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		<title>Marlowe, Christopher -- The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 19), l. 1498ff (1594; 1604 &#8220;A&#8221; text)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FAUSTUS: No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer, That hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven. (The clock striketh twelve.) O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell. (Thunder and lightning.) O soul, be changed into little water drops, And fall into the ocean, ne&#8217;er [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">FAUSTUS: No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer,<br />
That hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven.<br />
<space class="tab"><i>(The clock striketh twelve.)</i><br />
O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air,<br />
Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell.<br />
</space><space class="tab"><i>(Thunder and lightning.)</i><br />
O soul, be changed into little water drops,<br />
And fall into the ocean, ne&#8217;er be found!<br />
My God, my God, look not so fierce on me!<br />
</space><space class="tab">(<i>Enter Devils.)</i><br />
Adders, and serpents, let me breathe a while!<br />
Ugly hell, gape not. Come not Lucifer!<br />
I&#8217;ll burn my books! Ah, Mephistophilis!<br />
</space><space class="tab"><i>(Exeunt Devils with Faustus.)</i></space></p>
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<br><b>Christopher "Kit" Marlowe</b> (1564–1593) English dramatist and poet<br><i>The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus</i>, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 19), l. 1498ff (1594; 1604 &#8220;A&#8221; text) 
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The <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0011%3Aact%3D5%3Ascene%3D2#:~:text=No%2C%20Faustus%2C%20curse%20thyself.%20Curse%20Lucifer">B-Text (1594; 1616), l. 2081ff</a>, is largely the same, with minor punctuation changes, except that rather than cry "My God, my God," Faustus cries "O mercy, heaven!"

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		<title>Homer -- The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 22, l.  32ff (22.32) (c. 700 BC) [tr. Mandelbaum (1990)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those fools were not aware that now they all were snared, that death cords lashed them fast. [τὸ δὲ νήπιοι οὐκ ἐνόησαν, ὡς δή σφιν καὶ πᾶσιν ὀλέθρου πείρατ᾽ ἐφῆπτο.] (Source (Greek)). Other translations: O fools, to think That all their rest had any cup to drink But what their great Antinous began! [tr. Chapman [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those fools<br />
were not aware that now they all were snared,<br />
that death cords lashed them fast.</p>
<p>[τὸ δὲ νήπιοι οὐκ ἐνόησαν,<br />
ὡς δή σφιν καὶ πᾶσιν ὀλέθρου πείρατ᾽ ἐφῆπτο.]</p>
<br><b>Homer</b> (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author<br><i>The Odyssey</i> [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 22, l.  32ff (22.32) (c. 700 BC) [tr. Mandelbaum (1990)] 
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(<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0135%3Abook%3D22%3Acard%3D1#:~:text=%CF%84%E1%BD%B8%20%CE%B4%E1%BD%B2%20%CE%BD%CE%AE%CF%80%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%B9%20%CE%BF%E1%BD%90%CE%BA%20%E1%BC%90%CE%BD%CF%8C%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B1%CE%BD%2C">Source (Greek)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>O fools, to think<br>
That all their rest had any cup to drink<br>
But what their great Antinous began!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48895/48895-h/48895-h.htm#:~:text=the%20author%E2%80%99s%20will.-,O%20fools%2C%20to%20think,-That%20all%20their">Chapman</a> (1616)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For, proud and foolish, they perceived not<br>
The fatal hour was to them all arriv’d.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/hobbes-the-english-works-vol-x-iliad-and-odyssey#:~:text=Dogs%2C%20dead%20you,all%20is%20nigh.">Hobbes</a> (1675), l. 27ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Blind as they were: for death e'en now invades<br>
His destined prey, and wraps them all in shades.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Odyssey_(Pope)/Book_XXII#:~:text=Blind%20as%20they%20were%3A%20for%20death%20e%27en%20now%20invades">Pope</a> (1725)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Nor saw<br>
Th’ infatuate men fate hov’ring o’er them all.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24269/24269-h/24269-h.htm#:~:text=nor%20saw,o%E2%80%99er%20them%20all.">Cowper</a> (1792), ll. 34-35]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>How fatal and how nigh<br>
Death's snares were set, they foolish never knew!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey_tr_into_Engl_verse_by_P_S_Wo/TYMCAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=odyssey%20worsley&pg=PA226&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22how%20fatal%20and%20how%20nigh%22">Worsley</a> (1861), st. 5]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Yet this the fools knew not<br>
That now them all the goal of death was touching!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Nearly_Literal_Translation_of_Homer_s/44YXAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA376&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22the%20fools%20knew%20not%22">Bigge-Wither</a> (1869)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Insensate they!<br>
Who felt not in that hour that one and all<br>
Upon the verge of their own ruin stood!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey_of_Homer/GcQzAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA248&printsec=frontcover">Musgrave</a> (1869), l. 54ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But they knew not in their folly that on their own heads, each and all of them, the bands of death had been made fast.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1728/1728-h/1728-h.htm#:~:text=but%20they%20knew%20not%20in%20their%20folly%20that%20on%20their%20own%20heads%2C%20each%20and%20all%20of%20them%2C%20the%20bands%20of%20death%20had%20been%20made%20fast.">Butcher/Lang</a> (1879)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>And they had no understanding, fools as they were, and vain,<br>
