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
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
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
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
Apostles and diuers other Histories out of the olde and new Testament Then went he to Sena where he highly praised the Church and Hospitall of Santa Maria Formosa with the goodly buildings and especially the fairenes and greatnes of the Citty beautifull women Then came he to Lions in France where he marked the scituation of the Citty which lay betwéene two hills inuironed with 2. waters one worthy Monument in the Citty pleased him well that was the great Church with the Image therein he commended the Cittie highly for the great resort that it had vnto it of strangers From thence he went to Cullin which lyeth vpon the riuer of Rhine wherein he saw one of the auncientest Monuments of the world the which was the Tombe of thrée Kinges that came by the Angell of God and their knowledge they had in the starre to worship Christ which when Faustus saw he spake in this manner Ah alas good men how haue you erred and lost your way you should haue gone to Palestina and Bethlem in Iudea how came you hither Or belike after your death you were throwne into Mare Medeterraneum about Tripolis in Syria and so you fléeted out of the straigts of Gibalterra into the Ocean sea and so into the bar of Portugall and not finding any rest you were driuen alongst the coast of Gallicia Biskay and France and into the narrow Seas then from thence vnto Mare Germanicum and so taken vp I thinke about the towne of Dort in Holland you were brought to Cullin to be buried or else I thinke you came more easily with a whirl-winde ouer the Alpes and being thrown into the riuer of Rhine it conuayed you to this place where you are kept a Monument There saw he the Church of S. Vrsula where remaines a Monument of the 1000. Virgins it pleased him also to sée the beauty of the women Not farre from Cullin lyeth the towne of Ach where he saw the gorgeous temple that the Emperour Carolus quartus built of Marble stone for a remembrance of him to the end that all his successors should there be crowned From Cullin Ach he went to Geneua a city in Sauoy lying néere Switzerland it is a towne of great traffike the Lord thereof is a Bishop whose wine seller Faustus and his spirit visited for the loue of his good wine From thence he went to Strasburg where he beheld the fairest temple that euer he had séene in his life before for on euery side thereat he might sée through it euen from the couering of the Minster to the top of the Pinicle and it is named one of the wonders of the world wherefore he demanded why it was called Strasburg his spirit answered because it hath so many high wayes comming to it on euery side for Stros in Dutch is a high way and hereof came the name yea said Mephostophiles the Church which thou so wonderest at hath more reuenues belonging to it then the twelue Duks of Slesia are worth for there pertaine vnto this Church fifty siue townes and foure hundreth sixtie thrée Villages besides many houses in the Towne From thence went Faustus to Basil in Switzerland where the riuer of Rhine runneth through the Towne parting the same as the Riuer of Thames doth London in this towne of Basil he saw many rich monuments the towne walled with bricke and round about it without it goeth a great trench no Church pleased him but the Iesuites Church which was sumptuously builded and set full of Alablaster Pillars Faustus demanded of his Spirit how it tooke the name of Basil his Spirit made answere and said that before this cittie was found there vsed a Bafiliscus a kinde of Serpent this Serpent killed as many men women and children as he tooke a fight of but there was a Knight that made himselfe a couer of christall to come ouer his head and so downe to the ground and being first couered with a blacke cloath ouer that he put the christall and so boldly went to sée the Basiliscus and finding the place where she haunted he expecting her comming euen before the mouth of her caue where standing a while the Basiliscus came foorth who when she sawe her owne venomous shadow in the Christall she split in a thousand péeces wherefore the Knight was richly rewarded of the Emperour after the which the Knight founded this towne vpon the place where he had flaine the Serpent and gaue it the name of Basil in remembrance of his déed From Basil Faustus went to Costuitz in Sweitz at the head of the Rhine where is a most sumptuous bridge that goeth ouer the Rhine euen from the gates of the towne vnto the other side of the streame at the head of the riuer of Rhine is a small Sea called of the Switzers the blacke sea twenty thousand paces long and fifty hundred paces broad The towne Costuitz tooke the name of this the Emperour gaue it to a Clowne for expounding of his Riddle wherfore the Clowne named the towne Costuitz that is in English cost nothing From Costuitz he came to Vim where he sawe the sumptuous Town-house built by two and fifty of the auncient Senators of the Citye It tooke the name of Vlm for that the whole land there about are full of Elmes but Faustus minding to departe from thence his spirit said vnto him Faustus thinke of the Towne as thou wilt it hath three Dukdomes belonging to it the which they