in Germany as Apes Beares Buffes Antelops and many other strange Beastes Alâ—o there were Hartes Hurdes Roe buckes and Does and wilde Soome All manner of land-Fowle that any man could think on which flewe from one tree to an other After all this he set his guests to the Table being the Duke and Dutchesse with all their traine for he had prouided them a most sumpâ—uous Feaâ—t both of meat and also of any kind of drinke for he set nine Messe of meat vâ—on the boord at once and all this must his Wagner doe to place all thinges on the boord the which was brought vnto him by the spirit inuisible of all thinges their hartes could desire as wild-foule venison and all manner of dayntie Fish that could be thought on of wine also great plenty and of diuers sortes as French wine Cullen wine Crabashir wine Rhemish wine Spauish wine Hungarian wine Watzburg wine Malmesey Sacke In the whole there were a 100 Cans standing round about the house This sumptuous banquet the Duke took thankfully and afterwards he departed homewards and to their thinking they had neither eaten or drunke so were they blinded while they were in the Castle But as they were in their Pallace they looked towards the Castle and beheld it all on a flame of fire and all those which saw it wondred to heare so strange anoyse as if it had bene great Ordnance should haue bene shot off and thus the Castle burned consumed away cleaue Which done Doctor Faustus raturned to the Duke who gaue him great thankes for shewing them so great curtesie and gaue him a hundred dollors and libertie to departe or stay there at his owne discretion How Doctor Faustus with his Company visited the Bishop of Saltzburgs Wine-Celler Chap. 41. DOctor Faustus hauing taken leaue of the Duke he went to Wittenberg néere about Shroue tide and being in company with certaine students Doctor Faustus was himselfe the God of Bacchus who hauing well feasted the Students before with dainty fare after the manner of Germany where it is counted no feast except all the bidden guests be drunke which Doctor Faustus intanding said Gentlemen and my guests will it please you to take a cup of Wine with me in a place or Celler whereunto I will bring you they all said willingly we will which when Doctor Faustus heard he tooke them forth set either of them vpon an Holly wand and so was coniured into the Bishop of Saltzburg his Celler for there about grew excellent pleasant Wine there fell Faustus and his company to drinking and swilling not of the worst but of the best And as they were merry in the celler came downe to draw drinke the Bishops Butler which when he perceiued so many persons there he cryed with a loude voyce théeues théeues This spited Doctor Faustus wonderfully wherfore he made euery one of his company to sit on their holly wand so vanished away and in parting D. Faustus tooke the butler by the haire of the head and carried him away with them vntill they came to a mighty high lopped trée and on the top of that huge tree he set the Butler where he remained in a most fearefull perplexitie D. Faustus departed to his house where they tooke their valete one of another drinking the wine the which they had steine in great bottels of glasse out of the Bishops celler The Butler that had helo himselfe by the hands vpon the lopped trée all the night was almost frozen with colde espying the day and séeing the trée of so huge great gighnes thought with himselfe it is vnpossible to come off this trée without perill of death at length he espied certaine clownes which were passing by he cried for the loue of God helpe me down the clownes seeing him so high wondred what mad man would clime to so huge a trée wherefore as a thing most miraculous they caryed tydings to the bishop of Saltzburg then was there great running on euery side to see him in the trée and many deuises they practised so get him downe with ropes and being demanded by the Bishop how he came there he said that he was brought thither by the haire of the head of certaine the nes that were robbing of the wine celler but what they were he knew not for said he they had faces like men but they wrought like Diuels How Doctor Faustus kept his Chroue-tide Chap. 42. THere were seuen students and masters that studied Diuinity Iuris prudentia medicina all these hauing consented were agâ—ad to visit Doctor Faustus and to celebrate Shroâ—â—â—de with him who being come to his house he gaue them their welcome for they were his déere friends desiring them to sit downe where he serued them with a very good supper of Mens fish and other rost yet were they but slightly chéered wherefore Doctor Faustus comforted his guests excusing himselfe that they stole vpon him so suddainly that he had not leysure to prouide for them so well as they were worthy but my good friends quoth he according to the vse of our Country we must drinke all this night so a draught of the best wine to bedward is commendable For you know that