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The honorable historie of Frier Bacon, and Frier Bongay As it was lately plaid by the Prince Palatine his Seruants. Made by Robert Greene, Master of Arts.; Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
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Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.
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Banish thou fancie and imbrace reuenge And in one toombe knit both our carkases Whose hearts were linked in one perfect loue Edward Edward art thou that famous Prince of Wales Who at Damasco beat the Sarazens And broughtst home triumph on thy Lances point And shall thy plumes be puld by Venus downe Is 't princely to disseuer Louers loues Leaue Ned and make a vertue of this fault And further Peg and Lacy in their loues So in subduing fancies passion Conquering thy selfe thou get'st the richest spoile Lacy rise vp Faire Peggie here 's my hand The Prince of Wales hath conquered all his thoughts And all his loues he yeelds vnto the Earle Lacy enioy the maid of Fresingfield Make her thy Lincolne Countesse at the Church And Ned as he is true Plantagenet Will giue her to thee frankly for thy wife Lacy. Humbly I take her of my Soueraigne As if that Edward gaue me Englands right And rich't me with the Albion Diadem Margret And doth the English Prince meane true Will he vouchsafe to cease his former loues And yeeld the title of a Country maid Vnto Lord Lacy Edward I will faire Peggie as I am true Lord Margret Then Lordly Sir whose conquest is as great In conquering loue as Casars victories Margret as milde and humble in her thoughts As was Aspatia vnto Cyrus selfe Yeelds thanks and next Lord Lacy doth inshrine Edward the second secret in her heart Edward Gramercy Peggie now that vowes are past And that your loues are not to be reuolt Once Lacy friends againe come we will poast To Oxford for this day the King is there And brings for Edward Castile Ellinor Peggie I must goe see and view my wife I pray God I like her as I loued thee Beside Lord Lincolne we shall heare dispute Twixt Fryer Bacon and learned Vandermast Peggy we 'le leaue you for a weeke or two Margret As it please Lord Lacy but loues foolish looks Thinke footsteps miles and minutes to be houres Lacy. I le hasten Peggie to make short returne But please your Honour goe vnto the Lodge We shall haue Butter Cheese and Venison And yesterday I brought for Margret A lusty bottle of neat Clarret wine Thus can we feast and entertaine your Grace Edward 'T is cheere Lord Lacy for an Emperour If he respect the person and the place Come let vs in for I will all this night Ride poast vntill I come to Bacons cell Exeunt Enter Henry Emperour Castile Ellinor Vandermast Bungay Emperour Trust me Plantagenet these Oxford Schooles Are richly seated neere the Riuer side The mountaines full of fat and fallow Deere The battling pastures laid with Kine and Flocks The Towne gorgeous with high built Colledges And Schollers seemely in their graue attire Learned in searching the principles of Art What is thy iudgement Iaques Vandermast Vander. That Lordly are the buildings of the Towne Spatious the roomes and full of pleasant walkes But for the Doctors how that they be learned It may be meanely for ought I can heare Bungay I tell thee Germane Haspurge holds none such None read so deepe as Oxenford containes There are within our Academicke state Men that may lecture it in Germany To all the Doctors of your Belgicke Scholes Henry Stand to him Bungay charme this Vandermast And I will vse thee as a Royall King Vandermast Wherein darest thou dispute with me Bungay In what a Doctor and a Fryer can Vandermast Before rich Europes Worthies put thou forth The doubtfull question vnto Vandermast Bungay Let it be this Whether the spirits of Piromancy or Geomancy be most predominant in Magicke Vander. I say of Piromancy Bungay And I of Geomancy Vander. The Cabbalists that write of Magicke spels As Hermes Melchre and Pythagoras Affirme that 'mongst the quadruplicity Of elementall essence Terra is but thought To be a punctum squared to the rest And that the compasse of ascending elements Exceed in bignesse as they doe in height Iudging the concaue Circle of the Sunne To hold the rest in his Circumference If then as Hermes sayes the fire be great'st Purest and onely giueth shapes to spirits Then must these Demones that haunt that place Be euery way superiour to the rest Bungay I reason not of elementall shapes Nor tell I of the concaue latitudes Noting their essence nor their quality But of the spirits that Piromancy