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
he to Sena, where he highly praised the church and Hospital of Santa
Maria Formosa, with the goodly buildings, and especially the fairness
and greatness of the City, and beautiful women. Then came he to Lyons
in France, where he marked the situation of the City, which lay between
two hills, environed with two waters: one worthy monument in the City
pleased him well, that was the great Church with the Image therein; he
commended the City highly for the great resort that it had unto it of
strangers. From thence he went to Cullin, which lieth upon the River
of Rhine, wherein he saw one of the ancientest monuments of the world,
the which was the Tomb of the three Kings that came by the Angel of
God, and their knowledge they had in the star, to worship Christ: which
when Faustus saw, he spake in this manner. Ah, alas good men how have
you erred and lost your way, you should have gone to Palestina and
Bethelem in Judea, how came you hither? or belike after your death you
were thrown into Mare Mediterraneum about Tripolis in Syria; and so
you fleeted out of the Straits of Giblaterra into the Ocean Sea, and
so into the bay of Portugal; and not finding any rest you were driven
along the coast of Galicia, Biskay, and France, and into the narrow
Seas, then from thence into Mare Germanicum, and so I think taken up
about the town of Dort in Holland, you were brought to Cullin to be
buried: or else I think you came more easily with a whirlwind over the
Alps, and being thrown into the River of Rhine, it conveyed you to this
place, where you are kept as a monument? There saw he the Church of S.
Ursula, where remains a monument of the thousand Virgins: it pleased
him also to see the beauty of the women. Not far from Cullin lieth the
town of Ach, where he saw the gorgeous Temple that the Emperor Carolus
Quartus[27] built of Marble stone for a remembrance of him, to the
end that all his successors should there be crowned. From Cullin and
Ach, he went to Geuf, a City in Savoy, lying near Switzerland: it is a
town of great traffic, the Lord thereof is a Bishop, whose Wine-cellar
Faustus, and his Spirit visited for the love of his good wine. From
thence he went to Strasburg, where he beheld the fairest steeple that
ever he had seen in his life before, for on each side thereof he might
see through it, even from the covering of the Minster to the top of the
Pinnacle, and it is named one of the wonders of the world: wherefore he
demanded why it was called Strasburg: his Spirit answered, because it
hath so many high ways coming to it on every side, for Stras in Dutch
is a high way, and hereof came the name, yea (said Mephostophiles) the
Church which thou so wonderest at, hath more revenues belonging to it,
then the twelve Dukes of Slesia are worth, for there pertain unto this
Church fifty-five Towns, and four hundred and sixty-three Villages
besides many houses in the Town. From hence went Faustus to Basile
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