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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.
25Shall he thus all amort liue malecontent.
27to me.
29Raphe. I pree thee tell me Ned, art thou in loue with the
30keepers daughter?
31Edward. How if I be, what then?
33Edward. How Raphe.
35my coat, and my dagger, and I will put on thy clothes, and thy
37Edward. And what of this?
39proud scab, that he will neuer meddle with fooles nor children, Is
40not Raphes counsell good Ned.
42How liuely in her country weedes she lookt:
43A bonier wench all Suffolke cannot yeeld,
45Raphe. Sirha, Will Ermsby, Ned is deceiued.
46Ermsbie. Why Raphe?
50Raphe. Why is not the Abbot a learned man, and hath red
51many bookes, and thinkest thou he hath not more learning than
52thou to choose a bonny wench, yes I warrant thee by his whole
53grammer.
58Of such as gaze vpon her golden haire,
59Her bashfull white mixt with the mornings red,
60Luna doth boast vpon her louely cheekes,
Her