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and Cretstda, u. 2:—
“Why, she is a pearl Whose price hath launched ateve a thousand skips,”
[1]
So ed. 1616.—Eds. 1604, 1609, “be.”
[2]
Ed. 1616 “azure.” The form “azur'd “is found in Shakespeare and Drayton.
[3]
For what follows in ed. 1616 see Appendix,
[4]
Evidently this is a new scene, though none of the editors has so printed it. The
scene is laid in a room of Faustus' house, whither the Old Man has come to exhort
Faustus to repentance.
[1]
The additions made to this scene in ed. 1616 are given in the Appendix.
[1]
So ed, 1616.—Omitted in ed. 1604.
[1]
“By an exquisite touch of nature—the brain involuntarily simmon-ing words
employed for other purposes in happier hours—he crfes aloud the line which Ovid
whispered in Cormna's arms.”— A. Sfmmds. (It would be hypercritical to note that
Ovid gives the words to Aurora:—
“At si, quern mails, Cephalum complexa teneres,
Clamares ‘lente currite noetis equi.’”
—Amores, i, 13,11. 39-40.)
[2]
Ed. 1616 “to Heaven.”
[3]
Ed. 1620 “See where,” &c. (The line is omitted in ed, 1616.)
[4]
Ed. 1616:—
“One drop of blood will save me: O my Christ!
Rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!”
[5]
Ed. 1616:—
“Where is it now? 'tis gone:
And see a threatening arm, an angry brow!”
[6]
Ed. 1616 “heaven.”—Cf. Hosea x. 8:—” And they shalt saj to the mountains,
Cover us, and to the hills, Fall on us.”
[7]
The word “No” is not repeated in ed. 1616.
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[1]
Ed. 1616 “Gape, earth.”
[2]
Dyce suggests that we should read “clouds” for “cloud,” and “they vomit forth …
from thtir smoky mouths.”
[3]
Ed. 1616 “But let my soul mount and ascend to Heaven.”
[4]
Ed. 1616:—
“O if my soul must suffer for my sin,
Impose some end,” &c.
[1]
For “My God! my God!” ed. 1616 reads “O mercy, heaven”
[2]
“So the Ephesians ‘burnt their books’ after St Paul's preaching, Acts ax. 19.”—
Wagner,
[3]
In ed. 1616 a scene between the scholars follows. See Appendix.
[1]
Ed. 1616 “auctor.” Mottoes are not uncommonly found at the end of old plays. The
motto in the text is found inscnbed at the end of the Distracted Emperor (an
anonymous tragi-comedy printed for the first time in vol. m. of my Collection of Old
flays}.
[1]
Oldeds. “theclowne.”
[1]
So eds. 1620, 1624.—Ed, 1616 “this day with.”
[l]
So eds. 1620, 1624.—Ed. 1616 “comming.”
[1]
So eds. 1620, 1624.—Ed. 1616 “some right”
[2]
So eds. 1620, 1624.—Ed. 1616 “shall.”
[l]
Oldeds. “Ponto.”
[1]
Old eds. “Bisk” and “Bishop.”
[1]
So eds. 1620, 1634.— Ed. 1616 “this.”
[1]
So eds. 1620, 1624.—Ed. 1616 “warlike.”
[1]
So Dyce.—Old eds. “heart.”
[2]
Old eds. “call”
[1]
The stage-door.
[1]
So eds. 1620, 1624.—Ed. 1616 “Zons.”
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[2]
So eds. 1620, 1624.—Ed. 1616 “this.”
[1]
Guests.
[1]
Soed. 16a.—Ed. 1616 “Gramercies.” VOL. I.
[1]
“Another copy of this ballad in the British Museum,—Ballads, &c., 643, m.
10,—has, 'pleasure.'”Dyce.
[1]
“So the other copy.—The Roxburghe copy 'deed.'”Dyce.
[1]
“The other copy ' presently.'”Dya.
[2]
Soed. 1616.—Eds. 1604, 1609, “those.”
2
Soed. 1616.—Eds. 1604, 1609, “24.”
[2]
So ed, 1616.—Eds. 1604, 1609, “land.”
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