Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd
In one self place; for where we are is Hell,
And where Hell is, there must we ever be.

(Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), British dramatist, poet. Mephistopheles, in The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, act 2, sc. 1, l. 121-3 (1604).)

My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns,
Shall with their goat feet dance an antic hay.

(Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), British dramatist, poet. Piers Gaveston, in Edward II, act 1, sc. 1 (1593). "Antic hay" refers to a playful dance.)

I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.

(Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), British dramatist, poet. Machiavel, in The Jew of Malta, "Prologue," (writen c. 1589, first published 1633). The second line sometimes appears, "no sin but innocence.")

I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but innocence.

(Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), British dramatist, poet. Machiavel, in "Prologue," The Jew of Malta. The lines are often modernized: I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.)

He askt, she gave, and nothing was denied,
Both to each other quickly were affied.
Looke how their hands, so were their hearts united,
And what he did, she willingly requited.
(Sweet are the kisses, the imbracements sweet,
When like desires and affections meet),

(Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), British poet. Hero and Leander (II, l. 25-30). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)

All women are ambitious naturallie,

(Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), British poet. Hero and Leander (I, l. 428). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)

Come live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
Or woods or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks,
And see the shepherds feed their flocks
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

(Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), British poet. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (l. 1-8). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)

And I will make thee beds of roses

(Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), British poet. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (l. 9). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)

Nature that fram'd us of four elements,
Warring within our breasts for regiment,
Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

(Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), British dramatist, poet. Tamburlaine, in Tamburlaine the Great, pt.1, act 2, sc. 7, l. 18-20 (1590).)

Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

(Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), British dramatist, poet. Faustus, in The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, act 5, sc. 1, l. 96-7 (1604). Referring to Helen of Troy, conjured up by Faustus.)