Now, sirs, you shall hear how villainously he served
me. I went to him yesterday to buy a horse of
him, and he
would
by no means sell him under
forty
dollars.
So, sir, because
I knew him to be such a
horse as would run over hedge and
ditch and never
tire, I gave him his money.
So when I had
my
horse, Doctor Faustus bad me ride
him night and day, and
spare him no
time.
But, quoth he, in any case ride him
not in-
to the water. Now,
sir, I thinking the horse had had some
quality that he would not have
me know of, what did I but
rid him into a
great river, and when I came
just in the midst
my horse vanished away, and I sat straddling upon
a bottle
of hay.
