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HEEMES STELLA OR NOTES AND JOTTINGS LTOX THE BACON CIPHEE BY W. F. C. WIG ST ON AUTHOR OF " A NEW STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE,"' " BACON, SHAKESPEARE, AND THE ROSICRUCIANS." " Another error induced by the former is, a suspicion and diffidence, that anything siiould be now to be found out, which tlie world should have missed and passed over so long time."— (Page 36, "Advancement of Learning " 1640.) LONDON GEORGE RED WAY 1890 PREFACE. This volume was never intended to be more than an appeal for the re -examination of Mr. Donnelly's claim to the discovery of a secret cipher in the plays known as Shakespeare's, and in its present form it can only be regarded as a collection of rough notes and jottings on this subject, hurried into print by circimistances connected with the theft of a portion of my manuscript. The indulgence of the few students who may consult these pages is therefore entreated for the errors of style and punctuation, and for the faulty arrange- ment of material which involves so much repetition. I am not without hope, however, that the labour of scanning the following pages will be repaid by the acquisition of manj' facts bearing on the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy, which it has cost me years of toil- some research to accumulate. W. F. C. WiGSTON. INTRODUCTION. After reading Mr. Donnelly's " Great Cryptogram," I made up my mind to give the problem of whether there existed in the plays known as Shakespeare's a cipher or no, a thorough and searching examination. The first tiling that suggested itself to us was to make Tables of those pages in the 1623 Folio Plays upon which we found the word " Bacon ; " because we argued, if there really exists a cipher in these plays, it is sure to circle and concentrate itself round this word ; and by collating these tables, I shall be in a position to judge, whether there was any collusion or agreement of numbers and names. The first thing that struck us as excessively curious was to find the word " Bacon " always upon pages numbered 53 or 52. Twice we find Bacon upon pages 53 M. W. W. and 53 1st K. H. IV., and twice upon page 52, 1st K. H. IV. (wliich is mispaged 54).''' Shakespeare died in April 1616, 52 years of age, but evidently he had just entered liis 53rd year, for upon the Stratford Monument we read that he was in his 53rd year {cetatis). So that the two factors of Ins life, indicating 1616 and pointing obviously to him by mathematics, are these numbers 52 and 53. It seems to us there is a singular fitness suggested in tliis trifle. Because if Bacon's intention was by means of a cipher to identify himself with Shakespeare, notliing could be more apposite or pointed than this introduction of the word " Bacon " upon pages suggesting by mathematics Shakespeare and thus suggesting Identification of Names 1616. Upon page 36 of Lord Bacon's Distribution Preface (1640 "Advt.") he writes, " For it came into our " mind, that in MATHEMATICS the frame standing, the " demonstraticn inferred is facile and perspicuous ; on the contrary " without this accommodation and dependency, all seems involved •' and more subtle than indeed they be." Bacon does not further * The mispaging 1st K. H.IV. commences with the opening of the phiy (47, 49) and is carried on falsely two in advance. viii INTRODUCTION. explain what he means by the " frame." But as wo fin^l this passage upon page 36, and there are 36 plays in the 1623 Folio, the idea struck us that the frame of a page might be the margin carrying the portrait, by mathematics, of Shakespeare (thus 53 5:^, or the plays 35 36). This idea was strengthened by our finding always something pertinent to the theory we are postulating, upon pages 35, 36, 52 53. For example in this 1640 " Advt." we find the first mispaging 52 (instead of 50). The next is 53 (instead of 55) and here we find a palpable parallel to the mispjiging of 1st K. H. lY. For in that play 53 is mispaged 55 and 52 is mispaged 54. Upon page 272 of this 1640 "Advt." under the 37th Deficient or Star, Bacon describes the method of Deliver!/ of Secret Tcnoivledye to others, in the following words: — "Of "which kind of Delivery the method of the Mathematics in that subject hath some shadow, but generally I see it neither put in use, nor put in inquisition, and therefore number it amongst Deficients, and we will call it Traditionem Lampadis, or the method bequeathed to the sons of sapience." This touches the subject in hand to the heart. We are seeking to learn in what manner Bacon delivers or hands on the secret of his authorship of the plays. And we find him again pages 259 260, under the 35th Star (1623 catalogue plays 35) writing : — " But characters real have nothing of emblem in " them, but are plain dead and dumb figures T Again, " for we here " handle as it were the coynes of things intellectual, and it will not " be amiss to know, that as money may be made of other matter, " besides Gold and Silver, so there may be stamped other Notes of " things besides ivords and letters." The word " Notes" is in itaUcs, and touches the subject of the whole of this section, which is marked in the margin by an asterisk and the title "De Notis lierum" or "Notes of Tliimjs." In the Catalogue (at the end of the book) we find these Deficients entitled " A New Wokld op Sciences." This particular ■»■?' Notes of things" is the 35th in order and consequently agrees with the number of the plays in the 1623 Folio Catalogue. " Troilus and Cressida " is omitted from this Catalogue. So that the full number of the plays is really 36. We find the 36th Deficient (or asterisk) in the 1640 " Advt." entitled " Philosophical Grammar" and giving us 2>oetry in context tvith cii>hers. So that the reader may perceive that Bacon's " Notes of Things " are not icords or letters, but " dumb and dead figures," which are of course numbers. If then numbers INTR on UCTION. ix are employed in the shape of a mathematical cipher, how excellently would the frame (or margin of the text of a page) carry as it were a portrait — say of the plays 35, 36, or of Shakespeare 52,53: — Each numbered page of the 1623 Folio Plays is composed or divided into two columns of text, and thus page 53 (let us say of the Comedies) contains colmnns 105 and 106, which we opined should be numbered for a cipher search. Else how are we to know which column to turn to ? The reader will therefore be struck with the startling coincidence, that we find the word " Bacon " upon column 106 of the Comedies, and " Francis " (Bacon's Christian name) upon columns 106 and 107 of the Histories — (giving us the perfect sequence 106, 107) ; and that the only two pages in the 1640 "Advancement" (out of nearly 500 pages)^on which we find the Drama and Stage Plays discussed are also pages 106 and 107. Our next study was the subject matter or context round which the word Bacon revolves in the plays. This word is introduced only four times .in the Folio, and always in the same sense as the animal Hofj or Bacon, the article of food. Upon page 53, M. W. "NV., we find the line : — Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon I warrant you. Upon page 53, 1st K. H. IV., I have a gammon of Bacon. Upon page 54 (corrected 52) of the same play, we find On Bacons on Bacon fed knaves. Mr. Donnelly has already pointed out how closely Lord Bacon has a|]f[Droximated the fine, — Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon — in an Apophthegm story which is to be refound on page 228 of the first part of the 1671 " Resuscitatio," being a collection of Bacon's works hitherto sleeping, and which is the third edition of the same work, pubUshed 1657, 1661, under the auspices of Dr. Rawley. The Apophthegm in point is as follows : — ''Sir jyicholas Bacon being appointed a Judge for the Northern " Circuit, and having brought liis trials, that came before him to such A X INTRODUCTION. " a pass as the passing of sentence on malefactors, he was by one of " the malefactors mightily importuned for to save his life, which, " when nothing that he had said did avail, he at length desired his " mercy on the account of kindred : ' Prethee,' said my Lord Judge, '' ' how came that in ? ' ' Why, if it please you my Lord, your name " is Bacon and mine is Hog, and in all ages Hog and Bacon have " been so near kindred that they are not to be separated.' ' I hut,'' " replied Judge Bacon, ^ you and I cannot he l-indred, for Hog is " not Bacon until it he well Jianged." (36th Apophthegm.) Now whether the result of accident or design, there is a decided resemblance to this story in the line already quoted from page 53, Merry Wives of Windsor, viz., EvA>'S. I pray you have your remembrance (cliilde) Accusativo king, Jiang, hog. Quickly. Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon I warrant you. If instead of " Hanq Hog " we could read Hanged Hog in the above quotation, there are very few persons we imagme who would not conclude the relationship of this line to (the 36th Apophthegm story) Sir Nicholas Bacon, as certain and unmistakeable. We thought to ourselves if Bacon inserted this Mne, it is certain he would take care to disguise it in some degree from fear of carrj'ing too direct and pointed reference to the story related of his father. And it seemed as if in the words " Hang Hog'''' we received an injunction to ^^Hang Hog^' or make "Hanr/ " the perfect tense Hanged, when the relationship is of course established. The idea struck us of making a table of these two pages — one in Lord Bacon's work, page 228, " Resuscitatio,'' (1671); the other upon page 53, Merry Wives of Windsor (contain- ing this line) — and collating them to see if possibly there might exist cipher coUusion. We have, therefore, appended to this work a fac-simile reproduction of page 228, " Resuscitatio," whereon this 36th Apophthegm story is found. In addition, we give also a table of the numbers or counts of each word, from the bottom and top of the page, giving the words in itahcs a colmnn to themselves. One of the features of this work is its extraordinary system of italicising, which we are convinced is a method of cipher delivery. We found upon certain mispaged pages, exactly the same number of italic words in this book. For examjile, we find in this first part page 97 mispaged 104, and 139 words in italics vipon it. And we find 104 INTRODUCTION. xi again mispaged 97, and also 139 words in italics upon it. Thus twice 97 and 104 are masks for each other, and it cannot be chance each of these pages carries the same number of italic words. We find this senseless system of itaUcising repeated in the 1640 "Ad- vancement of Learning," in the "History of King H. VII.," and repeatedly givdng us 52 and 53, Shakespeare's full age, and the j-ear he had entered when he died — 1616. Convinced that these words in italics were introduced with a purpose, we determined to give them a column apart in our tables. Next we give a column to all the words (indifferently) down each page. And we repeat this double process up the page also. We thus get four columns of ligures, as follows : — r 1st column. Words in italics onlij counted from the top of the -c page down. (^2nd column, Words all counted down also. 3rd column. Words in italics only counted from the bottom of the page up. 4th column. Words all counted up ditto. { When we find a mispaged work, correctly repaged after the lapses, we may be sm-e this mispaging was introduced with design. If we find in addition to this, words senselessly italicised, winch carry no emphasis in the context, or say notlung for themselves, we may be sure they are thus italicised for some particular cipher purpose. Space does not allow us to enter into the cogent reasons for tliis belief. But we do actually find pages in some of Bacon's posthu- mous works, itaUcised in sequences, and this proves design. For example, upon the pages Stage Plays and the Drama are discussed, 1640 "Advancement," we find 73 Italic words page 106, 73 also paye 107 (74 if we count " Stage-Plays " as two words). Tliis cannot be chance. We therefore venture to suggest that it is the duty of everybody pretending to fm-nish evidence of this kind, to present Tables of the pages in question, and thus not only to provide proofs of the correctness of their numbers, but to give the reader or student opportunity of discovery for themselves. The great question is whether there really exists a secret cipher in the 1623 Folio or no ? And if so who inserted it? If we find b}- means of carefully constructed Tables, of similarly numbered columns (say of the Comedies and Histories) the same words agreeing in xii INJR OD UCTION. numbers, surely this cannot be the result of accident ? "SVe actually do find even the number of words agreeing in two separate cohmms upon which the word "Bacon" occurs in the 1623 Plays. Upon columns 106 Comedies (page 53 M.W.W.) there are 362 words, (the word " Bacon " upon it), and upon page 54, 1st K.H. IV., where we find the word " Bacon^' twice, we find to the end of the scene 362 words again f" a-foot and a-iv7iile" as two words.) In 1623 appeared the first collected edition of the Plays known as Shakespeare's. This same year 1623 appears also for the first time Lord Bacon's " Be Auc/mentis " in IX. Books, containing an elaborate system of ciphers in direct Context with Poetry. We find an entire Book (the Vlth) devoted to the subject of The Beliveri/ of Secret Knowledge or Tradition. One of the features of this work are the Deficients or Prcetermitted Parts, which Bacon only hints at, or " Coasts alonr/," and they form in the Catalogue at the end of the work the number 50. Very curiously the 35th and 36th are " Notes of TJiinr/s," and " Philosoj)7iical Grammar," both being in context with ciphers, as part of the method of Delivery of Secret Knowledge, and thus agreeing with the (Catalogue) number of the plays, 1623 Folio, viz., 35 and 36. Upon page 53 of the M. W. W., as if to pomt to Shakespeare (cetatis S3), we find a purely Grammatical Scene, with the word Bacon identified with Hog in the accusative case. Upon page 53 (again mark) of the 1640 "Advancement of Learning " we find Bacon identifying ''Analogg " with " PhilosopJiical Grammar," which we refind under the 36tli Star (Play number) as not a literary Grammar, but as Analogy, and that is further ex- plained as the " Indication of Indications " or " The different Mnds " of demonstrations and proofs to different Tcind of Matter and " subjects," under the 34th Star, page 252. So that as we find this " Grammatical PJiilosopliy" is one of Bacon's methods of ^^ Delivery of Secret Knoivled^ge," and immediately in Context with Poetrj' and Ciphers, and also following '^ Notes of Things" by congruity or " dead figures," we can only conclude it is introduced upon page 53 of this work in order to point to " iN^a^ne* " and to the words '^ Baco7i" as names introduced; also pages 53, M. W. W., and 1st K. H. IV. in the line— Ilang Hog is Latin for Bacon (53, M. W. W.) I have a Gammon of Bacon (53, 1st K. H. IV.) INTR OD UCTION. xii i Here is evident collusion. For the scene is Grammatical,the paging o.3, the words identified with Bacon's name (" Hamj Hog ") the 35th and 36th in itahcs, and upon page 53 of this " Advancement " we not only find the 35th and 36th Starsintroduced (pointing tociphers), but i?ff con's name introduced in the margin as identifying himself with the words " All his luealth ivas in names." The first tkree words are the 34, 35, 36th words in italics, pointing as it were to the names " Hang Hog " and " Gammon of Bacon,''' also upon page 53, 1st K. H. IV. The reader must see how striking it is to find " Analogy " (one of Bacon's methods of Indiiciive logic) as a system of demonstration or proofs ; for if we have to prove Bacon wrote these plays. Analogy must be one of the systems we shall have to follow. For example, is thex'e axiy Analogy between '• Hang Hog''' in the hne quoted and '■'^ Hanged Hog " which is identified ^^dth Bacon in the 36th Apophthegm story of Sir Nicholas Bacon 1 What are the parallels we are everlastingly printing in the journal of the Bacon society, but Analogical, between Bacon and Shakespeare ? If so, it is indeed startling to find Bacon devotes an entire book to a system of delivery of secret Jcnoivledge or 2yroofs connected tuith ciphers and mathematics entitled "Z)e Analogia." It is still more pointed to find the 36th of these Deficients (agreeing with the full number of the plays) upon page 53, identified with "Analogy," and as it were in context with " names/' and Bacon's name in the margin. Because upon page 53 {also) of M. W. W. we have a Grammatical scene in which the word " Bacon " is identified with "Hang Hog,'' and we want to know if this word " Bacon " is also a name ? In short, we postulate Bacon's " Pliilosophical Grammar " (star 36) is for the 36 plays, and particularly for the Grammatical scene upon page 53, M. W. W. — where " Hang Hog " is identified with Bacon. Let the critic get a facsimile copy of the 1623 FoUo plays by Chatto & Windus, and convince himself the word " Bacon" is upon page 53, M. W. W., and page 53, 1st K. H. IV., this being Shakespeare's age, Stratford monument. Let lum then go to the British Museum and open the 1640 " Advancement " at page 53 also. Then let him study the 35th and 36th Deficients in the Vlth book, and convince himself they treat of " delivery of secret Jcnoivledge " as a system of " dead figures " or " congruity mathematical " in context with Ciphers and Poetry. Let him mark they are introduced page 53, under the title " Be Analogia " as " Philosophical Grammar." We undertake to say if he studies all xiv INTR OD UCTIOJy. this profoundly he ■will arise convinced all this is in touch with the Plays, and pages 53, M. W. W., and 53, 1st K. H. IV., as a great finger-post for " names' He will arrive at the conclusion the 16-40 *' Advancement of Learning " is nothing but a Great Book of Cipher Directions for Unlocking the Plays, and that it embraces under obscm-e language a complete sj'stem of deUvery. Bacon borrows his Analogia from Ctesar's. We have proofs from Yalerius Prohus (who wrote a *^ Philosophical Grammar" or ^' Commentarf/"), that this work of Caesar's was upon ciphers. Bacon has evidently borrowed his " Notes of Things " from the Roman short-hand or notes, wliich led to the invention of Cryptography or Stenography. There is the great fact that Bacon's " Notes of Things " and " Grammar Philosophical " are the 3oth and 36th Deficients agreeing with the Catalogue number of the plays, and the full number (35 and 36). In the 1638 edition of Bacon's works, entitled " Operum Moralium et Civilium " we find Poetry and the Drama, introduced upon page 64 of *' De Augmentis Scientiarum." Now 1564 was Shakespeare's birth year. Directly we count the words in italics (only) down to " Dramatica'" (Dramatical Poetry first discussed), we find it the 36th word, as if to connote it with the 36 Plays of the 1623 FoUo. If we continue our count we arrive at the tliird " Dramatica " (in itahcs) as the 52nd word, as if to connote it with Shakespeare's age 52. We find so many of these correspondences that we conclude accident cannot account for them. For example in Bacon's " History of King Henry VII.," pubhshed 1641, we find the 3oth page mispaged 53, wliich is Shakespeare's monumental age, and 35, the Catalogue number of the plays, as if to connote by mathematics the plays with Shakespeare. Upon tliis page we find the word " Counterfeit " in italics, and these words, " There were taken prisoners amongst others, the counterfeit "Plantagenet (now Lambert Simnel again), etc." Seeing that Analogy is one of Bacon's great inductive systems of dehvering secret knowledge, it is possible he indirectly points at Shakespeare (53) in connection vnth. the plays (35) upon this page as a " Counterfeit.''^ Upon the next page, 36 (or the full number of the plays in the Folio), we read : " Whereas Fortune commonly doth not bring in a " Comedy, or Farce after a Tragedy." Upon this page there are 52 words in italics, if we count " Fore-fight " as one word, or 53 if we count it as two words. Here again are the two factors of Shakes- peare's age, 52 and 63, introduced upon a page carrying the number INTR OD UCTION. xv of the plays and on which we find the words, " Comedy, Tragedy. '" Tragedj' is the 36th word from the end of its paragraph. Consider that the only Historical Play omitted in the Histories of the 1623 Folio Shakespeare is the play of " King Henry VIT.," and the only " History " Bacon completes is this missing link in the historical succession of the plays ! Upon page 205 of the 1623 Folio Histories, the play of King Henry VITI. commences. Upon page 205 of this 1641 History of King Henry VII., Bacon introduces King Henry VIII. in these words ; " There was a doubt ripj)ed up in the " times following, when the Divorce of King Henry the VIII. from " the Lady Katharine did so much busy the world." It is a striking analogy that the Chronicle of K. H. VII. is rijyped, out between K. R. III. and K. H. VIII. in the plays, and that we should find these words upon the actual paging K. H. VIII. commences. We could fill a small volume with these correspondences, and it is easy for those who are not acquainted with them to cast cold water upon the Baconian theory. We constantly find tliis factor 53 in Bacon's Posthumous works either as the number of the italics upon a page, or its false numbering. Bacon's Cipher example, page 265 of the 1640 "Advancement," has exactly 53 words in italics upon the page, the words ^^ AlpJiahet, Aljihahet" forming the 52nd and 53rd word. Upon page 104 (preceding Poetry) we again find 53 words in itafics, the subject matter being highly suspicious, and in context with "Deeds" as testaments of Letters, Orations, Apophthegms. Upon page 32 of the Preface there are 53 words in capitals. Upon page 32 again, (in the body of the work,) there are again 53 words in itaUcs. And tliis is a double correspondence. In 1632, the second edition of the Plays appeared, and as this 1640 "Advancement" appeared eight years after, it is possible the private succession of hands Bacon speaks of in "Valerius Terminus" (in connexion with his reserved system of pubHshing) may have italicised these pages to point at the edition 32 of the Plays in connexion with Shakespeare (53). All this cannot be accident. In the 1671 " Resuscitatio " we find the mispaging full of evidence of design. Thus we find page 97 of the first part mispaged 104. This might be accident. But directly we turn to the real 104, we find it 97. Tliis might be again accident. But what are we to say when we find exactly 139 words in italics upon each of these pages ? Surely this cannot be accident ! INTRO D UCTION. 96 1U4 139 words in italics. 