The history of the damnable life and deserved death of Doctor John Faustus, 1592, together with The second report of Faustus, containing his appearances and the deeds of Wagner, 1594.
History
The history of the damnable life and deserved death of Doctor John Faustus, 1592, together with The second report of Faustus, containing his appearances and the deeds of Wagner, 1594.
Faust, -approximately 1540 -- Legends
to shew what a hot fellow the Devil is in his anger) and again beating
said, thou, and then left, and came and went, and came and went again,
here he takes me one book and hurls it against a Cupboard, and then he
takes the Cupboard and hurls it against the wall, and then he takes the
wall and throws it against the house, and the house out at the Window.
Pacifying his rage at the length, rolling his eyes, and seeming to
beat his teeth together, sat down further off, and thus quietly spake
with a loud voice. Were it not Wagner that our solemn vow forbiddeth
to disturb or torment thee for any demands, this thy fond pride should
be rewarded with most intolerable punishments: As for the question, I
will answer thee more substantially than such a foolish doltish one
doth require. And for that we have day enough before us, I will travel
further in it then ye gravity of the argument can require, if it be but
that thou mayest see how great an Ass thou art, which canst imagine so
gross a matter in thy more gross head: As for thy great Peer,[52] be
it as you expect it you, in the mean we will enjoy him and thee at our
pleasure in despite of God and Heaven and all his imperial armies of
saints. Thy question is this: _Whether the Spirit of a damned man can
return into the body of another man._ To which I answer Negatively,
it cannot.
[Illustration: LUTHER’S HOUSE AND SURROUNDINGS IN THE YEAR 1611]
[Illustration: THE CASTLE OF WITTENBERG IN THE YEAR 1611]
1. If this were to them granted, then they should observe and keep the
Embryons in the Womb of the mother, that they might constitutively
unite themselves to it, to have at the leastwise, sensual consolation
and delectation.
2. Then secondly, because it is common to reasonable creatures to
fashion and informate the body, and to perfect it with some natural
delightment, not to vex it.
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