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 comprehend the thing, (and that was always ſuf-

ficient) concluded it muſt be the Devil; that it

was done by magic and witchcraft; and that in

ſhort, poor Fauſtus (who was indeed nothing but

a mere printer) dealt with the Devil.

So the learned doctors, not being able to un-

derſtand how the work was performed, concluded

as above, it was all the Devil, and that the man

was a wizard; accordingly they took him up for

a magician, and a conjurer, and one that worked

by the black art that is to ſay, by the help of

the Devil: and in a word, they threatened to

hang him in their criminal courts, which made

ſuch a noiſe in the world, as raiſed the fame of

poor John Fauſtus to a frightful height, till at laſt

he was obliged for fear of the gallows, to diſcover

the whole ſecret to them.