169 (return) [ Why did not Faustus tell us of this before, &c.— "Wherefore one of them said unto him, Ah, friend Faustus, what have you done to conceale this matter so long from us? We would, by the helpe of good divines and the grace of God, have brought you out of this net, and have torne you out of the bondage and chaines of Satan; whereas now we feare it is too late, to the utter ruine both of your body and soule. Doctor Faustus answered, I durst never doe it, although I often minded to settle my life [myself?— to godly people to desire counsell and helpe; and once mine old neighbour counselled me that I should follow his learning and leave all my conjurations:  yet, when I was minded to amend and to follow that good mans counsell, then came the Devill and would have had me away, as this night he is like to doe, and said, so soone as I turned againe to God, he would dispatch me altogether."  THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. K 3, ed. 1648.] 

 

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

 

 171 (return) [ and what noise soever ye hear, &c.— "Lastly, to knit up my troubled oration, this is my friendly request, that you would go to rest, and let nothing trouble you; also, if you chance heare any noyse or rumbling about the house, be not therewith afraid, for there shall no evill happen unto you," &c. THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, ubi supra.] 

 

 172 (return) [ O lente, &c.      "At si, quem malles, Cephalum complexa teneres, Clamares, LENTE CURRITE, NOCTIS EQUI."           Ovid,—AMOR. i. xiii. 39.] 

 

 173 (return) [ That, when you, &c.— So all the old eds.; and it is certain that awkward changes of person are sometimes found in passages of our early poets:  but qy., 

    "That, when THEY vomit forth into the air, My limbs may issue from THEIR smoky mouths," &c.?] 

 

 174 (return) [          and I be chang'd Unto some brutish beast— "Now, thou Faustus, damned wretch, how happy wert thou, if, as an unreasonable beast, thou mightest dye without [a— soule! so shouldst thou not feele any more doubts," &c. THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. K. ed. 1648.] 

 

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