139 words in italics. Here we find 104 and 97 masking each other twice. Upon these pages the text points strongly in parallels to the plays, Bacon introducing " JS'aples and Milan '' together and recalling the play of the Tempest, where Prospero, as Duke of Milan, and the King of Naples are the protagonists of the plot. Upon page 96 we find ''Sebastian^' introduced, and that is also a name in the Tempest. Upon tliis page 104 ^'Adrian " is introduced and that is another name in the Tempest. It may be worthy of note that 97 or 1597 as a date, is perhaps the most important of aU dates connected with the Shakespeare Theatre ; inasmuch as this is the supposed date of K. Richard II. and is generally accounted a year we can connect \\dth the Plays, and Shakespeare's writings authentically. Upon page 97 of the 1640 " Advt." we find Bacon writing : — " As concerning lielations it could INTRODUCTION. xvii " be in truth wish't that there were a greater dihgence taken " therein." Upon page 93 Bacon describes these " Relations " in these words, as one of the partitions of '^Perfect History ." "Of these " Chronicles seem to excell for celebrity and name, Liues for profit and " examples, lielations for sincerity and verity." Upon this page 97, there are 52 words in italics, as if to suggest the lielations of Bacon to Shahesj'care, whose full age was 52 in 1616 when he died. Upon page 104 of this 1640 " Advt.," we find 53 words in italics, which is excessively curious ; because we find pages 97 and 104 masking each other in tlie 1671 "E,esuscitatio" and in the 1640 "Advt." we find 52 words in itahcs upon page 97, treating of " lielations " and 53 upon page 104 (preceding Poetry) in context Avith "Deeds " as testaments consisting of " Letters, Epistles, Apoplitheyms," contributing the '• iiwst jjrecions provision for History.'" It is our beUef that the paging in these posthumous works is connected with dates, and that 97 points to 1597. Upon page 106 where Bacon first introduces the "Drama," the fii-st line commences with these words in italics " feiyn'd Chronicles, feigned Lines, and feign'd lielations." If this is no hint for the ''feiyn'd lielations" of Bacon to Shakespeare in regard to the Drama in context with these words, hints are of no use at all. " Drama " is the 23rd word in itahcs down the page ; — as if to suggest the 1623 Theatre. Itisa vast array of these extraordinary correspondenceswhich constitute our evidence, and not two or three ingenious theories. There is a complete sj-stem of mispaging and of itahcising in this 1640 " Advt." Groups of words constantly appear on tables of different pages falUng against the same numbers. And it cannot be chance that the great root number of Mr. Donnelly, viz., 53, is so constantly found thus upon these pages as mispaging viz., 52 and 53, and in itahcising. Both these figures constitute Shakespeare's two ages, full years and the year he had just entered when he died, as upon the Stratford monument we read he was in his 53rd year. If Bacon inserted a cipher in the plays and wished to identify himself with Shakespeare, we can imagine no more ingenious system of bringing in his name as a word upon pages representing Shakespeare's life or age. Both the scenes in which we find the word Bacon in the Folio do not appear in the early Quarto editions, but were evidently inserted (as Mr. Donnelly pointed out) afterwards, for they appear for the first time in the 1623 Folio. Upon page 91 of tlus 1640 " Advancement " once more we find 52 woixls in italics, this time the xviii INTR on UCTION. subject turning upon ^^ perfect history " in these words, '' Remains of Histories are as we said tanquam Tabula JS^aufragii," the last two words forming the 51st and 52nd words in italics. These are only a few of the cogent evidences we have collected, and which have induced the behef that this work is all cipher from beginning to end. We have spent an entire year studying these old original Baconian Folios. And we emphatically protest against the weight of any criticism gathered from collected editions. It is in the original works, edited under Rawley's supervision, that everytliing of real value is to be found. Opinion is not evidence. Let the critic meet us upon fair ground, let him verify our statements, and we are not afraid. There is only one scientific avenue open to the heart of this problem, and that is properly constructed tables for cipher reference. Upon page 52 of the 1671 " Besuscitatio " (Parti.), Shakespeare's full age again, 1616, we find Bacon introducing these words, "^ " mark for an Henry the IV, a match for a Richard the Unci. We read upon this page, " But thanks be to God we haue learned " sufficiently out of the scrij^ture, that as the bird flies aivay, so the " causeless curse shall not come.''' The last word, the o2nd, in itahcs is '''■come." In 1616, Shakespeare died, aged 52, and iiis epitaph runs thus : — " Good friend for Jesu's sake forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be ye man that spares these stones, And cursed be he who moves my bones." It is cm'ious to find this passage by Bacon upon the " causeless curse " u^Don a page carrying Shakespeare's age, when he died in 1616 and this epitaph was placed upon his grave stone. Upon page 54 we find : — " And for your comparison with Richard the llnd, I " see you follow the example of them, that brought him upon the "stage and into print in Queen Elizabeth's time." Upon page 54 also of K. H. IV. we find the word Bacon twice. And upon this same page 54 we read: — "You know well that howsoever Henry " the Fourth's Act by a secret providence of God prevailed, yet it was " but an usurpation : And if it were possible for such a one to be *' this day (wherewith it seems your dreams are troubled) 1 do not ** doubt, his end would be upon the blocJc." Now here is proof Bacon was acquainted with the i)lays brought upon the stage in Queen INTR OD UCTION. xix Elizabeth's time, viz., K. H. IV. and R. Unci. Moreover it shows that tliis play of K. H. IV. was a treasonable subject, as we find Bacon charging Mr. I. S. ^^•ith quoting K. H. IV. as an example. — Upon this page we read the charges against Mr. I. S. : — Your slander. Your menace, Your comparison. The comjparison Bacon sums up as follows : — " And for your " comparison with R. the Ilnd, I see you follow the example of " them that brought him upon the starje and into print in Queen " Elizabeth's time." " Comparison " is the 52nd word in italics upon this page 54. In Bacon's apology touching the Earl of Essex, he \vrites: — " A secZi7joi«s pamphlet as it was termed, wliich was dedi- " cated unto him, which was the book before mentioned of King " Henri/ the Fourth. Whereupon I replied to that allotment, and " said to their Lordships that it was an old matter, and had no " mamier of coherence with the rest of the charge, being matters of '• Irelanil, and therefore that I having been ivronged by bruits before, " this would expose me to them more ; and it would be said / gave " in evidence my oivn tales." This refers to Dr. Hayward's supposed pamphlet upon Henry the IV., for wliich he was imprisoned in the Tower. I don't know how the passage quoted strikes the reader, but it seems to us Bacon is plainly saying that his name had been associated by " bruits " or rumours with this work, or a similar one, and is there not an implied confession of this in the words, " / gave in evidence my own tales " ? It does not follow Bacon's name was associated with tliis actual pamplilet history of K. H. IV. But evidently his name had been associated with a history of K. H. IV., and how do we know it was not the play of K. H. IV. ? He acknow- ledges in an indirect but imphed manner liis " oivn tales " as being brought up against him. Whatever the impression left upon the mind by this passage, one thing is plain : the wTiting of the history of K. H. IV., and the deposition of Eichard the Ilnd, was treasonable matter, as we see by the imprisonment of Hayward, which Bacon again introduces in the 22nd Apophthegm, p. 226. And this is at once an entire answer to the question so repeatedly put by scoSers of the Baconian theory of the authorslup of the Plays, viz., " ^Miy Bacon did not acknow- XX INTR on UCTION. ledge his own writings ? "' The answer is, he could not, seeing Queen Elizabeth imprisoned Hayward for writing a history of K. H. IV. And once ha\4ng repudiated liis own writings, he was under the necessity of keeping entire silence diu-mg his lifetime. Upon page 2:?6 Bacon introduces in the 22nd Apophthegm this : — " The book " of deposing King Richard the second and the coming in of K. " Henry the fourth, supposed to be written by Doctor Hayward, who " was committed to the Tower for it, had much incensed Queen " Elizabetli and she asked Mr. Bacon being then of her Counsel " learned, whether there were any treason contained in it ? Who, " intending to do him a pleasure, and to take off the Queen's bitter- " ness with a merry conceit answered, j^o Madam, for treason I " cannot deliuer opinion, that there is any, hut very much felony. " The Queen apprehending it gladly asked how ? And wherein Mr. " Bacon ansivered. Because he had stolen many of his sentences and " conceits out of Cornelius Tacitus.'' Xow it happens, as Mr. Don- nelly has remarked already, the Plays in question are full of conceits borrowed from the Annals of Tacitus. It is perfectly true Hay- ward's pamphlet is alluded to, and not the Plays. But is it not possible Bacon seizes tliis oi3iiortunity to hint at the Plays of K. R. the Second and K. H. IV. ? It is indeed curious to find he is aware of the conceits taken from Cornehus Tacitus, and we ask the question, do these plagiarisms also exist in Hayward's pamphlet ? This page 226 has 295 words in italics upon it without any system, or sense in their ordering. For example, one moment we find " Jlr. Bacon " half in itahcs as we reproduce it, and j)resently " Mr. Bacon " is written with the itahcising reversed as above. We find the words italicised as follows — which we take from a table : — The 68 hoolc 35 69 261 of 70 deposiny 36 71 260 King 37 72 259 Richard 38 73 258 the 74 Second. 75 The first column gives the numbers of the words in italics only; the second of the words altogether, counted hkewise from the top of INTR OD UCTION. xxi the page downwards ; the third cohimn the words in itaUcs counted up the page. Is it not curious to find the Phiy numbers 35, 36, against "book" and "Deposing"? Directly we turn to the Play of K. R. the Second, and open it at page 36 (covrespondinrj mark with the italic numher wjainst " deposinij") we find these words: — Richard. AVhat must the King do now ? must he submit ? The King shall do it : must he be dej^osed 1 Notice that 71, or the sum of 35 and 36 (the Play numbers), is against " deposing " ! Note that if we subtract 36 from 71, we get back 35, the catalogue Folio 1623 Play number — and giving the number of " Booh " in italics ! So, likewise, if we deduct 35 from 69 we get 34, which is the italic number of " himself,^'' the preceding word in italics again. This is downright proof of a cipher. It is a long and careful study of such points as these which has convinced us that these posthumous works of Bacon's contain a cipher. "We have spent an entire year devoted to this subject, and as we have stated in our preface, should have reshaped this work into form, if we had not had good evidence for beheving that some unscrupulous persons were endeavouring to make capital out of some of our stolen papers. We are quite alive to the deniand we are making upon the reader's credulity in associating posthumous works with this cipher. But we are convinced it is just in these posthumous works we must search. For no one has as yet suggested what Bacon intends to signify in " Valerius Terminus " when he declares deliberately his intention of pub- lishing two ways — " one open, and the other reserved to a private suc- cession of hands." It is not by ignoring or blanching these points we shall arrive at any genuine discovery, but by boldly examining the mispaging, and tabulating the suspicious pages we shall unravel this mj^stery. The pioneer in this line must meet with obloquy, ridicule, and contempt, until the public begins to get a little educated upon it. How is it, we ask, that the entire number of Apophthegms upon page 228, " Resuscitatio "' 1671, viz. 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, when added to the paging, 228, gives us exactly the numbers counted down page 53, M.W.W., of the line : — Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon. If it is accident it requires explanation and how is it entire groups xxii INTR OD UCTION. of figures correspond with the context of tliis passage ? How is it "Hang Hog " are the 3oth and 36th words in itaUcs down tliis page, and we refind the " Hocj " story of Sir Nicholas Bacon in the 36th Apoph- thegm, the 3oth commencing the page, and the 264th word giving us ^^ Hanged" corresponding with " Hog"? We undertake to show anybody anxious for truth, tabulated pages, where the same groups of figures fall against each other over and over again, in such a way as to put any doubt of the existence of this cipher out of court altogether. Our table of page 228, " Resuscitatio," is taken from the British Museum copy, and was printed for William Lee, at the sign of the Turk's Head, in Fleet-street. There are the correspondences to speak for themselves, and if they are the result of accident, they constitute the most marvellous piece of correspondence vipon record. Upon pace 36 of the 1640 " Advt." we read, as if to allude to the 36 plays : — " Another error induced by the former is, a suspicion and dijjidence that anything should be now to he found, out, ivhicli the world should have missed and past over so long time.''' In these words Bacon seems quite to foresee the greatest difficulty likely to arise in gaining behef for this problem of his cipher, and authorship of the plays. We adduce these aforesaid points in order to give good reasons for justifying our theory that these posthumous works contain a cipher. It is also part of our theory that the Plays constitute the " ty2:>es and platform,"" or examples to wliicli the Baconian Inductive system is to be applied as a great system of discovery, and which Bacon mentions upon pages 35 and 36 of the Distribution Preface. Our behef is that the plays are included and part of the Instauration or its missing half ; and that the method and steps by which Bacon has thought fit to reveal his authorship of these plays is a great system of Inductive Logic, leading us on from step to step by "Analogy,'" from one point to another ; this being the " Scala Intellectus or the Method of the Mind in the Comprehension of Things exemplified,'' wlrich is the fourth part of the Instauration missing, and in context with wliich Bacon uses such ambiguous language, pages 35 and 36 of the Disti'ibution Preface. In the search after tliis cipher we shall have to employ Induction. And we go so far as to maintain tlie entire Baconian philosophy in prac- tice (which Mr. Ellis declared " had yet to come or he discovered " — Pre- face Parasceve) wiU unfold itself in the unlocking of these " types and platforms of Invention." All this may seem utterly incredible. INTRODUCTION. xxiii and beyond conception. And it is too early to expect to make many converts to this theory. Wo go so far as to say that the '■'' I^ovimi Organum " appUes equally to this problem, as a system of Aphorisms which will give " light " upon certain stages of discovery in the cipher being attained. And we maintain that the first great method of the Baconian Philosophy, viz., ^^ Analogy " is one of Bacons methods of delivenj or of proof in this cipher problem. Even the insignificant trifles we adduce point this out. For example (Analogy) Shalces- jHare, aged 52, 1616 (and in his 53rd year), ^^ Bacon" as a word found upon pages 52, 53 of the 1623 Folio ; Bacon's Christian name, "Francis" page 56 of Histories; Bacon 56 in 1616 when Shakes- peare died. Tills is nothing but mathematical Analogy, saying by figures, Shakespeare — Bacon — 16 16. HERMES STELLA. CHAPTER I. If Lord Bacon wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare, there ought to be proof of this iu one of Lord Bacon's works, for surely a cipher connection between the plays and his writings should be the surest way of setting this problem at rest for ever ? This has been our ruling idea. Mr. Donnelly confines his cipher ex- periments to the 1623 Folio plays. Whatever he may have dis- covered must always bear the doubtful element that Bacon himself inserted it (as some of his critics have observed), even if pointing in manifold ways to him. But a cipher connection between one of Bacon's works and centring round his name in the plays must at once command assent, even to the minds of the most sceptical. Now, the only times (four) the word Bacon is introduced in the plays, it is introduced as Hogsflesh, or as a play upon the article Bacon : — Hang Ho(j is Lathi for Bacon, p. 53, M. W. W. Gainmon of Bacon, p. 53, 1st K. H. IV. On Bacons on, p. 5-1, 1st K. H. IV. Bacon fed, p. 54, 1st K. H. IV. These four introductions all bear or point to the animal Hog, iind therefore if we can find a cipher connection between these words and Sir Nicholas Bacon's story of the Malefactor Hog, who claimed his mercy on the score of kindred, viz., that Hog and Bacon in all ages have been related, we shall have gone a long 1 B 2 HERMES STELLA. way to prove the real authorship of these plays. This story is to be found in the 36th Apophthegm, '• Resuscitatio," 1671, 1st part, published long after Bacon's death. In " Valerius Terminus," Bacon declares his method of publishing to be twofold : one public ; the other private, and reserved for a j)rivate succession of hands. . He again says "that a man's Avorks should follow o/Ver him, not r/o along with him " ; and we surely cannot possibly imagine a safer way of avoiding premature discovery, or too close scrutiny, than to confide the cipher key for the unlocking of this problem to posthumous zoorJcs, which would from their very nature command little attention, and still less suspicion, and so escape unworthy hands or curious study. We require evidence sufficient to hang a man, in order to believe that Lord Bacon wrote these plays. There ought to be, if there exists any evi- dence at all of a cipher character, enough in ordinary par- lance to hang a man, meaning that any possible doubt upon this point must weigh as in a matter of life and death, absolutely and unconditionally. If we can find proof that Hang Hog in the line (p. 53, " Merry Wives "), Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon, is Hanged Hog, and support it by collateral evidence of an over- whelming and constantly cumulative nature, it will become evi- dent that Hang Hog is Bacon's insertion, and in touch with Sir Nicholas Bacon's 36 th Apophthegm story. The question is, did Bacon (Francis) insert this line, and also " Gamynon of Bacon ;" or did he not ? If he did, nothing is so likely than that it is in connection, and pointing to this story of his father, Sir Nicholas Bacon ; because Hog would be nothing short of a disguise for the name Bacon. Now the first thing to note is that Hang Hog is not Hanged Hog, and that the word Hanged would establish the validity of the connection we propose to establish between Bacon, this line, and of course {if proved) the plays. If the reader will look at HERMES STELLA. 3 page 53, M. W. "W., where this line occurs, he will find im- mediately preceding it, the words in italics : — - Accusativo ITbui, Ilcnv/, ITof/. Then follows the line : — - Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon I warrant you. If we indulge in the fancy of reversing the order of the words in italics, Iling Hang, we get Hanj Hinj, which is phonetic at least for :— Hanging Hog. Curiously we find Hang Hog the 35th and 3Gth words in italics down this page. CURIOUSLY WE FIND THE STORY OF HOG IN THE 36TH APOPHTHEGM, P. 228, '^ RESUS- CITATIO," 1671. AND IT IS A REMARKABLE CO- INCIDENCE THAT THERE ARE 35 PLAYS IN THE 1623 FOLIO CATALOGUE, AND 36 REALLY, ''TROILUS AND CRESSIDA" BEING LEFT OUT OF THE CATA- LOGUE, THOUGH IN THE BODY OF THE WORK. Here we have three striking coincidences, if we call them nothing more at this stage : Horj 36th word in italics, p. 53, M. W. W. Ho(j story Apophthegm 36. 1623 Folio Plays, 36 in nmnber. There is something also in our finding Hog to be the accu- sative case, or identified with it (by mispronvinciation apparently of Sir Hugh Evans), because the Malefactor Hog, in the 36th Apophthegm is the Accused or accused case, to whom the charge falls, and the 2})'onoun stands always in tJie 2}lcice of another name, pointing to a iKirticidar person or thing (demonstrative), as in the Latin pronoun Hie, Haec, Hoc, and we can imagine nothing more ingenious than the identification of Bacon's name (in the accusative case, mark, only) with this 2)ro-nounj or name fur another name, as Rex, Csesar, or Bacon — Hog, Hang, Hog. By this means Hie, Hjec, Hoc might mean " ^Ais" (book of plays^ B— 2 4 HERMES STELLA. ^^ that" particular person Hog or Bacon. But we must find Hang Hog literally Hanged Hog before it can be identified with Bacon — or Francis Bacon. How is it we find in this scene all those cases, such as the Genitive (or possessive), the Accusative, the Nominative (naming) and Vocative or " calling case " (answer- ing to a christian name), together with the interrogative pro- noun (again) Qui, Quce, Quod, asking Who, "Whom, What person, name (jjroioun), &c. 1 Directly we collate this page with pages 53 and o-t, 1st K. H. TV., we find an endless cipher collusion of the words JJe Hang'd (repeated over and over again) with Hang Hog, Hang Hog, as if to insist that Hog is Hanged or Hing is Hanged. It is not only to be found on one count down, but up the page also, and involved with the column paging. Directly we read the 36th Apophthegm with the story of Hanged Hog, we find " Be Hanged " twice : — ■ "Excejit you be hanged." " Until you be well hanged." And in manifold cipher collusion with Hang Hog of the line quoted from p. 53, M. W. W., for Hang Hog in this line are the 263, 264th words down the page. Bi Hanged are the 263, 264th words also down p vge 228 " Resuscitatio " (omitting an apparent pi'inter's error, alw^iys found on this page, of an extra or useless a — "to such a a pass ") or (counting it) the 264, 265. In the last case the word " Hanged " follows Hog in sequence instead of falling on it thus : — [ Hang 26.3 f be 263, p. 228 Resuscitatio, 167 1 . P. 53 M. W. W. \ Hog 264 \ Hanged 2G4 or f be 264 [ is 265 \ Hanged 265. Either count produces the same eftect and result upon the mind, viz. : — Hog Hanfred (reading on the same line), Or Hog (is) Hanged (in direct sequence). Experts must decide upon the final decisive count of the doubtful HERMES STELLA. 