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" I count religion but a childish toy And hold there is no sin but ignorance. "
Tudor Drama and Religious Controversy - Page 122
by James C. Bryant - 1984 - 165 pages
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The Works of Christopher Marlowe Including His Translations

Christopher Marlowe - 1889 - 408 pages
...thereby attain To Peter's chair : and when they cast me off, Are poisoned by my climbing followers. I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past ; I am ashamed to hear such fooleries : Many will talk of...
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The Jew of Malta

Christopher Marlowe - 1889 - 134 pages
...thereby attaine To Peters Chayre: And when they cast me off, Are poyson'd by my climing followers. I count Religion but a childish Toy, And hold there is no sinne but Ignorance. is Birds of the Aire will tell of murders past; I am asham'd to heare such fooleries....
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The Best Elizabethan Plays

William Roscoe Thayer - English drama - 1890 - 616 pages
...thereby attain To Peter's chair : and when they cast me off, Are poisoned by my climbing followers. I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there -is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past ! . . • • \ I am ashamed to hear such.tooleries. ~/...
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The Historical Tragedy of Mary Queen of Scots

Orville Ward Owen - Queens - 1894 - 124 pages
...sense, You importune for her: your suit's unprofitable. We are poisoned by her climbing followers Who count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. I am ashamed to hear such foolery: She is our enemy, and shall die. Ha! Doth she nqt tempt? Lo, saw...
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Elizabethan Translations from the Italian: The Titles of Such ..., Volumes 1-4

Mary Augusta Scott - Comparative literature - 1895 - 398 pages
...stage in person as the Prologue to the Jew of Malta, expressing his admiration for him in the lines,— "I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance." Mr. Courthope, in his History of English Poetry, maintains that all of Marlowe's plays are but different...
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The Best Elizabethan Plays ...

William Roscoe Thayer - English drama - 1895 - 622 pages
...thereby attain To Peter's chair : and when they cast me off, Are poisoned by my climbing followers. I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past ! I am ashamed to hear such fooleries. Many will talk of...
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It was Marlowe: A Story of the Secret of Three Centuries

Wilbur Gleason Zeigler - Shakespeare in fiction, drama, poetry, etc - 1895 - 326 pages
...known to admit of doubt that Marlowe was an avowed freethinker. Had he not written in one of his plays: "I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no crime but ignorance"?! If a man did not entertain such opinions himself he would not allow them to...
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Machiavelli and the Elizabethan drama. Weimar 1897

Edward Stockton Meyer - English drama - 1897 - 422 pages
...thereby attain To Peter's chair; and, when they cast me off, Are poison'd by my climbing followers. I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. [15 Birds of the air will tell of murders past! I am asham'd to hear such fooleries. Many will talk...
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Machiavelli and the Elizabethan Drama: Von Edward Meyer

Edward Stockton Meyer - Drama - 1897 - 208 pages
...thereby attain To Peter's chair; and, when they cast me off, Are poison'd by my climbing followers. / I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. [15 Birds of the air will tell of murders past! I am asham'd to hear such fooleries. Many will talk...
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A History of English Poetry, Volume 2

William John Courthope - English poetry - 1897 - 478 pages
...thereby attain To Peter's chair ; and when they cast me off Are poisoned by my climbing followers. I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.1 The sordid villainy of Barabas towards the close of the play deprives him of all claim...
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