Note 1306 — THE HONORABLE HISTORIE of frier Bacon, and frier Bongay.
Reading edition
Wagner would read, "And hell and Hecat shall the friar fail," for "Hecate ist sonst stets zweisilbig." Wrong. Ward cites for the trisyllable, Shakesp., 1 H. VI., III. ii. 64, and Milton, Comus, v. 535.