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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.
1543Should not haue moude the loue of Peggie from her Lord.
1546Ah giue me leaue to sigh at euery thought,
1547Take thou my freind the hundred pound he sent,
1548For Margrets resolution craues no dower,
1549The world shalbe to her as vanitie,
1552And in the abby there be shorne a Nun
1553And yeld my loues and libertie to God,
1554Fellow I giue thee this, not for the newes,
1555For those be hatefull vnto Margret,
1556But for thart Lacies man once Margrets loue.
1558Ile make report of them vnto the Earle. Exit Post
1560And praies that his misfortune may be hers. Exit
1561Enter Frier Bacon drawing the courtaines with a white sticke,
1562 a booke in his hand, and a lampe lighted by him, and the
1563 brasen head and miles, whith weapons by him.
1564Bacon. Miles where are you?
1567Miles. Thinke you that the watching of the brazen head
1569that if all your deuills come I will not feare them an inch.
1572That with my Magick spels great Belcephon,
1573Hath left his lodge and kneeled at my cell,
1574The rafters of the earth rent from the poles,
1575And three-formd Luna hid her siluer looks,
Trembling