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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>The Judgment of God &s;hewed upon one <HI>John Fau&s;tus</HI> Doctor in Divinity.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Tune of, <HI>Fortune my Foe.</HI></OPENER>
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<L>ALl Chri&s;tian men give ear a while to me,</L>
<L>How I am plung'd in pain but cannot die,</L>
<L>I liv'd a life the like did none before,</L>
<L>For&s;aking Chri&s;t, and I am damn'd therefore.</L>
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<LG>
<L>At <HI>Wittenburge,</HI> a town in <HI>Germany,</HI></L>
<L>There was I born and bred of good degree,</L>
<L>Of hone&s;t Stock which afterwards I &s;hamed,</L>
<L>Accur&s;t therefore for <HI>Fau&s;tus</HI> was I named.</L>
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<LG>
<L>In learning Ioe my Vncle brought up me,</L>
<L>And made me Doctor in Divinity:</L>
<L>And when he dy'd be left me all his wealth.</L>
<L>Who&s;e cur&s;ed gold did hinder my &s;ouls health.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Then did I &s;hun the Holy Bible book,</L>
<L>Nor on Gods word would ever after look,</L>
<L>But &s;tudied accur&s;ed Conjuration,</L>
<L>Which was the cau&s;e of my utter Damnation.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The Devil in Fryars weeds appeared to me,</L>
<L>And &s;treight to my Reque&s;t he did <UNCLEAR>come</UNCLEAR>,</L>
<L>That I might have all things at my de&s;ire,</L>
<L>I gave him &s;oul and body for his hire.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Twice did I make my tender fle&s;h to bleed,</L>
<L>Twice with my blood I wrote the Devils deed,</L>
<L>twice wretchedly I &s;oul and body &s;old,</L>
<L>to live in peace and do what things I would.</L>
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<L>For four and twenty Years this bond was made,</L>
<L>And at the length my &s;oul was truly paid,</L>
<L>time ran away, and yet I never thought</L>
<L>How dear my &s;oul our Saviour Chri&s;t had bought</L>
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<LG>
<L>Would I had fir&s;t been made a Bea&s;t by kind,</L>
<L>then had not I &s;o vainly &s;et my mind;</L>
<L>Or would when rea&s;on fir&s;t began to bloom,</L>
<L>Some dark&s;ome Den had been my deadly tomb.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Woe to the Day of my Nativity,</L>
<L>Woe to the time that once did fo&s;ter me,</L>
<L>And woe unto the hand that &s;ealed the Bill,</L>
<L>Woe to my&s;elf the cau&s;e of all my ill.</L>
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<L>THe time I pa&s;t away with much delight</L>
<L>'Mong&s;t princes, peers, &amp; many a worl<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">y<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>I wrought &s;uch wonders by my Magick Skill,</L>
<L>that all the world may talk of <HI>Fau&s;tus</HI> &s;till.</L>
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<LG>
<L>the Devil he carried me up into the Sky,</L>
<L>Where I did &s;ee how all the world did lie;</L>
<L>I went about the world in eight Daies &s;pace,</L>
<L>And then return'd unto my Native place.</L>
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<LG>
<L>What plea&s;ure I did wi&s;h to plea&s;e my mind,</L>
<L>He did perform as bond and &s;eal did bind,</L>
<L>the &s;ecrets of the Stars and Planets told,</L>
<L><UNCLEAR>Of</UNCLEAR> earth and &s;ea with wonders manifold.</L>
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<LG>
<L>When <HI>four and twenty years</HI> was almo&s;t run,</L>
<L>I thought of all things that was pa&s;t and done;</L>
<L>How that the Devil would &s;oon claim his right,</L>
<L>And carry me to Everla&s;ting Night.</L>
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<LG>
<L>then all too late I cur&s;t my wicked Deed,</L>
<L>the Deed whereof doth make my heart to bleed,</L>
<L>All daies and hours, I mourned wondrous &s;ore,</L>
<L>Repenting me of all things done before.</L>
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<LG>
<L>I then did with both Sun and Moon to &s;tay</L>
<L>All times and Sea&s;ons, never to decay;</L>
<L>then had my time nere come to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ated end,</L>
<L>For &s;oul and body down to Hell de&s;cend.</L>
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<LG>
<L>At la&s;t when I had but one hour to come,</L>
<L>I turn'd my gla&s;s for my la&s;t hour to run,</L>
<L>And call'd in learned men to comfort me.</L>
<L>But faith was gone &amp; none could comfort me.</L>
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<LG>
<L>By twelve a Clock my gla&s;s was almo&s;t out,</L>
<L>My grieved Con&s;cience then began to doubt;</L>
<L>I wi&s;ht the Students &s;tay in Chamber by,</L>
<L>But as they &s;taid they heard a dreadful cry.</L>
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<LG>
<L>then pre&s;ently they came into the Hall,</L>
<L>VVhereas my brains was ca&s;t again&s;t the wall,</L>
<L>Both arms and legs in pieces torn they &s;ee,</L>
<L>My bowels gone, this was an end of me.</L>
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<LG>
<L>You Conjurors and damned VVitches all,</L>
<L>Example take by my unhappy fall:</L>
<L>Give not your &s;ouls and bodies unto Hell,</L>
<L>See that the &s;malle&s;t hair you do not &s;ell.</L>
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<LG>
<L>But hope that Chri&s;t his Kingdom you may gain,</L>
<L>VVhere you &s;hall never fear &s;uch mortal pain:</L>
<L>For&s;ake the Devil and all his crafty ways,</L>
<L>Embrace true faith that never more decays.</L>
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