386 Tucker Brooke, 



A thousand tricks, that may be taken 

 From Fanstits, Lanihc, or Frier-Bacon. 



Cowley carries over from Tlic Guardian into Cutter of Colemaii- 

 street (1663) the cant name 'Mephistophikis' for a quick-moving 

 spirit of mischief.''"' Shadwell's Sir Positive At-all, near the close 

 of Act II of The Sulloi Lovers (1668), says that he will 'raise a 

 Devil with Doctor Faustus himself, if he were alive.' An undated 

 work hy L. P., called The IViteJi of the Woodlands, or the Coblers 

 nezv Translation,^'^ has on the title-page the lines : 



Here Robin the Cobler, for his former evils 

 Is punish'd bad as Faustus with his Devils. 



Thomas Jordain's Money is an Asse (1668) has in the second act 

 the humorous remark, 'Well — now Faustus calls his McpJiist- 

 opliilis.' And Pedanto, a schoolmaster in R. Wild's comedy, TJie 

 Benefiee (1689), defines a dialogue as 'a Discourse like that 

 hetween Dr. Faustus and the Devil, or two or three men in a Pig- 

 Market. That's a Dialogue.' (Tille, pp. 992, 994.) 



A development quite in line with the Restoration attitude to 

 Faustus is the work of William Mountford, posthumously printed 

 in 1697: 'The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, ]Made into a 

 Farce. By Mr. Mountford. With the Humours of Harlequin 

 and Scaraniouche, As they were several times Acted by Mr. Lee 

 and Mr. Jevon, at the Queens Theatre in Dorset Garden. Newly 

 Revived, at the Theatre in Lincolns Inn Fields, With Songs and 

 Dances I^etween the Acts.'*'- Marlowe's name here disappears from 

 the title-page, and only enough of his work remains to give a 

 bizarre absurdity to the incrustations. About 150 lines of the 

 original verse are retained in l)roken patches, and the scenes of 

 the Deadly Sins, the Horsecourser, the Hostess and Carter, and 

 Benvolio's revenge are re-worked; but over half the actual lines 

 and the whole of the tone are Mountford's alone. 



From this time Faustus lost all connection in the public mind 

 with Marlowe. A series of harlequinades in imitation of iMount- 



""'How a Devil that little Mcphostoj^hUus s;ot hither before me?' (III. 

 xi.) 



"'The British Museum catalogue dates the book 1670 (?). Cf. Tille, p. 

 992. 



"" Mountford's text has been edited, with a valuable introduction, by 

 O. I'rancke, Heilbronn, 1886. Genest (vol. i, p. 450 f.) dates the original 

 production of the farce at Dorset Garden, ca. 1686. 



