ENG 252- Quotes of Doctor Faustus by Marlowe

"..cunning of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did not mount above his reach, And melting, heavens conspired his overthrow."

-Chorus, Prologue

-Hubris

"Sweet Analytics, tis' thou hast ravished me! [He reads] 'Bene disserere est finis logices.' Is to dispute well logic's chiefest end? Affords this art no greater miracle? Then read no more, thou hast attained the end."

-Faustus, Act I Scene I

-This has an erotic meaning, he is associating knowledge with sexual satisfaction

"Be a physician, Faustus. Heap up gold, And be eternalized for some wondrous cure. 'Summum bonum medicinae sanitas' The end of physic is our bodies' health. Why, Faustus, hast thou not attained that end? Is not thy common talk found aphorisms? Are not thy bills hung up as monuments, Whereby whole cities have escaped the plague and a thousand desperate maladies been eased? Yet art thou still but Faustus, and a man"

-Faustus, Act I Scene I

-Medicine doesn't solve the major problem, you still die

"Yet art thou still but Faustus, and a man. Wouldst thou make men to live eternally? Or, being dead, raise them to life again?"

-Faustus, Act I Scene I

"He reads 'Stipendium peccati mors est' Ha! The reward of sin is death. that's hard!"

-Faustus, Act I Scene I (reading Jerome's Bible)

" '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."

-Faustus, Act I Scene I

-Faustus is only reading what he wants to read from the Bible. He is not reading it and interpreting it in it's entirety

"And so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death. What doctrine call you this- Che sera sera? What will be, shall be? Divinity adieu!"

-Faustus, Act I Scene I

"Go forward, Faustus, in that famous art"

-Evil Angel, Act I Scene I

"O Faustus, lay that damned book aside And gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soul And heap God's heavy wrath upon thy head! Read, read the scriptures! That is blasphemy."

-Good Angel, Act I Scene I

"Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will?"

-Faustus, Act I Scene I

"That I may conjure in some lusty grove, And have these joys in full possession."

-Faustus, Act I Scene I

"I charge thee to return to thy shape, Thou art too ugly to attend on me. Go, and return an old Franciscan friar. That holy shape becomes a devil best. [exit devil] I see there's virtue in my heavenly words! Who would not be proficient in this art? How pliant is this Mephastophilis, Full of obedience and humility! Such is the first of magic and my spells. Now, Faustus, thou art conjurer laureate, that canst command great Mephastophilis!"

-Faustus, Act I Scene 3

"Did he (lucifer) not charge thee to appear to me? Did not my conjuring speeches raise thee? Speak!"

-Faustus, Act I Scene 3

"That was the cause, but yet per accidens, For when we hear one rack the name of God, Abjure the scriptures and his savior Christ, We fly in hope to get to his glorious soul; Nor will we come unless he use such means, Whereby he is in danger to be damned. Therefore the shortest cut for conjuring is stoutly to abjure the trinity and pray devoutly to the prince of hell."

-Mephastophilis, Act I Scene 3

-Magic did not summon Meph, but blasphemy did

"Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. Thinks thou that I, who saw the face of God and tasted the eternal joys of heaven, and not tormented with ten thousand hells in being deprived of everlasting bliss? O Faustus, leave these frivolous demands, Which strike a terror to my fainting soul!"

-Mephastophilis, Act I Scene 3

"My blood congeals and I can write no more."

-Faustus, Act II Scene 1

"Here's fire. Come, Faustus, set it on."

-Mephastophilis, Act II Scene 1

"Comsummatum est! This bill is ended and Faustus hath bequeathed his soul to Lucifer. But what is this inscription on mine arm? 'Homo fuge' Whither should I fly? If unto God, he'll throw thee down to hell. My senses are deceived, here's nothing writ- I see it plain, here in this place is writ 'Homo fuge' Yet shall not Faustus fly."

-Faustus, Act II Scene 1

-"It is finished" --> Christ's last words on the cross

"How? now in Hell? Nay, and this be hell, I'll willingly be damned here. What? Walking, disputing, etc. But leaving off this, let me have a wife, the fairest maid in Germany, for I am wanton and lascivious, and cannot live without a wife."

-Faustus, Act II Scene 1

"Tut, Faustus; marriage is but a ceremonial toy. If thou loves me, think no more of it. I'll cull thee out the fairest courtesans, And bring them every morning to thy bed. She whom thine eye shall like, thy heart shall have, be she as chaste as was Penelope, as wise as Saba, or as beautiful as was bright lucifer before his fall."

