[i15] Apud Stieglitz, ubi supra, p. 130.
[i16] I suppose Begardi alludes to the world-renowned Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus Bombastus von Hohenheim.
[i17] In a letter dated 20th August 1507.
[i18] Camerarius, Hor. Successiv. cent. 2. page 314. Conrad Gesner, Onomasticon apud Stieglitz, Sage von Faust.
[i19] The life of Paracelsus is very characteristic of the age, and may be seen in Sprengel’s Histoire de Medecine, § 9. art. iii.
[i20] That Faust might attain universal celebrity, the fame of authorship could not be wanting. Besides being the reputed author of his own life and exploits, published by his executor Wagner after his death, there are extant magical works under his own name,—perhaps not more authentic than those ascribed to Solomon,—of which one of the most curious is reprinted by Horst, Zauber Bibliothek, vol. iii. p. 86, with the following title, “Doctor J. Faust’s Book of Miracles, Art, and Wonders, or the Black Raven,—also called the Threefold Hell-compulsion; wherewith I compelled the Spirits to bring me whatsoever things I pleased, whether gold or silver, treasure great and small, and the springroot (a magic plant), and whatever other such things are upon the earth; all this have I brought to pass by means of this book, and was also able to dismiss the spirits as often as I pleased.” The introduction to this book by Doctor Faust himself is curious, but too long for insertion. The warning, however, with which it concludes is too serious to be omitted, “Above all things, beware of entering into compacts with these Spirits, that it may not fare with you as it has fared with me.”
[i21] Roscoe’s German Novelists, vol. i. To which the curious may add (1.) Faust: dans l’Histoire et dans la Legende par Ristelhüber. Didier. 1863. (2.) Faustus: his life, death, and doom, a romance in prose; from the German. London: Kent and Co., 1864. (3.) Auerbach’s Volksbuchlein. München, 1839.
[i22] See notes to Manfred.
[i23] Martin.