heauen at commandement whereat they answered they knew none stouter then the Pope or Emperor but Doctor Faustus said the Head that is my seruant is aboue all on earth and repeated certaine words out of Saint Paul to the Ephesians to make his argument good the Prince of this world is vpon earth and vnder heauen Well let vs come againe to his coniuration where we left him at his fiery Globe Faustus vexed at his spirits so long tarrying vsed his charmes with full purpose not to depart before he had his entent and crying on Mephostophiles the Spirit sodainely the globe opened and sprung vp in height of a man so burning a time in the end it conuerted to the shape of a fiery man This pleasant beast ran about the Circle a great while and lastly appeared in the manner of a gray Fryer asking Faustus what was his request Faustus commanded that the next morning at twelue of the clocke he should appeare to him aâ— his house but the deuill would in no wise grant Faustus bâ—gan againe to coniure him in the name of Belzebub that he should fulfill his request whereupon the Spirit agréed and so they departed each one his way The conference of Doctor Faustus with his Spirit Mephostophiles the morning following at his owne house Chap. 3. DOctor Faustus hauing commanded the Spirit to be with him at his houre appointed he came and appeared in his chamber demanding of Faustus what his desire was then began Doctor Faustus anew with him to coniure him that he should be obedient vnto him and to answere him certaine articles and to fulfill them in all poynts 1. That the Spirit should serue him and be obedient vnto him in all things that he asked of him from that houre till the houre of his death 2. Further any thing that he desired of him he should bring it him 3. Also that in all Faustus his demands and interrogations the spirit should tell him nothing but that which was true Hereupon the Spirit answered and laid his case foorth that he had no such power of himselfe vntill he had first giuen his Prince that was ruler ouer him to vnder stand thereof and to know if he could obtaine so much of his Lord therefore speake further that may doe thy whole desire to my prince for it is not in my power to fulfil without his leaue Shew me the cause why said Faustus the spirit answered Faustus thou shalt vnderstand that with vs it is euen aswell a Kingdome as with you on earth yea we haue our Rulers and Seruants as I my selfe am one we name our whole number the Legion for although that Lucifer is thrust and fallen out of heauen through his pride and high minde yet he hath notwithstanding a Legion of Deuills at his commandement that we call the Orientall Princes for his power is great and infinite Also there is a power in Meridie in Septentrio in Occidente and for that Lucifer hath his Kingdome vnder heauen we must change and giue our selues to men to serue them at their pleasure It is also certaine we haue neuer as yet opened vnto any man the truth of our dwelling neither of our ruling neither what ouâ— power is neither haue we giuen any man any guift or learned him any thing except he promise to be ours Doctor Faustus vpon this arose where he sate said I will haue my request and yet I will not be damned The Spirit answered then shalt thou want thy desire yet art thou mine notwithstanding if any man would detayne thee it is in vaine for thy infidelity hath confounded thée Hereupon spake Faustus get thée hence from me and take S. Valentines farewell and Crisman with thée yet I coniure thée that thou be héere at euening and bethinke thy selfe of that I haue asked thée and aske thy Princes counsaile therein Mephostophiles the spirit thus answered vanished away leauing Faustus in his study where he sate pondring with himselfe how he might obtaine his request of the Deuill without losse of his soule yet fully was resolued in himselfe rather then to want his pleasure to doe what the spirit and his Lord should condition vpon The second time of the Spirit appearing to Faustus in his house and their parley Chap. 4. FAustus continued in his deuilish cogitations neuer moouing out of the place where the spirit left him such was his feruent lone to the deuill the night approaching this swift flying spirit appeared to Faustus offering himselfe with all submission to his seruice with full authority from his Prinre to doe whatsoeuer he would request if so be Faustus would promise to be his this answere I bring thée and an answer must thou make by me againe yet will I heare what is thy desire because thou hast sworne me to be heare at this time D. Faustus gaue him this answere though faintly for his soules sake that his request was none other but to become a Deuill or at the least a limbe of him and that the spirit should agrée vnto these articles as followeth 1. That he might be a spirit in shape and quallity 2. That Mephostophiles should be his seruant at his coÌ„mandement 3. That Mephostophiles should bring him any thing and doe for him whatsoeuer 4. That at all times he should be in his house inuisible to all men except onely to himselfe and at his commandement to shew himselfe 5. Lastly that Mephostophiles should at all times appeare at his command in what forme or shape soeuer he would Vpon these points the spirit answered Doctor Faustus that all this should be granted him and fulfilled and more if he would agrée vnto him vpon certaine articles as followeth First that Doctor Faustus should giue himselfe to the Lord Lucifer body and soule Secondly for confirmation of the same he should make him a writing written with his owne blood Thirdly that he would be an enemy to all Christian people Fourthly that he would deny the Christian beliefe Fiftly that he let not any man change his opinion if so be any man should goe about to disswade or withdraw him from if Further the spirit promised Faustus to giue him certaine yeares to liue in health and pleasure and when such yeares were expired that then Faustus should be fetched away and if he would hold these articles and conditions that then he should haue all whatsoeuer his heart would with or desire and that Faustus should quickly perceiue himselfe to be a spirit in all manner of actions whatsoeuer Hereupon Doctor Faustus his minde was so inflamed that he forgot his soule and promised Mephostophiles to hold all things as he had mentioned them he thought the Deuill was not blacke as they vse to paint him nor hell so hote as the people say c. The third parley betweene Doctor Faustus and Mephostophiles about a conclusion Chap. 5. AFter Doctor Faustus had made his promise to the Deuill in the morning betimes he called the spirit
