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R Faustus, as he was going to Wirtemberg overtook a country fellow driving an hundred swine, which was very headstrong, some running one way and some another; so that the driver could not tell how to get them along: the doctor taking notice of it, by his conjuring art, made every one of them dance upon their two hind legs, with a fiddle in one of their fore feet, and with the other fore foot they play'd upon the fiddle, and so they danced and fiddled all the way till they came into Wirtemberg market. The driver of them all the way dancing before them, which made the people wonder: after the doctor had satisfied himself with the sport he conjured the fiddles away, and the driver then offered to sale, and quickly sold them all, and took the money; but before he was gone out of the house, Faustus had conjured the hogs out of the market place, and sent them all home to the aforesaid driver's house. The man that bought them seeing all