The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus: Made Into a Farce by Mountford, with the Humours of Harlequin and Scaramouche, London, 1697Gebr. Henninger, 1886 - 44 pages |
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Page 33 - Ah, Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
Page 3 - Be thou on earth as Jove is in the sky, Lord and commander of these elements.
Page xxi - The Second Report of Doctor John Faustus, containing his appearances, and the deeds of Wagner. Written by an English gentleman Student in Wittenberg an University of Germany in Saxony.
Page xxx - Observe the audience is in pain, While Punch is hid behind the scene: But, when they hear his rusty voice, With what impatience they rejoice! And then they value not two straws, How Solomon decides the cause, Which the true mother, which pretender Nor listen to the witch of Endor.
Page 7 - Faustus, stab thine arm courageously. And bind thy soul that at some certain day Great Lucifer may claim it as his own; And then be thou as great as Lucifer.
Page 33 - 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 , A hundred thousand, and at the last be saved: No end is limited to damned souls. Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul? Or why is this immortal that thou hast? Oh, Pythagoras...
Page xix - I belieue searched every corner of his Grammar-Schoole witte (for his margine is as deeplie learned, as Fauste precor gelida) to see if he could finde anie meanes to relieue his estate.
Page xxix - A WALK TO SMITHFIELD, or a TRUE DESCRIPTION OF THE HUMOURS OF BARTHOLOMEW FAIR...
Page 8 - Why should'st thou not? Is not thy soul thine own? Then write again, Faustus gives to thee his soul.