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How Doctor Faustus hauing but one moneth of his appoynted time to come, fell to mourning and sorrowe with himselfe for his diuelish exercise. Chap. 58.

TIme ranne away with Faustus, as the houre glasse, for hee had but one moneth to come of his 24. yeares, at the end whereof he had giuen himselfe to the Diuell body and soule, as is before specified. Here was the first token, for he was like a taken murtherer or a theefe, the which findeth himselfe guiltie in conscience before the ludge haue giuen sentence, fearing euery houre to die: for hee was grieued, and waylaying spent the time, went talking to himselfe, wringing of his hands, sobbing and sighing, hee fell away from flesh, and was very leane, and kept1 himselfe close: neither could he abide to see or heare of his Mephistophiles any more.

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

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