5 letter A. But it is worthy ;i passing note that this error falls against the first letter of the alphabet, and that the precedent word to llaix'jed is " j^^," or phonetic for the letter B, giving us the two lirst letters of the alphabet : — AB, which arc also the two first letters of Bacon's name, B A (reverserl). Convinced as we are, and as doubtless the reader and expert will become, that this page 228 is a great cipher table for the unlocking of the plays, we must be cautious to take no liberties with it, and it has astonished us to find in all the copies of the 1671 " Resuscitatio " (hitherto to our hands) this apixirent error repeated. At first sight we find apparently a far more con- clusive cipher agreement with page 53, M. W. W., when we correct the ei-ror, and lessen the count down (and above up) by one unit. But it gives 110 sequence, and we therefore leave in our calculations the page as it stands. The reason we turned to these Apophthegms was this : we found \ipon page 56 of the 1640 " Advancement," Bacon introducing APOPHTHEGMS (in great capitals) as Codicils or a pair of Tables, in context with Cicero's and Cesar's Cipher, mentioned in " Suetonius Tranquillus," and quoted in the margin. We thought this very curious, particularly as upon the other side of this page we found the paging mispaged 53 (for 55). Now this Hang Hog line is upon page 53, M. W. W. ; Gammon of Bacon upon page 53, 1st K. II. IV. ; and Francis 21 times, page 56 (cor- responding mark) of the same play. Besides the tStratford Monument declares Shakespeare died in his 53rd year. xVnd what more fitting number than 53, to say by mathematics, Shakespeare, and to place directions for the unlocking of the problem of the real authorship ? But the most cogent discovexy Avas that upon this page 53, in context with Apophthegms, we found Bacon writing of Analogy (De "Analogia "), or wdiat he calls a Fhilosojjhical Grammar. The word Grammar made us at once think of the Grammar scene 6 HERMES STELLA. (upon page 53 also, M. W. Windsor), Avliere William goes thi'ongli liis Latin declension of the j)i'onoun Hie, Ha^c, Hoe, identitied ^vitll Hog in the accusative case, and 'svith Bacon in the next line. Judge our astonishment to find again in the YIth Eook of this " Advancement," 1640 (and also in the Latin, 1G23, "De Augmen- tis,") this Philosophical Graminar, described as Ciphers, Notes of Things by Mathematical Congruity, and in Context with Poetry ! Finally judge our astonishment to find that in the Catalogue at the end of this work this Grammatical Fhilosophy or Analogy was the S6th Deficient (in order) of a Xew World of Sciences ! Because this is the full number of the 1G23 Folio plays — 36 ! And nothing could say better, Plays 36, Cijihers 36 ! The reader will find all these Deficients in the 16iO translation of the '• De Angmentis," marlced hy stars or asterisks in the margin. The 35tli (Catalogue play No.) is "Notes of Things, by Congruity Mathe- matical" ; the 36th " Grammar Philosophical or Analogy Leading to Poetry and Ciphers." Here are the two great frame play numbers, 35 and 36, as finger posts for the Deficient World (only coasted along) of the 1623 Theatre or other hemisphere, half of the Instauration. Here is another curious coincidence : the paging of the YIth Book of the 1640 translation of the " De Augmentis," which leads up to Ciphers, is 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271. The 35th Deficient ("Notes of Things," " De Notis Rerum '') commences page 259 ; Poetry, 263, 264; Ciphers, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271. Upon page 53, M. W. W., the numbers against these words are here given : — Hang 263 Hog 264 is 265 Latin 266 for 207 Bacon 268 I 269 warrant 270 you 271 The reader must be struck with the extraordinary coincidence. For HERMES STELLA. 7 the four pages on wliicli we find Bacon's cipher examples are pages 26G, 2G7, 2G8, 2G9, which correspond to the words : — Latin for Bacon I — And they are Latin examples too ! The Cipher chapter con- cludes pages 270, 271, which agree in numbers with the words : — I warrant you. In fact the numbers of the line " Hang, Hog is Latin for Bacon I warrant you," cover the numbers of these pages of cipher directions. Notes of Things are upon p. 259, which agrees with Accusatlvo, p. 53, M. W. W., leading in a few words to Bacon. Poetry is introduced pages 263, 264, agreeing with the first words Hang Hog of the line quoted. All this speaks for itself. Nor was our astonishment lessened to find Bacon's name in the margin page 53, identifying himself with the Duke de Guise, bacause " that all his laealth teas in yames,'" and that he had given ever}i:hing away. Convinced by the irregular paging and senseless italicising of words that this work was all cipher, Ave made a table of this page. Judge our astonishment to find this and these numbers : — All 34 105 his 35 106 zvealth 36 107 ivas 37 108 ■in 38 109 names 39 110 The first col. is the No. of the italic words only, in order fi'om the top; the 2nd col. all counted down, ditto. Mark, " liis ivealth" in against 35 and 3G, the play numbers being 35 and 3G, as much as to say that, like the Duke de Guise, he had given " all his icealth " (35, 3G, plays) away, and that it consisted only in names ! But here is the proof of the genuine character of this discovery. Upon pages 106 and 107 (only) of this work we find Stage Pkujs, and the Drama, and Poetry Parabolical discussed ! Does it not seem to say 8 HERMES STELLA. " Ids loealth " consists in the 35, 36 Plays, also tlie Drama and Stage Plays, pages 106, 107 ? But hear the further proof s. The Gram- matical scene, in which Hang Hog and Bacon is introduced, is actually upon columns 106, 107 of the Comedies. Francis (intro- duced 22 times on 2 pages) is upon cols. 106, 107 of the Histories ! This page 53 (55), 1640 "Advancement," is mispaged exactly as page 55 (53) 1st K. H. IV., where we find the commence- ment of the Francis scene {one Francis) col. 106, " Histories." It seems evident Bacon has introduced his Philosophical Grammar here in order to point to the same paging 53, 55, of M. W. W., and 1st K. H. IV., and to Ciphers, 36th star (or Deficient) Vlth Book. Nothing could seem to say plainer: — pages 53, 55 (35 and 36) Plays ; 35 and 36, Notes of Things Poetry and Ciphers. Con- .sider the same year (1623), the Folio plays appear in their first collected edition form, the 1623 "De Augmentis" appears with ciphers numbered (as Deficients of a New World) 36, or the same number as the j^lays! But to return to our main theme. We found Bacon repeatedly laying a particular stress upon Apophthegms. We find the subject introduced upon page 104, immediately preceding the subject of poetry, and in context with " Deeds " (vised evidently in a testamentary sense, as Letters, Orations, and Epistles), saying " Neither are " Aj)Oi:)htlierjms only for delight and ornament ; but for real " businesses ; and civil usages, for they are as he said (Cicero Epist. " LXI.) Secures a7(t mucrones verborvm, which by their sharp " edge cut and peneti'ate the knots of Matters and business : and " Occasions run round in a ring J' Why, we asked ourselves, is all tliis introduced upon the top of Poetry and the Di-ama ? AVhy upon pngo 56 do we find Apophthegms introduced as Codicils or Vi imir of Tables, and all this in context with Cfesar's "Analogia " and the "Grammar Philosophical"; which we refind in the Vlth Book as Ciphers, and under the 36th star, or a number agreeingwith the number of plays in the 1623 Folio ? Our mind naturally at HERMES STELLA. 9 once went to Sir Xicholas Bacon's story of the Malefactor Hcg and the jest Hanged Hog as Bacon. The real obstacle to this tlieory is that these Apophthegms, published in 1671, were post- humous; but seeing that Bacon has emendated the 1638 edition of his Essays, which are posthumous works, and seeing he writes of a secret wa}" of publishing posthumously, reserved to a private succession of hands, it is surely not an over bold assumption to ask if these posthumous works were not prepared by Bacon, prior to his death, during his life time, or left to a carefully instructed succession of hands to publish or construct for pui'poses of cipher revelation ? All these posthumous woi-ks contain, wluit the works published during his life time do not carry — secret marks, such as the Acorn orjftlog ornament, endless notes of interrogation in the head pieces or ornaments, colon marks, and bear a system of senseless italicising and mispaging utterly inexplicable. The proofs that Bacon inserted a cipher in the 1671 " Resus- citatio," p. 228, connecting and in collusion with pages 53, M. W. W. and 53, 1st K. H. IV. are simply overwhelming, and cannot admit of a moment's hesitation or doubt. Upon page 228 of the " Resuscitatio " we find an Apophthegm with the story of Judge Bacon and a malefactor called Hog, who claimed mercy on the score of kindred, Hog being related to Bacon. The Judge replied, " How came that in ? " " Why, if it please you, my Lord,. " your name is Bacon, and mine is Hog, and in all ages Hcg and " Bacon have been so near kindred that they cannot be separated. "^ " I, but," replied Judge Bacon, "you and I cannot be kindred except "you heJianged, for Hog is not Bacon until it be well hanged^ Now this Apophthegm is numbered 36, and there are 36 plays in the 1623 Folio, counting " Troilus and Cressida" omitted strangely from the Catalogue. Upon page 53, M. W. W., we find the line (col. 106 of the Comedies), Hang Hcg is Latin for Bacon I Avarrant you. These words, Hang Hog, are the 263, 26-1, from the top of the column and the 99 and 98 up. Directly we examine page 228 of ,10 HERMES STELLA. the " Eesuscitatio " we find the 35th Apophthegm partly on the top of the page, followed by the 3Gth Apophthegm in question. Here Are the two play numbers 35 and 36, viz. 35 plays in the Cata- logue, 36 all counted. If Ave add the paging 228 to these numbers Ave get 263 and 264, Avhich are the numbers of Hang Hog in the line quoted, p. 53, M. W. W. Directly Av^e count ■down the page to the 263, 264 and 265 AA^ords Ave find them, " You (Uoy) be Hanged" giving us by congruity Hang Hog Hanged, or Hog (is) Hanged. The 265th Avord Hanged agrees Avith the 265th Avord " is," folloAving Hang Hog in the line quoted : — Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon. 265 is a multiple of the paging (53 and 5), just as upon page 53 1st K. H. IV., Ave find Bacon in the line : — I have a gammon of Bacon. — the 371st word, a multiple of 53 (the paging) and 7 : — 5.3x7=371. On this page Ave haA'e (col. 101 Histories) : — Gammon 369 doAvn the column, of 370 Bacon 371 NoAv AA-e are going to shoAv that the very first AA-ords of the 36tli Apophthegm agree in every Avay Avith both these pages 53 M. W. W. and 53 1st K. H. lY. in an extraordinary and almost miraculous fashion. It Avill be found that Ave liaA'e tabled this page up and doAvn, counting first the italics only (doAvn), then all indiscriminately, then the italic words up, lastly all up the page. The object of italicismg words in a ci})her seems to be to giA"e another count, and by adding or subtracting the separate counts Ave arriA'e at fresh I'csults or combinations, Avhich are the means of binding and ii^creasing the evidence of intention and collusion to a degree 142 479. 143 107 478. 144 lOG 477. HERMES STELLA. ii defying scepticism or mistakes. The first woi-ds of tliis Apoph- thegm are : — p. 228 Apop. 3()th, Sir McJtolas 119 Bacon 120 The first column represents words in italics ouli/, counted from the top of the page down ; the second column, all counted doioi also ; the tliird column the italic words kj), and the fourth all counted up. This is a system we have maintained throughout our investigations, and we can recommend it. For it is scientific and exhausts the possibilities, or counts in four ways, leaving nothing but additions or subtractions for further development or modification. Once made these tables stand for perpetual reference, and if there be a cipher, very soon prove its existence in a way not to be denied. Now the first tiling we called attention to was that the number of the Apophthegm added to the paging gives 264. 228 + 36=264. Upon p. 53, M. W. W., Hog is the 2G4th word down the column. Now let the reader add the two first columns of the word Bacon together 120 + 144=264 ! Add the first two columns of Nicholas 119 + 143=262. Compare p. 53, M. W. W. :— Hang 35 (in itahcs down) 261 102 up. Hoc/ 36 262 101 Banr/ 263 100 II or/ 264 99 The reader will see that not only are Hang Hog the 35th and 36th words in italics down the column, and thus correspond with the numbers of these 35 and 36 Apophthegms, p. 228, " Resuscitatio," we are dealing with, but represent the catalogue and full Play Folio numliers 35 and 36. Directly we subtract 35 and 36 frcm 261 and 262 we get 226, which is the constant cross number cr sum of the italic words (225) upon page 228, " Eesuscitatio." Directly we deduct 36 from 264 we get 228, or the number of the 12 HERMES STELLA. page on which we find, in the 1671 " Resus.," the 3Gth Apophthegm with the Hanged Hog story. Page 53, M. AY. W., is the 106 column of the Comedies. Turn to our numbers of Sir Xicholas Bacon, see the thu'dcohimn is 106, saying plainly cohimn 106, 264 (120 + 144) Hog. It will be seen that both Xicholas and Bacon agree with Hog twice. Nicholas 1194-143-262 P. 5.3, M. W. W. 262 Hog. Bacon 120 + 144=264 P. 53, M. W. W. 264 Hog. Let us subtract the 3rd column from the 4th : — ■ 478—107 = 371. 477—106=371. Upon page 53, 1st K.H. IV., the 371st word is Bacon, in the line "A Gammon of Bacon" (369, 370, 371). Add the first three columns together : — Nicholas 119 + 143 + 107 = 369=Gammon 369 Bacon lOQ-)- U4 + 1 00=370= of 370 478—107=371. 477—106=371 Bacon 371. Add the second and thirrl columns of Nicholas Bacon 143 + 107=250. 144 + 106=250. Upon column 107 of 1st K. H. IV., the 250th word up is Francis. The result is i-eciprocal ; because if upon column 107 of 1st K.H. IV., we subtract from the 250th word 107 we get 143, which Ave find against Nicholas. If we subtract 107 from 143 (Nicholas) we get 36, which is the number of the Apophthegm ! If upon p. 53 (column 106), ]M. W. W., we add the column num- ber 106 to 265 (is) we get 371, which is Bacon p. 53, 1st K. H. IV. Thus :— Hang Hog (is) 265 + 106=371 Bacon. 371 Bacon. If we subtract the column 101 (on which the words Gammon of Bacon are found) from 371 we get 270, which is Warrant in the Una, Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon I warrant you. HERMES STELLA. t% Column 101 (p. 53) 1st K. H. lY. Gammon 369—101 = 268 of 370—101=269 Bacon 371—101=270. Upon p. 53, M. ^^^ W., tliese numbers 268, 269, 270 give the words on the riglit : — Gammon 268 Bacon 268 of 269 I 269 Bacon 270 AVarrant 270 If we reverse the process and add the cokimn in the last case, we get Hang 263 + 106(col.)-=369 Gammon Hog 264 + 106(col.)=370 of is 26o + 106(col.)=371 Bacon, Showing plainly that not only is there collusion of paging (53) in both cases, but that the subtraction in one ease and addition in the other of the column numbers brings Gammon of Bacon (Sir Nicholas Bacon's story) into double collusion with Hang Hog and Bacon I "Warrant in the line. Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon I warrant j'ou. We have : — Hing 34 260 103 Hang 35 261 102 Hog 36 262 101 Add the 1st and 3rd columns 102 + 35=137, 101 + 36 = 137. If the reader will count the italic words steadily and correctly down page 228, "Resuscitatio" 1671, he will find the 137th word in italics to be Uanjed, which is also the 265th word, all counted giving us by congruity : 35 + 102=137 Hang Hanged 137 36 + 101 = 137 Hog Hanged 137 The intention seems to be to identify Hang Kog with Uanged lloj, and thus to establish the identity of the line in the M. W. "VV. with Sir Nicholas Bacon's story related in this 36lh Apophthegm. 14 BERMES STELLA. The fact that there are 3G plays in the Folio (this is the frame number indicating them), and that Hog should be the 36th word in italics, p. 53, M. W. W., and the 36th Apophthegm contain the Hanged Hog story speaks something for itself. But when we Ihid the paging 228 of the 1671 " Resus.," giving us 26-4 (228 + 36) and 263 (228 + 35) as the result of the addition of Apophthegms 35 and 36 on that page, and agreeing with the first two words (in numbers) ofthe line : — Hang Hog (263 264) is Latin for Bacon this is astounding proof of cipher collusion. Then we find Xicholas Bacon giving vis 262 264, or Hog twice over, and 371 Bacon, with the Play columns on which we find these names. The Key words (Hog) " You Be Hanged" are 263, 264, 265, giving ns in many ways Hang Hog Hanged, not only here, but four times on pages 53 and 54, 1st K. H. IV. If we examine Page 53, 31. "SV. W , Ave find these words in italics. from the end of the scene. Turn to column 101, p. 53, 1st K. H. lY., and //rt7?r/«Z will be found the 3C3rd word down the column. Add the second and third columns of the above table : — Uo'j 262 + 101=363=//a?irjrecZ, or llog Hanged. lleverse the process, 363 — -101 (column) •- 262Hog,sliowing that ^07 and Hanged are in double reciprocal collusion. Deduct the first column from the second; the result is always 226, which is the cross number of italics, p. 228 " Resuscitatio." On this page there are 225 Avords in italics. Directly Ave go doAvn to the 225th word we find it NAME, in the line :— Your name is Bacon and mine is Hog. Accusaiivo. 33 259 104 24 1 205 34 Hing. 34 260 103 23 ^204 33 Hang. 35 261 102 22 : 203 32 Hog. 36 262 101 51, 1 202 31 HERMES STELLA. 15 Directly we count down P. 53, M. W. W. (colnmn lOG), we find the 225th word Pronoun, giving us, by congruity of numbers, {Pronoun 225 1 Name 225 j and 226 I is 226 V " Resus." p. 228, be 227 J Bacon 227 ) Now mark the result. The last extract is in the 36tli Apoph- thegm, which number add to these numbers : — 225 + 36 = 261. 226 + 36 = 262, 227 + 36 r=263. Turn back to the table given from p. 53, M. W. W., and there Ave find 261, 2G2, 263 giving direct count Hang Plog Hang, with 36 against 262. If we deduct the italic numbers 33, 34, 35, 36 from 259, 260, 261, 262, we always get 226. Now, as there are 225 words upon page 228," Resuscitatio," those two numbers are pinme factors in the problem. Is it not extraordinary to find them giving vi& '^Xami is Bacon and mina is Horj''^ — exactly what we are seeking ? — your 224 + 36 = 260 comp. Hing 260 be 260 name 225 + 36=261 Hang 261 kindred 261 is 226 + 36=262 Hog 262 except 262 Bacon 227 + 36=263 Hang 263 you (Hog) 263 and 228 + 36=264 Hog 264 be 264 mine 229 + 36=265 is 265 hanged 265 is 230 + 36=266 Latin 266 for 266 Hoi, 231 + 36—267 for 267 Hog 267 and 232 + 36=268 Bacon 268 is 268 Now hei^e is palpable cipher collusion. If we reverse the order of the words Hing Hang, we get Hang Hing, which is a delightful diversion of orthography of the word Hanging (or Hang IIvvj Hog), Hanging Hog, upon which jest the entire validity of this story rests in connection Avith Apophthegm 36. The pronoun being no other than this or that particular person, identified in the accusative case (Accusativo) with the Accused Hog, who, when 1 6 HERMES STELLA. Handed, becomes Bacon. The entire point turns upon the word '•' Hanged," which, we find up upon p. 228, "Eesuscitatio," falls to these niunbers : — Hanged 137, 265, 89, 356. The vp the page count of all the words, Accusativo, Hing Hang Hog, are 10-i, 103, 102, 101, to which, if we add their respective numbers in italics (down), gives us : — 33_1_104=j37. 103 + 34=137. 102 + 35=137. 101 + 36=137. This plainly gives us as result that the Accusativo, Illnj Uang Hog, 137 are Hanged in every case. The wit is as profound as it is subtle. Hog was the accused ; he is here the Accusativo, or case to which the charge or object falls, and he must be first hanged to be made Bacon. Add the first and third columns (italic) figainst Hanged : 137 + 89 = 226. Compare Accusativo 33 — 259=226 Hinq 34-260 = 226 Hanq 35-261=226 Hog^ 36-262 = 226. Deduct these figures, as we have done, and mark that in every case the result is 226 also ! Deduct the 3rd column 89 (hanged) from 35G (4th column) : — 356-89 = 267. Upon page 53, M. W. W., the 2G7th word is "For," precedirg Bacon in the line (if Ave count Hang Hog as one word, Bacon is 267) : — Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon, giving us Hanged Bacon, which is again the pith of the story, for HERMES STELLA. 17 Hog Hanged is Hanged Bacon, or Hanged for Bacon. If we add the number of the Apophthegm 3C to 2G5 (Hanged) we get 301. We find Hang — m the line Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon — the 100th word up the column and the 201st from the end of ihe scene. If we add these together, we get 20 L + 100 - r oOl, giv- ing us : — Hanged Hog is Latin for Bacon. One of the most convincing proofs of Cipher upon this pnge 228, '• Resuscitatio," is as follows : — -We find the word Hanged the 2G5th word down the page, all counted (with the apparent eri-or of a a Pass). We again find the word Ilancjed a second time repeated, the 81st word in italics uj) the page, and 316 all counted up the page also. Subtract these figures : 34G-81 = 2G.3 ! (see Table), so that the words ai-e italicised so as to bring about a second time this result, 265. If it ended here, it might be chance ; but wh;it do we find? We find //a«(/efZ the 356th word up the page, all counted, and the second Hanged the 275th down, all counted, and 81st up. Add these : 275 + 81 = 3.jG ! That this is chrfnce is preposterous. Here are the numbei's of these two words Ilanjed. Ilcoujed. — 137 (italics down), 2G5 (all c. d.), 89 (italics up), 356 (all c. up). • (bis) Ilanjed. — 145 (itahcs down), 275 (all c. d.), 81 (italics up), 346 (all up). We cannot explain this, but there it is, with the eviilent in- tention of bringing botli these words to bear on each other, as 265 &. 356. If we deduct them, we get 91, and Bacon is the 91st \vord (counting " gel ") page (up) 53, 1st. Iv. H. TV. If we omit the c i8 HERMES STELLA. apparent error of the article a (repeated twice in "a a pass'), Hanged becomes the 26-4th Avord and 274th, the rest being itahc words, (and Tip the page also) remain unaffected. In the latter case Hanged agi'ees with Hog, 264th word, page 53, M. W. W., and gives ns Hog Hanged by identity, instead of sequence. At first sight this looks far more plausible, beeavise the paging 228 added to the Apophthegm number, 36 gives 264 Hanged, just as 228 + 35 gives 263, Hang, p. 53, M. "W. "W, The intention seems threefold— to place Hanged upon Hang Hog (is) in three ways. Page 228 commences with part of the 35th Apophthegm; 228 + 35=263. The 263rd word, p. 53, M, W. W., is Hang in this line : Kang Hog is Latin for Bacon. Xow, by the old count (of error) we get : You (Hog) 263 Hang 263 be 264 Hog 264 Hanged 265 is 265 What can be simpler ? We add the first Apophthegm number 35, to the paging, 228. We go down the page to 263, and find it ("?/on") Hog. If we add the 36th Apophthegm, in which this story occurs, to the paging 228, we get 228 + 36=264, giving us (error omitted) Hanged 264 ; and these two separate counts give respectively, Hanged Hog. So on page 53, M. W. W., Hang Hog are the 263, 264th word down the column. The ingenuity displayed is astounding, because we get by each count the same result. Hog Hanged for Hang Hog, either by identity or sequence. In every Avay p. 228, " Eesuscitatio," agrees Avith page 53, M. W. W. We find on this p. 228 xVi)ophthegms 35 (partly), 36, 37, 38, 39, 40. Add these numbers to the j:>aging : f 228 + 35=263 Compare 263 Hang ^ 263 you (Hog) j 228 + 36=264 — 264 Hog | 264 be Page 228.1228 + 37 = 265 — 265 is I 265 hanged "Hesus. 228 + 38=266 — 266 Latin f 266 for j 228 + 39=267 — 267 for j 267 Hog 1^228 + 40=268 — 268 Bacon J 268 is HERMES STELLA. 