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[Footnote 92: are-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "is."] [Footnote 96: me-- Not in 4to 1604. (This line is wanting in the later 4tos.)] [Footnote 95: let me have a wife, &c.-- The ninth chapter of THE HISTORY [Footnote 97: no-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] and so long as thou wilt thou shalt keep her by thee.--These have promised; and more shall that, thou shalt have thy hearts [Footnote 100: And argue of divine astrology, &c.-- In THE HISTORY OF he practised and persevered in a long time." Sig. B 3, ed. 1648.] OF DR. FAUSTUS narrates "How Doctor Faustus would have married, but our dramatist, in the dialogue which follows, has no woman in the whole city brought him at his command; the which as follows. "It is no jesting [said Mephistophilis-- with us: [Footnote 93: fond-- i.e. foolish.] hold thou that which thou hast vowed, and we will peforme as we he was so foolish to wish himselfe married, that might have any [Footnote 98: Saba-- i.e. Sabaea--the Queen of Sheba.] particular obligations to them.] [Footnote 91: there-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] desire of what woman soever thou wilt, be she alive or dead, SLEEPING, EATING, walking, AND disputing!" But it is evident [Footnote 99: iterating-- i.e. reciting, repeating.] : ] and how the Devill had almost killed him for it," and concludes [Footnote 94: What! walking, disputing, &c.-- The later 4tos have "What, words pleased Faustus wonderfull well, and repented himself that DR. FAUSTUS, there are several tedious pages on the subject; that this speech is not given correctly in any of the old eds.]

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