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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.
1274Ile send him to his Accademie hence,
1279Vanish the tree and thou away with him.
1280Exit the spirit with Vandermast and the Tree.
1285And made faire Oxford famous by thine art,
1287But tell me shall we dine with thee to day.
1289See where Prince Edward comes to welcome you:
1291Enter Edward, Lacie, Warren, Ermsbie.
1293How martiall is the figure of his face,
1294Yet louely and beset with Amorets.
1296Edward. At Framingham my Lord, to trie your buckes.
1298But hearing of these lordly Potentates
1299Landed, and prograst vp to Oxford towne,
1300I posted to giue entertaine to them,
1301Chiefe to the Almaine Monarke, next to him,
1302And ioynt with him, Castile and Saxonie,
1303Are welcome as they may be to the English Court.
1304Thus for the men, but see Venus appeares,
1305Or one that ouermatcheth Venus in her shape,
Sweete