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... Heaven so clear upon the first day , And therein he set angels full bright . Then angels with song this is no nay Shall worship God , as it is right ; But Lucifer , that angel so gay , In such pomp then is he placed , And set in so ...
... Heaven so clear upon the first day , And therein he set angels full bright . Then angels with song this is no nay Shall worship God , as it is right ; But Lucifer , that angel so gay , In such pomp then is he placed , And set in so ...
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... heaven's throne , One God the three I call : I am the Father of power , My Ghost is grace in majesty , I a Father of ... heaven with stars of light 5 ΙΟ 15 20 25 30 In mirth and joy evermore to wake ; In heaven 7 ፤
... heaven's throne , One God the three I call : I am the Father of power , My Ghost is grace in majesty , I a Father of ... heaven with stars of light 5 ΙΟ 15 20 25 30 In mirth and joy evermore to wake ; In heaven 7 ፤
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... heaven evermore shall be , In light full clear , bright in color , With mirth and song to worship me , Of joy they may not miss . > 35 [ God withdraws . [ 40 Here let the angels in heaven sing : " To thee all the angels , to thee the ...
... heaven evermore shall be , In light full clear , bright in color , With mirth and song to worship me , Of joy they may not miss . > 35 [ God withdraws . [ 40 Here let the angels in heaven sing : " To thee all the angels , to thee the ...
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... heaven . This did thou , more and less . Marvels too many to name , yet was there unkindness . Seven - fold more than I can well express ; Because Of all the angels , in brightness God gave Lucifer most lightness , Yet proudly he left ...
... heaven . This did thou , more and less . Marvels too many to name , yet was there unkindness . Seven - fold more than I can well express ; Because Of all the angels , in brightness God gave Lucifer most lightness , Yet proudly he left ...
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... heaven ; And keep me from sin This world within . 70 Comely King of mankind , I pray thee , hear my voice ! God speaks from above . God . Since I have made all things that are living , Duke , emperor , and king , with mine own hand ...
... heaven ; And keep me from sin This world within . 70 Comely King of mankind , I pray thee , hear my voice ! God speaks from above . God . Since I have made all things that are living , Duke , emperor , and king , with mine own hand ...
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1st Shep 2nd Shep 3rd Shep Abraham Alyface arms Bacon Bagoa Balthazar Bel-imperia blood comedy Corsites crown Custance Cynth Cynthia death Deeds devil Dipsas doth drama earth Endymion Enter Eumenides Everyman Exeunt Exit fair faith father Faustus fear Ferrex Fressingfield friar Friar Tuck give Gorboduc grace hand hath hear heart Heaven hell Hieronimo honor Horatio Isaac king Lacy live lord madam master Mephistophilis merry Mery Merygreeke mighty mind Miracle plays mistress Mumble murder never Noah Persia Plautus Porrex pray prince Ralph Ralph Roister Doister revenge Robin Hood Roister Doister SCENE Semele sing slain soul Spanish Tragedy speak sweet sword Talk Tamb Tamburlaine Techelles tell Tellus thee Theridamas thine thing thou art thou hast thou shalt thoughts Tibet Trupenie Trustie unto wife words Zenocrate ΙΟ
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Page 684 - Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in, the beauty of a thousand stars...
Page 683 - Her lips suck forth my soul; see where it flies! — Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for Heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
Page 650 - All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command : emperors and kings Are but obeyed in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind or rend the clouds ; But his dominion that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man, A sound magician is a mighty god : Here, Faustus, tire thy brains to gain a deity.
Page 691 - To make a child, now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up in one beard and weed Past threescore years...
Page 58 - FROM jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding terms, And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword< View but his picture in this tragic glass.
Page 652 - Albanus' works, The Hebrew Psalter and New Testament; And whatsoever else is requisite We will inform thee ere our conference cease.
Page 651 - Philosophy is odious and obscure; Both law and physic are for petty wits; Divinity is basest of the three, Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile: 'Tis magic, magic, that hath ravish'd me.
Page 650 - Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates...
Page 685 - Oft have I thought to have done so: but the Devil threatened to tear me in pieces if I named God; to fetch both body and soul if I once gave ear to divinity: and now 'tis too late. Gentlemen, away ! lest you perish with me. 2 SCHOL.
Page 652 - Almain rutters with their horsemen's staves* Or Lapland giants, trotting by our sides ; Sometimes like women, or unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love...