Enter CHORUS. CHORUS. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practice more than heavenly power permits. [Exit.] Terminat hora diem; terminat auctor opus. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: mate-- i.e. confound, defeat.] [Footnote 2: vaunt-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "daunt."] [Footnote 3: her-- All the 4tos "his."] [Footnote 4: Whereas-- i.e. where.] [Footnote 5: cunning-- i.e. knowledge.] [Footnote 6: So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "more."] [Footnote 7: FAUSTUS discovered in his study-- Most probably, the Chorus, before going out, drew a curtain, and discovered Faustus sitting. In B. Barnes's DIVILS CHARTER, 1607, we find; "SCEN. VLTIMA. ALEXANDER VNBRACED BETWIXT TWO CARDINALLS in his study LOOKING VPON A BOOKE, whilst a groome draweth the Curtaine." Sig. L 3.] [Footnote 8: Analytics, 'tis thou, &c.-- Qy. "Analytic"? (but such phraseology was not uncommon).] [Footnote 9: So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "the" (the printer having mistaken "yt" for "ye").] [Footnote 10: So the later 4tos (with various spelling).--2to 1604 "Oncaymaeon."] [Footnote 11: and-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] [Footnote 12: Couldst-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "Wouldst."] [Footnote 13: men-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "man."] [Footnote 14: legatur-- All the 4tos "legatus."] [Footnote 15: &c.-- So two of the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] [Footnote 16: law-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "Church."] [Footnote 17: This-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "His."] [Footnote 18: Too servile-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "The deuill."] [Footnote 19: Che sera, sera-- Lest it should be thought that I am wrong in not altering the old spelling here, I may quote from Panizzi's very critical edition of the ORLANDO FURIOSO, "La satisfazion ci SERA pronta." C. xviii. st. 67.] [Footnote 20: scenes-- "And sooner may a gulling weather-spie By drawing forth heavens SCEANES tell certainly," &c. Donne's FIRST SATYRE,--p. 327, ed. 1633.] [Footnote 21: tire-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "trie."] [Footnote 22: Enter WAGNER, &c.-- Perhaps the proper arrangement is,] "Wagner! Enter WAGNER. Commend me to my dearest friends," &c.] [Footnote 23: treasure-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "treasury."]