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[1]
Dyce's correction for “best“of ed. 1604.
[2]
Faustus and Mephistophilis are seen crossing a “fair and pleasant green.”they are
supposed to arrive presently at Faustus' bouse. In the old ed. the present scene is not
separated from the preceding.
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[2]
I.e. boise-scorser, horse-dealer.
[1]
Sleek.
[1]
Dr. Lopez, physician to Queen Elizabeth. He was hanged m 1594 for attempting to
poison the Queen. The best account of him is to be found in an article by Mr. S. L Lee
on The Original of Shyloct, Gentleman's Magazine, February 1880. Marlowe was
dead before the doctor came into notoriety.
[1]
So eds. 1604, 1609. Ward compares Othello, iii. 3, 119, “where the folios read, ' Be
not acknown on't,' and the first and third quartos,
[1]
A juggler's term, like “presto, fly.” Hence applied to the juggler himself.
[1]
Hostelry, inn.
[1]
In ed. 1616 there follows a scene in which the horse-courser relates to an ale-house
audience how he had been cozened by Faustus. bee Appendix.
[1]
Scene: court of the Duke of Vanholt. The text of ed. 1616 is given in the Appendix.
[1]
Scene: a room in Faustus' house. Ed, 1616 reads:— “Thunder and lightning. Enter
Devils with covered dishes; MEPHrs-TOPHILJS leads them into FAUSTUS' study,
then enter WAGNEK.
[2]
I have adopted Cunningham's obvious correction. Eds. 1604, 1609, “means to die
shortly.”
[3]
Scene: a room in Faustus' house.
[1]
Perhaps an allusion to the legend that Paris when carrying off Helen plundered
Sparta.
[2]
Dyce quotes from the prose History of Dr. Faustus the following description of
Helen—
“This lady appeared before them in a most rich gowne of purple velvet, costly
imbrodiered; her haire hanged downe loose, as faire as the beaten gold, and of such
length that it reached downe to her hammes; having most amorous cole-black eyes, a
sweet and pleasant round face, with lips as red as a cherry, her cheekes of a rose
colour, her mouth small, her neck white like a swan, tall and slender of personage; m
summe, there was no imperfect place in her: she looked round about with a rolling
hawkes eye, a smiling and wanton countenance, which neere-hand inflamed the hearts
of all the students, but that they per-swaded themselves she was a spirit, which made
them lightly passe away such fancies.”
[3]
Ed. 1616 reads:—
2nd Schol. Was this fair Helen, whose admired worth
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Made Greece with ten years' wars afflict poor Troy?
“3 yd Schol. Too simple is my wit to tell her worth,
Whom all the world admires for majesty.
“1 st Schol. Now we have seen the pride of Nature's work.
We'll take our leaves; and for this blessed sight,” &c.
[1]
In ed. 1616 this speech runs as follows:—
[1]
This line is omitted in ed. 1616.
[2]
Ed. 1616 “Hell claims his right.”
[3]
So ed. 1616.— Omitted in ed. 1604.
[4]
So ed. 1616.—Omitted in ed. 1604.
[5]
Ed. 1616 “Oh, friend, I feel”
[1]
Ed. 1616,—
“Faustus, I leave thee, but with grief of heart,
Fearing the enemy of thy hapless soul.”
[2]
Ed. 1616 “Accursèd Faustus, wretch, what hast thou done?”
[3]
Before this line ed. 1616 inserts “I do repent I e'er offended him.”
[4]
This stage-direction is not in the old copies: it was suggested by Dyce,
[5]
Ed. 1616 “that base and aged man.”
[1]
Dyce quotes from the prose History of Dr. Faustus. —
“To the ends that this miserable Faustus might fill the lust of his flesh and live in all
manner of voluptuous pleasure, it came in his mind, after he had slept his first sleepe,
and in the 23 year past of his time, that he had a great desire to lye with faire Helena
of Greece, especially her whom he had seen and shewed unto the students at
Wittenberg: wherefore he called unto his spirit Mephostophilis, commanding him to
bring to him the faire Helena; which he also did. Whereupon he fell in love with her,
and made her his common concubine and bedfellow; for she was so beautifull and
delightfull a peece, that he could not be one houre from her, if he should therefore
have suffered death, she had so stoln away his heart: and to his seeming, in time she
was with childe, whom Faustus named Justus Faustus. The child told Doctor Faustus
many things which were don in forraign countrys; but in the end, when Faustus lost
his life, the mother and the child vanished away both together.”
[2]
So Fletcher (Bmduca, ni. 2).—
“Loud Fame calls ye,
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Pitch'd on the topless Apennine.”
Shakespeare surely remembered the preceding line when he wrote of Helen ia Troilus