Chapter I: Front Matter

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Broadway Translations

“_Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety._”

Broadway Translations

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

_Both modernized and edited by_
WILLIAM ROSE, M.A., PH.D.
LECTURER IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, KING’S COLLEGE

_With an Introduction_

_With 24 Illustrations chiefly from Woodcuts_

LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS LTD.
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY
THE MAYFLOWER PRESS, WILLIAM BRENDON AND SONS LTD.

CONTENTS
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_Introduction_ 1

I. _The Historical Personage_ 3

II. _The German Faust Book_ 23

III. _Faust in England_ 42

IV. _The Faust Drama in Germany_ 48

V. _The Wagner Book_ 57

THE HISTORIE OF DR. JOHN FAUSTUS

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I. _Of his Parentage and Birth_ 65
II. _How Doctor Faustus began to practise
in his Devilish Art, and how he conjured
the Devil, making him to appear and meet
him on the morrow at his own house_ 67
III. _The conference of Doctor Faustus with the
Spirit Mephostophiles the morning
following at his own house_ 70
IV. _The second time of the Spirit’s appearing
to Faustus in his house, and of their
parley_ 72
V. _The third parley between Doctor Faustus and
Mephostophiles about a conclusion_ 74
VI. _How Doctor Faustus set his blood in a saucer
on warm ashes, and writ as followeth_ 76
VII. _How Mephostophiles came for his writing, and
in what manner he appeared, and his sights
he shewed him: and how he caused him to keep
a copy of his own writing_ 77
VIII. _The manner how Faustus proceeded with his
damnable life, and of the diligent service
Mephostophiles used towards him_ 79
IX. _How Doctor Faustus would have married, and
how the Devil had almost killed him for it_ 81
X. _Questions put forth by Doctor Faustus unto
his Spirit Mephostophiles_ 84
XI. _How Doctor Faustus dreamed that he had seen
hell in his sleep, and how he questioned with
his Spirit of matters as concerning hell,
with the Spirit’s answer_ 86
XII. _The second question put forth by Doctor
Faustus to his Spirit, what Kingdoms there
were in hell, how many, and what were their
rulers’ names_ 87
XIII. _Another question put forth by Doctor Faustus
to his Spirit concerning his Lord Lucifer,
with the sorrow that Faustus fell afterwards
into_ 88
XIV. _Another disputation betwixt Doctor Faustus
and his Spirit, of the power of the Devil,
and of his envy to mankind_ 90
XV. _How Doctor Faustus desired again of his
Spirit to know the secrets and pains of hell;
and whether those damned Devils and their
company might ever come into the favour of God
again or not?_ 92
XVI. _Another question put forth by Doctor Faustus
to his Spirit Mephostophiles of his own
estate_ 98
XVII. _Here followeth the second part of Doctor
Faustus his life, and practices, until his
end_ 100
XVIII. _A question put forth by Doctor Faustus to his
Spirit concerning Astronomy_ 101
XIX. _How Doctor Faustus fell into despair with
himself: for having put forth a question unto
his Spirit, they fell at variance, whereupon
the whole route of Devils appeared unto him,
threatening him sharply_ 104
XX. _How Doctor Faustus desired to see hell, and
of the manner how he was used therein_ 110
XXI. _How Doctor Faustus was carried through the
air up to the heavens to see the world, and
how the Sky and Planets ruled: after the
which he wrote one letter to his friend of
the same to Liptzig, how he went about the
world in eight days_ 115
XXII. _How Doctor Faustus made his journey through
the principal and most famous lands in the
world_ 121
XXIII. _How Faustus had a sight of Paradise_ 144
XXIV. _Of a certain Comet that appeared in
Germanie, and how Doctor Faustus was
desired by certain friends of his to know
the meaning thereof_ 146
XXV. _A question put forth to Doctor Faustus,
concerning the Stars_ 147
XXVI. _How Faustus was asked a question concerning
the Spirits that vex men_ 148
XXVII. _How Doctor Faustus was asked a question
concerning the Stars that fall from Heaven_ 149
XXVIII. _How Faustus was asked a question as
concerning thunder_ 149
XXIX. _How the Emperor Carolus Quintus requested
of Faustus to see some of his cunning,
whereunto he agreed_ 150
XXX. _How Doctor Faustus in the sight of the
Emperor conjured a pair of Hart’s horns
upon a Knight’s head that slept out of a
casement_ 154
XXXI. _How the above-mentioned Knight went
about to be revenged of Doctor Faustus_ 155
XXXII. _How three young Dukes being together at
Wittenberg to behold the University,
requested Faustus to help them at a
wish to the town of Menchen in
Bavaria, there to see the Duke of
Bavaria his son’s wedding_ 156
XXXIII. _How Doctor Faustus borrowed money of
a Jew, and laid his own leg to pawn for it_ 160
XXXIV. _How Doctor Faustus deceived an Horse-courser_ 162
XXXV. _How Doctor Faustus ate a load of Hay_ 164
XXXVI. _How Doctor Faustus served the twelve
Students_ 165
XXXVII. _How Faustus served the drunken Clowns_ 165
XXXVIII. _How Doctor Faustus sold five Swine for
six Dollars apiece_ 166
XXXIX. _How Doctor Faustus played a merry jest
with the Duke of Anholt in his Court_ 167
XL. _How Doctor Faustus through his Charms
made a great Castle in presence of the
Duke of Anholt_ 168
XLI. _How Doctor Faustus with his company
visited the Bishop of Saltzburg his
Wine-cellar_ 171
XLII. _How Doctor Faustus kept his Shrovetide_ 172
XLIII. _How Doctor Faustus feasted his guests on
the Ash-Wednesday_ 174
XLIV. _How Doctor Faustus the day following
was feasted of the Students, and of his
merry jests with them while he was in
their company_ 176
XLV. _How Doctor Faustus shewed the fair
Helena unto the Students upon the
Sunday following_ 177
XLVI. _How Doctor Faustus conjured away the
four wheels from a clown’s waggon_ 180
XLVII. _How four Jugglers cut one another’s head
off, and set them on again; and how
Doctor Faustus deceived them_ 182
XLVIII. _How an old man, the neighbour of Faustus,
sought to persuade him to amend his
evil life, and to fall unto repentance_ 183
XLIX. _How Doctor Faustus wrote the second time
with his own blood and gave it to the
Devil_ 186
L. _How Doctor Faustus made a marriage
between two lovers_ 188
LI. _How Doctor Faustus led his friends into
his Garden at Christmas, and shewed
them many strange sights in his nineteenth
year_ 189
LII. _How Doctor Faustus gathered together
a great army of men in his extremity
against a Knight that would have injured
him on his journey_ 190
LIII. _How Doctor Faustus caused Mephostophiles
to bring him seven of the fairest women
that he could find in all those countries
he had travelled in, in the twentieth year_ 192
LIV. _How Doctor Faustus found a mass of
money when he had consumed twenty-two
of his years_ 193
LV. _How Doctor Faustus made the Spirit of
fair Helena of Greece his own Paramour
and bedfellow in his twenty-third
year_ 193
LVI. _How Doctor Faustus made his Will, in
the which he named his servant Wagner
to be his heir_ 194
LVII. _How Doctor Faustus fell in talk with his
servant touching his Testament, and the
covenants thereof_ 195
LVIII. _How Doctor Faustus having but one month
of his appointed time to come, fell to
mourning and sorrow with himself for
his devilish exercise_ 197
LIX. _How Doctor Faustus complained that he
should in his lusty time and youthful
years die so miserably_ 197
LX. _Another complaint of Doctor Faustus_ 198
LXI. _How Doctor Faustus bewailed to think on
Hell, and of the miserable pains therein
provided for him_ 199
LXII. _Here followeth the miserable and lamentable
end of Doctor Faustus, by the which
all Christians may take an example and
warning_ 201
LXIII. _An Oration of Faustus to the Students_ 202