haue bought with ready money From Vlm he came vnto Wartzburg the chiefest Towne in Frankeland wherein the Bishop altogether kéepeth his Court through the which Towne passeth the riuer of Mayne that runs into the Rhine there about groweth strong and pleasant wine the which Faustus well prooued The Castle standeth on a hill on the north side of the Towne at the foote whereof runneth the riuer this towne is ful of beggerly Fryers Nuns priests and Iesuites for there are fiue sortes of begging Fryers besides thrée Cloysters of Nunnes At the foot of the Castle stands a Church in the which there is an Alter where are engrauen all the foure Elements and all the orders and degrées in heauen that any man of vnderstanding whosoeuer that hath a sight thereof may say that it is the Artificiallest thing that euer he behold From thence he went to Norenberg whither as he went by the way his spirit informed him that the town was named of Claudius Tiberius the sonne of Nero the tyrant In the towne are two famous Cathedral Churches the one called S. Sabolt th' other Saint Laurence in which Church standeth all the Reliques of Carolus magnus that is to say his Cloake his hose and doblet his Sword and Crowne his Scepter and his Apple It hath a very glorious guilden Conduit in the Market place of S. Laurence in which Conduit is the spear that thrust our Sauiour into the side a péece of the holy Crosse the wall is called The faire wall of Norenberg and
first moouing of the firmament as it doth héer on earth in the day by which reason we are able to see the Stars and Planets in the night euen so the raies of the Sun piercing vpwards into the firmament the Spirits abandon the place and so come néere vs on earth the darknes filling our heads with heauy dreames and fond fancies with schrikng and crying in many deformed shapes and some times when men goe foorth without light there falleth to them a feare that their haire standeth on end so many start in their sléepe thinking there is a spirit by him gropeth or féeleth for him going round about the house in his sléepe and many such like fancies and all this is for because in the night the spirits are more familiarly by vs that we are desirous of their company and so they cary vs blinding vs and plaguing vs more then we are able to perceiue How Doctor Faustus was asked a question cuncerning the Starres that fall from heauen Chap. 27. DOctor Faustus being demaunded the cause why the stars fell from heauen he answered that it is but our opinion for if one star fall it is the great iudgement of God vpon vs as a forewarning of some great thing to come for when we thinke that a starre falleth it is but a sparke that issueth from a candle or a flame of fire for if it were a substantiall thing we should not so soone loose the sight of them as we doe And likewise if so be that we sée as it were a streame of fire fall from the firmament as it oft hapneth yet are they no starres but as it were a flame of fire vanishing but the stars are substantiall therfore are they firme not falling if there fall any it is a signe of some great matter to come as a scourge to a people or country and then such stars falling the gates of heauen are opened and the clouds send foorth floods or other plagues to the dammage of the whole land and people Faustus was asked a question concerning thunder Chap. 28. IN the month of August there was ouer Wittenberg a mighty great lightning and thunder and as Doctor Faustus was iesting merily in the market place with certaine of his friends companions being Physitions they desired him to tell them the cause of that weather Faustus answered It hath béen commonly séene heretofore that before a thunder-clap fell a shower of raine or a gale of winde for commonly after a winde followeth a raine and after a raine a thunder-clap such things come to passe when the foure windes méet together in the heauens the ayrie clouds are by force beaten against the fixed Christall firmament but when the ayrie clouds méet with the firmament they are congealed and so strike and rush against the firmament as great péeces of yee when they méet on the water the each other soundeth in our eares and that we call Thunder which indéed is none other then you haue heard The third and last of Doctor Faustus his merry conceits shewing after what sort he practised Nicromancie in the Courts of great Princes and lastly of his fearefull and pittifullend How the Emperour Carolus Quintus requested of Faustus to see some of his cunning wherunto he agreed Chap. 29. THe Emperour Carolus the fift of that name was personally with the rest of his Nobles and Gentlemen at the towne of Inszburck where he kept his Court vnto the which also Doctor Faustus resorted and being there well known of diuers Nobles gentlemen he was inuited into the court to meat euen in the presence of the Emperor whom when the Emperor saw he looked earnestly on him thinking him by his lookes to be some wonderfull fellow wherefore he asked one of his Nobles whom he should be he answered that he was called Doctor Faustus Whereupon the Emperor held his peace vntill he had taken his repast after which he called vnto him Faustus into his priuie chamber whither being come he said vnto him Faustus I haue heard much of thée that thou art excellent in the blacke Art and none like thée in mine Empire