124 (return) [ ippocras— Or HIPPOCRAS,—a medicated drink composed of wine (usually red) with spices and sugar. It is generally supposed to have been so called from HIPPOCRATES (contracted by our earliest writers to HIPPOCRAS); perhaps because it was strained,—the woollen bag used by apothecaries to strain syrups and decoctions for clarification being termed HIPPOCRATES' SLEEVE.] 

 

 125 (return) [ tabern— i.e. tavern.] 

 

 126 (return) [      [Exeunt. Enter ROBIN and RALPH, &c.— A scene is evidently wanting after the Exeunt of Robin and Ralph.] 

 

 127 (return) [ purchase— i.e. booty—gain, acquisition.] 

 

 128 (return) [ Drawer— There is an inconsistency here:  the Vintner cannot properly be addressed as "Drawer."  The later 4tos are also inconsistent in the corresponding passage:  Dick says, "THE VINTNER'S BOY follows us at the hard heels," and immediately the "VINTNER" enters.] 

 

 129 (return) [ tone— i.e. the one.] 

 

 130 (return) [ MEPHIST— Monarch of hell, &c.— Old ed. thus:—] 

    "MEPHIST. Vanish vilaines, th' one like an Ape, an other like a Beare, the third an Asse, for doing this enterprise. Monarch of hell, vnder whose blacke suruey," &c. 

 What follows, shews that the words which I have omitted ought to have no place in the text; nor is there any thing equivalent to them in the corresponding passage of the play as given in the later 4tos.] 

 

 131 (return) [ Enter EMPEROR, &c.— Scene—An apartment in the Emperor's Palace. According to THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, the Emperor "was personally, with the rest of the nobles and gentlemen, at the towne of Inzbrack, where he kept his court."  Sig. G, ed. 1648.] 

 

 132 (return) [ Master Doctor 

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