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The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus - From the Quarto of 1604 by Christopher Marlowe
page 85 of 101 (84%)
LECTURES ON SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON, p. cviii.

<109> Away, to hell, to hell] In 4to 1604, these words stand
on a line by themselves, without a prefix. (In the later 4tos,
the corresponding passage is as follows;
"------ begins with Lechery.
LUCIFER. Away to hell, away! On, piper! [Exeunt the SINS.
FAUSTUS. O, how this sight doth delight my soul!" &c.)

<110> I will send for thee at midnight] In THE HISTORY OF DR.
FAUSTUS, we have a particular account of Faustus's visit
to the infernal regions, Sig. D 2, ed. 1648.

<111> Enter CHORUS] Old ed. "Enter WAGNER solus." That these
lines belong to the Chorus would be evident enough, even if we
had no assistance here from the later 4tos.--The parts of Wagner
and of the Chorus were most probably played by the same actor:
and hence the error.

<112> Learned Faustus,
To know the secrets of astronomy, &c.] See the 21st chapter
of THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS,--"How Doctor Faustus was carried
through the ayre up to the heavens, to see the whole world,
and how the sky and planets ruled," &c.

<113> Enter FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS] Scene, the Pope's
privy-chamber.

<114> Trier] i.e. Treves or Triers.

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