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gone out of the house Faustus had conjured all the hogs out of the market-place, and sent them all home to the driver’s house. The man who bought them, seeing all the swine gone, stopped the man who sold them and would have his money, which he was forced to pay, and so returned home sorrowful, and not knowing what to do; but to his great surprise, found all the swine in their sties.
CHAP. XIII.
How Faustus begun to bethink himself of the near approach of his end.
Faustus having spun out his twenty-four years, within a month or two, began to consider what he should do to cheat the devil, but could not find any way to prevent his miserable end, which was now near, whereupon he thus cries out to himself, Oh! miserable wretch that I am, I have given myself to the devil, for a few years pleasure, and now I must pay full dear; I have had my desires; my filthy lusts I have satisfied, and I must be tormented for ever and ever.
A neighbour of his a very good old man
