WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:02:31 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg selling your soul – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Marlowe, Christopher -- The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 14), l. 32ff (1594; 1604 “A” text) https://wist.info/marlowe-christopher/83139/ https://wist.info/marlowe-christopher/83139/#respond Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:57:24 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=83139 FAUSTUS: Lucifer and Mephistophilis. Ah, gentlemen! I gave them my soul for my cunning!

ALL: God forbid!

FAUSTUS: God forbade it, indeed; but Faustus hath done it.


Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 14), l. 32ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)
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In the expanded "B" text (1594; 1616), the lines (5.2/19; l. 60ff) are similar.

FAUSTUS: Why, Lucifer and Mephistophiles. O gentlemen, I gave them my soul for my cunning!
ALL: O, God forbid!
FAUSTUS: God forbade it indeed; but Faustus hath done it.
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