calls And of the vigour of the Geomanticke Fiends I tell thee Germane Magicke hants the grounds And those strange Negromanticke spels That worke such shewes and wondring in the world Are acted by those Geomanticke sprites That Hermes calleth Terrae filij The fierie spirits are but transparent shades That lightly passe as Heralds to beare newes But earthly Fiends cloz'd in the lowest deepe Disseuer mountaines if they be but char'd Being more grosse and massie in their power Vandermast Rather these earthly Geomantike spirits Are dull and like the place where they remaine For when proud Lucifer fell from the heauens The spirits and Angels that did sin with him Retain'd their locall essence as their faults All subiects vnder Lunas Continent The which offended lesse hang in the fire And second faults did rest within the aire But Lucifer and his proud-hearted fiends Were throwne into the Center of the earth Hauing lesse vnderstanding then the rest As hauing greater sinne and lesser grace Therefore such grosse and earthly spirits doe serue For Iuglers Witches and vild Sorcerers Whereas the Piromanticke Genij Are mighty swift and of farre reaching power But grant that Geomancie hath most force Bungay to please these mighty Potentates Proue by some instance what thy Art can doe Bungay I will Emper. Now English Harry here begins the game We shall see sport betweene these learned men Vandermast What wilt thou doe Bungay Shew thee the Tree leau'd with refined gold Whereon the fearefull Dragon held his seate That watcht the Garden cald Hesperides Subdued and wonne by conquering Hercules Vandermast Well done Here Bungay coniures and the Tree appeares with the Dragon shooting fire Henrie What say you Royall Lordlings to my Fryer Hath he not done a point of cunning skill Vander. Ech Scholler in the Negromanticke spels Can doe as much as Bungay hath perform'd But as Alemenas bastard rais'd this Tree So will I raise him vp as when he liued And cause him pull the Dragon from his seate And teare the branches piecemeale from the roote Hercules Prodi Prodi Hercules Hercules appeares in his Lyons skin Hercules Quis me vult Vandermast Ioues bastard sonne thou Libian Hercules Pull off the sprigs from off the Hesperian Tree As once thou didst to win the golden fruit Hercules Fiat Here he begins to breake the branches Vander. Now Bungay if thou canst by Magicke charme The Fiend appearing like great Hercules From pulling downe the branches of the Tree Then art thou worthy to be counted learned Bungay I cannot Vander. Cease Hercules vntill I giue thee charge Mighty Commander of this English I le Henrie come from
that shall serue the turne maruellous well my Lord Ermsby And I my Lord will haue Pioners to vndermine the Towne that the very Gardens and Orchards be carryed away for your Summer walkes Miles And with scientia and great diligentia Will coniure and charme to keepe you from harme That vtrum horum mauis your very great nauis Like Bartlets ship from Oxford doe skip With Colledges and schooles full loaden with fooles Quid dices ad hoc worshipfull Domine Dawcocke Clement Why harebraind Courtiers are you drunke or mad To taunt vs vp with such scurrilitie Deeme you vs men of base and light esteeme To bring vs such a fop for Henries sonne Call out the Beadles and conuay them hence Straight to Bocardo let the Roisters lie Close clapt in bolts vntill their wits be tame Ermsby Why shall we to prison my Lord Raphe What saist Miles shall I honour the prison with my presence Miles No no out with your blades and hamper these Iades Haue a flurt and a crash now reuell dash And teach these Sacerdos that the Bocardos Like Pezzants and clues are meet for themselues Mason To the prison with them Constable Warren Well Doctors seeing I haue sported me With laughing at these mad and merry wagges Know that Prince Edward is at Brazen-nose And this attired like the Prince of Wales Is Raphe King Henries only loued foole I Earle of Essex and this Ermsby One of the priuie Chamber to the King Who while the Prince with Frier Bacon staies Haue reuel'd in Oxford as you see Mason My Lord pardon vs we knew not what you were But Courtiers may make greater scapes then these Wil t please your Honour dine with me to day Warren I will master Doctor and satisfie the Vintner for his hurt only I must desire you to imagine him all this fore-noone the Prince of Wales Mason I will sir Raphe And vpon that I will lead the way onely I will haue Miles goe before me because I haue heard Henry say that wisedome must goe before Maiestie Exeunt omnes Enter Prince Edward with his poinard in his hand Lacy and