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

 

 80 (return) [ Solamen miseris, &c.— An often-cited line of modern Latin poetry:  by whom it was written I know not.] 

 

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

 

 82 (return) [ torture— So the later 4tos.—2to 1604 "tortures."] 

 

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

 

 84 (return) [ Bill— i.e. writing, deed.] 

 

 85 (return) [ 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.] 

 

 86 (return) [ 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, as if they had been written with blood, O HOMO, FUGE." THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, Sig. B, ed. 1648.] 

 

 87 (return) [ me— So the later 4tos.—2to 1604 "thee."] 

 

 88 (return) [ he desires— Not in any of the four 4tos. In the tract just cited, the "3d Article" stands thus,—"That Mephostophiles should bring him any thing, and doe for him whatsoever."  Sig. A 4, ed. 1648. A later ed. adds "he desired."  Marlowe, no doubt, followed some edition of the HISTORY in which these words, or 

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