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where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")--] to bring to him the faire Helena; which he also did. Whereupon he his first sleepe, and in the 23 year past of his time, that he had a great desire to lye with faire Helena of Greece, especially wherefore he called unto his spirit Mephostophiles, commanding him Faustus might fill the lust of his flesh and live in all manner THE HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, chap. xlix,--"How Doctor Faustus his seeming, in time she was with childe, whom Faustus named her whom he had seen and shewed unto the students at Wittenberg: [Footnote 160: One thing, good servant, &c.-- "To the end that this miserable [Footnote 157: almost-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with most probably, there ought to be a stage-direction, "FAUSTUS bed-fellow; for she was so beautifull and delightfull a peece, [Footnote 158: now-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.] STABS HIS ARM, AND WRITES ON A PAPER WITH HIS BLOOD. Compare their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, wrote the second time with his owne blood, and gave it to the fell in love with her, and made her his common concubine and that he could not be one houre from her, if he should therefore [Footnote 159: MEPHIST. Do it, then, quickly, &c.-- After this speech, have suffered death, she had so stoln away his heart: and, to of voluptuous pleasure, it came in his mind, after he had slept Justus Faustus. The childe told Doctor Faustus many things which and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, Devill."] [Footnote 156: sin-- Old ed. "sinnes" (This is not in the later 4tos).]

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