don in forraign countrys; but in the end, when Faustus lost his life, the mother and the childe vanished away both together." THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. I 4, ed. 1648.] 

 

 161 (return) [ Those— So the later 4tos.—2to 1604 "These."] 

 

 162 (return) [ Faustus, this— Qy. "This, Faustus"?] 

 

 163 (return) [ topless— i.e. not exceeded in height by any.] 

 

 164 (return) [ is— So the later 4tos.—2to 1604 "be."] 

 

 165 (return) [ shalt— So all the 4tos; and so I believe Marlowe wrote, though the grammar requires "shall."] 

 

 166 (return) [ Enter the OLD MAN— Scene, a room in the Old Man's house. —In THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS the Old Man makes himself very merry with the attempts of the evil powers to hurt him.  "About two dayes after that he had exhorted Faustus, as the poore man lay in his bed, suddenly there was a mighty rumbling in the chamber, the which he was never wont to heare, and he heard as it had beene the groaning of a sow, which lasted long:  whereupon the good old man began to jest and mocke, and said, Oh, what a barbarian cry is this? Oh faire bird, what foul musicke is this? A[h—, faire angell, that could not tarry two dayes in his place! beginnest thou now to runne into a poore mans house, where thou hast no power, and wert not able to keepe thy owne two dayes? With these and such like words the spirit departed," &c. Sig. I 2, ed. 1648.] 

 

 167 (return) [ Enter Faustus, &c.— Scene, a room in the house of Faustus.] 

 

 168 (return) [ cunning— i.e. knowledge, skill.] 

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