in Doctor Faustus — Marlowe, Christopher; Anonymous (?)
Metadata
Play
Doctor Faustus
Author
Marlowe, Christopher; Anonymous (?)
Year (catalogued)
1604
First performance
1592
Decade
1600s
Genre
Tragedy
Play type
Adult Professional
Company
Unknown
Speech prefix(es)
Wag.
Words
562
Characters
2956
Typicality
0.34 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A07009
BritDrama no.
810
Cluster
Cluster 3 — Citizens, tradesfolk & neighbors
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 3 (numps, numpes, blastfield, wares, parson, nidden…). Matches are highlighted.
witness on't? Ask my fellow if I be a thief. Yes sir, I will tell you, yet if you were not dunces you would never ask me such a question, for is not he cor put natural, and is not that mobile, then wherefore should you ask me such a question: but that I am by nature fleg maticke, slow to wrath, and prove to lechery, (to love
Full speech
I will sir. God in heaven knows. Yes I know, but that follows not. That follows not necessary by force of argument, that you being licentiate should stand vpon't, therefore ac knowledge your error, and be attentive. Have you any witness on't? Ask my fellow if I be a thief. Yes sir, I will tell you, yet if you were not dunces you would never ask me such a question, for is not he cor put natural, and is not that mobile, then wherefore should you ask me such a question: but that I am by nature fleg maticke, slow to wrath, and prove to lechery, (to love I would say) it were not for you to come within forty foot of the place of execution, although I do not doubt to see you both hanged the next Sessions. Thus having triumphed over you, I will set my countenance Like a precisian, and begin to speak thus: truly my deer brothers, my master is within at dinner with Valdes and Cornelius, as this wine if it could speak, it would inform your worships, and so the Lord bless you, preserve you, and keep you my deer brothers, my deer brothers. Sirrah boy, come hither. Tell me sirrah, hast thou any comings in? Alas poor slave, see how poverty jesteth in his nam kednesse, the vilaine is bore, and out of service, and so hun gry, that I know he would give his soul to the Devil for a shoulder of mutton, though it were blood raw. well, wilt thou serve me, and I'll make Thee go Like Qui mihi discipulus? No sirrah, in beaten silk and staves acre. Sirrah, I say in staves acre. So thou shalt, whither thou been to with me, or no: but sirrah, leave your jesting, and bind your self presently unto me for seven years, or I'll turn all the lice about Thee into familiars, and they shall tear Thee in pieces. well, do you hear sirrah? hold, take these gilders. Why french crowns. UUhy now sirrah thou art at and hours warning whenso ver or wheresoever the devil shall fetch the . Truly I'll n ne of them. Bear witness I gave them him. Uvell, I will cause two devils presently to fetch Thee away Balliol and Belcher. Balliol and Belcher, spirits away. Well sirrah follow me. 1 paragraph Well sirrah, come. How Ba joll a worser Bel her. Learned Faustus, To know the secrets of Astronomy, Graven in the book of Jou S High firmame to, Did mount himself to scale Olympus to , Being seated in a chariot burning bright, Drawn b the strength of yoky dragons necks, He now is gone to prove Cosmography, And as I guess, will first arrive at Room, To see the Pope, and manner of his court, And take some partly of holy Peters feast, That to this day is highly solemnized. Sir, the Duke of Vanholt does earnestly entreat your company. I think my master means to die shortly, For he hath given to me all his goods, And yet me thinks, if that death were near, He would not banquet, and carouse, and swill Amongst the Students, as even now he does, who are at supper with such belly-cheer, As Wagner never beheld in all his life. See where they come: belike the least is ended.
Plot summary
Plot — Doctor Faustus
DrFaustls is dissatisfied with the limited rewards and power offered by traditional academic disciplines, including logic, medicine, law, and divinity, and instead turns to magic. He conjures up a devil, Mephistopheles. Partly confident that this act has already damned him, and partly out of disbelief in Hell, Faustus proposes a bargain: 24 years of guaranteed life and pleasure, with Mephistopheles as his servant, in exchange for his soul. Mephistopheles secures Lucifer’s agreement, and Faustus writes out a deed of gift in his own blood; Mephistopheles distracts him from his doubts with a show of Ganeinglaevils. Faustus’ first request is for a wife, but Mephistopheles brings him a cross-dressed devil and persuades him to embrace promiscuity rather than marriage. He discourses with Mephistopheles about astronomy, but the devil refuses to answer his theological questions. When Faustus seems ready to repent, DWGifEH arrives and distracts him with a show of Hi@§S@VenuDeadly Sins. Faustus journeys into space in a chariot drawn by dragons, to study astronomy at close quarters. He next ===== PAGE 422 ===== travels to Rome, where Mephistopheles makes him invisible. At a papal banquet, he snatches the Pope’s food and boxes his ears; the clerics take him for a ghost and attempt an exorcism. RObin steals one of Faustus’ magic books and attempts to impose his will on Rafe. He conjures up Mephistopheles, who is not pleased to be summoned all the way from Constantinople, and turns Robin into an ape. Faustus becomes famous, and the Emperor invites him to demonstrate his magic at court. He is mocked bya knight, who doubts his powers. After conjuring up the spirits of Alexanderithe!Great and his paramour to -the Emperor’s satisfaction, Faustus punishes the knight by giving him horns. On his way home, he sells his horse to @j@ealér, but tells him not to ride the animal through water. The horse-dealer ignores this injunction, and the horse turns into a bundle of hay in mid-stream, so that the dealer gets a. ducking. Attempting to wake Faustus to get his money back, the dealer pulls off his leg (which alarms him more than it does Faustus). Faustus also has Mephistopheles fetch out-of-season grapes from the other side of the world to satisfy HREUDUCHESSIORAMNAIE’s pregnancy craving. Back in Wittenberg, Faustus uses his magic to show Heleniof Troy to a group of his fellow scholars. An old man persuades him to repent, but Mephistopheles restores his allegiance to Lucifer with…