HE earliest known edition of The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is that of 1604; there is a second edition with date of 1609, agreeing in almost every particular with the first; a third edition with new scenes and many alterations, was published in 1616. The text here given is that of 1604, with some readings adopted from the edition of 1616, in general agreement with the texts of Dyce and Bullen. It is very doubtful if any of the additions in the edition of 1616 are by Marlowe ; Mr. Bullen thinks that some of them are. They are often ingenious, and sometimes they are improvements. They may have been written by a clever and facile imitator of Marlowe's style. The comic additions are taken from the prose History of the damnable Life and deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus; the serious additions are closely moulded on Marlowe's early work. We know that in 1602 William Bird and Samuel Rowley received four pounds for making "adicyones" to Faustus. I have retained the excellent plan, introduced by Professor Ward and adopted by Mr. Bullen, of dividing the play into scenes only: it is a dramatic poem rather than a regular drama.

Vintner, Horse-Courser, Knight, Old Man, Scholars,

Friars, and Attendants.

DUCHESS of VANHOLT.

LUCIFER.

BELZEBUB.

MEPHISTOPHILIS.

Good Angel.

Evil Angel.

The Seven Deadly Sins.

Devils.

Spirits in the shape of ALEXAnder the GrEAT, of his Paramour, and of HELEN of TROY.

Chorus.

THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF

DOCTOR FAUSTUS.

Enter CHORUS.

HORUS. Not marching now in fields. of Trasymene,

Where Mars did mate1 the Carthaginians;

Nor. sporting in the dalliance of
love,

In courts of kings where state is overturned;
Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds,
Intends our Muse to vaunt his heavenly verse:
Only this, gentlemen, we must perform
The form of Faustus' fortunes, good or bad;
To patient judgments we appeal our plaud,
And speak for Faustus in his infancy.
Now is he born, his parents base of stock,
In Germany, within a town called Rhodes ;2

Of riper years to Wertenberg he went,

1 Confound. The Carthaginians were, however, victorious at Lake Trasimenus.

2 Roda, in the Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg.-Bullen,