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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.
790If thou be dum what passions holdeth thee.
791Lacie. Hees dumbe indeed: Bacon hath with his diuels
794But Peggie what he cannot with his booke
795Weele twixt vs both vnite it vp in heart.
800And he shall dine with vs in Oxford here.
803Vnto thy fathers lodge, to comfort him
804With brothes to bring him from this haplesse trance.
808Margret. O helpe my lord, a deuill, a deuill my lord,
809Looke how he carries Bungay on his backe:
810Lets hence for Bacons spirits be abroad.
811Exeunt.
813Mounted vpon the diuell, and how the earle
814Flees with his bonny lasse for feare,
816And I haue chatted with the merrie frier,
818And quite these wrongs on Lacie ere it be long,
819Bacon. So be it my lord, but let vs to our dinner:
820For ere we haue taken our repast awhile,
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