Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,
That sometime grew within this learned man.


Doctor Faustus (1604) epilogue


Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man.

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man.

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man.

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man.