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CHAP. IV.
What happened to Dr Faustus after the signing of the articles.
WHEN Faustus had made an end of his writing, he called Mephostophiles to him, and delivered him the bond; whereupon the spirit told him, that if he did not repent of what he had done, he should enjoy all the pleasure his thoughts could form, and that he would immediately divert him. He caused a kennel of hounds to run down a hart in the hall, and vanished: then a bull danced before Faustus, also there was a lion and a bear which fell to fightning before Faustus, and the lion destroyed the bear; after that came a dragon and destroyed the lion: and this, with abundance of more pastime did the spirit present to the doctor's view concluding with all manner of music, with some hundreds of spirits which came and danced before Faustus. After the music was over, and Faustus began to look about him, he saw ten sacks full of silver, which he went to dispose of but could not, for none,
