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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.
1405Keeper. Now courteous gentls, if the Keepers girle,
1406Hath pleased the liking fancie of you both,
1407And with her beutie hath subdued your thoughts,
1408Tis doubtfull to decide the question.
1412To be a wife to meaner men than you.
1417Why Serlsby is thy wife so lately dead,
1419As thou canst wed before the yeare be out,
1420Serlsby. I liue not Lambert to content the dead,
1421Nor was I wedded but for life to her,
1422The graues ends and begins a maried state.
1423Enter Margret.
1430Nor tell a tall of Phebus and his loues,
1431But this beeleue me Laxfield here is mine,
1432Of auncient rent seuen hundred pounds a yeare,
1434I wil infeoffe thee Margret in all,
1437A Keepers daughters is too base in gree
1438To match with men accoumpted of such worth,
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