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<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>
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<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 . . .
