something equivalent to them, had been omitted by mistake. (2to 1661, which I consider as of no authority, has "he requireth.")] 

 

 89 (return) [ that, &c.— So all the 4tos, ungrammatically.] 

 

 90 (return) [ these— See note §, p. 80.[i.e. Note 25] : ] 

 

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

 

 92 (return) [ are— So two of the later 4tos.—2to 1604 "is."] 

 

 93 (return) [ fond— i.e. foolish.] 

 

 94 (return) [ What! walking, disputing, &c.— The later 4tos have "What, SLEEPING, EATING, walking, AND disputing!" But it is evident that this speech is not given correctly in any of the old eds.] 

 

 95 (return) [ let me have a wife, &c.— The ninth chapter of THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS narrates "How Doctor Faustus would have married, and how the Devill had almost killed him for it," and concludes as follows.  "It is no jesting [said Mephistophilis— with us: hold thou that which thou hast vowed, and we will peforme as we have promised; and more shall that, thou shalt have thy hearts desire of what woman soever thou wilt, be she alive or dead, and so long as thou wilt thou shalt keep her by thee.—These words pleased Faustus wonderfull well, and repented himself that he was so foolish to wish himselfe married, that might have any woman in the whole city brought him at his command; the which he practised and persevered in a long time."  Sig. B 3, ed. 1648.] 

 

 96 (return) [ me— Not in 4to 1604.  (This line is wanting in the later 4tos.)] 

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