Let every one bear his lot with patience, and not seek, at the expense of his repose, to penetrate into those secrets which the spirit of man, while dressed in the garb of mortality, cannot and must not unveil. Let every one bridle those emotions which the strange and frequently revolting phenomena of the moral world may cause to arise in his bosom, and beware of deciding upon them; for He alone who has power to check or permit them, can know how and why they happen, whither they tend, and what will be their ultimate consequence. To the mind of man all is dark; he is an enigma to himself: let him live, therefore, in the hope of once seeing clearly; and happy indeed is he who in this manner passes his days. The present translation, it should be added, has been executed with as much fidelity to the original as the difference of the two languages, and other considerations, would allow. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. 1 Ambitious Character of Faustus--His Discovery of Printing--Journey to Frankfort--The Devil, the White Nun, and Father Gebhardt of Mayence--Faustus offers his Bible to the Council of Frankfort--His first Interview with a Spirit--The Infernal Banquet--Speech of Satan--Allegorical Entertainments of Leviathan--Faustus's Dialogue with the Devil CHAPTER II. 60 Leviathan meets Faustus at an Inn at Frankfort--Assembling of the Council, and Discussion on Faustus's Bible--Corporation Squabbles--Leviathan and Faustus invited to a grand Civic Entertainment--Faustus presents his Bible to the City--His Introduction to the Mayoress--Knighthood of the Mayor--The Devil's Revenge on the Corrupt Corporation--The Hermit of Homburg--A Lesson to Misanthropists--The Hermit and the lovely Pilgrim--His Hut burnt by Leviathan, and he perishes in the Flames--Faustus returns to his Wife and Family at Mayence--Espouses the Cause of a despairing Client, and corrupts the Judge--Dispute about the Nun Clara--Leviathan's Revenge on the avaricious Judge--Faustus's Adventure with Clara--Takes leave of his Family--Rescues a Youth from Drowning CHAPTER III. 116 The Devil and Faustus continue their Journey on the Banks of the Fulda--The oppressive Prince-Bishop--Faustus's Interview with the Bishop--Clerical Luxury--Case of Dr. Robertus, the Protector of the People--Faustus espouses his Cause, and liberates the "Patriot"--The Devil and Faustus visit the Court of the Prince of ---.--The betrayed Minister and his Daughter--The Devil and Faustus imprisoned--The Fiend suffocates the Prince, and, with Faustus, resumes his Journey--The Wildgrave and burning Village--The infatuated Monk--School of Physiognomy--Faustus and the Virgin Student--The Devil's Peep-show, and its Talismanic Influence--Portrait of the Fiend CHAPTER IV. 181 France in the Reign of Louis XI.--Interview of the Devil and Faustus with Father Vesois--Loves of Madame de Monserau--Faustus and the French Widow--The Fatal