The Tragical History of Doctor FaustusFrom the Quarto of 1604
 

 71 (return) [ familiars— i.e. attendant-demons.] 

 

 72 (return) [ their— So the later 4tos.—2to 1604 "my."] 

 

 73 (return) [ slop— i.e. wide breeches.] 

 

 74 (return) [ 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.")] 

 

 75 (return) [ vestigiis nostris— All the 4tos "vestigias nostras."] 

 

 76 (return) [ of— So the later 4tos.—Not in 4to 1604.] 

 

 77 (return) [ me— So the later 4tos.—Not in 4to 1604.] 

 

 78 (return) [ he lives— So the later 4tos.—2to 1604 "I liue."] 

 


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