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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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1779Enter frier Bacon with frier Bungay to his cell.
1780Bungay. What meanes the frier that frolickt it of late,
1781To sit as melancholie in his cell:
1782To sit as melancholie in his cell,
1783As if he had neither lost nor wonne to day.
1786The fame of Bacon bruted through the world,
1788Bungay. Bacon hath built foundation on his fame,
1789So surely on the wings of true report,
1791As this cannot infringe what he deserues.
1795But what and wherein little can I gesse.
1797Enter two schollers, sonnes to Lambert and Serlby.
1798Knocke.
1801Bac. Bid thẽ come in, Now my youths what would you haue.
1804Their lands adioyne, in Crackfield mine doth dwell,
1805And his in Laxfield, we are colledge mates,
1806Sworne brothers as our fathers liues as friendes.
1807Bacon. To what end is all this.
1811We come to know how that our fathers fare.
1814How or in what state your friendly father liues,
1815Meane while tell me your names.
1816Lambert. Mine Lambert.
18172. Scholler. And mine Serlsbie.
1819Enter Lambert and Serlsbie, with Rapiers and daggers.
1821Th'art worthie of the title of a squire:
1826I for I skorne to beare such piercing taunts,
1827Prepare thee Serlsbie one of vs will die.
1830Stand on thy guard I cannot scold it out.
1831And if thou kill me, thinke I haue a sonne,
1832That liues in Oxford in the Brodgates hall,
1833Who will reuenge his fathers bloud with bloud.
1835That dares at weapon buckle with thy sonne,
1836And liues in Broadgates too as well as thine,
1837But draw thy Rapier for weele haue a bout.
1841To combat with my father in the field.
1848A venie man, faire Margret craues so much.
1849Serlbie. Then this for her.
18512. Scholler. But marke the ward.
1852They fight and kill ech other.
1854Serlbie. And I, Lord haue mercie on me.
1856The two schollers stab on another.
1859Bacon. See Frier where the fathers both lie dead.
1864End all thy magicke and thine art at once:
1865The poniard that did end the fatall liues,
1869He breakes the glasse.
1872That euer Bacon medled in this art,
1875Of papers full of Nigromanticke charmes,
1876Coniuring and adiuring diuels and fiends,
1878The wresting of the holy name of God,
1879As Sother, Elaim, and Adonaie,
1880Alpha, Manoth, and Tetragramiton,
1881With praying to the fiue-fould powers of heauen,
1883For vsing diuels to counteruaile his God.
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,