there stood a Waggon with two Dragons before it to draw the same and all the Waggon was of a light burning fire and for that the Moone shone I was the willinger at that time to depart but the voice spake againe sir vp and let vs away I will said I goe with thée but vpon this condition that I may aske after all thinges that I sée heare or thinke on the voice answered I am content for this time Hereupon I got me into the Waggon so that the Dragons carried me vpright into the ayre The Waggon had also 4. whéeles the which ratled so and made such a noise as if we had all this while béene running on the stones round about vs flew out flames of fire and the higher that I came the more the earth séemed to be darkened so that me thought I came out of a dungeon and looking downe from heauen behold Mephostophiles my Spirit and seruant was behind me and when he perceiued that I saw him he came and sate by me to whome I said I pray thée Mephostophiles whether shal I goe now Let not that trouble thy mind said he and yet they carryed vs higher vp And now will I tell thée good friend and schoole-fellow what thinges I haue séene and prooued for on the Tuesday went I out and on Tuesday seauen night following I came home againe that is eight dayes in which time I slept not no not one winke came in mine eyes and we went innisible of any man and as the day began to appeare after my first nights iourney I said to my Spirit Mephostophiles I pray thée how farre haue we now ridden I am sure thou knowest for me thinkes that we are ridden excéeding farre the world séemeth so little Mephostophiles answered mee my Faustus beléeue me that from the place from whence thou camest vnto this place where we are now is already forty seauen leagues right in height and as the day increased I looked downe vpon the world Asia Europa and Africa I had a sight of and being so high qd I to my Spirit tell me now how these Kingdomes lie and what they are called the which he denied not saying see this on our left hand is Hungaria this is also Prussia on our left hand and Poland Muscouia Tartacelesia Bohemia Saxony and héere on our right hand Spaine Portugall France England and Scotland then right on before vs lie the kingdoms of Persia India Arabia the King of Althar and the great Cham now are we come to Wittenberg and are right ouer the towne of Weim in Austria and ere long will be at Constantinople Tripolie and Ierusalem and after will we pierce the frozen Zone and shortly touch the Horizon and the zenith of Wittenberg There looked I on the Ocean Sea and beheld a great many Shippes and Gallyes ready to the battaile one against another and thus I spent my iourney now cast I my eyes héere now there towards South North East and West I haue béene in one place where it rained and hailed and in another where the Sun shone excellent faire and so I thinke that I saw most thinges in and about the world with great admiration that in one place it tained and in another haile and snow on this side the Sun shone bright some hills couered with snow neuer consuming other were so hot that grasse and trées were burned and consumed therewith Then looked I vp to the heauens and behold they went so swift that I thought they would haue sprung in thousands Likewise it was so cléere and so hot that I could not long gaze into it it so dimmed my sight and had not my spirit Mephostophiles couered me as it were with a shadowing cloude I had béene burnt with the extreame heate thereof for the Sky the which we behold héere when we looke vp from the earth is so fast and thicke as a wall cléere and shining bright as Christall in the which is placed the Sunne which casteth foorth his raies and beames ouer the vniuersal world to the vttermost confines of the earth But we thinke that the sun is very little no it is altogether as big as the world Indéed the body substantiall is but little in compas but the raies or streames that it casteth forth by reason of the thing wherein it is placed maketh him to extend and shew himselfe ouer the whole world and we thinke that the sunne tunneth his course and that the heauens stand still no it is the heauens that mooue his course and the Sunne abideth perpetually in his place he is permanent and fixed in his place and although we sée him beginning to ascend in the Orient or East at the higest in the Meridian or South setting in the occident or West yet is he at the lowest in Septentrion or North and yet he mooueth not It is the axle of the heauens that mooueth the whole firmrment being a Chaos or confused thing and for that proofe I will shew thée this example like as thou séest a bubble made of water and sope blowne forth of a quill is in forme of a confused masse or Chaos and being in this forme is moued at pleasure of the winde which runneth round about that Chaos and mooueth him also round euen so is the whole firmament or Chaos wherein are placed the sun and the rest of the planets turned and carryed at the pleasure of the spirit of God which is winde Yea Christian Reader to the glory of God and for the profite of thy soule I will open vnto thée the diuine opinion touching the rule of this confused Chaos farre more then my rude Germane Author being possessed with the deuill was able to vtter and to proue some of my sentences before to be true looke into Genesis vnto the works of God at the creation of the world there shalt thou finde that the spirit of God mooued vpon the waters before heauen and earth were made Mark how he made it and how by his word euery element tooke his place these were not his works but is wordes for all the words he vsed before he concluded afterwards in one worke which was in making man marke reader with patience for thy soules health sée into all that was done by the worde and worke of God light and darknes was the firmament stood and there great ☿ and little light ☽ in it the most waters were in one place the earth was drye and euery element brought forth according to the word of God now foloweth his workes he made man after his owne Image how out of the earth The earth will shape no Image without water there was one of the elements But all this while where was winde All elements were at the worde of God Man was made in a forme by the worke of God yet mooued not that worke before God breathed the spirit of life into his nosthrils made him a liuing soule Here was the first winde and spirit of God out of
