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 somewhat to make him merry, but the Doctor in the mean while looking round about him, at last espied a Lord looking out at the window, and the Doctor calling his spirit to help him, he in an instant fastened a pair of horns upon the Lord's head, that he could not get his head in till Faustus took the horns off again, which were soon taken off invisibly: the Lord whom Faustus had 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 from the country; Faustus coming by a wood-side, beheld the Lord mounted upon a mighty warlike horse, who ran full drift against Faustus, who by the help of his spirit, took him horse and all, and carried him before the Emperor's palace, and grafted a pair of horns on his head as big as an ox's, which he could never be rid of, but wore them to his dying day.



Austus, upon a time, having many Doctors and Masters of arts with him, went to walk in the fields, where they met a man with a load of hay: How now, good fellow, saith Faustus, what shall I give thee to fill my belly with hay? The clown thought he had been a mad-man to talk of eating hay, told him he should fill his belly for a penny; to which the Doctor agreed, and fell to eating, and quickly devoured half the load: at which the Doctor's companions laughed to see how simply the poor country fellow looked, and to hear how heartily he prayed the Doctor to forbear. Faustus pitying the poor man, went away and before the man got near home, all the hay that the Doctor had eaten was in the cart, which made the country fellow admire.