neuer satisfied in thy minde but alwayes bringest me anew Yet I pray thée this once qd Faustus doe me so much fauour as to tell me the truth in this matter and hereafter I will be no more so earnest with thée the spirit was altogether against it but yet once more he would abide him well said the spirt to Faustus what demandest thou of me Faustus said I would gladly know of thée if thou wert a man in manner and forâ—e as I am what wouldst thou doe to please both God and man whereat the spirit smiled saying My Faustus if I were a man as thou art and that God had adorned me with those guifts of nature as thou once hadst euen so long as the breath of God were by and within mée would I humble my selfe vnto his Maiestie endeauouring in all that I could to kéepe his commandements praise him and glorifie him that I might continue in his fauour so were I sure to enioy the eternall ioy and felicitie of his kingdome Faustus said but that I haue not done No thou saist true qd Mephostophiles thou hast not done it but thou hast denyed the Lord thy maker which gaue thée the breath of life spéech hearing sight and all other thy reasonable sences that thou mightest vnderstand his will and pleasure to liue to the glory and honour of his name and to the aduancement of thy body and soule him I say being thy maker hast thou denyed and defied yea wickedly thou hast applyed that excellent guift of thy vnderstanding and giuen thy soule to the deuill therfore giue none the blame but thine owne self will thy proud and aspiring minde which hath brought thée into the wrath of God and vtter damnation This is most true qd Faustus but tell me Mephostophiles wouldst thou be in my case as I am now yea saith the spirit and with that fetcht a great sigh for yet would I so humble my selfe that I would win the fauour of God Then said D. Faustus it were time inough for me if I amended True said Mephostophiles if it were not for thy great sinnes which are so odious and detestable in the sight of God that it is too late for thée for the wrath of God resteth vpon thée Leaue off qd Faustus and tell me my question to my greater comfort Here followeth the second part of Doctor Faustus his life and practises vntill his end Chap. 17. DOctor Faustus hauing receiued deniall of his spirit to be resolued any more in such like questions propounded forgot all good workes and fell to be a Kalender-maker by the helpe of his spirit and also uâ— short time to be a good Astronomeror Astrologian he had learned so perfectly of his Spirit the course of the Sunne Moone and Starres that he had the most famous name of all the Mathem atiques that liued in his time as may well appeare by his workes dedicated vnto sundry Dukes and Lords for be did nothing without the aduice of his spirit which learned him to presage of matters to come which haue come to passe since his death The like praise won he with his Kalenders and Almanacks making for when he presaged of any thing operation and alteration of the weather or Elements as winde rame fogs snow haile moyst dry warme colde thunder lightning it fell so duely out as if an Angell of heauen had forewarned it He did not like the vnskilfull Astronomers of our time that set in Winter cold moyst airy frosty and in the Dog-dayes hot dry thunder fire and such like but he set in all his workes day and haure when where and how it should dappen If any wonderfull thing were at hand as mortalitie famine plague or warres he would set the time and place in true and iust order when it should come to passe A question put forth by Doctor Faustus to his Spirit concerning Astronomy Chap. 18. NOw Faustus falling to practice and making his Prognestications he was doutfull in many points wherefore he called vnto him mephostophiles his Spirit saying I finde the ground of this science very difficult to attaine vnto for when that I conferre Astronomia and Astrologia as the Mathematicians and ancient writers haue left in memorye I finde them to barry and very much to disagree wherefore I pray thée to teach me the truth in this matter to whome his spirit answered Faustus thou shalt knowe that the practicioners or speculators or at least the first inuenters of these Artes haue done nothing of themselues certaine whereupon thou maist attaine to the true prognosticating or presaging of things concerning the heauens or of the influence of the planets for if by chaunce some one Mathematician or Astronomer hath left behinde him any thing worthy of memory they haue so blinded it with Enigmaticall wordes blinde Characters and such obscure sâ—gures that it is impossible for an earthly man to attaine to the knowledge thereof without the ayde of some spirit or els the speciall guift of God for such are the hidden works of God from men yet doe we spirits that die and fléete in all Elements know such and there is nothing to be done or by the heauens pretended but we know it except onely the day of Doome Wherefore Faustus learne of me I will teach thée the course recourse of ♄ ♃ ♀ ☉ ☿ and ☾ the cause of winter and summer the exaltation and declination of the Sunne and Ecclipse of the Moone the distance and height of the Poles and euery fixed starre the nature and operation of the Elements fire ayre water and earth and all that is contained in them yea herein there is nothing hidden from me but onely the filthy essence which once thou hadst Faustus at liberty but now Faustus thou hast lost it past recouery wherefore leauing that which wil not be again had learn now of me to make thunder lightning haile snow and raine the cloudes to rent the earth and craggy rocks to shake and split in sunder the Seas to swell rore and ouer-run their markes knowest not thou that the déeper the Sunne shines the hotter he pierces so the more thy Art is famous whilest thou art héere the greater shall be thy name when thou art gone Knowest not thou that the earth is frozen cold and dry the water running cold and moist the ayre flying hot and moist the fire consuming hot and dry Yea Faustus so must thy heart be inflamed like the fire to mount on high learne Faustus to flie like my selâ—â— as swift as thought from one kingdome to another to sit at Princes tables to eate their dain tiest fare to haue thy pleasure of their Ladyes wiues and concubines to vse all their iewels and costly robes as thinges belonging vnto thée and not vnto them learne of me Faustus to runne through walles doores and gates of stone and yron to créepe into the earth like a Worme to swim in the water like a fish to fly in the ayre like a Bird
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
