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as ever they were born; and having danced a while in the market place, every one's goods were conjured into their baskets again, and they set at liberty.

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CHAP XII.

How Dr. Faustus served a Country Fellow that was driving Swine.

DR. Faustus, as he was going to Wirtemberg: overtook a Country Fellow driving an hundred Swine, who were very head-strong, some running one way and some another; so that the driver could not tell how to get them along: The Doctor taking notice of it, by his conjuring art, made every one of them dance upon their two hind legs, with a fiddle in one of their fore feet, and with the other fore foot they played upon the fiddle, and so they dance and fiddled all the way till they came into Wirtemberg market. The driver of them all the way dancing before them, which made the people wonder: After the Doctor had satisfied himself with the sport he conjured the fiddles away, and the driver then offered them to sale, and quickly sold them all, and took the money; but before he was