his own mouth which we haue likewise from the same séede which was only planted by God in Adam which wind breth or spirit when he had receiued he was liuing and mouing on earth for it was ordayned of God for his habitation but she heauens are the habitation of the Lord and like as I shewed before of the hubble or confused Chaos made of water and sope through the wind breath of man is turned round and caryed with euery winde euen so the Firmament wherein the Sunne and the rest of the planets are fixed moued turned and caried with the winde breath and spirit of God for the heauens and firmaments are mooueable as the Chaos but the Sunne is fixed in the firmament And further my good School-fellow I was thus nigh the heauens where me thought euery planet was but as half the earth and vnder the firmament ruled the spirits in the aire as I came down I looked vpon the world and the heauens and me thought that the earth was inclosed in comparison within the firmament as the yolke of an Egge within the white me thought that the whole length of the earth was not a span long and the water was as if it had bin twice as broad and as long as the earth euen thus at the eight daies end came I home againe and fell asléepe and so I continued sléeping thrée dayes thrée nightes together and the first houre I awaked I fell fresh againe to my Kalender and haue made them in right ample maner as you know and to satisfie your request for that you writ vnto me I haue in consideration of our olde friendship had at the vniuersitie of Wittenberge declared vnto you my heauenly voyage wishing no worse vnto you then vnto my selfe that is that your minde were as mine in all respectes Dixi. Doctor Faustus the Astrologian How Doctor Faustus made his iourney through the principall and most famous lands in the world DOctor Fau. hauing ouer-run fiftéene yeares of his appointed time he tooke vpon him a iourney with full pretence to sée the whole world and calling his Spirit Mephostophiles vnto him he said Thou knowest that thou art bound to me vpon conditions to performe and fulfill my desire in all thinges wherefore my pretence is to visite the whole face of the earth visible and inuisible when it pleaseth me therefore I enioyne and commaund thée to the same Wherevpon Mephostophiles answered I am ready my Lord at thy command and forthwith the spirit changed himselfe into the likenesse of a flying horse saying Faustus sit vp I am ready Doctor Faustus loftily fate vpon him and forwards they went Faustus came through many a Land and Prouince as Pauonia Austria Germania Bohemia Slesia Saxony Missene During Franckland Shawblandt Byerlandt Styria Carinthia Poland Litaw Liesland Prussia Denmarke Muscouia Tartaria Turkie Persia Cathai Alexandria Barbaria Ginney Peru the straightes Magenelanes India all about the frozen Zone and Terra Incognita Nona Hispaniola the Iles of Terzera Mederi Saint Michaels the Canaries and the Tenorifocie into Spaine the maine land Portugall Italie Campania the Kingdome of Naples the Iles of Sicilia Malta maioris minoria to the Knightes of the Rhodes Candie or Creet Ciprus Corinthe Switzerland France Freesland Westphalia Zeland Holland Brabant and all the 17 prouinces in Netherland England Scotland Ireland all America Island the out Iles of Scotland the Orchades Norway the Bishopricke of Breame and so home again all these kingdoms prouinces countries he passed in 25 daies in which time he saw very little that delighted his mind wherefore he took little rest at home burning in desire to sée more at large to behold the secretes of each Kingdome he set forwards againe on his iourney vpon his swift horse Mephostophiles came to Trent for that he chiefly desired to sée this towne and the monuments thereof but there he saw not many wouders except one faire pallace that belonged vnto the Bishop and also a mighty large castle that was built of brick with 3 walls 3 great trenches so strong that it was impossible for any princes power to win it then he saw a Church wherin was buried Simeon the Bishop Popo their tombes are of most sumptuous Marble stone closed and ioyned together with great bars of yron frō whence he departed to Paris where he liked well the Academie and what place or kingdom soeuer fel to his mind the same he visited He came from Paris to Mentz where the riuer of Maine fals into the Rhine notwithstanding he taried not long there but went into Campania in the kingdome of Neapolis in which he saw an innumerable sort of Cloisters Nunries and Churches great high houses of stone the stréets faire large and straight foorth from one end of the towne to the other as a line and all the pauement of the Citty was of bricke and the more it rayned in the towne the fairer the stréetes were there saw he the tombe of Virgill and the high way that he cut through the mighty hill of stone in one night the whole length of an English mile when he saw the number of Gallies Argozis that lay there at the citty head the wind-mill that stood in the water the castle in the water and the houses aboue the water where vnder gallies might ride most safely from raine or wind then he saw the Castle on the hill euer the towne and many monuments therein also that hill called Vesuuius wheron groweth all the Gréekish wine most pleasant swéet Oliues From thence he came to Venice whereas he wondered not a little to sée a Citty so famously built standing in the Sea where through euery stréete the water came into such largenesse that great ships and barkes might passe from one stréete to another hauing yet a way on both sides the water whereon men and horse might passe He maruailed also how it was possible so much virtuall to be found in the towne and so good cheape considering that for a whole league nothing grew néere the same He wondred not a little at the fairenesse of S. Matkes place and the sumptuous Church standing thereon called S. Marke how all the pauement was set with coloured stones and all the Roode or loft of the Church double gilded ouer Leauing this he came to Padua beholding their manner of their Academie which is called the mother or nurse of Christendome there he heard the Doctors and sawe the most monuments in the Towne entred his name in the Vniuersitie of the Germane Nation and wrote himselfe Doctor Faustus the vnsatiable speculator then saw he the worthiese monument in the world for a Church named S. Anthonies cloister which for the pinacles thereof and the contriuement of the Church hath not the like in Christendome This towne is fenced about with thrée mighty walles of stone and earth betwixt the which runneth goodly ditches of water twice euery 24. houres passeth boates
