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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.
1678And villaine sith my glorie hath an end,
1679I will appoint thee fatall to some end,
1680Villaine auoid, get thee from Bacons sight:
1681Vagrant go rome and range about the world,
1682And perish as a vagabond on earth.
1685That direfull plagues and mischiefe fall on thee.
1687The more the fox is curst the better he fares: God be with you
1690motion.
1692Vntill they doe transport thee quicke to hell,
1693For Bacon shall haue neuer merrie day,
1695Enter Emperour, Castile, Henrie, Ellinor, Ed-
1696ward, Lacie, Raphe.
1697Emper. Now louely Prince the prince of Albions wealth,
1698How fares the ladie Ellinor and you:
1700To answer England in equiuolence
1701Wilt be a match twixt bonny Nell and thee.
1702Edw. Should Paris enter in the courts of Greece,
1703And not lie fettered in faire Hellens lookes,
1705That Daphne glaunsed at his deitie:
1707Whose heat puts Hellen and faire Daphne downe,
1708Now Monarcks aske the ladie if we gree.
1710Ellinor. Seeing my lord his louely counterfeit,
1711And hearing how his minde and shape agreed,
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