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<Text id=MarFaus> <Author>Marlowe, Christopher</Author> <Title>The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.</Title> <Edition>The Works of Christopher Marlowe. C. F. Tucker Brooke, ed. 1604 edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910</Edition> <Date>1588-1593</Date> <body> <loc><locdoc>MarFaus</locdoc> <div0> <l>Enter chorus.</l> <l>Chor. not marching now in fields of trasimene,</l> <l>Where mars did mate the carthaginians,</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 daunt his heavenly verse:</l> <l>Only this (gentlemen) we must perform,</l> <l>The form of Faustus' fortunes good or bad.</l> <l>To patient judgments we appeal our plaud,</l> <l>And speak for Faustus in his infancy:</l> <l>Now is he born, his parents base of stock,</l> <l>In germany, within a town called rhodes.</l> <l>Of riper years to wittenberg he went,</l> <l>Whereas his kinsmen chiefly brought h . . .
