vild— Old ed. "vild."  See note ||, p. 68. 

    [Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great):       Vile— The 8vo "Vild"; the 4to "Wild" (Both eds. a little before, have "VILE monster, born of some infernal hag", and, a few lines after, "To VILE and ignominious servitude":—the fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, and now the other:  compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")—] 

 

 156 (return) [ sin— Old ed. "sinnes" (This is not in the later 4tos).] 

 

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

 

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

 

 159 (return) [ MEPHIST. Do it, then, quickly, &c.— After this speech, most probably, there ought to be a stage-direction, "FAUSTUS STABS HIS ARM, AND WRITES ON A PAPER WITH HIS BLOOD. Compare THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, chap. xlix,—"How Doctor Faustus wrote the second time with his owne blood, and gave it to the Devill."] 

 

 160 (return) [ One thing, good servant, &c.— "To the end that this miserable Faustus might fill the lust of his flesh and live in all manner of voluptuous pleasure, it came in his mind, after he had slept his first sleepe, and in the 23 year past of his time, that he had a great desire to lye with faire Helena of Greece, especially her whom he had seen and shewed unto the students at Wittenberg: wherefore he called unto his spirit Mephostophiles, commanding him to bring to him the faire Helena; which he also did. Whereupon he fell in love with her, and made her his common concubine and bed-fellow; for she was so beautifull and delightfull a peece, that he could not be one houre from her, if he should therefore have suffered death, she had so stoln away his heart:  and, to his seeming, in time she was with childe, whom Faustus named Justus Faustus. The childe told Doctor Faustus many things which were 

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