The Tragical History of Doctor FaustusFrom the Quarto of 1604
 

 45 (return) [ upon— So the later 4tos.—2to 1604 "vpon't."] 

 

 46 (return) [ speak, would— So the later 4tos.—2to 1604 "speake, IT would."] 

 

 47 (return) [ my dear brethren— This repetition (not found in the later 4tos) is perhaps an error of the original compositor.] 

 

 48 (return) [ 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,"—] 

 

 49 (return) [ anagrammatiz'd— So the later 4tos.—2to 1604 "and Agramithist."] 

 

 50 (return) [ Th' abbreviated— So the later 4tos.—2to 1604 "The breuiated."] 

 

 51 (return) [ erring— i.e. wandering.] 

 

 52 (return) [ 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."] 

 

 53 (return) [ dicatus— So two of the later 4tos.—2to 1604 
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