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B13519	The second report of Doctor Iohn Faustus. Containing his appearances, and the deedes of Wagner. / VVritten by an English gentleman student in VVittenberg an Vniuersity of Germany in Saxony. Published for the delight of all those which desire nouelties by a frend of the same gentleman	English gentleman student.	1594 (1594)	STC 10715; ESTC S115012	55,114	72

lamentable enough the hearts of the Students and Schollers which where witnesses of his distraughture that with an inward terrour of conscience vexed and tormented they departed and declared the whole volumes of his detestable life which afore his Tragedy was thus acted were not knowen Christopher Wagner his familiar seruaunt vnto whom hée hadde committed the secrets of his bosome and had intimated vnto him what euer his foure and twenty years familiarity with the black Art and more blacke Diuels hadde taught him Hée after the death of his thus slaine Master musing at euery thing thus done euery thing thus done being wonderfull as men doe whome feare makes passionate and meditation of former losse vrgeth a latter augment of fresh sorrowes in a distraughtfull furye the company of Students being departed which were eie witnesses of the Doctors lamentable end conuayed himselfe vnto his Maisters Library viewing with sorrowfull eies the onely Monuments of his life the disputations betwixt him and Mephostophiles his aunsweres and demaunds and else whatsoeuer questions mooued or disputed off betwixt the Diuels and him the memorials of his Heauens and Hells voyages his conueaunce with many the like comicall iourneis The boy of a soddaine fell into a déepe considering of his former meriments sports and delights in so much that in this conceipt he flung out of this study as if hée meant to bury the remembraunce of these matters by contempte and negligence comming into the same Hall wherein his Maisters latest Tragedy was perfourmed sighing for his want hée remembred for as then he lately read it how that one Article to the which his Maister had bound Mephostophiles was that after his death he should be a spirite in nature and essence as others were The Wag at this began to smile oh how such thinges séeming pleasaunt make fooles harts merry conceiuing with himselfe how to make his once Maister become his man and to haue the number of his spirituall followers doubled scorning the a lonely attendaunce of one seruaunt To this therefore he determined a time for the raising of his Maisters spirite and therewith he fel to reade earnestly of other matters so long that he began to leaue as wearied and wearied began to muse Sodainely the aire began to receiue an alteration and chaunge with a thicke foggye miste as if it would haue shutte vp the d●●●red day from mans view the windes raged the thunder lifted ●p his voice aboue the common straine haile and raine immediatly following and all these but the ordinary presages of an appearing Spirite At this Kit began to tremble not as afraide of that which came but stroken with inward horrour of conscience thinking that no other time had béene appointed to be his doomes day Sodainly for alwaies such haps are sodain the dores slew open as if they would haue fled from flying and in all pompe entred as it were the Prologue of a Comedy a fellow so short and litle as if hée should be of one year and yet not so briefe as ill fauored in his hands a Club on his head a Crowne of Lawrell riding vppon a low Mule his name was Gomory a strong and mighty Duke the ruler of sixe and twenty Legions next and next in brauery appeared Volac a great Gouernour in the shape of a Boy with winges like an Angell of Hell séeming to bee of olde rusty iron riding vppon a Dragon with foure heads in his hands he held a flaming Torch to giue light to the after-commers and beholders next after him appeared Asmoday a King mightye and puissant ragged and brizled like a Bore on foote bearinge a banner or a launce After him issued Lucifer the King of the Orient with the foure Monarches of his dominions betwixt them were two mighty Spaniels which drew in a fiery Cart Doctor Iohn Faustus whome if reason had not better ruled Wagner would haue saluted for so naturall was his semblaunce so liuely his countenaunce as if it had eyther beene a new Faustus or not the olde murthered Faustus but the feare which his maisters harme put him in cast him besides the renewing of his olde acquaintance after these came diuers others with trumpets and excellent melody This right maruailous triumph thus presented each one did his humble obeysaunce the best beginning though good there were none and in the end with huge tumult and ecchoing of trūpets they crowned him a King which when they had done with the like ceremonies they conuayed out againe the Doctor whom his wretchednes made a King and his new King-ship nothing Wagner started as if he had now begunne to maruaile amazed at this merry Enterlude hauing recouered his memory againe he began softly to speake to himselfe in such like manner Is this quoth he the honour my Maister hath in Hell Is this the reuerence with which the Féends infernall vse to entertaine suche guestes O yée Spirites of Hell and yée euen now reuiued Emperours of great Limbus from whence haue you drawne this extraordinary humanity is it to skorne poore Faustus or to mocke Wagner that you shew such reuerence to a vile abiect what then woulde they