2. The substance of my account of Mountfort's life and work is based on Albert S. Borgman, _The Life and Death of William Mountfort_ (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1935).
3. _An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber_, ed. B. R. S. Fone (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1968), p. 117.
4. Charles Gildon, _The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets_ (London, [1698?]), p. 102.
6. _Essays of John Dryden_, ed. W. P. Ker (New York: Russell & Russell, 1900; rpt. 1961), I, 135-136.
7. _English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century_ (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969), p. 132.
8. The first edition, page 5, omits the period at the end of 1. 23 and the speech prefix "Meph." for 1. 24. These are correctly added in the second edition (1720).
9. _The London Stage 1660-1800, Part I: 1660-1700_, ed. W. Van Lennep (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1965), 342.
11. Borgman outlines the changes Mountfort made in his source; see pp. 35ff and Appendix A.
12. _A Century of English Farce_ (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956), pp. 165-166.
The facsimile of Mountfort's _The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus_ (1697) is reproduced by permission from a copy of the first edition (Shelf Mark: 131909) in _The Huntington Library, San Marino, California_. The total type-page (p. 17) measures 195 X 112 mm.
Humours of _Harlequin_ and _Scaramouche_:
With _Songs_ and _Dances_ between the ACTS.
Printed and sold by _E. Whitlock_ near _Stationers_ Hall, (1697)
_Dr._ Faustus _seated in his Chair, and reading in his Study_.
_Faust._ Settle thy Study, _Faustus_, and begin To sound the Depth of that thou wilt profess; These Metaphysicks of Magicians, And Negromantick Books, are heav'nly Lines, Circles, Letters, Characters, Ay, these are those that _Faustus_ most desires; A sound Magician is a Demi-God: Here tire my Brains to get a Deity.
Mephostopholis _under the Stage_. _A good and bad Angel fly down._
_Good Ang._ O _Faustus_! lay that damn'd Book aside; And gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy heart to blasphemy.
_Bad Ang._ Go forward, _Faustus_, in that famous Art Wherein all Natures Treasure is contain'd: Be thou on Earth as _Jove_ is in the Sky, Lord and Commander of these Elements.