How Doctor Faustus with his companie visited the Bishop of Saltzburg his Wine-seller. Chap. 41.
DOctor
Faustus hauing taken his leaue of the Duke, he went to
Wittenberg, neere about Shrouetide, and being in companie with certaine
Students, Doctor
Faustus was himself the God
Bacchus, who hauing
well feasted the Students before with daintie fare, after the manner of
Germanie, where it is counted no feast except all the bidden guests be
drunke, which Doctor
Faustus intending, said: Gentlemen and my guestes,
will it please you to take a cuppe of wine with me in a place or seller
whereunto I will bring you, and they all said willinglie wee will: which when
Doctor
Faustus heard, hee tooke them foorth, set either of them vpon an
hollie wand, and so were coniured into the Bishop of
Saltzburg his
Seller, for there about grewe excellent pleasant Wine: there fell
Faustus
and his companie to drinking and swilling, not of the worst but of the
best, and as they were merrie in the Seller, came downe to drawe drinke the
Bishops butler: which when hee perceiued so many persons there hee cried with a
loud voyce, theeues theeues. This spited Doctor
Faustus wonderfullie,
wherefore hee made euery one of his company to sit on their holly
wand and so vanished away, and in parting Doctor
Faustus tooke the
Butler by the haire of the head and carried him away with them, vntill they
came vnto a mightie high lopped
1 tree, and on the top of that huge tree he
set the Butler, where he remained in a most fearefull perplexitie,
and 2 Doctor
Faustus departed to his house, where they tooke their
valete one
of another, drink
ing the Wine the which they had stolne in great bottels of glasse out of the
Bishops 3 seller. The Butler that had held himselfe by the hand vpon the
lopped tree all the night, was almost frozen with cold, espying the day, and
seeing the tree of so huge great highnesse, thought with himselfe it is
vnpossible to come off this tree without perill of death:
at length he had espied certaine Clownes which were passing by, he cried for
the bue of God helpe me downe: the Clownes seeing him so high, wondered what
mad man would clime to so huge a tree, wherefore as a thing most miraculous,
they caned tidings vnto the Bishop of
Saltzburg, then was there great
running on euery side to see a man in a huge tree, and many deuises they
practised to get him downe with ropes, and being demaunded by the Bishop how
hee came there, he said, that he was brought thither by the haire of the head
of certaine theeues that were robbing of the Wine-seller, but what they were he
knew not, for (said he) they had faces like men, but
they 4wrought like
diuells.
