of Doctor Faustus.
On sweet Musæus when he came to hell,
Will be as cunning as Agrippa was,
Whose shadow made all Europe honour him.
Val.
Faustus, these bookes, thy wit, and our experience,
Shall make all nations canonize us,
As Indian Moores obey their Spanish Lords:
So shall the Spirits of every Element,
Be alwaies serviceable to us three:
Like Lions shall they guard us when we please.
Like Almaine Rutters with their horsemens staves,
Or Lopland Gyants trotting by our sides.
Sometimes like women or unwedded maids,
Shadowing more beauty in their ayrie browes
Than have the white brests of the Queene of Love.
From Venice they shall drag whole Argosies,
And from America the golden Fleece,
That yearely stuffes old Philips treasury,
If learned Faustus will be resolute.
Faust.
Valdes, as resolute am I in this,
As thou to live: therefore object it not.
Corn.
The miracles that Magicke will performe,
Will make thee vow to study nothing else.
He that is grounded in Astrologie,
Enricht with tongues, well seene in Minerals,
Hath all the Principles Magicke doth require:
Then doubt not Faustus but to be renown'd,
And more frequented for this mystery,
Then heretofore the Delphian Oracle.
The spirits tell me they can drie the Sea,
And fetch the treasure of all forraine wreckes:
Yea, all the wealth that our fore-fathers hid
Within the massie intrailes of the earth:
Then tell me Faustus, what shall we three want?
Faust.
Nothing Cornelius, O this cheeres my soule:
Come, shew me some demonstrations Magicall,
That I may conjure in some bushie grove,
And have these joyes in full possession.
Vald.
Then haste thee to some solitary grove,
