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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.
205Bacon. And what of this?
207for he knowes if your skill faile to make a brazen head, yet mo-
209per nose.
210Clement. Bacon we come not greeuing at thy skill,
211But ioieng that our Academie yeelds
213For if thy cunning worke these myracles,
214England and Europe shall admire thy fame,
217Eternize Frier Bacon for his art.
218Mason. Then gentle Frier, tell vs thy intent.
219Bacon. Seeing you come as friends vnto the frier
221Make storming Boreas thunder from his caue,
222And dimme faire Luna to a darke Eclipse,
223The great arch-ruler, potentate of hell,
224Trembles, when Bacon bids him, or his fiends,
225Bow to the force of his Pentageron.
226What art can worke, the frolicke frier knowes,
227And therefore will I turne my Magicke bookes,
228And straine out Nigromancie to the deepe,
229I haue contrivd and framde a head of brasse,
232And I will strengthen England by my skill,
234With all the legions Europe doth containe,
236The worke that Ninus reard at Babylon,
237The brazen walles framde by Semiramis,
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