Prologue
FAUSTUSWhy, then, belike we must sinAnd so consequently die.Ay, we must die an everlasting death.What doctrine call you this? Che serà, serà?What will be, shall be? Divinity, adieu! (1.1.42-46)
Act 1, Scene 1
FAUSTUSJerome's Bible, Faustus; view it well.[Reads] "Stipendium peccati mors est." Ha!Stipendium, etc. The reward of sin is death. That's hard.[Reads.] 'Si peccasse negamus, fallimur,Et nulla est...
Act 1, Scene 2
You are deceived, for I will tell you; yet, if you were not dunces, you would never ask me such a question. For is he not corpus naturale? And is that not mobile? Then wherefore should you ask me s...
Act 1, Scene 3
SECOND SCHOLARWere he a stranger, not allied to me,The danger of his soul would make me mourn.But, come, let us go and inform the Rector.It may be his grave counsel may reclaim him.FIRST SCHOLARI f...
Act 1, Scene 4
WAGNERWell, sirrah, leave your jesting and take these guilders. [Gives money.] ROBINYes, marry, sir, and I thank you too.WAGNERSo, now thou at to be at an hour's w...
Act 2, Scene 1
FAUSTUSNow, Faustus, must thou needs be damned?Canst thou not be saved?What boots it, then, to think on God or heaven?Away with such vain fancies, and despair.Despair in God and trust in Beelzebub....
Act 2, Scene 2
PRIDEI am Pride. I disdain to have any parents. I am like to Ovid's flea. I can creep into every corner of a wench. (2.2.110-111)
Act 2, Scene 3
GOOD ANGELFaustus, repent; yet God will pity thee.BAD ANGELThou art a spirit; God cannot pity thee.FAUSTUSWho buzzeth in mine ears I am a spirit?Be I a devil, yet God may pity me;Yea, God will pity...
Act 3 – Chorus
CHORUSLearnèd Faustus, to find the secrets of astronomyGraven in the book of Jove's high firmament,Did mount him up to scale Olympus' top,Where, sitting in a chariot burning bright,Drawn by the st...
Act 3, Scene 1
POPE ADRIANLord Cardinals of France and Padua,Go forthwith to our holy consistoryAnd read amongst the statutes decretalWhat, by the holy council held at Trent,The sacred synod hath decreed for himT...
Act 3, Scene 2
ARCHBISHOPPlease it, your Holiness, I think it be some ghost crept out of purgatory and now is come unto your Holiness for his pardon.POPEIt may be so. Go then; command our priests to sing a dirgeT...
Act 3, Scene 3
ROBINDick, make me a circle, and stand close at my back, and stir not for thy life. Vintner, you shall have your cup anon. Say nothing, Dick. [Chants.] 'O' per se 'O'; Demogorgon, Belcher, and Meph...
Act 4, Scene 1
FAUSTUS[To Emperor.] My lord, I must forewarn your Majesty,That when my spirits present the royal shapesOf Alexander and his paramourYour Grace demand no questions of the King,But in dumb silence l...
Act 4, Scene 2
FAUSTUSO, say not so, sir. The doctor has no skill,No art, no cunning to present these lordsOr bring before this royal EmperorThe mighty monarch, warlike Alexander.If Faustus do it, you are straigh...
Act 4, Scene 3
Know you not, traitors, I was limitedFor four-and-twenty years to breathe on earth?And had you cut my body with your swords,Or hewed this flesh and bones as small as sand,Yet in a minute had my spi...
Act 4, Scene 4
FAUSTUSHa, ha, ha! Faustus hath his leg again, and the horse-courser a bundle of hay for his forty dollars. (4.4.40-42)
Act 4, Scene 6
CARTERDo you remember, sir, how you cozened me and eat up my load of – [Faustus charms him dumb.]DICKDo you remember how you made me wear an ape's – [Faustus charms him dumb.]HORSE-COURSERY...
Act 5, Scene 1
WAGNERI think my master means to die shortly. He has made his will and given me his wealth:His house, his goods, and store of golden plate,Besides two thousand ducats ready coined.I wonder what he...
Act 5, Scene 2
SECOND SCHOLARYet, Faustus, look up to heaven and remember mercy is infinite.FAUSTUSBut Faustus' offence can ne'er be pardoned.[…]SECOND SCHOLARYet, Faustus, call on God.FAUSTUSOn God, whom Faust...
Act 5, Scene 3
SCHOLARWell, gentlemen, though Faustus' end be suchAs every Christian heart laments to think on,Yet, for he was a scholar once admiredFor wondrous knowledge in our German schools,We'll give his man...