The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
[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."]
[Footnote 24: Jove-- So again, p. 84, first col.,[See Note 59]
:
"Seeing Faustus hath incurr'd eternal death
By desperate thoughts against JOVE'S deity," &c.:
and I may notice that Marlowe is not singular in applying the name
JOVE to the God of Christians:]
"Beneath our standard of JOUES powerfull sonne [i.e. Christ--".
MIR. FOR MAGISTRATES, p. 642, ed. 1610.
"But see the judgement of almightie JOUE," &c.
Id. p. 696.
"O sommo GIOVE per noi crocifisso," &c.
Pulci,--MORGANTE MAG. C. ii. st. 1.]
[Footnote 25: these elements-- So again, "Within the bowels of THESE
elements," &c., p. 87, first col,[See Note 90----"THESE" being
equivalent to THE. (Not unfrequently in our old writers THESE
is little more than redundant.)]
[Footnote 26: resolve-- i.e. satisfy, inform.]
[Footnote 27: silk-- All the 4tos "skill" (and so the modern editors!).]
[Footnote 28: the-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "our."]
[Footnote 29: the fiery keel at Antwerp's bridge-- During the blockade
of Antwerp by the Prince of Parma in 1585, "They of Antuerpe
knowing that the bridge and the Stocadoes were finished,
made a great shippe, to be a meanes to breake all this worke
of the prince of Parmaes: this great shippe was made of masons
worke within, in the manner of a vaulted caue: vpon the hatches
there were layed myll-stones, graue-stones, and others of great
weight; and within the vault were many barrels of powder, ouer
the which there were holes, and in them they had put matches,
hanging at a thred, the which burning vntill they came vnto
the thred, would fall into the powder, and so blow vp all.
And for that they could not haue any one in this shippe to
conduct it, Lanckhaer, a sea captaine of the Hollanders, being
then in Antuerpe, gaue them counsell to tye a great beame at the
end of it, to make it to keepe a straight course in the middest
of the streame. In this sort floated this shippe the fourth of
Aprill, vntill that it came vnto the bridge; where (within a
while after) the powder wrought his effect, with such violence,
as the vessell, and all that was within it, and vpon it, flew in
pieces, carrying away a part of the Stocado and of the bridge.
The marquesse of Roubay Vicont of Gant, Gaspar of Robles lord of
Billy, and the Seignior of Torchies, brother vnto the Seignior
of Bours, with many others, were presently slaine; which were
torne in pieces, and dispersed abroad, both vpon the land and vpon
the water." Grimeston's GENERALL HISTORIE OF THE NETHERLANDS,
p. 875, ed. 1609.]
[Footnote 30: only-- Qy. "alone"? (This line is not in the later 4tos.)]
[Footnote 31: vile-- Old ed. "vild": but see note ||, p. 68.--(This line
is not in the later 4tos.)
[Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the
Great):]
Vile-- The 8vo "Vild"; the 4to "Wild" (Both eds. a little
before, have "VILE monster, born of some infernal hag", and,
a few lines after, "To VILE and ignominious servitude":--the
fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with
their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form,
and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623,
where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")--]
[Footnote 32: concise syllogisms-- Old ed. "Consissylogismes."]
[Footnote 33: cunning-- i.e. knowing, skilful.]
[Footnote 34: Agrippa-- i.e. Cornelius Agrippa.]
[Footnote 35: shadow-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "shadowes."]
[Footnote 36: spirits-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "subiects."]
[Footnote 37: Almain rutters-- See note †, p. 43.]
[Note † from p. 43. (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the
Great):
Almains, Rutters-- Rutters are properly--German troopers
(reiter, reuter). In the third speech after the present one
this line is repeated VERBATIM: but in the first scene of
our author's FAUSTUS we have,
"Like ALMAIN RUTTERS with their horsemen's staves."--]
[Footnote 38: have the-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "in their."]
[Footnote 39: From-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "For."]
[Footnote 40: in-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.]
[Footnote 41: renowm'd-- See note ||, p. 11.]
[Note || from p. 11. (The First Part of Tamburlaine the
Great):
renowmed-- i.e. renowned.--So the 8vo.--The 4to "renowned."
--The form "RENOWMED" (Fr. RENOMME) occurs repeatedly
afterwards in this play, according to the 8vo. It is
occasionally found in writers posterior to Marlowe's
time. e.g.
"Of Constantines great towne RENOUM'D in vaine."
Verses to King James, prefixed to Lord Stirling's
MONARCHICKE TRAGEDIES, ed. 1607.--]
[Footnote 42: Albertus'-- i.e. Albertus Magnus.--The correction of I. M.
in Gent. Mag. for Jan. 1841.--All the 4tos "Albanus."]
[Footnote 43: cunning-- i.e. skill.]
[Footnote 44: Enter two SCHOLARS-- Scene, perhaps, supposed to be before
Faustus's house, as Wagner presently says, "My master is within
at dinner."]
[Footnote 45: upon-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "vpon't."]
[Footnote 46: speak, would-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "speake, IT would."]
