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• My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Dance, Men, Feet

  Edward II act 1, sc. 1 (1593)

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• Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)

  Christopher Marlowe

  Soul, Comfort, Kingdoms

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• Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Self, Wings, Heaven

  Christopher Marlowe (2005). “The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus”, p.49, Routledge

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• What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

  Christopher Marlowe

  Art, Men, Faustus

  Christopher Marlowe, David Wootton (2005). “Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book”, p.51, Hackett Publishing

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• I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!

  Christopher Marlowe

  Book, Oysters, Envy

  Christopher Marlowe, David Wootton (2005). “Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book”, p.36, Hackett Publishing

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• More childish valorous than manly wise.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Wise, Manly

  Christopher Marlowe, David M. Bevington, Eric Rasmussen (1998). “Doctor Faustus and Other Plays”, p.110, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Accurst be he that first invented war.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 4

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• Blood is the god of war's rich livery.

  Christopher Marlowe

  War, Blood, Rich

  Christopher Marlowe (1967). “Tamburlaine the Great: Parts 1 and 2”, p.142, U of Nebraska Press

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• ... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Heaven, World, Hell

  Doctor Faustus act 2, sc. 1 (1604)

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• I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Justice, Steel, Quarrels

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• All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Heaven, Hell, Faustus

  Doctor Faustus act 2, sc. 1 (1604)

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• Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Divinity, Divine, Epithet

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) act 5, sc. 5

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• Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast.
  What shall I do to shun the snares of death?

  Christopher Marlowe

  Grace, Hell, Strive

  Christopher Marlowe (1818). “The Tragicall Historie of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus”, p.60

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• Love is not ful of pittie (as men say)
  But deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Love, Men, Praying

  Christopher Marlowe (1981). “The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Edward II. Doctor Faustus. The first book of Lucan. Ovid's Elegies. Hero and Leander. Miscellaneous poems”

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• Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Unhappy, Spirit, Unhappiness

  'Doctor Faustus' (1604) act 1, sc. 3

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• That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Sweet, Perfect, Fruition

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 7

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• You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Death, Stars, Astrology

  'Doctor Faustus' (1604) act 5, sc. 2

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• Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Knavery, Knaves, Fool

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• The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Kings, Grief, Men

  c.1591 Edward II (published1594), act 5, sc.1.

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• Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Simple, Thinking, Atheism

  Christopher Marlowe (1826). “The works of Christopher Marlowe”, p.294

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• Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Mother, Veins, Rhyming

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (performed c.1588, published 1590) pt. 1, prologue

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• FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!

  Christopher Marlowe

  Cutting, Night, Blood

  Christopher Marlowe (1994). “Dr. Faustus”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?

  Christopher Marlowe

  Kings, Bravery, Triumph

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 5

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• Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Christian, Poverty, Wealth

  Christopher Marlowe, Stephen J. Lynch (2009). “The Jew of Malta”, p.30, Hackett Publishing

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