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.
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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
space with such angry fury, that the flames which proceeded from his
frightful eyes did dim the sight of the Wittenbergers below. There was
in this said Wittenberg a gallant fair Lady and a virgin, which now
following her mother, accompanied with sundry gallant German Gentlemen,
had even now entered out of their Barge, and seeing the whole world of
people as they thought gazing up into the Heaven so very strangely,
were partly struck with wonder, some with fear, and some with sudden
merriment, and hasting down the hill more than a round pace, asked some
what was there to do, and they bid them look up (for here is to be
noted that they looked up afore but could see nothing, but as always
they were wont until they shewed them it), which they did, and at
the same time wherein the great Devil was in his red-hot anger, this
young Gentlewoman looked up, whose most ugly shape so feared her,
that even then there she fell down in a swoon, whom they conveyed away
very speedily, yet ere they could come home she was well-nigh dead,
and so she lay for two years without hope of life, or certainly of
death: great sorrow to her parents, and as cruel pain to her: But she
at length recovered her Spirit, and if by your patience I may, I will
tell you how. There was a most learned and excellent Doctor dwelling in
the town who had great knowledge in the black Art, who being requested
to use some Physic to aid her in her great extremity, being promised
for reward five thousand Dollars. This Doctor perceiving the cause
of her malady was not caused of any distemperature of her body, but
only of the aforesaid fear, knew that Physic might well make her body
sound, but her mind never. Wherefore not only for the reward, but
also to become gracious and famous at once, proceeded in his cure on
this manner. One night having made his Orisons and nine times combed
his hair with tears of a pure maid, and nine times gone about a fire
made all of pure Heben[64] coal, and thrice nine times called upon
the name of the most dreadful Hecate, he laid himself to sleep upon
a pure white and clean unspotted maiden’s smock, and covered himself
over with the ashes of a white Hind roasted and burned altogether, he
slept, and the next morning apparelled in white robes, having often
and often called, recalled and exorcised the three Fairies Millia,
Achilya, and Sybilla, at length the ground opened, and with them they
brought a milk-white Steed, and did put upon his finger the ring of
invisibility; when they were vanished, he mounted up upon his Horse,
who with more swift flight then the winged Pegasus carried him through
the wide Air so fast and so long, that having passed over Bohem,
Hungary, Thracia, all Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, and at length to Arabia
Felix, where he alighted upon a most high Mountain, all the way from
the top to the bottom of a just breadth and steepness, so that he that
were on that would think himself not in the world, and they beneath
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