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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.
1138or Geomancie, be most predominant in magick.
1140Bungay. And I of Geomancie.
1142As Hermes, Melchie, and Pithagoras,
1147Exceed in bignesse as they doe in height.
1148Iudging the concaue circle of the sonne,
1149To hold the rest in his circomference,
1155Nor tell I of the concaue lattitudes,
1156Noting their essence nor their qualitie,
1157But of the spirites that Piromancie calles,
1158And of the vigour of the Geomanticke fiends,
1159I tell thee Germane magicke haunts the grounds,
1163That Hermes calleth Terrae filii.
1165That lightly passe as Heralts to beare newes,
1167Disseuer mountaines if they be but chargd,
1170Are dull and like the place where they remaine:
1171For when proud Lucipher fell from the heauens,
1173Retaind their locall essence as their faults,
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