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CHAP. VII.

Containing some tricks of Dr. Faustus.

Dr. Faustus having attained the desire of his spirit, had now full power to act or do any thing whatever he pleased; upon a time the Emperor had a desire to see him, and likewise some of the Doctor’s tricks: whereupon he was requested by the Emperor, to do somewhat to make him merry; but the Doctor in the meanwhile looking around him he at last espied a great lord looking out at a window, and the Doctor calling his spirit to help him, he in an instant fastened a large pair of horns upon the Lord’s head, that he could not get his head in till Faustus took off the horns again which were soon taken off invisibly; The Lord whom Faustus served so, was extremely vexed, and resolved to be revenged on the Doctor, and to that end lay a mile out of town for Faustus’s passing by, he being that day to depart for the country; Faustus coming by a wood side, beheld that Lord mounted upon a mighty warlike horse, who run full drift against Faustus, who, by the assistance of his spirit, took him and all, and carried before the Emperor’s palace, and