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[Footnote 80: Solamen miseris, &c.-- An often-cited line of modern Latin ed. 1648. A later ed. adds "he desired." Marlowe, no doubt, should bring him any thing, and doe for him whatsoever." Sig. A 4, a small penknife and prickt a veine in his left hand; and for certainty thereupon were seen on his hand these words written, DR. FAUSTUS, the sixth chapter of which is headed,--"How Doctor [Footnote 83: Faustus-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] as if they had been written with blood, O HOMO, FUGE." [Footnote 86: But what is this inscription, &c.-- "He [Faustus-- tooke just cited, the "3d Article" stands thus,--"That Mephostophiles poetry: by whom it was written I know not.] Faustus set his blood in a saucer on warme ashes, and writ as [Footnote 85: Here's fire; come, Faustus, set it on-- This would not (2to 1661, which I consider as of no authority, has "he [Footnote 89: that, &c.-- So all the 4tos, ungrammatically.] followeth." Sig. B, ed. 1648.] or something equivalent to them, had been omitted by mistake. [Footnote 88: he desires-- Not in any of the four 4tos. In the tract [Footnote 90: these-- See note §, p. 80.[i.e. Note 25] be intelligible without the assistance of THE HISTORY OF [Footnote 87: me-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "thee."] [Footnote 81: Why-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] [Footnote 84: Bill-- i.e. writing, deed.] requireth.")] followed some edition of the HISTORY in which these words, [Footnote 82: torture-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "tortures."] THE HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, Sig. B, ed. 1648.]

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