19 Then, as we have ah-cady shown, we find the first words of Apophthegm 3 G, Su* Nicholas Bacon, twice agreeing Avith Hog 2G2 264, p. 53, M. W. W., and with 371 Bacon, page 53 (again), 1st K. II. IV. Directly Ave go down the page (228) and examine the 203, 2G 1, 285, 266, 267, 268, 269fch words, all counted down, we find them to be the pith of the story revolving iipon the word Hanged, which is so placed as to fall upon Hog 264 or 265 in sequence Avith it. " You he JiaiKjed," the 263, 264, 265 words, are really equivalent to Hoj (you) he Ilanjed, which is just Avhat we are seeking in the line, Hang Hog is Lathi for Bacon. In fact, Ave have Hog Hanged thus giA'cn to its in place of Hang Hog, or Hog Hang. "We find page 54, column 104, 1st K. H. lY., equally in direct touch Avith page 53, M. W. W., and this page 228 of the " Resuscitatio." On that page (column 104), the reader will find Bacon's name twice, and the Avords " Be Hanged,'^ the last Avord being the 265th up the cokimn (counting ' a-foot ' and ' a-iohile ' as two Avords). If Ave count them as one, Ave find Hanged the 263, Avhich not only agrees with IIan 369 370 Giving us at once the two chief words, llorj Hog, 2G2, 204 and Gammon of Bacon, as if alluding to this Apophthegm in cipher con- nection with the plays, pages 53, M. Yv . "VV., and p. 53, 1st K. H. IV. In fact we get : — Apoph. 36 Sir 142 36 Hog, 36 + 106=142 Nicholas Gammon Hog Bacon of Bacon. Hog. That the name Francis upon column 107 of the Histories is in cipher collusion with page 228, " Resuscitatio," will not bear a moment's doubt, after 'examination of the truth of our figures and proof. We take for example the 36th word in italics from the commencement of the scene (p. 55, really 53), and find it " Francis.''' Francis. 36 (italics), 328 (all c), 191 (page onlj-), 250 up the page. Now, if our theory is correct, this particular Francis (3u) ought to be found in collusion with the 36th Apophtliegm, p. 228 of the 1671 "Resuscitatio," and here it is — in half-a-dozen Avays, Avitli the first words of the Apophthegm : — Apoph. 36 Sir 142. Nicholas 119 143 107 478 Bacon 120 144 106 477 To begin with, here are columns lOG and 107, upon which we find in the Comedies Hang, Hog and Bacon, and lOG and 107 of the Histories, from whence we take our Francis and its count from the opening of the scene, column 106. Directly we add the two 28 HERMES STELLA. centre columns, wo get 250, which we find is Francis. Directly we subtract column 107 (on which it occurs) from 250 (Francis), we get 143 or 2ad column, (Xicholas) back; and if we subtract 106 from 250 we get 144 or Bacon. Directly we add the Apophthegm number 36 to 119 and 120, we get :— 364-119=155 .36 + 120 = 150. Upon this same page of the Histoi-ies, col. 107, we find the 155th and 156tli words to be down the page " CaUing Francis." Frauds, in fact, is the 156th word, and agrees thus with Bacon, giving us :— rsir J Calling 155 \ Nicholas 119 + 36=155 f Hog 262 \ Francis 156 [ Bacon 120 + 36 = 156 \ Hog 264 Dii-ectly we add the two first columns Ave get : — ]*t. and 2Qd cols, f 119 + 143 = 262 Upon col. 100 p. 53 M.W.W. 202 Hn/{nr/s corres^jond to a false and real Shahesjieare, who was 52 and 53 (see inscription upon the Strat- ford monument). The real page 52 of 1st K. H. IV. is numbered 54 falsely, and it is here we find Bacon's, Bacon (twice). Directly 3° HERMES STELLA. we bring in the column paging, we get our old figures, 269 2G8, 287, or ''For Bacon I," p. 53, M. W. W. :— On 197 164 + 104=268 rBacon pGS and ^'i Page 52, Bacons 198 163 + 104=267<< for collate^ 267 Book )- 1st on 199 162 + 104=266 ^ Latin { 266 secretj K. H. IV. Upon page 53, 1st Iv. H. TV., column 101 (Histories), we find these words : — be 362 99 up 100 up (counting "gel") hanged 363 98 or 99 Directly we subtract the column number 101 we get 362—101—261 363—101=262 Upon page 53, M. W. W., column 106 (Comedies), we find the play numbers 35 36 (italics down) against these two words, which are also 261 262, all counted down the columns : — column r i/(m^ 35 261 102 collate f be 261 (362— 101)=261 100 \lIo(j 36 202 101 \hang'd 262 (363— 101)~262 Now add the numbers of Hang Hog (up page 53, M. "W. W.), to their numbers down (2nd and 3rd columns), and we get : — 261 + 102—363 262 + 101=363 See above ; hawjd 363, telUng us twice over, reciprocally and inversely, that : Hang (261 + 102)=363 (is) Hang'd 363 Hog (262 + 101 )=363 Hang'd 363 But it does not end here. From the end of the scene, page 54 M. W. "VV., we find to the top of the page another 101 words, and it" we make a table of the entire "William, Hog scene, pages 53, 54, M. W.W., weget:— , [^Hang 35 (italics d) 261 up 102 page only 203 uji from end inr" J Hog 36 262 101 202 [of scenel „. , ! i Hang 263 100 201 Histories. ^^^^^^^ 264 99 200 HERMES STELLA. 31 Look up above at " he Ilawjdy They are the 99tli and lOOtli, words up their page, and again agree with Hang Hog, giving; us: — Hang be Hog Hanged. Add the column No. 101 to these figures, 100 99, (or 99 98), and we get 100 + 101=1^01, 90 + 101=200, again agreeing with Hang Hog. Bacon has taken extraordinary pains to identify Ilang'd with Hog and Hang Hog, not only here, but over and over again, as. we shall show. Upon this jiage Ave again find tlie woixls "i?e Ilan'jd " a second time, and they are as follows : — fbe 109 or 200 (Heigli-ho 2 words) 2G2 up 263 (with gel.) [hang'd 200 201 (Heigh-ho 2 words; 261 up 262 Here again Hang'd agrees exactly with the same words Hang and Hog, by either count (200), and up also, as may be seen by the numbers 261 262, our old friends. Hang Hog again. Bacon's object is clearly to tell its Hang Hog is Hanged Hog and relates to the 36th Apophthegm jest of Sir JSTicholas Bacon, in which Hog and Bacon can only be related or kindred, on condition of the Judge that Jlog he Hanged. Judge Bacon says:— " I cannot be kindred except you be hang'd." Directly we collate this page 53, of 1st K. H. lY., with page 228„ " Kesuscitatio," we find palpable collusion of nvimbers with text. For example : — i Gammon BG'J 02 , colkte . exceptlZi 2G2 92 359 1 Hog 2G2 of b70 9l( .-,.,^ j xjoa 135 2()3 9] 858 I Haug 2G;i Bacon 37190^ V- —^ < ^^ 136 26i 90 357 [ Hog 2(;i and 372 897 llesu?, i^han(jdl'61 'liJo ^\)obG) is 2155. Collate these two passages, page 228, " Besuscitatio " : — 32 HERMES STELLA. No. 2. No. 1. his \ is 139 268 87 353 C cannot 131 259 95 362 not 140 2()9 80 352 i be 132 260 94 361 Biioon 270 351 l-inJrcd 1 33 201 93 360 until 141 271 85 350 J except 134 "^ you 135 262 92 359 it 142 272 84 349 263 91 358 is 143 273 83 348 6e 136 264 90 357 xvell 144 274 82 347 7iani/ed 137 265 89 356 lianrjed 14o 275 81 31G for 138 Ho- 266 267 88 355 354 If wo collate these passages and subtract or add the columns we get some curious results. Take the 3rd and 4th columns of the 2nd Table and subtract, also of table 1. No. 2. f 353 -87=266 ] 352-86—266 j 350-85=265 ^ 349-84=265 I 348-83=265 j 347-82=265 1^346-81=265 No, 1. f 362 — 95=267 TWords all counted up, p. I 361-94=267 ^ 228, and itaUcs also up; ! 360-93=267 i^subtraeted. J 359-92=267 ] 358-91=267 ! 357-90=267 I 356-89=267 '^355-88=267 Now let us add the two centre columns toafether, No. 2. f 268 + 87=355 I 269 + 86=355 271 + 85=356 272 + 84=356 273 + 83=356 I 274 + 82=356 ^275 + 81=356 No. 1. ^259 + 95=:z354 TWovds all counted down I 260 + 94:1^=354 <^ and italics counted dcwn ! 261 + 93=354 l^added together, p. 228. I 262 + 92=354 263 + 91=354 264 + 90=354 I 265 + 89=354 ^266 + 88=354 We collate these two passages l^ecause, not only are they almost exactly identical, but they form and embi'ace the pith of the iitory we are examining, and it is just wpon this word Hanged that the entire proof, if there be a cipher herein, ought to revolve; First mark that we everlastingly get in one case the number 207, which the reader will see is Hog, all counted down this page 228, table 2. Another constant result is the number 265, and we HERMES STELLA. ^-i, find (similarly) in the same table, 2n(l col., the 2G5th word Hansfed. We also find another of our constant numbers 356 against Hanged and another constant number 354 against Hog. We have now Hog Hanged, whose numbers are, Hocj 267 354 Hamjed 265 356 And we have all these numbers given to us constanthj, not in one table, but in both ! ! I This proves how all these figures are arranged, so as to combine and concentrate round the words Hanged Hoj ! The subtraction and adaco7i" or "/or" and " /s " in congruity with / or Bacon (2G8), giving us : — Hanged for Hog is Bacon (or) I. If we collate page 53, M. W. W., with these words, Jfor/ !s, page 228, " Kesuscitatio," we get — Hog 267 For 267 or Bacon 267 is 268 Bacon 268 or I 268 Giving us Hog is for Bacon, or Jfor/ is Bacon I. The sum of the italic words (Ist it 3rd columns) throughout this page is 22G, and no doubt it is a base number for Hog upon page 53, M. W. W., column lOG. There ax-e three Hotj words on that column, ;md they are all inter- connected by their italic or other numl)ers We liiid the first : — 1st. Hog 26 (italics down) 226 ft-om end of scene (page 04) Tip. 2nd. Hog 36 2()2 ! ! ! (2G2— 36.-^22G). So that we find the first and second are related by 3G, wliich \ye find is the italic number also. 262—36^226. HERMES STELLA. 35 3rfl. Hog 2G4, subtract 36—228, page of " Resuscitatio " on which tlie Sfith Apophthegm with Hanged Hog story is found. The ci-itic must see at once the connection between the line : — Hang-Hog is Latin for Bacon and this page 228 of the "Resuscitatio." The connecting link is 36, being the italic nuinl)er of Hog, the number of the Apophthegm 36 and the number of the plays in the 1623 Folio. We find in the above line : Hang 2G3 down, 100 up, page only, 201 end of scene up Hog 264 downi 99 200 Deduct 36 from 264 264—36=228. Here is our pnge 228 of the " Resuscitatio " with the 36th Apophthegm, which add to it : — 228 + 36=264 Hog, p. 53, M. W. W. Giving us back Hog and saying as plainly as possil)le Hog or Hang Hog, page 228, " Resuscitatio," Apophthegm 36. Directly we look do^vll at the 264th word (omitting a in a a pass) we find it Hanged 264. Hog 264. (counting error) or Hanged 265 be 136 264 (Hog). Add 36 to 100 (against Hang)=136, giving us Hang be Hanged (the sequent word). Let the critic undei'stand we believe the error is purposely introduced, and we dare not take liberties with it. Experts mubt decide whether the cipher sequence depends upon its correction or retention. Correcting it we get except 262 page 53, M. W. W. Hang You (Hog) 262 Hoq be 263 Hang hanged 264 Hog This is unmistakeable, but it leads to difficulties in other points, D-2 36 HERMES STELLA. and we believe it is not the final and real count. This point affects the complete solution of the problem but leaves our proofs untouched. Remember it only affects one column (after 164 1C5), and does not touch the words in italics. " You he Hanged " are key words corresponding to " Hang Hog " is or Hog Hang Hog 2G2 263 264:— __ Ho(j Uaiuj Ho(j. You (Hofj) he Hanged. The italic numbers : — - You 135-35=100 p. 53, M. W. W. Hang 100 up page be 136-35=101 Hog 101 Hanged 137-35=102 Hang 102 prove our discovery. If we subtract the play numbers 35 and 36 we get : — 135-36=99 136-36=100 137-36=101 Hang 99 264 Hog" 100 263 Hog 101 262 The two great important numbers upon page 228," Resuscitatio, " are 225 and 226 ; because there are 225 words in italics, and the sum of the italics is against every word (up and down) 226, or one more. HERMES STELLA. 37 "BACON'S SECRET BOOK." It is our opinion that the "Secret Book," introduced upon page 52, column 99, of the Histories, is nothing else but the 1671 " Resuscitatio," containing the 36th Apophthegm with the Hanged Hog story of Sir Nicholas Bacon. It is a very singular coincidence that this passage of the text, commencing, And now I will unclasp a Secret Book, counting up the page, gives us with its first word the same number as the page on which we find the story, viz., 228 ; and (down) the numbers correspond with Hang Hog, page 53, M. W. W. Here they are : — And 260 228 now 261 227 I 262 226 will 26.3 225 unclasp 264 224 a 265 22.3 Secret 266 222 Book 267 221 Collate Accusativo 260 Hang 261 Hog 262 Hang-Hog 26-3 is 264 Latin 265 for 266 Bacon 267 be 260 kindred 261 except 262 you 263 be 264 Hanged 265 for 266 Hog 267 The first Hang Hog is not hyphenated, but the second is, and we may fairly argue or suppose it is intended to count as one word. The reader sees how very, aptly the congruous numbers read — Secret Book, for Bacon, for Hog, But the greatest and most convincing proof lies in the extra- ordinary fact that, if upon our table of page 228, " Resuscitatio," we subtract the 4th column, or count all up and the italic column up also, against the pith of the story, we always get 267. 38 . HERMES STELLA. You 98 365 subtract 365— 98=267 Book Bacon 267 and 97 364 364— 97-=.267 Book Bacon 267 I 96 363 363—96=267 Book Bacon 267 cannot 95 362 362—95=267 Book Bacon 267 be 94 361 361— 94=267 Book Bacon 267 kindred 93 360 360—93=267 Book Bacon 267 except 92 359 359— 92=267 Book Bacon 267 you 91 358 358—91=267 Book Bacon 267 be 90 357 357—90=267 Book Bacon 267 hanged 89 356 356—89=267 Book Bacon 267 And if we count Hang-Hog (hyphenated) as one word, p. 53, M. W. W., then Bacon is the 267th word down tlie column. THE VOCATIVE CASE. • Collate column 106 Comedies with column 106 Histories: CoL 106, Cmds. Remember 78 up as 78 up. Col. 106, Hist. William 77 Tom 77 Focative 76 Dick 76 is 75 and 75 Caret 74 Francis 74 (East-cheape one word). Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon. Both these counts are up from the bottom of their respective columns both 106. This is very remai'kable ; because althougli we have the word Bacon on (page 53, M. W. W.) this column 106 (in the line Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon), we have no Christian name Francis, but find it on an exactly identical numbered page, and agreeing with Caret, in the same up count ; (or, if we count East-Cheape as two words agreeing with "/«"75). Tlie vocative is the calling or sumrnoaiiKj case, and a])i)lies particularly tf> chrintiaii names. Bacon coiikl not introduce the name Francis HERMES STELLA. 39 upon the same page as the word Bacon, without betraying his secret out of hand. He therefore (we propose) relegates it 22 times to a particular page of the Histories, agreeing with this grammatical scene of the M. W. W., in paging and numbers, viz., 53, 54, M. W. W., 53, 54, 1st K. H. IV. (falsely paged 55, 56), columns 106, 107 Comedies, 106, 107 Histories. What seems to us suggested is " Francis is (75) Caret " (74) in sequence or congruity, viz., ivantlng to complete the full name, Francis Bacon. Upon this column, where we tind Francis, a few words above it we find the word Xames : Their Names as Tom, Dick, and Francis. Names is the 79th from the bottom (80th " East Cheape" two words). Upon column 106 Comedies we find (counting also up the page), Vucativo 80, collate their 80, or names 80 O 79, names 79 Upon column 107 (same scene, p. 54, M. W. W.) we find the word Christian again, the 80th from the end of the scene. Column 107 (Comedies) Christian 80 (up) ; Column 106 (Histories) Names 79. Considering one word is upon column 107 and the other upon 106, if we subtract each number 80 and 79 from their respective columns 107, 106, we arrive at congruous figures. 107—80—27 106—79=27 Christian Names Seeming to suggest that the Vocativo is a blank or wanting, {Caret), viz. Francis, absent upon this page with Bacon upon it, but elsewhere on a similar numbered page, indicated as the want- ing or callinfj case. This indeed is our theory, of which we are convinced, that every word Francis, column 107 (Hist.) is in .cipher collusion with Bacon, or the synonyms for Bacon, viz.. Me, Hog, Hang, 40 . HERMES STELLA, Anon. In short the expert will iind upon exhaustive and inductive expeiiuient that the words are congruous or in sequence direct Vocativo (O) Christian Names. In this cipher words may be sequents, and a fatal error may arise from overlooking this fact If a word is the next number to another likely one, it is as valuable a hint as if it agi-eed with it, and the column paging must always enter into the problem. We can at once prove this to be the case by the following example. Upon column 107, page 54, M. W. W., we find the word ^'■Step" and upon column 107 (also mark) of Histories, page 54 (also) 1st K. H. IV.,we find another '■^ Step," and these are their numbers : — ; p. 54, M. W. W. Step 167, 267 up. (Col. 107, Comedies). p. 54, 1st. K. H. IV., Step 167, 274 up. (Col. 107, Histories). 1st columns down, second up. — Now here is not only proof of cipher collusion, but of a profounder interconnection. Either aild 107 to 167, or subtract it from 274. Step 107 + 167=274. Step 274-107=167. Showing that the column number 107 (on wliich these tivo identical loords are found), is the difference number between their respective number 1G7 274. This is doubtless a key word for nCipher Step. Nobody can possibly doubt the existence of this cipher, who proves such facts as these upon carefully constructed tables, as we have. The above relationship of 167 and 107 and 274, is very easily explained, but the explanation strengthens the proof of cipher existence. Upon column 107 (Histories), or the Francis scene column, p. 56 (really 54), 1st K. H. IV., there are exactly o39 words, omitting the final fiaction of a word " cal." (calling belonging to top of the next column), or 440 counting it. HERMES STELLA. 41 Upon the second scene, p. 54, M. W. W., there are 332 words. Subtntct 439— 332= J 07 The reader will see how extraordinary it is to find exactly a difference of 107 words between these two pieces, viz. : — Column 107, Histories, and the piece of Scene II., column 107, Comedies. Because every scene or piece ends and begins a new cipher count, we believe, or have reasons for believing. Let the reader open our table of column 107 Histories (page 56, 1st K. H. IV.) Let him turn to the first word Francis on this page. It is the 156th down the page; the 293rd word from the commencement of the scene; the 26th in italics down the page ; the 32nd from the opening of the scene ; the 6th in italics up the column ; the 285th up the column ; — - Column lOl.—Fraacis 26 156 6 285 32 293 Don't let the reader be alarmed at all these figures. In a pro- blem of this sort we may be cei-tain that if a cipher really exists, and is no mare's nest, every figure should count for some- thing, and we are upon an inductively scientific basis if we ex- haust all possible and probable counts, that is from the top and bottom of the columns, and from the beginning of collateral scenes. As we find the scene opens upon column 106 (corres- ponding to William scene, column 106, Comedies), with the first Francis that side, we are bound to take the entire scene into account. This is particulai-ly to be insisted, because there aie 137 (136 " East-Cheape " one word) words upon column 106 of this scene, and we have profound reasons for believing this is a key number (or one of them) seeing " he Hanged " are the 136th and 137th words in italics, page 228, " Revsuscitatio," and seeing page 53 M. W. Windsor we find : — Numbers 136 227 be 227 136 is 137 226 Now our theory is that the column paging numbers play 42 HERMES STELLA, first part in this problem. Add the column number 107 to 156, and we get : — 156 + 107 = 263. The first word of the line : Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon I warrant you, is the 263rd down page 53, M. W. W. (column 106, the Comedies). If Hog is a disguise for Bacon, Hang, its precedent (mark the word), ought, or might correspond to Francis, thus : — 263 Hang Francis 156 + 107=263 264 Hog Bacon. Tlie next word on the table is " thaty 263 Hang Francis 156 = 263 264 Hog That 157 + 107=264 Now it is well worthy a note that the demonstrative pronoun, Hie, llcec, Hoc (of which Hog is the accusative case, identified with Bacon), is Latin for " tliis " or " that" particular person or thing. Now deduct 32 (number of italic words) from 293 words all counted from opening of the scene (as is also the italic number) : 293-32=261. This is a second confirmation of our first discovery, for upon p. 53, M. W. W., we find Hang Hog Hang Hog twice repeated in succession, thus : — Hang 35 261 Francis 293—32 = 261 Hog 36 262 Hang 263 Francis 156 + 107 = 263 Hog 264. 8o that it is very curious to find we get Francis tunce correspond- inij u'.ltlt Hanfj. Directly we subtract 293 and 156, number of Francis (down), we get : — 293—156=137. HERMES STELLA. 43 Upon page 228, " Resuscitatio," we find the 137th word iu italics down the page to be Hanged : — be 136 264 90 357 f Hog 264, M. W. W. Hanged 137 265 81 356 \ is 265. But we have ah-eady got Hang twice in collusion with Francis. So we have Hang Hanged. Look at the figures against " be Hanged ;" they are 264 265, which upon page 53, M. W. W., are " Hog is " in the line Han Of Ho£C is Latin for Bacon. Let the reader subtract 6 from 285 against Francis. 285—6=279. Examine page 53, M. W. W., and we find 279, Focative or Vocative, which falls in with the word " calling." (155 -1-107=261.') calling the 278 1 column 106, M. W.W. Hog 262]^ (285 — 6=21\)) truiic'is Fucative '21'd } Hang 263 j The critic must confess this is curious, and too ingenious for us to lay claim to its invention. Let the reader subtract 32 from 293 and the sequent words ; he will get all the numbers of the line : — - Hang Hog, Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon, I warrant you. - which are 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271. Add the column to numbers down. ] 156 + 107=263 Hang I 157 + 107=264 Hog I 158 + 107=265 is ! 159 + 107=266 Latin ^160 + 107=267 for I 161 + 107=268 Bacon 162 + 107=269 I j 163 + 107=270 Warrant The reader must see how extraordinary it is to find two separate columns giving almost exactly the same result, and, in an informal way, giving doggerel sense, in harmony with our 156 Francis 32 1 293- -32= =261 Hang 157 that 294- -32= =262 Hog 158 his 295- -32= =263 Hang 159 tale 296- -32c: =264 Hog 160 to 297- -32= =265 is 161 me 298- -32= =266 Latin 162 may 299- -32= =267 for 163 be :300- -32= =268 Bacon 44 HERMES STELLA. theory that the tale of Hang'd Hog in the 36 th Apophthegm, " Resuscitatio," is "/or Bacon" and points " to Bacon" and is a warrant for Bacon's name in connection with the plays Allow, further, that this is only the first attempt at a fearfully difficult and subtle matter, and reading it by the light of all our further discoveries it is hardly too much to say there is something in it. The 36th Apophthegm can be fairly called the " tale," or story, of Hanged Hog. We actually find Hog 264 agreeing with tale on one count, and Hanged 265 (" Resuscitatio ") is either precedent or sequent to Tale, thus : — (his) Hanged Hog Tale. Observe that " me " actually agrees (one count) with " Bacon " 268, and that " loarrant " agrees with " Bacon" also. The second Hang Hog, on p. 53, M. W. W., is a hyphenated word, and may possibly count as one word, in which case we should read Hang Hog Tale. Those that doubt our discovery have only to look at Heart, p. 56, 1st K. H. IV., col. 107, Histories. P. 53, r Bacon 268 95 Heart 268 173 up column 107 Hist. M. W. W. \ I 269 94 Francis 269 172 Upon page 53, M. W. W. Bacon is the 268th down the page and the 95tli up. Subtract 268-173::=95 (agst heart) Showing plainly the reciprocal collusion of the two columns. ME is related to Heart : — ME 161 280. Add column number 107. 161 + 107^268. 280-107=173. Heart 268 173. >Showiug " Ilmrt " is for {Bacon himself) " Me," and the sequent woi'd " Francis " his Christian name. r/> 1 i. T^ XT r\7 f 268 Heart. Bacon 268 ) ,, „, ^^r ro p. 56, 1st. K.H.IV. { ...... ,, _ „^,, V M.W.W. p. 53. * ' ( 209 rraitcis. 1. 209 J ^ But as one of those extracts is upon column 106 and the other HERMES STELLA. 