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 to command the devil to appear before him when he pleased. One day as Dr. Faustus was walking in a wood, near to Wirtemberg, in, he having a friend with him that desirous to know the doctor's art, he desired him to let him see if he could then and there bring Mephostophiles before him; all which the doctor immediately did, and the devil upon the first call made such a noise in the wood, as if heaven and earth would have come together; then the devil made such a roaring, as if the wood had been full of wild beasts. The doctor made a circle for the devil, the which circle the devil run round, making a noise as if ten thousand waggons had been running upon paved stones. After this it thundered and lightened as if the whole world had been on fire. Faustus and his friend, amazed at this noise, and the devil's long tarrying thought to leave his circle; whereupon the devil made him such music, the like was never heard in the world: This so ravished Faustus that he began again to conjure Mephostophiles in the name of the prince of the devils, to appear in his own likeness; whereupon, in an instant, hung over his head a mighty dragon. Faustus calls again after his former manner, after which there was a cry in the wood as if hell had been opened, and all the tormented souls had been there; Faustus,