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How Doctor Faustus caused Mephostophiles to bring him seuen of the fayrest women that he could finde in all those countries he had traueiled in, in the 20. yeare. Chap. 53.

WHen Doctor Faustus called to minde,1 that his time from day to day drew nigh, hee began to liue a swinish and Epicurish life, wherefore he commaunded his Spirit Mephostophiles, to bring him seuen of the fayrest women that he had seene in all the time of his trauel: which being brought, first one, and then another, he lay with them all, insomuch that he liked them so well, that he continued with them in all maner of bue, and made them to trauell with him in all his iourneies. These women were two Netherlanders, one Hungarian, one English, two Wallons, one Francklander: and with these sweete personages he continued long, yea euen to his last ende.

Thoms, William John, ed. Early English Prose Romances. . London: Nattali and Bond, 1858.

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