neuer satisfied in thy minde but alwayes bringest me anew Yet I pray thée this once qd Faustus doe me so much fauour as to tell me the truth in this matter and hereafter I will be no more so earnest with thée the spirit was altogether against it but yet once more he would abide him well said the spirt to Faustus what demandest thou of me Faustus said I would gladly know of thée if thou wert a man in manner and forâ—e as I am what wouldst thou doe to please both God and man whereat the spirit smiled saying My Faustus if I were a man as thou art and that God had adorned me with those guifts of nature as thou once hadst euen so long as the breath of God were by and within mée would I humble my selfe vnto his Maiestie endeauouring in all that I could to kéepe his commandements praise him and glorifie him that I might continue in his fauour so were I sure to enioy the eternall ioy and felicitie of his kingdome Faustus said but that I haue not done No thou saist true qd Mephostophiles thou hast not done it but thou hast denyed the Lord thy maker which gaue thée the breath of life spéech hearing sight and all other thy reasonable sences that thou mightest vnderstand his will and pleasure to liue to the glory and honour of his name and to the aduancement of thy body and soule him I say being thy maker hast thou denyed and defied yea wickedly thou hast applyed that excellent guift of thy vnderstanding and giuen thy soule to the deuill therfore giue none the blame but thine owne self will thy proud and aspiring minde which hath brought thée into the wrath of God and vtter damnation This is most true qd Faustus but tell me Mephostophiles wouldst thou be in my case as I am now yea saith the spirit and with that fetcht a great sigh for yet would I so humble my selfe that I would win the fauour of God Then said D. Faustus it were time inough for me if I amended True said Mephostophiles if it were not for thy great sinnes which are so odious and detestable in the sight of God that it is too late for thée for the wrath of God resteth vpon thée Leaue off qd Faustus and tell me my question to my greater comfort Here followeth the second part of Doctor Faustus his life and practises vntill his end Chap. 17. DOctor Faustus hauing receiued deniall of his spirit to be resolued any more in such like questions propounded forgot all good workes and fell to be a Kalender-maker by the helpe of his spirit and also uâ— short time to be a good Astronomeror Astrologian he had learned so perfectly of his Spirit the course of the Sunne Moone and Starres that he had the most famous name of all the Mathem atiques that liued in his time as may well appeare by his workes dedicated vnto sundry Dukes and Lords for be did nothing without the aduice of his spirit which learned him to presage of matters to come which haue come to passe since his death The like praise won he with his Kalenders and Almanacks making for when he presaged of any thing operation and alteration of the weather or Elements as winde rame fogs snow haile moyst dry warme colde thunder lightning it fell so duely out as if an Angell of heauen had forewarned it He did not like the vnskilfull Astronomers of our time that set in Winter cold moyst airy frosty and in the Dog-dayes hot dry thunder fire and such like but he set in all his workes day and haure when where and how it should dappen If any wonderfull thing were at hand as mortalitie famine plague or warres he would set the time and place in true and iust order when it should come to passe A question put forth by Doctor Faustus to his Spirit concerning Astronomy Chap. 18. NOw Faustus falling to practice and making his Prognestications he was doutfull in many points wherefore he called vnto him mephostophiles his Spirit saying I finde the ground of this science very difficult to attaine vnto for when that I conferre Astronomia and Astrologia as the Mathematicians and ancient writers haue left in memorye I finde them to barry and very much to disagree wherefore I pray thée to teach me the truth in this matter to whome his spirit answered Faustus thou shalt knowe that the practicioners or speculators or at least the first inuenters of these Artes haue done nothing of themselues certaine whereupon thou maist attaine to the true prognosticating or presaging of things concerning the heauens or of the influence of the planets for if by chaunce some one Mathematician or Astronomer hath left behinde him any thing worthy of memory they haue so blinded it with Enigmaticall wordes blinde Characters and such obscure sâ—gures that it is impossible for an earthly man to attaine to the knowledge thereof without the ayde of some spirit or els the speciall guift of God for such are the hidden works of God from men yet doe we spirits that die and fléete in all Elements know such and there is nothing to be done or by the heauens pretended but we know it except onely the day of Doome Wherefore Faustus learne of me I will teach thée the course recourse