“ Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. ”
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (1604). copy citation
| Author | Christopher Marlowe |
|---|---|
| Source | Doctor Faustus |
| Topic | kiss immortality |
| Date | 1604 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Written between 1589 and 1592 |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/811/811-h/811-h.htm |
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“One thing, good servant, let me crave of thee, To glut the longing of my heart's desire,— That I may have unto my paramour That heavenly Helen which I saw of late, Whose sweet embraces may extinguish clean 239 Those thoughts that do dissuade me from my vow, And keep my oath 240 I made to Lucifer. MEPHIST. This, or what else my Faustus shall desire, Shall be perform'd in twinkling of an eye. Re-enter HELEN, passing over the stage between two CUPIDS. FAUSTUS. Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?— Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.— [Kisses her.] Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!— Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena. I will be Paris, and for love of thee, Instead of Troy, shall Wittenberg be sack'd; And I will combat with weak Menelaus, And wear thy colours on my plumed crest; Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss.”
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