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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.
1104And yesterday I brought for Margret,
1105A lustie bottle of neat clarret wine,
1106Thus can we feast and entertaine your grace.
1107Edward. Tis cheere lord Lacie for an Emperour,
1109Come let vs in, for I will all this night,
1110Ride post vntill I come to Bacons cell.
1111Exeunt.
1112Enter Henrie, Emperour, Castile, Ellinor, Van-
1113dermast, Bungay.
1116The mountaines full of fat and fallow deere,
1118The towne gorgeous with high built colledges,
1120Learned in searching principles of art,
1121What is thy iudgement, Iaquis Vandermast.
1122Vandermast. That lordly are the buildings of the towne,
1123Spatious the romes and full of pleasant walkes:
1124But for the doctors how that they be learned,
1125It may be meanly, for ought I can heere.
1127None red so deepe as Oxenford containes,
1128There are within our accademicke state,
1129Men that may lecture it in Germanie,
1132And I will vse thee as a royall king.
1135Vandermast. Before rich Europes worthies put thou forth
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