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CHAP IX.

How he struck a parcel of Students who were fighting together, blind; and how he served a parcel of Clowns who were singing and ranting at an inn.

Thirteen Students meeting with seven more, near Dr. Faustus’s house, fell to extremely first in words and at last to blows; the thirteen being too hard for the seven, and Dr. Faustus looking out at his window and seeing the fray and how much they were over matched, conjured them all blind, so that the one could not see the other, and in this manner they fought one another, which made all that saw them laugh: at length the people parted them, and led them to their chambers, they instantly received their sight—The doctor coming into an inn with some friends, was disturbed by the hallowing and bawling of a parcel of drunken Clowns, whereupon when their mouths were wide open, he so conjured them, that by no means they could shut them again; and after they had stared one upon another, without being able to speak, thinking they were bewitched, they dropped away in a