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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.
61Her front is beauties table where she paints,
62The glories of her gorgious excellence:
63Her teeth are shelues of pretious Margarites,
64Richly enclosed with ruddie curroll cleues.
69But in the court be quainter dames than she,
70Whose faces are enricht with honours taint,
72And vaunt their trophies in the courts of loue.
75Their courtly coinesse were but foolery.
76Ermsbie. Why how watcht you her my lord?
79Into the Milkhouse went I with the maid,
82She turnd her smocke ouer her Lilly armes,
83And diued them into milke to run her cheese:
84But whiter than the milke her christall skin,
85Checked with lines of Azur made her blush,
86That art or nature durst bring for compare,
88How bewtie plaid the huswife, how this girle
89Like Lucrece laid her fingers to the worke,
90Thou wouldest with Tarquine hazard Roome and all
93Edward. I Raphe.
94Raphe. Why Ned I haue laid the plot in my head thou
95shalt haue her alreadie.
96Edward. Ile giue thee a new coat and learne me that.
Raphe.