...produced his greatest plays. Marlowe unwittingly wrote his own epitaph in that of Dr. Faustus : — " Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burne'd is Apollo's laurel bough." Works. — Marlowe's great tragedies are four in number : Tamburlaine, Dr. Faustus,...

...pleasure, it may be said that his best epitaph is in the closing chorus of one of his great tragedies: " 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." Ben Jonson was born ten...

...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 Appollo's laurel bough That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone. Regard his hellish...

...for Nigerian poetry: of his poetic genius might be said what Marlowe wrote of Dr Faustus' learning: Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That sometime grew within this learned man253 The development of Nigerian poetry in English...

...not Lucifer! I'll burn my books! — Ah, Mephistophelis! (Drop character and end with 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,...

...lines : Cut is the branch that might have growne ful straight, And burned is Apolloes Laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man : Faustus...fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Onely to wonder at unlawful things, whose deepenesse doth intise such forward wits, To practise more...

...clothed in mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. Exeunt. [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,...

...Dissimuletur idem; varius sis et tamen idem. It sounds dreadful. But it is nor so in the Psalms, nor in Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight And burned is Apollo's laurel bough. Less successful is When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves...

...Hebrew form of the same in the other, but it occurs in many English poets too: for example, in Marlowe's Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, or in the childishly simple form used by the Cherry Tree Carol, Joseph was an old man...

...wither, who brings forth fruit in his season" (Ps. 1:3). The last stanza of Marlowe's version begins: "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 . . . (B[1616], 2114-16). The allusion...