THE SECOND REPORT OF DR. JOHN FAUSTUS

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I. 221
II. _How certain drunken Dutchmen were abused
by their own conceit and self-imagination,
of seeing the grand Doctor, Doctor
Faustus_ 225
III. _Wagner’s conference with Doctor Faustus,
and how miserably they broke up their
disputations_ 229
IV. _Wagner’s cozenage committed upon the
sellers of his Master’s goods_ 237
V. _The description of Vienna_ 238
VI. _A long discourse betwixt the Devil and
Wagner, and ended with a good Philosophical
repast_ 239
VII. _The arrival of the Messenger at Wittenberg,
and the description of Wagner_ 254
VIII. _The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus seen in
the Air, and acted in the presence of a
thousand people of Wittenberg. An.
1540_ 256
IX. 266
X. _A lamentable history of the death of sundry
students of Wittenberg_ 273
XI. 278
XII. 280
XIII. 280
XIV. 282
XV. _The gifts of Wagner to the Duke, and
three Devils retained for Soldiers to the
same Prince_ 283
XVI. 285
XVII. 286
XVIII. _The second Mocking_ 288
XIX. _The third_ 292
XX. _The fourth and last_ 293
XXI. _The process to the Combat_ 295
XXII. _The Combat_ 300
XXIII. 308
XXIV. 310
XXV. 311
XXVI. 312
XXVII. 314
XXVIII. 316
Appendix A: List of Localities 321
Appendix B: A Ballad of Faustus, about 1670 323
Appendix C: Bibliography 326

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

An alleged Faust Portrait. By Jan Joris van Vliet
(after a Sketch by Rembrandt. About 1630) _Frontispiece_
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The Seal of Aziel 21
Facsimile of 1592 Title-page 59
The Journey to the Witches’ Sabbath (after P.
Cornelius) 84
The Ride past the Gallows (after P. Cornelius) 123
The Seven Chief Churches of Rome 133
Fresco from Auerbach’s Cellar in Leipzig 210
Fresco from Auerbach’s Cellar in Leipzig 211
View of Wittenberg about 1546 (after Lucas Cranach
the Elder) 217
Luther’s House and Surroundings, 1611 244
The Castle of Wittenberg, 1611 244
A Caricature of the Pope 278
A Caricature of Luther 291
Woodcuts illustrating The History of Doctor Faustus 36
37, 111, 154, 156, 158, 161, 163, 166, 169, 175, 179