The Tragical History of Doctor FaustusFrom the Quarto of 1604
 

 97 (return) [ no— So the later 4tos.—Not in 4to 1604.] 

 

 98 (return) [ Saba— i.e. Sabaea—the Queen of Sheba.] 

 

 99 (return) [ iterating— i.e. reciting, repeating.] 

 

 100 (return) [ And argue of divine astrology, &c.— In THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, there are several tedious pages on the subject; but our dramatist, in the dialogue which follows, has no particular obligations to them.] 

 

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

 

 102 (return) [ freshmen's— "A Freshman, tiro, novitius." Coles's DICT. Properly, a student during his first term at the university.] 

 

 103 (return) [ resolve— i.e. satisfy, inform.] 

 

 104 (return) [ Seek to save— Qy. "Seek THOU to save"? But see note ||, p. 18.] 

    [Note ||, from page 18 (The First Part of Tamburlaine The Great):       Barbarous— Qy. "O Barbarous"? in the next line but one,      "O treacherous"? and in the last line of the speech,      "O bloody"? But we occasionally find in our early dramatists lines which are defective in the first syllable; and in some of these instances at least it would almost seem that nothing has been omitted by the transcriber or printer.—] 

 

 105 (return) [ Enter 
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