in great Potentates courts they vse as this night great feasting the like will I doe for you for I haue thrée great flaggens of Wine the fiest is full of Hungarian Wine containing eight gallons the second of Italian Wine contaning seuen gallons the third containing sixe gallons of Spanish wine all the which we will tipple out before it be day besides we haue fiftéene dishes of meate the which my spirit Mephostophiles hath fette so farre that it was colde before hée brought it and they are all full of the daintiest thinges that ones heart can deuise but saith Faustus I must make them hote againe and you may beléeue me Gentlemen that this is no blinding of you whereas you thinke that it is no natural food verily it is as good and as pleasant as euer you eate And hauing ended his tale he commaunded his boy to lay the cloath which done he serued them with fiftéene messe of meate hauing thrée dishes to a messe the which were all manner of Venison and dainty wild fowle and for wine there was no lacke as Italian wine Hungarian wine and Spanish wine and when they were all made drunke and that they had almost eaten all their good cheere they began to sing and to dance vntill it was day and then they departed euery one to his owne habitation at whose parting Doctor Faustus desired them to be his guests againe the next day following How Doctor Faustus feasted his guests on the Ashwednesday Chap. 43. VPon Ash wednesday came vnto Doctor Faustus his bidden guests the Students whom he feasted very royally insomuch that they were all full and lustie dauncing and singing as the night before and when the high glasses and goblets were caroused one to another doctor Faustus began to play
conuerted after that he had â—â—aâ— the sermon of Philip for he was baptized and saw his sinne and repented Likewise I beséech you good broâ—her Doctor Faustus lâ—t my rude sermon be vnto you a conuertion and forget the filthy life that yet hauâ— leddâ— â—ezent aske mercy and liue for Christ saith Come vnto me all yeâ— that â—e weary and heauy laden and I will refresh you And in Ezechiel I desire not the death of a sinner but rather that he will conuert and liue Let my wordes good Brother Faustus pierce into your Adamant heart and desire God for his son Christ his sake to forgiue you Wherfore haue you so long liued in your diuelish practises knowing that in the olde and new testament you are forbidden and that men should not suffer any such to liue neither haue any conuersation with them for it is an abhomination vnto the Lord and that such persons haue no part in the Kingdome of God All this while Doctor Faustus heard him very attentiuely and replyed Father your perswasions like me wondrous well and I thanke you with all my heart for your good will and counsell proâ—ising you as farre as I may to allow your discipline whereupon he tooke his leaue And being come home he lay him very pensiue on his bed bethinking himselfe of the wordes of the olde man and in a manner began to repent that he had giuen his soule to the diuell intendâ—ng to deny all he had promised to Lucifer Continuing in these cogitations suddainly his spirit appeared vnto him clapping him vpon the head and wrung it as though he would haue pulled his head from his shaulders saying vnto him Thou knowest Faustus that thou hast giuen thy selfe body and soule to my Lord Lucifer and thou hast vowed thy selfe an enemy to God and vnto all men and now thou beginnest to hearken vnto an olde doting foole which perswaâ—eth thée as it were vnto good when indéed it is too lace for that thou art the Diuels and he hath good power presently to fetch thée wherefore he hath sent me vnto thée to tell thée that séeing thou hast sorrowed for that thou hast done begin againe and write another writing with thine owne blood if not then will I teare thée all to péeces Hereat Doctor Faustus was sore afraid and said My Mephostophiles I will write againe what thou wilt wherefore he sate him downe and with his owne blood he wrote as followeth which writing was afterward sent to a deare friend of the said Doctor Faustus being his kins-man How Doctor Faustus wrote the second time with his owne blood and gaue it to the deuill Chap. 49. I Doctor Iohn Faustus acknowledge by this my déed and hand writing that sith my first writing which is seuentéen yeares that I haue right willingly held and hath béen an vtter enemy vnto God all men the which I once againe confirme and giue fully and wholy my selfe vnto the deuill both body and soule euen vnto the great Lucifer that at the end of seauen yeares insuing after the date of this letter he shall haue to doe with me according as it pleaseth him either to lengthen or shorten my life as pleaseth him and hereupon I renounce all perswaders that séeke to withdraw me from my purpose by the word of God either ghostly or bodily and further I wil neuer giue eare vnto any man be he spirituall or temporall that moueth any matter