Christopher Marlowe Quote
BARABAS: As for myself, I walk abroad a-nights,And kill sick people groaning under walls.Sometimes I go about and poison wells;And now and then, to cherish Christian thieves,I am content to lose some of my crowns,That I may, walking in my gallery,See 'em go pinion'd along by my door.Being young, I studied physic, and beganTo practice first upon the Italian;There I enrich'd the priests with burials,And always kept the sexton's arms in ureWith digging graves and ringing dead men's knells.And, after that, was I an engineer,And in the wars 'twixt France and Germany,Under pretence of helping Charles the Fifth,Slew friend and enemy with my stratagems:Then, after that, was I an usurer,And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting,And tricks belonging unto brokery,I fill'd the gaols with bankrupts in a year,And with young orphans planted hospitals;And every moon made some or other mad,And now and then one hang himself for grief,Pinning upon his breast a long great scrollHow I with interest tormented him.But mark how I am blest for plaguing them:I have as much coin as will buy the town.
BARABAS: As for myself, I walk abroad a-nights,And kill sick people groaning under walls.Sometimes I go about and poison wells;And now and then, to cherish Christian thieves,I am content to lose some of my crowns,That I may, walking in my gallery,See 'em go pinion'd along by my door.Being young, I studied physic, and beganTo practice first upon the Italian;There I enrich'd the priests with burials,And always kept the sexton's arms in ureWith digging graves and ringing dead men's knells.And, after that, was I an engineer,And in the wars 'twixt France and Germany,Under pretence of helping Charles the Fifth,Slew friend and enemy with my stratagems:Then, after that, was I an usurer,And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting,And tricks belonging unto brokery,I fill'd the gaols with bankrupts in a year,And with young orphans planted hospitals;And every moon made some or other mad,And now and then one hang himself for grief,Pinning upon his breast a long great scrollHow I with interest tormented him.But mark how I am blest for plaguing them:I have as much coin as will buy the town.