the wall are goodly places separated due from each other to sée sepulchers in which in the middle of the yard standeth very sumptuous therein standeth a Pulpit of white worke and gold From hence he came to Lubeck and Hamburg where he made no abode but away againe to Erford in Duringen where he visited the Frescold and from Erfold he went home to Wittenberg when he had séen and visited many a strange place being from home one yeare and a halfe in which time he wrought more wonders then are here declared How Faustus had a sight of Paradise Chap. 34. AFter this Doctor Faustus set forth againe to visite the countries of Spaine Portugall France England Scotland Denmarke Sweden Poland Muscouy India Cataia Affrica Persia and lastly into Barbaria amongst the Blackamoores And in all his wandring he was desirous to visite the ancient monuments and mighty hills amongst the rest beholding the high hill called the Treno Reife was desirous to rest vpon it from thence he went into the I le of Britanny wherein he was greatly delighted to sée the faire water and warme Bathes the diuers sorts of metal with many precious stones diuers other commâ—â—ities the which Faustus brought thence with him He was also at the Oâ—â—hades behind Scotland where he saw the trée that bringeth forth fruite that when it is ripe openeth and falleth into the water wherein engendreth a certaine kinde of fowle or bird these Ilands are in number 23. but ten of them are not habitable the other thirtéene are inhabited From hence he went to the Hill Caucasus which is the highest in all that Tropick it lieth néere the borders of Scythia hereon Faustus stood and beheld many lands and Kingdomes Faustus being on such an high hill thought to looke ouer all the world beyond for he went to sée Paradise but he durst not commune with his Spirit thereof and being on the hill of Caucasus he saw the whole land of India and Scytbia and as he looked towards the East he saw a mighty cleare strike of fire comming from heauen vpon the earth euen as it had béene one of the beams of the Sunne he saw in the valley foure mighty waters springing one had his course towards India the second towards Egypt the third and fourth towards Armenia When he saw these he would néeds know of his spirit what waters they were and from whence they came His spirit gaue him gently an answere saying it is Paradise that lieth so farre in the East the Garden that God himselfe hath planted with all manner of pleasure and the fiery streame that thou séest is the walls or fence of the garden but the cléere light thou séest so farre off that is the Angell that hath the custody therof with a fiery sword and although that thou thinkest thy selfe to be hard by thou hast yet further thether from hence then thou hast euer béene the water that thou séest diuided in foure parts is the water that issueth out of the well in the middle of Paradise The first is called Ganges or Pisson the second Gihon the 3. Tygris and the 4. Euphrates also thou séest that he standeth vnder Libra and Aries right toward the Zenith and vpon this fiery wall standeth the Angell Michaell with his flaming sword to kéepe the frée of life the which he hath in charge but the spirit said to Faustus neither then nor I nor any after vs yea all men whosoeuer are denied to visit it or to come any néerer then we be Of a certaine Comet that appeared in Germany and how Doctor Faustus was desired by certaine friends of his to knowe the meaning thereof Chap. 24. IN Germany ouer the Towne of St. Eizleben was séene a mightie great Comet whereat the people wondred but Doctor Faustus being there was asked of certaine of his friends his iudgement or opinion in she matter Whereupon he answered it falleth out often by the course and change of the sun and moone that the sun is vnder the earth and the moone aboue but when the moone draweth néere the change then is the sun so strong that it taketh away all the light of the moone in such sort that he is as red as blood and the contrary after they haue béene together the moone taketh her light againe from him and so increasing in light to the full she will be as red as the sunne was before and changeth her selfe into diuers and sundry colours of the which springeth a prodigious Monster or as you call it a Comet which is a figure or token appointed of God as a forewarning of his displeasure as at one time he sendeth hunger plague sword or such like being all tokens of his iudgement the which Comet commeth through the coniunction of the sunne and moone begetting a monster whose father is the Sunne and whose mother is the Moone ☉ and ☾ A question put forth to D. Faustus concerning the starres Chap. 25. THere was a learned man of the towne of Holberstat named N.W. who inuited D. Faustus to his table but falling into communication before supper was ready they looked out of the window and séeing many stars in the firmament this man being a Doctor of Phisicke and a good Astrologian said D Faustus I haue inuited you as my guest hoping that you will take it in good part with me and withall I request you to impart vnto me some of your experience in the stars and planets And séeing a star fall he said I pray you Faustus what is the condition qualitie or greatest of the starres in the firmament Faustus answered him My friend and brother you sée that the starres that fall from heauen when they come to the earth they be very small to our thinking as candels but being fixed in the firmament there are many as great as this Citty some as great as a Prouince or Dukedome other as great as the whole earth other some far greater then the earth as the length and the breadth of the heauen is greater then the earth twelue times and from the height of the heauens there is scarse and earth to be séene yea the planets in the heauens are some so great as this land some so great as the whole Empire of Rome some as Turky yea one so great as the whole world How Faustus was asked a question concerning the Spirits that vexe men Chap. 26. THat is most true saith he to Faustus concerning the Starres and Planets but I pray you in what kinde or manner doe the spirits vse to vex men so little by day and so greatly by night Doctor Faustus answered because the Spirits are by God forbidden the light their dwelling is in darknes and the clearer the Sun shineth the further the spirits haue their abiding from it but in the night when it is darke they haue their familiarity and abiding néere vnto vs men For although in the night we sée not the Sun yet the brightnes thereof so lightneth the