for men say that thou hast a familiar spirit with thée and that thou canst do what thou list it is therfore said the Emperor my request of thée that thou let me sée a proofe of thine experience and I vow vnto thee by the honor of my Emperiall Crowne none euill shall happen vnto thée for so doing Hereupon Doctor Faustus answered his Maiestie that vpon these conditions he was ready in any thing that he could to doe his highnes commaundment in what seruice he would appoint him Well heare then what I say quoth the Emperor Being once solitary in my house I called to minde mine elders and ancesters how it was possible for them to attaine vnto so great degrée of authority yea so high that we the successours of that line are neuer able to come neere As for example the great and mighty Monarch of the world Alexander Magnus was such a Lanterne and spectacle to all his successors as the chronicles makes mention of so great riches conquering and subduing so many kingdomes the which I and these that follow me I feare shall neuer be able to attaine vnto wherefore Faustus my hearty desire is that thou wouldest vouchsafe to let me see that Alexander and his Paramour the which was praised to be so faire and I pray thée shew mée them in such sort that I may sée their personages shape gesture and apparell as they vsed in their life time and that héere before my face to the end that I may say I have my long desire fulfilled and to praise thee to be a famous man in thine art and experience D. Faustus answered My most excellent Lord I am ready to accomplish your request in all things so farre foorth as I and my spirit are able to performe yet your maiesty shal know that their dead bodies are not able substantially to be brought before you but such spirits as haue séene Alexander and his Paramour aliue shall appeare vnto you in maner and forme as they both liued in their most flourishing time and herewith I hope to please your imperiall maiesty Then Faustus went a little aside to speake to his spirit but he returned againe presently saying now if it please your maiesty you shall sée them yet vpon this condition that you demand no question of them nor speake vnto them which the Emperour agréed vnto Wherewith Doctor Faustus opened the priuie chamber doore where presently entred the great and mighty Emperour Alexander Magnus in all thinges to looke vpon as if he had bin gliue in proportion a strong thicke set man of a middle stature blacke haire and that both thicke and curled head and beard red chéekes and a broad face with eyes like a Basilicke he had a compleat harnes burnished and grauen exceeding rich to looke vpon and so passing towards the Emperour Carolus he made lowe and reuerent
and of the diligent seruice that Mephostophiles vsed towards him Chap. 8. DOctor Faustus hauing giuen his soule to the Deuill renouncing all the powers of heauen confirming this lamentable action with his owne blood and hauing already deliuered his writing now into the Deuils hand the which so puffed vp his heart that he forgot the minde of a man and thought himselfe to be a spirit This Faustus dwelt at his vncles house at Wittenberg who dyed and bequeathed it in his Testament to his coosen Faustus Faustus kept a boy with him that was his Scholler and vnhappy wag called Christopher Wagner to whom this sport and life that he faw his maister follow séemed pleasant Faustus leued the boy well keping to make him as good or better séene in his deuillish exercises then himselfe and he was fellow with Mephostophiles otherwise Faustus had no company in his house but himselfe his boy and his spirit that euer was diligent at Faustus command going about the house cloathed like a Fryer with a little bell in his hand séene of none but Faustus For his victuals and other necessaries Mehostophiles brought him at his pleasure from the Duke of Saxon the Duke of Bauaria and the Bishop of Saltzburg for they had many times their best wine stollen out of their sellers by Mephostophiles likewise their prouision for their owne table such meate as Faustus wished for his spirit brought him in besides that Faustus himselfe was become so cunning that when he opened his window what fowle soeuer he wished for it came presently flying into the house were it neuer so dainty Moreouer Faustus and his boy went in sumptuous apparell the which Mephostophiles stole from the mercers of Norenberg Auspurg Franckford and Libtzig for it was hard for them to finde a locke to kéepe out such a théefe All their mainteinance was but stoine and borrowed ware and thus they liued anodious life in the sight of God though as yet the world were vnacquainted with their wickednes It must be so for their fruites be none other as Christ faith in Iohn where he calls the Deuill a théefe and a murtherer and that found Faustus for he stole him away both body and soule How Doctor Faustus would haue marryed and how the deuill had almost killed him for it Chap. 9. DOrtor Faustus continued thus in his Epicurish life day and night and beléeued not that there was a God hell or deuill he thought that body and soule dyed together and had quite forgot Diuinity or the immortality of his soule but stood in his damnable heresie day and night And bethinking himselfe of a wife called Mephostophiles to counsaile which would in no case agrée demaunding of him if hée