How he deceived the four Jugglers 182 How an old neighbour of Faustus gave him counsel to amend his life 183 How Faustus wrote again the second time, with his own blood, and gave it to the Devil 186 How he made a marriage betwixt two Lovers 188 Of his rare flowers at Christmas in his Garden 189 How he gathered together a great army of men 190 How he gat for himself seven fair Ladies 192 How he found treasure in the 22. year of his time 193 How he made fair Helena his Paramour 193 How he made his Will 194 His talk with his servant 195 Five complaints of Doctor Faustus before his end 197 His miserable end, with his Oration to his friends 201 =A Discourse of the most famous Doctor John Faustus of Wittenberg in Germanie, Coniurer, and Necromancer: wherein is declared many strange things that he himselfe hath seene, and done in the earth and in the Ayre, with his bringing vp, his trauailes, studies, and last end= CHAPTER I _Of his Parentage and Birth_ John Faustus, born in the town of Rhode, lying in the province of Weimer in Germanie, his father a poor husbandman, and not able well to bring him up: but having an uncle at Wittenberg, a rich man, and without issue, took this J. Faustus from his father, and made him his heir, in so much that his father was no more troubled with him, for he remained with his uncle at Wittenberg, where he was kept at the University in the same city to study Divinity. But Faustus being of a naughty mind and otherwise addicted, applied not his studies, but took himself to other exercises: the which his uncle often-times hearing, rebuked him for it, as Eli oft-times rebuked his children for sinning against the Lord: even so this good man laboured to have Faustus apply his study of Divinity, that he might come to the knowledge of God and his laws. But it is manifest that many virtuous parents have wicked children, as Cain, Ruben, Absolom, and such-like have been to their parents: so this Faustus having godly parents, and seeing him to be of a toward wit, were very desirous to bring him up in those virtuous studies, namely, of Divinity: but he gave himself secretly to study Necromancy and Conjuration, in so much that few or none could perceive his profession.