plate, or drinking goblet, and a flagon of wine,
and brought it to Faustus.

But when the pope and the rest of his crew perceived they were robbed,
and knew not after what sort, they persuaded themselves that it was a
damned soul that before had vexed the pope so, and that smote him on the
face; wherefore he sent commandment through the whole city of Rome, that
they should say a mass in every church, and ring all the bells, for to
lay the walking spirit, and to curse him with bell, book, and candle,
that so invisibly had misused the pope's holiness, with the Cardinal of
Pavia, and the rest of their company.

But Faustus notwithstanding made good cheer with that which he had
beguiled the pope of, and in the midst of the order of St. Bernard's,
bare-footed friars, as they were going on procession through the
market-place, called Campo de Fiore, he let fall his plate, dish, and
cup, and withal for a farewell he made such a thunder-clap and storm of
rain, as though heaven and earth would have met together, and left Rome,
and came to Millain in Italy, near the Alps or borders of Switzerland,
where he praised much to his spirit the pleasures of the place, the city
being founded in so brave a plain, by the which ran most pleasant rivers
on every side of the same, having besides within the compass of a
circuit of seven miles, seven small seas: he saw also therein many fair
places, and goodly buildings, the duke's palace, and the mighty strong
castle, which is in a manner half the bigness of the town. Moreover, it
liked him well to see the hospital of St. Mary, with divers other
things: he did there nothing worthy of memory, but he departed back
again towards Bologna, and from thence to Florence, where he was well
pleased to see the pleasant walk of merchants, the goodly vaults of
the city, for that almost the whole city is vaulted, and the houses
themselves are built outwardly in such sort, that the people go under
them as under a vault: then he perused the sumptuous church in the
duke's castle, called Nostra Dama, our Lady's church, in which he saw
many monuments, as a marble door most huge to look upon; the gates of
the castle are bell-metal, wherein are graven the holy patriarchs, with
Christ and his twelve apostles, and divers other histories out of the
Old and New Testament.

Then went he to Siena, where he highly praised the church and hospital
of Sancta Maria Formosa, with the goodly buildings, and especially the
fair