Note 1214 — Robert Greene THE HONORABLE HISTORIE OF FRIER BACON
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Continuing:—
"It is a pricke, it is a sting, It is a prettie, prettie thing. It is a fire, it is a cole Whose flame creeps in at everie hole...."
This is the version of the Drummond Ms. fragment, which differs from the Rawlinson Ms. See Dyce, Greene and Peele, p. 603. Fainter resemblances might be cited.