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DOCTOR FAUSTUS, KEYPUNCHED FROM THE EDITION OF C. F. TUCKER BROOKE,
JANUARY 22, 1977, USC COMPUTING CENTER. LOUIS ULE.
MODERN AMERICAN SPELLING AND PUNCTUATION.
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THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS.
ENTER CHORUS.
CHOR. NOT MARCHING NOW IN FIELDS OF TRASIMENE,
WHERE MARS DID MATE THE CARTHAGINIANS,
NOR SPORTING IN THE DALLIANCE OF LOVE,
IN COURTS OF KINGS WHERE STATE IS OVERTURNED,
NOR IN THE POMP OF PROUD AUDACIOUS DEEDS,
INTENDS OUR MUSE TO DAUNT HIS HEAVENLY VERSE:
ONLY THIS (GENTLEMEN) WE MUST PERFORM,
THE FORM OF FAUSTUS' FORTUNES GOOD OR BAD.
TO PATIENT JUDGMENTS WE APPEAL OUR PLAUD,
AND SPEAK FOR FAUSTUS IN HIS INFANCY:
NOW IS HE BORN, HIS PARENTS BASE OF STOCK,
IN GERMANY, WITHIN A TOWN CALLED RHODES.
OF RIPER YEARS TO WITTENBERG HE WENT,
WHEREAS HIS KINSMEN CHIEFLY BROUGHT HIM UP.
SO SOON HE PROFITS IN DIVINITY,
THE FRUITFUL PLOT OF SCHOLARISM GRACED,
THAT SHORTLY HE WAS GRACED WITH DOCTOR'S NAME,
EXCELLING ALL, WHOSE SWEET DELIGHT DISPU . . .
