quickly overcame them by turning all the bushes into horsemen, and "so charmed them, that every one, knight and other, for the space of a whole moneth, did weare a paire of goates hornes on their browes, and every palfry a paire of oxe hornes on his head; and this was their penance appointed by Faustus."  A second attempt of the knight to revenge himself on Faustus proved equally unsuccessful. Sigs. G 2, I 3, ed. 1648.] 

 

 139 (return) [ FAUSTUS. Now Mephistophilis, &c.— Here the scene is supposed to be changed to the "fair and pleasant green" which Faustus presently mentions.] 

 

 140 (return) [ Horse-courser— i.e. Horse-dealer.—We are now to suppose the scene to be near the home of Faustus, and presently that it is the interior of his house, for he falls asleep in his chair.—"How Doctor Faustus deceived a Horse-courser" is related in a short chapter (the 34th) of THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS:  "After this manner he served a horse-courser at a faire called Pheiffering," &c.] 

 

 141 (return) [ for forty— Qy. "for TWICE forty DOLLARS"?] 

 

 142 (return) [ into— So the later 4tos.—2to 1604 "vnto."] 

 

 143 (return) [ Doctor Lopus— i.e. Doctor Lopez, domestic physician to Queen Elizabeth, who was put to death for having received a bribe from the court of Spain to destroy her. He is frequently mentioned in our early dramas:  see my note on Middleton's WORKS, iv. 384.] 

 

 144 (return) [ know of— The old ed. has "KNOWNE of"; which perhaps is right, meaning—acquainted with.] 

 

 145 (return) [ hey-pass— Equivalent to—juggler.] 

 

 146 (return) [ ostry— i.e. inn,—lodging.] 

 

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