-Mephastophilis, Act II Scene 1

"Have not I made blind Homer sing to me of Alexander's love and Oenon's death? And hath not he that built the walls of Thebes with ravishing sound of his melodious harp made music with my Mephastophilis? Why should I die then, or basely despair? I am resolved: Faustus shall never repent. Come, Mephastophilis, let us dispute again and argue of divine astrology."

-Faustus, Act II Scene 3

"My Lord, it may be some ghost newly crept out of Purgatory, come to beg a pardon of your Holiness."

-Lorraine, Act III Scene 1

"It may be so. Friars, prepare a dirge to lay the fury of this ghost. Once again, my Lord, fall to."

-The Pope, Act III Scene 1

"Cursed be he that stole away his Holiness meat from the table. Maledicat dominus. Cursed be he that struck his Holiness a blow on the face. Md. Cursed be he that took Friar Sandelo a blow on the pate. Md. Cursed be he that disturber our holy dirge. Md. Cursed be he that took away his Holiness wine. Et omnes sancti, Amen."

-The Friars, Act III Scene 1

"What, are you crossing of yourself? Well, use that trick no more. I advise you. Well, there's the second time; aware the third, I give you fair warning."

-Faustus, Act III Scene 1

"Nay, I know not: we shall be cursed with bell, book, and candle."

-Mephastophilis, Act III Scene 1

"Monarch of hell, under whose black survey great potentates do kneel with awful fear, upon whose altars thousand souls do lie, How am I vexed with these villains' charms! From Constantinople am I hither come, Only for pleasure of these damned slaves."

-Mephastophilis, Act III Scene 2

"Well, villains, for your presumption I transform thee into an ape, and thee into a dog; and so be gone."

-Mephastophilis, Act III Scene 2

"What art thou, Faustus, but a man condemned to die? thy fatal time doth draw to final end. despair doth drive distrust unto my thoughts. Confound these passions with quiet sleep: Tush, Christ did call the thief upon the cross; Then rest thee, Faustus, quiet in conceit."

-Faustus, Act IV Scene 1

"Ah, Doctor Faustus, that I might prevail, to guide thy steps unto the way of life, By which sweet path thou mayst attain the goal that shall conduct thee to celestial rest. Break heart, drop blood, and mingle it with tears, Tears, falling from repentant heaviness of thy most vile and loathsome filthiness, the stench whereof corrupts the inward soul with such flagitious crimes and heinous sins as no commiseration may expel but mercy, Faustus, of thy savior sweet, Whose blood alone must wash away thy guilt."

-Old Man, Act V Scene 1

"Where art thou, Faustus? Wretch, what hast thou done? Damned art thou, Faustus, damned! Despair and die! Hell calls for right, and with a roaring voice says 'Faustus, come; thine hour is come'.."

-Faustus, Act V Scene 1

"Ah! stay, good Faustus, stay thy desperate steps: I see an angel hover o'er thy head and with a vial full of precious grace offers to put the same into thy soul. Then call for mercy, and avoid despair!"

-Old Man, Act V Scene 1

"Ah, my sweet friend, I feel thy words to comfort my distressed soul: Leave me a while to ponder on my sins."

-Faustus, Act V Scene 1

"Accursed Faustus, where is mercy now? I do not repent, and yet I do despair: Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast. What shall I do to shun the snares of death?"

-Faustus, Act V Scene 1

"And with my blood again I will confirm my former vow I made to Lucifer."

-Faustus, Act V Scene 1

"let me crave of thee: To glut the longing of my heart's desire.."

-Faustus, Act V Scene 1

"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss."

-Faustus, Act V Scene 1

"Accursed Faustus, miserable man, that from thy soul exculd'st the grace of heaven.."

-Old Man, Act V Scene 1

"A surfeit of deadly sin that hath damned both body and soul."

-Faustus, Act V Scene 2

"But Faustus' offense can ne'er be pardoned. The serpent that tempted Eve may be saves, but not Faustus."

-Faustus, Act V Scene 2

"Ah Fautsus- Now hast thou but one bare hurt 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! O lente, lente currite noctis equi!"

-Faustus, Act V Scene 2

"O, I'll leap up to my God! Who pulls me down? See, see where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop. Ah, my Christ!"

-Faustus, Act V Scene 2

"Ah, rend not my heart, for naming of my Christ!-Yet will I call on him-oh spare me lucifer."

-Faustus, Act V Scene 2

"And see where God stretcheth out his arm and bends his ireful brows! Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me and hide me from the heavy wrath of God."

-Faustus, Act V Scene 2

"No, no! Then will I headlong run into the earth. Earth, gape! O no, it will not harbor me. You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell, Now draw up Faustus like a foggy mist into the entrails of yon laboring cloud..."

