Typical Elizabethan PlaysFelix Emmanuel Schelling |
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Alice Alken Altea Amin Andel Arden art thou Avoc Beat blood Born CHARLES MOUNTFORD Corb Corv court Cynth dare death devil Dion DIPHILUS doth Duch Earl Earl of Kendal Endymion Enter Estif Eumenides Evad Evadne Exeunt Exit eyes fair father Faustus fear fellow Ferd fool fortune Gaveston gentleman give gold grace hand hath hear heart heaven hither honor hope husband Isab Kath Kick King kiss lady Leon live look lord madam Marg Master Master Doctor Mephistophilis mistress Mosca ne'er never night noble pardon Perez Philaster pity play pray prince SCENE servant Shad Sir Pet Sirrah soul speak stay Surrey sweet tell thee there's thine thing thou art thou hast Thra twas twill unto Urswick virtue Volp VOLPONE Volt Wendoll wife woman
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Page 100 - How am I glutted with conceit of this ! Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates...
Page 103 - Why this is hell, nor am I out of it : Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being deprived of everlasting bliss ? O Faustus!
Page 166 - And there in mire and puddle have I stood This ten days' space, and lest that I should sleep One plays continually upon a drum. They give me bread and water — being a King — So that for want of sleep and sustenance My mind's distempered, and my body's numbed; And whether I have limbs or no, I know not.
Page 574 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history : And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
Page 118 - Old Man. Ah, stay, good Faustus, stay thy desperate steps ! I see an angel hovers o'er thy head, And, with a vial full of precious grace, Offers to pour the same into thy soul: Then call for mercy, and avoid despair.
Page 103 - I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live, To do whatever Faustus shall command, Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere, Or the ocean to overwhelm the world.
Page 138 - I have not seen a dapper Jack so brisk : He wears a short Italian hooded cloak, Larded with pearl, and in his Tuscan cap A jewel of more value than the crown. While others walk below, the king and he, From out a window, laugh at such as we, And flout our train, and jest at our attire.
Page 561 - These presentations are but fram'd in wax, By the curious master in that quality, Vincentio Lauriola, and she takes them For true substantial bodies. Bos. Why do you do this ? Ferd. To bring her to despair. Bos. 'Faith, end here, And go no farther in your cruelty ; Send her a penitential garment to put on Next to her delicate skin, and furnish her With beads, and prayer-books.
Page 104 - I'd give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I'll be great Emperor of the world, And make a bridge thorough the moving 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.
Page 564 - With diamonds ? or to be smothered With cassia? or to be shot to death with pearls ? I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits ; and 'tis found They go on such strange geometrical hinges, You may open them both ways: any way, for heaven sake, So I were out of your whispering.