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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.

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

ACH: Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle).
  ANHOLT: Anhalt.
  AUSPURG: Augsburg.
  AUSTRICH: Austria.
  BASILE: Basle.
  BASYL:  Basle.
  BATOBURG: Battenburg.
  BETHELEM: Bethlehem.
  BEYERLANDT: Bavaria.
  BREAME: Bremen (?).
  CAMPA DE FIORE: Campo de’ Fiori.
  CAMPANY: Campania.
  CATHAI: China.
  COSTUITZ (COSTNITZ): Constance.
  CRACOVIA: Cracow.
  CULLIN: Cologne.
  DURING: Thuringia.
  ELVE: Elbe.
  ERFORT: Erfurt.
  GEUF (GENF): Geneva.
  GIBLATERRA: Gibraltar.
  GINNIE: Guinea.
  GOSLARYENS: Citizens of Goslar.
  GRACOVIA: Cracow.
  KUNDLING: Knittlingen.
  LIEFLAND: Livonia.
  LIPTZIG: Leipzig.
  LITAW: Lithuania.
  LUSITANY: Lusitania, Portugal.
  MAYNE: Main.
  MEDERI: Madeira (?).
  MENCHEN: Munich.
  MENTZ: Mainz.
  MILLAIN: Milan.
  MISSENE: Meissen.
  MOSA: Maas.
  NORENBERG: Nuremberg.
  NOVA HISPANIOLA: Mexico.
  PADOA: Padua.
  POLONIAN: Polish.
  PRAGE: Prague.
  RAVENSPURG: Regensburg.
  RHODE: Roda.
  SANDETZ: Sandec, in Galicia.
  SCLESIA: Silesia.
  SLESIA:  Silesia.
  SENA: Siena.
  SHAWBLANDT: Schwabenland, Swabia.
  SWEITZ: Switzerland.
  S. MICHAEL’S: One of the Azores.
  TERZERA:      One of the Azores.
  TERGESTE: Trieste.
  TERRA INCOGNITA: America.
  TENORRIFOCIE:   Teneriffe (?).
  TRENO RIEFE:    Teneriffe (?).
  TREIR: Trier (Trèves).
  ULME: Ulm.
  ULMA: Ulm.
  WARTZBURG:  Würzburg.
  WATZBURG:   Würzburg.
  WEIM: Vienna.
  WEIMER: Weimar.




APPENDIX B

A Ballad of Faustus, about 1670, from the Roxburghe
 Collection in the British Museum. [Rox II. 235]


THE JUDGMENT OF GOD SHEWED UPON ONE _John Faustus_,
 DOCTOR IN DIVINITY


Tune of _Fortune my Foe_

  All Christian men give ear a while to me,
  How I am plung’d in pain but cannot die,
  I liv’d a life the like did none before,
  Forsaking Christ, and I am damn’d therefore.

  At Wittenburge, a town in Germany,
  There was I born and bred of good degree,
  Of honest Stock which afterwards I shamed,
  Accurst therefore for Faustus was I named.

  In learning loe my Uncle brought up me,
  And made me Doctor in Divinity:
  And when he dy’d he left me all his wealth,
  Whose cursed gold did hinder my souls health.

  Then did I shun the holy Bible book,
  Nor on Gods word would ever after look,
  But studied accursed Conjuration,
  Which was the cause of my utter Damnation.

  The Devil in Fryars weeds appeared to me,
  And streight to my Request he did agree,
  That I might have all things at my desire,
  I gave him soul and body for his hire.

  Twice did I make my tender flesh to bleed,
  Twice with my blood I wrote the Devils deed,
  Twice wretchedly I soul and body sold,
  To live in peace and do what things I would.

  For four and twenty Years this bond was made,
  And at the length my soul was truly paid,
  Time ran away, and yet I never thought
  How dear my soul our Saviour Christ had bought.

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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

ACH: Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle).
  ANHOLT: Anhalt.
  AUSPURG: Augsburg.
  AUSTRICH: Austria.
  BASILE: Basle.
  BASYL:  Basle.
  BATOBURG: Battenburg.
  BETHELEM: Bethlehem.
  BEYERLANDT: Bavaria.
  BREAME: Bremen (?).
  CAMPA DE FIORE: Campo de’ Fiori.
  CAMPANY: Campania.
  CATHAI: China.
  COSTUITZ (COSTNITZ): Constance.
  CRACOVIA: Cracow.
  CULLIN: Cologne.
  DURING: Thuringia.
  ELVE: Elbe.
  ERFORT: Erfurt.
  GEUF (GENF): Geneva.
  GIBLATERRA: Gibraltar.
  GINNIE: Guinea.
  GOSLARYENS: Citizens of Goslar.
  GRACOVIA: Cracow.
  KUNDLING: Knittlingen.
  LIEFLAND: Livonia.
  LIPTZIG: Leipzig.
  LITAW: Lithuania.
  LUSITANY: Lusitania, Portugal.
  MAYNE: Main.
  MEDERI: Madeira (?).
  MENCHEN: Munich.
  MENTZ: Mainz.
  MILLAIN: Milan.
  MISSENE: Meissen.
  MOSA: Maas.
  NORENBERG: Nuremberg.
  NOVA HISPANIOLA: Mexico.
  PADOA: Padua.
  POLONIAN: Polish.
  PRAGE: Prague.
  RAVENSPURG: Regensburg.
  RHODE: Roda.
  SANDETZ: Sandec, in Galicia.
  SCLESIA: Silesia.
  SLESIA:  Silesia.
  SENA: Siena.
  SHAWBLANDT: Schwabenland, Swabia.
  SWEITZ: Switzerland.
  S. MICHAEL’S: One of the Azores.
  TERZERA:      One of the Azores.
  TERGESTE: Trieste.
  TERRA INCOGNITA: America.
  TENORRIFOCIE:   Teneriffe (?).
  TRENO RIEFE:    Teneriffe (?).
  TREIR: Trier (Trèves).
  ULME: Ulm.
  ULMA: Ulm.
  WARTZBURG:  Würzburg.
  WATZBURG:   Würzburg.
  WEIM: Vienna.
  WEIMER: Weimar.




APPENDIX B

A Ballad of Faustus, about 1670, from the Roxburghe
 Collection in the British Museum. [Rox II. 235]


THE JUDGMENT OF GOD SHEWED UPON ONE _John Faustus_,
 DOCTOR IN DIVINITY


Tune of _Fortune my Foe_

  All Christian men give ear a while to me,
  How I am plung’d in pain but cannot die,
  I liv’d a life the like did none before,
  Forsaking Christ, and I am damn’d therefore.

  At Wittenburge, a town in Germany,
  There was I born and bred of good degree,
  Of honest Stock which afterwards I shamed,
  Accurst therefore for Faustus was I named.

  In learning loe my Uncle brought up me,
  And made me Doctor in Divinity:
  And when he dy’d he left me all his wealth,
  Whose cursed gold did hinder my souls health.

  Then did I shun the holy Bible book,
  Nor on Gods word would ever after look,
  But studied accursed Conjuration,
  Which was the cause of my utter Damnation.

  The Devil in Fryars weeds appeared to me,
  And streight to my Request he did agree,
  That I might have all things at my desire,
  I gave him soul and body for his hire.

  Twice did I make my tender flesh to bleed,
  Twice with my blood I wrote the Devils deed,
  Twice wretchedly I soul and body sold,
  To live in peace and do what things I would.

  For four and twenty Years this bond was made,
  And at the length my soul was truly paid,
  Time ran away, and yet I never thought
  How dear my soul our Saviour Christ had bought.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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.

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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