to forget by degrees my misfortunes, when

were all gone different ways

vicissitude

one Creator of all things

They use no beasts of husbandry

locusts

moat

We are almost a nation of dancers, musicians, and poets

he determined to put her to death

thick weal across the lower part of the forehead

Abyssinia

Determination

benevolence

august assemblies

My Lords and Gentlemen

leg of a lark

extenuation

They bury their dead with their heads directly downward

the tallest horses and oxen are between four and five inches in height, the sheep an inch and half, more or less

edifice

four inches and a half high

I lay in a profound sleep

a sleepy potion in the hogsheads of wine.

I found myself much inclined to sleep. I lay down on the grass

declivity

get clear of the ship and the rock

Swallow

useful in long voyages.

Leyden

He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old

Antiquary’s

we live with in perfect amity, without daring to command ’em; but, on the contrary, caress ’em with all the brotherly and friendly affection in the world; trading with them for their fish, venison, buffalo’s skins, and little rarities; as marmosets, a sort of monkey

do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader

Oroonoko decides to kill Imoinda and their unborn child to avoid future suffering, and plans for a revenge. After killing his beloved wife, however, his strength leaves him. His revenge plan falls short, and Oroonoko is tortured and killed.

Ambition

Satyrs

Grass-Green Complexion

Boats

Cloyster

Spear made of white Diamond

Prayers by themselves in their Closets

with a little leight Vessel, not unlike a Packet-boat, mann’d with some few Sea-men, and well victualle

Steal her away; which he had the better opportunity to do, because her Father’s house was not far from the Sea

Country, fell extreamly in Love with a young Lady

Cesar

Covetous

Noble and Worthy Ladies

Phebus

The pretty Birds

And all delights did harbour in her breast

And where the Muses gaue their full consent

Starres

For he is Crowne and Crowner of all Kings,

sorrow, And yet all Kings their wealth of him do borrow.

daies

tooke our flesh in base and meanest berth

Monarch both of heau’n and earth

indu’d

And from faire Venus all her Excellencies

Venus

Vouchsafe

bright spheare of greatnes

O, a cherubin

extirpate

Thou attend’st not. MIRANDA. O, good sir! I do

perfidious

my heart bleeds

Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since, Thy father was the Duke of Milan, and A prince of power.

Sir, are not you my father?

There’s no harm done

We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art

Work you, then

bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog

Trouble us not

Mariners

Shipmaster and a Boatswain

tempestuous

Think’st thou that Faustus is so fond

ON THESE CONDITIONS FOLLOWING. FIRST, THAT FAUSTUS MAY BE A SPIRIT IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE. SECONDLY, THAT MEPHISTOPHILIS SHALL BE HIS SERVANT, AND AT HIS COMMAND. THIRDLY, THAT MEPHISTOPHILIS SHALL DO FOR HIM, AND BRING HIM WHATSOEVER HE DESIRES.[88] FOURTHLY, THAT HE SHALL BE IN HIS CHAMBER OR HOUSE INVISIBLE. LASTLY, THAT HE SHALL APPEAR TO THE SAID JOHN FAUSTUS, AT ALL TIMES, IN WHAT FORM OR SHAPE SOEVER HE PLEASE. I, JOHN FAUSTUS, OF WERTENBERG, DOCTOR, BY THESE PRESENTS, DO GIVE BOTH BODY AND SOUL TO LUCIFER PRINCE OF THE EAST, AND HIS MINISTER MEPHISTOPHILIS; AND FURTHERMORE GRANT UNTO THEM, THAT,[89] TWENTY-FOUR YEARS BEING EXPIRED, THE ARTICLES ABOVE-WRITTEN INVIOLATE, FULL POWER TO FETCH OR CARRY THE SAID JOHN FAUSTUS, BODY AND SOUL, FLESH, BLOOD, OR GOODS, INTO THEIR HABITATION WHERESOEVER. BY ME, JOHN FAUSTUS.

Enlarge his kingdom

Enter GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL

Contrition

I’ll serve him, that’s flat

wenches

There was a he-devil and a she-devil

Exeunt

gridirons

How, how, knaves-acre

Was not that Lucifer an angel once?

No, I came hither[55] of mine own accord

Come, German Valdes, and Cornelius, And make me blest with your sage conference.

Rhine

Is, to dispute well, logic’s chiefest end

Settle thy studies, Faustus, and begin To sound the depth of that thou wilt profess:

proud audacious deeds

CHORUS

verily

I had wend otherwise

hereto

Abide behind? yea, that I will and I may! Therefore farewell until another da

I have the cramp in my toe

Ah, sir; what, ye be a merry man

I shall show you how it is; Commanded I am to go a journey, A long way, hard and dangerous, And give a strait count without delay Before the high judge Adonai.11 Wherefore I pray you, bear me company, As ye have promised, in this journey.

