The wonderful history of the celebrated Friar Bacon : who studies the magic art, and saves a gentleman from the Devil, to whom he had sold his soul and body : he erects a wonderful brazen head, which was to enable him to secure all England from invasion, it speaks, but loses its virtue by his servant's folly : by his help France is conquered : he makes three wicked thieves, who tried to rob him, dance a hornpipe over hedges into ditches, against their will : with many other curious particulars.
| Uniform Title: | Friar Bacon (Long version) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic resource |
| Item Description: | A chap book probably written towards the end of the 16th cent., on which Robert Greene may have based his play, The honorable history of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay. Cf. Little, A.G. Roger Bacon essays, 1914, pages 360-365. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |