The Works of Christopher Marlowe

Dr. Faustus (A Text)


Act: 2 Scene: 11
I have been all this day seeking one Master Fustian: mass, see where he is! God save you, Master Doctor!
Do you hear, sir? I have brought you forty dollars for your horse.
Alas, sir, I have no more.—I pray you speak for me.
Why, sir, will he not drink of all waters?
Well, sir.—Now am I made man for ever: I'll not leave my horse for [twice] 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.
Alas, alas! Doctor Fustian quotha? mass, Doctor Lopus was never such a doctor: has given me a purgation has purged me of forty dollars; I shalt 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 [50 rare quality that he would not have had me known Be not you known on't,1 i.e. be not you aware of it.” 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!—0, yonder is his snipper-snapper.—Do you hear? you hey-pass,s where's your master?
But I will speak with him.
I'll speak with him now, or I'll break his glass windows about his ears.
An he have not slept this eight weeks I'll speak with him.
Ay, this is he. God save you, Master Doctor, Master Doctor, Master Doctor Fustian!—Forty dollars, forty dollars for a bottle of hay!
So ho, ho!—so ho, ho! [Hollas in his ear.] No, will you not wake? I'll make you wake ere I go. [Pulls FAUSTUS by the leg, and fulls it away] Alas, I am undone! What shalt I do?
O lord, sir, let me go, and I'll give you forty dollars more.
I have none about me. Come to my ostry and I'll give them you.