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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00579	The historye of the damnable life and deserued death of Doctor Iohn Faustus Newly imprinted, and in conuenient places, imperfect matter amended: according to the true coppy printed at Franckfort, and translated into English by P.F. Gent.	P. F., Gent.	1618 (1618)	STC 10713; ESTC S115007	74,183	80

perpetuall darkenesse cleane exempt from the face God Hell hath also a place within it called Chasma out of the which issueth all manner of thunders lightnings with such shrikings and waylings that oftentimes the very Deuils themselues stand in feare thereof for one while it sendeth forth winds with excéeding snow haile and raine congraling the water into Ice with the which the damned are frozen gnash their teeth howle and cry and yet cannot dye Other whiles it sendeth foorth most horrible hot mistes or fogges with flashing flames of fire and Brimstone wherein the sorrowfull soules of the damned lye broiling in their reiterated torments yea Faustus hell is called a prison wherein the damned lie continually bound it is called Pernicies and Exitium death destruction hurtfulnesse mischiefe a mischance a pittifull and an euill thing world without ●nd We haue also with vs in hell a ladder reaching of excéeding height as though the toppe of the same would touch the heauens on which the damned ascend to seeke the blessing of God but through their infidelity when they are at the very highest degrée they fall downe againe into their former miseries complaining of the heate of that vnquenchable fire yea sweete Faustus so must thou vnderstand of hell the while thou art so desirous to know the secrets of our Kingdome And marke Faustus hell is the nurse of death the heate of all fire the sh●dow of heauen and earth the obliuion of all goodnesse the paines vnspeakable the griefes vnremouable the dwelling of deuils Dragons Serpents Adders Toades Crocodiles and all manner of venomo us and noysome creatures the puddle of sinne the stinking fogge ascending from the st●gian Lake brimstome pitch and all manner of vncleane mettals the perpetuall and vnquenchable fire the end of whose miseries was neuer purposed by God yea yea Faustus thou saiest I shall I must nay I will tell thée the secrets of our kingdome for thou buyest it dearely and thou must and shalt be pertaker of our torments that as the Lord God said neuer shall cease for Hell the womans belly and the earth are neuer satisfied there shalt thou abide horrible torments trembling gnashing of téeth houling crying burning fréezing melting swiming in a laborinth of miseries scalding smoaking in thine eyes stinking in thy nose horsenes of thy spéech deafenes of thine eares trembling of thine handes biting thine owne tongue with paine thy heart crushed as in a presse thy bones broken the diuels tossing firebrands vpon thée yea thy whole carcasse tossed vpon muck for is from one deuill to another yea Faustus then wilt thou wish for death and he will fly from thee thine vnspeakable torments shall be euery day augmented more and more for the greater the sinne the greater is the punishment how likest thou this my Faustus a resolution answerable to thy request Lastly thou wilt haue me tell thée that which belongeth onely to God which is if it be possible for the damned to come againe in to the fauour of God or not why Faustus thou knowest that this is against thy promise for what shouldst thou desire to know that hauing alreadie giuen thy soule to the deuill to haue the pleasure of this world and to know the secrets of hell therefore art thou damned and how canst thou then came againe to the fauour of God Wherefore I directly answere no for whomsoeuer GOD hath forsaken and throwne into hell must there abide his wrath and indignation in that vnquenchable fire where is no hope nor mercy to be looked for but abiding in perpetuall paines world without end for euen as much it auaileth thée Faustus to hope for the fauour of God againe as Luciser himselfe who indéed although he and we all haue a hope yet it is to small auaile and taketh none effect for out of that place God will neither heare crying nor sighing if he doe thou shalt haue as little remorse as Diues Caine or Iudas had what hel●eth the Emperour King Prince Duke Earle Baron Lord Knight Squire or Gentleman to cry for mercy being there Nothing for if on earth they would not be tyrants and selfe willed rich with couetousnes proude with pompe gluttons drunkards whoeremongers back biters robbers murtherers blasphemers and