would breake the couenant made with him or if he had forget it Hast not thou quoth Mephostophiles sworne thy selfe an enemy to God and all creatures To this I answere thée thou canst not marry thou canst not serue two maisters God my Prince for wedlocke is a chiefe institution ordained of God and that thou hast promised to desie as we doe all and that hast thou onely done moreouer thou hast confirmed it with thy bloud perswade thy selfe that what thou dost in contempt of wedlocke it is all to thine owne delight Therefore Faustus looke well about thée and bethinke thy selfe better and I with thée to change thy minde for if thou kée not what thou hast promised in thy writing we will teare thée in peeces like the dust vnder thy féet therefore sweet Faustus thinke with what vnquiet life anger strife debate thou shalt liue in when thou takest a wife therefore change thy minde Doctor Faustus was with these speaches in dispaire and as all that haue forsaken the Lord can build vpon no good foundation so this wretched Doctor hauing forsooke the rocke fell into despaire with himselfe fearing if he should motion Matrimony any more that the deuill would teare him in péeces For this time qd he to Mephostophiles I am not minded to marry Then doest thou well answeied his spirit But within two houres after Faustus called againe his spirit which came in his olde manner like a Fryer Then Faustus said vnto him I am not able to resist or bridle my fancy I must and will haue a wife and I pray thée giue thy consent to it Sodainely vpon these words came such a whirle-winde about the place that Faustus thought the whole house would haue come downe all the doores in the house flew off the hookes after all this his house was full of smoake and the floore couered ouer with ashes which when Doctor Faustus perceiued hée would haue gone vp staires and flying vp he was taken and throwne downe into the hall that he was not able to stirre hand nor foote then round about him ranne a monstrous circle of fire neuer standing still that Faustus fryed as he lay thought there to haue béene burned Then cryed he out to his spirit Mephostophiles for helpe promising him he would liue in all things as he had vowed by his hand-writing Herevpon appeared vnto him an ougly deuill so feare full and monstrous to behold that Faustus durst not looke on him The deuill said what wouldest thou haue Faustus how likest thou thy wedding what minde art thou in now Faustus answered he had forgot his promise desiring him of pardon and he would talke no more of such things Thou wert best so to doe and so vanished from him After appeared vnto him his fryer Mephostophiles with a bell in his hand and spake to Faustus It is no iesting with vs hold thou that which thou hast vowed and we will performe as we haue promised and more then that thou shalt haue thy hearts desire of what woman soeuer thou wilt be she aliue or dead and so long as thou wilt thou shalt kéepe her by thée These words pleased Faustus wonderfull well and repented himselfe that he was so foolish to wish himseife marryed that might haue any woman in the whole Cittye brought to him at his commaund the which he practised and perseuered in a long time Questions put foorth by Doctor Faustus vnto his spirit Mephostophiles Cap. 10. DOctor Faustus liuing in all manner of pleasure that his heart could desire continuing in his amorous drifts his delicate fare and costly apparell called on a time his Mephostophiles to him who being come brought with him a booke in his hand of all manner of deuillish and enchanted Arts the which he gaue Faustus saying hold my Faustus worke now thy hearts desire The copy of this enchanting booke was afterwards found by his seruant Christopher Wagner Well qd Faustus to his spirit I haue called thée to know what thou canst doe if I haue néed of thy helpe Then answered Mephostophiles and said my Lord Faustus I am a flying spirit yea so swift as thought can thinke to doe whatsoeuer Héere Faustus said but how came thy Lord and maister Lucifer to haue so great a fall
from heauen Mephostophiles answered My Lord Lucifer was a faire Angell created of God as inmortall and being placed in Seraphins which are aboue the Cherubins he would haue presumed vnto the Throne of God with intent to haue thrust God out of his seate Vpon this presumption the Lord cast him downe head-long and where before he was an Angell of right now dwells in darkenes not able to come neare his first place without God send for him to appeare before him as Raphiel but vnto the lower degrée of Angels that haue their conuersation with men he may come but not vnto the second degrée of heauens that is kept by the Arch-Angels namely Michaell and Gabriell for these are called Angels of Gods wonders yet are these farre inferiour places to that from whence my Lord and Maister Lucifer fell and thus farre Faustus because thou art one of the beloued children of my Lord Lucifer following and féeding my minde in manner as he did his I haue shortly resolued thy request and more I will doe for thée at thy pleasure I thanke thée Mephostophiles quoth Faustus come let vs now goe rest for it is night vpon this they left their communication How Doctor Faustus dreamed that hee had scene hell in his sleepe and how he questioned with his spirit of matters concerning hell with the spirits answere