Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1
  

       41 (return) [ Shall we all offer] The 8vo "Shall we offer" (the word "all" having dropt out).—The 4to "WE ALL SHALL offer."]     

  

       42 (return) [ in] The 8vo "it."—Omitted in the 4to.]     

  

       43 (return) [ triumph'd] So the 8vo.—The 4to "tryumph."]     

  

       44 (return) [ brave] i.e. splendidly clad.]     

  

       45 (return) [ top] So the 4to.—The 8vo "foot."]     

  

       46 (return) [ mails] i.e. bags, budgets.]     

  

       47 (return) [ lance] So the 4to.—Here the 8vo has "lanch;" but more than once in the SEC. PART of the play it has "lance."]     

  

       48 (return) [ this] So the 8vo.—The 4to "the."—Qy. "Where is this Scythian SHEPHERD Tamburlaine"? Compare the next words of Theridamas.]     

  

       49 (return) [ vaults] Here the 8vo has       "vauts,"—"which," says one of the modern editors, "was common in Marlowe's time:" and so it was; but in the SEC. PART of this play, act ii. sc. 4, the same 8vo gives,—     

    "As we descend into the infernal VAULTS."] 

  


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