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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.
481We heare the Prince is ridden with his lords,
482To Oxford, in the Academie there,
485To will him come from Oxford to the court.
486Empe. Nay rather Henrie let vs as we be,
487Ride for to visite Oxford with our traine,
489And what learned men your Academie yields,
490From Haspurg haue I brought a learned clarke,
493A Germaine borne, past into Padua,
494To Florence, and to faire Bolonia,
495To Paris, Rheims, and stately Orleans,
496And talking there with men of art, put downe
498In Magicke, and the Mathematicke rules,
499Now let vs Henrie trie him in your schooles.
502And see what men our Academie bringes.
503And woonder Vandermast welcome to me
505Cald Frier Bacon, Englands only flower
506Set him but Non-plus in his magicke spels,
507And make him yeeld in Mathematicke rules,
508And for thy glorie I will bind thy browes,
509Not with a poets garland made of Baies,
510But with a coronet of choicest gold,
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