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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.
1884Yet Bacon cheere thee, drowne not in despaire,
1885Sinnes haue their salues repentance can do much,
1888Which by thy magicke oft did bleed a fresh,
1889From thence for thee the dew of mercy drops,
1890To wash the wrath of hie Iehouahs ire,
1891And make thee as a new borne babe from sinne,
1892Bungay Ile spend the remnant of my life
1893In pure deuotion praying to my God,
1895Enter Margret in Nuns apparrell, Keeper, her father,
1896and their friend.
1898Oh burie not such beautie in a cell:
1899That England hath held famous for the hue,
1900Thy fathers haire like to the siluer bloomes:
1902Shall fall before the dated time of death,
1903Thus to forgoe his louely Margret.
1904Margret. A father when the hermonie of heauen,
1907Seemes odious to the thoughts of Margret,
1908I loued once, lord Lacie was my loue,
1909And now I hate my selfe for that I lovd,
1910And doated more on him than on my God:
1913Tels me all loue is lust but loue of heauens:
1914That beautie vsde for loue is vanitie,
1915The world containes nought but alluring baites:
1917To shun the pricks of death I leaue the world,