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I say of Piromancie. The cabalists that wright of magic spell , As Hermes, Melchie, and Pithagoras, Affirm that amongst the quadruplicity Of elemental essence, Terra is but thought, To be a punctum squared to the rest: And that the compass of ascending eliments Exceed in bigness as they do in height. Judging the concave circle of the son, To hold the rest in his circomference, If then as Hermes says the fire be greatest, Purest and only gives shapes to spirits: Then must these Demones that haunt that place Be every way superior to the rest. Rather these earthly geomantike spirits, Are dull and Like the place where they remain: For when proud Lucipher fell from the heavens, The spirits and angels that did sin with him, Retained their local essence as their faults, All subject under Luna's continent, They which offended less hang in the fire, And second faults did rest within the air, But Lucifer and his proud hearted fiends, Were thrown into the centre of the earth, Having less understanding than the rest, As having greater sin, and lesser grace. Therefore such gross and earthly spirits do serve, For Jugglers, Witches, and vild sorcerers, Whereas the Piromanticke gemij, Are mighty, swift, and of far reaching power, But grant that Geomancy hath most force, Bungay to please these mighty potentates, Prove by some instance what thy art can do. Each scholar in the Nicromanticke spells, Can do as much as Bungay hath performed, Burr as All menas basterd ras worser this tree, So will I raise him up as when he lived, And cause him pull the Dragon from his seat, And tear the branches piecemeal from the root, Hercules Prod , Pr di Hercules. Hercules appears in his Lions skin. Now Bungay if thou canst by magic charm, The fiend appearing Like great Hercules, From pulling down the branches of the tree, Then art thou worrhy to be counted learned. Cease Hercules until I give thee charge, Mighty commander of this English I'll, Henry come from the stout Plantagenets, Bungay is learned enough to be a Friar. But to compare with Iaquis Vandermast, Oxford and Cambridge must go seek their cells, To find a man to match him in his art. I have given nonplus to the Paduans, To them of Sien, Florence, and Belogna, Reimes, Louvain and fair Rotherdam, Franckford, Lutrech and Orleans: And now must Henry if he do me right, Crown me with laurel as they all have done. Lord y thou lookest, as if that thou Wertenberg learned, Thy countenance, as if science held her seat Between the circled arches of thy brows. Now Hercules, I charge thee to thy task, Pull off the golden branches from the root. That lordly are the buildings of the town, Spacious the Rome's and full of pleasant walks: But for the doctors how that they be learned, It may be meanly, for ought I can here. Before rich Europes worthies put thou forth The doubtful question unto Vandermast. What wilt thou do. Well done. Jove's bastard son thou libian Hercules Pull off the sprigs from off the Hesperian tree, As once thou didst to win the golden fruit. Bacon, wilt thou dispute. Raised Hercules to ruinate that tree, That Bongay mounted by his magic spells. By all the thrones and dominations, Virtues, powers and mighty Herarchies, I charge thee to ob y to Vandermast. Never before was known to Vande mast, That men held worser uils in such obedient awe, Bacon does more than art or else I fail. Wherein darest thou dispute with me. What art thou that questions thus.
Plot summary
Plot — Friar Bacon and Friar Bongay
Primce Bdwafd is in love with the country wench Margarety and he orders Bay to woo her on his behalf. He does so, but she falls for him rather than the Prince. Meanwhile BRiamlBaeoH is questioned by his academic superiors, who suspect him of practising black magic. He explains his plans to make a brazen head which will lecture in philosophy, and to surround England with a defensive wall of brass. The one sceptic, DEIBOTGER, is shown up when Bacon uses his powers to reveal that he sneaks off at night to play cards at a tavern when he should be reading. Prineejkdward and Ralphithelfeal swap clothes and identities when visiting Bacon, but he sees through the deception with ease. Bacon shows Edward events at Suffolk through a magic mirror: Daey is wooing Margaret for himself, and they are to be married by FriamBungay; but Bacon magically strikes Bungay dumb, then brings him to Oxford for dinner. Edward rides to Suffolk to confront Lacy, but Margaret’s determination reconciles him to the situation: even if he tries to remove the obstacle by killing Lacy, she will never love him and will kill herself to be with Lacy. Prince Edward’s future wife, Elifi@f of Castile, arrives in England with a group of foreign potentates. The Emperor of Germany has brought along Wandérmast} a famous magician, to compete with England’s best scholars at Oxford. Vandermast’s first opponent in magic is BriamBuiigay, who conjures up a golden tree. Vandermast summons Hercules to pull it down, but Hercules proves to be more subservient to Fraribacen) who completes his victory by magically sending Vandermast back to Germany. At the ensuing dinner, th@|Emiperot is offended by the mean academic fare, so Bacon conjures up a more sumptuous feast. Bacon’s brazen head is ready, but he is tired from staying up all night waiting for it to speak. He appoints his scholar Miles to watch, and wake him when it does. The head speaks enigmatically and is magically destroyed, but Miles fails to wake his master in time. Bacon sacks him and later sends a devil to carry him to Hell. Two country squires want to marry Margarée but she asks for ten days’ grace to make a decision, confident that Lacy will come for her before then. What actually arrives is a letter telling her that he is to marry someone else, so she decides to enter a nunnery. The two squires kill one another in a duel, and their sons, watching from Oxford through Bacon’s magic mirror, do the same. Bacon smashes the mirror in remorse and…