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. LONDON Printed by Edw All-de for Edward White and are to be sold at his Shop neare the little North doore of St. Pauls Church at the Signe of the Gun 1618. A Discourse of the most famous Doctor Iohn Faustus of Wittenberg in Germany Coniurer and Necromancer wherein is declared many strange things that he himselfe had seene and done in the earth and in the ayre with his bringing vp his Trauailes Studies and last end Of his Parentage and Birth Chap. 1. IOHN Faustus borne in the Towne of Rhodes being in the Prouince of Weimer in Germany his Father a poore husbandman and not able well to bring him vp but hauing an Uncle at Wittenberg a rich man and without issue tooke this Faustus from his Father and made him his heire insomuch that his Father was no more troubled with him for he remained with his vncle at Wittenberg where he was kept at the Vniuersity in the same City to study diuinity but Faustus being of a naughty minde and otherwise adicted applyed not his studies but tooke himselfe to other exercises the which his vncle oftentimes hearing rebuked him for it as Eli oftentimes rebuked his children for sinning against the Lord euen so this good man laboured to haue Faustus apply his study of diuinity that he might come to the knowledge of God and his Lawes but it is manifest that many vertuous parents haue wicked children as Caine Reuben Absolon and such like haue béene to their Parents so this Faustus hauing godly parents who séeing him to be of a toward wit were very desirous to bring him by in those vertuous studies namly of diuinity but he gaue himselfe secretly to study Necromancy Coniuration insomuch that few or none could perceiue his profession But to the purpose Faustus continued at study in the Vniuersitie and was by the Rectors and sixtéene Maisters afterwards examined how he had profited in his studies being found by them that none for his time were able to argue with him in diuinity or for the excellency of his wisdome to compare with him with one consent they made him Doctor of Diuinity But Doctor Faustus within short time after he had obtained his degree fell into such fantasies and déepe cogitations that he was mocked of many of the most part of the Students was called the Speculator and somtimes he would throwe the Scriptures from him as though he had no care of his former profession so that he began a most vngodly life as hereafter more at large may appeare for the olde prouerbe saith who can hold that will away so who can holde Faustus from the deuill that seekes after him with all his endeavor For he accompanied himselfe with diuers that were séene in those deuillish artes and that had the Chaldean Persian Hebrew Arabian and Greeke tongues vsing figures characters coniurations incantations with many other ceremonies belonging to those internal arts as necromancy charmes soothâ— ayings witchcraft enchantment being delighted with their bookes words names so well that he studied day and night therin insomuch that he could not abide to be called D. of Diuinity but waxed a worldly man and named himselfe an Astrologian and a Mathematician and for shadow sometimes a Phisition and did great cures namely with hearbs roots waters drinkes receits and clysters And without doubt he was passing wise and excellent perfect in the holy Scriptures but he that knoweth his maisters will and doth it not is worthy to be beaten with many stripes It is written No man can serue two maisters and Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God but Faustus threw all this in the winde and made his soule of no estimation regarding more his worldly pleasures then the ioyes to come therfore at the day of Iudgement there is no hope of his redemption How Doctor Faustus began to practise in his deuilish Art and how he coniured the deuill making him to appeare and meet him on the morrow at his owne house Chap. 2. YOU haue heard before that all Faustus minde was set to studie the Artes of Necromancy and Coniuration the which exercise he followed day and night and taking to him the wings of an Eagle thought to flye ouer the whole world and to knowe the secretes of heauen and earth for his speculation was so wonderfull being expert in vsing his Vocabula Figures Characters Coniuration and other Ceremoniall actions that in all haste hée put in practise to bring the Deuill before him And taking his way to a thicke Wood néere to Wittenberg called in the Germane tongue Spisser Walt that is in English the Spissers wood as Faustus would oftentimes boast of it amongst his crue bâ—ing in his iollity hée came into the same wood towards euening into a crâ—sse way where he made with a wand a Circle in the dust and within that many more Circles and Characters and thus he pâ—st away the time vntill it was nine or tenne of the clocke in the night then began Doctor Faustus to call on Mephostophiles the Spirit and to charge him in the name of Belzebub to appeace there personally without any long stay then presently the deuill began so great a rumor in the wood as if heauen and earth would haue come together with winde that trées bowed their tops to the ground then fell the deuill to bleat as if the whole wood had béen full of Lyons and sodainly about the circle ran the deuill as if a thousand wagons had béene running together on paued stones After this at the foure corners of the wood it thundred horribly with such lightnings as if the whole world to his séeming had béene on fire Faustus all this while halfe amazed at the deuils so long tarying and doubting whether he were best to abide any more such horrible coniurings thought to leaue his circle and depart whereupon the deuill made him such musicke of all sorts as if the Nymphes themselues had béene in place whereat Faustus was reuiued and stood stoutly in his Circle aspecting his purpose and began againe to coniure the Spirit Mephostophiles in the name of the Prince of Deuils to appeare in his likenes whereat sodainely ouer his head hung honering in the ayre a mighty Dragon then cals Faustus againe after his deuillish manner at which there was a monstrous crye in the wood as if hell had béen open and all the tormented soules crying to God for mercy presently not thrée fathame aboue his head fell a flame in manner of a lightning and changed it selfe into a Globe yet Faustus feared it not but did perswade himselfe that the deuill should giue him his request before he would leaue Oftentimes after to his companions he would boast that he had the stoutest head vnder the cope of
the soule but he was in all his opinions doubtfull without faith or hope and so he continued Another disputation betwixt Doctor Faustus and his Spirit of the power of the Deuill and his enuy to man-kinde Chap. 14. AFter Doctor Faustus had a while pondred and sorrowed with himselfe of his wretched estate he called againe Mephostophiles vnto him commanding him to tell him the iudgement rule power attempts tyrannie and temptation of the deuill and why he was moued to such kinde of liuing whereupon the spirit answered to his question that thou demaundst of me will turne thée to no small discontentment therefore thou shouldest not haue desired me of such matters for it toucheth the secrets of our Kingdome although I cannot deny to resolue thy request Therefore know thou Faustus that so soone as my Lord Lucifer fell from heauen he became a mortall enemy both to God and man and hath vsed as now he doth all maÌ„ner of tyranny to the destruction of man as is manifest by diuers examples one falling suddainly dead another hangs himselfe another drownes himselfe others stab themselues others vnlawfully dispaire and so come to vtter confusion The first man Adam that was made perfect to the similitude of God was by my L. pollicy the whole decay of man yea Faustus in him was the beginning and first tyranny of my Lord Lucifer to man the like did he with Caine the same with the children of Israell when they worshiped strange Gods and fell to whordome with strange women the like with Saul so did he by the seauen husbands of her that after was the wife of Tobias likewise Dagon our fellow brought to destruction 50000. men wherupon the Arke of God was stolne and Belial made Dauid to number his men whereupon were slains 60000. also he deceiued King Salomon that worshiped the Gods of the heathen and there are such spirits innumerable that can come by men and tempt them driue them to sinne and weaken their beliefe for we rule the hearts of Kings and Princes stirring them vp to warre and blood shed and to this intent doe we spread our selues throughout all the world as the vtter enemies of God and his sonne Christ yea and all that worship them and that thou knowest by thy selfe Faustus how we haue dealt by thée To this said Faustus then thou didst also beguile me I did what I could to help thée forward for so soone as I sawe how thy hart did dispise thy degrée taken in diuinity didst study to search know the secrets of our kingdome then did I enter into thée giuing thée diuers foule filthy cogitations prâ—â—king thée forward in thine intent perswading thée thou couldst neuer attaine to thy desire till thou hadst the helpe of some deuill and when thou wast delighted in this then tooke I roote in thée so firmly that thou gauest thy selfe to vs both body soule which thou canst not deny Hereat answerd Faustus Thou saist true I cannot deny it Ah woe is me most miserable Faustus how haue I bene deceiued had I not had a desire to know too much I had not bene in this case for hauing studyed the liues of the holy Saints Prophets and therby thought to vnderstand sufficient heauenly matters I thought my selfe not worthy to be called Doctor Faustus if I should not also know the secrets of hell and be associated with the furious Fiendes thereof now therfore must I be rewarded accordingly Which spéeches being vttred Faustus went very sorowfully away from his Spirit How Doctor Faustus desired againe of his Spirit to knowe the secrets paynes of hell whether those damned deuils their company might euer come into the fauour loue of God againe Chap. 15. DOctor Faustus was euer pondering with him-selfe how he might get loose from so damnable an end as he had giuen himselfe vnto both of soule and body but his repentance was like to that of Cain and Iudas he thought his sins greater then God could forgiue hereupoÌ„ resting his mind he lookt vp to heaueÌ„ but saw nothing therein for his hart was so possessed of the deuill that he could thinke of nought els but of hell and the paynes thereof Wherefore in all the haste he calleth vnto him his Spirit Mephostophiles desiring him to tell him some more of the secrets of hell what paynes the damned were in and how they were tormented whether the damned soules might get againe the fauour of God and so be released out of their torments or not whereupon the Spirit answered My Faustus thou maist well leaue to question any more of such matters for they will but disquiet thy minde I pray thée what meanest thou thinkest thou through these thy fantasies to escape vs No for if thou shouldst clime vp to heauen there to hide thy self yet would I thrust thée downe againe for thou art mine and thou belongst vnto our societie therefore swéete Faustus thou wilt repent this thy foolish demand except thou be content that I shall tell thée nothing Quoth Faustus ragingly I will know or I will not liue wherefore dispatch and tell me to whom Mephostophiles answered Faustus it is no trouble vnto me at all to tell thée and therefore sith thou forcest me thereto I will tell thée thinges to the terrour of thy soule if thou wilt abide the hearing Thou wilt haue me to tell thée of the secrets of Hell and of the paines thereof know Faustus that hell hath many figures semblances and names but it cannot be named nor figured in such sort vnto the liuing that are damned as it is to those that are dead and doe both sée and féele the torments thereof for hell is said to be deadly out of the which came neuer any to life againe but one but he is nothing for thée to reckon vpon hell is blood thirsty and is neuer satisfied hell is a vally into the which the damned soules fall for so soone as the soule is out of mans body it would gladly goe to the place from whence it came and climeth vp aboue the highest hills euen to the heauens where being by the Angells of the first Mobile denyed entertainment in consideration of their euill life spent on the earth they fall into the déepest pit or valley which hath no bottome into a perpetuall fire which shall neuer bée quenched for like as the Flint throwne into the water looseth not his vertue neither is his fire extinguished euen so the hellish fire is vnquenchable and euen as the flint stone in the fire burned red hot and consumeth not so likewise the damned soules in our hellish fire are euer burning but their paines neuer diminishing Therefore is hell called the euerlasting paine in which is neither hope nor mercy So it is called vtter darkenesse in which we sée neither the light of the Sunne Moone nor Starre and were our darkenesse like the darknesse of the night yet were there hope of mercy but ours is
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 â—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 shâ—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 stâ—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 helâ—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 Mephosâ—ophiâ—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
