Scene 10

[Enter a HORSE-COURSER.]

HORSE-COURSER
I have been all this day seeking one Master Fustian: mass, see where he is!--God save you, Master Doctor!

FAUSTUS
What, horse-courser! you are well met.

HORSE-COURSER
Do you hear, sir? I have brought you forty dollars for your horse.

FAUSTUS
I cannot sell him so: if thou likest him for fifty, take him.

HORSE-COURSER
Alas, sir, I have no more!--I pray you, speak for me.

MEPHISTOPHILIS
I pray you, let him have him: he is an honest fellow,
and he has a great charge, neither wife nor child.

FAUSTUS
Well, come, give me your money [HORSE-COURSER gives FAUSTUS the money]: my boy will deliver him to you. But I must tell you one thing before you have him; ride him not into the water, at any hand.

HORSE-COURSER
Why, sir, will he not drink of all waters?

FAUSTUS
O, yes, he will drink of all waters; but ride him not into the water: ride him over hedge or ditch, or where thou wilt, but not into the water.

HORSE-COURSER
Well, sir.--Now am I made man for ever: I'll not leave my horse for forty: if he had but the quality of hey-ding-ding, hey-ding-ding, I'd make a brave living on him: he has a buttock as slick as an eel [Aside].--Well, God b'wi'ye, sir: your boy will deliver him me: but, hark you, sir; if my horse be sick or ill at ease, if I bring his water to you, you'll tell me what it is?

FAUSTUS
Away, you villain! what, dost think I am a horse-doctor?

[Exit HORSE-COURSER.]

FAUSTUS
What art thou, Faustus, but a man condemn'd to die?
Thy fatal time doth draw to final end;
Despair doth drive distrust into my thoughts:
Confound these passions with a quiet sleep:
Tush, Christ did call the thief upon the Cross;
Then rest thee, Faustus, quiet in conceit.

[Sleeps in his chair.]

[Re-enter HORSE-COURSER, all wet, crying.]

HORSE-COURSER
Alas, alas! Doctor Fustian, quoth a? mass, Doctor Lopus was never such a doctor: has given me a purgation, has purged me of forty dollars; I shall never see them more. But yet, like an ass as I was, I would not be ruled by him, for he bade me I should ride him into no water: now I, thinking my horse had had some rare quality that he would not have had me know of, I, like a venturous youth, rid him into the deep pond at the town's end. I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse vanished away, and I sat upon a bottle of hay, never so near drowning in my life. But I'll seek out my doctor, and have my forty dollars again, or I'll make it the dearest horse!--O, yonder is his snipper-snapper.--Do you hear? you, hey-pass, where's your master?

MEPHISTOPHILIS
Why, sir, what would you? you cannot speak with him.

HORSE-COURSER
But I will speak with him.

MEPHISTOPHILIS
Why, he's fast asleep: come some other time.

HORSE-COURSER
I'll speak with him now, or I'll break his glass-windows about his ears.

MEPHISTOPHILIS
I tell thee, he has not slept this eight nights.

HORSE-COURSER
An he have not slept this eight weeks, I'll speak with him.

MEPHISTOPHILIS
See, where he is, fast asleep.

HORSE-COURSER
Ay, this is he.--God save you, Master Doctor, Master Doctor, Master Doctor Fustian! forty dollars, forty dollars for a bottle of hay!

MEPHISTOPHILIS
Why, thou seest he hears thee not.

HORSE-COURSER
So-ho, ho! so-ho, ho! [Hollows in his ear.] No, will you not wake? I'll make you wake ere I go. [Pulls FAUSTUS by the leg, and pulls it away.] Alas, I am undone! what shall I do?

FAUSTUS
O, my leg, my leg!--Help, Mephistophilis! call the
officers.--My leg, my leg!

MEPHISTOPHILIS
Come, villain, to the constable.

HORSE-COURSER
O Lord, sir, let me go, and I'll give you forty dollars more!

MEPHISTOPHILIS
Where be they?

HORSE-COURSER
I have none about me: come to my ostry, and I'll give them you.

MEPHISTOPHILIS
Be gone quickly.

[HORSE-COURSER runs away.]

FAUSTUS
What, is he gone? farewell he! Faustus has his leg again, and the Horse-courser, I take it, a bottle of hay for his labour: well, this trick shall cost him forty dollars more.