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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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444Enter Henry the third, the emperour, the king of Castile, Elinor
445his daughter, Iaques Vandermast a Germaine.
447Ringd with the wals of old Oceanus,
449That compast high built Babell in with towers,
450Welcome my lords, welcome braue westerne kings,
452Shewes Albion is another little world,
454Chiefly vnto the louely Eleanour,
456And venture as Agenors damsell through the deepe,
457To get the loue of Henries wanton sonne.
458Castile. Englands rich Monarch braue Plantagenet,
459The Pyren mounts swelling aboue the clouds,
460That ward the welthie Castile in with walles,
461Could not detaine the beautious Eleanour,
462But hearing of the fame of Edwards youth,
463She darde to brooke Neptunus haughtie pride,
464And bide the brunt of froward Eolus,
465Then may faire England welcome her the more.
467Had sent prince Edwards louely counterfeit,
469The comly pourtrait of so braue a man,
471Edwards couragious resolution,
472Done at the holy land fore Damas walles,
473Led both mine eye and thought in equall links,
475That I attempted perrils for his sake.
476Emperour. Where is the Prince, my lord?
481We heare the Prince is ridden with his lords,
482To Oxford, in the Academie there,
485To will him come from Oxford to the court.
486Empe. Nay rather Henrie let vs as we be,
487Ride for to visite Oxford with our traine,
489And what learned men your Academie yields,
490From Haspurg haue I brought a learned clarke,
493A Germaine borne, past into Padua,
494To Florence, and to faire Bolonia,
495To Paris, Rheims, and stately Orleans,
496And talking there with men of art, put downe
498In Magicke, and the Mathematicke rules,
499Now let vs Henrie trie him in your schooles.
502And see what men our Academie bringes.
503And woonder Vandermast welcome to me
505Cald Frier Bacon, Englands only flower
506Set him but Non-plus in his magicke spels,
507And make him yeeld in Mathematicke rules,
508And for thy glorie I will bind thy browes,
509Not with a poets garland made of Baies,
510But with a coronet of choicest gold,