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IN FAUSTUM. VII. - Christopher Marlowe, The Works of Christopher Marlowe, vol. 3 (Poems) [1598]

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The Works of Christopher Marlowe, ed. A.H. Bullen (London: John C. Nimmo, 1885). Vol. 3.

Part of: The Works of Christopher Marlowe, 3 vols.

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IN FAUSTUM. VII.

  • Faustus, nor lord nor knight, nor wise nor old,
  • To every place about the town doth ride;
  • He rides into the fields1 plays to behold,
  • He rides to take boat at the water-side,
  • He rides to Paul's, he rides to th' ordinary,
  • He rides unto the house of bawdry too,—
  • Thither his horse so often doth him carry,
  • That shortly he will quite forget to go.

[1]See the admirable account of “The Theatre and Curtain” in Mr Halliwell-Phillipps' Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare, ed. 3, pp 385--433. It is there shown that the access to the Theatre play-house was through Finsbury Fields to the west of the western boundary-wall of the grounds of the dissolved Holywell Priory.