Come, gentlemen, let us go visit Faustus, For such a dreadful night was never seen; Since first the world's creation did begin, Such fearful shrieks and cries were never heard: Pray heaven the doctor have escap'd the danger.
SECOND SCHOLAR. O, help us, heaven!(265) see, here are Faustus' limbs, All torn asunder by the hand of death!
THIRD SCHOLAR. The devils whom Faustus serv'd have(266) torn him thus; For, twixt the hours of twelve and one, methought, I heard him shriek and call aloud for help; At which self(267) time the house seem'd all on fire With dreadful horror of these damned fiends.
SECOND SCHOLAR. Well, gentlemen, though Faustus' end be such As every Christian heart laments to think on, Yet, for he was a scholar once admir'd For wondrous knowledge in our German schools, We'll give his mangled limbs due burial; And all the students, cloth'd in mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. [Exeunt.]
Enter CHORUS.
CHORUS. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits. [Exit.]
Terminat hora diem; terminat auctor opus.
(1) Carthagens] So 4tos 1616, 1624, (and compare 4to 1604, p. 79).--2to 1631 "Carthagen."
(p. 79. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604):
"Where Mars did mate the Carthaginians;")
(2) her] Old eds. "his."
(3) of] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "and."
(4) upon] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624(,) 1631(,) "on the."
(5) thousand] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "diuers."
(6) them] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "men."
(7) legatur] Old eds. "legatus."
(8) petty] I may notice that 4to 1604 has "pretty," which is perhaps the right reading.
(9) &c.] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--Not in 4to 1616.
(10) circles, scenes, letters, and characters] So 4to 1604 (see note ‡‡, p. 80).--The later 4tos "circles, letters, characters."
(Note ‡‡, from p. 80. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604):
"scenes] "And sooner may a gulling weather-spie By drawing forth heavens SCEANES tell certainly," &c. Donne's FIRST SATYRE,--p. 327, ed. 1633.")
(11) gain] So 4tos 1624, 1631 (and so 4to 1604).--2to 1616 "get."
(12) these] See note §, p. 80.
(Note §, from p. 80. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604):
"these elements] So again, "Within the bowels of THESE elements," &c., (on) p. 87, first col,--"THESE" being equivalent to THE. (Not unfrequently in our old writers THESE is little more than redundant.)")
(13) enterprise] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "enterprises."
(14) make swift Rhine circle fair] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "WITH swift Rhine circle ALL."
(15) silk] Old eds. "skill."
(16) blest] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "wise."
(17) Swarm] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "Sworne."
(18) to] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631.
(19) have] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "has."
(20) shall they] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "they shall."
(21) huge] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "whole."
(22) stuffs] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "stuff'd."
(23) renowm'd] So 4to 1616 (See note ||, p. 11).--2tos 1624, 1631, "renown'd."
(Note ||, from p. 11. (The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great):
"renowmed] i.e. renowned.--So the 8vo.--The 4to "renowned." --The form "RENOWMED" (Fr. RENOMME) occurs repeatedly afterwards in this play, according to the 8vo. It is occasionally found in writers posterior to Marlowe's time. e.g. "Of Constantines great towne RENOUM'D in vaine." Verses to King James, prefixed to Lord Stirling's MONARCHICKE TRAGEDIES, ed. 1607.")
(24) Albertus'] Old eds. "Albanus."
(25) that] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--2to 1631 "the."
(26) him] So 4to 1616.--Not in 4tos 1624, 1631.