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
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 â—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 â—â—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 beâ—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
sit vp then fall you all on the cloake and good enough well the water being brought and that they must wash one of the thrée had so much manners as to desire his friend to wash first which when Faustus heard he said sit vp and all at once they got on the cloake but he that spake fell off againe the other two with Doctor Faustus were againe presently at Wittenberg but he that remained was taken laid in prison wherfore the other two Gentlemen were very sorrowfull for their friend but Faustus comforted them promising that on the morrow he should also be at Wittenberg Now all this while was the Duke taken in great feare and stricken into an excéeding dump wondring with himselfe that his hap was so hard to be left behind and not the rest and now being weked and watched with so many kéepers there were also certaine of the guests that fell to reasoning with him to know what he was and also what the other were that were vanished away but the poore prisoner thought with himselfe if I open what they are then it will be euill also with me whereofore all this while he gaue no man any answere so that he was there a whole day and gaue no man a word wherefore the old Duke gaue in charge that the next morning they should racke him vntill he had confessed which when the young Duke heard he began to sorrow and to say with himselfe it may be that to morrowe if Doctor Faustus come not to aid me shall I be rached and grieuously tormented insomuch that I shall be constrained by force to tell more then willingly I would doe but he comforted himselfe with hope that his friends would intreat Doctor Faustus about his delinerance as also it came to passe for before it was day Doctor Faustus was by him and he coniured them that watched him into such a heauy sléepe that he with his charmes made open all the locks in the prison and there withall brought the young Duke againe in safety to the rest of his fellowes and friends where they presented Faustus with a sumptuous guift and so departed one from the other How Doctor Faustus borrowed money of a Iew and laid his owne legge to pawne for it Chap. 33. IT is a common Prouerb in Germany that although a coniurer haue all things at commandement the day will come that he shall not be worth a peny so is it like to fall out with Doctor Faustus in promising the deuil so largely and as the deuill is the author of lyes euen so he led Faustus his minde in practising of things to deceiue the people and blinding them wherin he tooke his whole delight thereby to bring himselfe to riches yet notwithstanding in the end he was neuer the richer And although during foure and twenty yeares of his time that the deuill set him he wanted nothing yet was he best pleased when he might deceiue any body for out of the mightiest Potentates courts in all those countries he would send his spirit to fetch away their best chéere And on a time being in his merriment where he was banquetting with other Students in an Inne whereunto resorted many Iewes which when D. Faustus perceiued he was minded to play some merry iest to deceiue a Iew desiring one of them to lend him some money for a time the Iew was content lent Faustus thréescore dollers for a month which time being expired the Iew came for his money and intrest but Doctor Faustus was neuer minded to pay the Iew againe at length the Iew comming home to his house and calling importunately for his money doctor Faustus made him this answer Iew I haue no mony nor know I how to pay thée but notwithstanding to the end that thou maiest be contented I will cut off a limme of my body be it arme or legge and the same thou shalt haue in pawne of thy money yet with this condition that when I shall pay thée thy mony againe then thou shalt giue me my limbe The Iew that was neuer friend to a Christian thought with himselfe this is a fellow right for my purpose that will lay his lints to pawn for mony and was therwith very well content wherfore doctor Faustus tooke a saw and therwith séemed to cut off his leg being notwithstanding nothing so well he gaue it to the Iew yet vpon this condition that when he got mony to pay the Iew should deliuer him his leg to the end he might set it on againe The Iew was with this matter very well pleased took his leg and departed and hauing far home he was somewhat weary and by the way he thus bethought him what helpeth me a knaues leg if I should cary it home it would stinke and so infect my house besides it is too hard a péece of work to set it on again wherefore what an asse was Faustus to lay so déere a pawne for so smal a somme of mony and for my part quoth the Iew to himselfe this will neuer profite me any thing and with these wordes he cast the leg away from him into a ditch All this Doctor Faustus knew right well therfore within thrée daies after he sent for the Iew to make him payment of his 60. dollers the Iew came and Doctor Faustus demanded his pawne there was his mony ready for him the Iew answered the pawne was not profitable or necessary for any thing and he had cast it away but Faustus threatning replied I will haue my leg againe or else one of thine for it The Iew fell to intreat promising him to giue him what money he would aske if he would not deale straigtly with him wherefore the Iew was constrained to giue him sixty dollers more to be rid of him and yet Faustus had his leg on for he had but blinded the Iew. How Doctor Faustus deceiued a Horse-courser Cap. 34. AFter the like manner he serued a Horse courser at a Frayre called Pheiffring for Faustus through his Coniuring had got an excellent faire Horse whereupon he rid to the Fayre where he had many Chapmen that offred him money lastly he solde him for forty dollors willing him that bought him that in any wise he should not ride him ouer any water but the horse-courser maruelled with himselfe that Faustus had him ride him ouer no water but quoth he I will proue and foorthwith he rid him into the Riuer presently the horse vanished from vnder him and he sate on a bottle of straw insomuch that the man was almost drowned The horse-courser knewe well where he lay that had sold him his Horse wherefore he went angerly to his Inne where he found Doctor Faustus fast a sléep◠and snorting on a bed but the Horse-courser could no longer for beare him tooke him by the leg and began to pull him off the bed but he pulled him so that he pulled his leg from his body insomuch that the Horse-courser fell backwards in the place
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
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