136 (return) [ struck: Here the old eds. have "stroke" and "strooke:" but in the next clause they all agree in having "strucke."]     

  

       137 (return) [ on: So 4tos 1624, 1631.—Not in 4to 1616.]     

  

       138 (return) [ same: So 4tos 1616, 1624.—Not in 4to 1631.]     

  

       139 (return) [ at the hard heels: The modern editors, ignorant of the old phraseology, thought that they corrected this passage in printing "hard at the heels."]     

  

       140 (return) [ Vintner: So all the old eds.; and presently Robin addresses this person as "vintner:" yet Dick has just spoken of him as "the Vintner's boy." See note ||, p. 93.     

      Note ||, from p. 93. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604):      "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." ] 

  

       141 (return) [ your: So 4tos 1616, 1631.—Not in 4to 1624.]     

  

       142 (return) [ much: Equivalent to—by no means, not at all. This ironical exclamation is very common in our old dramatists. (Mr. Hunter, —NEW ILLUST. OF SHAKESPEARE, ii. 56,—explains it very differently.)]     

  

       143 (return) [ By lady: i.e. By our Lady.]     

  

       144 (return) [ to: So 4tos 1616, 1624.—Not in 4to 1631.]     

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