Fau. But if it like your Grace it is not in my abilitie to present before your eyes the true substantiall bodies of those two deceased princes which long since are consumed to dust Knight I mary master doctor now there 's a signe of grace in you when you wil confesse the trueth aside Fau: But such spirites as can liuely resemble Alexander and his Paramour shal appeare before your Grace in that manner that they best liu'd in in their most florishing estate which I doubt not shal sufficiently content your Imperiall maiesty Em Go to maister Doctor let me sée them presently Kn. Do you heare maister Doctor you bring Alexander and his paramour before the emperor Fau. How then sir Kn. I faith that 's as true as Diana turnd me to a stag Fau: No sir but when Acteon died he left the hornes for you Mephastophilis be gone exit Meph. Kn. Nay and you go to coniuring I le be gone exit Kn Fau. I le méete with you anone for interrupting me so héere they are my gratious Lord Enter Meph with Alexander and his paramour emp. Maister Doctor I heard this Lady while she liu'd had a wart or moale in her necke how shal I know whether it be so or no Fau: Your highnes may boldly go and sée exit Alex emp: Sure these are no spirites but the true substantiall bodies of those two deceased princes Fau: wilt please your highnes now to send for the knight that was so pleasant with me here of late emp: One of you call him foorth Enter the Knight with a paire of hornes on his head emp. How now sir Knight why I had thought thou hadst beene a batcheler but now I sée thou hast a wife that not only giues thee hornes but makes thée weare them feele on thy head Kn: Thou damned wretch and execrable dogge Bred in the concaue of some monstrous rocke How darst thou thus abuse a Gentleman Uilaine I say vndo what thou hast done Fau: O not so fast sir there 's no haste but good are you remembred how you crossed me in my conference with the emperour I thinke I haue met with you for it emp: Good Maister Doctor at my intreaty release him he hath done penance sufficient Fau: My gratious Lord not so much for the iniury hée offred me héere in your presence as to delight you with some mirth hath Faustus worthily requited this iniurious knight which being all I desire I am content to release him of his hornes and sir knight hereafter speake well of Scholers Mephastophilis transforme him strait Now my good Lord hauing done my duety I humbly take my leaue emp: Farewel maister Doctor yet ere you goe expect from me a bounteous reward exit Emperour Fau: Now Mephastophilis the restlesse course that time doth runne with calme and silent foote Shortning my dayes and thred of vitall life Calls for the payment of my latest yeares Therefore swéet Mephastophilis let vs make haste to Wertenberge Me: what wil you goe on horse backe or on foote Fau: Nay til I am past this faire and pleasant gréene I le walke on foote enter a Horse-courser Hors: I haue béene al this day séeking one maister Fustian masse sée where he is God saue you maister doctor Fau: What horse-courser you are wel met Hors: Do you heare sir I haue brought you forty dollers for your horse Fau: I cannot sel him so if thou likst him for fifty take him Hors: Alas sir I haue no more I pray you speake for me Me: I pray you let him haue him he is an honest felow and he has a great charge neither wife nor childe Fau: Wel come giue me your money my boy wil deliuer him to you but I must tel you one thing before you haue him ride him not into the water at any hand Hors: why sir wil he not drinke of all waters Fau: O yes he wil drinke of al waters but ride him not into the water ride him ouer hedge or ditch or where thou wilt but not into the water Hors: Wel sir Now am I made man for euer I le not leaue my horse for fortie if he had but the qualitie of hey ding ding hey ding ding I de make a braue liuing on him hée has a buttocke as slicke as an Ele wel god buy sir your boy wil deliuer him me but hark ye sir if my horse he sick or ill at ease if I bring his water to you you le tel me what it is Exit Horsecourser Fau. Away you villaine what doost thinke I am a horse-doctor what art thou Faustus but a man condemnd to die Thy fatall time doth drawe to finall ende Dispaire doth driue distrust vnto my thoughts Confound these passions with a quiet sléepe Tush Christ did call the thiefe vpon the Crosse Then rest thée Faustus quiet in conceit Sleepe in his chaire Enter Horsecourser all wet crying Hors. Alas alas Doctor Fustian quoth a mas Doctor Lopus was neuer such a Doctor has giuen me a purgation has purg'd me of fortie Dollers I shall neuer sée them more but yet like an asse as I was I would not be ruled by him for he bade me I should ride him into no water now I thinking my horse had had some rare qualitie that he would