“ Faustus, as he was going to Wirtemberg overtook a Country Fellow driving an hundred Swine, who were very headstrong some running one way and, some another; so that the driver could not tell how to get them drove along: the doctor taking notice of it, so by his conjuring art, he made everyone of them dance upon their two hind legs, with a fiddle in one of their fore feet, and with the other fore foot they played upon the fiddle, and so they danced and fiddled all the way until they came into Wirtemberg market. ”

“ When daylight appeared, they took the boldness to enter into the room, and found his brains beaten out against the wall, and the floor sprinkled with blood; but missing his body they went in search of it and found it on the dung-hill mangled and mashed to pieces. ”

“ The gentry being come, and ready to sit down to dinner, in an instant Mephostophiles came and took all away with him, leaving them full of admiration. If any time Faustus had a mind for wild fowl, the spirit would call whole flocks in at a window; also the spirit did teach Faustus to do the like so that no lock nor key could keep them out. The devil also taught Faustus to fly in the air and to act many things that are incredible, and too large for this small book to contain.
CHAP. VI.
How Dr. ”

“ So being come to himself, he asked the spirit in what
place Hell was, and who made it? Mephostophiles answered, “Knowest thou, that before the fall of Lucifer, there was no hell, but upon his fall, was hell ordained. As for the substance of hell, we devils do not know; it is the wrath of God that makes hell so furious, and what we procured by our fall; but where hell is, or how it is governed, and whatsoever thou desirest to know, when thou comest there thou shalt be satisfied as far as we know ourselves
CHAP. VII.
Containing some tricks of Dr. ”