The Works of Christopher Marlowe

Dr. Faustus (A Text)


Act: 2 Scene: 2
God in heaven knows.
Yes, I know. But that follows not.
That follows not necessary by force of argument, that you, being licentiates, should stand upon: therefore acknowledge your error and be attentive.
Have you any witness on't?
Ask my fellows 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
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is not he corpus naturale? and is not that mobile? then wherefore should you ask me such a question? But that I am by nature phlegmatic, slow to wrath, and prone to lechery (to love, I would say), it were not for you to come within forty feet 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 dear brethren, my master is within at dinner, with Valdes and Cornelius, as this wine, if it could speak, [30 would inform your worships; and so the Lord bless you, preserve you, and keep you, my dear brethren, my dear brethren.
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