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Fabius cumentator should haue pronounst a sentence; he 1620
said 'Time was'; and the third time with thunder and
lightning, as in great choller, he said 'Time is past.'

Bacon. Tis past indeed. A, villaine, time is past,
My life, my fame, my glorie, all are past:

Bacon, the turrets of thy hope are ruind downe, 1625
Thy seuen yeares studie lieth in the dust,
Thy lbazen-head lies lboken through a slaue
That watcht, and would not when the Head did will.
What said the Head first?

Miles. Euen, sir, 'Time is.' 1630

Bacon. Villaine, if thou hadst cald to Bacon, then,
If thou hadst watcht, and wakte the sleepie frier,
The lbazen-head had vttered Aphorismes,
And. England had been circled round with brasse:

But proud Asmenoth ruler of the North, 1635
And Demogorgon maister of the fates,
Grudge that a mortall man should worke so much.
Hell trembled at my deepe commanding spels,
Fiendes frownd to see a man their ouermatch;
Bacon might bost more than a man might boast: 1640
But now the lbaues of Bacon hath an end,
Europes conceit of Bacon hath an end,
His seuen yeares practise sorteth to ill end:
And, villaine, sith my glorie hath an end,
I will appoint thee fatall to some end. 1645
Villaine, auoid! get thee trom Bacons sight!
Vagrant, go rome and range about the world,
And perish as a vagabond on earth.

Miles. Why, then, sir, you forbid me your seruice?

Bacon. My seruice, villaine, with a fatall curse, 1650
That direfull plagues and mischiefe fall on thee.

Miles. Tis no matter, I am against you with the old prouerb,
'The more the fox is curst the better he fares': God be with
you, sir; Ile take but a booke in my hand, a wide sleeued

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1620 Commentator Q2 3 sentance Q3 [the second time add. Dyce and
Ward
1621 thundring Q3
1625 turrets of thy] terrours of my Q3
1630 sir om. Q2 3
1635 Asmenoth Dyce: Astmeroth Qq (cf. 1232)
1636 Demegorgon Qq maister] ruler Eng. Parnass.
1637 worke] doe Q2
1641 hath] haue Q3
1645 to some fatal end Dyce and Ward
1647 range]
rage Q3

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene. Volume: 2. Contributors: J. Churton Collins - editor. Publisher: Clarendon Press. Place of Publication: Oxford, England. Publication Year: 1905. Page Number: 64.
    
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