CHAPTER LV.

_How Dr. Faustus made the Spirit of fair Helena of Greece his own

Paramour in his twenty-third Year._

To the end that this miserable Faustus might fill the lust of his flesh

and live in all manner of voluptuous pleasure, it came in his mind,

after he had slept his first sleep, and in the twenty-third year past

of his time, that he had a great desire to lie with fair Helena of

Greece, especially her whom he had seen and shown unto the students at

Wittenburg; wherefore he called his spirit Mephistophiles, commanding

him to bring to him the fair Helena, which he also did.

Whereupon he fell in love with her, and made her his common companion,

for she was so beautiful and delightful that he could not be an hour

from her; if he should therefore have suffered death, she had stolen

away his heart, and to his seeming in time she had child, whom Faustus

named Justus Faustus. The child told Dr. Faustus many things which were

done in foreign countries, but in the end, when Faustus lost his life,

the mother and the child vanished away both together.

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