Margret Edward Lacie thou canst not shroud thy traitrous thoughts Nor couer as did Cassius all his wiles For Edward hath an eye that lookes as farre As Lincaeus from the shores of Grecia Did not I sit in Oxford by the Fryer And see thee court the maid of Fresingfield Sealing thy flattering fancies with a kisse Did not proud Bungay draw his portasse forth And ioyning hand in hand had married you If Frier Bacon had not strooke him dumbe And mounted him vpon a spirits backe That we might chat at Oxford with the Frier Traytor what answer'st Is not all this true Lacy. Truth all my Lord and thus I make reply At Harlstone Faire there courting for your Grace When as mine eye suruaid her curious shape And drew the beautious glory of her lookes To diue into the center of my heart Loue taught me that your Honour did but iest That Princes were in fancy but as men How that the louely maid of Fresingfield Was fitter to be Lacies wedded wife Then Concubine vnto the Prince of Wales Edward Iniurious Lacy did I loue thee more Then Alexander his Hephestion Did I vnfold the passions of my loue And locke them in the clozet of thy thoughts Wert thou to Edward second to himselfe Sole friend and partner of his secret loues And could a glaunce of fading beauty breake Th' inchained fetters of such priuat friends Base coward false and too effeminate To be corriuall with a Prince in thoughts From Oxford haue I posted since I dinde To quite a Traitor 'fore that Edward sleepe Margret 'T was I my Lord not Lacy stept awry For oft he sued and courted for your selfe And still woo'd for the Courtier all in greene But I whom fancy made but ouer-fond Pleaded my selfe with lookes as if lou'd I fed mine eye with gazing on his face And still bewitcht lou'd Lacie with my lookes My heart with sighes mine eyes pleaded with teares My face held pitty and content at once And more I could not cypher out by signes But that I lou'd Lord Lacy with my heart Then worthy Edward measure with thy minde If womens fauours will not force men fall If beauty and if darts of piercing loue Is not of force to bury thoughts of friends Edward I tell thee Peggie I will haue thy loues Edward or none shall conquer Margret In Frigats bottom'd with rich Sethin planks Topt with the lofty Firs of Libanon Stem'd and incast with burnisht Iuory And ouer-laid with plates of Persian wealth Like Thetis shalt thou wanton on the waues And draw the Dolphins to thy louely eyes To dance Lauoltas in the purple streames Sirens with harpes and siluer Psalteries Shall wait with musicke at thy Frigots stem And entertaine faire Margret with her layes England and Englands wealth shall wait on thee Brittaine shall bend vnto her Princes loue And doe due homage to thine Excellence If thou wilt be but Edwards Margret Margret Pardon my Lord if Ioues great Royalty Sent me such presents as to Danae If Phoebus tyed in Latonas webs Come courting from the beauty of his lodge The dulcet tunes of frolicke Mercurie Not all the wealth heauens treasury affords Should make me leaue Lord Lacy or his loue Edward I haue learn'd at Oxford then this point of schooles Ablata causa tollitur effectus Lacy the cause that Margret cannot loue Nor fixe her liking on the English Prince Take him away and then the effects will faile Villaine prepare thy selfe for I will bathe My poinard in the bosome of an Earle Lacie Rather then liue and misse faire Margrets loue Prince Edward stop not at the fatall doome But stab it home end both my loues and life Marg. Braue Prince of Wales honour'd for Royall deeds T were sinne to staine faire Venus courts with blood Loues conquest ends my Lord in courtesie Spare Lacy gentle Edward let me dye For so both you and he doe cease your loues Edward Lacie shall die as Traitor to his Lord Lacy. I haue deserued it Edward act it well Marg. What hopes the Prince to gaine by Lacies death Edward To end the loues 'twixt him and Margaret Marg. Why thinks King Henries son that Margrets loue Hangs in th' vncertaine ballance of proud Time That death shall make a discord of our thoughts No stab the Earle and 'fore the morning Sun Shall vaunt him thrice ouer the lofty East Margret will meet her Lacy in the heauens Lacy. If ought betides to louely Margret That wrongs or wrings her honour from content Europes rich wealth nor Englands Monarchie Should not allure Lacy to ouer-liue Then Edward short my life and end her loues Marg. Rid me and keepe a friend worth many loues Lacy. Nay Edward keepe a loue worth many friends Marg. And if thy mind be such as fame hath blaz'd Then Princely Edward let vs both abide The fatall resolution of thy rage