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Faustus Quotes Flashcards

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Quote by Faustus, regarding his decision to stick with the Devil

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‘O, this feeds my soul!’

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Quote comparing Faustus to Icarus

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‘His waxen wings did mount high above his reach’

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Quote about the reward of sin

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‘The reward of sin is death. That’s hard.’

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Quote about how Faustus views his books

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‘These necromantic books are heavenly

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Quote about skilled magicians

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‘A sound magician is a mighty god.’

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The Good angels first warning to Faustus

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‘O Faustus, lay that damned book aside and gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soul’

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Faustus is exited by the thought of necromancy

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‘How I am glutted with conceit of this’

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Faustus resolves to dominate foreign countries for resources

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‘I’ll have them fly to India for gold, ransack the ocean for orient pearl’

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Cornelius’ advice to Faustus, on how magic will aid him

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‘The miracles that magic will perform will make thee vow to study nothing else.’

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Faustus declares his intent that evening, the first night he conjures

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‘This night I’ll conjure, though I die therefore.’

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Faustus has been drawing (Stage direction)

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‘He draws a circle’

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Description of Faustus’ circle

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‘Within this circle is Jehovah’s name, forward and backward anagrammatised.’

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Mephistopheles appears, ugly.

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‘I charge thee to return and change thy shape. Thou art too ugly to attend on me, Go and return an old Franciscan friar

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Faustus really wants Mephistopheles

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‘Had I as many souls as there be starts, I would give them all for Mephistopheles’

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Robin has a friend as foolish as Faustus

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‘I know he would give his soul to the Devil for a shoulder of mutton though it were blood raw’

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Upon Robin’s vile devils leaving him

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‘What, are they gone? A vengeance on them! They have vile long nails’

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Wagnar increments the Great Chain of Being

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‘turn thyself into anything, to a dog, or a cat, or a mouse, or a rat or anything.

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Robin wishes to be a…

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‘pretty frisking flea that I may be here and there and everywhere. O I’ll tickle the pretty wenches’ plackets!’

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Faustus’ initial psychosomatic struggle begins

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‘Abjure this magic, turn to God again
Ay and Faustus will turn to God again
To God? He loves thee not.’

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Faustus wishes to farm adrenochrome

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‘To him I’ll build an altar and church and offer lukewarm blood of new-born babes’

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The angels try to help Faustus’ struggle

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‘Sweet Faustus, think of heaven and heavenly things.’
‘No, Faustus; think of honour and wealth’

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O come, o come Emmauel

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‘Veni, veni, Mesophile!’

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Faustus is frightened because he cannot bleed.

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‘My blood conceals, and I can write no more.’

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Faustus cannot fly

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'’Homo, fuge!’ Yet shall not Faustus fly.’

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Hell is unavoidable

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‘Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed’

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Faustus needs a wif

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‘For I am wanton and lascivious and cannot live without a wife.’

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Meph on marriage

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‘Tut, Faustus, marriage I’d but a ceremonial toy.’

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Faustus’ disbelief with a good deal

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‘O, thou art deceived.’

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Robin convinces Rafe, he can have sex with Nan Spit.

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‘[…] then turn her and wind her to thy own use […]’

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Faustus’ heart has stopped.

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‘My heart’s so hardened I cannot repent Scarce can I name salvation’

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Faustus attempts to repent

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‘Seek to save distressed Faustus’ soul!’

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Meph and Faustus’ exchange on bell, book and candles.

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‘We shall be cursed with bell, book and candle.’
‘How? Bell, boom and candel, candel, bell and book’

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The Emporer reveals he’s dirty.

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‘I have heard strange report of thy knowledge in the black art’

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Faustus bodies fool the emporer

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‘It is not with my ability to present […] the true substantial bodies of those two deceased princes’
‘Sure these are no spirits, but the true substantial bodies of those two deceased princes.’

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The knight is offended

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‘How dar’st thou thus abuse a gentleman’

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Faustus is depressed again.

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‘What art thou, Faustus, but a man condemned to die?’

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Faustus deceives the horse-courser

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‘Well, this trick shall cost him forty dollars more.’

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The duchess wants Faustus’ grapes

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‘I would desire no better meat than a dish of ripe grapes.’

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The Duke tells the Duchess to reward Faustus.

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‘Come, madam, let us in, where you must reward this learned man for the great kindness he hath showed you.

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The old man tries to compell Faustus

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‘Break heart, drop blood and mingle it with tears’
‘Most vile and loathsome filthiness’
‘Flagitious crimes of heinous sins’

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Faustus condemns himself to death again, the old man has moved him.

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‘Where art thou, Faustus? Wretch, what hast thou done? Damned art thou, Faustus, damned! Despair and die!’

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Faustus repents yet…

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‘I do repent, yet I do despair.’

43
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Faustus kisses the succubus, Helen

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‘Her lips suck forth my soul! See where it flies! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again!’

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Faustus regrets his quest for knowledge and denounces Wittenberg

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‘O, would I have never seen Wittenberg, never read book!’

45
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Faustus did it

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‘God forbade it indeed, but Faustus hath done it.’

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Time is of the essence for Faustus, death comes

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‘The date is expired, the time will come, and he will fetch me.’

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The clocks are coming

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‘The watch strikes’
‘The clock striketh twelve’
‘Thunder and lightning.’

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Faustus blames everyone and then himself.

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‘Curst be the parents that engendered me! No, Faustus, curse thyself. Curse Lucifer, that hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven.’

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The end of Faustus

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‘I’ll burn my books! Ah, Mephistopheles!

50
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Conclusion

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‘Cut is the branch that may have grown full straight[…]’
‘To practice more than heavenly power permits’

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