THE TRAGICAL HISTORY
OF
DOCTOR FAUSTUS

By Christopher Marlowe

From The Quarto of 1604

Edited by The Rev. Alexander Dyce

THE TRAGICALL HISTORY OF D. FAUSTUS. AS IT HATH BENE ACTEDBY THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARLE OF NOTTINGHAM HIS SERUANTS.WRITTEN BY CH. MARL.

In reprinting this edition, I have here and there amended the textby means of the later 4tos,—1616, 1624, 1631.—Of 4to 1663, whichcontains various comparatively modern alterations and additions,I have made no use.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

     THE POPE.     CARDINAL OF LORRAIN.     THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY.     DUKE OF VANHOLT.     FAUSTUS.     VALDES,    ] friends to FAUSTUS.     CORNELIUS, ]     WAGNER, servant to FAUSTUS.     Clown.     ROBIN.     RALPH.     Vintner.     Horse-courser.     A Knight.     An Old Man.     Scholars, Friars, and Attendants.     DUCHESS OF VANHOLT     LUCIFER.     BELZEBUB.     MEPHISTOPHILIS.     Good Angel.     Evil Angel.     The Seven Deadly Sins.     Devils.     Spirits in the shapes of ALEXANDER THE GREAT, of his Paramour          and of HELEN.     Chorus.

THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS

FROM THE QUARTO OF 1604.          Enter CHORUS.     CHORUS. Not marching now in fields of Thrasymene,     Where Mars did mate the Carthaginians;     Nor sporting in the dalliance of love,     In courts of kings where state is overturn’d;     Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds,     Intends our Muse to vaunt her heavenly verse:     Only this, gentlemen,—we must perform     The form of Faustus’ fortunes, good or bad:     To patient judgments we appeal our plaud,     And speak for Faustus in his infancy.     Now is he born, his parents base of stock,     In Germany, within a town call’d Rhodes:     Of riper years, to Wertenberg he went,     Whereas his kinsmen chiefly brought him up.     So soon he profits in divinity,     The fruitful plot of scholarism grac’d,     That shortly he was grac’d with doctor’s name,     Excelling all whose sweet delight disputes     In heavenly matters of theology;     Till swoln with cunning, of a self-conceit,     His waxen wings did mount above his reach,     And, melting, heavens conspir’d his overthrow;     For, falling to a devilish exercise,     And glutted now with learning’s golden gifts,     He surfeits upon cursed necromancy;     Nothing so sweet as magic is to him,     Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss:     And this the man that in his study sits.          [Exit.]          FAUSTUS discovered in his study.     FAUSTUS. Settle thy studies, Faustus, and begin     To sound the depth of that thou wilt profess:     Having commenc’d, be a divine in shew,     Yet level at the end of every art,     And live and die in Aristotle’s works.     Sweet Analytics, ’tis thou hast ravish’d me!                           
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