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• Preface
• Publisher's Notice
• Introduction
• Tamburlaine the Great. In Two Parts.
• Tamburlaine the Great, Part Tbe First.
• The Prologue.
• Persons Represented. 1
• Tamburlaine the Great. Part the First.: Act the First.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Act the Second.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Scene VII.
• Act the Third.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Act the Fourth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act the Fifth.
• Scene I.
• Tamburlaine the Great. Part the Second
• Prologue.
• Persons Represented.
• Tamburlaine the Great. Part the Second: Act the First.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene II.
• Act the Second.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act the Third.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Act the Fourth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act the Fifth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.
• Persons Represented.
• The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI. 1
• Scene VII.
• Scene VIII.
• Scene IX.
• Scene X.
• Scene XI.
• Scene XII.
• Scene XIII.
• Scene XIV.
• Scene XV.
• Scene XVI.
• Appendix to Dr. Faustus.
• Ballad of Faustus.

SCENE IX.

Enter2 ROBIN and RALPH with a silver goblet.

Robin.

• Come, Ralph, did not I tell thee we were for ever made by this Doctor Faustus' book? ecce signum, here's a simple purchase3 for horsekeepers; our horses shall eat no hay as long as this lasts.

Ralph.

• But, Robin, here comes the Vintner.

Robin.

• Hush! I'll gull him supernaturally.
• Enter Vintner.
• Drawer, I hope all is paid: God be with you; come, Ralph.

Vint.

• Soft, sir; a word with you. I must yet have a goblet paid from you, ere you go,

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Robin.

• I, a goblet, Ralph; I, a goblet! I scorn you, and you are but a1 & c. I, a goblet! search me.

Vint.

• I mean so, sir, with your favour.
• [Searches him.

Robin.

• How say you now?

Vint.

• I must say somewhat to your fellow. You, sir!

Ralph.

• Me, sir! me, sir! search your fill. [Vintner searches him.~ Now, sir, you may be ashamed to burden honest men with a matter of truth.

Vint.

• Well, t'one2 of you hath this goblet about you.

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Robin.

• You lie, drawer, 'tis afore me. [Aside.] Sirrah you, I'll teach you to impeach honest men;—stand by; —I'll scour you for a goblet!—stand aside you had best, I charge you in the name of Belzebub. Look to the goblet, Ralph.
• [Aside to RALPH.

Vint.

• What mean you, sirrah?

Robin.

• I'll tell you what I mean. [Reads from a bwk.] Sanctobulorum Periphrasticon—Nay, I'll tickle you, Vintner. Look to the goblet, Ralph.
• [Aside to RALPH.
• [Reads.] Polypragmos Belseboramsframantopacostiphos tostu, Mephistophilis, & c.

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• Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS, sets squibs at their backs, and then exit. They run about.

Vint.

• O nomine Domini! what meanest thou, Robin? thou hast no goblet

Ralph.

• Peccatum peccatorum Here's thy goblet, good Vintner.
• [Gives the goblet to Vintner, who exit.

Robin.

• Misericordia pro nobisi What shall I do? Good devil, forgive me now, and I'll never rob thy library more.
• Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS.

Meph1

• Monarch of Hell, under whose black survey
• Great potentates do kneel with awful fear,

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• Upon whose altars thousand souls do lie,
• How am I vexed with these villains' charms?
• From Constantinople am I hither come
• Only for pleasure of these damned slaves.

Robin.

• How from Constantinople? You have had a great journey: will you take sixpence in your purse to pay for your supper, and begone?

Meph.

• Well, villains, for your presumption, I transform thee into an ape, and thee into a dog; and so begone.
• [Exit.

Robin.

• How, into an ape; that's brave! I'll have fine sport with the boys. I'll get nuts and apples enow.

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Ralph.

• And I must be a dog.

Robin.

• I'faith thy head will never be out of the pottage pot.
• [Exeunt.1

[2]Dyce supposes that a scene has dropped out before the re-entrance of Robin and Ralph. Scene an Inn-yard as before. (The text of ed. 1616 is given in the Appendix.)

[3]See note 3, p. 42.

[1]The choice of abuse was left to the actor (who was no doubt equal to the occasion). In an old play, the Tryallof C/itvalry (1605), we find the stage direction, “Exit Clown, speaking anything.”

[2]The one.

[1]Eds. 1604, 1609, read:—“Meph. Vanish, villaines, th' one like an ape, another like a bear, the third an ass for doing this enterprise,” then proceeding as m the text. The words that I have omitted are (as D)ce observed) quite unnecessary.

[1]For what follows in ed. 1616 see Appendix.