# Quote — Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

> Now, Faustus, must thou needs be damned?
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> And canst thou not be saved?
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> What boots it then to think on God or heaven?
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> Away with such vain fancies and despair,
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> Despair in God and trust in Beelzebub.
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> Now go not backward. No, Faustus, be resolute.
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> Why waverest thou? Oh, something soundeth in mine ears
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> Abjure this magic, turn to God again.

- Author: [Christopher Marlowe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-marlowe.md)
- Book: [Doctor Faustus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-marlowe/doctor-faustus.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-marlowe/doctor-faustus/now-faustus-must

## More from this book

> No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer
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> That hath deprived thee of the joys of Heaven.
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> Oh, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air,
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> Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell!
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> O soul, be chang'd into little water-drops
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> And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found.
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> My God, my God, look not so fierce on me.
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> Adders and serpents, let me breathe awhile.
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> Ugly hell, gape not, come not, Lucifer!
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> I'll burn my books!—ah, Mephistopheles!"

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-marlowe/doctor-faustus/no-faustus-curse.md)

> Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
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> And burnèd is Apollo's laurel bough,
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> That sometime grew within this learnèd man.
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> Faustus is gone. Regard his hellish fall,
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> Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise
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> Only to wonder at unlawful things,
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> Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits,
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> To practise more than heavenly power permits.

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> And now, poor soul, must thy good angel leave thee,
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> The jaws of hell are open to receive thee.

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