If I my heart should to you break, And then you to turn your mind from me, And would not me comfort, when you hear me speak, Then should I ten times sorrier be.

gramercy

O wretched caitiff

Therefore I will in all the haste Have a reckoning of Everyman’s person

The worse they be from year to year;

To get them life I suffered to be dead;

How that all creatures be to me unkind, Living without dread in worldly prosperity: Of ghostly sight the people be so blind, Drowned in sin, they know me not for their God;

God

Messenger

For ye shall hear, how our heaven king Calleth Everyman to a general reckoning:

Ye think sin in the beginning full sweet, Which in the end causeth thy soul to weep,

Be you never so gay

Messenger. I pray you all give your audience, And hear this matter with reverence, By figure a moral play– The Summoning of Everyman called it is,

brother

I am a stranger in these parts, you see; Of your acquaintance I’d be glad,

In punishment of fornication known, And of witchcraft and of all known bawdry, And defamation and adultery

archdeacon

He turned always a lowering face, and dire,

In company here we will have no debate

I bear no malice to virginity

I will devote the flower of all my age 120 To all the acts and harvests of marriage.

wight

I know well Abraham was holy man, And Jacob, too, as far as know I can; And each of them had spouses more than two; And many another holy man also.

When my good husband from the world is gone, Some Christian man shall marry me anon;

Of whom I did pick out and choose the best Both for their nether purse and for their chest Different schools make divers perfect clerks, Different methods learned in sundry works Make the good workman perfect, certainly. 50 Of full five husbands tutoring am I.)

I understand he had more wives than one

For, masters, since I was twelve years of age,

He was in Paradise; but then when he Ate of the fruit forbidden of the tree, 225 Anon he was cast out to woe and pain.

gluttony

defamations

And tell a hundred false jokes, less or more

By this fraud have I won me, year by year, A hundred marks, since I’ve been pardone

He will come up and offer, in God’s name

Even though she had taken two priests or three

And, good sirs, it’s a cure for jealousy; For though a man be fallen in jealous rage, Let one make of this water his pottage And nevermore shall he his wife mistrust

cardinal

I show that first, my safety to protect, And then no man’s so bold, no priest nor clerk,

First I announce the place whence I have come, 50 And then I show my pardons, all and some

Show, and in Latin speak some words, a few, To spice therewith a bit my sermoning

Radix malorum est cupiditas.’

I am at pains that all shall hear my speech

I have, God knows, a large field for my share, And weak the oxen, and the soil is tough

Scythia

covetousness

after the siege and assault had ceased at Troy

five

The mane of that mighty horse was much alike, well crisped and combed, with knots full many plaited in thread of gold about the fair green,

Fair fanned-out flax enfolds his shoulders; A beard big as a bush over his breast hangs,

A

the nape to the waist so swart and so thick,

a seemlier ever to the sight, sooth might no man say.

dressed on the dais there, adorned all about – splendid silk by her sides, and sheer above of true Toulouse, of Tartar tapestries plenty, that were embroidered, bright with the best gems that might be price-proved with pennies

the knights best known under the Christ Himself, and the loveliest ladies that ever life honoured

with all the meat and mirth men could devise

feast was alike full fifteen days

right ripe revel and reckless mirth

reckoning

Troy

Not a word hath been told me I’ve never heard of your doing any such bold Of deeds so daring done by thee, Unferth,

Yet I ’scaped with my life the grip of the monsters, Weary from travel. Then the waters bare me After that escape I drifted to Finland. To the land of the Finns

With my dear-lovèd sword, as in sooth it was fitting

Nothing have known. Never a greater one Of earls o’er the earth have I had a sight of

The twist-stemmed vessel

Trustworthy warriors; with fourteen companions The vessel he looked for; a liegeman then showed them

The greatest of hall-buildings; Heorot

To many races in middle-earth’s regions,

Heorogar, Hrothgar, and Halga the good

The ring-stemmèd vessel,

carle

solace the people

welkin

Spear-Danes

Scyld

the city decayed. The rebuilders perished

looked at treasure, at silver, at precious stones

Often this wall, lichen-grey and stained with red

Our friendship now is as if it had not been

in secret thought to part us

that one easily sunders which was never united: our song together.

I thought of my Wulf with far-wandering hopes

That went away, this also may

sinew

Deor

Soareth

Him whose heart is hungry to taste The perils and pleasures of the pathless deep.

Nor woman can win him, nor joys of the world

Little he dreams that drinks life’s pleasure, By danger untouched in the shelter of towns

No familiar greeting comes from the fleeting

Sore after sweet dreams sorrow revives

Knows how bitter a bedfellow is sorrow.

Far and near I found none to greet the wanderer

Forsaken I sought a shielder and protector