_How Dr. Faustus served the Drunken Clowns._
Dr. Faustus went into an inn wherein were many tables full of clowns,
the which were tippling can after can of excellent wine; and to be
short, they were all drunken; and as they sate, they so sang and
holloaed, that one could not hear a man speak for them. This angered Dr.
Faustus; wherefore he said to them that called him in, "Mark, my
masters, I will show a merry jest."
The clowns continued still holloaing and singing; he conjured them
that their mouths stood as wide open as it was possible for them to
hold them, and never a one of them was able to close his mouth again;
by-and-by the noise was gone; the clowns notwithstanding looked earnest
one upon another, and knew not what was happened. One by one they went
out, and so soon as they came without, they were all as well as ever
they were, but none of them desired to go in any more.