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[ MEPHIST— Monarch of hell, &c.— Old ed. thus:—]
“MEPHIST. Vanish vilaines, th’ one like an Ape, an other like
a Beare, the third an Asse, for doing this enterprise.
Monarch of hell, vnder whose blacke suruey,” &c.
What follows, shews that the words which I have omitted ought to have no place in the text; nor is there any thing equivalent to them in the corresponding passage of the play as given in the later 4tos.]
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[ Enter EMPEROR, &c.— Scene—An apartment in the Emperor’s Palace. According to THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, the Emperor “was personally, with the rest of the nobles and gentlemen, at the towne of Inzbrack, where he kept his court.” Sig. G, ed. 1648.]
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[ Master Doctor Faustus, &c— The greater part of this scene is closely borrowed from the history just cited: e.g. “Faustus, I have heard much of thee, that thou art excellent in the black art, and none like thee in mine empire; for men say that thou hast a familiar spirit with thee, and that thou canst doe what thou list; it is therefore (said the Emperor) my request of thee, that thou let me see a proofe of thy experience: and I vow unto thee, by the honour of my emperiall crowne, none evill shall happen unto thee for so doing,” &c. Ibid.]
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[ won— May be right: but qy. “done”?]