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met with a load of hay: how now good {illegible}}ow, saith Faustus, what shall I give thee to fill my belly with hay? the (illegible text)wn thought he had been a madman (illegible text) talk of eating hay, told him he could fill his belly for a penny; to which the doctor agreed, and fell to eating and quickly devouring half the (illegible text): at which the doctor's companions laughed, to see how simply the poor country fellow looked, and to hear how heartily he prayed the doctor to forswear: Faustus, pitying the poor man, went away, and before the man got (illegible text)r home, all the hay was in the cart (illegible text) the doctor had eaten, which made the country fellow admire.

CHAP. IX.
How he struck a parcel of students that were fighting together blind; and how he served a parcel of clowns who were ranging and ranting in an inn.

Thirteen students meeting with seven more near Dr Faustus's house,