_How Doctor Faustus led his friends into his Garden at Christmas, and
shewed them many strange sights in his nineteenth year_
In December, about Christmas in the City of Wittenberg, were many young
Gentlewomen, the which were come out of the Country to make merry with
their friends and acquaintance; amongst whom there were certain that
were well acquainted with Doctor Faustus, wherefore they were often
invited as his guests unto him, and being with him on a certain time
after dinner, he led them into his Garden, where he shewed them all
manner of flowers, and fresh herbs, Trees bearing fruit and blossoms
of all sorts, in so much that they wondered to see that in his Garden
should be so pleasant a time as in the midst of summer: and without
in the streets, and all over the Country, it lay full of Snow and
Ice. Wherefore this was noted of them as a thing miraculous, each one
gathering and carrying away all such things as they best liked, and so
departed delighted with their sweet-smelling flowers.