[Footnote 160: One thing, good servant, &c.-- "To the end 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 Mephostophiles, 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
bed-fellow; 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 childe told Doctor Faustus many things which
were don in forraign countrys; but in the end, when Faustus lost
his life, the mother and the childe vanished away both together."
THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. I 4, ed. 1648.]
[Footnote 161: Those-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "These."]
[Footnote 162: Faustus, this-- Qy. "This, Faustus"?]
[Footnote 163: topless-- i.e. not exceeded in height by any.]
[Footnote 164: is-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "be."]
[Footnote 165: shalt-- So all the 4tos; and so I believe Marlowe wrote,
though the grammar requires "shall."]
[Footnote 166: Enter the OLD MAN-- Scene, a room in the Old Man's house.
--In THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS the Old Man makes himself very
merry with the attempts of the evil powers to hurt him. "About
two dayes after that he had exhorted Faustus, as the poore man
lay in his bed, suddenly there was a mighty rumbling in the
chamber, the which he was never wont to heare, and he heard as
it had beene the groaning of a sow, which lasted long: whereupon
the good old man began to jest and mocke, and said, Oh, what a
barbarian cry is this? Oh faire bird, what foul musicke is this?
A[h--, faire angell, that could not tarry two dayes in his place!
beginnest thou now to runne into a poore mans house, where thou
hast no power, and wert not able to keepe thy owne two dayes?
With these and such like words the spirit departed," &c.
Sig. I 2, ed. 1648.]
[Footnote 167: Enter Faustus, &c.-- Scene, a room in the house of Faustus.]
[Footnote 168: cunning-- i.e. knowledge, skill.]
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