for the saluation of my soule Of all this writing and that therein conteined be witnes my bloud the which with my hands I haue begun and ended Dated at VVittenberg the 25. of Iuly And presently vpon the making of this letter he became so great an enemy to the poore old man that he sought his life by all meanes possible but this godly man was strong in the holy Ghost that he could not be vanquished by any meanes for about two dayes after that he had exhorted Faustus as the poore man lay in his bed suddainly there was a mighty rumbling in the chamber that which he was neuer wont to heare and he heard as it had béene the groaning of a Sow which lasted long whereupon the good old man began to iest and mocke and said oh what Barbarian cry is this oh faire bird what soule musick is this a faire Angell that could not tary two daies in his place beginnest thou now to rim into a poore mans house where thou hast no power and wert not able to kéepe thy owne two dayes With these and such like words the spirit departed And when he came home Faustus asked him how hée had sped with the olde man to whome the spirit answered the olde man was harnessed and that he could not once lay holde vpon him but hée would not tell how the olde man had mocked him for the Diuels can neuer abide to heare of their fall Thus doth God defend the hearts of all honest Christians that be take themselues vnder his tuition How Doctor Faustus made a marriage between two louers Cap. 50. IN the Citty of Wittenberg was a Student a gallant Gentleman named N. N. This Gentleman was farre in loue with a Gentlewoman faire and proper of personage This Gentlewoman had a knight that was a suter vnto her and many other Gentlemen the which desired her in mariage but none could obtain her so it was that this N.N. was very well acquainted with Faustus and by that meanes became a suter vnto him to assist him in the matter for he fell so farre in dispaire with himselfe that he pined away to the skin and bones But when he had opened the matter vnto Doctor Faustus he asked counsell of his spirit Mephostophiles the which tolde him what to doe Hereupon Doctor Faustus went home to the Gentleman and bad him be of good chéere for he should haue his desire for he would helpe him to that he wished for and that this Gentlewoman should loue none other but him onely wherefore D. Faustus so changed the mind of the damsell by a practise he wrought that she should doe no other thing but think on him whom before she had hated neither cared she for any man but him alone The deuice was thus Faustus commaunded the Gentleman that he should cloath himselfe in all the best apparell that he had and that he should goe vnto this Gentlewoman â—â—d showe himselfe giuing him a King commaunding him in any wise that he should daunce with her before he departed who folowing his Counsel went to her and when they began to daunce they that were suiters began to take euery one his Lady by the hand this Gentleman tooke her woo before had so disdayned him and in the daunce he put the King into her hand that Faustus had giuen him which she no sooner toucht but she fell presently in loue with him smiling at him in the daunce and many times winking at him rolling her eyes and in the end she asked him if be could
loue her and make her his wife he gladly answered that he was content whereupon they concluded and were maryed by the meanes and help of Faustus for the which the Gentleman will rewarded hun How Doctor Faustus led his friends into his Garden at Christmas and showed them many strange sights in his ninteenth yeare Chap. 51. IN December about Christmas in the City of Wittenberg were manâ— yâ—ng Gentlemen which were come out of the Country to be merry with their friends amongst whome there were certaine well acquainted with Doctor Faustus who often inuited them home vnto his houses they being there on a certaine time after dinner he had them into his Garden where they beheld all maner of flowers and fresh hearbes and trées bearing fruit and blossomes of all sortes who wondred to sée that his garden should so flourish at that time as in the midst of Sommer and abroad in the streets and all the countrey lay full of snowe and yee Wherefore this was noted of them as a thing miraculous euery one gathering and carying away all such thinges as they best liked and so departed delightâ—d with their swéet smelling flowers How Doctor Faustus gathered together a great Army of men in his extremity against a Knight that would haue miured him on his iourney Chap. 52. DOctor Faustus trauayld towards Eyzelben and when he was nigh halfe the way he espyed seuen horse-men and the chiefe of them be knewe to be the Knight with whome he had Iested in the Emperours Court for he had set a huge payre of Harts hornes vpon his head and when the Knight now sawe that he had fit oportunity to be reuenged of Faustus he ran vpon him and those that were with him to mischiefe him