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Of his Parentage and Birth.Chap. 1
How Doctor Faustus began to practise in his diuelish Arte, and how he coniured the Diuel, making him to appeare and meete him on the morrow at his owne house.Chap. 2
The conference of Doctor Faustus with the Spirit Mephostophiles the morning following at his owne house.Chap. 3
The second time of the Spirits appearing to Faustus in his house, and of their parley.Chap. 4.
The third parley between Doctor Faustus and Mephostophiles about a conclusion.Chap. 5.
How Doctor Faustus set his blood in a saucer on warme ashes, and writ as followeth.Chap. 6
How Mephostophiles came for his writing, and in what maner hee appeared, and his sights he shewed him: and how he caused him to keep a copie of his owne writing.Chap. 7.
The manner how Faustus proceeded with his damnable life, and of the diligent seruice that Mephostophiles vsed towards him.Chap. 8.
How Doctor Faustus would haue married, and how the Diuell had almost killed him for it.Chap. 9.
Questions put foorth by Doctor Faustus vnto his Spirite Mephostophiles.Chap. 10.
How Doctor Faustus dreamed that hee had seene hell in his sleepe, and how he questioned with his Spirit of matters as concerning hell, with the Spirits answer.Chap. 11.
The second question put foorth by Doctor Faustus to his Spirite, what Kingdomes there were in hell, how many, and what were their rulers names.Chap. 12.
Another question put foorth by Doctor Faustus to his Spirite concerning his Lorde Lucifer, with the sorrow that Faustus fell afterwards into.Chap. 13.
Another disputation betwixt Doctor Faustus and his Spirite, of the power of the Diuell, and of his enuie to mankinde.Chap. 14.
How Doctor Faustus desired againe of his Spirit to know the secrets and paines of hell; and whether those damned Diuels and their company might euer come into the fauour of God againe or not?Chap. 15.
Another question put foorth by Doctor Faustus to his Spirite Mephostophiles of his owne estate.Chap. 16.
Here followeth the second part of Doctor Faustus his life, and practises, untill his end.Chap.17.
A question put foorth by Doctor Faustus to his Spirit concerning Astronomie.Chap. 18.
How Doctor Faustus fell into despaire with himselfe: for hauing put foorth a question vnto his Spirit, they fell at variance, whereupon the whole route of diuels appeared vnto him, threatning him sharply.Chap. 19.
How Doctor Faustus desired to see hell, and of the maner how hee was vsed therein.Chap. 20.
How Doctor Faustus was carried through the ayre vp to the heauens to see the world, and how the Skie and Planets ruled: after the which he wrote one letter to his friend of the same to Liptzig, how he went about the world in eight daies.Chap. 21.
How Doctor Faustus made his iourney thorough the principal and most famous lands in the world.Chap. 22.
How Faustus had a sight of Paradise.Chap. 23.
Of a certaine Comet that appeared in Germanie, and how Doctor Faustus was desired by certaine friends of his to knowe the meaning thereof.Chap. 24.
A question put foorth to Doctor Faustus, concerning the Starres.Chap. 25.
Howe Faustus was asked a question concernmg the Spirites that vexe men.Chap. 26.
How Doctor Faustus was asked a question concerning the Starres that fall from Heauen,Chap. 27.
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A Discourse of the Most Famous Doctor John Faustus of VVittenberg in Germanie, Con- iurer, and Necromancer: wherein is declared many strange things that he himself hath seene, and done in the earth and in the Ayre, with his bringing vp, his trauailes, studies, and last end. 1 This edition is the oldest extant. It was printed between May and December, 1592. Dr W. W. Greg in F. S. Boas' edition of Marlowe's Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, London, 1932, p. 7-8, believes (on the evidence in the Records of the court of the Stationers' Company) that one Abell Jaffes printed an earlier edition about MAy 1592. Our own researches tend to confirm this. From internal evidence, vid. note (70), it appears probable that the manuscript was finished before August, 1590.The Historie of the damnable life, and the deserved death of Doctor Iohn Faustus,
Seene and allowed.
Imprinted at London by Thomas Orwin, and are to be solde by Edward White, dwelling at the little North doore of Paules, at the sign of the Gun. 1592.
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Thoms, William John, ed. Early English Prose Romances. . London: Nattali and Bond, 1858.