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 get off from his promiſe. How, ſlave! ſaid the Friar, art thou at baffoonry, now thou haſt done me this great injury? ſirrah! becauſe you think the head ſpake not enough to induce you to call us, thou ſhalt ſpeak leſs in two months ſpace, and with that, by enchantment, he truck him dumb to the end of that time, and would have done worſe, had not Bungey had compaſſion on the fellow's ſimplicity, and perſuaded him from it.

And thus ends the hiſtory of that famous Friar Bacon, who had done a deed which would have made his fame ring through all ages yet to come, had it not been for the ſimplicity of his man Miles.



HERE is a remarkable ſtory related of Sir Chriſtopher Wren, who being choſen ſurveyor of the royal works to King Charles II. ſoon after his reſtoration, and being called upon to prepare a plan for the reparation only of St. Paul's cathedral, which he was afterwards employed to rebuild, before he would raſhly venture to expoſe his judgement upon paper in a matter of ſuch importance, in which the great Mr. Inigo Jones had been engaged before him, thought it prudent to take a ſurvey of