doe to Wagner who is worthy to haue a fitter seruaunt then their King At these words he blusht excéedingly and began to rage very grieuously with his consciences terrour and with some few teares repenting his irreligious conclusion rose vp from the ground and supposing it to be but an illusion dreame or a temptation or else some conceite procéeding from his moiste and melancholicke fantasie ouerprest with too many vapors raised vp by continuall thought into his Pores wherefore hee went forthwith into the stréetes so much he distrusted himselfe and demaunded whether it rainde hailde or thundered and it was aunswered that it neither raind haild nor thundered Wagner albeit he was newly reuiued from a feare and scarcely throughly wakened from this his great terrours yet with this comicall iest his decayed spirites began to recouer their olde strength and power turning these great braueries of Diuels into a meriment and his conceiued fear into a méere fansie This was the first time that euer Faustus appeared vnto his seruaunt Wagner who recited this vnto his companions as a matter of great truth and litle moment Hovv certaine drunken Dutchmen vvere abused by theyr owne conceite and selfe imagination of seing the grand Doctor Doctor Faustus CHAP. II. IT shall not be impertinent my very good friends to declare as I am bound by a Translatours duety to shew what these my Dutch friends and students haue imparted vnto me not for that I will be a King of your hearts to commaund you to beléeue but that you may with the rest of the History conceiue the common opinion of him in the vulgars beliefe here in Germany as concerning such the like illusions before pretended About the same time the next yeare wherein Faustus was thus handled betwixt sixe and seauen a clock in the morning the fiue and twentith day of Iune

yet they easily granted to stand anie where they were so wel placed that they stood as wel to defend the friend as to offend the foe Then in due order marched out the whole enemies of the Christian and so setteled themselues whilest the Turke brought forward his thicke swarmes Now it had bin a braue sight to see the greatest princes of the whole worlde East and west attended on by theyr whole forces set in araie theyr gorgeous and bright armours and weapons casting vp long tramels of golden shine to the heauens the noise of clarions trumpets c. incouraging the fainting souldier and increasing the boldnes of the resolute There was at once in this field all the terrour of the world accompanied with all the beautie In the Citie you might haue séene the remainders at the churches at prayer solemne procession round about the towne with great deuotion c. Well the time was come that the horsemen began to assault the pike and attempting the ruptures of theyr araie and the forlorne hoaps fiercely skirmishing whilst with loude outcries the whole vse of hearing was taken away aboue you nothing but smoake round about you the thundring cannon and sharpe horrors of sundrie weapons and at your féet death There might you sée the great vse of the eughen how for the horse no whit fearing the musket or caliuer as vsed to it nor yet respec● the pearcing of a bullet by the thick tempest of arrowes hiding their eyes and hurting their bodies ouerthrew the horse master to the ground on that side could not one horse man appeare but straight they fetch him downe so that of thirtie thousand horsemen of one assault there was not one that came within fiue spears length of the battel on foot The great Turke cursing heauen and earth and al trées that bore such murthering fruit as bowes and arrowes caused a troup of fiue hundreth barbed horse with twentie thousand more to runne vpon the archens altogether which they did but when they came iust vpon a little ridge not one horse but sodaynely stopt and the riders which now had rested their stones lying close vpon the saddle pommels were throwen quite out of the saddle and either their backes broken or quite slaine All the whole archerie with the camp wondering hereat as ignorant of the matter euerie one suspending his seuerall iudgement but Faustus laughed heartily who knew the matter plaine for there had they buried in sand all the waie wolues guts which by naturall magicke as authors affirme suffers not the horse to come ouer it in anie case nor any force can carrie him ouer with a rider on him For the Archers drue iust vpon and so vniuersally shot together that all the troups were put to flight and aboue halfe spoiled and murthered To be briefe so much the Christian preuailed vpon the Turke in thrée houres and a halfes fight that all them were turnd and fled each one aduancing forward in his flight there were slaine in this battel flight aboue seuen score thousand Turkes the great Turke himselfe fighting manfully on his Elephant was by the Emperors owne handes slayne all his chiefe Bassas and men of honour to the number of thrée hundred died manfully about him now the retrait was sounded and they marched home in most glorious pompe and reioycing where the soldiers made rich with the great spoile of the campe were dismissed and the princes returned home and due order taken for the safetie of the citie So the Duke of Austria rid of his enemies gaue him selfe to his forepassed life and the other princes with great ioy caused generall feasts and triumphs to be performed in all theyr kingdomes prouinces and territories whatsoeuer FINIS