The Works of Christopher Marlowe

Dr. Faustus (B Text)


Act: 2 Scene: 2
I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper, and
an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books
burned. I am lean with seeing others eat. O that there
would come a famine over all the world, that all might die, and
I live alone, then thou should'st see how fat I'd be. But must
thou sit, and I stand? Come down with a vengeance.