Christopher Marlowe’s Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

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Mephistophilis’s description of hell:

When Faustus asks, “How comes it then that thou art out of hell?”
Mephistophilis replies, “Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.”...

"Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
In one self place, but where we [the damned] are is hell,
And where hell is must we ever be."

"All places shall be hell that are not Heaven."

When all is done, divinity is best
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Ay, we must die an everlasting death.
What doctrine call you this, Che sera, sera,
What will be, shall be? Divinity, adieu!
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Not more than he commands must we perform
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All things that move between the quiet poles
Shall be at my command
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Philosophy is odious and obscure;
Both law and physic are for petty wits:
‘Tis magic, magic that hath ravish’d me.***

Sometimes like women, or unwedded maids,
Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows
Than have the white breasts of the queen of love
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And try the utmost magic can perform.
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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;
That holy shape becomes a devil best.
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This word “damnation” terrifies not me,
For I confound hell in Elysium
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Go, and return an old Franciscan friar;
That holy shape becomes a devil best.
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Whensoever and wheresoever the devil shall fetch thee.