...Confusion. (Descends. The Clock strikes Eleven. FAUST. Now, Faustus, hast thou but one bare Hour to Live, Or let this Hour be but a Year, a Month, a Week, a...natural Day, that Faustus may repent, and save his Soul. Mountains and Hills, come, come, and fall on me, and hide 865 Me from the heavy Wrath of Heav'n. Gape...

...FADST. Now, Faustus, hast thou but one bare Hour to Live, Or let this Hour be but a Year, a Montb, a Week, a natural Day ; that Faustus may repent, and save his Soul. Mountains and Hills, come, come, and fall on me, and hide 865 Me from tlie heavy Wrath of Heav'n. Gape...

...him, he begs for progressively decreasing parcels of time in which to repent: Faustw. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease,...natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul. (xix.136-41: 1929-34) And, like Everyman, he feels the relentlessly crushing weight of inexorable Time:...

...Series ML3850.B25 1990 781.2'2— dc20 89-71132 CIP Copyright Pendragon Press 1990 Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease,...natural day, That Faustus may repent, and save his soul! Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Commendatore: Parlo, ascolta, piu tempo...

...thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damn'd perpetually! Stand still, you ever moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight...natural day. That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi!1 The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike. The devil...

...Now hast thou but one bare hour to live. And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you Press (V, ii) 2 See, see where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul — half...

...Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damn'd perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease and midnight never come. Fair nature's eye,1 rise, rise again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a...

...Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease...come! Fair nature's eye, rise, rise again, and make 70 Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, 51. save] fi/; not...

...that the heavenly revolutions should cease, so would time. Cf. Marlowe's Dr. Fausius. Stand still, ye ever-moving spheres of heaven. That time may cease, and midnight never come. This is good Aristotelian (and Platonic) doctrine. 1" Phys. 222b33-223a2: Aeyco 6E OaTTOV xivEiaOai...

...damnation. First Faustus proposes that God stop the celestial spheres - time - but in vain. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease and midnight never come. (V.ii, 133-134) He addresses God. but answers himself, "Oh, I'll leap up to my God! Who pulls me down?"...