[Footnote 244: his: So 4tos 1616, 1631.--Not in 4to 1624.]
[Footnote 245: Gramercy: So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "Gramercies."]
[Footnote 246: sir: So 4tos 1616, 1624.--Not in 4to 1631.]
[Footnote 247: of deadly: So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "of A deadly."]
[Footnote 248: me: So 4tos 1624, 1631.--Not in 4to 1616.]
[Footnote 249: never: So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "nere."]
[Footnote 250: 'tis: So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "IT is."]
[Footnote 251: And led thine eye: A portion of this line has evidently
dropt out.]
[Footnote 252: Exit: It seems doubtful whether Lucifer and Belzebub should
also make their exeunt here, or whether they remain to witness
the catastrophe: see p. 132, first col.
P. 132, first column. (this play):
"MEPHIST. And, this gloomy night,
Here, in this room, will wretched Faustus be.
BELZEBUB. And here we'll stay,
To mark him how he doth demean himself." etc. ]
[Footnote 253: hell-pains: So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "HELS paines."]
[Footnote 254: sit: So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "set."]
[Footnote 255: are open: So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "IS READIE."]
[Footnote 256: boil: So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "BROYLE."]
[Footnote 257: See, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament: So 4tos
1624, 1631.--Not in 4to 1616.]
[Footnote 258: an: So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "and."]
[Footnote 259: hath: So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "haue."]
[Footnote 260: yon: So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "your."]
[Footnote 261: you, &c.: See note *, p. 101.]
Note *, from p. 101. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604):
"That, when you, &c.: So all the old eds.; and it is certain
that awkward changes of person are sometimes found in passages
of our early poets: but qy.,--
"That, when THEY vomit forth into the air,
My limbs may issue from THEIR smoky mouths," &c.?" ]
[Footnote 262: 0, if, &c.: 2to 1604, in the corresponding passage, has
"Oh, GOD, if," &c. (see p. 101, sec. col.), and that reading
seems necessary for the sense.
P. 101, sec. col. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604):
"Ah, half the hour is past! 'twill all be past anon
O God,
If thou wilt not have mercy on my soul,
Yet for Christ's sake, whose blood hath ransom'd me,
Impose some end to my incessant pain;" etc. ]
[Footnote 263: at last: So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "at THE last."]
[Footnote 264: Enter Scholars: Here, of course, a change of scene is
supposed. (This is not in the earlier play.)]
[Footnote 265: heaven: So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "heauens."]
[Footnote 266: devils.... have: So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631,
"DIUELL.... HATH."]
[Footnote 267: self: So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "same."]
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