Note *, from p. 101. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604):"That, when you, &c.: So all the old eds.; and it is certainthat awkward changes of person are sometimes found in passagesof our early poets: but qy.,—"That, when THEY vomit forth into the air,My limbs may issue from THEIR smoky mouths," &c.?" ]
262 (return)[ 0, if, &c.: 2to 1604, in the corresponding passage, has "Oh, GOD, if," &c. (see p. 101, sec. col.), and that reading seems necessary for the sense.
P. 101, sec. col. (Doctor Faustus, from the quarto of 1604):"Ah, half the hour is past! 'twill all be past anonO God,If thou wilt not have mercy on my soul,Yet for Christ's sake, whose blood hath ransom'd me,Impose some end to my incessant pain;" etc. ]
263 (return)[ at last: So 4to 1616.—2tos 1624, 1631, "at THE last."]
264 (return)[ Enter Scholars: Here, of course, a change of scene is supposed. (This is not in the earlier play.)]
265 (return)[ heaven: So 4to 1616.—2tos 1624, 1631, "heauens."]
266 (return)[ devils.... have: So 4to 1616.—2tos 1624, 1631, "DIUELL.... HATH."]
267 (return)[ self: So 4to 1616.—2tos 1624, 1631, "same."]