friendship had at the
university of Wittenburg) declared unto you my heavenly voyage, wishing
no worse unto you than unto myself, that is, that your mind were as mine
in all respects. Dixi, Dr. Faustus the astrologian."
CHAPTER XXII.
_How Dr. Faustus made his Journey through the principal and most famous
Lands in the World._
Dr. Faustus having overrun fifteen years of his appointed time, he took
upon him a journey, with full intent to see the whole world, and calling
his spirit Mephistophiles unto him, he said, "Thou knowest that thou art
bound unto me upon conditions, to form and fulfil my desire in all
things, wherefore my intent is to visit the whole face of the earth,
visible and invisible, when it pleaseth me; therefore I command and
enjoin thee to the same." Whereupon Mephistophiles answered, "I am
ready, my lord, at thy command;" and forthwith the spirit changed
himself into the likeness of a flying horse, saying, "Faustus, sit up, I
am ready."
Dr. Faustus softly sate upon him, and forwards they went. Faustus came
through many a land and province, as Pannonia, Austria, Germany,
Bohemia, Silesia, Saxony, Messene, During, Frankland, Swaalband,
Byerland, Sayrir, Corinthia, Poland, Litaw, Lesland, Prussia, Denmark,
Muscovia, Tartaria, Turkey, Persia, Cathai, Alexandria, Barbaria, Ginny,
Porut, the Straights Maghellane, India, all about the frozen zone, and
Terra-incognita, Nova Hispaniola, the Isles of Tereza, Madera, St.
Michaels, the Canaries, and the Trenorirolcio into Spain, and Mainland,
Portugal, Italy, Campania, the Kingdom of Naples, the Isles of Sicilia,
Malta, Majorca, Minorca, to the Knights of the Rhodes, Candy or Crete,
Cypress, Corinth, Switzerland, France, Freezeland, Westphalia, Zealand,
Holland, Brabant, and all the seventeen provinces in Netherland,
England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, and Island, the Gut-Isles of
Scotland, the Orcades, Norway, the Bishopric of Bream; and so home
again.
All these kingdoms, and provinces, and countries he passed in twenty-five
days, in which time he saw nothing that delighted his mind; wherefore he
took little rest at home, and burning in desire to see more at large,
and to behold the secrets of each kingdom, he set forward again on his
journey on his swift horse Mephistophiles, and came to Trent, for that
he chiefly desired to see this town, and the monuments thereof, but
there he saw not any wonders, except two fair palaces that belonged unto
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