OUR LADY OF TROY
[In the Dutch translation of the original Faust Legend, published by Spiess in Frankfurt in 1587, it is established that the "notorious sorcerer and black-artist" was seized by the Devil at midnight on the 23d of October, 1538, while sitting with a company of students in the tavern of Rimlich near Wittenberg.]
[Scene: The great room of an ancient tavern in the village of Rimlich. Stubs of candles guttering in their sconces on the back wall, and a smouldering fire in a wide chimney-place give an uncertain light. Three students from Wittenberg sit together at one end of the oak table. They are singing in high good humor. At the other end of the board sits Faustus, wrapped in a great cloak still wet from the storm that beats at door and window, and beside him is his servant, Wagner. A strange horologe on the back wall points to half-past eleven.]