45 on column 107 of Comedies and Histories Ave must correct it thus : — ( Heart 268-107=161 + 106-267 | For p. 53 M. W. W. ) Francis 269-107=162 + 106=268 |' Bacon p. 53 M. W. W. As our desire is to prove the existence of a cipher in the plays we lind on column 107 (Histories) 1st K. H. IV., p. 56 : — me 161 280 298 \ column No. 107 161 263. Bacon p. 53 M.W.W. Again (bis)— me 279 162 416 /column No. 107 162 269. I p. 53 M.W.W. The critic will see that they are in inverse sequence^ that is that the numbers are 161 162 279 280, doivn and up or one column 161 162 (down and up the page) following each other and the other figures up and down 279, 280. This by itself would prove a cipher. Just think how extraordinary it is to find two words both the same ME, in double (not single) sequence ! Think how far more extraordinary it is to find that directly we add the number of the column on whicli these words are found to 161 and 162, we get 268 and 269 which upon page 53, M. W. W., are " Bacon /," or " / Bacon " agreeing perfectly vdth what we should expect to be the reply to the words ^^ 31 E ME" viz., "I Bacon" '■^ ME Bacon'" U! Subtract 280 and the column number 107, and we get 173. Look at the 173rd word up. It stands thus : — Heart 268 173 Now is it not doubly extraordinary to find heart the 268th down, or Bacon 268, M. W. W., again. And if we subtract 107 f]'om 268 we get 161 against ME again, showing the manifest reciprocal ciphering of these words. Subtract 107 from 279 (in the second ME). 279—107=172 Look at No. 172 up (2nd column) of this column 107, Histories. Francis 269, 172 Subtract 269 — 107=162, giving back again the 162 against ME. So it is plain, that these two ME ME's stand for Bacon -46 HERMES STELLA. Francis, or Francis Bacon. Directly we ^o to p. 53, M.W.W., and subtract the column number 106 from the words — For Bacon, 267 268 we .cret 267—106 =161, 268—106 ~162, which are the numbers of ME ME and " f^pp. /??"," 161 162, on this table. There can be no doubt then that 172 173 161 162 are impor- tant numbers in this problem. Anybody testing this for them- selves will at once be convinced that this cipher is no mare's nest, ]>ut a wonderfully constructed cryptogram tied in every possible direction, up and down, across, and in eveiy possible way. Bacon was afraid of introducing the name Bacon, upon a page covered with his Christian name Francis. So he had to use synonyms such as Anon, Anon, ME, IME. If we subtract 161 from 280 we get : — 280—161=119. And this number we find against Nicholas, at the opening of 36th xVpophthegin, p. 228, " Besuscitatio " : Nicholas 119 Bacoa 120. Examine again these numbers, column 107, Histories : — heart 268 173 I 268-107=161 161 + 106=267 For Francis '■lij'd 172 ( 162 + 106=268 Bacon Directly we add 107 (column number) to the two second columns, we get: — 173 + 107=280 172 + 107=279. And both these numbers are a,g;iinst — ME 161 280 1 280-107 = 173 1 „ , ME 279 162 j 279-107=172 f ^"^ ^^^°^^- We think this pi'oves the prime part the column paging plays in the problem of this cipher. Page 53, M. W. W. (con- taining Bacon's name and his Philosophical Grammar), has HERMES STELLA. 47 columns 105 and lOG upon it. We find on cohnnn 106, Bacon. The name of Francis is upon column 107 of the Histoiies, and there is a difference of one unit — thus : Comedies, cohimn 106, p. 53, M. W. W. Bacon, 2G8 down. Histories, cokmin 107, p. 54, 1st K. H. IV. Francis, 269 down. We now will suggest that Francis on this page is congruous ex- actly to the Vocative Case p. 53, M. W. W. The Francis quoted above is 172 up, column 107. Add these together: — 172 + 107=279 Look at the table for page 53, M. W. W., column 106. Focative — 279 Subtract the column number in this last case, 106 : — 279-106=173 We find this to be Heart : — Heart 268 173 And if we add the column number 107 to 173 we get 280, which upon p. 53, M. W. W., follows Focative, viz. :— Focative 279 Francis Case 280 Heart Telling us plainly that the heart of this mystery is in the Vocative or calling Case (which on page 53 is Caret or wanting) — Francis. One of our discoveries which prompted us to turn to the "Resuscitatio," 1671, was-as follows. Upon page 56, "Advancement" 1640, Bacon introduces, in context ivitli Apophtlieums, the following words: — Writing of C.nesar, and in context with his "AtiaIo;/ia " and book entitled "An ti Cato" (which seems to have been in ciphers) we have : — " He esteemed it more honor to make himself hut a '^^ pair of tables or Codicils wherein to register the wise and gi'ave '' sayings of others." There we have these words as to Cicsar's 48 HERMES STELLA. speeches: — "They are truly such as Solomon notes, Ver^^a ^^Sapientium sunt tanqnam Aadei el tanquam Clavi in altum defixiy Upon the previous page Bacon identifies himself, with Caesar and with the Due de Guise, so that Caesar seems only a safe cover or guard whereby Bacon may write of himself by Analogy, and this is why we maintain we find F. Bacon Apol. in the margin. Con- vinced that the page was in cipher we made a table of it, in four columns, viz. : Italic words up and down, and all counted up and down (or four columns of figures), of which we register only the two up columns here. Verba 36 274 collate p.53,M.W.W. Pnibles. 21i {Parahhs!) Sapientium 35 273 your 273 sunt 34 272 ianipiam aculei 33' 32 271 270 et 31 269 tanquam clavi 30 29 268 267 in 28 266 (ilf»m 27 265 (Icji.vi 2G 264 Leave 272 you 271 warrant 270 I 269 Bacon 268 for 267 Latin 266 is 265 Hog 264 This is striking because the fit is so exact, and it is worthy of note to find Verba Sapientiitni, 36 and 35, 36 being the number of the Apophthegm containing the .story of Hanged Hog in the 1671 " Resuscitatio," and all the preceding Apophthegms running as the numbers run here. A 60-331^271 you pair 61-330-269 I of 62-329=267 For Tables 63-328—265 is or 64-327r^263 Hang Codicils 65-326^261 Hang It appears that C{X3sar employed a ci})hor, which Suetonius has preserved for us in his " Life of .Julius Ca-sar," c. 56. " Extant " inquit ejus epistoke et ad Ciceronem, item ad familiares domes- " ticis de rebus: in quibus, si qua occulte perferenda erant, per HERMES STELLA. 49 " notas scripsit, i.e., sic structo litterarum online, lit nullum " verbum eliici posset : qua? si quis investig;ire et persequi vellet, "quartam elementorum litteram i.e. D pro A et perinde reliquas " commutaret." Compare A. Gellius in Noctib. Attic, lib. xvii., c. 9, the alphabet of which was — a b c d e f g h i k 1 m n o p q r s t w X y z d e f g h i k 1 m n o p q r s t u x y z a b c Now it is very striking to find Bacon introducing upon pp. 53 (55) 56 of the 1640 "Advancement," Csesar, and quoting Suetonius, paragraph 56, twice upon this page, containing " Gram- matical P/iilosopht/ " and Analogy, with the words, " All his wealth was in names,'''' with his own name, Francis Bacon, in the margin. There cannot be a moment's doubt Bacon introduces this quotation anil reference to Suetonius' "Life of Caesar " (56th paragraph) for just this hint of Ciphers which we have quoted. " Exstant et ad Ciceronem, item ad familiares domesticis de " rebus : in quibus si qua occultius perferenda erant, per notas " scripsit, id est, sic structo litterarum ordine, ut nullum verbum *' etfici posset : qu;ie si quis investigare et pei'sequi vellet, quartam " elementorum litteram, id est, a pro d, et perinde reliquas com- "mutat" (p. 36, paragraph 56, " Suetonius Tranquillus, Julius Caesar I.," Typis Danielio Elzevir Almsterodami, 1671). In a footnote we read, " Et ad Ciceronem. Ha'c Verba ex hoc loco sub- lata ad titulum, De Analoijia antiectit Torrentiiis, audacter." The whole of this 56 paragraph on Cfesar is full of hints for Bacon. It opens : — " Xam Alexandrini, Africique et Hispaniensis, " incerius author est." " Alii euim Oppium putant, alii Hirtium, " &c." It is just upon this point of authorship that the Bacon problem also revolves, and considering upon this page 53, " Adv.," we have Analogy in great capitals — that is, Caesar's Analogy, whose two lost books seem to have been upon ciphers or gram- matical philosophy, it is difficult to imagine a more direct hint. A Roman author of the name of Valerius Probus, who lived in the reign of Augustus, wrote a work on ciphers entitled " De K 50 HERMES STELLA. Slijlis sen de interpretatulis Romanorum not is," which was repub- lished and edited by ITenr. Ernstius in 1G47. Something about tliis work is to be found in " lo Georg Gi'ievii" (Thesaur. Antiq. Rom., torn. 1, p. 14 lit. a). It appears another writer, Octavianum Ferrarium (lib. de orig. Romanor.), maintained that this work of Valerius Probus was upon Caesar's Notes or Analogy. It may possibly be Bacon's w^ork, " Valerius Terminus " borrows its tirst title from Valerius Frobus. Upon page 5G, "Adv.," in context with Qesar, Bacon writes: — " So in that book of his, entitled Anti Cato, it doth easily " appear, that he did aspire, as well to victory of wit, as victory of " war, undertaking therein a conflict against the greatest cham- " pion of the pen, that then lived — Cicero the orator." In the margin we read : — '■^Plutarch in CUesar." Now here is a still more pertinent hint for Ciphers. For Plutarch in his life of Cato (p. 290, edit. Bazil, 1542). " Hanc solam, (inquit,) orationem " Catonis servatam ferunt. Cicerone consule velocissimos scriptores " deponente atque docente, ut per signa qutedam et parvas brevesque " notas inultarum litterarum vim habentes dicta colligerent : " nondum euim reperti erant hi, qui notarii appellantur, sed tunc primum hujus rei vestigium ferunt extitisse." That Bacon is hinting at these ciphers or shorthand notes, we do not for a moment doubt. Indeed, the entire introduction of Ctesar is to this point of liis KpyirToypacfiiav, which he employed in his affairs. Cicero himself confesses he used ciphers. He wi-ites, " Et quod ad te de decern legatis scripsi, parum intellexisti credo quia Sta a-rjixuuiv scripseram." (XIII. ad Attic ap. 32.) It is very curious to note that Gruter (wlio pul)lished many of Bacon's posthumous works at Amsterdam) gave the world a work (m this subject ("Quod De Inscriptionibus Veterum Agit") wliich we should like to come across The most exhaustive and extraor- dinary work upon this subject of ciphers was published in 1623, the date of the folio plays and of the " De Augmentis." Its title is " Gustavus Selenus Cryptomenytyces," and it was published HERMES STELLA. 51 anonymously at Liiueberg. This was one of the head centres of the Rosicrucians or Militia Crucifera Evangelica. De Quiney mentions a meeting of them at this place. Breithanpt main- tains the real author was the Duke of Brunswick and Liineberg (Augustus), a prince of most extraordinary learning and virtue, who seems in some mysterious way to be mixed iip with actors, plays, and the Rosicrucians. It has been conjectured by some writers that Sliakespeare acted before him.* In the play of " Die 8chone Sidea," there are extraordinary parallels to the play of the " Tempest." The fact that we find Bacon introducing his Ciphers with Caesar's Analogy, and Grammatical Philosophy, not as a literary grammar (mark), but as Notes of Things by Con- gruity of figures mathematical, is an enormous proof of what he is hinting at, page 53 (bis), in context with Cicero and Cato (Plutarch and Suetonius) as to ciphers. It is Ccesar's letters to Cicero written in cipher, that Bacon is hinting at, p. 56, as he shows by his reference, p. 53 (bis), twice to paragraph 56 of Suetonius, where these ciphers are mentioned as already quoted — per notas scripsit, hinting he is doing the same thing. It is well to notice here that Bacon gives an example of a Spartan despatch called Scy- talam Laconicam in the Vlth book, " De Augmentis," which was a round staff used by the Lacedaemonians for sending private letters to their generals. So that the word Laconic has become emblematical of cipher shorthand or brevity. It is important to note this, because Tenison in his " Baconiana " tells us his style is Asiatic, and quotes Boccalini about the Laconian style of writing in two words what might be expressed in three. The entire Rosier ucian 1st manifesto is borrowed from Boccalini's " Ragguagli di Parnasso,'' and it is curious to find Tenison open- ing his work with a quotation from it. Wherever we find Laconic introduced it is certain we have to deal with a work written in cipher, and expressing something inside the text. . * " Die Schone Sidea " was written by Jacob Ayrer, who died 1605. English Actors were in Ayrer's town, Nuremberg, in 1604 and 1606; in 1613 Eughbh Actors performed " Sidea." 52 HERMES STELLA. How extensive was the use of this method is shown in Sir Philip Sidney's motto attached to the title-page of the Countess of Pembroke's " Arcadia " : — with the picture of a pig : " Non tibi Spiro." Cipher writing was the safeguard and instrument of the age, used to fight the Papal Power, and assist the work of the Refor- mation. Such societies as the Rosicrucians could only exist by its means. It is probable that the entire Elizabethan literature is deeply permeated with this system. Its history has yet to be written. But that a method of secret marks was in extensive use may be seen in a great number of works of that date, beai'ing in the head pieces mysterious dots, colons, notes of interrogation, sometimes a hand with a finger pointing, and numerous other secret signs. The " Resuscitatio " of 1671 is full of them, so is Tenison's " Baconiana," Boccalini's " Ragguagli di Parnasso," translated by Henry, Earl of Monmouth, into English, 1C74. Breithaupt writes : — (Ars Decifratoria) that Cicero first invented or used these shorthand notes or ciphers (p. 32, 33, 34). " A " Graecis eruditionem acceperunt Romani, quos partim curiositas, " etiam necessitas eo compulit, ut animum ad culturam hujus " studii adjicerent. Exinde enim, quod senatorum vota ad " verbum haberi non poberant, sa?pe contigit, ut in judiciis " maximae conf usiones et rixjc oriuntur. Qusire suadente et " urgente imprimis Cicerone qui tum temporis consulatum " gerebat, Romani de iuveniendo modo fuere soliciti, quo alterius " scrmo a verbo ad verbum calamo excipi posset. Quod negotium " primus adgressus est libertus quidam Ciceronis nomine Tullius " Tiro qui in excogitandis quibusdam notis bi^evissimis quie loco " amplissimorum vocabulorum essent, adeo felix f uit ut orationem " integram Catonis festinanter loquentis adverbum exciperet." CjBsar's work"ANTi Cato," which Bacon quotes,was written in rej)ly to Cicero's Cato. Caesar's "Analogia," or as Cicero explains it, " De Ratione Latine Loquendi," were investigations on the Latin lang- uage. Bacon writes of this work : ''Admonish'd by such a woik we HERMES STELLA. 53 " have conceived and comprehended in our mind a kind of " Grammar that may dihgently incpiire, not the analogy of ivords " one toith another, but the analogy betvjeen ivord and things, or " reason ; besides that interpretation of Natnre v;hicli is suhordi- " nate to Logic. Surely words are the footsteps of reason, and footsteps " do give some indication of the body." So that this is not a liteiary, but a Philosophical Grammar, in context with Poetry, Ciphers, and Notes on things by mathematics or figures (stars 35 and 30), and no doubt pointing to the plays. Caesar is Bacon's prototype. Julius Csesar, like Bacon, was brought up as a lawyer or orator, until he left it for the army ; and, like Bacon, was considered by the ancient writers as one of the first orators of his age, who describe him as only second to Cicero. He wrote (like Bacon again) a collection of witty sayings (or "Dicta collectanea") of his own and other people, which Bacon calls Apophthegms. It is certain Caesar stands in the " De Augmentis " as an alias (by analogy) for Bacon. He wrote a tragedy, "Oedipus," which was suppressed by Augustus, and " Poemata" (" Laiales Hercidis ") . It is worthy of note that Bacon introduces the subject of Apophthegms in three important places. Pirst upon page 56 of the 1640 "Advancement" where they follow upon the heels of Analogy, Grammatical Philosophy, Vox ad Placitum, and where- he calls them Tables or Codicils. — He propounds three upon this page 56, the second being strangely apposite to the question of the Bacon-Shakespeare author- ship.— The Apophthegm is as follows : — " Caesar did extremely " affect the name of King ; therefore some were set on, as he " passed by, in popular acclamation to salute him King : he find- " ing the cry weak and poor, put off the matter with a jest as if *' they had missed his surname, Non rex sum (saith he) sed Ccesar, " indeed such a speech, as if it be exactly searched, the life and " fulness of it can scarce be expressed. For first it pretended a " refusal of the name, but yet not serious ; again it did carry 54 HERMES STELLA. *' with it an infinite confidence, and magnanimity ; as if the appella- *' tion Ccesar had been a more eminent title than the name of King ; " which hath come to pass, and remaineth so till this day. But that " which most made for him, this speech by an excellent contri- '• vance advanced his own pxn'pose ; for it did closely insinuate " that the senate and people of Rome did strive with him about " rt va'm shadoiv, a name onlij {for lie liad ilie power of a Kiixj " already) and for such a name only, whereof mean families were " invested ; for the surname Eex was the title of many families ; '' as we also have the like in our dialect." Mark that all this is upon page 56, Bacon being 5G in 1616. when Shakespeare died. On the other side of the page, marked 53 (for 55), or Shakespeare's monumental age, we find Bacon, identifying himself with the Duke de Guise in these words : " This was likewise the portion of that noble Prince, howsoevei- " transported with ambition, Herny, Duke of Guise, of whom it " was usually said that he was the gi-eatest usurer in all Fiance " because that all Ids v;ealth was in names, and that he had turned *' his whole estate into obligations." Against this in the margin are the words S. Fran. Bacon. ^/)oZ., being the defence or apologia of Sir Francis Bacon, who thus identifies, or, as he states in the next line, " repre- sents" to himself this Prince 3 "But the" admiration of this Prince, whilst I represent him to myself, etc." — Now, the thoughtful reader will at once see that the story of Ctesar we have given, and this description of the Due- de Guise are strangely alike. Both turn or point to names, and power without title, for the Due de Guise without the title of King was really (as was said of him) tlie uncrowned King, and Henry III., the crowned nobody. The parallel must at once strike the student, that if Biicon wrote the pla)s which carry Shakes- peare's name,this position was and is analogous to these two his- torical examples he cites. Like Ctesar " he had the power of a King already " without the name (which he shows icas a surname HERMES STELLA. 55 also and which he calls " a vain shadow, a name only"). The more we study the history of the Due de Guise, the more the ob- ject of thus introducing him as a parallel appears to us suggestive. Because, to have power without title, or to hold the might, or the ability, and be yet unacknowledged, is just what Bacon's position with regard to Shakespeare must have been and which is so pertinent in these two historical examples. Without being named Kings, both Cfesar and the Due de Guise were tantamount sovereigns. They were in effect Kings without the title. And it is just upon this title or sur-narne that the question of relation- ship of Bacon to Shakespeare revolves. It may also be as well to note as we find this story of Cce-sar and Rex, in context with Grammatical Philosophy, how pertinent it is to the pronoun scene upon page 53 of the M. W. Windsor. In some of our Latin Grammars we find the Pronoun described as a noun or word standing in the place of another noun, and Hie Htec Hoc defined as a demonstrative pronoun pointing to a particular person or thing, as Caesar, Rex, etc. These actual examples are given in some grammars. The fact that the scholar William has to de- cline this demonstrative pronoun standing in the place of another name and leading up to the objective or accusative case identified with Bacon's name is striking. For it turns ujwn names — the pronoun being with exquisite wit identified here with the actual name it stands in place of ; — Hanrj Horf is Latin for Bacon I warrant you. The next introduction of Apophthegms is upon the page intro- ductory to poetry, viz. 104 of the " Advancement " ; where we find them the 23rd word in italics from the top of the page. As they are in context with the deeds of men, as Appendices of History, it is most important to note what Bacon says of them : — " Neither are Apophthegms only for delight and ornament, but " for real business, and civil usages, for they are as he said, " secures aut mucrones verhorinn, which by their sharp edge cut and ^' j^enetrate the knots 0/ matters." Now how thoroughly this agrees 56 HERMES STELLA. with the Hang'd Hog story of the 3Gth Apophthegm, as cutting and penetrating the knot of the line : — Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon. Upon page 56, Bacon desci-ibes them as " YerJxi Snpipriihi'ni svvt " tanquani aculei et tanquam chnri in cdtium dcfxi,^' Avhich is taken from Solomon's words (Ecclesiastes 12): — " The words of " the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened." (It may be noticed that clavi is also the Latin for keys). He calls them 'tnucrones verboritm or pointed speeches, and the hint which we have in the words, " that they cut and penetrate the knots of matters," should be well taken to heart. We find Bacon once more introducing them \ipon page 108 in these words : — " But Poesy allusive, or parabolical, excells the rest, and " seemeth to be a sacred and venerable thing; especially seeing " Religion itself hath allowed it in a work of that nature, and by " it, trafics divine comuiodities with men. But even this also " hath been contaminate by tlie levity and indulgence of men's " wits about allegories. And it is of ambiguous use, and applied " to contrary ends. For it serves for Obscuration ; and it serveth " also for Jllustratioii ; in this it seems there was sought a way " how to teach, in that an art how to conceal. And this way of " teaching which conduceth to Illastration was much in use in the " ancient times, for when the inventions and conclusions of " human reason (which are now common and vulgar) were in " those ages strange and uiuisual, the understandings of men '' were not so capable of that subtilty, uidess such discourses, by *' resemblances and examples, were brought down to sense. " Wherefore in those lirst ages all were full of fables, and of " parables, and of yEaiguias, and of similitudes of all sorts. " Hence the symbols of Pytliagoras ; the ^Enigmas of Sphinx ; " and the fables of -^sop, and the like. So the Apophthegms of " the Ancient Sages were likewise expressed by similitudes." HERMES STELLA. 