...assures Mephostophilis, who presumably knows otherwise) alternates vertiginously with Calvinist despair ('Now hast thou but one bare hour to live / And then thou must be damned perpetually') (Marlowe 1969: 336). 'Have not I made blind Homer sing to me?', he comforts himself...

...till anon; 130 Then wilt thou tumble in confusion. Exit [Bad Angel]. The clock strikes eleven FAUSTUS O Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, 135 That time may cease and midnight...

...again. Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena. 6994 Doctor St Matthew ch.5 v.3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight...

...anon: Then wilt thou tumble in confusion. [exit; Hell disappears; the clock strikes eleven FAUSTUS O Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,...come; Fair Nature's eye,. rise, rise again, and make 140 Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may...

...irony. As the realisation dawns, we see him in his final speech in Scene 19 in mental agony: FAUSTUS Ah, Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually . . . The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike. The devil will come,...

...BUTTS gives us his impression of Edward Alley n's Faust us. (In a highly melodramatic voice.) 'Ah, Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damn'd perpetually.' (Joining in enthusiastically.) The devil will come and Faustus must be damn'd.' Suddenly, accompanied...

...Georges Poulet, Etudes sur le temps humain, Plon, 1 950, p. 4. 32. Le Docteur Faust, V, iI, 136-137 : «Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, / And then, thou must be damned perpetually». 33. IV, I, 104 ; «These are but shadows, not substantial». 34. I, I, 57-58...

...would cont1nue to haunt the occult world for centuries to come.25 PART TEN THE LONG JOURNEY 4Stand still you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight ever come. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, The Tragicall History of 'Dr. faustus XXIX ON 15 December 1589, after...

...the play limped to its conclusion as the actor playing Faustus thundered through his last speech: Ah, Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then must be damned perpetually! and so on to the closing lines: My God, my God, look not so fierce on me!...

...in all literature, we experience the unrelenting movement of a life course toward its culmination: 0 Faustus! Now hast thou but one bare hour to live And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever moving spheres of Heaven That time may cease and midnight...