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) your] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--Not in 4to 1624.
(142) 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) By lady] i.e. By our Lady.
(144) to] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--Not in 4to 1631.
(145) tester] i.e. sixpence.
(146) the state] i.e. the raised chair or throne, with a canopy.
(147) perfect] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--2to 1616 "warlike."
(148) rouse] i.e. bumper.
(149) a] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "ten."
(150) a] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--2to 1631 "the."
(151) renowm'd] Old eds. "renown'd"; but earlier, p. 109, first col., 4to 1616 has "renowm'd": (see note 23) and see note ||, p. 11.
(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.")
(152) through] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--2to 1631 "thorow."
(153) These] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "Those."
(154) through] So 4tos 1616, 1624.--2to 1631 "thorow."
(155) a] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--Not in 4to 1616.
(156) this] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "the."
(157) demand] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "demands."
(158) door] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--Not in 4to 1616.
(159) state] See note §, p. 122.(i.e. note 146)--So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "seat."
(160) These] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "They."
(161) renowmed] Old eds. "renowned." See note ‡, p. 123. (i.e. note 151)
(162) thoughts] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "thought."
(163) whilst] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "while."
(164) I gain'd] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "I HAD gain'd."
(165) at window] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "at THE window."
(166) is] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--Not in 4to 1616.
(167) this is] So 4to 1624 (and rightly, as the next line proves).--2tos 1616, 1631, "is this."
(168) As] So 4to 1616.--2to 1624 "That."--2to 1631 "And."
(169) Belimoth....Asteroth] Old eds. here "Belimote (and "Belimot") ....Asterote": but see p. 126, first col.
(P. 126. (this play):
"But wherefore do I dally my revenge?-- Asteroth, Belimoth, Mephistophilis?")
(170) has] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "hath."
(171) horns] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "horne."
(172) sir] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--Not in 4to 1624.
(173) of] i.e. on.
(174) sway] So 4tos 1616, 1631.--2to 1624 "stay."
(175) 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.