“ FAUSTUS, whose mind was to study conjuration, the which he followed night and day; he took the wings of an eagle and endeavoured to fly over the world, to see and know all the secrets of heaven and earth. So that in a short time, he attained power to command the devil to appear before him when he pleased. One day as Dr. Faustus was walking in a wood near to Wirtemberg in Germany, he having a friend with him who was desirous to know the Doctor's art, so desired him to let him see if he could then and there bring Mephostophiles before him ”

“ FAUSTUS having spun out his twenty-four years, within a month or two, began to consider what he should do to cheat the devil, but could not find any way to prevent his miserable end, which was now near, whereupon he thus cries out to himself, Oh! miserable wretch that I am. I have given myself to the devil, for a few years pleasure, and now I must pay full dear ”

“ How Faustus helped a young man to a fair lady.
THERE was a gallant young gentlemen who was in love with a fair lady, living at Wirternberg, near the doctor’s house, This gentleman had long sought this lady in marriage, but could not attain his desire, and having placed his affections so much upon her, he was ready to pine away, and had certainly died with grief, had he not made his address to the doctor, to whom he opened the whole matter. ”

“ Now no sooner had the gentlemen told his case to the doctor, but he told him that he need not be afraid, for his desire should be fulfilled, and that he should have her, whom he so much desired, and that this gentlewoman should have none but him, which was accordingly done, for the doctor so changed her mind, that she could think of nothing else but him whom before she hated ”

“ 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 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.
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CHAP. VII. ”