Chap-books of the eighteenth century . of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, the great Con-gerer, was licensed to be printed,* so that it soon became wellrooted in England. It has been a favourite theme with drama-tists and musicians, and has even been the subject of aharlequinade, The Necromancer; or Harlequin Dr. Faustus(London, 1723). It was a popular Chap book, and many ver-sions were published of it in various parts of the O. Halliwell Phillips, Esq., has an English edition of Faustusprinted 1592, unknown to Herbert or Lowndes. * Probably the original of that ballad, The Jud
Chap-books of the eighteenth century . of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, the great Con-gerer, was licensed to be printed,* so that it soon became wellrooted in England. It has been a favourite theme with drama-tists and musicians, and has even been the subject of aharlequinade, The Necromancer; or Harlequin Dr. Faustus(London, 1723). It was a popular Chap book, and many ver-sions were published of it in various parts of the O. Halliwell Phillips, Esq., has an English edition of Faustusprinted 1592, unknown to Herbert or Lowndes. * Probably the original of that ballad, The Judgment of God shewedupon one J. Faustus Dr. in Divinity, of which the British Museum possesses two versions—Rox, II. 235 and ^^ ^ ^- the date of both being attri-buted 1670. THE HISTORY OF ©r, Si3|)n dfaustus, SHEWING How he sold ht7nself to the Devil to have power to do whathe pleased for twenty-four years. STRANGE THINGS DONE BY HIM AND HIS SERVANTMEPHISTOPHOLES. With an Account how the Devil came for him, and tore him in Pieces,. Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard,Bo\v Lane, London. 40 ChapBoohs of the Eighteenth Century.
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