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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.
1642in your hand, the latter day is come.
1644Bacon will make thee next himselfe in loue,
1645When spake the Head?
1648two wordes at a time.
1651it hath vttered but seuen wordes.
1652Bacon. As how.
1655and the third time with thunder and lightning, as in great choller,
1658My life, my fame, my glorie, all are past:
1659Bacon, the turrets of thy hope are ruind downe,
1661Thy Brazen-head lies broken through a slaue
1662That watcht, and would not when the Head did will,
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,
1672Hell trembled at my deepe commanding spels,
1673Fiendes frownd to see a man their ouermatch,
1675But now the braues of Bacon hath an end,
1676Europes conceit of Bacon hath an end:
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