Important Passages

DR FAUSTUS: IMPORTANT PASSAGES FOR EXPLANATION: “View here this blood that trickles from my arm, And let it be propitious for my wish.” “I charge thee to return and change thy shape; Thou art too ugly to attend on me. Go and return an old Franciscan Friar: The holy shape becomes a devil best.” “O, it strikes, it strikes! Now body, turn to air, Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell.” “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burn the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.” “O friend, I feel thy words To comfort my distressed soul, Leave me a while to ponder on my sins.” “When I behold the heaven, then I repent, And curse thee, wicked Mephistophilis, Because thou hast deprived me of those joys.” “I think my master means to die shortly. He hath made his will, and given me his wealth, His house, his goods, and store of golden plate.” We come to tell thee thou dost injure us, Thou talk’st of Christ, contrary to thy promise; Thou shouldst not think of God; think of the devil.”

“My heart is so hardened I cannot repent, Scarce can I name salvation, faith or heaven, But fearful echoes thunder in my ears “Faustus, thou art damn’d.” “Mountains and hills, come, come , and fall on me, And hide me from the heavy wrath of God.”

“Accursed Faustus, where is mercy now? I do 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?” “Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight And burned is Apollo’s laurel-bough, That sometime grew within this learned man.” “O God. If thou will not have mercy on my soul, Yet for Christ’s sake, whose blood hath ransomed me, Impose some end to my pressant pain.” “By him, I will be &eat emperor of the world, And make a bridge through the air, To pass the ocean with a band of men, I’ll join the hills that bind the Afric shore, And make that country continent to Spain, And both contributory to my crown.” “Marriage is but a ceremonial toy; If thou lovest me think no more of it. She whom the 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 the fall.” “Give me my soul again Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips.” “Stand still, you ever moving spheres of heaven That time may cease, and midnight never come.” “O soul be chang’d into little water drop And fall into the ocean, ne’er be found.” “A sound magician is a mighty God Here, Faustus, tire thy brain to gain a deity.”