[i3] John xii. 31; 1 John iii. 8; and the remarks in Bretschneider's _Dogmatik_, § 108. [i4] "The weary bitterns in the fen Are booming--never mind them." _Walpurgis-Night's Dream._ [i5] See this particularly proved of Ficinus, in Buhle's _Geschichte der Philosophie_, vi. _theil._ § 889. [i6] Buhle, _ubi subra_, § 897. [i7] The most deliberate attempt of this kind that I have seen, is that of _Dürr_, in the sixth volume of _Schellhorn's Amœnitates Literariæ_; where the story of Faust is called "Historiola pueris et aniculis credita;" and the hero himself, "_Doctor Faust fictitius ille et imaginarius_." [i8] _Faust, eine Tragœdie_, von August Klingemann, Leipzig, 1815; of which there is a good account in one of the numbers of _Blackwood's Magazine_. [i9] _Christ. Aug. Huemann's Glaubwürdigste Nachricht von D. Fausten._ In einem Schreiben an Herrn D. Haubern. _Bib. Mag._ vol. iii. p. 84. [i10] _Die Sage von Doctor Faust_, von D. Christian Ludwig Stieglitz, in Raumer's _Historiches Taschenbuch_, 5ter Jahrgang, Leipzig, 1834. The same number contains a dissertation on Wallenstein. [i11] _Apud_ Heumann. [i12] From the Latin of Manlius. _Apud_ Heumann, _ut supra_. [i13] _Wierii Opera_, Amstelodami, 1660. _De Magis Infamibus_, p. 105. He is as little favourable to our hero as Manlius. He says, indeed, that he practised magic over the whole of Germany, "cum multorum admiratione;" and that "nihil non potuit," but it was all "inani jactantia et pollicitationibus." [i14] _Disquisit. Mag._, lib. ii. dissert. 12. [i15] _Apud_ Stieglitz, _ubi supra_, p. 130. [i16] I suppose Begardi alludes to the world-renowned Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus Bombastus von Hohenheim. [i17] In a letter dated 20th August 1507. [i18] Camerarius, Hor. Suceessiv. cent. 2. page 314. Conrad Gesner, Onomasticon apud Stieglitz, Sage von Faust. [i19] The life of Paracelsus is very characteristic of the age, and may be seen in Sprengel's _Histoire de Medecine_, § 9. art. iii.