of ♄ ♃ ♀ ☉ ☿ and ☾ the cause of winter and summer the exaltation and declination of the Sunne and Ecclipse of the Moone the distance and height of the Poles and euery fixed starre the nature and operation of the Elements fire ayre water and earth and all that is contained in them yea herein there is nothing hidden from me but onely the filthy essence which once thou hadst Faustus at liberty but now Faustus thou hast lost it past recouery wherefore leauing that which wil not be again had learn now of me to make thunder lightning haile snow and raine the cloudes to rent the earth and craggy rocks to shake and split in sunder the Seas to swell rore and ouer-run their markes knowest not thou that the déeper the Sunne shines the hotter he pierces so the more thy Art is famous whilest thou art héere the greater shall be thy name when thou art gone Knowest not thou that the earth is frozen cold and dry the water running cold and moist the ayre flying hot and moist the fire consuming hot and dry Yea Faustus so must thy heart be inflamed like the fire to mount on high learne Faustus to flie like my selâ—â— as swift as thought from one kingdome to another to sit at Princes tables to eate their dain tiest fare to haue thy pleasure of their Ladyes wiues and concubines to vse all their iewels and costly robes as thinges belonging vnto thée and not vnto them learne of me Faustus to runne through walles doores and gates of stone and yron to créepe into the earth like a Worme to swim in the water like a fish to fly in the ayre like a Bird
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
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
Dithican he was a short théefe in forme of a Feasant with shining feathers and toure féete his necke was gréeâ—e his body reâ— and his féete blacke The last was called Brachus with foure short féete like a Hedge hog yellow and gréene the vpper side of his body was browne and the belly like blew flames of fire the taile red like the taile of a Monkey The rest of the deuils were in forme of vnsensible beasts as Swine Harts Beares Woolfes Apes Buffes Goates Antlops Elephants Dragons Horses Asses Lyons Cats Snakes Loades and all manner of vgly odious Serpents and wormes yet came in such sort that euery one at his entry into the Hall made their reuerence vnto Lucifer and so tooke their places standing in order as they came vntill they had filled the whole Hall wherewith sodainly fell a most horrible thunder-clap that the house shooke as though it would haue fallen to the ground vpon which euery monster had a muck forke in his hand holding them towards Faustus as though they would haue run at tilt at him which when Faustus perceiued he thought vpon the wordes of Mephostophiles when he told him how the soules in hell were tormented being cast from deuill to deuill vpon mucke-forkes he thought verily to haue béene tormented there of them in like sort But Lucifer perceiuing his thought spake to him My Faustus how likest thou this crew of mine quoth Faustus why came not you in another manner of shape Lucifer replyed we cannot change our hellish forme we haue shewed our selues héere as we are there yet can we blinde mens eyes in such sort that when we will we repaire vnto them as if we were men or Angels of light although our dwelling be in darkenes Then said Faustus I like not so many of you together whereupon Lucifer commanded them to depart except 7. of the principali forthwith they presently vanished which Faustus perceiuing he was somewhat better comforted and spake to Lucifer where is my seruant Mephostophiles let me see if he can doe the like whereupon came a fierce Dragon flying and spitting fire round about the house and comming towards Lucifer made reuerence and then changed himselfe to the forme of a Frier saying Faustus what wilt thou Faustus said I will that thou teach me to transforme my selfe in like sort as thou and the rest haue done then Lucifer put fooâ—â—h his paw and gaue Faustus a booke saying hold doe what thou wilt which hée looking vpon straight wayes changed himselfe into a hogge then into a Worme then into a Dragon and finding this for his purpose it liked him well Quoth he to Lucifer and how commeth it that so many filthy formes are in the world Lucifer answered they are ordained of God as plagues vnto men and so shalt thou be plagued quoth he wher 's vpon came Scorpions Waspes Emits Bées and Enats which fell to stinging and bâ—tâ—ng him and all the whole house was fâ—â—led with a most horrible stinking fogge insomuch that Faustus saw nothing but still was tormented wherefore he cryed for helpe saying Mephostophiles my faithfull seruant where art thou helpe helpe I pray thée hereat the spirit answering nothing but Lucifer himselfe said ho ho ho Faustus how likest thou the creation of the world and incontinent it wes cleare againe and the diuels and all the filthy cattell were vanished onely Faustus was left alone séeing nothing but hearing the swéetest musicke that euer