The Works of Christopher Marlowe

Dr. Faustus (B Text)


Act: 4 Scene: 6
Come, my masters, I'll bring you to the best beer
in Europe. What ho, Hostess; where be these whores?
Marry, sir, I'll tell you the bravest tale how a con-
juror served me. You know Doctor Faustus?
I'll tell you how he served me. As I was going to
Wittenberg th'other day, with a load of hay, he met me,
and asked me what he should give me for as much hay as he
could eat. Now, sir, I, thinking that a little would serve his
turn, bad him take as much as he would for three farthings.
So he presently gave me my money and fell to eating, and as I
am a cursen man, he never left eating till he had eat up all
my load of hay.
O monstrous! Eat a whole load of hay?
O, brave Doctor!
Some more drink, Hostess.