not haue had me knowne of I like a ventrous youth rid him into the deepe pond at the townes ende I was no sooner in the middle of the pond but my horse vanisht away and I sat vpon a bottle of hey neuer so neare drowning in my life but I le séeke out my Doctor and haue my fortie dollers againe or I le make it the dearest horse O yonder is his snipper snapper do you heare you hey passe where 's your maister Me. why sir what would you you cannot speake with him Hors. But I wil speake with him Me. Why hée 's fast asléepe come some other time Hors. I le speake with him now or I le breake his glasse-windowes about his eares Me. I tell thee he has not slept this eight nights Hors. And he haue not slept this eight wéekes I le speake with him Me. Sée where he is fast asléepe Hors. I this is he God saue ye maister doctor maister doctor maister doctor Fustian fortie dollers fortie dollers for a bottle of hey Me. Why thou seest he heares thée not Hors. So ho ho so ho ho Hallow in his eare No will you not wake I le make you wake ere I goe Pull him by the legge and pull it away Alas I am vndone what shall I do Fau. O my legge my legge helpe Mephastophilis call the Officers my legge my legge Me. Come villaine to the Constable Hors. O Lord sir let me goe and I le giue you fortie dollers more Me. Where be they Hors. I haue none about me come to my Oastrie and I le giue them you Me. Be gone quickly Horsecourser runnes away Fau. What is he gone farwel he Faustus has his legge againe and
my soule do thy Lord Me: Inlarge his kingdome Fau: Is that the reason he tempts vs thus Me: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris Fau: Haue you any paine that tortures others Me: As great as haue the humane soules of men But tel me Faustus shal I haue thy soule And I wil be thy slaue and waite on thée And giue thée more than thou hast wit to aske Fau: I Mephastophilus I giue it thée Me: Then stabbe thine arme couragiously And binde thy soule that at some certaine day Great Lucifer may claime it as his owne And then be thou as great as Lucifer Fau: Loe Mephastophilus for loue of thée I cut mine arme and with my proper blood Assure my soule to be great Lucifers Chiefe Lord and regent of perpetual night Uiew heere the blood that trickles from mine arme And let it be propitious for my wish Meph: But Faustus thou must write it in manner of a déede of gift Fau. I so I will but Mephastophilis my bloud conieales and I can write no more Me. I le fetch thée fier to dissolue it straight Exit Fau. What might the staying of my bloud portend Is it vnwilling I should write this bill Why streames it not that I may write afresh Faustus giues to thee his soule ah there it stayde Why shouldst thou not is not thy soule thine owne Then write againe Faustus giues to thée his soule Enter Mephastophilis with a chafer of coles Me. Here 's fier come Faustus set it on Fau. So now the bloud begins to cleare againe Now will I make an ende immediately Me. O what will not I do to obtaine his soule Fau. Consummatum est this Bill is ended And Faustus hath bequeath'd his soule to Lucifer But what is this inscription on mine arme Homo fuge whither should I flie If vnto God hée 'le throwe thée downe to hell My sences are deceiu'd here 's nothing writ I sée it plaine here in this place is writ Homo fuge yet shall not Faustus flye Me. I le fetch him somewhat to delight his minde exit Enter with diuels giuing crownes and rich apparell to Faustus and daunce and then depart Fau. Speake Mephastophilis what meanes this shewe Me. Nothing Faustus but to delight thy minde withall And to shewe thee what Magicke can performe Fau. But may I raise vp spirits when I please Me. I Faustus and do greater things then these Fau. Then there 's inough for a thousand soules Here Mephastophilis receiue this scrowle A déede of gift of body and of soule But yet conditionally that thou performe All articles prescrib'd betweene vs both Me. Faustus I sweare by hel and Lucifer To effect all promises betweene vs made Fau. Then heare me reade them on these conditions following First that Faustus may be a spirit in forme and substance Secondly that Mephastophilis shall be his seruant and at his commaund Thirdly that Mephastophilis shall do for him and bring him whatsoeuer Fourthly that hee shall be in his chamber or house inuisible lastly that hee shall appeare to the said Iohn Faustus at all times in what forme or shape soeuer he please I Iohn Faustus of Wertenberge Doctor by these presents do giue both body and soule to Lucifer prince of the East and his minister Mephastophilis and furthermore graunt vnto them that 24. yeares being expired the articles aboue written inuiolate full power to fetch or carry the said Iohn Faustus body and soule flesh bloud or goods into their habitation