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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.
1576Trembling vpon her concaue contenent,
1577When Bacon red vpon his Magick booke,
1579Poring vpon darke Hecats principles,
1581That by the inchaunting forces of the deuil,
1583And girt faire England with a wall of brasse,
1586If Argos livd and had his hundred eyes,
1587They could not ouerwatch Phobeters night,
1588Now Miles in thee rests Frier Bacons weale,
1589The honour and renowne of all his life,
1590Hangs in the watching of this brazen-head,
1591Therefore I charge thee by the immortall God
1593This night thou watch, for ere the morning star
1594Sends out his glorious glister on the north,
1595The head will speake, then Miles vpon thy life,
1596Wake me for then by Magick art Ile worke,
1597To end my seuen yeares taske with excellence,
1599Then farewell Bacons glory and his fame,
1600Draw closse the courtaines Miles now for thy life,
1603and tis no meruaile, for Bungay on the dayes, and he on the
1610good as a watch-man to wake me if I chaunce to slumber.
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