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furious, and what we procured by our Fall; But where Hell is, or how it is governed and whatsoever thou desirest to know, when thou comest there thou shalt be satisfied as far as we know ourselves.

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CHAP. VII,

Containing some tricks of Dr. Faustus.

DR. Faustus having attained the desire of hi spirit, had now full power to act do any thing whatever he pleased; upon a time the Emperor had a desire to see him, and likewise some of the Doctor's tricks; whereupon he was requested by the Emperor, to do somewhat to make him merry; but the Doctor in the mean while looking around him he at last espied a great lord looking out at a window, and the Doctor calling his Spirit to help him he in an instant fastened a large pair of horns upon the Lord's head, that he could not get his head in till Faustus took off the horns again which were soon taken off invisibly; The Lord whom Faustus served so, was extremly vexed, and resolved to be revenged on the Doctor, and to that end lay a mile out of town for Faustus's passing by, he being that day to depart for the country; Faustus