of good divines and the grace of God, have brought you out of this
net, and have torne you out of the bondage and chaines of Satan;
whereas now we feare it is too late, to the utter ruine both of
your body and soule. Doctor Faustus answered, I durst never doe
it, although I often minded to settle my life [myself?] to godly
people to desire counsell and helpe; and once mine old neighbour
counselled me that I should follow his learning and leave all my
conjurations: yet, when I was minded to amend and to follow that
good mans counsell, then came the Devill and would have had me
away, as this night he is like to doe, and said, so soone as I
turned againe to God, he would dispatch me altogether." THE
HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sig. K 3, ed. 1648.

<170> save] So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.

<171> and what noise soever ye hear, &c.] "Lastly, to knit up
my troubled oration, this is my friendly request, that you would
go to rest, and let nothing trouble you; also, if you chance heare
any noyse or rumbling about the house, be not therewith afraid,
for there shall no evill happen unto you," &c. THE HISTORY OF
DOCTOR FAUSTUS, ubi supra.

<172> O lente, &c.]
"At si, quem malles, Cephalum complexa teneres,
Clamares, LENTE CURRITE, NOCTIS EQUI."
Ovid,--AMOR. i. xiii. 39.

<173> That, when you, &c.] So all the old eds.; and it is certain
that awkward changes of person are sometimes found in passages
of our early poets: but qy.,--