-Faustus, Act V Scene 2

"Impose some end to my incessant pain. Let Faustus live a thousand, and at last be saved....why wert thou not a creature wanting soul? Or, why is this immortal that thou hast?"

-Faustus, Act V Scene 2

"Ay, Pythagoras' metempsychosis, were that true, This soul should fly from me and I be changed unto some brutish beast: All beasts are happy, for when they die their souls are soon dissolved in elements."

-Faustus, Act V Scene 2

"Cursed be the parents that endangered me....now, body, turn to air....O soul, be changed into little water drops..."

-Faustus, Act V Scene 2

"let me breathe awhile! Ugly hell, gape not! Come not, Lucifer! I'll burn my books"

-Faustus, Act V Scene 2

"Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, and burned is Apollo's laurel borough that sometime grew within this learned 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 practice more than heavenly power permits."

-Chorus, Epilogue

"I am a servent to great Lucifer"

Mephastophilis, Act 1, Scene 3

"So Faustus hath already done, and holds this principle: There is no chief but only Beelzebub, to whom Faustus doth dedicate himself. This word "damnation" terrifies not him, for he confounds hell in Elysium."

Faustus, Act 1, Scene 3

-Telling meph that he is not afraid of hell

"Where are you damned?"

Meph: in Hell

"How comes it then that thou art out of Hell?"

Faustus, Act 1, Scene 3

"What, is great Mephastophilis so passionate for being deprived of the joys of heaven? Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude and scorn those joys thou never shalt possess."

Faustus, Act 1, Scene 3

"Let your Balio and your Belcher come here, and I'll knock them! They were never so knocked since they were devils! Say I should kill one of them, what would folks say? 'Do ye see yonder tall fellow in the round slop? He has killed the devil!' So I should be called "Kill-devil" all the parish over."

Clown, Act 1, Scene 4

"Well, sirrah, follow me. I will teach thee to turn thyself into anything, to a dog, or a cat, or a mouse, or a rat, or anything."

Wagner, Scene 1, Act 4

"How? A Christian fellow to a dog or a cat, a mouse or a rat? No, no, sir, if you turn me into anything, let it be in the likeliness of a little, pretty, frisking flea, that I may be here and there and everywhere. O, I'll tickle the pretty wenches packers! Ill be amongst them, i'faith!"

Clown, Act 1, Scene 4

-Marlowe is recalling old flea poems "pseudo-ivid" --> The flea represents sexual access to the female body --> a flea can be anywhere it wants on a woman's body

-Placket --> slit in skirt --> females didn't wear underwear. This gave the flea access to her reproductive organs

"A plague on her for a hot w-hore!"

Faustus, Act 2, Scene 1

"Yes, my master and my mistress shall find that I can read: he for his forehead, she for her private study. She's born to bear with me, or else my art fails."

Robin, Act 2, Scene 2

"Canst though conjure with it?"

Rafe, Act 2, Scene 2

-Robin and Rafe have stolen conjuring books

"True, Rafe. And more, Rafe: if thou hast any mind to Nan Spit, our kitchen maid, then turn her and wind her to thine own se, as often as thou wilt - and at midnight!"

Robin, Act 2, Scene 2

"O brave Robin, shall I have Nan Spit, and to mine own use? On that condition I'll feed thy devil with horse bread as long as he lives, of free cost."

Rafe, Act 2, Scene 2

"I am Pride. I disdain to have any parents. I am like to Ovid's flea: I can creep into every corner of a wench. Sometimes, like a periwig, I sit upon her brow; or, like a fan of feathers, I kiss her lips. Indeed I do! What do I not? But fie, what a scent is here! I'll not speak another word, except the ground were perfumed and covered with cloth of Arras."

Pride, Act 2, Scene 3

"Who, I sir? I am one that loves an inch of raw mutton better than an ell of fried stock-fish, and the first letter of my name begins with Lechery."

Lechery, Act 2, Scene 3

"Who, I sir? I am one that loves an inch of raw mutton better than an ell of fried stock-fish, and the first letter of my name begins with Lechery."

Lechery, Act 2, Scene 3

"O, this feeds my soul!"

Faustus, Act 2, Scene 3

"Tut, Faustus, in hell is all manner of delight."

Lucifer, Act 2, Scene 3

"Away to hell, to hell! Now Faustus, how dost thou like this?"

Lucifer, Act 2, Scene 3

"Yes, my master and my mistress shall find that I can read: he for his forehead, she for her private study. She's born to bear with me, or else my art fails."

Robin, Act 2, Scene 2