there to haue béene beguiled of the deuill and to make his end before his time appointed or conditioned of the deuill but shortly after came vnto him amonstrous Ape kidding Faustus to be of good chéere and said get vpon me all the fire in hell seemed to Faustus to haue beene put out whereupon followed a monstrous thicke fogge that he saw nothing but shortly it seemed to him to waxe cleere where he saw two great Dragons fasined vnto a Waggon into the which the Ape ascended and set Faustus therein foorth slew the Dragons into an exceeding darke cloude where Faustus saw neither Dragon nor Chariot wherein he sate and such were the cries of tormented soules with mighty thunder claps and flashing lightnings about his eares that poore Faustus shooke for feare Vpon this came they to a water stincking and filthy thicke like mudde into the which ranne the Dragon sincking vnder with waggon and all but Faustus felt no water but as it were a small mist sauing that the waues beate so sore vpon him that he saw nothing vnder and ouer him but onely water in the which he lest his Dragons Ape and Waggon and sinking yet déeper and déeper he came at last as it were vpon a high Rocke where the waters parted and left him thereon but when the water was gone it séemed to him he should there haue ended his life for he saw no way but death the Rocke was as high from the bottome as heauen is from the earth there sate he séeing nor hearing any man and looked euer vpon the Rocke at length he sawe a little hole out of the which issued â—â—re thought he how shall I now doe I am forsaken of the deuils and they that brought me hither héer must I either fall to the bottome or burns in the fire or sit still in dispaire with that in his madnes he gaue a skip into the fiery hole saying holde you infernall hags take here this sacrifice as my last end that which I iustly haue deserued vpon this he was entred and finding himselfe as yet vnburned or touched of that fire he was the beter appaied but there was so great a noise as he neuer heard the like before it passed all the thunder that euer he had heard and comming downe further to the bottome of the rocke he saw a fire wherein were many worthy and noble personages as Emperors Kings Dukes and Lords and many thousands more of tormented soules at the edge of which fire ran a most pleasant cleare and cold water to behold into the which many formented soules sprang out of the fire to coole themselues but being so fréezing cold they were constrained to returne again into the fire and thus wearied themselues spent their endles torments out of one laborinth into another one while in heate another while in colde but Faustus standing héere all this while gazing on them that were thus tormented he sawe one leaping out of the fire and scriching horribly whome he thought to haue knowne wherefore he would faine haue spoken vnto him but remembring that he was forbidden he refrained speaking Then this deuill that brought him in came to him againe in likenes of a Beare with the chaire on his backe and bad him sit vp for it is time to depart so Faustus got vp and the deuill carryed him out into the ayre where he had so swéet musicke that he fell a sléep by the way His boy Christopher being all this while at home and missing his master so long thought his maister would haue tarryed and dwelt with the deuill foreuer but whilst his boy was in these cogitations his maister came home for the deuill brought him home fast asléepe as he sate in the chaire and threw him on his bed where being thus lest of the deuill he lay vntill day When he awaked he was amazed like a man that had béene in a darke dungeon musing with himselfe if it were true or false that he had séene Hell or whether he was blinded or not but he rather perswaded himselfe that he had béene there then otherwise because he had séene such wonderfull thinges wherefore he most carefully tooke pen and inke and wrote those thinges in order as he had séene the which writing was afterwards found by his boy in his study which afterwards was published to the whole Citty of Wittenberg in print for example to all Christians How Doctor Faustus was carryed through the ayre vp to the heauen to see the whole world and how the Skie and Planets ruled after the which he wrote a letter to his friend of the same to Liptzig and how he went about the world in eight dayes Chap. 19. THis Letter was found by a frée man and Cittizen of Wittenberg written with his own hand and sent to his friend at Liptzig a Physitian named Ioue Victory the contents of which were as followeth Amongst other things my louing friend and brother I remember yet the former friendship had together when we were schoole fellowes and Students in the Vniuersitie at Wittenberg whereas you first studied Physick Astronomy Astrology Grometry and Cosmographie I to the contrary you know studied Diuinity notwithstanding now in any of your owne studies I am seen I am perswaded further then your selfe for sithence I began I haue neuer eâ—red for â—ight I speake it without affecting my own praise my Kalenders and other practises haue not only the commendations of the common sort but also of the chiefest Lords and Nobles of this our Dutch nation because which is chiefly to be noted I write and presage of matters to come wâ—icâ— all accord and fall out so right as if they had bin already séne bâ—fore And for that my beloued Victory you write to know my voyage which I made vnto the heauens the which as you certifie me you haue had some suspition of although you parrly perswaded your selfe that it is a thing vnpossible no matter for that it is as it is let it be as it will once it was done in such maÌ„ner as now according vnto your request I giue you héere to vnderstand I being once laide on my bed and could not sléepe for thinking on my Kalender and practise I maruailed with my selfe how it were possible that the Firmament should be knowne and so largely written of men or whether they write true or false by their owne opinions or suppositions or by due obseruations and true course of the heauens Behold I thought my house would haue bene blowne downe so that all my doores and chests flew open whereat I was not a little astonied for withall I heard a groaning voyce which said get vp the desire of thy heart minde and thought shalt thou sée at the which I answered what my heart desireth that would I faine sée and to make proofe if I shall sée I will away with thée Why then quoth he looke out at thy window their commeth a messenger for thée that did I and behold