That to all the end of the Death-doom was hard upon them now.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey_of_Homer/VwcOAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA398&printsec=frontcover">Morris</a> (1887), ll. 32-33]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>They foolishly did not see that for them one and all destruction's cords were knotted.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Odyssey/KYlBAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA343&printsec=frontcover">Palmer</a> (1891)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>And did not perceive that death was hanging over the head of every one of them.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_(Butler)/Book_XXII#:~:text=and%20did%20not%20perceive%20that%20death%20was%20hanging%20over%20the%20head%20of%20every%20one%20of%20them.">Butler</a> (1898)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>In their folly they knew not this, that over themselves one and all the cords of destruction had been made fast.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D22%3Acard%3D1#:~:text=in%20their%20folly%20they%20knew%20not%20this%2C%20that%20over%20themselves%20one%20and%20all%20the%20cords%20of%20destruction%20had%20been%20made%20fast.">Murray</a> (1919)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>... their infatuation hiding from them the toils of death that enlaced each and every one.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/qhQAywOYz10C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA358&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22infatuation%20hiding%22">Lawrence</a> (1932)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>It had not dawned upon the fools that every one of them was marked for slaughter too.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/stream/TheOdyssey/TheOdyssey_djvu.txt#:~:text=It%20had%20not%20dawned%20upon%20the%20fools%20%0Athat%20every%20one%20of%20them%20was%20marked%20for%20slaughter%20too.">Rieu</a> (1946)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Fools, not to comprehend<br>
they were already in the grip of death.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/bafQVqR6O5kC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT472&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22grip%20of%20death%22">Fitzgerald</a> (1961)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>They had not yet realized<br>
how over all of them the terms of death were now hanging.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/EC9coOuym-kC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=lattimore%20%22terms%20of%20death%22&pg=PA59&printsec=frontcover&bsq=lattimore%20%22terms%20of%20death%22">Lattimore</a> (1965)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The fools did not perceive<br>
That already the bond of destruction were fastened on them all.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/HOMER_THE_ODYSSEY/Lf5Z9phke64C?kptab=editions&gbpv=1&bsq=%22bonds%20of%20destruction%22">Cook</a> (1967)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Poor fools, blind to the fact <br>
that all their necks were in the noose, their doom sealed.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-T2WaiIPwOMJF1pR3/Homer-The-Odyssey-Fagles_djvu.txt#:~:text=Poor%20fools%2C%20blind%20to%20the%20fact%20%0Athat%20all%20their%20necks%20were%20in%20the%20noose%2C%20their%20doom%20sealed.">Fagles</a> (1996)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>And had no idea of how tightly the net<br>
Had been drawn around them.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Odyssey/yIFAC9r4NW0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA337&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22and%20had%20no%20idea%22">Lombardo</a> (2000)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>And the poor fools never suspected how on all of the suitors the grim death bindings were fastened.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/EC9coOuym-kC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Looking%20from%20lowering%20brows%20said%20Odysseus%22&pg=PA370&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22poor%20fools%20never%20suspected%22">Merrill</a> (2002)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>It had not dawned upon the fools that the fate of all of them was sealed.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/U2Jovv1NuMsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT365&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22dawned%20upon%20the%20fools%22">DCH Rieu</a> (2002)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Fools, who did not understand that on every one of them death's ropes were now fastened tight.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/o8dLDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PR3&printsec=frontcover&bsq=fools%20who%20did%20not%20understand">Verity</a> (2016)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Those poor fools did not know [...] that the snares of death were round them all.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/PpJYDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=snares%20of%20death">Wilson</a> (2017)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Poor fools, they had no notion that over them all the bonds of destruction were set.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/BUFJDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=odyssey%20%22underhandedly%20courted%20my%20wife%22&pg=PA335&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22over%20them%20all%20the%20bonds%20of%22">Green</a> (2018)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>In their folly,<br>
they did not understand that they were now enmeshed<br>
in destruction’s net.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://johnstoniatexts.x10host.com/homer/odyssey22html.html#:~:text=man%20on%20purpose.-,In%20their%20folly%2C,-they%20did%20not">Johnston</a> (2019), ll. 39-41]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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