Anonymous / Marlowe, Christopher · published 1604 · first performed or written 1592 [1592-1593] (Annals) tragedy · Unknown unassigned nearest T36 Hell, Furies and the language of punishm · 494 words
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why Faustus, Thinkst thou heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell thee 'tis not half so fair as thou, Or any man that breathes on earth. How provest thou that? It was made for man, therefore is man more excellent. If it were made for man, 'twas made for me: I will renounce this magic, and repent. Faustus, repent yet, God will pity thee. Thou art a spirit, God cannot pity thee. who buzzeth in mine ears I am a spirit? B I a diuel, yet God may pitty me, I God will pity me, if I repent. ay but Faustus never shall repent. My hearts so hardened I cannot repent, Scarce can I name salvation, faith, or heaven, But fearful echoes thunders in mine ears, Faustus, thou art damned, than swords and knives, Poison, guns, halters, and envenomed steel Are laid before me to dispatch myself, And long ere this I should have slain myself, Had not sweet pleasure conquered deep despair. Have not I made blind Homer sing to me, Of Alexander's love, and Oenone'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 near repent, Come Mephastophilis, let us dispute again, And argue of divine Astrology, Tell me, are there many heavens above the Moon? Are all celestial bodies but one globe, As is the substance of this centric earth? As are the elements, such are the spheres, Mutually folded in each others orb, And Faustus all jointly move upon one axle-tree, Whose terminine is termed the world's wide pole, Nor are the names of Saturn, Mars, or Iupiter Feigned, but are erring stars. But tell me, have they all one motion? both situ & tempore. All jointly move from East to West in 24. hours upon the poles of the world, but differ in their motion upon the poles of the Zodiac. Tush, these slender trifles Wagner can decide, Hath Mephastophilis no greater skill? Who knows not the double motion of the planets? The first is finished in a natural day, The second thus, as Saturn in 30. years, Iupiter in 12. Mars in 4. the Sun, Venus, and Mercury in a year: the Moon in 28. days. Tush these are fresh men's suppositions, but tell me, hath every sphere a dominion or Intelligentij? I. How many heavens or spheres are there? Nine, the seven planets, the firmament, and the imperial heaven. well, resolve me in this question, why have we not conjunctions, oppositions, aspects, ellipsis, all at one time, but in some years we have more, in some less? Per inaequalem motum respectu totius. Well, I am answered, tell me who made the world? I will not. Sweet Mephastophilis tell me. Move me not, for I will not tell thee. Villain, have I not bound thee to tell me any thing?
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why Faustus, Thinkst thou heauen is such a glorious thing? I tel thée tis not halfe so faire as thou, Or any man that breathes on earth. How proouest thou that? It was made for man, therefore is man more excellent. If it were made for man, twas made for me: I wil renounce this magicke, and repent. Faustus, repent yet, God wil pitty thée. Thou art a spirite, God cannot pitty thée. who buzzeth in mine eares I am a spirite? B I a diuel, yet God may pitty me, I God wil pitty me, if I repent. I but Faustus neuer shal repent. My hearts so hardned I cannot repent, Scarse can I name saluation, faith, or heauen, But feareful ecchoes thunders in mine eares, Faustus, thou art damn'd, then swordes and kniues, Poyson, gunnes, halters, and invenomd stéele Are layde before me to dispatch my selfe, And long ere this I should haue slaine my selfe, Had not swéete pleasure conquerd déepe dispaire. Haue not I made blinde Homer sing to me, Of Alexanders loue, and Enons death, And hath not he that built the walles of Thebes, With rauishing sound of his melodious harp Made musicke with my Mephastophilis, Why should I dye then, or basely dispaire? I am resolu'd Faustus shal nere repent, Come Mephastophilis, let vs dispute againe, And argue of diuine Astrologie, Tel me, are there many heauens aboue the Moone? Are all celestiall bodies but one globe, As is the substance of this centricke earth? As are the elements, such are the spheares, Mutually folded in each others orbe, And Faustus all iointly moue vpon one axletrée, Whose terminine is tearmd the worlds wide pole, Nor are the names of Saturne, Mars, or Iupiter Faind, but are erring starres. But tell me, haue they all one motion? both & tempore. All ioyntly moue from East to West in 24. houres vpon the poles of the world, but differ in their motion vpon the poles of the Zodiake. Tush, these slender trifles Wagner can decide, Hath Mphastophilus no greater skill? Who knowes not the double motion of the plannets? The is in a naturall day, The secnd thus, as in 30. yeares, Iupiter in 12. Mars in 4. the Sunne, Venus, and Mercury in a yeare: the Moone in 28. dayes. Tush these are fresh mens suppositions, but tell me, hath euery spheare a dominion or Intelligentij? I. How many heauens or spheares are there? Nine, the seuen planets, the firmament, and the imperiall heauen. UUell, resolue me in this question, why haue wée not coniunctions, oppositions, aspects, eclipsis, all at one time, but in some yeares we haue more, in some lesse? Per inaequalem motum respectu totius. Well, I am answered, tell me who made the world? I will not. Sweete Mephastophilus tell me. Moue me not, for I will not tell thée. Uillaine, haue I not bound thée to tel me any thing?