The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus · 1604
Epilogue
[Enter CHORUS.]
CHORUS
Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough,
That sometime grew within this learned man.
Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall,
Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise,
Only to wonder at unlawful things,
Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits
To practice more than heavenly power permits.
[Exit.]
Terminat hora diem; terminat auctor opus.
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Marlowe, Christopher. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Epilogue. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/doctor-faustus-marlowe/19/.
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Marlowe, Christopher. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Epilogue. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/doctor-faustus-marlowe/19/.