t; for I will tear thee in a thousand
pieces if thou change not thy opinions." And hereat he vanished away.

Whereat Faustus, all sorrowful that he had put forth such a question,
fell to weeping and to howling bitterly, not for his sins towards God,
but that the devil was departed from him so suddenly in such a rage. And
being in this perplexity, he was suddenly taken with such extreme cold,
as if he would have frozen in the place where he sat, in which the
greatest devil in hell appeared unto him, with certain of his hideous
and infernal company, in most ugly shapes, that it was impossible to
think upon; and traversing the chamber round about where Faustus sat,
Faustus thought to himself, "Now are they come for me, though my time
be not come, and that because I have asked such questions of my servant
Mephistophiles." At whose cogitations the chiefest devil, which was the
lord unto whom he gave his soul, that was Lucifer, spake in this sort:
"Faustus, I have seen thy thoughts, which are not as thou hast vowed
unto me, by the virtue of this letter [and showed him the obligation
which he had written with his own blood]; wherefore I am come to visit
thee, and to show thee some of our hellish pastimes, in hope that will
draw and confirm thy mind a little more steadfast unto us."

"Content," quoth Faustus: "go to, let me see what pastime you can make."

At which words the great devil in his likeness sate him down by Faustus,
commanding the rest of his devils to appear in the form as if they were
in hell. First entered Belial, in form of a bear, with curled black hair
to the ground, his ears standing upright; within his ears were as red as
blood, out of which issued flames of fire; his teeth were at least a
foot long, and as white as snow, with a tail three ells long at the
least, having two wings, one behind each arm; and thus one after another
they appeared to Faustus in form as they were in hell. Lucifer himself
sate in a manner of a man all hairy, but of brown colour like a
squirrel, curled, and his tail curling upwards on his back as the
squirrels use. I think he could crack nuts too like a squirrel. After
him came Belzebub in curled hair of a horse-flesh colour, his head like
the head of a bull, with a mighty pair of horns, and two long ears down
to the ground, and two wings on his back, with two pricking things like
horns; out of his wings issued flames of fire; his tail was like a
cow's. Then came Astaroth in the for