The Works of Christopher Marlowe

Dr. Faustus (B Text)


Act: 2 Scene: 2
I am Gluttony; my parents are all dead, and the de-
vil a penny they have left me but a small pension, and that
buys me thirty meals a day, and ten beavers: a small trifle
to suffice nature. I come of a royal pedigree, my father
was a gammon of bacon, and my mother was a Hogs-
head of claret wine. My godfathers were these: Peter-
Pickled-herring, and Martin Martlemasse-beef: But my god-
mother, O she was an ancient gentlewoman. Her name was
Margery March-beer. Now, Faustus, thou hast heard all my
progeny; wilt thou bid me to supper?
Then the devil choke thee.