he heard before at which he was so rauished with delight that he forgot his feares hée was in before and it repented him that he had séene no more of their pastime How Doctor Faustus desired to see hell and of the manner how he was vsed therein Chap. 20. DOctor Faustus bethinking how his time went away and how hee had spent eight yeares thereof he ment to spend the rest to his better contentment intending quite to forget any such motions as might offend the deuill any more wherefore on a time he called his Spirit Mephostophiles and said vnto him bring thou hither vnto mee thy Lord Lucifer or Behall he brought him notwithstanding one that was called Belzebub the which asked Faustus his pleasure Quoth Faustus I would know of thoe if I may see hell and take a view thereof That thou shalt said the diuell and at midnight I will fetch thée Wâ—ll night being come Doctor Faustus awaited very diligently for the comming of the diuell to fetch him and thinking that he tarryed all too long hee went to the window where he pulled open a cazement and looking into the Element he saw a cloude in the North more blacke darker and obscure then all the rest of the skie from whence the winde blew most horrible right into Faustus his chamber and filled the whole house with smoke that Faustus was almost smothered hereat fell an excéeding thunder clap and withall came a great rugged blacke Beare all cuâ—led and vpon his backe a chaire of beaten gold and spake to Faustus saying sit vp and away with me and Doctor Faustus that had so long abode the smoake wisht rather to be in hell then there got on the diuell and so they went together But marke how the diuell blinded him and made him beléeue they carryed him into hell for he carryed him into the ayre where Faustus fell into a sound sléepe as if he had sate in a warme water or bath at last they came to a place which burneth continually with flashing flames of fire and brimstone where aut issued an excéeding mighty clap of thunder with so horrible a noise that Faustus awaked but the deuill went foorth on his way and carried Faustus thereinto yet notwithstanding howsoeuer it burnt D. Faustus self no more heate then as it were the glimps of the Sunne in May there heard he all manner of musicke to welcome him but saw none playing on them it pleased him well but he durst not aske for he was forbidden it before To méete the deuill and the guest that came with him came 3. other vgly deuils the which ranne backe againe before the Beare to make the way against whome there came running an excéeding great Hart which would haue thrust Faustus out of his chaire but being defended by the other thrée deuils the Hart was put to the repulse thence going on their way Faustus looked and beholde there was nothing but Snakes and all manner of venemous beasts about him which were excéeding great vnto the which Snakes came many Storkes and swallowed vp all the whole multitude of Snakes that they left not one which when Faustus saw he maruailed greatly but procéeding further on their hellish dayage there came foorth of an bollow cliffe an excéeding great flying Bull the which with such a force hit Faustus his chaire with his head and hornes that he turned Faustus and his Beare ouer and ouer so that the Beare vanished away whereat Faustus began to cry oh woe is me that euer I came héere for he thought
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
and to liue and nourish thy selfe in the fire like a Salamander so shalt thou be famous renowned farre spoken of and extolled for thy skill going on kniues not hurting thy féete carrying fire in thy bosome and not burning thy shirt séeing through the heauens as through a Christall wherein is placed the planets with all the rest of the presaging Comets the whole circuit of the world from the East to the West North and South there shalt thou know Faustus wherefore the fiery sphere aboue and the signes of that Zodiack doth not burne and consume the whole face of the earth being hindered by placing the two moist elements between thein the airy cloudes and the wauering wanes of water yea Faustus I will learne thee the secrets of nature what the cause is that the sun in sommer being at the highest giueth all his heate downewards on the earth and being in Winter at the lowest giueth all his heate vpward into the Heauens that the snow should be of so great vertue as the honny and the Lady Saturnia in Occulto more hotter then the Sun in Manifesto Come on my Faustus I will make thée as perfect in these thinges as my selfe I will learne thée to goe inuisible to finde out the mines of gold and siluer the fodines of precions stones as the Carbuncle the Diamond Saphir Emerald Ruby Topas Iacinet Granat Iaspis Amachist vse all these at thy pleasure take thy hearts desire thy time Faustus weareth away then why wilt thou not take thy pleasure of the world Come vp we will goe vnto Kinges at their owne Courts and at their most sumptuous banquets be their guests if willingly they