the
town and Gasmere; in this Gasmere dwell the Jews, being a small walled
town by themselves, to the number of twenty-five thousand men, women and
children; within one mile of the town there is a salt mine, where they
found stones of pure salt, one thousand pound, two thousand pound, or
more in weight, and that in great quantity: this salt is as black as the
Newcastle coal when it comes out of the mines, but being beaten to
powder, it is as white as snow. The like they have four miles from
thence at a town called Buckma.

From thence Faustus went to Sandentz, the Captain thereof was called Don
Spicket Jordan. In this town are many monuments, as the tomb and
sepulchre of Christ, in as ample a manner as that is at Jerusalem, at
the proper costs of a gentleman that went thrice a year to Jerusalem
from that place and returned again. Not far from that town is a new town
wherein is a nunnery of the order of St. Dioclesian, into which order
may none come except they be gentlewomen, and well formed, and fair to
look upon, which pleased Faustus well; but having a will to travel
further, and to see more wonders, mounting up towards the east, over
many lands and provinces, as in Hungaria, Transilvania, Shede, Ingatz,
Sardinia, and so into Constantinople, where the Turkish emperor kept his
court.

This city was surnamed by Constantine, the founder thereof, being
builded of very fair stone. In the same the Great Turk hath three fair
palaces: the walls are strong, the pinnacles are very huge, and the
streets very large. But this liked not Faustus that one man should have
as many wives as he would. The sea runneth hard by the city; the wall
hath eleven gates. Faustus abode there a certain time to see the manner
of the Turkish emperor's service at his table, where he saw his royal
service to be such that he thought if all the Christian princes should
banquet together, and every one adorn the feast to the utmost, that
they were not able to compare with the Turk and his table, and the rest
of his country service. Wherefore it so affrighted Faustus that he vowed
to be revenged on him, for his pomp, he thought, was more fit for
himself; wherefore as the Turk sate at meat Faustus showed them a little
apish play, for round about the privy-chamber he sent forth flashing
flames of fire, insomuch that the whole company forsook their meat and
fled, except only the Great Turk himself; him Faustus charmed in such
sort that he could neither ris