57 The most striking facts in this problem of the cipher connexion between this 1G40 Advancement and the plays is this. The line Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon is upon column 106 of the Comedies. The Francis scene is upon column 107 of the Histories. Now in this 1640 "Advancement" the only pages (out of 500) upon which Stacje Platjs and the Drama are introduced are pages 106, 107. And if we halve these numbers we get 53, Shakespeare's age when he died, and the real paging on which we find Bacon and Gammon of Bacon in the Plays and Francis. Not only this, we see that the introduction of De Analogia and Grammatical Philosofhy upon page 53 of the "Advancement " 1640 is expressly done as a finger-post for the paging and it^ double for the co7i<»M«-paging of the plays, — point- ing to the 35 and 36th Stars or Deficients and to the 35 and 36 plays. The reader has only to open the 1640 "Advancement" to be convinced, as he will find the first false page 52, Shakespeare's full age, and the next, 53, his monumental age; and it is on this page that the great fingei--post is given pointing to the Precepts and Instructions of Learning given in the VI. Book under Ciphers and Congruity by Figures Mathematical. Common-sense suggests with extraordinary force that if Bacon wrote the plays known as Shakespeare's, and inseited a cipher in them, he would, somewhere in his prose works, hint or be in subtle touch with these plays, or allude to them. It is only natural to imagine the Works and their rationalistic key growing up together. And this is what we do see, in every possible detail as yet open to us, even to the date of the publica- tion of the plays in their first collected form, and this " De Augmentis," for both appeared in 1623 together. If there is a cipher in the plays, there must be a key and a method of directions left for unlocking it ; and, if so, we must expect to find such a work most obscure for safety's sake, and only hinting in indirect language at its real purport. Every line of the "Advance- ment," when studied as it ought to be studied, is replete with a 5-8' HERMES STELLA. profound system, and anyone who can read through what Bacon says in his "Wisdom of Private Speech/'page 210 (double 105, upon which poetry is first treated), and his handing on of the lamp for posterit\% will feel convinced of the truth of our theory. Nothing contributes so much to this belief as the paging. Upon page 53 (which coi-responds with page 53 of the M. W. W.) we find the mention of Grammatical Philosophy , which we refind under the 3Gth star, giving us Ciphers. There are 36 plays in the 1G23 Folio. Double this page 53, and we find on page 106 the drama first discussed in context with '•^feigned relations^ Double page 105, upon which poetry is first treated, and we find upon page 210 (false for 282) the 38th star, giving us the Wis- dom of Private Speech, which touches, as it were, the entire heart of the subject in hand. After page 280, the paging takes ii false sequence, and instead of 281, becomes 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216, and then it becomes 289 again, as if there had been no intermission of incorrect paging. Between the correct page 209 and the false 209 there are exactly 71 pages : — 280-209 = 71 Now, 71 is the sum of 35 and 3G, the two numbers of the plays in the Folio : — 35 plays in catalogue 1628 Folio. 36 plays with "Troilusand Cressida," 1623 Folio. Total 71 As we cannot too often repeat, under 35 and 36 we find Asterisks or Stars in the margent of the paging, giving us two of the Deficients of a New World of Sciences, entitled " Notes of Things and Gi'ammatical Philosophy," in context with Poetry and Ciphers. That this numbering is in touch with the 35 and 36 plays, cannot be questioned, except by polemical critics who are biassed against truth. Upon pages 208 and 209, we find the 26th Star, which discusses the nature of the Soul, and describes it as the Soul national. It is described as a gentle gale of wind, and, HERMES STELLA. 59- in the Latin version,* uses the same words as are used by the Soothsayer in " Cymheline^'' wliich is the last play in the Folio, and are to be found in the last act. It is curious to note that the annotations to " Hermes Stella," in Bacon's own hand, contain this number, Star 26, which was also the date of his death, 1G2G. In the 26th Sonnet of the so-called Shakespeare plays, we have a Star mentioned in highly suspicious language, as a Star of discovery and hiding. In context with this Star, in the "Advance- ment " we find much upon Divination, and these words, " The Astrologer hath his predictions from the situations of the stars." The object of false paging is undoubtedly to attract attention either to something upon the page falsely numbered, or to another page of the same number, or the pages embraced between the false and the real numbers. The first falsely numbered page in the 1640 "Advancement "is 52, or Shakespeare's traditional age ! Instead of 50 as it should be, we find 52. On the previous page we find " Orpheus Theatre " introduced, " Theatre " being the 50th word in italics from the top of the page, as if to say look at paS7iakes])eare and a real Shakespeare twice over. It is upon the real or correct page 52 that we find Homer's works intro- duced ; Homer being the 58th word in italics both from top and bottom, or central word of 115 words ! It is strange to find the first false paging in the Folio plays of 1623 falling on page 50, and being 58. It is stranger still to find these words : " His " reprehensory letter to Aristotle, after he had set foi-th his Booh " of Nature, wherein he expostulates with him for publishing the " secrets or mysteries of Philosophy, and gave him to understand " that himself esteemed it more to excell others in Learning and " Knowledge than in power or empire." ''Book of Nature'^ is written in italics, and forms the 61st, 62nd, and 63rd words from the top in italics. Now there are 115 words in italics upon this page, and if we subtract the paging, 52, from 115 we get 63, which is the number of the word " Nature." Top. Bottom, Book 61 55 of 62 54 Nature. 63 53 HERMES STELLA. 6i Xow upon page 53 (bis) false for 55, we find Bacon's name in the margin, the next page being correct, 5G. This was Bacon's age in 16 IG, and it is upon page 56 of the 1st part King Henry IV., we find his christian name introduced 21 times ! But the stiU more striking point is that the preceding page is 53 (numbered 55). In short 55 masks 53. Likewise upon tlie preceding page of 56 in the "Advancement" 53 masks 55. That all this is chance is ridiculous. The real corresjiondence of paging between the 1st part of King Henry IV. and this " Advancement " is striking. It com- mences upon page 50 again just as in this work. Open King Henry IV. The first page is 46, the next 49, and from 49 it turns regularly. Thus every page is two in advance of the real number and must be connected. Page 52 is really page 50, exactly as we find in the " Advancement," but what is more to the purpose, we find the lines so applicable to the subject : — " Peace, cousin, say no more, " And now I will unclasp a secret hook, " And to your quick conveying discontents, " He read you matter deep and dangerous. " As full of peril and adventurous spirit, " As to o'er-walk a current, roarino; loud " On the unstedfast footing of a spear e." A little lower down we read : — "He apprehends a World of Fif tlie Duke de Guise in these words, which we reproduce in fac- simile : — ■ " This was likewise the portion of that noble Prince, howso- " ever, transported with ambition, Henry Duke of Guise ^ of whom " it was usually said that lie was tlie greatest a^arer in all France t, p,.,,.,! " because that all his luealth ivas in names, and that he had turned Apo\]' '• his tuJtole estate into ohligations. But the admiration of this " Prince whilst I re^jresent him to myself not as Alexander the " Great, but as Aristotle's scholar, hath perchance carried me too " far.'' The first thing that struck us in this passage was to find Bicon's name exactly against the 23rd and 35th words in italics from the top of the page, viz., " that " and " his." But we were more astonished when we found " all his ■wealth, was in yiames " the 34th, 35th, 3Gth, 37th, 38th, 39th words in italics, and the 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110th words all counted. Because as there are 35, 36 plays in the Folio Catalogue and (with " Troilus and Cressida") body of the work, we were astonished to find these words '■'■all his wealth^' also the 105, 106 and 107th all counted. Upon page 105 Poetry commences; upon page 106 Dramatical Poetry is first opened; upon page 107, Stage-plays, and the Stage with Dramatical Poetxy, are again introduced. These 2 pages 106 107 are the only two pages in the entire work of 500 pages where the Drama, Stage plays are discussed and directly treated. The reader must at once be struck with the correspondence of numbers in the words : — Italics 34 35 36 " All Ills wealth." — all counted 105 106 107. Because under the 34th star or Deficient we find Analogy de- scril)ed as tlie indication of indications, and 35 as Notes of Things by Oongruity (numbers), and 36 Grammatical Philosophy or . HERMES STELLA. 63 Ciphers in context with poetry. Then atrain 3.") and 36 are the numbers of the plays, and upon pages 105, 106, 107 we find poetry and plays discussed for the first time, when the subject so entii'ely turns upon navies, the giving away of Wealth, or estate (which we find plays and poetry), to others. But the crown- ing point is : if we subtract 34, 35, 36 from 105, 106, 107 we get 71 which is the sum of 35 and 36, the catalogue and the real num- ber of plays in the 1623 Folio. The striking point is that it is always 71. Pages 105 106 107 o4 35 36 71 71 71 Let the reader turn to page 105, where poetry commences, he will find exactly 71 words in italics ! Mark that the sum of 34, 35, 36 is 105. On this page 105 the 71st u'orc^ " is Foetri/,'''' in these words : — " The Truest Partition of Poesy, and most appropi'iate, " besides those divisions common to it with History (for these " ave feigned Chronicles, feigned lAves, and feigned Relations) is "this, that it is either Narrative ; or representative or Allusive. " Narrative is a mere imitation of History, that in a manner it de- *' ceives us; but that often it extolls matters above belief, " Branimaticcd or Representative is as it were a visible History." Now the x-eader will mark these points, viz. :— - 35 plays in Catalogue 1623 Folio 36 plays (with " Troilus and Cressida" omitted). Total 71 Page 105 tliei-e are 71 words in italics . 105—71=34 105 106 107 34 35 36 " All his WealtJi," Poetry, Drama, Stage plays (pages 105, 106, 107). ( 34 Analogy. IncUcation of Indications Stars-: 35 Notes of Things Placitum,Congi-uity (36 Grammatical Philosophy and Ciphers with Poetry Total 105, or page on which Poetry commences. 64 BERMES STELLA. But the chief point turns upon " names " : — ■ All his ivealtli was in names 34 35 3G 37 38 39 " Names " is the 39th word in italics (down the page), the 5Gbh up. It is upon page 5G of the 1st K. H. IV., that the name Francis is inti-oduced 21 times ! Williani is the 39th word in italics, page 53, M. W. Windsor, in the line, — What is the Focative case William ? In the first paragi^aph of p. 53 (l)is) " Advancement," ending '^ArisfotJe's Scholar," there ai-e exactly 56 woi-ds in italics. Upon the same page, 53, of the " Merry Wives of Windsor " there ai'e also in the right hand column 56 words in italics. We, therefore, propose to table both these pages, being sure this is the only way to arrive at any discovery, by collating them. We have already found "yl7Z his wealth''' exactly collating with Himj Hawj Hog, as the 34, 35, 36 woi-ds in italics, and " was in names " collates in the same way with the '■'■Focative Case William" as the 37, 38, 39th words in italics. The Vocative Case is the Calling Case, and is especially ajDplicable to a Christian name. Now on page 56 (the same number as thei'e are italics upon both these collated pas- sages) we find the name Francis (Bacon's Christian name) called 21 times. The reader is begged to note that we already have the name or word Bacon in the line, Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon I warrant you. What we really want to prove our case is the Vocative or calling case Francis to make Francis Bacon. The reader will begin to see what is now meant by Grammatical Philosophy and those pregnant words on this page 63 of the "Advancement" •.— '■'■Precepts " and instructions of Learning, is well witnessed by that work of " his entitled De ANALOfiiA, which was nothing else but a 6Vrt/>?- " matical PJiilosophy.^ whei'ein he did labour, to make this viox ad, " lilaciluni to become vox. ad Licitum, and to reduce custom of *' speech to congruity of speech ; that woi'ds which are the HERMES STELLA. 65 *' imag3 of things, might accord with the tilings themselves, and " nob stand to the arbitrement of the vulgar." Directly we turn to the 35 star or deficient, (number of plays in Catalogue) we find " Notes of Things " and ad Placltum explained by congruity of figures, characters real, or mat/iematics. If we then go to the next star 3G, we find, under the Grammatical Philosophy, this farther explained, as declensions, conjugations, etc. (not a literate Grammar) as Philosophical Grammar in context with Poetry and Ciphers. Julius Cfesar in our opinion is only cover for Bacon by analogy, as he cannot write in the first person. So also the Due de Guise is Alexander and not Alexander : that is, Shakes- peare is Bacon and not Bacon. The contradiction " not as Alexander the Great but as Aristotle's scholar " is glaring, for Aristotle's scholar was Alexander the Great. In this paragraph there are 148 words. It is well to note that we find " Xumhers " the U8th word, p. 53 M. M. W. Our finding William the 39th word in italics (p. 53. M. W. W.) in congruity with *' 7iames," also the 39th word in italics (p. 53 "Adv.") is a curious coincidence. Because as " All his wealth was in tia77ies," we see the analogy that all Bacon's wealth (having given away everything like the Due de Guise) must consist in the name and turn upon the name of William Shakespeare. Now this same Williani (or Vocative case) is the 18th word in italics from the bottom of the page. Upon page 53 again, 1 K. H. IV. (falsely paged 55) we find Francis the 18th word in italics down the right hand column, being the 1st Francis ol th.Q 22 introduced. This same word Francis is the 75tli, all counted from the bottom. Upon page 53, M. W. W., we find "fs" the 75th word in the following line : — 75 Remember William Focatlve is caret which if we substitute by congruity we get : — Remember WiUiam Focative Francis caret, — as much as to say Francis the Vocative or calling case is wanting. F 66 HERMES STELLA. Upon page 53, M. W. Windsor, Bacon is tlie 95th word from the bottom of the page. If we add the number of any word in italics (downwards) to its number (up) hi italics upon page 53 (bis), *'Adv. of L.," we always find it 95. This explains itself when Ave state there are 94 words in italics, and by so doing we of course count the penultimate word twice. Example : — that 33 + 62=95— Bacon p. 53, M.W.W. all 34 + 01^95— Bacon his 35 + 60=95— Bacon wealth 33 + 59 = 95 — Bacon was 37 + 58=95 — Bacon in 38 + 57=95 — Bacon names 39 + 56 = 95 — -Bacon And so throughout the page. That this is chance is absurd. In like manner if we subtract the number of any word in italics, (downwards) from its number, all counted (also downwards) we get the result, 71, Example : — that 33- -104—71 all 34- -105r=71 h is 35- -106=71 ivealth 36- -107^71 vas 37- -108=71 ill 38- -109=71 names 39- -110=71 And so on throughout the page. Upon p. 105 (Poetry) 71 ItaHc words. As we consider this page 53 (bis) of the 1640 " Advt." is the most important page in the woi-k, pointing by its number 53 to Shakespeare, and to pages 53 in the Folio 1623 whei-e we find the word Bacon inserted, we reproduce it here in fac-simile. It is dithcult to explain why Bacon's name is placed in the margin, xinless to draw attention to the identification of himself with '■Names,' and with Sluihcsjyeare by the paging. But it is most striking to find upon this page, " De Analogia" and " Grammatical Philosophj" introduced, which we refind in the YIth Book, as the 36th Deficient of A New World of Sciences, and nothing short of ii system of ciphers in context with Poetry. All these obscrva- HERMES STELLA. 67 tions will have very little force, unless collated with the work it-self, because the Grammatical scsne upon page 53, M.W.W. (where we find the word Bacon), we maintain is nothing but cipher, and pointed at upon this fac-simile page of the "Advt.," by the paging, by Bacon's name in the margin, and by the finger- post iu the second paragraph, pointing to the 35 and 3Gth Stars or Ast3risks, which should be studied over and over again. Our main theory is that the William Grammar scene of page 53, 3^.^Y.^Y. (agi'eeing with this page), where we find the word " JJacoii" is in touch with the " Grammatical FJulosophy," or 3Gth star, introduced in the second paragraph. After i-eading this page of the " Advt." we give, turn to pages 252 for Analogy, 260 for the Philosophical Grammar, and notice they are the 34th, 35th (Notes of Things), and 36th Stars in order of Deficients (see Catalogue end of the work), and correspond with the play numbers, 35 and 36. If tlie reader studies all this profoundly, and not superficially, he will be convinced this page is a finger-post for '■^ Names," pointing to the same pages 53, M.W.W., 53, 1st K.H. IV., where we find the words " Bacon" ; and pointing to the ciphers, or great system of Analogij, Bacon borrows from Cpesar and gives in the Vltli book as a system of Dellvenj or Discover)/ by means of Ciphers. Tlie reproduction of the page is exact, and the original inay be seen in the British Museum. If the reader will count the words iu italics down the page he will find " all Jiis wealth " the 34th, 35th, and 36th wor' notas scrij^sit, id est, sic structo litter- '• arum ordine, ut nullum verbum eifici posset : qute si cj[uis inves- " tigare et persequi vellet, quartain elementorum litteram, id est, ■" A pro D, et perinde reliquas commutet." In a footnote wo Tead \_Et ad Clcerotiejiil, " Ha'c verba ex hoc loco sublata ad titulum De Ancdou'ia annectit Torrentius." (Elzevir 1671, C, Suetonius Tranquillus.) So it is certain that these ciphers of Caesar's have been considered to bo connected with his L)e Anidoage we meet with poetry and then ciphers, all very thinly disguised, foi* the 36 folio plays. But this is our crowning proof of the entire cipher character of this page, and of its connection Avith Hang Hog, that upon making a table of it we find it contains exactly 371 words and 101 in italics. Now mark the parallel, upon column 101 (also) of the Histories (page 53, 1st Iv. H. IV.), we find the 371st word is Bacon, in the words : — Gammon of Bacon. Directly we subtract 101 from 371 we get 270, which upon page 53 (again), M. W. W., is the word " Warrant" in the line : — Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon I warrant you. There is something particularly striking in this word, which is exactly what we should expect to find and seek, viz., a ivarrant that Hang Hog is a disguise for Bacon. Upon j). 228, " Eesusci- tatio," Hanged is the 265th word down the page. Upon p. 53, M. W. W., the word " is " (following Hog in the line quoted ^6 HERMES STELLA, above) is the 2G5th word, also down the cokunn 106. Add this column number lOG: — 2G54-10G3=:371 Bacon (column 101, Histories), giving us Hog (is) Hanged Bacon. A convincing proof of these Hgures, 2G5 371, is their perfect relationship to their pagings thus : — 53x5=2G5 53x7=371 How is it we find Stage Plays and the Drama in this woi'k, upon pages lOG, 107, corresponding to the paging column num- bers of the Comedies and Histoi'ies, on which we find " Hang Hog " is Latin for Bacon," and tlie Fi'ancis scene ? Upon page 107 we find the words : p -.^^ I' Commonwealth's 120 (or 119) 250 "Tit "IP ml '"^'f''/^ 1-5 1-1 (120) GO 249 ■ ^ [ rhvjs. 10 122 (121) 59 248 Kow we don't pretend to assert that what we draw atten- tion to is perhaps more than accident, but it is cuiious accident. Note that 15 and GO against the word stwje leaves the impi-ession of the date 15G0, the year Bacon was born. Upon column 107 Histoi'ies we find these numbers and words against the play number 3G : — 3G Francis 250 Col. 107. My 249 f >S7flvc 249 p. 107, "Advt." Lord 248 I Pluijs 248 If we subtract 107 from 250, 249 we get 143, 142, which num- bers, as well as 119 and 120, are against Sir Nicholas Bacon's name Apoph. 3G : — Sir 142 JS'iclioIits 119 143 107 Bacon 120 144 lOG Giving even the column numbers ICG and 107. We fiiul again on this page : — ^the 12 79 (78) C3 291 ,. ^ the 9G 95 274 istarjelZ 80 (79) G2 290 ^^^ {,stayc Ti 9G Gl 273 HERMES STELLA. 77 Tiie left hand example gives G3 and G2. Upon column lOG, Histories, we find ^'■Francis" (the 1st in the scene) the G3rd or 62nd (according as ^'- East-Chea-pe''' is counted one or two words) word down the scene, and the 75th vip. Add 12 to 63=75 ; 13 to 62 = 75, which is the constant cross number throughout this jDage 107 "Advt." of the sum of the italic words up and down, inasmuch as there are 74 words in italics upon it ; 74 is the double of 37 37x2=74. Upon columns lOG and 107 of the Francis Scene, there are exactly 37 words in italics, ^^ Francis" being the last. On columns 106, 107, M. W. W. (Comedies), there are exactly 74 words in italics, as on this page 107 also of the 1640 "Advancement." Subtract 291-63=228, 290-62=228, which is the page of the 1671 " Resliscitatio," 36 Apophthegm story. If we add the paging 107 to 121 we get 228. Upon page 22S "Resuscitatio" Bacon (Sir N. Bacon) is the 120th word in italics, Bacon (bis) the 121st. \dv 10" f'S'<«:/e 120. Bacon 120 (italics do^ra) 1 p. 228 ^ c . p. . ^pj^^^g -^21, Bacon 121 (italics down) J Resuscitatio. Whether this seeming connexion between page 107 Advt. 1640 and page 228 Resuscitatio is chance or no, must be decided by experts. 78 HERMES STELLA. CHAPTER III. CIPHER COLLUSION IN THE PLAYS. Directly we begin to collate all the "wovds Bacon and Ihtng IToj in tlie Plays with each other, we find a congniity dependent upon tJie addition of the, columns. For example npon page 54, 1st K. H. IV., we find, Bacon fed hiaves. Bacon is the IGOtli word down column 101. If we add this column 104 to 160 we get 264. Jlve payed from each of the three great division (Comedies, Histories, and Ti'agedies) commencements. The words " a-foot," " a-while," are separated by a hyphen. We are not sure tliey count as two words. But as they are separated have we no right to count 8o HERMES STELLA. them as two words each? Bab even if the critic disagrees with us, he will find the four words ^^ Bacon^' all falUiv/ with in a unit or two at the most from each other. For example, p. 53, 1st K. 11. IV., we find the line. Gammon of Bacon. Mr. Donnelly makes Bacon the 371st word down the column, find maintains it is a multiple of the paging, 53 X 7 = 371. This is column 101 of the Histories, and if we subtract we get 270. Upon page 53, M. W. W., the word ^^ varrant" following the word "Bacon I " is the 270tli word down the column. Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon I warrant you. This is highly suspicious, for what we are seeking is a ivarrant or guarantee that Hang Hog is Ilamjed Hog, and really an {illusion to Bacon's name, as related in the 36th Apophthegm, p. 228, " Resuscitatio," 1G71. This wo find abundantly proved. "We find the words " Be hamfd " no less than /our separate times on these pages with Bacon's name, and twice agreeing with ^' Hang Hog " upon p. 53, M. W. W., and we also find these words in the 3Gth Apophthegm, " llesuscitatio " p. 228, \ iz., the 261 and 265th words (or the 264 and 263rd words) showing collusion. They seem to give as result by congruity Jlor/ Ilamjid or Jfantj, Ilanrjed, in sequence or identity to such an extent as to overcome all criticism or doubt as to intention. Upon page 53, M. W. W., we have Hang Hog twice in succession thus : — 35 ITanrj 261. 36 ffor/ 262. Haiig 263. Hog 26-1. If we can find the woi'd Hanged rgreeing with any of these fo'ir woi'ds the result will be to suggest Hang d Hog. Now upon page 53, 1st K. H. IV., (where we find " Gcmmcn •of Bacon ") the reader will discover " Be hanged " twice : HERMES STELLA. 8i Be 263 or 262 / ha 362 dow-n limuiecl 262 261 \ hanged 363 Charles 261 260 r come 364 Waine 260 259 | away 365 This is upon column 101. Subtract or add this column number in both cases. 362-101:^=261 261 Hang, p. 53 M.W.W. 363-101—262 262 Hog. So that there is evidently a collusion betAveen the tA^o ^ets and the numbers 261 and 262, p. 53, M. W. W., Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon. The residt is, by collating, Hang=rbe Hog:^hanged. In the 1671 " Resuscitatio " we find, p. 228, the story of Judge Bacon in the 36th Apophthegm (or Play number 36). The words " Be Hanrjed " are the 263, 264, or 264, 265 (if we count the apparent printer's error, " a a jxiss "). In the last case " lian(jed " Avould follow Hog instead of falling on it. Upon cokimn 104, p. 54, 1st K. H. lY., where we again find Bacon twice, we find the word again " he lianged " the 263, 264th words up the column, (or 265, 266 if we count "a-foot " and " a-while " as two words). We challenge the critic to examine these cases, and whatever the question of doubtful words may be, lie will find that these words '' Be hanged " fall upon these five words, fHang 261 Hog 262 p. 53, M. W. W. /sheads;' " his title," Etc. 54 (56 false) 1st K. H. IV., Francis 21 times. Here are Shakespeare's and Bacon's ages in 1616. Ought we not HERMES STELLA. 85 to collate thaoi for a Cipher — the fake and the real? — thus : — False page 52 (page 50) " Secret Boole ^ Correct page 52 (page 54 false) "Baco)is," ^^Bacon." \i 53, M. W., (correct) Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon. 53, false, 1st K. H. IV., Gammon of Bacon. It is striking in lead to find Bicon, Bacons, Bacon (three times) 0:1 pages (corrected) 53, 52 (and Francis on 53 again), being Shakespeare's 2 ages (52, 53) and once on a false 53 (Gammon of Bacon). The reflective critic must consent to the theory that a cipher introduced for the purpose of identifying Bacon with the supposed author, Shakespeare, would gain immeasurably in matter of proof, by bringing the false author's age in as a factor in the problem ? It is indeed more than remarkable to find that in the 1640 " Adv." the pages on which Poetry, the Drama, Stage-plays are fully discussed, are pages 105, lOG, 107. Now the sum of Shake- speare's two ages, 52, 53, are 105. The double of 53 is 106, and 54 + 53=107. It is upon columns 106 and 107, M.W.W., 106, 197, 1st K. H. IV., that we find first Bacon's Philosophical Grammar and name, and secondly his Christian name Francis 22 times. The idea suggested is a doubling of Shakespeare, through his age 52, 53 ; thus to suggest Bacon is identical, and the double of Shakespeare. Thus column 104, 1st K. H. IV., is 52 X 2 104, and on this column 104 we find " On Bacons on." Bacon fed. On column 106, M. W. W., we find Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon. On column 106, 1st K. H. IV., Francis scene com- mences. We have a proof of this collusion involving the column 86 HERMES STELLA. paging between pages 53, M.W.W., and 53, 1st Iv. II. lY., thus : rilang 263 add col. 10G-— 369 M. W. W., col. 106 <; Hog 264 + 106=370 ( is 265 + 106=371. collate f Gammon 369 subtract the col. 101^268 Bacon p. 53, 1st <; of 370 - 101=269 I K. H.IV. t^ Bacon 371 - 101=270 Warrant. Hang Hog is Gammon of Bacon Bacon I warrant. It is indeed remarkable to find that directly we introduce the column numbers (or column • paging) as modifying factors of addition or subtraction, we find ourselves getting the numl;ers 262, 261, 267, 269, 270. Now all these numbers are upon the line : Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon I warrant. For example, we find column 101, page 54 (really 52), 1st K. H. IV., Bacons, Bacon, thus : — r On 197 164 up. fCatapiUars 157 204^1 up. Col. 104<; Bacons 198 163 -< Bacon 158 203 ' ^ ^ fed 159 202 f be 97 263 \ hanged 98 262 Collate Bacon 203 (Hansr^ j Baeou 158+104 (col.)=262 (Hog) I liaiieed 263 I Bacon 203—104=99 (Hog) 264 ^ On 16-?+ir4 = 26S I Bacons :63-t-104=267 1 On 164+104 = 268 "■A I I 261 94 195 I ' Bacons 198-104=94 ~ Warrant 270 93 194 J On 197-104=93. The reader must, without our assistance, be astonished at the proofs of cipher collusion. Take Bacon 158, 203. Add the column number and subtract it for the two figures : — 158 + 104=262, Hog. The next number is 203, and agrees with the count of Hang 203, giving plainly Bacon for Hang and Hog 203.^ Hang 261 Hog, L On (Col.) 199 162 104 Hist. Collate with. ^T Hang 261 100 up. 203 entire i ,t* 1 Hog 262 101 202^ 201 " \ Hang 263 100 ^ 1 Hog 264 99 200 1 ^A is Latin 265 266 93 97 199 1 198 V c, 1 for 267 96 197 <^ 1 Bacon 263 ;5 196 1 HERMES STELLA. 87 262 ; Bacon (158 + 104 column) 2G2, 203. If we subtract 104 from 203 we get 203-104 = 99. Look at 99 = Hog. Take the otlier Bacons 198, 1G3. Add (column) 104 to 1G3=267 267 For (precedent to Bacon). Subtract 198-104 = 94. Look at 94, I. We see that Bacons Bacon are all concentrated upon Hang Hog, as if to enforce our assent that Hang Hog is really Bacon's name, .and in context with the oGtli "Apophthegm," 1671 " Resusci- tatio," as Hanged Hog. We find Bacons Bacons all concentrated upon " for I," page 53, M. W. W. And the curious part is, if we reverse the process and add or subtract the column 106 (another factor) of the extract from p. 53, M. W. W., we get: — - I 269-106 = 163. Hog 264-106 = 158 Bacon. Hang 99 + 104 = 203 Bacon. The critic may dispute the count of certain hyphenated words, and in the above table we have followed Mr. iDonnelly, who makes Bacons 198 down. But if we count " a-foot " and *■' a-while " as two words, we get : Bacons 200 163 instead of 198 163 Be 97 266 Bacon 160 203 instead of 158 203 Hanged 98 265. Let us collate this after the s ime fashion. If we add 104 (column) to 160 we get 264. Tliis on the p. 53, M. W. table, is Hog, and 203 — 104 = 99 is Hang, the next word up, again giving us : Up 99 Hog. Bacon 203-104= 99 Hog Down 264 Hog. Bacon 160 + 104=264 Hog. Bacons 200-104=96. 163 + 104=267. 1)6 267 F.or 96 Bacons 267 96 tov 207 Bacons. In this count the number pf words actually agree both ways with each other, and there are exactly 362 words down to the end of the scene " roa^'tZ," just as there are 362 wojds upon jage 53, 88 HERMES STELLA. M.W.W., column lOG. In fact, the words agree up and down. Example : Col.lOi, IstK.H. IV. Bacons 200-104=96. 163 + 101^267 p. 53, M. W. W. For 96. 267 Bacon 160 + 104=264. 203-104=99 Hog 264. Giving us '■'■ Bacons for Bacon ILr I " or " Bacons Bacon for Jfof/." But the astonishing part has to come. Upon this count (wliich we have reason for inclining to have faith in) we find the words : — Be 97 266 p. 54, column 104, 1st K. H. IV. j^^^^^^^ gg 2(35] Upon page 228, " Resuscitatio," we find in the 36th " Apoph- thegm," the story of Hog and Sir N. Bacon, "VVe find these same words (twice) : — r Be 264 down collate Hog 264 | ^^^ ^^^ ^y ^y_ [ hanged 265 down. is 265 J ^ ' ' Let the reader see that 265 liawjed actually agrees with Hanged 265, and if we go by Mr. Donnelly's count we get : be 264 collate Hog 264 1 .3 ,. ,y ,-^ hanged 263 Hang 263 / P' '''^' ^^^' ^^- ^^• In which case " be " agrees with " b3." Either count gives us the same result, viz., Hoij he Hanged or IIo'j Hany he Ilawjed, or JIo'i.Be is hanrjed, which is an astonishing proof of the wondei'ful way this cipher has been tied together. But now comes a second and more crucial test. Upon page 53 (or the pr-eceding page) 1st K. H. IV. we find the words: — Gammon of Bacon. According to Mr. Donnelly they are as follows : ^ fGammon 869 92 up 93 up Down ^ ^^j 3^(3 cji 92 up the page ^ ^.^con 371 90 or (counting fraction "gel ") 91 up HERMES STELLA. 89 Now we have fonn 1 the words (ah-eady quoted in part) on p. 54, cohimn 10 1, 1st K. H. IV. fSboukl 9G 207 up for 2G7 96 Column 104 -< be 97 2GG „ Latm 2GG 97 ^hang'd 98 2G5 ,, is 265 98 Add to th3 figures (up) in the 2nd column this 101 column number 267 + lOi = 371 2G6 + lOi = 370 265 + 101 = 36!) Now collate : — fGammon 369 fhang'd 265 + 104 = 369 ^ of 370 <( be 266 + 104 = 370 '^ Bacon 371 i^should 267 + 104 — 371 Which is nothing but — ■ Gammon of Bacon should be hang'd (Gammon). In this Grammatical scene, p. 53, M.W.W., we find this : — How many numbers is in nouns ? We find these figures (up and down) against these words : — dechned 229 134 f how 134 229 thus 228 135 [ many 135 228 be 227 136 J numbers 136 227 and 226 137 \ is 137 226 pronoun 225 138 j in 138 225 the 224 133 ', nouns 139 224 Now it is upon page 228, " Resuscitatio," we find the 36th Apophthegm and the cipher we are at work upon. Mark above that " Numbers he " are 136, 227. Now upon page 228, "Resusci- tatio" the 136, 137th words in italics, are fBe 136 263 or 264 (error "a" counted) \Hanged 137 264 or 265 (error " a " counted) The 226th or 227th word down the pnge, all counted, is " Bacon "" according as \ve count the error of a (" a a pass '') or omit it. H ,90 HERMES STELLA. "sve add tlie Apophthegm number, 3G, to 227 we get 2G3, which on one count is the number also of " i)e." Tliis alone would prove a cipher. Directly we go down page 53 M. W. W., for the 263 or 264th word we find it Jiang or IIoj, and the 264 or 265th, " Hoff or " is." This gives us clearly : — Hang (or) Hog be Hog Hanged (or) is Hanged, The reader will see that " Be " upon page 53, M. W. W., is iictually congruous with "Be," page228,"Resuscitatio"; 136 each; and 227 upon page 228, " Eesuscitatio," is ^^ Bacon,'' giving us *'■ Bacon he Hanged.'^ If we go to the next two words '^ and is," p. 53, M. W. W., we find them and 226 137 1 " Besus." j" Hanged 137 is 137 226/ I Hanged 137 Now directly we examine the figures against Hog p. 53, M. W. W.. we find them directly first 226 from end of the scene. Then Hog 36, 262, which numbers subtracted give 226, as do the entire group thus : — p. 53 (up the page) 104 Accusativo 33-259=226^ 104 + 33=137 103IIing 34-260=226 I 103 + 34 = 137 102 Hang 35-261 = 226 ri02 + 35 = 137 101 Hog 36-262 = 226j 101+36 = 137 Here are the two factors against " is " 137, 226, giving us {Collate " Besus.") lYccme 225 Pronoun 225 (M.W.W.) is' Accusativo Hing, Hang, Hog (226, 137) Hanged 137, Bacon, 227 Nothing can ))e plainer or more evident. Upon page 228, '" Besuscitatio," we find these words addressed by the malefactor Jlog to Judge Bacon : — • your 224 collate p. 53 column 106, the 224 na)iie 225 M. W. Windsor pronoun 225 is 226 and 226 Bacon 227 be 227 and 228 thus 228 {Kcff) iiiine 229 dechncd 229 HERMES STELLA. 91 Mark that " r/ats " gives us 228, tlie paging of the Resusci- tatio " on which we find this oGth Apophthegm with the words quoted. Immediately after the word " declined " we find : — fSiar/idariter 230 collate '• Resuscitatio " fis 230 INom'mativo 231 collate liog 231 hie 232 and 232 htec 233 in 233 ■{ hoc 234 ^ all 234 jVominativo 235 ages 235 Ifir/ 236 Hog 236 Ha J .237 and 237 [^Hog 238 i^Bacon 238 The reader sees that this first Hog agrees exact!// with Bacon 238, — proving that the error (a a pass) must be counted. See above '• i?ctc,9/i " 227 agreeing with '"Be." We find that the '■^jv'oiiouii" agrees with '■'■ Nanie,'^ and that " Xame " is " Bacon " (be) or the pronoun name be Bacon and thus mine (Hog) declined. But look again at " he " 227 136 which we also find Xumhers 136 227; turn to the " Resuscitatio" for Be also 136. Be 136, 264, 90, 357. But page 53, M.W.W. 264 is Hog.— So that we get :— Bacon 227, be 136 234. Hog, 137 (265 Hanged, sequence). Upon page 53,1st. K.H.IY., we again find Bacon the DOth up the page (omitting fraction of word " gel "). Subtract. 357 _ 90=267. For 267, p. 53 M.W.W.— 268 Bacon. Giving us Bacon he for IIo'j. Add 136 + 90 = 226. Hog agani p. 53, M.W.W.— Take again p. 53, M.W.W. { In 138 225 f pronoun 225 138 nouns 139 224 | the 224 139 Turn to p. 228, " Resuscitatio," and count the 139th word in italics down the page : — for 138 p. 53, M.W. 267 For is 139 268 268 Bacon. 92 HERMES STELLA. The direct count clown p. 228, "Resuscitatio," gives us: — 221 Nouns 22 1 your j the 224 139 is Bacon 2G8.— 225 in 225 nama ( proaoun225 138 for Whether we have the correct cipher sequence is doubtful, but there can be little doubt that the cipher will tell us, that the pronoun Ilic, hiec, hoc, stands for Hanged Hog in the Accusative case identified with Bacon. No doubt Hing Hang Hog is only Hang Hing Hog or Hanging Hog, The entire proof of Bacon's authorship revolving on the words Hang, Hanged, and their proof connection with the 36th Apoph- thegm, p. 228, " Resuscitatio." Hog is Hanging but not Hanged until we find the cipher proof 22G, 137, which is p. 53, M.W.W. 284 Hog is 226 264 or 263 Hang 265 is hanged 1-37 265 or 261 Hog. Directly we get : Hanged Hog is Latin for Bacon Which proves the authorship of thi^ line at once — Francis Bacon. Let the critics try to denounce all this as a second mare's nest following Mr. Donnelly's footsteps. Experts will soon better our instructions and for every one of our figures discover hundreds tied in every possible direction, up and down across and backwards and forwards. The name of Bacon is endlessly in congruity with Hog. Thus o.nitting the error (a a pass), one unit count we find Bacon 226 twice ovei-. Bacon 121, 226, 105, 394 Add the first and 3rd columns together 121 + 105— 22C. Now the first Hog upon page 53, M.W.W., is the 226th from the end of the scene, p. 54 : — HERMES STELLA. 93 1st Hog 2G, 238, 226 ^ 2iid Hog 36, 262, 202 )> 3rd Ilog 264, 200 J The student may see, without any further proof, evidence of cipher arrangement at once. How it is that 238 is found singly and again by addition 202 + 36=238 in the 1st and 2nd Hogs, or that the first Hog gives 264(26 + 238=264)or th.^t (262—36=226). These astonishing results are easily explained by the theory that they each and all are in collusion with Bacon, and are merely modified forms of each other's cipher numbers. How is it upon p. 228, "Eesuscitatio" we find Bacon 226 directly down the page and again 238 Bacon, and : — KicJiolas 119 + 143=262 Bacon 120 + 144=264 If the reader will study the following numbers he will see for himself what the cipher is trying to say : — Pronoun 22 o 138 P. 53 f^. ^^^ „oq and 226 137 M.W. -|^ Hog 226 2o6 Look up above and we find Hog 238 directly and secondly by addition (202 + 36=238). We find Hog again 238 directly and by subtraction (262—36=226). Upon page 228, " Resuscitatio" we find the 137th word in it italics Hanged. And we find Bacon 226 (or 227) and again Bacon 238 or 237. If the reader will add the" Resuscitatio " paging, 228, to 143 against Nicholas, he will get 228 + 143=371. Upon page 53, 1st K.H.IV., the 371st word is Bacon. Our theory is that the entire Grammatical scene upon page 53, Merry Wives of Windsor (right hand col.) is in cipher collusion with Bacon's Grammatical Philosop/nj, or 36th Deficient (asteiisk) in the Vlth Book of the ^'Advancement," 1623 and 1640. In the 94 HERMES STELLA. latter English version, Ave find upon page 53 reference to it again us Cicsar's Analogy ("De Analogia") and tins page corresponds with page 53, M.W.W., where we find the line : — Plang Hog is Latin for Bacon. HERMES STELLA. 95 CHAPTER lY. THE IG-iO "advancement of learning." We determined to examine Lord Bacon's works with an eye to the discovery of any connection between them and the Plays, not alone from parallels of language, which has already been done in great measui-e by others, but with a view to a cipher. Now of all his works, the "Advancement of Learning" stands prominent^ as the first part of his " Instauration," and contains not only a cipher, but much ambiguous and profound language, allusions to poetry, plays, Orpheus Theatre, and Methods of Private Speech (or the Wisdom of Private Speech), congruity of signs " otlier than loords or letters" the Handing On of the Lamps for Posterity^ and constant hints in connection with the plays. The first thing to find was an authentic or ex cathedrd edition. By chance the Oxford and Cambridge Edition of 1640, first translated by Wats,, fell into our hands. We were at once struck with the false paging, endless italicising without apparent reason, and an air about it of authority in the translator's preface. But we of course, like the reader, naturally thought that, issuing as it did long after Bacon's death, it could contain as a translation nothing^ of real cipher or profound value for our purpose. Yet it had been issued under the auspices of Oxford and Cambridge, was got up with extraordinary care, with Portrait of Bacon, and Avith a great number of laudatory Latin verses, in pi-aise of the Manes. Verulaminiani. We said to ourselves why is this edition falsely paged 1 Let us examine other editions, if there be any, of this. ^6 HERMES STELLA. 1640 Oxford issue, and see if the false paging is accident or repeated. We found another edition, but the false paging always and eveiy where was exactly the same. It is therefore important to note that all the 1640 Oxford editions of " The Advancement of Learning " have exactly the same irregularity of paging, although in other points some copies differ in the details of the text, which proves that the irregulai-ity of paging was not an accident, but an intentional and ordered I'epctitiou which otherwise would have been corrected. Copies of the 1640 " Advancement" are open before us. Upon page 21 of " Yicount St. Alban, Ilis Preface," we find in "The Distribution of the Work into Six Parts " (in two copies) this description of the lYth part of the " Instauration": — " P. TV., ScaJa Intellectus, or the Intellectual Sphere rectified to the globe of the World." In a thlnl copy open before us, 1640 (everything else being alike), for the same passage we reail : — "P. IV., ScnJa InieUectus, or the Method of the Mind in the Com- prehension of Things exemplified." Now evidently this is another edition (though there are no words to declare it) of this 1610 " Advancement." Yet all three copies have false paging exactly alike, and not only alike, and undoubtedly not accidental but intentional, as is proved in the following way : — For example instead of page II following page 10 of the preface, we have page 14 falsely, or erroneously inserted, yet the next page is not 15, but 12, as it i-eally ought to be, which shows the printer or compositor was quite aware that the false 14 was the correct 11. We find whenever the paging is false, that when it becomes rectified, it has been done correctly. Por example, in all these editions of the "Advancement" of 1640, after page 280 we suddenly find 209 (instead of l81) facing us. The error continues 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, and then 289, which is collect again, and proves the false HERMES STELLA. 97 paging lias been correctly counted, and therefoi^e the compositor must have been conscious and had time to correct his error.* But he does not alter or correct the paging, although he shows he knows the real and right numbering, by taking it up again where he likes. This proves, together with the fact that two separate editions have the same false paging, all to the same extent and in the same places, that it is intentional and not accidental. We now determined to give this irregular paging a thorough and profound examination. And the first false page occurs upon what ought to be page 11 of " Vicount St. Alban. His Preface." which is falsely marked 14. Now it is perhaps only a coincidence, and we lay no weight or importance upon it, mei^ely noting it in passing. And it is this : we have pages 14 and 10 open before us, and 14 is false for 11. false for 11^ The reader seeing the error, says there is a mistake, and 11 ought to be in place of 14. Kow in the Catalogue of the Folio of the 1623 Shakespeare, the thirty-five plays are divided into 14 Comedies, 10 Histories, 11 Tragedies, aU separate and collected together ! They make up thirty-five plays. Now it may seem only accident, but this false paging in this pi-eface gives us, and * The strongest proof (if any were needed) is to be found in the Index of Humane Authors, at the end of the work, where Bacon's name, which appears in the margin of page 53 (false for 55) is indexed 55, correctly, showing the error was recognized. 98 HERMES STELLA. calls attention as it were to these three numbers, 14, 10, and 11, which added together make up 35, or the number of the plays in the Catalogue of the 1623 Folio. We shall very soon, by further and far more important evidence, strengthen our theoiy that this is not an accidental coincidence. Upon page thirty-five of " The Distribution of the Work or Great Instauration into six parts," in writing of the fourth part, which Bacon apparently never completed or commenced, but which he writes of as already done, and which lie calls Models, or Types and Platforms, in Connection ivitli Mathematics, we find a certain nvimber of words in large Roman capitals. The thirfcy-fifth word (and we repeat there are tliirty-five plays in the catalogue of the 1623 Folio Shakespeare) in capitals is the word INVENTION; so that this is worthy of reflection; for the page is 35, and the word Invention is 35 also. There are only two more words in this capital or large type, and they are the words example, examples — making thirty-seven words altogether. We might almost exclaim To (Two) example, examples of this missing fourth part of my Instauration, which I can only hint at, I give you in the number of the page (35), and in the 35th word Invention, a hint to the thirty-five plays of the 1623 Folio, which are " the types and platforms, which may present to the " eye as it were, the whole procedure of the mind, and the "continued order and fabi'ic of invention, in certain selected "subjects, and they various and of remark. For it came into " our mind that in MATHEMATIC (sic), the frame* standing " the demonstration inferred is facile, and perspicuous, without " this accommodation, and dependency all seems involved, and " more subtle than indeed they be." The word MATHEMATIC stands alone in capitals. Is not Bacon telling us it is by Mathematic that this missing fourth part of his Instauration is * The Frame is a good expression for something comprehenrling a picture or portrait, as margin to the page, on which the paging stands — the comprehensive frame of ages, dates, numbers. HERMES STELLA. 