<138> Mephistophilis, transform him straight] According to THE
HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS, the knight was not present during Faustus's
"conference" with the Emperor; nor did he offer the doctor any
insult by doubting his skill in magic. We are there told that
Faustus happening to see the knight asleep, "leaning out of a
window of the great hall," fixed a huge pair of hart's horns on
his head; "and, as the knight awaked, thinking to pull in his head,
he hit his hornes against the glasse, that the panes thereof flew
about his eares: thinke here how this good gentleman was vexed,
for he could neither get backward nor forward." After the emperor
and the courtiers, to their great amusement, had beheld the poor
knight in this condition, Faustus removed the horns. When Faustus,
having taken leave of the emperor, was a league and a half from
the city, he was attacked in a wood by the knight and some of his
companions: they were in armour, and mounted on fair palfreys;
but the doctor quickly overcame them by turning all the bushes
into horsemen, and "so charmed them, that every one, knight and
other, for the space of a whole moneth, did weare a paire of
goates hornes on their browes, and every palfry a paire of oxe
hornes on his head; and this was their penance appointed by
Faustus." A second attempt of the knight to revenge himself on
Faustus proved equally unsuccessful. Sigs. G 2, I 3, ed. 1648.

<139> FAUSTUS. Now Mephistophilis, &c.] Here the scene is supposed
to be changed to the "fair and pleasant green" which Faustus
presently mentions.

<140> Horse-courser] i.e. Horse-dealer.--We are now to suppose the
scene to be near the home of Faustus, and presently that it is the