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 to see this my dreadful end: and I pray let my miserable death be a warning to you all, how you study the devilish art of conjuring; for if once you begin it, a thousand to one but it will lead you to the devil whither I am this night to go, whether I will or not. They hearing of this sad story blamed him for concealing it so long, telling them if he had made them acquainted before that they thought it might have been prevented. He told them he had a desire several times to have disclosed this intrigue; but the devil told him, that if he did, he would presently fetch him away; he also told them, he had a desire to join with the godly, and to leave off that wicked course but immediately the devil used to come and torment him, &c. "But now, saith Faustus, it is but in vain for me to talk of what I did intend, for I have sold myself to the devil, body and soul is his." No sooner had he spoke these words, but suddenly it fell a thundering and lightening, the like was never heard; whereupon Faustus went into the great hall, the doctors and masters staying in the next room, intending to hear his end. About twelve o’clock the house shook so terribly that they thought it would have been down upon them, and suddenly the windows