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The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus - Act I[The clock strikes eleven]Ah, Faustus Now hast thou but one bare hour to live And then thou must be damn'd 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! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi! The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd O, I'll leap up to my God! Who pulls me down? See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop Ah, my Christ! Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ! Yet will I call on him O, spare me, Lucifer! Where is it now? 'tis gone And see, where God stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows! Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me And hide me from the heavy wrath of God! No, no! Then will I headlong run into the earth Earth, gape! O, no, it will not harbour me! You stars that reign'd at my nativity Whose influence hath allotted death and hell Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist Into the entrails of yon labouring clouds That, when you vomit forth into the air My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths So that my soul may but ascend to heaven! |