“The branch that might have grown straight has been cut down. The laurel of Apollo—a symbol of poetic glory—has been burned. That laurel once grew on this learned man, but Faustus is now lost. Pay attention to his damnation. His terrible fate should teach wise people To only marvel at forbidden things, but never pursue them.”
"[...] O, would I had The power to live in scorn of consequence, To weep and groan and fling myself to earth, But not to change my state; I am a wretch, Meas'd not by what's proportion'd to the part, But by Incantations, sigil-charms, Or what the magic of my heart doth make To th'elements and to my own despair That I thus have no, Nor more of that which I do crave, And yet to have, yet still to hold and have. dr faustus translation modern english pdf
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Marlowe, a Cambridge scholar, laced his text with untranslated Latin. A modern English PDF should either translate these in brackets or replace them entirely with English. Pay attention to his damnation