_How Doctor Faustus found a mass of money when he had consumed
twenty-two of his years_
To the end that the Devil would make Faustus his only heir, he shewed
unto him where he should go and find a mighty huge mass of money, and
that he should have it in an old Chapel that was fallen down, half a
mile distant from Wittenberg, there he bade him to dig and he should
find it, the which he did, and having digged reasonable deep, he saw a
mighty huge serpent, the which lay on the treasure itself, the treasure
itself lay like a huge light burning: but D. Faustus charmed the
serpent that he crept into a hole, and when he digged deeper to get up
the treasure, he found nothing but coals of fire: there also he heard
and saw many that were tormented, yet notwithstanding he brought away
the coals, and when he was come home, it was all turned into silver and
gold, as after his death was found by his servant, the which was almost
about estimation, a thousand gilders.