"Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burnèd is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learnèd man. Faustus is gone. Regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits, To practise more than heavenly power permits."
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Doctor Faustus
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus is a tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, and is his most well known work. It was first published in 1604, but would have been written by 1593.
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