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
heauen at commandement whereat they answered they knew none stouter then the Pope or Emperor but Doctor Faustus said the Head that is my seruant is aboue all on earth and repeated certaine words out of Saint Paul to the Ephesians to make his argument good the Prince of this world is vpon earth and vnder heauen Well let vs come againe to his coniuration where we left him at his fiery Globe Faustus vexed at his spirits so long tarrying vsed his charmes with full purpose not to depart before he had his entent and crying on Mephostophiles the Spirit sodainely the globe opened and sprung vp in height of a man so burning a time in the end it conuerted to the shape of a fiery man This pleasant beast ran about the Circle a great while and lastly appeared in the manner of a gray Fryer asking Faustus what was his request Faustus commanded that the next morning at twelue of the clocke he should appeare to him aâ— his house but the deuill would in no wise grant Faustus bâ—gan againe to coniure him in the name of Belzebub that he should fulfill his request whereupon the Spirit agréed and so they departed each one his way The conference of Doctor Faustus with his Spirit Mephostophiles the morning following at his owne house Chap. 3. DOctor Faustus hauing commanded the Spirit to be with him at his houre appointed he came and appeared in his chamber demanding of Faustus what his desire was then began Doctor Faustus anew with him to coniure him that he should be obedient vnto him and to answere him certaine articles and to fulfill them in all poynts 1. That the Spirit should serue him and be obedient vnto him in all things that he asked of him from that houre till the houre of his death 2. Further any thing that he desired of him he should bring it him 3. Also that in all Faustus his demands and interrogations the spirit should tell him nothing but that which was true Hereupon the Spirit answered and laid his case foorth that he had no such power of himselfe vntill he had first giuen his Prince that was ruler ouer him to vnder stand thereof and to know if he could obtaine so much of his Lord therefore speake further that may doe thy whole desire to my prince for it is not in my power to fulfil without his leaue Shew me the cause why said Faustus the spirit answered Faustus thou shalt vnderstand that with vs it is euen aswell a Kingdome as with you on earth yea we haue our Rulers and Seruants as I my selfe am one we name our whole number the Legion for although that Lucifer is thrust and fallen out of heauen through his pride and high minde yet he hath notwithstanding a Legion of Deuills at his commandement that we call the Orientall Princes for his power is great and infinite Also there is a power in Meridie in Septentrio in Occidente and for that Lucifer hath his Kingdome vnder heauen we must change and giue our selues to men to serue them at their pleasure It is also certaine we haue neuer as yet opened vnto any man the truth of our dwelling neither of our ruling neither what ouâ— power is neither haue we giuen any man any guift or learned him any thing except he promise to be ours Doctor Faustus vpon this arose where he sate said I will haue my request and yet I will not be damned The Spirit answered then shalt thou want thy desire yet art thou mine notwithstanding if any man would detayne thee it is in vaine for thy infidelity hath confounded thée Hereupon spake Faustus get thée hence from me and take S. Valentines farewell and Crisman with thée yet I coniure thée that thou be héere at euening and bethinke thy selfe of that I haue asked thée and aske thy Princes counsaile therein Mephostophiles the spirit thus answered vanished away leauing Faustus in his study where he sate pondring with himselfe how he might obtaine his request of the Deuill without losse of his soule yet fully was resolued in himselfe rather then to want his pleasure to doe what the spirit and his Lord should condition vpon The second time of the Spirit appearing to Faustus in his house and their parley Chap. 4. FAustus continued in his deuilish cogitations neuer moouing out of the place where the spirit left him such was his feruent lone to the deuill the night approaching this swift flying spirit appeared to Faustus offering himselfe with all submission to his seruice with full authority from his Prinre to doe whatsoeuer he would request if so be Faustus would promise to be his this answere I bring thée and an answer must thou make by me againe yet will I heare what is thy desire because thou hast sworne me to be heare at this time D. Faustus gaue him this answere though faintly for his soules sake that his request was none other but to become a Deuill or at the least a limbe of him and that the spirit should agrée vnto these articles as followeth 1. That he might be a spirit in shape and quallity 2. That Mephostophiles should be his seruant at his coÌ„mandement 3. That Mephostophiles should bring him any thing and doe for him whatsoeuer 4. That at all times he should be in his house inuisible to all men except onely to himselfe and at his commandement to shew himselfe 5. Lastly that Mephostophiles should at all times appeare at his command in what forme or shape soeuer he would Vpon these points the spirit answered Doctor Faustus that all this should be granted him and fulfilled and more if he would agrée vnto him vpon certaine articles as followeth First that Doctor Faustus should giue himselfe to the Lord Lucifer body and soule Secondly for confirmation of the same he should make him a writing written with his owne blood Thirdly that he would be an enemy to all Christian people Fourthly that he would deny the Christian beliefe Fiftly that he let not any man change his opinion if so be any man should goe about to disswade or withdraw him from if Further the spirit promised Faustus to giue him certaine yeares to liue in health and pleasure and when such yeares were expired that then Faustus should be fetched away and if he would hold these articles and conditions that then he should haue all whatsoeuer his heart would with or desire and that Faustus should quickly perceiue himselfe to be a spirit in all manner of actions whatsoeuer Hereupon Doctor Faustus his minde was so inflamed that he forgot his soule and promised Mephostophiles to hold all things as he had mentioned them he thought the Deuill was not blacke as they vse to paint him nor hell so hote as the people say c. The third parley betweene Doctor Faustus and Mephostophiles about a conclusion Chap. 5. AFter Doctor Faustus had made his promise to the Deuill in the morning betimes he called the spirit
