...Jew, and Ithamora, a Turkish captive exposed to sale for a slave. BARABAS ( A precious rascal. ) " As for myself, I walk abroad a-nights, And kill sick...my crowns, That I may, walking in my gallery, See 'm go pinioned along by my door. Being young, I studied physic, and began To practise first upon the...

...some of the playful avocations of his own leisure moments : "As for myself, I walk abroad o' nights And kill sick people groaning under walls : Sometimes I go about and poison wells." To which virtuous sentiments Ithamore cheerfully replies : "One time I was an ostler in an inn, And...

...found in a Maltese Jew. The latter had described himself thus: Aa for myself, I walk abroad o' nights And kill sick people groaning under walls: Sometimes I go about and poison wells. . . . Being young, I studied physic, and began To practice first upon the Italian; There I enriched...

...villainous Jew of the Traditional Stage, proclaims his enormity, As for myself, I walk abroad o' nights, And kill sick people groaning under walls ; Sometimes I go about and poison wells. We know that Doctor Faustus was maimed. Philip Henslowe, after recording in his Diary that it had been...

...thou pity none, But to thyself smile when the Christians moan. As for myself, I walk abroad o' nights, And kill sick people groaning under walls: Sometimes I go about and poison wells; 79 I am content to lose some of my crowns, That I may, walking in my gallery, See 'em go pinion' d...

...for evil's sake when he cannot commit it for his own profit : As for myself, I walk abroad o' nights, And kill sick people groaning under walls ; Sometimes I go about and poison wells (etc., etc.). He blows up a whole army, he poisons a whole convent ; sent to be tortured, he dies on...

...heartless fear ; Be moved at nothing, see thou pity none . . . As for myself, I walk abroad o' nights, And kill sick people groaning under walls : Sometimes I go about and poison wells . . . and the last words of Barabas complete this prodigious caricature : (( JU*> But now begins th' extremity...

...play of the period. The Jew tells his slave Ithamore that " As for myself, I walk abroad o' nights And kill sick people groaning under walls; Sometimes I go about and poison wells." But Ithamore is not to be outdone by his master. " One time I was an ostler in an inn, And in the night-time...

...heartless fear; Be moved at nothing, see thou pity none. . . . As for myself, I walk abroad o' nights, And kill sick people groaning under walls, Sometimes I go about and poison wells. Self-caricature, do I say? No doubt, but caricature, to be successful, must not obliterate the real...

...Marlowe's evident delight in the outrageous conduct of a monster : As for myself, I walk abroad a nights And kill sick people groaning under walls: Sometimes I go about and poison wells, which suggests Marlowe's grotesque, teeth-dripping interest in the fascination of fear. Our sympathy...