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comprehend the thing, (and that was always ſuf-
ficient) concluded it muſt be the Devil; that it
was done by magic and witchcraft; and that in
ſhort, poor Fauſtus (who was indeed nothing but
a mere printer) dealt with the Devil.
So the learned doctors, not being able to un-
derſtand how the work was performed, concluded
as above, it was all the Devil, and that the man
was a wizard; accordingly they took him up for
a magician, and a conjurer, and one that worked
by the black art that is to ſay, by the help of
the Devil: and in a word, they threatened to
hang him in their criminal courts, which made
ſuch a noiſe in the world, as raiſed the fame of
poor John Fauſtus to a frightful height, till at laſt
he was obliged for fear of the gallows, to diſcover
the whole ſecret to them.
N. B. This the true original of the famous
Dr Fauſtus or Foſter, of whom we have be-
lieved ſuch ſtrange things, as that it is be-
come a proverb, a great as the Devil and
Dr Fauſtus; whereas poor Fauſtus was no
doctor, and knew no more of the Devil than
any other body.
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