such like then were there some hope to be looked for therefore my Faustus as thou commest to hell with these quallities thou maist say with Caine My sins are greater then can be forgiuen goe hang thy selfe with Iudas and lastly be content to suffer torments with Diues Therefore know Faustus that the damned haue neither end nor time appointed in the which they may hope to be released for if there were any such hope that they by throwing one drop of water out of the Sea in a day vntill it were dry or if there were an heape of Sand as high as from the earth to the heauens that a bird carrying away but one corne in a day at the end of this so long labour that yet they might hope at the last God would haue mercy on them they would be comforted but now there is no hope that God once thinkes vpon them or that their howlings shall euer be heard yea so vnpossible it is for thée to hide thy selfe from God as vnpossible for thée to remoue the Mountaines or to empty the Sea or to tell the drops of raine that haue fallen from heauen vntill this day or to tell what there is most in the world yea and for a Camel to goe thorough the eye of a néedle euen so vnpossible it is for thée Faustus and the rest of the damned to come againe into the fauour of God and thus Faustus hast thou heard my last sentence and I pray thée how dost thou like it But know this that I counsell thée to let me be vnmolested hereafter with such disputations or else I will vexe thée euery limbe to thy small contentment Doctor Faustus departed from his spirit very pensiue and sorrowfull laying him on his bed altogether doubtfull of the grace and fauour of God wherefore he fell into fantasticall cogitations faine he would haue had his soule at libertie againe but the deuill had so blinded him and taken such déepe roote in his heart that he could neuer thinke to craue Gods mercy or if by chance he had any good motion straight wayes the deuill would thrust in a faire Lady into his chamber which fell to kissing and dalliance with him through which meanes he threw his godly motion in the winde going forward still in his wicked practises to the vtter ruine both of his body and soule Another question put foorth by Doctor Faustus to his Spirit Mephostophiles of his owne estate Chap. 16. DOctor Faustus being yet desirous to heare more strange things called his spirit vnto him saying By Mephos●ophi●es I haue yet another sute vnto thée which I pray thée deny me not to resolue me of Faustus qd the spirit I am loath to reason with thee any further for thou art

in forraine Countries but in the end when Faustus lost his life the mother and the childe vanished away both together How Doctor Faustus made his will in which he named his seruant Wagner to be his heire Chap. 56. DOctor Faustus was now in this 24. and last yeare and hée had a pretty stripling to his seruant the which had studied also at the Vniuersity of Wittenberg this youth was very well acquainted with his knaueries and sorceries so that he was hated aswell for his owne knauerie as also for his maisters for no man would giue him entertainment into his seruice because of his vnhappinesse but Faustus This Wagner was so well brioued with Faustus that he vsed him as his son for doe what he would his master was alwayes therewith well contented And when the time drew nigh that Faustus should end hée called vnto him a Notary and certaine Maisters the which were his friends and often conuersant with him in whose prosence he gaue this Wagner his house and garden Item he gaue him in ready money 16000. Gilders Item a Farme Item a Gold chaine much Plate and other houshold stuffe That gaue he all to his seruant and the rest of his time he meant to spend in Innes and Students company drinking and eating with other iollitie and thus he finished his will for that time How Doctor Faustus fell in talke with his seruant touching his Testament and the couenants thereof Chap. 57. NOw when his will was made Doctor Faustus called vnto his seruant saying I haue thought vpon thée in my Testament for that thou hast béene a trusty seruant vnto me and a faithfull and hast not opened my secrets and yet further said he aske of me before I die what thou wilt and I will giue it vnto thée His seruant rashly answered I pray you let me haue your cunning To which Doctor Faustus answered I haue giuen thée all my books vpon this condition that thou wouldst not let them be common but vse them for thine owne pleasure and study carefully in them And dost thou also desire my cunning That maist thou peraduenture haue if thou loue and peruse