The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a FarceMarlowe, Christopher
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The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce
Marlowe, Christopher
Faust, -approximately 1540 -- Drama
_Bad An._ Nay thou must feel 'em, 'taste the Smart of all.
He that loves Pleasure must for Pleasure fall:
And so I leave thee, _Faustus_, till anon.
Thou'lt tumble into Confusion. [_Descends._
_The Clock strikes Eleven._
_Faust._ Now, _Faustus_, hast thou but one bear Hour to Live,
And then thou must be Damn'd perpetually:
Stand still you ever-moving Spheres of Heav'n,
That Time may cease, and Mid-night never come.
Or let this Hour be but a Year, a Month, a Week, a natural Day; that
_Faustus_ may repent, and save his Soul. Mountains and Hills come, come,
and fall on me, and hide me from the heavy Wrath of Heav'n. Gape Earth;
Oh no, it will not harbour me. [_The Clock strikes._ Oh! half the Hour
is past; 'twill all be past anon. Oh! if my Soul must suffer for my Sin,
impose some end to my incessant Pain. Let _Faustus_ live in Hell a
Thousand Years, an Hundred thousand, and at last be sav'd. [_Strikes
Twelve._ No End is limitted to damn'd Souls: It strikes, it strikes.
Now, Body, turn to Air, to Earth, or Water. Oh! avoid the Fire: They
come. Oh! mercy, Heaven; ugly Hell gape not. Come not _Lucifer_; O
_Mephostopholis_.
[_Sink with Devils. Thunder._
_Enter old Man and Scholar._
_Old M._ Come, Friend, let's visit _Faustus_: For such a dreadful Night
was never seen.
_Scene discovers_ Faustus's _Limbs_.
_Schol._ O help us, Heav'n; see here are _Faustus_'s Limbs,
All torn asunder by the Hand of Hell.
_Old M._ May this a fair Example be to all,
To avoid such Ways which brought poor _Faustus_'s Fall.
And whatsoever Pleasure does invite,
Sell not your Souls to purchase vain Delight.
[_Exeunt._
_Scene changes to Hell._
Faustus _Limbs come together_. _A Dance, and Song._
_FINIS._
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK
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