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I throughly agree with you as to the German Faust, as far [as] I can do justice to it from an English translation. ‘Tis a disagreeable canting tale of Seduction, which has nothing to do with the Spirit of Faustus — Curiosity. Was the dark secret to be explored to end in the seducing of a weak girl, which might have been accomplished by earthly agency? When Marlow gives his Faustus a mistress, he flies him at Helen, flower of Greece, to be sure, and not at Miss Betsy, or Miss Sally Thoughtless.
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Jump, J. (1969). Charles Lamb. In: Jump, J. (eds) Marlowe. Casebook Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-89053-8_6
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