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• Preface
• Publisher's Notice
• Introduction
• Tamburlaine the Great. In Two Parts.
• Tamburlaine the Great, Part Tbe First.
• The Prologue.
• Persons Represented. 1
• Tamburlaine the Great. Part the First.: Act the First.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Act the Second.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Scene VII.
• Act the Third.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Act the Fourth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act the Fifth.
• Scene I.
• Tamburlaine the Great. Part the Second
• Prologue.
• Persons Represented.
• Tamburlaine the Great. Part the Second: Act the First.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene II.
• Act the Second.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act the Third.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Act the Fourth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act the Fifth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.
• Persons Represented.
• The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI. 1
• Scene VII.
• Scene VIII.
• Scene IX.
• Scene X.
• Scene XI.
• Scene XII.
• Scene XIII.
• Scene XIV.
• Scene XV.
• Scene XVI.
• Appendix to Dr. Faustus.
• Ballad of Faustus.

SCENE II.

Enter two Scholars.1

Ist Schol.

• I wonder what's become of Faustus that was
• wont to make our schools ring with sicprobo f

2nd Schol.

• That shall we know, for see here comes his boy.
• Enter WAGNER.

Ist Schol.

• How now, sirrah! Where's thy master?

Wag.

• God in heaven knows.

2nd Schol.

• Why, dost not thou know?

Wag.

• Yes, I know. But that follows not.

Ist Schol.

• Go to, sirrah! leave your jesting, and tell us where he is.

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Wag.

• That follows not necessary by force of argument, that you, being licentiates, should stand upon:2 therefore acknowledge your error and be attentive.

2nd Schol.3

• Why, didst thou not say thou knewest?

Wag.

• Have you any witness on't?

Ist Schol.

• Yes, sirrah, I heard you.

Wag.

• Ask my fellows if I be a thief.

2nd Schol.

• Well, you will not tell us?

Wag.

• Yes, sir, I will tell you; yet if you were not dunces, you would never ask me such a question; for

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  is not he corpus naturale? and is not that mobile? then wherefore should you ask me such a question? But that I am by nature phlegmatic, slow to wrath, and prone to lechery (to love, I would say), it were not for you to come within forty feet of the place of execution, although I do not doubt to see you both hanged the next sessions. Thus having triumphed over you, I will set my countenance like a Precisian, and begin to speak thus:—Truly, my dear brethren, my master is within at dinner, with Valdes and Cornelius, as this wine, if it could speak, [30 would1 inform your worships; and so the Lord bless you, preserve you, and keep you, my dear brethren, my dear brethren.2
• [Exit.

1st Schol.3

• Nay, then, I fear he is fallen into that damned Art, for which they two are infamous through the world.

2nd Schol.

• Were he a stranger, and not allied to me, yet should I grieve for him. But come, let us go and inform the Rector, and see if he by his grave counsel can reclaim him.

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1st Schol.

• O, but I fear me nothing can reclaim him.

2nd Schol.

• Yet let us try what we can do.
• [Exeunt.

[1]Before Faustus' house.

[2]So ed. 1616.–Ed. 1604 “upon't.”

[3]Lanes 14–17 are omitted in ed. 1616 and later 4tos.

[1]So ed. 1616.–Ed. 1604 “it would.”

[2]In ed. 1616 and later 4tos. the repetition is not found.

[3]Ed. 1616 and later 4103. read:—

• “1 Scko. O Faustus!
• Then I fear that which I have long suspected,
• That thou art fallen into that damned art,
• For which they two are infamous through the world.
• “2 Scho, Were he a stranger not allied to me,
• The danger of his soul would make me mourn;
• But come, let us go and inform the Rector,
• It may be his grave counsel may reclaim him.
• “1 Scho, I fear me nothing will reclaim him now.
• “2 Scko, Yet let us see what we can do.
• [Exeunt.”