_How Faustus served the drunken Clowns_
Doctor 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 sat, they so sang and
hallowed, that one could not hear a man speak for them; this angered
Doctor Faustus; wherefore he said to those that had called him in, mark
my masters, I will shew you a merry jest, the Clowns continuing still
hallowing and singing, he so 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 earnestly one upon another, and wist
not what was happened; wherefore one by one they went out, and so soon
as they came without, they were as well as ever they were: but none of
them desired to go in any more.