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How Doctor Faustus bewailed to think on Hell, and of the miserable pains
therein provided for him
N thou Faustus, damned wretch, how happy wert thou if as an
unreasonable beast thou mightest die without soul, so shouldst thou not feel
any more doubts? But now the Devil will take thee away both body and
soul, and set thee in an unspeakable place of darkness: for although others’
souls have rest and peace, yet I poor damned wretch must suffer all manner
of filthy stench, pains, cold, hunger, thirst, heat, freezing, burning, hissing,
gnashing, and all the wrath and curse of God, yea all the creatures that God
hath created are enemies to me. And now too late I remember that my Spirit
Mephostophiles did once tell me, there was a great difference amongst the
damned; for the greater the sin, the greater the torment: for as the twigs of
the tree make greater flame than the trunk thereof, and yet the trunk
continueth longer in burning: even so the more that a man is rooted in sin,
the greater is his punishment. Ah thou perpetual damned wretch, now art
thou thrown into the everlasting fiery lake that never shall be quenched,
there must I dwell in all manner of wailing, sorrow, misery, pain, torment,
grief, howling, sighing, sobbing, blubbering, running of eyes, stinking at
nose, gnashing of teeth, fear to the ears, horror to the conscience, and
shaking both of hand and foot. Ah that I could carry the heavens on my
shoulders, so that there were time at last to quit me of this everlasting
damnation! Oh who can deliver me out of these fearful tormenting flames,
the which I see prepared for me? Oh there is no help, nor any man that can
deliver me, nor any wailing of sins can help me, neither is there rest to be
found for me day nor night. Ah woe is me, for there is no help for me, no
shield, no defence, no comfort. Where is my hold? knowledge dare I not
trust: and for a soul to Godwards that have I not, for I shame to speak unto
him: if I do, no answer shall be made me, but he will hide his face from me,
to the end that I should not behold the joys of the chosen. What mean I then
to complain where no help is? No, I know no hope resteth in my groanings:
I have desired that it should be so, and God hath said Amen to my
misdoings: for now I must have shame to comfort me in my calamities.
CHAPTER LXII
Here followeth the miserable and lamentable end of Doctor Faustus, by the
which all Christians may take an example and warning
I the twenty-fourth year Doctor Faustus his time being come, his Spirit
appeared unto him, giving him his writing again, and commanding him to
make preparation, for that the Devil would fetch him against a certain time
appointed. D. Faustus mourned and sighed wonderfully, and never went to
bed, nor slept wink for sorrow. Wherefore his Spirit appeared again,
comforting him, and saying: My Faustus, be not thou so cowardly minded;
for although that thou losest thy body, it is not long unto the day of
Judgment, and thou must die at the last, although thou live many thousand
years. The Turks, the Jews, and many an unchristian Emperor, are in the
same condemnation: therefore (my Faustus) be of good courage, and be not
discomforted, for the Devil hath promised that thou shalt not be in pains as
the rest of the damned are. This and such-like comfort he gave him, but he
told him false, and against the saying of the Holy Scriptures. Yet Doctor
Faustus that had none other expectation but to pay his debts with his own
skin, went on the same day that his Spirit said the Devil would fetch him,
unto his trusty and dearest beloved brethren and companions, as Masters,
and Bachelors of Arts, and other Students more the which had often visited
him at his house in merriment: these he entreated that they would walk into
the Village called Rimlich, half a mile from Wittenberg, and that they
would there take with him for their repast part of a small banquet, the which
they all agreed unto: so they went together, and there held their dinner in a
most sumptuous manner. Doctor Faustus with them (dissemblingly) was
merry, but not from the heart: wherefore he requested them that they would
also take part of his rude supper: the which they agreed unto: for (quoth he)
I must tell you what is the Victualler’s due: and when they slept (for drink
was in their heads) then Doctor Faustus paid and discharged the shot, and
bound the Students and the Masters to go with him into another room, for
he had many wonderful matters to tell them: and when they were entered
the room as he requested, Doctor Faustus said unto them, as hereafter
followeth.
CHAPTER LXIII
FINIS
FRESCO FROM AUERBACH’S CELLAR IN LEIPZIG
LONDON.
PRINTED by ABELL JEFFES, for CUTHBERT
Burby, and are to be sold at the middle Shop at Saint
Mildreds Church by the Stockes. 1594.