wheresoeuer By me Iohn Faustus Me. Speake Faustus do you deliuer this as your déede Fau. I take it and the diuell giue thee good on t Me. Now Faustus aske what thou wilt Fau. First will I question with thée about hell Tel me where is the place that men call hell Me. Under the heauens Fau. I but where about Me. Within the bowels of these elements Where we are tortur'd and remaine for euer Hell hath no limits nor is circumscrib'd In one selfe place for where we are is hell And where hell is must we euer be And to conclude when all the world dissolues And euery creature shal be purified All places shall be hell that is not heauen Fau. Come I thinke hell 's a fable Me. I thinke so still till experience change thy minde Fau. Why thinkst thou then that Faustus shall bée damn'd Me. I of necessitie for here 's the scrowle Wherein thou hast giuen thy soule to Lucifer Fau. I and body too but what of that Thinkst thou that Faustus is so fond To imagine that after this life there is any paine Tush these are trifles and méere olde wiues tales Me. But Faustus I am an instance to proue the contrary For I am damnd and am now in hell Fau. How now in hell nay and this be hell I le willingly be damnd here what walking disputing c. But leauing off this let me haue a wife the fairest maid in Germany for I am wanton and lasciuious and can not liue without a wife Me. How a wife I prithée Faustus talke not of a wife Fau. Nay sweete Mephastophilis fetch me one for I will haue one Me. UUell thou wilt haue one sit there till I come I le fetch thée a wife in the diuels name Enter with a diuell drest like a woman with fier workes Me: Tel Faustus how dost thou like thy wife Fau: A plague on her for a hote whore Me: Tut Faustus marriage is but a ceremoniall toy if thou louest me thinke more of it I le cull thée out the fairest curtezans And bring them eu'ry morning to thy bed She whome thine eie shall like thy heart shal haue Be she as chaste as was Penelope As wise as Saba or as beautiful As was bright Lucifer before his fall Hold take this booke peruse it thorowly The iterating of these lines brings golde The framing of this circle on the ground Brings whirlewindes tempests thunder and lightning Pronounce this thrice deuoutly to thy selfe And men in armour shal appeare to thee Ready to execute what thou desirst Fau: Thankes Mephastophilus yet faine would I haue a booke wherein I might beholde al spels and incantations that I might raise vp spirits when I please Me: Here they are in this booke There turne to them Fau: Now would I haue a booke where I might sée al characters and planets of the heauens that I might knowe their motions and dispositions Me: Héere they are too Turne to them Fau: Nay let me haue one booke more and then I haue done wherein I might sée al plants hearbes and trées that grow vpon the earth Me, Here they be Fau: O thou art deceiued Me: Tut I warrant thée Turne to them Fau: When I behold the heauens then I repent And curse thée wicked Mephastophilus Because thou hast depriu'd me of those ioyes Me: why Faustus Thinkst thou heauen is such a glorious thing I tel thée t is not halfe so faire as thou Or
fift at whose pallace now Faustus is feasted mongst his noble men UUhat there he did in triall of his art I leaue vntold your eyes shall see performd Exit Enter Robin the Ostler with a booke in his hand Robin O this is admirable here I ha stolne one of doctor Faustus coniuring books and ifaith I meane to 〈◊〉 some circles for my owne vse now wil I make al the 〈◊〉 in our parish dance at my pleasure starke naked before me and so by that meanes I shal see more then ere I felt or saw yet Enter Rafe calling Robin Rafe Robin prethee come away there 's a Gentleman tarries to haue his horse and he would haue his things rubd and made cleane he keepes such a chasing with my mistris about it and she has sent me to looke thée out prethée come away Robin Keepe out kéep out or else you are blowne vp you are dismembred Rafe kéepe out for I am about a roaring peece of worke Rafe Come what doest thou with that same booke thou canst not reade Robin Yes my maister and mistris shal finde that I can reade he for his forehead she for her priuate study shée 's borne to beare with me or else my Art failes Rafe Why Robin what booke is that Robin What booke why the most intollerable booke for coniuring that ere was inuented by any brimstone diuel Rafe Canst thou coniure with it Robin I can do al these things easily with it first I can make thée druncke with 'ipocrase at any taberne in Europe for nothing that 's one of my coniuring workes Rafe Our maister Parson sayes that 's nothing Robin True Rafe and more Rafe if thou hast any mind to Nan Spit our kitchin maide then turne her and wind hir to thy owne vse as often as thou wilt and at