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

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

with a good and stedfast beliefe in God and Iesus Christ and vse your vocation in holines Lastly to knit vp my troubled oration this is my friendly request that you would goe to rest and let nothing trouble you also if you chance to heare any noise 〈◊〉 rumbling about the house be not therewith afraid for there shall no euill happen vnto you also I pray you arise not out of your beds ●at aboue all things I intreat you if you hereafter find my dead earkasse conuey it in the earth for I dye both a good and bad Christian for that I knowe the deuill will haue my body and that would I willingly giue him so that he would leaue my soule in quiet wherefore I pray you that you would depart to bed and so I wish you a quiet night which vnto mee notwithstanding will be horrible and fearefull This Oration or declaration was made by Doctor Faustus and that with a hearty and resolute minde to the end he might not discomfort them but the Students wondred greatly thereat that he was so blinded for knauery coniuration and such like foolish things to giue his body and soule vnto the deuill for they loued him intirely and neuer suspected any such things before he had opened his mind vnto them wherfore one of them said vnto him Ah friend Faustus what haue you done to conceale this matter so long from vs we would by the helpe of good Diuines and the grace of God haue brought you out of this net and haue torne you out of the bondage and chaines of Sathan whereas now we feare it is too late to the vtter ruine of your body and soule Doctor Faustus answered I durst neuer doe it although I often minded to settle my selfe vnto godly people to desire counsell and helpe and once mine olde neighbour counselled me that I should follow his learning and leaue all my coniurations yet when I was minded to amend and to follow that good mans councell then came the deuill and would haue had me away as this night he is like to doe and said so soone as I turned againe to God he would dispatch me altogether Thus euen thus good gentlemen and deare friends was I inthralled in that satanicall band all good desires drowned all pitty banished all purpose of amendment vtterly exiled by the tyrannous threatnings of my deadly enemie But when the Students heard his words they gaue him councell to doe nought else but call vpon God desiring him for the loue of his swéet son Iesus Christs sake to haue mercy vpon him teaching him this forme of prayer O God be mercifull vnto me poore and miserable sinner and enter not into iudgement with me for no flesh is able to stand before thée although O Lord I must leaue my sinfull body vnto the Deuill being by him deluded yet thou in mercy maist preserue my soule This they repeated vnto him yet it could take no holt but euen as Caine he also said his sinnes were greater then God was able to forgiue for all his thought was an his writing he ●●ant he had made it too filthy in writing with his owne blood The Students and the other that were there when they had prayed for him they wept and so went foorth but Faustus tarryed in the Hall and when the Gentlemen were laid in bed none of them could stéepe for that they attended to heare if they might be priuy of his end It hapned betwéene twelue and one a clocke at midnight there blew a mighty storme of winde against the house as though it would haue blowne the foundation thereof out of his place Hereupon the students began to feare and got out of their beds comforting one another but they would not stirre out of the chamber and the Host of the house ranne out of doores thinking the house would fall The Students lay néere vnto the hall wherein Doctor Faustus lay and they heard a mighty noise and hissing as if the hall had beene full of Snakes and Adders with that the hall doore stowe open wherin doctor Faustus was that he began to crie for help saying murther murther but it came foorth with halfe a voice hollowly shortly after they heard him no more But when it was day the Students that had taken no rest that night arose and went into the hall in the which they left doctor Faustus where notwithstanding they found not Faustus but all the hall lay desprinckled with blood his braines cleauing to the wall for the deuill had beaten him from one wall against another In one corner lay his eyes in an other his téeth a pittifull and fearefull sight to behold Then be●an the Students to waile and wéep for him and sought for his body in many places lastly they came into the yard where they found his body lying on the horse dung most monstrously torne and fearefull to behold for his head and all his ioynts were dashed in péeces The fore-named Students and Masters that were at his death haue obtained so much that they buryed him in the village where he was so gréeuously tormented After the which they returned to Wittenberg and comming into the house of Faustus they found the seruant of Faustus very sad vnto whome they opened all the matter who tooke it excéeding heauily There found they also this historie of Doctor Faustus noted and of him written as is before declared all saue onely his end the which was after by the Students thereto annexed further what his seruant had noted thereof was made in another booke And you haue heard that he held by him in his life the spirit of faire Helena the which had by him one Sonne the which he named Iustus Faustus euen the same day of his death they vanished away both mother and sonne The house before was so darke that scarfe any body could abide therein The same night Doctor Faustus appeared vnto his seruant liuely and shewed vnto him many secret thinges the which he had done and hidden in his life time Likewise there were certaine which saw Doctor Faustus looke out of the window by night as they passed by the house And thus ended the whole historie of Doctor Faustus his Coniuration and other acts that he did in his life out of the which example euery Christian may learne but chiefly the stiffe-necked and high minded may thereby learne to feare God and to be carefull of their vocation and to be at defiance with all deuillish workes as God hath most precisely forbidden to the end we should not inuite the deuill as a Guest nor giue him place as that wicked Faustus hath done for here we haue a feareful example of his writing promise and end that we may remember him that we goe not astray but take God alwayes before our eyes to call alone vpon him and to honour him all the dayes of our life with heart and harty prayer and with all our strength and soule to glorifie his holy name defying the deuill and all his workes to the end we may remaine with Christ in all endlesse ioy Amen Amen that wish I vnto euery Christian heart and Gods name to be glorified Amen FINIS