his own mouth which we haue likewise from the same séede which was only planted by God in Adam which wind breth or spirit when he had receiued he was liuing and mouing on earth for it was ordayned of God for his habitation but she heauens are the habitation of the Lord and like as I shewed before of the hubble or confused Chaos made of water and sope through the wind breath of man is turned round and caryed with euery winde euen so the Firmament wherein the Sunne and the rest of the planets are fixed moued turned and caried with the winde breath and spirit of God for the heauens and firmaments are mooueable as the Chaos but the Sunne is fixed in the firmament And further my good School-fellow I was thus nigh the heauens where me thought euery planet was but as half the earth and vnder the firmament ruled the spirits in the aire as I came down I looked vpon the world and the heauens and me thought that the earth was inclosed in comparison within the firmament as the yolke of an Egge within the white me thought that the whole length of the earth was not a span long and the water was as if it had bin twice as broad and as long as the earth euen thus at the eight daies end came I home againe and fell asléepe and so I continued sléeping thrée dayes thrée nightes together and the first houre I awaked I fell fresh againe to my Kalender and haue made them in right ample maner as you know and to satisfie your request for that you writ vnto me I haue in consideration of our olde friendship had at the vniuersitie of Wittenberge declared vnto you my heauenly voyage wishing no worse vnto you then vnto my selfe that is that your minde were as mine in all respectes Dixi. Doctor Faustus the Astrologian How Doctor Faustus made his iourney through the principall and most famous lands in the world DOctor Fau. hauing ouer-run fiftéene yeares of his appointed time he tooke vpon him a iourney with full pretence to sée the whole world and calling his Spirit Mephostophiles vnto him he said Thou knowest that thou art bound to me vpon conditions to performe and fulfill my desire in all thinges wherefore my pretence is to visite the whole face of the earth visible and inuisible when it pleaseth me therefore I enioyne and commaund thée to the same Wherevpon Mephostophiles answered I am ready my Lord at thy command and forthwith the spirit changed himselfe into the likenesse of a flying horse saying Faustus sit vp I am ready Doctor Faustus loftily fate vpon him and forwards they went Faustus came through many a Land and Prouince as Pauonia Austria Germania Bohemia Slesia Saxony Missene During Franckland Shawblandt Byerlandt Styria Carinthia Poland Litaw Liesland Prussia Denmarke Muscouia Tartaria Turkie Persia Cathai Alexandria Barbaria Ginney Peru the straightes Magenelanes India all about the frozen Zone and Terra Incognita Nona Hispaniola the Iles of Terzera Mederi Saint Michaels the Canaries and the Tenorifocie into Spaine the maine land Portugall Italie Campania the Kingdome of Naples the Iles of Sicilia Malta maioris minoria to the Knightes of the Rhodes Candie or Creet Ciprus Corinthe Switzerland France Freesland Westphalia Zeland Holland Brabant and all the 17 prouinces in Netherland England Scotland Ireland all America Island the out Iles of Scotland the Orchades Norway the Bishopricke of Breame and so home again all these kingdoms prouinces countries he passed in 25 daies in which time he saw very little that delighted his mind wherefore he took little rest at home burning in desire to sée more at large to behold the secretes of each Kingdome he set forwards againe on his iourney vpon his swift horse Mephostophiles came to Trent for that he chiefly desired to sée this towne and the monuments thereof but there he saw not many wouders except one faire pallace that belonged vnto the Bishop and also a mighty large castle that was built of brick with 3 walls 3 great trenches so strong that it was impossible for any princes power to win it then he saw a Church wherin was buried Simeon the Bishop Popo their tombes are of most sumptuous Marble stone closed and ioyned together with great bars of yron frō whence he departed to Paris where he liked well the Academie and what place or kingdom soeuer fel to his mind the same he visited He came from Paris to Mentz where the riuer of Maine fals into the Rhine notwithstanding he taried not long there but went into Campania in the kingdome of Neapolis in which he saw an innumerable sort of Cloisters Nunries and Churches great high houses of stone the stréets faire large and straight foorth from one end of the towne to the other as a line and all the pauement of the Citty was of bricke and the more it rayned in the towne the fairer the stréetes were there saw he the tombe of Virgill and the high way that he cut through the mighty hill of stone in one night the whole length of an English mile when he saw the number of Gallies Argozis that lay there at the citty head the wind-mill that stood in the water the castle in the water and the houses aboue the water where vnder gallies might ride most safely from raine or wind then he saw the Castle on the hill euer the towne and many monuments therein also that hill called Vesuuius wheron groweth all the Gréekish wine most pleasant swéet Oliues From thence he came to Venice whereas he wondered not a little to sée a Citty so famously built standing in the Sea where through euery stréete the water came into such largenesse that great ships and barkes might passe from one stréete to another hauing yet a way on both sides the water whereon men and horse might passe He maruailed also how it was possible so much virtuall to be found in the towne and so good cheape considering that for a whole league nothing grew néere the same He wondred not a little at the fairenesse of S. Matkes place and the sumptuous Church standing thereon called S. Marke how all the pauement was set with coloured stones and all the Roode or loft of the Church double gilded ouer Leauing this he came to Padua beholding their manner of their Academie which is called the mother or nurse of Christendome there he heard the Doctors and sawe the most monuments in the Towne entred his name in the Vniuersitie of the Germane Nation and wrote himselfe Doctor Faustus the vnsatiable speculator then saw he the worthiese monument in the world for a Church named S. Anthonies cloister which for the pinacles thereof and the contriuement of the Church hath not the like in Christendome This towne is fenced about with thrée mighty walles of stone and earth betwixt the which runneth goodly ditches of water twice euery 24. houres passeth boates
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