Transcriber's Note

The printers recycled their woodcuts (see Introduction) whether or not they actually matched the text.

The spelling is not necessarily consistent. The Author appears to have updated some of the originals, but quoted directly from others.

Errors persist, and most have not been corrected by the transcriber. It seemed best to retain original sentence structure, spelling, and punctuation.

(e.g. 'No sooner had Faustus sent his name to the writing,...' for 'No sooner had Faustus set his name to the writing,...')

The 18th century had no spelling or punctuation rules. Acceptable variants have been retained. Before about 1860-70 (and the various Victorian Public Instruction Acts) apostrophes were often absent.