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offered them to sale and quickly sold them all, and took the money; but before he was gone out of the house, Faustus had conjured the Hogs out of the Market place, and sent them all home to the aforesaid driver's house. The man that bought them seeing all the swine gone, stopped the man that sold them and would have his money which he was forced to pay and so returned home sorrowful, and not knowing what to do; but to his great amazement, found all his swine in their styes.

CHAP. XIII.

How Dr Faustus began to bethink himself of the near approach of his end.

FAustus having spun out his twenty-four years, within a month or two, began to consider that he should do to cheat the Devil, but could not find any way to prevent his miserable end, which was now near, whereupon he thus cries out to himself "O miserable wretch that I am. I have given myself to the Devil for a few years pleasure, to satisfy my carnal and devilish desires, and now I must pay full dear; now must I have torment without any ease