Chap. 11. THe night folowing after Faustus communication with Mephostophiles as concerning the fall of Lucifer Doctor Faustus dreamed that he had seen part of hell but in what maner it was or in what place he knew not wherby he was much troubled in minde and called vnto him Mephostophiles his spirit saying vnto him I pray thée resolue me in this dout what is hell what substance is it of in what place stands it and when was it made Mephostophiles answered Faustus thou shalt knowe that before the fall of my Lord Lucifer there was no hell but euen then was hell ordayned it is no substance but a confused thing for I tell thée that before all Elements were made or the earth séene the spirit of God mooued vpon the waters and darknes was ouer all but when God said let there be light it was so at his worde and the light was on Gods right hand and God praysed the light Iudge thou further God stood in the middle the darknes was on his left hand in the which my Lord was bound in Chaynes vntil the day of Iudgement in this confused hell is nought to finde but a sulphurish fire and stinking myst or fog Further we deuils knowe not what substance it is of but a confused thing for as a bubble of water flyeth before the winde so doth hell before the breath of God Moreouer we deuils know not how God hath layde the foundation of our hell nor whereof it is but to be short Faustus we know that hell hath neither bottome nor end The second question put forth by Doctor Faustus to his spirit what kingdomes there are in hell how many what were the rulers names Chap. 12. FAustus spake againe to his Spirit saying thou speakest of wonderfull things I pray thée now tell me what kingdomes is there in your hell how many are there what are they called and who rules them the Spirit answered him my Faustus knowe that hell is as thou wouldst thinke with thy selfe an other world in the which we haue our being vnder the earth euen to the heauens within the circumference whereof are contayned tenne kingdomes namely 1 Lacus mortis 2 Stagnum ignis 3 Terra tenebrosa 4 Tartarus 5 Terra obliuionis 6 Gehenna 7 Herebus 8 Barathrum 9 Stix 10 Acheron The which kingdomes are gouerned by fiue Kings that is Lucifer in the Orient Belzebub in Septentrio Belial in Meridie Ascaroth in the Occident and Phlegeton in the midst of them all whose Rule and dominions haue none end vntill the day of doome And thus farre Faustus hast thou heard of our rule and Kingdome Another question put foorth by Doctor Faustus to his spirit concerning his Lord Lucifer with the sorrow that Faustus fell afterwards into Chap. 13. DOctor Faustus began againe to reason with Mephostophiles requiring him to tell him in what forme and shape and in what estimation his Lord Lucifer was when he was in fauour with God whereupon his spirit required of him thrée dayes respite which Faustus granted The thrée dayes being expired Mephostophiles gaue him this answer Faustus my Lord Lucifer so called now for that hée was banished out of the cléere light of heauen was at the first an Angell of God yea hée was so of God ordained for shape pompe authority worthines and dwelling that he farre excéeded all the other creatures of God yea our gold and precious stones and so illuminated that hée farre surpassed the brightnes of the Sunne and all other Stars where God placed him on the Cherubins he had a Kingly office and was alwayes before Gods seate to the end he might be the more perfect in all his beings But when he began to be high minded proude and so presumptuous that he would vsurpe the seate of Gods maiesty then was he banished out from amongst the heauenly powers seperated from their abiding into the manner of a fiery stone that no water is able to quench but continually burneth vntill the end of the world Doctor Faustus when he had heard the wordes of his spirit began to consider with himselfe hauing diuers and sundry opinions in his head and very pensiuely saying nothing vnto his spirit he went into his chamber and laide him on his bed recording the wordes of Mephostophiles which so pierced his heart that he fell in sighing and great â—â—-mentation crying out alas ah woe is me what haue I done Euen so shall it come to passe with me am not I also a creature of Gods making bearing his own Image and similitude into whom he hath breathed the spirit of life and immortality vnto whome he hath made all things liuing subiect but woe is me my haughty minde proude aspiring stomacke and filthy flesh hath brought my soule into perpetuall damnation yea pride hath abused my vnderstanding insomuch that I haue forgot my Maker the spirit of God is departed from me I haue promised the Deuill my soule and therefore it is but a folly for me to hope for grace but it must be euen with me as with Lucifer throwne into perpetuall burning fire ah woe is me that euer I was borne In this perplexity lay this miserable Doctor Faustus hauing quite forgot his faith in Christ neuer falling to repentance truly thereby to attaine the grace and holy spirit of God againe the which would haue béene able to haue resisted the strong assaults of Sathan for although he had made him a promise yet he might haue remembred through true repentance sinners once come againe into the fauour of God which faith the faithfull firmely hold knowing they that kill the body are not able to hurt