Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (Quarto)

The honourable historie of Frier Bacon.
 1642in your hand, the latter day is come.
 1643Bacon. Miles I come, oh passing warily watcht,
 1644Bacon will make thee next himselfe in loue,
 1645When spake the Head?
 1646Miles. When spake the Head, did not you say that hee
 1647should tell strange principles of Philosophie, why sir it speaks but
 1648two wordes at a time.
 1649Bacon. Why villaine hath it spoken oft.
 1650Miles. Oft, I marie hath it thrice: but in all those three times
 1651it hath vttered but seuen wordes.
 1652Bacon. As how.
 1653Miles. Marrie sir, the first time he said, Time is, as if Fabius
 1654cumentator should haue pronounst a sentence, he said Time was,
 1655and the third time with thunder and lightning, as in great choller,
 1656he said Time is past.
 1657Bacon. Tis past indeed, a villaine time is past,
 1658My life, my fame, my glorie, all are past:
 1659Bacon, the turrets of thy hope are ruind downe,
 1660Thy seuen yeares studie lieth in the dust:
 1661Thy Brazen-head lies broken through a slaue
 1662That watcht, and would not when the Head did will,
 1663What said the Head first.
 1664Miles. Euen sir, Time is,
 1665Bacon. Villaine if thou hadst cald to Bacon then,
 1666If thou hadst watcht and wakte the sleepie frier,
 1667The Brazen-head had vttered Aphorismes,
 1668And England had been circled round with brasse,
 1669But proud Astmeroth ruler of the North,
 1670And Demegorgon maister of the fates,
 1671Grudge that a mortall man should worke so much,
 1672Hell trembled at my deepe commanding spels,
 1673Fiendes frownd to see a man their ouermatch,
 1674Bacon might bost more than a man might boast:
 1675But now the braues of Bacon hath an end,
 1676Europes conceit of Bacon hath an end:
 1677His seuen yeares practise sorteth to ill end:
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