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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] |
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| The Historie of Dr. John Faustus | |
| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| 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]
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| 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]
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| 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]
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| 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] |
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| The Second Report of Dr. John Faustus | |
| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I. | | [221] |
| II. | How certain drunken Dutchmen were abused
by their own conceit and self-imagination,
of seeing the grand Doctor, Doctor Faustus | [225]
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| 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]
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| 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] |