inuite vs not then perforce we will serue our owne turne with their best meate and daintiest wine Agréed qd Faustus but let me pause a while vpon this thou hast euen now declared vnto me How Doctor Faustus fell into despaire with himselfe for hauing put foorth a question vnto his spirit they fell at variance whereupon the rout of Deuils appeared vnto him threatning him sharply Chap. 19. DOctor Faustus reuoluing with himselfe the spéeches of his spirit he became so woful and sorrowfull in his cogitations that he thought himselfe already frying in the hottest flames of 〈◊〉 lying in this muse suddenly there appeared vnto him his spirit deâ—â—unding what thing so grieued and troubled his conscience where at Doctor Faustus gaue no answer yet the spirit very earnestly lay vpon him to know the cause and if it were possible he would finde remedy for his griefe and ease him of his sorrowes To whom Faustus answered I haue taken thee vnto me as a seruant to do me seruice and thy seruice will be very deare vnto me yet I cannot haue any diligence of thée further then thou list thy selfe neither doest thou in any thing as it becommeth thée The spirit replyed My Faustus thou knowest that I was neuer against thy commandements as yet but ready to serue and resolue thy questions although I am not bound vnto thée in such respects as concerne the hurt of our Kingdome yet was I alwayes willing to answer thée and so am still therefore my Faustus say on boldly what is thy will and pleasure At which words the spirit stole away the heart of Faustus who spake in this sort Mephostophiles tell me how and after what sort God made the world and all the creatures in them and why man was made after the Image of God the spirit hearing this answered Faustus thou knowest that all this is in vaine for thée to aske I know that thou art sory for that thou hast done but it auaileth thée not for I will thousand péeces if thou change not thine opinions and hereat he vanished away Whereat Faustus all sorrowfull for that he had put forth such a question fell to wéeping and to howling bitterly not for his sinnes towards God but that the Deuill was departed from him so sodainly and in such a rage And being in this perplexity he was suddainly taken in such an extreame colde as if he should haue frozen in the place where he sate in which the greatest deuill in hell appeared vnto him with certaine of his hideous and infernall company in most vgliest shapes that it was vnpossible to thinke vpon and trauersing the chamber round about where Faustus sate Faustus thought to himselfe now are they come for me though my time be not come and that because I haue asked such questions of my seruant Mephostophiles at whose cogitations the chiefest deuill which was the Lord vnto whome he gaue his soule that was Lucifer spake in this sort Faustus I haue séene thy thoughts which are not as thou hast vowed vnto me by vertue of this Letter and shewed him the Obligation which he had written with his owne blood wherefore I am come to visite thée and to shew thée some of our hellish pastimes in hope that will drawe and confirme thy minde a little more stedfast vnto vs. Content quoth Faustus goe too let me sée what pastime you can make At which wordes the great deuill in his likenes sate him downe by Faustus commaunding the rest of the deuils to appeare in their forme as if they were in hell First entred Belial in forme of a Beare with curled blacke haire to the ground his eares standing vpright within the eare was as red as blood out of which issued flames of fire his téeth were at least a foote long as white as snow with a taile thrée elles long at the least hauing two winges one behinde each arme and thus one after another they appeared to Faustus in forme as they were in hell Lucifer himselfe sate in manner of a man all hairy but of a browne colour like a Squirrell curied and his taile turning vpward on his backe as the Squirrels vse I thinke he could crack nuts too like a Squirrell After him came Belzebub in curled haire of a horse-flesh colour his head like the head of a Bul with a mighty paire of hornes and two long eares downe to the ground and two wings on his backe with pricking things like thornes out of his wings issued flames of fire his taile was like a Cowes Then came Astoroth in forme of a worme going vpright on his taile had no féete but a taile like a Slow-worme vnder his chappes grew two short hands and his barke was cole-blacke his belly thicke in the middle yellow like golde hauing many bristles on his backe like a Hedge-heg After him came Chaniagosta being white and gray mixed excéeding curled and hairy he had a head like the head of an Asse and a taile like a Cat and clawes like an Oxe lacking nothing of an ell broad Then came Anobis this deuill had a head like a dog white and blacke haire in shape like a hog sauing that he had but two féete one vnder his threate the other at his taile he was foure elles long with hanging cares like a blood-hound After him came