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<Author>Marlowe, Christopher</Author>
<Title>The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.</Title>
<Edition>A Concordance to the Works of Christopher Marlowe.  Louis Ule, ed.  from 1616 ed. with modifications by Louis Ule.  Hildesheim, New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1979</Edition>
<Date>1588-1592</Date>
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<l>                    enter chorus.</l>
<l> chorus.  not marching in the fields of trasimene</l>
<l>Where mars did mate the warlike carthagens,</l>
<l>Nor sporting in the dalliance of love</l>
<l>In courts of kings where state is overturned,</l>
<l>Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds</l>
<l>Intends our  muse to vaunt his heavenly verse.</l>
<l>Only this, gentles:  we must now perform</l>
<l>The form of faustus' fortunes, good or bad.</l>
<l>And now to patient judgments we appeal,</l>
<l>And speak for faustus in his infancy.</l>
<l>Now is he born, of parents base of stock,</l>
<l>In germany, within a town c . . .