[1069] Below 'up,' Sig. C ii.
[1070] These tricks of magic are the staple of tales and chapbooks about conjurers, and make a braver showing in plays like Doctor Faustus and Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. See the latter play in this volume, and Mr. Ward's introduction to his edition of the two dramas.
[1071] Later editions omit. The formula is less uncanny than usual; but the two cocks have grim associations. The dark-red cock of Scandinavian myth belonged to the underworld. See The Wife of Usher's Well, and R. Köhler in the Germania, XI. 85 ff.
[1072] The local hits are to be noted: praise for roast beef of England, wine of France, and girding at Spain, at brewers,—one thinks of Falstaff's complaint about the lime in his sack,—friars, and usurers.
[1073] Below 'begon,' Sig. C iii.
[1074] B. prints: 'heaven [n]or hell shall rescue her from me.'
[1075] Did this Echo suggest the song in Comus?
[1076] The "Life-Index," so called, of popular tales, connected with the equally popular motif of the "Thankful Dead."
[1077] Erestus.
[1078] Misprint for 'Corebus.'