hath 528 stréetes 160. welles foure great two small Clockes six great Gates two smal doores eleuen stone Bridges twelue small hills ten faire market-places thirtéen common Hot-houses ten Churches within the towne are thirty whéeles of water-milles it hath 132 tall Ships two mighty Towne walles of hewen Stone and earth with very déep trenches the wals haue 180 Towres about them and foure faire platforms ten Apothecaries ten Doctors of the Common Lawe fourtéene Doctors of Phisicke From Norenburg he went to Auspurg where at the breake of the day he demanded of his spirit whereupon the towne tooke his name this towne quoth he hath had many names when it was first built it was called Vindelica secondly it was called Zizaria the yron bridge lastly by the Emperour Octauius Augustus it was called Augusta and by the corruption of language the Germans haue named it Auspurg Now for because that Faustus had béene there before he departed without visiting their monuments to Rauenspurg where his spirit certified him that the Citty had seauen names the first Tyberia the second Quadratis the third Heaspalis the fourth Regionopolis the fift Imbripolis the sixt Ratisbona the last Rauenspurg The scituation of this Citty pleased Faustus well also the strong and sumptuous buildings by the walles thereof runneth the riuer Danubia in Dutch called Donow into the which not farre from the compasse of the Citty falleth neere hand thréescore other small riuers fresh waters Faustus also liked the sumptuous stone Bridge ouer the same water with the Church standing thereon the which was founded An. 1115. the name whereof is called S. Remadian in this towne Faustus went into the Celler of an Inholder and let out all the wine and béere that was in the celler After the which feate he returned into Mentz in Bauaria a right princely towne the Towne appeared as if it were new with great stréets therein both of breadth and length from Mentz to Saitburg where the Bishop is alwaies resident here saw he all the commodities that were possible to be séene for at the hill he sawe the forme of a bell made in Christall an huge thing to looke vpon that euery yeare groweth bigger and bigger by reason of the fréezing colde From thence he went to Vienna in Austria this Towne is of so great antiquitie that it is not possible to finde the like In this towne said the spirit is more wine then water for all vnder the towne are wels the which are filled euery yeare with wine and all the water that they haue runneth by the Towne that is the riuer Danubia From thence he went into Prage the chiefe Citty in Bohemia this is deuided into thrée partes that is old Prage new Prage and little Prage Little Prage is the place where the Emperors court is placed vpon an excéeding high mountaine there is a Castle where are two faire Churches in the one he found a monument which might well haue béene a mirror for himselfe and that was the Sepulcher of a notable Coniurer which by his magicke had so inchanted his Sepulcher that whosouer set foote thereon should be sure neuer to dye in their beds From this Castle he came downe and went euer the bridge This bridge hath twenty foure Arches In the middle of the bridge stands a very faire Monument being a crosse builded of stone and most artificially carued From thence he came into the olde Prage the which is seperated from the new Prage with an excéeding déepe ditch and round about inclosed with a well of bricke Vnto this is adioyning the Iewes Towne wherein are thirteene thousand men women and children all Iewes There he viewed the Colledge and the Garden where all manner of sauage beasts are kept and froÌ„ theâ—ce he set a compas round about the thrée townes whereat he wondred greatly to sée so mighty a Citty stand all within the walls From Prage he flew in the ayre and bethought himselfe what he might doe or which way to take so he looked round about behold be espied a passing faire Citty which lay not farre from Prage about some foure and twenty miles and that was Bressaw in Sclefia in the which when he was entred it séemed to him that he had béene in Paradise so neate and cleane was the stréets and so sumptuous was their buildings In the Citty he saw not many wonders except the brasen Virgin that standeth on a bridge ouer the water and vnder the which standeth a mill like a powder mill which virgin is made to doe execution vpon those disobedient towne borne children that be so wilde that their parents cannot bridle them which when any such are found with some haynous offence turning to the shame of their parents kindred they are brought to kisse this virgin which openeth her arme the person then to be executed kisseth her then doth she close her armes together with such violence that she crusheth out the breath of the partie breaketh his bulke so dyeth but being dead she openeth her armes againe and letteth the party fall into the mill where he is stamped in small morsels which the water carryeth away so that no part of him is found againe From Bressaw he went toward Cracona in the kingdome of Polonia where he beheld the Acadamie the which pleased him wonderfull will In this Citty the King most commonly holdeth his Court at a castle in which Castle are many famous Monuments There is a most sumptuous Church in the same in which standeth a siluer Altar gilded set with rich stones and ouer it is a conueyance ful of all maÌ„ner of siluer ornaments belonging to the Masse In the church hangeth the iawbones of a huge dragon that kept the rocke before the Castle was edified thereon It is full of all manner of munition and hath alwaies virtual for 3. yeares to serue 2. thousand men Through the towne runneth a riuer called the Vestual or Wissell where ouer is a faire woodden bridge This water dâ—uideth the towne and Casmere in this Casmere dwelleth the Iewes being a small walled Towne by themselues to the number of 25000. men women and children within one mile of the towne there is a salt mine where they finde siones of pure salt of 1000. pound 2000. pound or more in weight and that in great quantity This salt is as blacke as the Newcastle coales when it comes out of the mines but being beaten to powder it is as white as snowe The like they haue foure mile from thence at a towne called Buchma From thence Faustus went to Sandâ—â—z the captaine therof was called Deu Spiket Iordan in this towne are many monuments as the tombe or sepulcher of Christ in as ample maner as that is at Ierusalem at the proper costs of a Gentleman that went thrise to Ierusalem from that place and returned againe Not far from that towne is a new towne wherein is a Nunry of the order of S. Dioclesian into which order may none