my bookes well Further said Doctor Faustus séeing that thou desirest of me this request I will resolue thée my Spirit Mephostophiles his time is out with me and I haue nought to command him as touching thée yet wil I helpe thée to another if thou like well therof And within three dayes after he called his seruent vnto him saying art thou resolued wouldst thou verily haue a spirit Then tell me in what manner or forme thou wouldst haue him To whom his seruant answered that he would haue him in the forme of an Ape whereupon appeared presently a Spirit vnto him in manner and forme of an Ape the which leaped about the house Then said Faustus sée there hast thou thy request but yet he will not obey thee vntill I be dead for when my spirit Mephostophiles shall fetch me away then shall thy spirit be bound vnto thée if thou agree and thy Spirit shalt thou name Abercocke for so he is called but all this is vpon condition that you publish my cunning and my merry conceits with all that I haue done when I am dead in an historie and if thou canst not remember all the spirit Abercocke will helpe thée so shall the great acts that I haue done be manifest vnto the world How Doctor Faustus hauing but one month of his appointed time to come fell to mourning and sorrow with himselfe for his diueilish exercise Chap. 58. TIme ran away with Faustus as the houre-glasse for he had but one month to come of his 24. yeares at the end whereof he had giuen himselfe to the diuell body and soule as it is before specified Here was the first token for hée was like a taken murtherer or a theefe the which findeth himselfe guilty in conscience before the Iudge haue giuen sentence fearing euery houre to dye for he was grieued and in wayling spent the time went talking to himselfe wringing of his hands sobbing and sighing he fell away from flesh and was very leane and kept himselfe close neither could he abide to sée or heare of his Mephostophiles any more How Doctor Faustus complained that hee should in his lusty time and youthfull yeares dye so miserably Chap. 59. THis sorrowfull time drawing néere so troubled Doctor Faustus that he began to write his minde to the end he might peruse it often and not forget it and which was in manner as followeth Ah Faustus thou sorrowfull and wofull man now must thou goe to the damned company in vnquenchable fire whereas thou mightest haue had the ioyfull immortalitie of the soule the which thou now hast lost Ah grosse vnderstanding and wilfull will what seazeth on my limbes other then a robbing of my life Bewaile with me my sound and healthfull body and wit and soule bewaile with me my sences for you haue had your part and pleasure aswell as I. Oh enuy and disdaine how haue you crept both at once into mée and how for your sakes I must suffer all these torments Ah whither is pitty and mercy fled Vpon what occasion hath heauen repayed me with this reward by sufferance to suffer me to perish Wherefore was I created of man The punishment I sée prepared for mée of my selfe now must I suffer Ah miserable wretch there is nothing in this world to shew mée comfort then woe is me what helpeth my wailing Another complaint of Doctor Faustus Chap. 60. OH poor● wofull and weary wretch oh sorrowfull soule of Faustus now art thou in he number of the damned for now must I waite for vnmeasurable paines of death yet farre more lamentable then euer yet any creature hath suffered Ah senceles wilfull and desperate forgetfulnes Oh cursed and vnstable life O blind and carelesse wretch that so hast abused thy body sence and soule O foolish pleasure into what a weary laborinth hast thou brought me blinding mine eyes in the cléerest day Ah weake hart Oh troubled soule where is become thy knowledge to comfort thée Oh desperate hope now shall I neuer more be thought vpon Oh care vpon carefulnesse and sorrowes on heapes Ah grieuous paines that pierce my panting heart whom is there now that can deliuer me Would to God I knew where to hide me or into what place to créepe or flie Ah woe woe is me be where I will yet am I taken Herewith poore Faustus was so sorrowfully troubled that he could not speake or vtter his minde any further How Doctor Faustus bewailed to thinke on hell and of the miserable paines therein prouided for him Chap. 61. NOw thou Faustus damned wretch how happy wert thou if as an vnreasonable beast thou mightest die without soule so sholdest thou not fale any more doubts But now the Deuill will take thée away both body and soule and set thée in an vnspeakable place of darkenesse for although others soules haue rest