Note 1118 — SCENE II.

the Brazen Head] See Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (first printed in 1594) in my ed. of Greene’s Dram. Works, and the extract there given from the prose tract, The Famous Historie of Friar Bacon (on which that play is founded), “How Fryer Bacon made a Brazen Head to speake, by the which hee would have walled England about with Brasse,” vol. i. pp. 141, 215. The friars lost all their labour through the folly of a servant named Miles, who having been set to watch the Head while they retired to rest, neglected to call them when at last it spoke.