[Footnote 30: only-- Qy. "alone"? (This line is not in the later 4tos.)]
[Footnote 31: vile-- Old ed. "vild": but see note ||, p. 68.--(This line is not in the later 4tos.)
[Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great):]
Vile-- The 8vo "Vild"; the 4to "Wild" (Both eds. a little before, have "VILE monster, born of some infernal hag", and, a few lines after, "To VILE and ignominious servitude":--the fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")--]
[Footnote 32: concise syllogisms-- Old ed. "Consissylogismes."]
[Footnote 33: cunning-- i.e. knowing, skilful.]
[Footnote 34: Agrippa-- i.e. Cornelius Agrippa.]
[Footnote 35: shadow-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "shadowes."]
[Footnote 36: spirits-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "subiects."]
[Footnote 37: Almain rutters-- See note , p. 43.]
[Note from p. 43. (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great):
Almains, Rutters-- Rutters are properly--German troopers (reiter, reuter). In the third speech after the present one this line is repeated VERBATIM: but in the first scene of our author's FAUSTUS we have, "Like ALMAIN RUTTERS with their horsemen's staves."--]
[Footnote 38: have the-- So two of the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "in their."]
[Footnote 39: From-- So the later 4tos.--2to 1604 "For."]
[Footnote 40: in-- So the later 4tos.--Not in 4to 1604.]
[Footnote 41: renowm'd-- See note ||, p. 11.]
[Note || from p. 11. (The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great):
renowmed-- i.e. renowned.--So the 8vo.--The 4to "renowned." --The form "RENOWMED" (Fr. RENOMME) occurs repeatedly afterwards in this play, according to the 8vo. It is occasionally found in writers posterior to Marlowe's time. e.g. "Of Constantines great towne RENOUM'D in vaine." Verses to King James, prefixed to Lord Stirling's MONARCHICKE TRAGEDIES, ed. 1607.--]
[Footnote 42: Albertus'-- i.e. Albertus Magnus.--The correction of I. M. in Gent. Mag. for Jan. 1841.--All the 4tos "Albanus."]
[Footnote 44: Enter two SCHOLARS-- Scene, perhaps, supposed to be before Faustus's house, as Wagner presently says, "My master is within at dinner."]