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 and to join with the godly, and leave off wicked course, but immediately the devil used  come and torment him, &c. But now saith, it is but in vain for me to talk of what I intend, for I have sold myself to the devil,  and soul is his. No sooner had he spoke words, but suddenly it fell a thundering,  Faustus went into the great hall, the doctors  masters staying in the next room, intending to  his end. About twelve o'clock the house shook terribly, that they thought it would have tumbled down upon their heads; and suddenly all  windows of the house were broke to pieces, so  they trembled and wished themselves elsewhere when upon a great clap of thunder, with a whirl wind the doors flew open, and a mighty rushing of wind, with the hissing of serpents, shrieks and  upon which he lamentably cried out murder,  there was such roaring in the hall, as if all  devils in hell had been there. When day-light appeared they took the boldness to enter the and found his brains beaten out against the wall and the floor sprinkled with his blood, and his eyes torn out, but missing his body, they went in  of it, and found it on the dung-hill, mangled  mashed to pieces. So ended this miserable life, which we hope may stand as a lasting  and warning to others. His mangled in respect to his function, learning, and other, was decently buried.