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- Edition: Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (Quarto)
- Introduction
- Texts of this edition
- Contextual materials
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- The Famous History of Friar Bacon
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- Inventions or Devices Very Necessary for all Generals and Captains or Leaders of Men
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- A Book of Magic, with Instructions for Invoking Spirits
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- A Geometrical Practice named Pantometria
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- Autobiographical Tracts of Dr. John Dee
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- The Vanity of the Eye
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- The Comical History of Alphonsus King of Aragon
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The honourable historie of Frier Bacon.
169That he by art, and thou by secret gifts,
172Enter frier Bacon, with Miles his poore scholer with bookes
173vnder his arme, with them Burden, Mason,
174Clement, three doctors.
175Bacon. Miles where are you?
179in vnum.
181That rule in Oxford Vizroies in your place,
182Whose heads containe Maps of the liberall arts,
183Spending your time in deapth of learned skill,
186Say whats your mind, that I may make replie.
188That thou art read in Magicks mysterie,
189In Piromancie to diuine by flames,
190To tell by Hadromaticke, ebbes and tides,
191By Aeromancie, to discouer doubts,
192To plaine out questions, as Apollo did.
195names the Fable of the Fox and the grapes, that which is aboue
196vs, pertains nothing to vs.
197Burden. I tell thee Bacon, Oxford makes report,
198Nay England, and the court of Henrie saies,
199Thart making of a brazen head by art,
And