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born: and having danced a while in the marketplace every one’s goods were conjured into their baskets again, and they set at liberty.




CHAP. XI.


How Faustus served a Country Fellow who was driving Swine.


Dr. Faustus, as he was going to Wirtemberg overtook a Country Fellow driving an hundred Swine, who were very headstrong some running one way and, some another; so that the driver could not tell how to get them drove along: the doctor taking notice of it, so by his conjuring art, he made everyone of them dance upon their two hind legs, with a fiddle in one of their fore feet, and with the other fore foot they played upon the fiddle, and so they danced and fiddled all the way until they came into Wirtemberg market. The driver of them dancing all the way before them, which made the people wonder: after the Doctor had satisfied himself with the spirit he conjured all of the fiddles away, and the driver then offered them for sale, and quickly sold them all, and took the money; but before he was