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as when they were horn; and having danced a while in the market-place, every one's goods were con(illegible text) d into their baskets again, and they were set at liberty.

CHAP. XII.
How Faustus served a Country Fellow that was driving of Swine.

Faustus, as he was going to Wirtemberg, overheard a country fellow driving an hundred swine, which were very headstrong, some running one way and some another; so that the driver could not tell how to get them along; the doctor taking notice of it, by his conjuring art, made every one 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 till they came into Wirtemberg market, the driver of them all the pigs dancing before them, which made the people (illegible text)der; after the doctor had satisfied himself with the sport, he conjured the fiddles away, and the driver then offered them to sale, and quickly sold them all, and took the money; but before he had gone out of the house, Faustus had conjured the hogs out of the market-place, and sent them back home to the aforesaid driver's house. The men that bought them, seeing all the swine gone, whipped the man that sold them, and would have the money which he was forced to pay, and so returned home sorrowful, and not knowing what to do but, to his great amazement, found all his in their styes.