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
again presently at Wittenberg, but he that remained, was taken and laid
in Prison: wherefore the other two Gentlemen were very sorrowful for
their friend, but Faustus comforted them, promising that on the morrow
he should also be at Wittenberg. Now all this while was this Duke
taken in a great fear, and stricken into an exceeding dump, wondering
with himself that his hap was so hard to be left behind, and not the
rest, and now being locked and watched with so many keepers, there was
also certain of the guests that fell to reasoning with him to know
what he was, and also what the others were that were vanished away,
but the poor prisoner thought with himself, if I open what they are,
then it will be evil also with me: wherefore all this while he gave
no man any answer, so that he was there a whole day, and gave no man
a word. Wherefore the old Duke gave in charge, that the next morning
they should rack him until he had confessed: which when the young Duke
heard, he began to sorrow and to say with himself, it may be that
to-morrow, if Doctor Faustus come not to aid me, then shall I be racked
and grievously tormented, in so much that I shall be constrained by
force to tell more than willingly I would do: but he comforted himself
with hope that his friends would entreat Doctor Faustus about his
deliverance, as also it came to pass, for before it was day, Doctor
Faustus was by him, and he conjured them that watched him into such a
heavy sleep, that he with his charms made open all the locks in the
prison, and therewithal brought the young Duke again in safety to the
rest of his fellows and friends, where they presented Faustus with a
sumptuous gift, and so they departed the one from the other, _etc._
[Illustration]
CHAPTER XXXIII
_How Doctor Faustus borrowed money of a Jew, and laid his own leg to
pawn for it_
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