[Exeunt.]
Enter CHORUS.
CHORUS. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough,
That sometime grew within this learned man.
Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall,
Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise,
Only to wonder at unlawful things,
Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits
To practise more than heavenly power permits.
[Exit.]
Terminat hora diem; terminat auctor opus.
<1> Carthagens] So 4tos 1616, 1624, (and compare 4to 1604,
p. 79).--2to 1631 "Carthagen."
"Where Mars did mate the Carthaginians;">
<2> her] Old eds. "his."
<3> of] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "and."
<4> upon] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624<,> 1631<,> "on the."
<5> thousand] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "diuers."
<6> them] So 4to 1616.--2tos 1624, 1631, "men."
<7> legatur] Old eds. "legatus."
<8> petty] I may notice that 4to 1604 has "pretty," which is
perhaps the right reading.
<9> &c.] So 4tos 1624, 1631.--Not in 4to 1616.
<10> circles, scenes, letters, and characters] So 4to 1604 (see
note ‡‡, p. 80).--The later 4tos "circles, letters, characters."
"scenes] "And sooner may a gulling weather-spie
By drawing forth heavens SCEANES tell certainly," &c.
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