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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.
444Enter Henry the third, the emperour, the king of Castile, Elinor
445his daughter, Iaques Vandermast a Germaine.
447Ringd with the wals of old Oceanus,
449That compast high built Babell in with towers,
450Welcome my lords, welcome braue westerne kings,
452Shewes Albion is another little world,
454Chiefly vnto the louely Eleanour,
456And venture as Agenors damsell through the deepe,
457To get the loue of Henries wanton sonne.
458Castile. Englands rich Monarch braue Plantagenet,
459The Pyren mounts swelling aboue the clouds,
460That ward the welthie Castile in with walles,
461Could not detaine the beautious Eleanour,
462But hearing of the fame of Edwards youth,
463She darde to brooke Neptunus haughtie pride,
464And bide the brunt of froward Eolus,
465Then may faire England welcome her the more.
467Had sent prince Edwards louely counterfeit,
469The comly pourtrait of so braue a man,
471Edwards couragious resolution,
472Done at the holy land fore Damas walles,
473Led both mine eye and thought in equall links,
475That I attempted perrils for his sake.
476Emperour. Where is the Prince, my lord?
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