173 (return) [ of: i.e. on.]     

  

       174 (return) [ sway: So 4tos 1616, 1631.—2to 1624 "stay."]     

  

       175 (return) [ this attempt against the conjurer: See note, * p. 95.     

      Note *, from p. 95. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604):      "Mephistophilis, transform him straight: According to THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, the knight was not present during Faustus's "conference" with the Emperor; nor did he offer the doctor any insult by doubting his skill in magic. We are there told that Faustus happening to see the knight asleep, "leaning out of a window of the great hall," fixed a huge pair of hart's horns on his head; "and, as the knight awaked, thinking to pull in his head, he hit his hornes against the glasse, that the panes thereof flew about his eares:  thinke here how this good gentleman was vexed, for      he could neither get backward nor forward."  After the emperor and the courtiers, to their great amusement, had beheld the poor knight in this condition, Faustus removed the horns. When Faustus, having taken leave of the emperor, was a league and a half from the city, he was attacked in a wood by the knight and some of his companions:  they were in armour, and mounted on fair palfreys; but the doctor 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." ] 

  

       176 (return) [ that: So 4to 1616.—2tos 1624, 1631, "the."]     

  

       177 (return) [ my: So 4to 1616.—2tos 1624, 1631, "thy."]     

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