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 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 leave off that wicked course, but immediately the devil used to come and torment him, &c. But now said 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 spoken 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 tumbled down about their heads; and suddenly all the doors and windows of the house were broken to pieces, as if all nature had been changed, so that they trembled, and wished themselves elsewhere, when upon a great clap of thunder, with a whirlwind, the doors flew open, and a mighty rushing of wind entered, with a hissing of serpents, shrieks and cries, upon which he lamentably cried out murder, and there was such a roaring in the hall, as if all the devils in hell had been there. When day-light appeared, they took the boldness to enter the room, and found his brains beaten out against the wall, and the floor sprinkled with blood, and his eyes torn out, very terrible to behold; but missing the body, they went in search of it, and found it on the dunghill, mangled and mashed to pieces. So ended this miserable wretches' life, forsaking God and all goodness, and giving himself up to his implacable enemy, which we hope may stand, not only as a fearful, but lasting monument and warning to others. In respect to his function, learning and other qualifications, his mangled body was decently buried.