Thursday, January 17, 2013

Quote Unquote: Christopher Marlowe

Faust: "Did not my conjuring raise thee? Speak."

Mephostophilis: "That was the case, but yet per accidens:
For when we hear on rack the name of God, abjure the scriptures and his savior Christ. We fly in hope to get his glorious soul. Nor will we come unless he use such means, whereby he is in danger to be damn'd. Therefore the shortest cut for conjuring is stoutly to abjure all godliness and pray devoutly to the prince of hell."
(Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus c. 1594)

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