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[ But what is this inscription, &c.— “He [Faustus— tooke a small penknife and prickt a veine in his left hand; and for certainty thereupon were seen on his hand these words written, as if they had been written with blood, O HOMO, FUGE.” THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, Sig. B, ed. 1648.]
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[ me— So the later 4tos.—2to 1604 “thee.”]
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[ he desires— Not in any of the four 4tos. In the tract just cited, the “3d Article” stands thus,—“That Mephostophiles should bring him any thing, and doe for him whatsoever.” Sig. A 4, ed. 1648. A later ed. adds “he desired.” Marlowe, no doubt, followed some edition of the HISTORY in which these words, or something equivalent to them, had been omitted by mistake. (2to 1661, which I consider as of no authority, has “he requireth.”)]
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[ that, &c.— So all the 4tos, ungrammatically.]
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[ these— See note §, p. 80.[i.e. Note 25] : ]