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
them some pretty feates insomuch that round about the hall was heard most pleasant musick that in sundry places in this corner a Lute in another corner a Cornet in another a Cithern Clarigolds Harpe Horne-pipe in fine all manner of Musicke was heard there at that instant whereat all the glasses and goblets cups and pots dishes and all that stoods on the boord began to daunce then Doctor Faustus tooke ten stone pots and set them downe on the floore where presently they began to dance and to smite one against the other that the shiuers flew round about the whole house whereat the whole company fell a laughing Then he began another iest he set an instrument on the table and caused a moÌ„strous great Ape to come in amongst them which Ape began to dance and to skip shewing them many merry conceits In this and such like pastime they passed away the whole day where night being come Doctor Faustus bad them all to Supper which they lightly agréed vnto for Students in these cases are easily intreated wherefore he promised to feast them with a banket of fowle and afterward they would goe all about with a mask then D. Faustus put forth a long pole out of the window wherupon presently there came innumerable of birds wild fowle and so many as came had not any power to flie away againe but he tooke them and flang them to the students who lightly pulled of the neckes of them and being roasted they made their supper which being ended they made themselues ready to the mask Doctor Faustus commanded euery one to put on a cleane shirt ouer his other cloaths which being done they looked one vpon another it séemed to each one of them they had no heads and so they went forth vnto certaine of their neighbours at which sight the people were wonderfully afraid And as the vse of Germany is that whersoeuer a mask entreth the good man of the house must feast them so when these maskers were set to their banquet they séemed againe in their former shape with heads insomuch that they were all knowne what they were and hauing sate and well eate and drunke D. Faustus made that euery one had an Asses head on with great and long eares so they fell to dancing and to drine away the time vntill it was midnight and then euery man departed home and assoone as they were out of the house each one was in his naturall shape againe and so they ended and went to sléepe How Doctor Faustus the day following was feasted of the students and of his merry iests with them while he was in their company Chap. 44. THe last Bacchanalâ— was held on Thursday where insued a great snow and D. Faustus was inuited vnto the Students that were with him the day before where they had prepared an excellent banket for him which banket being ended doctor Faustus began to play his old pranks and forthwith were in the place thirtéen Apes that tooke hands and danced round in a ring together then they sell to tumbling vauting one ouâ—r another that it was most pleasent to beheld theÌ„ they leaped out of the window and vanished away then they set before Doctor Faustus a roasted calues head which one of the Students cut a péece of and laid it on Doctor Faustus his trencher which péece being no sooner laid downe but the Caâ—nes head began to cry mainly out like a man murther murther out alas what dost thou to me whereat they were all amazed but after a while considering of Faustus his testing tucks they began to laugh and then they pulled in sunder the calues head and cate it vp Whereupon Doctor Faustus asked leane to depart but they would in no wise agrée to let him goe except that he would promise to come again presently then Faustus through his cunning made a fledge the which was drawne about the house with foure firy dragons this was fearefull for the students to beholde for they saw Faustus ride vp and downe as though he should haue fired and slaine all them in the house This sport continued vntil midnight with such a noise that they could not heare one another and the heads of the students were so light that they thought themselues to be in the ayre all that time How Doctor Faustus shewed the faire Helena vnto the students vpon the Sunday following Chap. 45. THe Sunday following came those students home to Doctor Faustus his owne house and brought their meat and drinke with them these men were right welcome guests vnto Faustus wherefore they all fell to drinking wine smoothly and being merry they began some of them to talke of the beauty of women and euery one gaue forth his verdit what he had séene and what he had heard So one among the rest said I neuer was so desirous of any thing in this world as to haue a sight if it were possible of faire Helena of Greece for whom the worthy towne of Troy was destroyed and razed downe to the ground therefore saith he that in all mens iudgement she was more then commonly faire because that when she was stolne away from her husband there was for her recouery so great bloodshed Doctor Faustus answered for that you are all my friends and are so desirous to sée that stately pearle of Greece faire Helena the wife of King Menelaus and daughter of Tendalus and Leda sister to Castor and Pollux who was the fairest Lady in all Greece I will therefore bring her into your presence personally and in the same forme of attire as she vsed to goe when she was in her chiefest flowers and pleasantest priaâ—e of youth The like haue I done for the Emperour Carolus Magnus at his desire I shewed him Alexander the great and his Paramout but said Doctor Faustus I charge you all that vpon your perils you speake not a word nor rise vp from the table so long as she is in your presence And so he went out of the hall returning presently againe after whom immediatly folowed the faire and beautiful Helena whose beauty was such that the students were all amazed to sée her esteeming her rather to be a heauenly then an earthly Creature This Lady appeared before them in a most rich Gowne of purple Velnet cosily imbroadred her haire hanged downe loose as fairs as the beaten golde and of such length that it reached downe to her hâ—mmes hauing most amorous coleblaâ—â—â— eyes a swéet pleasant round ace with lips as red as a Cherry he chéeks of a rose colour her mouth small her neck white like a swan tall slender of personage In summe there was no imperfect place in her she looked round about with a rolling Haukes eye a smiling and wanton countenance which nere hand inflamd the harts of al students but that they perswaded themselues she was a spirit which made them lightly passe away such fancyes and thus faice Helen and Faustus went out againe one with an an
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
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
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
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
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