Scene 11 - Summary

• In Scene 11, Faustus returns Wittenberg and he is approached by a horse-courser (horse-trader) who asks to buy his horse for 40 dollars
• In Scene 11, Faustus willingly agrees to sell his horse but warns the horse-courser that he must never ride the horse into water
• In Scene 11, when the horse-courser departs, Faustus resumes contemplating that he is condemned to die and then falls asleep and the horse-courser returns accuses Faustus of cheating him
• In Scene 11, the horse-courser thought the horse had some magical quality, so he proceeded to ride the horse into a pond & when the horse disappeared under him, he found himself sitting on a bundle of hay and he almost drowned
• In Scene 11, Mephastophilis cautions the horse-courser to be quiet because Faustus has just fallen asleep for the first time in eight days
• In Scene 11, the horse-courser pulls on Faustus' legs, awakens him, and demands that Faustus pay him back his money he is astounded when Faustus' entire leg comes off & is so frightened that he promises to pay Faustus forty more dollars