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(17), he should never pay the devil a farthing his debt, whatever shape he came in, or  he used to wheedle him out of it,  then he could have no power over him. gentlemen on this, living a temperate life, grew very rich, and leaving no, at his death bequeathed his estate  Brazen Nose College, because Friar Bacon  member of it, had delivered him from so a danger of body and soul.



Riar Bacon, being now a profound proficient in the art of magic, and many sciences, contrived, with one Friar Bungey, who was his pupil, to do something memorable for the good of his country, and many things they cast in their minds: At  they remembered that England had often been harassed and invaded by the Romans, Saxons, Danes, Normans, and other nations,