bridge I le make my seruile spirits to inuent Come Germaine Valdes and Cornelius And make me blest with your sage conference Valdes swéete Valdes and Cornelius Enter Valdes and Cornelius Know that your words haue woon me at the last To practise Magicke and concealed arts Yet not your words onely but mine owne fantasie That will receiue no obiect for my head But ruminates on Negremantique skill Philosophy is odious and obscure Both Law and Phisicke are for pettie witt Diuinitie is basest of the thrée Unpleasant harsh contemptible and vilde T is Magicke Magicke that hath rauisht mée Then gentle friends ayde me in this attempt And I that haue with Consissylogismes Graueld the Pastors of the Germaine Church And made the flowring pride of Wertenberge Swarme to my Problemes as the infernall spirits On swéet Musaeus when he came to hell Will be as cunning as Agrippa was Whose shadowes made all Europe honor him Vald. Faustus these bookes thy wit and our experience Shall make all nations to cononize vs As Indian Moores obey their Spanish Lords So shall the subiects of euery element Be alwaies seruiceable to vs thrée Like Lyons shall they guard vs when we please Like Almaine Rutters with their horsemens staues Or Lapland Gyants trotting by our sides Sometimes like women or vnwedded maides Shadowing more beautie in their ayrie browes Then in their white breasts of the queene of Loue For Venice shall they dregge huge Argoces And