midnight Rafe O braue Robin shal I haue Nan Spit and to mine owne vse On that condition I le feede thy diuel with horsebread as long as he liues of frée cost Robin No more swéete Rafe let ts goe and make cleane our bootes which lie foule vpon our handes and then to our coniuring in the diuels name exeunt Enter Robin and Rafe with a siluer Goblet Robin Come Rafe did not I tell thee we were for euer made by this doctor Faustus booke ecce signum héere 's a simple purchase for horse-kéepers our horses shal eate no hay as long as this lasts enter the Vintner Rafe But Robin here comes the vintner Robin Hush I le gul him supernaturally Drawer I hope al is payd God be with you come Rafe Vintn. Soft sir a word with you I must yet haue a goblet payde from you ere you goe Robin I a goblet Rafe I a goblet I scorne you and you are but a c. I a goblet search me Vintn. I meane so sir with your fauor Robin How say you now Vintner I must say somewhat to your felow you sir Rafe Me sir me sir search your fill now sir you may be ashamed to burden honest men with a matter of truth Vintner Wel tone of you hath this goblet about you Ro. You lie Drawer t is afore me sirra you I le teach ye to impeach honest men stand by I le scowre you for a goblet stand aside you had best I charge you in the name of Belzabub looke to the goblet Rafe Vintner what meane you sirra Robin I le tel you what I meane He reades Sanctobulorum Periphrasticon nay I le tickle you Uintner looke to the goblet Rafe Polypragmos Belyeborams framanto pacostiphos tostu Mephastophilis c. Enter Mephostophilis sets squibs at their backes they runne about Vintner O nomine Domine what meanst thou Robin thou hast no goblet Rafe Peccatum peccatorum heere 's thy goblet good Uintner Robin Misericordia pro nobis what shal I doe good diuel forgiue me now and I le neuer rob thy Library more Enter to them Meph. Meph. Uanish vilaines th one like an Ape an other like a Beare the third an Asse for doing this enterprise Monarch of hel vnder whose blacke suruey Great Potentates do kneele with awful feare Upon whose altars thousand foules 〈…〉 How am I vexed with these vilaines charmes From Constantinople am I hither come Onely for pleasure of these damned slaues Robin How from Constantinople you haue had a great iourney wil you take sixe pence in your purse to pay for your supper and be gone Me. wel villaines for your presumption I transforme thée into an Ape and thée into a Dog and so be gone exit Rob. How into an Ape that 's braue I le haue fine sport with the boyes I le get nuts and apples enow Rafe And I must be a Dogge exeunt Robin I faith thy head wil neuer be out of the potage pot Enter Emperour Faustus and a Knight with Attendants Em. Maister doctor Faustus I haue heard strange report of thy knowledge in the blacke Arte how that none in my Empire nor in the whole world can compare with thée for the rare effects of Magicke they say thou hast a familiar spirit by whome thou canst accomplish what thou list this therefore is my request that thou let me sée some proofe of the skil that mine eies may be witnesses to confirme what mine eares haue heard reported and here I sweare to thée by the honor of mine Imperial crowne that what euer thou doest thou shalt be no wayes preiudiced or indamaged Knight I faith he lookes much like a coniurer aside Fau. My gratious Soueraigne though I must confesse my selfe farre inferior to the report men haue published and nothing answerable to the honor of your Imperial maiesty yet for that loue and duety bindes me therevnto I am content to do whatsoeuer your maiesty shall command me Em. Then doctor Faustus marke what I shall say As I was sometime solitary set within my Closet sundry thoughts arose about the honour of mine auncestors howe they had wonne by prowesse such exploits gote such riches subdued so many kingdomes as we that do succéede or they that shal hereafter possesse our throne shal I feare me neuer attaine to that degrée of high renowne and great authoritie amongest which kings is Alexander the great chiefe spectacle of the worldes preheminence The bright shining of whose glorious actes Lightens the world with his reflecting beames As when I heare but motion made of him It grieues my soule I neuer saw the man If therefore thou by cunning of thine Art Canst raise this man from hollow vaults below where lies intombde this famous Conquerour And bring with him his beauteous Paramour Both in their right shapes gesture and attire They vsde to weare during their time of life Thou shalt both satisfie my iust desire And giue me cause to praise thée whilst I liue Fau: My gratious Lord I am ready to accomplish your request so farre forth as by art and power of my spirit I am able to performe Knight Ifaith that 's iust nothing at all aside