Christopher Marlowe: Trending quotes (page 2)
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“What should a priest do with so fair a house?
A prison may best beseem his holiness.”
Gaveston, Act I, scene i, lines 204–205
Edward II (c. 1592)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (unknown date), stanzas 1 and 2. Compare: "To shallow rivers, to whose falls / Melodious birds sings madrigals; / There will we make our peds of roses, / And a thousand fragrant posies", William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, act iii. scene i. (Sung by Evans.)
“Pray for me! and what noise soever ye hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me.”
Faustus, Act V, scene ii, lines 57–58
Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)
“What strange arts necessity finds out.”
Venus, Act I, scene i, line 169
Dido (c. 1586)
“My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns,
Shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay.”
Gaveston, Act I, scene i, lines 57–58
Edward II (c. 1592)
“I'm armed with more than complete steel,—
The justice of my quarrel.”
Lust's Dominion (c. 1600), Act iii. scene 4. Compare: "Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted", William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Act iii. scene 2.
Misattributed
“Religion
Hides many mischiefs from suspicion.”
Barabas, Act I, scene ii
The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)
“My swelling heart for very anger breaks.”
King Edward, Act II, scene ii, line 197
Edward II (c. 1592)
“A pleasant-smiling cheek, a speaking eye,
A brow for love to banquet royally.”
First Sestiad
Hero and Leander (published 1598)
“All women are ambitious naturally.”
First Sestiad
Hero and Leander (published 1598)
“And let these tears, distilling from mine eyes,
Be proof of my grief and innocency.”
Mortimer, Act V, scene vi, line 100
Edward II (c. 1592)