...the lines pronounced in his own tragedy by the scholar over the mangled lihibs of Faustus : — ' * Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight;...bough, That sometime grew within this learned man." * There is a great deal of melancholy truth in that profound verse of the modern poet, * " The*world...

...their works, the following passages are taken, and explain all the allusions they contain : — a. " Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight....bough, That sometime grew within this learned man." b. " 0 happy peasant ! 0 unhappy bard ! His the mere tinsel, heir's the rich reward; He prais'd perhaps...

...they gather up for decent burial, and as they go out the solemn chorus pronounces his epitaph : — Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight. And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That some time grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone ; regard his hellish fall Whose flendful fortune...

...limbs due burial; And all the scholars clothed in mourning black Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. Chorus. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's lau, el-bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone ! Regard his hellish fall,...

...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 fiendish fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things : Whose deepness doth entice...

...Quoted by Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act iii. &. $• 1 6 Marlowe. — Hooker. [Faustus continued. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,1 That sometime grew within this learned man. Ibid. Infinite riches in a little room. The Jew...

...air. * * * * Oh, soul, be changed into small water drops, And fall into the ocean — ne'er be found ! Chorus. Cut is the branch that might have grown full...: Faustus is gone ! Regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendfull fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things ; Whose deepness doth entice...

...hills, Is — that his grave is green." May we not apply to him Massinger's oft-quoted lines — " Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That sometimes grew within this learned man ? " Short as was his eventful and disastrous life, Poe has contributed...

...not where or how : But, pray for me — my soul is buried here. (sinks down upon the body) MIDDLE. " Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, " And burned is Apollo's laurel bough !" (Solemn Music) Oavfc Curt л tit. COSTUMES.— Period, 1593. MARLOWE. — A grey doublet and trunks,...

...all the students clothed in mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. Enter Chorus. Chor. 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,...