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How Faustus serued the dronken Clownes. Chap. 37.

DOctor Faustus went into an Inne, wherein were many tables full of Clownes, the which were tippling kan after kan of excellent wine, and to bee short, they were all dronken, and as they sate, they so sung and hallowed, that one could not heare a man speake for them; this angred Doctor Faustus; wherefore hee said to those that had called him in, marke my masters, I will shew you a merrie iest, the Clownes continuing still hallowing and singing, he so coniured them, that their mouthes stoode as wide open as it was possible for them to hold them, and neuer a one of them was able to close his mouth againe: by and by the noyse was gone, the Clownes notwithstanding looked earnestly one vpon another, and wist not what was happened; wherefore one by one they went out, and so soone as they came without, they were as well as euer they were: but none of them desired to goe in any more.

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

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