“Pray for me! and what noise soever ye hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me.”

— Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Faustus, Act V, scene ii, lines 57–58
Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)

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English dramatist, poet and translator 1564–1593

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