. The works of Christopher Marlowe : including his translations . stus limbs, All torn asunder by the hand of death. 3 Scho. The devils whom Faustus servedhave torn him thus; For twixt the hours of twelve and one, me- thoughtI heard him shriek and cry aloud for help;At which selftime the house seemed all on fire,With dreadful horror of these damned Scho. Well, gentlemen, though Faustus end be such As every Christian heart laments to think on;Yet, for he was a scholar once admiredFor wondrous knowledge in our German schools,Well give his mangled limbs due burial;And all the students, c
. The works of Christopher Marlowe : including his translations . stus limbs, All torn asunder by the hand of death. 3 Scho. The devils whom Faustus servedhave torn him thus; For twixt the hours of twelve and one, me- thoughtI heard him shriek and cry aloud for help;At which selftime the house seemed all on fire,With dreadful horror of these damned Scho. Well, gentlemen, though Faustus end be such As every Christian heart laments to think on;Yet, for he was a scholar once admiredFor wondrous knowledge in our German schools,Well give his mangled limbs due burial;And all the students, clothed in mourning black,Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. { Chorus. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,And burned is Apollos laurel bough,That sometime grew within this learned man:Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall,Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wiseOnly to wonder at unlawful things ;Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits,To practise more than heavenly power per-mits. Tcrminat hora diem, terminat auctor The Jew of Malta. TOMY WORTHY FRIEND, Mr. THOMAS HAMMON, Of Grays Inn, &c. This play, composed by so worthy an author as Mr. Marlowe, and the part of the Jewpresented by so unimitable an actor as Mr. Alleyn, being in this later age commended tothe stage ; as I ushered it unto the Court, and presented it to the Cock-pit, with these pro-logues and epilogues here inserted, so now being newly brought to the press, I was lothit should be published without the ornament of an Epistle; making choice of you untowhom to devote it; than whom (of all those gentlemen and acquaintance, within the com-pass of my long knowledge) there is none more able to tax ignorance, or attribute right tomerit. Sir, you have been pleased to grace some of mine own works with your courteouspatronage; I hope this will not be the worse accepted, because commended by me; overwhom, none can claim more power than yourself. I had no better a ne
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