betwixt Padua and Venice with passengers as they doe here betwixt London and Grauesend and euen so farre they differ in distance Faustus beheld likewise the counsaile-house and the Castle with no small wonder Well forward he went to Rome which lay and doth yet lye on the Riuer Tibris the which deuideth the City into two parts ouer the Riuer are foure great stone Bridges and vpon the one Bridge called Ponte S. Angelo is the Castle of Saint Angelo wherein are so many great cast Péeces as there are dayes in the yeare and such Péeces as will shoote seauen bullets off with one fire to this Castle commeth a pring vault from the Church and Pallace of Saint Peter through the which the Pope if any danger be passeth from his Pallace to the Castle for safegard the Citty hath eleuen Gates and a hill called Vaticinium whereon St. Peters Church is built In that Church the holy Fathers will heare no confession without the penitent bring money in his hand Adioyning to this Church is the Campo Santo the which Carolus Magnus built where euery day thirtéene Pilgrimes haue their dinners serued of the best that is to say Christ and his twelue Apostles Hard by this he visited the Churchyard of S. Peters where he saw the Pyramides that Iulius Cesar brought forth of Africa it stood in Faustus his time leaning against the Church wall of Saint Peters but now Pope Sextus hath erected it in the middle of S. Peters Churchyard it is 24. fatham long and at the lower end sixe fatham foure square and so foorth smaller vpwards on the top is a Crucifixe of beaten Gold the stone standeth on foure Lyons of brasse Then he visited the 7. Churches of Rome that were St. Peters S. Paules S. Sebastians S. Iohn Lateran S. Laurence S. Mary Magdalen and S. Mary Maiora Then went he without the towne where he saw the Conduits of water that runne leuell through hill and dale bringing water into the Towne fifteene Italian wiles off other Monuments he saw too many to recits but amongst the rest he was desirous to sée the Popes Court and his manner of seruice at his Table wherfore he and his spirit made themselues inuisible and came to the Popes Court and priuy chamber where he was there saw he many seruants attending on his holines with many a flattering Sycophant carying of his meate and there he marked the Pope and the manner of his seruice which he seeing to be so vnmeasurable and sumptuous Fie quoth Faustus why had not the diuell made a Pope of me Faustus sawe there notwithstanding such as were like to himselfe proude stoute wilfull gluttons drunkards whoremongers breakers of wedlocke and followers of all manner of vngodly exercises wherefore he said to his spirit I thought that I had béene alone a hog or pork of the Diuels but he must beare with me yet a little longer for these hogs of Rome are already fatted and fitted to make his rost meate the diuell might do well now to spit them all and haue them to the fire and let him summon the Nuns to turne the spits for as none must confesse the Nun but the Fryer so none should turne the rosting Fryer but the Nun. Thus continued Faustus thrée dayes in the Popes Pallace and yet had no lust to his meat but stood still in the Popes chamber and saw euery thing whatsoeuer it was on a time the Pope would haue a feast prepared for the Cardinall of Pauia and for his first welcome the Cardinall was bidden to dinner and as he sate at meate the Pope would euer be blessing and crossing ouer his mouth Faustus could suffer it no longer but vp with his fist and smote the Pope on his face and withall he laughed that the whole house might heare him yet none of them saw him nor knew where he was the Pope perswaded his company that it was a damned soule commanding Masse presently to be said for his deliuery out of Purgatory which was done the Pope sate stil at meat but when the latter messe came in to the Popes boord D. Faustus laide hands thereon saying this is mine and so he tooke both dish and meate and flew vnto the Capitoll or Campadolia calling his spirit vnto him and said come let vs be merry for thou must fetch me some wine and the cup that the Pope drinkes of and here vpon monte caual we will make good chéere in spight of the Pope and all his fat Abby-lubbers His spirit hearing this departed towards the Popes chamber where he found them yet sitting and quaffing wherefore he tooke from before the Pope the fairest péece of plate or drinking goblet and a flaggon of wine and brought it to Faustus but when the Pope and the rest of his crue perceiued they were robbed and knew not after what sort they perswaded themselues that it was that damned soule that before had vexed the Pope so and that smot him on the face wherfore he sent commandment through the whole Citty of Rome that they should say Masse in euery Church and ring all the bels for to lay the walking spirit and to curse him with bel booke and candle that so inuisibly had misused the Popes holines with the Cardinall of Pauia and the rest of their company but Faustus notwithstanding made good chéere with that which he had beguiled the Pope of and in the middest of the order of S. Barnards bare-footed Fryers as they were going on procession through the market-place called campa de fiore he let fal his plate dishes and cup and with all for a farwell he made such a thunder-clap and storme of raine as though Heauen and earth should haue met together and so left Rome and came to Millaine in Italy néere the Alpes or borders of Switzerland where he praised much to his spirit the pleasures of the place the citty being founded in so braue a plaine by the which ran most pleasant riuers on euery side of the same hauing besides within the compasse or circuit of seauen miles seauen small Seas He saw also therein many faire Pallaces and goodly buildings the Dukes pallace and the mighty strong Castle which is in mānēr halfe the bignes of the towne Moreouer it liked him well to sée the Hospitall of Saint Maries with diuers other thinges He did there nothing worthy of memory but he departed backe againe towards Bolognia and from thence to Florence where he was well pleased to sée the pleasant walke of Marchants the goodly vaults of the Citty for that almost the whole Citty is vaulted and the houses themselues are built outwardly in such sort that the people goe vnder them as vnder a vault Then he perused the sumptuous Church in the Dukes castle called Nostra Dama our Ladyes Church in which he saw many Monuments as a marble doore most huge to looke vpon the gates of the castle are Bel-mottel wherein are grauen the holy Patriarkes with Christ and his twelue