_How Doctor Faustus made the Spirit of fair Helena
of Greece his own Paramour and bedfellow
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 pleasures, it came in his
mind after he had slept his first sleep,[39] 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 shewed unto
the Students of Wittenberg, wherefore he called unto him his Spirit
Mephostophiles, commanding him to bring him the fair Helena, which he
also did. Whereupon he fell in love with her, and made her his common
Concubine and bedfellow, for she was so beautiful and delightful a
piece, that he could not be one hour from her, if he should therefore
have suffered death, she had so stolen away his heart: and to his
seeming, in time she was with child, and in the end brought him a
man child, whom Faustus named Justus Faustus: this child told Doctor
Faustus many things that were to come, and what strange matters were
done in foreign countries: but in the end when Faustus lost his life,
the mother and the child vanished away both together.
[Footnote 39: The German text has “at midnight, when he awoke.”]