UNTO THEM WHICH WOULD KNOW THE
TRUTH
I
I T is plain that many things in the first book[40] are mere lies, for proof
mark this: it is said that it is translated, so it is, and where it is word for
word: But I have talked with the man that first wrote them, having them
from Wagner’s very friend, wherein he saith many things are corrupted,
some added de nouo, some cancelled and taken away, and many were
augmented. As for addition to the Copy is there where Mephostophiles
disputeth of the numbers of Hells, and some other disputations: And let a
man mark them duly, they shall find them I will not say childish, but
certainly superficial, not like the talk of Devils, where with foldings of
words they do use to dilate at large, the more subtle by far. But as for his
Obligation[41] and the most part, it is certain they are most credible and out
of all question.
II
For to take away a doubt, whether there were such a man, which is
generally a thing not believed, I assure them this, that there was, and it is
proved thus, nor is Germany so unknown but that the truth of these things
following may be found if any suspect.
III
First there is yet remaining the ruins of his house, not far from
Melanchthon’s house as they call at the town’s end of Wittenberg, right
opposite to the Schools.
IV
Secondly, there is yet to be seen his tree, a great hollow Trunk, wherein he
used to read Nigromancy to his scholars, not far from the Town in a very
remote place, which I think is sufficient testimony to any reasonable ear.
And enquire of them which have been there, see if they will not affirm it.
Notwithstanding I do not go by these means, to entreat men to believe, for I
care not whether they do or no, but only to certify you of the truth as I
myself would be.
V
Next, his tomb is at Mars’ Temple, a three miles beyond the City, upon
which is written on a Marble stone by his own hand, this Epitaph, which is
somewhat old by reason of his small skill in graving.
Hic iaceo
Johannes Faustus,
Doctor diuini iuris
indignissimus, qui
pro amore magiae
Diabolicae
scientiae
vanissime cecidi
ab amore Dei: O
Lector pro me
miserrimo
damnato homine
ne preceris, nam
preces non iuuant
quem Deus
condemnauit: O
pie Christiane
memento mei, &
saltem vnam pro
infiducia mea
lachrymulam
exprime, & cui
non potes mederi,
eius miserere, et
ipse caue.
VIEW OF WITTENBERG ABOUT 1546
After a woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder
The Stone was found in his study, and his will was fulfilled, and he lieth
betwixt a heap of three and thirty fir trees in the fort of the Hill in a great
hole where this is erected.
VI
If these will not serve, then shall you hear the testimony of a learned man
John Wierus, cap. 4. libro I. de magis infamibus.[42] Which I have
translated.
John Faustus, born at Kundling, a little village, learning Magic at Gracovia,
where he was openly taught, and exercised it. In sundry places of Germany,
with the admiration of many and with manifold lies, fraud, and illusions,
with vain vaunting and promises but could do nothing: one example I will
shew to the Reader, upon this condition, that he will pass his faith first to
me that he will not imitate him: Then rehearseth he one of his knaveries,
how he took upon him to make no hair grow upon a man’s face, and took
away with a powder which I will not name, both the beard that he had and
all the skin, causing such inflammations in his face that it burned all over
cruelly. This he committed being taken at Batoburg upon the bank of the
river Mosa hard upon the bounds of Gelderland: Another (saith this learned
Physician) not unknown to me, having a black beard, the rest of his face
somewhat dark and swarthy, witnessing melancholy (for he was splenetic)
when he came to Faustus, who readily said: Truly I thought you had been
my Familiar, straightway marking your feet, whether long and crooked nails
stuck out of them: So likening this man to the Devil, which he thought had
come unto him, which Devil he was wont to call Sorarius.
VII
For his death in the same place, thus saith he: At length he was found in a
Village of the Duchy of Wittenberg by his bedside stark dead, and his face
turned backwards, and the midnight before, the house was shaken as it is
reported. Thus far he, an Author not to be doubted of, and approved through
Christendom of singular and exact judgment, as appeareth by his writings
of the like argument confutation.
VIII
Thus far I have set down that you may know and persuade yourselves so far
as you see just cause by the reasons.
VALE.
F
[40] i.e. The English Faust Book which is printed in the present volume.
[41] i.e. Faust’s compact with Mephisto.
[42] V. Introduction.
[43] Author of Discovery of Witchcraft, 1584.
[44] Jean Bodin, author of Démonomanie des Sorciers, 1580.