intending priuile to slay him which when Faustus espyed he vanished away into a wood which was hard by them But when the Knight perceiued that he wâ—s vanished away he caused his men to stand still but where they remained they heard all maner of warlike Instruments of musick as Drums Flutes Trumpets and such like and a certaine troope of hors-men â—uÌ„â—â—ing toward them then they turned another way and they were also met on that side theÌ„ another way yet were freshly assaulted so that which way so euer they turned themselues he was incountred insomuch that when the Knight perceiued that he could escape no way but that they his enemies laid on him which way soeuer hée offered to flye hée tooke a good heart and ran amongst the thickest and thought with himselfe better to dye then to liue with so great an infamy Therefore being at handy blowes with them he demanded the cause why they should so vse him but none of them would giue him answer vntill Doctor Faustus shewed himselfe vnto the Knight whereupon they inclosed him round and Doctor Faustus said vnto him sir yéeld your weapon and your selfe other wise it will goe haâ—d with you The Knight knew no other but that he was inuironed with an hoast of men where indeed they were none other thâ—n diuels yéelded then Faustus tooke away his sword his péece and horse with all the rest of his companions And further he said vnto him Sir the chiefe Generall of our army hath commaunded to deale with you according to the Law of Armâ—s you â—hall depart in peace whither you please and then he gaue the Knight a horse after the manner and set him thereon so he rode the rest went on foote vntill they came to their Inne where being alighted his Page rode on his horse to the water and presently the horse vanished away the Page being almost sunke and drowned but he escaped and comming home the Knight perceiued his Page so bemyred and on foote asked where his horse was become who answered that he was vanished away which when the Knight heard hee said of a truth this is Faustus his doing for he serueth me now as he did before at the Court onely to make me a scorne and a laughing stocke How Doctor Faustus caused Mephostophiles to bring him 7. of the fairest women he could finde in all the Countries he had trauailed in in the 20 yeare Chap. 53. WHen D. Faustus called to minde that his time from day to day drew nigh he began to liue a swiniâ—h epicurish life wherefore he commaunded his Spirit Mephostophiles to bring him seauen of the fairest women that he had seene in all the time of his trauell which being brought first one then another he lay with them all insomuch that he liked them so well that he continued with them in all manner of loue and made them to trauell with him in all his iourners These women were 2. Netherlands 1. Hungarian 1. English 2. Wallons 1. Francklander and with these swéet personages he continued long yea euen to his last â—nd How Doctor Faustus found a masse of money when he had consumed 22. of his yeares Chap. 54. TO the end that the Diuell would make Faustus his onely heire hée shewed vnto him where he should goe and finde a mighty huge masse of money and that he should haue it in an olde Chappell that was fallen downe halfe a mile distant from Wittenberg there he had him to dig and should finde it the which he did and hauing digged reasonable déep he saw a mighty huge serpent the which lay on the treasure it selfe the treasure it selfe lay like a huge light burning but Doctor Faustus charmed the Serpent that he crept into a hole and when he digged déeper to get vp the treasure he found nothing but coales of fire there also he heard and saw many that were tormented yet notwithstanding he brought away the coales and when he was come home it was all turned into siluer and gold and after his death it was found by his seruant the which was almost about estimation a thousand Gilders How Doctor Faustus made the spirit of faire Helena of Greece his owne Paramour and bedfellow in his 23. yeare Chap. 55. TO the end that this miserable Faustus might fill the lust of his flesh and liue in all manner of voluptuous pleasures it came in his mind after he had slept his first sléepe and in the 23. yeare past of his time that he had a great desire to lye with faire Helena of Greece especially her whome he had séene and shewed vnto the students at Wittenberg wherefore he called vnto his spirit Mephostophiles commanding him to bring him the faire Helena which he also did wherupon he fell in loue with her and made her his common concubine and bedfellow for she was so beautifull and delightfull a péece that he could not be one houre from her if he should therfore haue suffred death she had so stolue away his heart and to his séeming in time she was with childe and in the end brought him a man childe whom Faustus named Iustus Faustus This child tolde D. Faustus many things that were to come and what strange things were done