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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.
1208Hercules appeares in his Lions skin.
1212As once thou didst to win the golden fruit.
1214Heere he begins to breake the branches.
1216The fiend appearing like great Hercules,
1217From pulling downe the branches of the tree,
1218Then art thou worrhy to be counted learned.
1219Bungay. I cannot.
1221Mightie commander of this English Ile,
1222Henrie come from the stout Plantagenets,
1223Bungay is learned enough to be a Frier.
1224But to compare with Iaquis Vandermast,
1226To find a man to match him in his art.
1227I haue giuen non-plus to the Paduans,
1228To them of Sien, Florence, and Belogna,
1229Reimes, Louain and faire Rotherdam,
1230Franckford, Lutrech and Orleance:
1231And now must Henrie if he do me right,
1232Crowne me with lawrell as they all haue done.
1233Enter Bacon.
1234Bacon. All haile to this roiall companie,
1237What hath the Germane acted more than thou,
Vander.