[Footnote 47: my dear brethren-- This repetition (not found in the later 4tos)
is perhaps an error of the original compositor.]
[Footnote 48: Enter FAUSTUS to conjure-- The scene is supposed to be a grove;
see p. 81, last line of sec. col.
[Page 81, second column, last line:
"VALDES. Then haste thee to some solitary grove,"--]
[Footnote 49: anagrammatiz'd-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "and
Agramithist."]
[Footnote 50: Th' abbreviated-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "The breuiated."]
[Footnote 51: erring-- i.e. wandering.]
[Footnote 52: surgat Mephistophilis, quod tumeraris-- The later 4tos have
"surgat Mephistophilis DRAGON, quod tumeraris."--There is a
corruption here, which seems to defy emendation. For "quod
TUMERARIS," Mr. J. Crossley, of Manchester, would read (rejecting
the word "Dragon") "quod TU MANDARES" (the construction being
"quod tu mandares ut Mephistophilis appareat et surgat"): but the
"tu" does not agree with the preceding "vos."--The Revd. J. Mitford
proposes "surgat Mephistophilis, per Dragon (or Dagon) quod NUMEN
EST AERIS."]
[Footnote 53: dicatus-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "dicatis."]
[Footnote 54: Re-enter Mephistophilis, &c.-- According to THE HISTORY OF
DR. FAUSTUS, on which this play is founded, Faustus raises
Mephistophilis in "a thicke wood neere to Wittenberg, called
in the German tongue Spisser Wolt..... Presently, not three
fathom above his head, fell a flame in manner of a lightning,
and changed itselfe into a globe..... Suddenly the globe opened,
and sprung up in the height of a man; so burning a time, in the
end it converted to the shape of a fiery man[?-- This pleasant
beast ran about the circle a great while, and, lastly, appeared
in the manner of a Gray Fryer, asking Faustus what was his
request?" Sigs. A 2, A 3, ed. 1648. Again; "After Doctor Faustus
had made his promise to the devill, in the morning betimes he
called the spirit before him, and commanded him that he should
alwayes come to him like a fryer after the order of Saint Francis,
with a bell in his hand like Saint Anthony, and to ring it once
or twice before he appeared, that he might know of his certaine
coming." Id. Sig. A 4.]
[Footnote 55: came hither-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "came
NOW hither."]
[Footnote 56: accidens-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "accident."]
[Footnote 57: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it-- Compare Milton,
Par. Lost, iv. 75;
"Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell."]
[Footnote 58: these-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "those."]
[Footnote 59: Jove's-- See note ‡, p. 80. [i.e. Note 24]
: ]
[Footnote 60: four and twenty-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "24."]
[Footnote 61: resolve-- i.e. satisfy, inform.]
[Footnote 62: thorough-- So one of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "through."]
[Footnote 63: country-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "land."]
[Footnote 64: desir'd-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "desire."]
[Footnote 65: Enter WAGNER, &c.-- Scene, a street most probably.]
[Footnote 66: pickadevaunts-- i.e. beards cut to a point.]
[Footnote 67: by'r lady-- i.e. by our Lady.]
[Footnote 68: Qui mihi discipulus-- The first words of W. Lily's
AD DISCIPULOS CARMEN DE MORIBUS,
"Qui mihi discipulus, puer, es, cupis atque doceri,
Huc ades," &c.]
[Footnote 69: staves-acre-- A species of larkspur.]
[Footnote 70: vermin-- Which the seeds of staves-acre were used to destroy.]
[Footnote 71: familiars-- i.e. attendant-demons.]
[Footnote 72: their-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "my."]
[Footnote 73: slop-- i.e. wide breeches.]
[Footnote 74: vile-- Old ed. "vild." See note || p. 68.
[Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the
Great):
Vile-- The 8vo "Vild"; the 4to "Wild" (Both eds. a little
before, have "VILE monster, born of some infernal hag", and,
a few lines after, "To VILE and ignominious servitude":--the
fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with
their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form,
and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623,
where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")]
[Footnote 75: vestigiis nostris-- All the 4tos "vestigias nostras."]
[Footnote 76: of-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.]
[Footnote 77: me-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.]
[Footnote 78: he lives-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "I liue."]
[Footnote 79: why-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.]
[Footnote 80: Solamen miseris, &c.-- An often-cited line of modern Latin
poetry: by whom it was written I know not.]
[Footnote 81: Why-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.]
[Footnote 82: torture-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "tortures."]
[Footnote 83: Faustus-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.]
[Footnote 84: Bill-- i.e. writing, deed.]
[Footnote 85: Here's fire; come, Faustus, set it on-- This would not
be intelligible without the assistance of THE HISTORY OF
DR. FAUSTUS, the sixth chapter of which is headed,--"How Doctor
Faustus set his blood in a saucer on warme ashes, and writ as
followeth." Sig. B, ed. 1648.]
[Footnote 86: But what is this inscription, &c.-- "He [Faustus-- tooke
a small penknife and prickt a veine in his left hand; and for
certainty thereupon were seen on his hand these words written,