99 inferred — by the mathematic of the paging, and of the word Invention ? As the reader accompanies us, on our voyage of discovery, his scepticism will gi'adually be forced to yield, and he may then re-read this with advantage. It is to be remarked that the paging of the 1640 "Advancement " bears a perfect feature of design pointing to Shakespeare and the plays :— First false page 52 (Shakespeare's age IGIG). Second false page 53 (Shakespeare's age on Monument). Thus we find a False page 52. Correct page 52. False page 53. Correct page 53. If we double 52 we get 104, and upon page 104 we find Deeds as testaments, consisting of letters, speeches, Orations, Apojtlitherjms, all pointing to Bacon's writings, as finger posts for further discoveries testainentartj for Poetry on the next pcuje 105. Double 53. 53x2 = 106. Upon 106 we find the Drama first introduced. Xote that 52 + 53 = 105 Poetry commences. Upon page 280-81, the false paging recommences 209. 104-M05=209. As if to suggest Deeds and Poetry again, and the Drama in sequence. Directly we collate these jDagings with the Folio 1623 plays, we meet with the same thing in pages bearing Bacon's name, surname (or Christian,) under cover of Bacon and Francis. Thus Page 54, IstK. H. IV. is really corrected page 52. Page 52, 1st K. H. IV. is really page 50. Page 53, IstK. H. IV. is really page 51. Page 55, IstK. H. IV^. is really page 53. Page 53 M.W.W. is correct. n— 2 loo HERMES STELLA. Thus we have a 1st K.H.IV. False page 52 and "i " Secret Book " " Speare " Do. K.H.IV. Correct page 52. J ''OnBacon'son""Baconfed Knaves. Do. K.H.rV". False page 53. Bacon in " Gammon of Bacon." Do. K.H.IV, Correct page 53. " Francis," " Hogsheads " (?) IM.W.W. Correct page 53. " Hang Hog Latin for Bacon." The reader must at once see the collusion, which is most striking. And still more striking is the fact that it is vipou column 106 of the Comedies, we find Bacon's name in the line : Hang Hog is Latin for Bacon. And upon col. 107 of the Histories (1st K. H. IV. p. 56) we find Bacon's Christian name, Francis, 21 times. Upon pages 106, 107, " Adv.," 1640, we find for the first and last time. Stage Plays and the Drama discussed. The correspondence between page 262, " Advt.," and pages 53 M.W. and 1st K, H, lY. is simply extraordinar3\ Upon page 53 M.W. Windsor we find :— Hang 35 (italics down), 261, 102 (up the column.) Ho'j 36 Do. Do. 262, 101 (up the column.) Upon page 262, 36th Star, we find exactly {iieither more nor less) 101 words in italics. It will be seen Hog is 36, 262, 101, all these three numbers agreeing. Our tables are most carefully made ; we do not count from the page, but from tables made with every possible precaution and exactitude. There are pages Avith doubtful words, but these two pages are oi^en to no suspicion of that kind. In fact we only discovered the parallel after the tables were made. Let the critic test it. Upon this page 262, "Advt.," there are 371 words, and according to Mr. Donnelly, Bacon, page 53, 1st K. Henry IV., is the 371st* word. This pi'oves that this page 262 is not only in touch with Hog, page 53, M.W.W., but with *' Bacon," 371st word also, page 53, 1st K. H. IV. We are convinced that this is a real discovery. * This is also column 101 of the Histories. HERMES STELLA. loi Before us lies open a table of page 264 " Advt." " Hocj " (in the line Hang, Hog is Latin for Bacon) p. 53, is the 264th word, Bacon the 268th word down and 95th up. Upon this page 264 we find ciphers discussed thus : — f manner 94 267 53 85 collate p. 53 M.W.W. For 267 96. < of 95 268 52 84 [Bacon 268 95. ^SiJeaHnrj 96 269 51 83 L /. 269 94. The numbers fall against each other in the same way as they do against the word "Bacon" p. 53 M.W.W., viz., 95, 268, even the pages 53, 52, 51, being given.* This page is upon ciphers, and we may see a distinct reference to page 53 (bis) of this work, where we find exactly 94 words in italics, that page being one of the manners of sj^eaking or pointing by congruity to pages 53 M.W.W. and 53 1st K. H. IV. false and real. At the same time pointing to this very star 36 in the reference to Philosophical Grammar or Demonstration hij Analogy [De Analogia). Why do we say false 53 and real 53 ? Because we find Page 53 " Gammon of Bacon," 1st K. H. IV. Page 55, Francis (commencement scene "Francis.") The first is false 53 and the second (55) real 53, for the paging is misdirected from the opening of the play, 46, 49 (instead of 47.) This was done expi'essly to give us two 53 pages, a false and a real one. And this is what we find in this "Advancement," first a real and then a false 53. Nothing is left to chance. Everything is magnificently planned and carried out in this Book of Books ; this Vlth book of which is nothing but " Precepts and Instructions of Learning" or Demonstration by Analogy, termed Notes of Tilings, and Philo- sophical Grammar, 35 and 36th stars for the 35 and 36 plays of * It is actually upon pages 53, M. W. W., r>2 (false 54) 1st K. H. IV., and 51 (false 53) 1st K. H. IV., that the only four entries of the word Bacon in the plays are to be found. I02 HERMES STELLA. the 1623 Folio Theatre. Let the critic consider the sign-post of page 53 (bis) of this work, pointuig, on one hand, to the name Bacon on pages (also) 53 of M. W. Windsor and 1st K. H. IV., and on the other to the 35 and 36 Deficients or Stars, in context with ciphers and poetry page 26-4. On this page 53 (bis) we read " all his tvealth loas in names." What names ? Bacon's name, S. Francis Bacon is in tJie margin, against these words, in which he identifies himself with the Duke of Guise, heir to a crown, king dejure but not de facto. The danger of the subject only permitted him to allude to himself by analogy. All that Bacon remarks of Alexander the Great and of the Duke de Guise, is for Shakespeare and himself we believe, and he says so, first identify- ing hunself with the Duke, and then " not as Alexander the ' Great " but as Aristotle's scholar. But Alexander ivas Aristotle's scJiolar, and upon page 52 (Shakespeare's age), he writes " Alex- ander was bred and taught under Aristotle.'' What then does he mean by saying " But the admiration of this Prince, whilst I " represent him to myself, not as Alexander the Great, but as " Aristotle's scholar." This is a natural perspective that is and is not. And it well embraces the paradox of Bacon being Shakes- peare and not Shakespeare, particularly if he has identified either of these Princes with himself or with Shakespeare. The impossi- ])ility of speaking for himself as Bacon has forced him to borrow other great names, to illustrate by analogy his own relations to Shakespeare. Upon page 52 (real) Alexander is brought in in context Avith Homer's Works, a palpable analogy ; page 53 (real) again with Homer, Venus, Poets, etc. These pages represent Shakespeare's age 52 and 53 (Stratford Monviment). It is here the false paging commences, with Orpheus Theatre. It is our opinion the Due de Guise is a cover for Shakespeare. The Due de Guise wanted to play the pai-t of a Bolingbroke, and of a Usurper, had the power or pretended to it, and without the i-ight. The word scholar is a hint for page 53 M. W. W., and the scholar William Shakespeare. HERAIES STELLA. 103 Upon page 106 there are 73 words in italics. The 73rd word is '' ParahoUcaV (Poesy). Upon page 107 there are again 73 words in italics {'' StcKje-plays,'' hyphenated, counted as one word). The 7ord word is " Poesy " in the line Drammatical Poesy. ( Page 106 73 (italics) 73rd word " Parabolical " (all counted). I Page 107 73 (italics) 73rd word " Poesy" (Dramatical) (all counted). There is evidently collusion in this. If we subtract the italic words from their respective paging we get, rpage 106-73=33. ipage 107-73=34. On page 107 we find the 34th word in italics ^' Parccbolical '' again. On page 106 we find the 34th word in italics "Para- bolical " again. The 34th star is Analogy, called by Bacon the indication of indications. Upon page 105 there are 71 words in italics : — 105-71=34. This page 105 is upon Poetry and opens the subject Thus 34 + 35 + 36^105. It is certain that 34 is one of the prime factors in this subtle problem. It is evidently the starting point or finger-post for the plays, as the precedent number to 35 and 36 their catalogue and full frame number. Upon page 53 (bis) there are 94 words in italics. Exact Fac-simile of Distribution Preface 1640 " Ad\i;." : — His Preface. page 35 ally to minds tender and preoccttpate, at firft entrance^ to become familiar with nature ; we therefore many times adde our own obfervations, as certain firft con- verfions and inclinations, and as it were, Afpects of Hiftory to Philofophy; to the end that they may be 104 HERMES STELLA. both pledges to men, that they fhall not ever he detained in the waves of Hiftory ; as alfo that when they are once arrived to the operation of the underftanding, all may be in a more preparedneffe. And by this kind of Na- turall Hiftory, as here ive defcribe, we fuppofe that there may be a fccure and cafy acccffe unto Nature; and f olid and prepared matter prefentcd unto the Vnder- ftanding. ^ IV. Now we have both fortified and environed the underftanding ivith faitJifnll Auxiliaries and for- ces, and by a ftrict Mufter raifed a compleat Army of Divine works, there feemes nothing remaining but that we fet upon Philofophy it felfe. But info diffi- cile and dubious an enterprife, there are fame particu- lars, zvhich feem neceffarily to be interpofed partly for inftruction, partly for prcfent life. § Of thefe the firft is, that the examples of Inquifition and of *in- vention, be propounded according to our rule and method reprefented in particular fubjects) chiefly making choice of fuch fubjects, which amongft other things to be enquired, are the moft noble, and in mutuall relati- on, moft Adverfe; that there may not want an example in every kind. Nor doe we fpeak of thofe examples, which for illuftration fake, are annexed to every parti- cular precept and rule, (for we have fufficiently quit e e 2 our * Mark that this word Invention is the 35th word in Roman tj-pe from the top of the page, if we count it nelf as two words. If we count it as one word, example, examples become 35, 36, or the play numbers 35, 36. HERMES STELLA. 105 PAGE 36 ViCOUNT St Alb AN our felvcs hereof in the SECOND PART OF THE WORK, but we mean directly the Types and Plaffornies which may prefent as it were, to the eye, the whole Pro- cedure of the mind, and the continued Fabrick and order of Invention, in certain f elected fubjects ; and they various and of reniarke. For it came into our mind, that in Mathematiques, the frame ftanding, the Demonftra- Hon inferred is facile and perfpicuous ; on the contrary, without this accomodation and dependency, all feems involved, and more fitbtile than indeed they be. Wherefore to examples of this fort zve asfigne the Fourth Part of our zvork ; which indeed is nothing elfe, but a particular, and explicite application of the Second Part.''' Note that these pages correspond with the plays in numbers 35 and 36, and it is our theory that the paging is the frame holding the portrait of the plays as a finger-post for the letterpress. We maintain that 52 and 53 represent Shakespeare in like manner, and that the doubling lands us vipon Deeds (as Testaments), Poetry, the Drama 106, which correspond to the column numbers of the Comedies and Histories, on which we find the words Francis Bacon. Upon the next page, 35 (in the body of the work), we again meet with a suspicious allusion to authors getting their due : — Of Learning. Lib. L 35 porary beliefe, anda fufpenfion of their judgement^untill they be fully inftructed, and not an abfolute refigna- tion of their liberty, and a perpetuall captivity of io6 HERMES STELLA. thcirjudgements. Therefore, to conclude this point, / will fay no more but this, Let great Auctors fo have their due, as we doe not derogate from Time, which is the Aiictor of Auctors and Parent of Truths The reader is recommended to get a copy of the 1640 Oxford edition of the "Advancement of Learning," with which to collate our statements. It will greatly enhance the interest and the force of our arguments. For he will behold with the eye the extraordinary capitalising and italicising, and confirm for himself, \vith the context of the text and false paging, the truth of our assertions. In another chapter we direct attention to the extraordinary fact that only half, or three parts, of the six divisions into which Bacon divides his ^'■Magna Instauratio " are completed. He never made the slightest attempt to do more than sketch the headings and hint, as Ave have already seen at the fourth, fifth and sixth divisions of the distribution of his work, which lie copies from the six days of creation. He devotes his life to the^rs^ three parts, and speaks of the other three as alreadi/ done. Yet we have nothing whatever to answei- to them. Nevertheless, he writes of partaking of God's rest and Sabbath. Now it is perhaps only another imaginary coincidence, but, as we have stated, the folio of 1G23 is divided into tJiree divisions in the Catalogue, 14 Comedies, 10 Histories, 11 Tragedies. We find the unfidfdled and never attempted three divisions of Bacon's " Instauration," its second half so to speak, corresponding to these divisions. Fac-simile of page 23, 1640 "Advancement":-- Of Learning. Lib. I. 23 " they doe not eafily apply and accommodate themf elves to perfons with whom they ncgociate and live, which want HERMES STELLA. 107 of exact application ariteth from two caufes, The firft is, the largeneffe and grcatncffc of theirminds, which can hardly ftoope and be confined within the ohfervation of the nature and custome of oneperfon. It is tlie fpeech of a Lover, not of a wife man, Satis magnum alter alteri theatruni futnus.'' Let it be remembered that the first great date with which the Shakespeare plays are for ever associated, by their first collected Folio publication, is 1623. It is impossible for Bacon to write the 16, nor is it necessary, seeing that 23 would speak for itself, even as we say 89 for 1889, seeing he could only live in one 23. If now we turn to page 23 of the 1640 "Advancement " we find these words brought in — " Theatnim " (or " Theatre") being the -AQth word from the top of the page in italics : — Satis magmcm alter alteri theatrum swnus. Now here is the striking fact we will presently further notice, and that is, if ive turn to pa(je 49, we find " Theatre " the 50th word in italics from the top of the page, this time " Theatre " correspond- ing with the next paging. The next page, instead of being 50, is falsely marked 52, and that was Shakespeare's age when he died. Thus on this page 23, as if to call attention to the 1623 Shakespeare Theatre or Folio, we find the 49th word " Theatrum" as if to direct us to page 49, where we again find the words " Orpheus Theatre," being the 49th and 50th words in italics upon page 49. But what does Satis magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus mean when translated ? It means, " We are often (or sufficiently) the Great Theatre, one of another," as if to suggest on this page 23, the (16)23 Folio " Theatre " a spectator and an actor, who have io8 HERMES STELLA. changed parts. The top of the page contains in one sentence 16 words in italics, and if we join this to the paging 23, we get 1623 ! The word Theatrum is the *70th word from the top of the page, and it is exactly double 35, the number of plays in the catalogue, 1623 Folio. The 52nd word is "I"; the 52nd word in italics, " second," as if to, " / am " (the 52 year old Shakespeare), " / (im the second " (Shakespeare) of this " alter alteri," — one of the other. Let the reader in the preceding fac-simile copy of page 35 of the 1640 "Advancement " count the words in italics ending the IVth. Chapter with the words, " Let Great Authors so have their due, "as we do not derogate from Time, which is the Author of " Authors and Parent of Truth." He will find them 26 in num- ber. Now Shakespeare's age was 52 ; 26 is the half of 52 ! How could Bacon better declare by ai'ithmetic that he, the Great Author of the 35 plays (paging 35), is the other half of the 52 year old Shakespeare ? Thei-e are 64 words in this paragraph, as if to allude to (16)64, the year Shakespeare was born ! The correspondence between the false paging of the 1640 " Advancement " and the First Part of King Henry IV. is very striking. And the clever way it is disguised is still more remark- able. For example, the play commences with page 46 of the His- tories. The next page, instead of being 47, in sequence to 46, is 49 : — *" Verses by Ben JoDson and hakespeare, occasiontd by the motto to the Globe Theatre : —lotus mvndvs ai^ia?"it?ft "of 1640, published at Oxford, and translated into English by Doctor Gilbert Wats, is on the '" Perfect List of Bacon's true Works." — At the end of the first edition of the "REStJSCiTATio"or Bringing into Light several Pieces of the Works hitherto sleeping of Bacon, edited and prefaced by his^ Chaplain William Rawley 1657, we have " A perfect list of his Lordship's true ivorks," both in English and Latin. It is the last page in the book and comes into the body of the work. It is not a printer's advertisement, but clearly under Rawley's authority. And as Rawley touches in his preface upon " surrej)titious coines, mangled editions " of Bacon's works, it is certain that this list is introduced with the direct purj)ose of furnishing, as the title declares, "• A Perfect List of his Lordships true Works" by Rawley himself. Now Rawley was Bacon's secretary, and this is how he opens his preface : — " Having been employed, as an Amanuensis or daily instrument, to this Honourable Aiithour (sic) ; and acquainted with his Lordsldps Conceits, in the composing of his works, for many years together ; especially in his writing Time ; I conceived that no man, could pi'etend a better interest or claim, to the ordering of them after his death, than myself. For which cause, I have compiled in one, whatsoever hears the true stamp of his Lordships excellent Genius ; and hath hitherto slept, and been snppiressed, in this present volume, not leaving anything to a future hand, which I found to 112 HERMES STELLA. be of moment, and communicable to the public ; — save only some few Latin Works, which by God's favor and sufferance shall soon after follow. " It is true, that for some of the Pieces, herein contained, his Lordship did not aim, at the publication of them, but at the pre- servation only ; and prohibiting them from pei^ishing, so as to have been reposed in some Private shrine or Lihranj ; but now for that, through the loose keeping of his Lordships papers Avhilst he lived, divers surreptitious copies have been taken ; which have since employed the press, with sundry corrupt and Mangled Editions; whereby nothing hath been more difficult, than to find ZorcZ Saint Alhan, \i\ the Lord Saint Alhan ; and which have presented (some of them,) rather a farale of nonsense, than any true expressions, of his L^ordships ha2Jpy vein. I thought myself, in a sort tried to vindicate these injuries and wrongs, done to the Monuments of his Lordship's pen, and at once by setting forth, the true and genuine ivritin'js themselves, to prevent the like invasions for the time to come." Now it is plain that in introducing the Perfect list of his Lord- ship's True Works at the end of this "Resuscitatio," Eawley acted in conformity with all that he has been just saying. At the end of his preface Rawley again returns to this subject of spurious publica- tions of Bacon's works in these words : " Lastly if it be objected that some few, of the pieces, whereof this whole consisteth, had visited the public light before, it is true that they had been ob- truded, to the world by unknown hands, but with such scars and blemishes, upon their faces that they could pass, but for a Spurious and Adidterine brood, and not for his LordsJii]) Legiti- mate issue and the publishers and printers, of them deserve to have an action of defamation brought against them by the state of learning, for disgracing and personating his Lordship's works." After such passages as these, coming from one who writes with almost the pen of Bacon himself, everything that Rawley tells us must bear the most authentic ex cathedra value and stamp HERMES STELLA. 113 of genuiueness it is indeed possible for us to imagine. And there- fore this perfect list of his Lordship's true works may be depended upon, coming as it does in 1657 from the pen of Rawley, Bacon's Amanuensis and editor, The position Rawleyheld with regai'd to Bacon is quite unique. The only authentic record of Bacon's life we possess is by Rawley, and was first published in this " Resuscitatio " of which we treat. And therefore this " Perfect List " (which can be seen iu both the 1G57 " llesuscitatio " and thh'd edition, 1671) will convince the reader as to the genuine character of the work in question. Upon casting the eye over the list of the works in Eiujlisli, we find amongst this perfect list of true works this : De Awjmentis Scientiarum, translated into Eiiglisli, by Doctor Gilbert Watts, of Oxford. The date 1640 is not entered. But as there is only one Oxford translation of the "Advancement " and only one Gilbert Wats who translated it, there cannot possibly be a mistake as to the edition indicated. It is therefore plain that although a posthumous translation of the " De Augmentis," this 1640 Oxford edition is herein entered amongst the trv^e ivories of Lord Bacon ! A close examination of this list will convince the most sceptical it is from Rawley's own pen. For example the words at the bottom of the page are only a recapitulation of what we have already cited from Bawleys preface : "As for other Pamjildets, whereof there are several put forth under his Lordship's name, they are not to be o^vned for his." Let us mark the striking fact that Rawley opens his preface with this subject of the true works of Bacon. And he closes the volume with a perfect list of the true works and these last words just quoted. This is as it were the first and last thought of Rawley, the Alpha and Omega of this 1657 "Resuscitatio," and certainly the most striking and emphatic thing about it. But it must strike the reader as strange to find Gilbert Wats' translation of the " Advancement" among these works. And it certainly is very I 114 HERMES STELLA. sti-ange, because in 1G23 the " Be Augment is " translated into Latin Avas published. This was the date of the Folio Shakespeare also. But Bacon did not translate his " De Avigmentis" himself although he assisted at it. He first applied to Doctor Playfer(sic) in a Letter (1608) of Request to translate the "Book of Advancement of Learn- ing " into Latin (p. 33 " Resuscitatio") in which he writes, " I must accompt it a second hirth of that work, if it might be translated into Latin." So that the work ah-eady perfected existed in English for the translator, but there is the astoundlmj fact that Bacon never published his original English version of it at all. The reader must not confound the first " two Books of the Advancement " of 1605 (dedicated to the King) with the enlarged "DeAitgmentis^' into which they ultimately developed. We assert that of the 1623 " De Augmentis," of IX. books written in Latin, we possess no English traiislation except the 1640 Oxford edition snj)posed to be trans- lated by Doctor Wats. Where then is the original English version in which Bacon Avrote it and from which it was translated into Latin ? If the reader will study the list he will see the third entry is " Advancement of Learning." But this evidently refers to the 1605 " Advancement " in Two Books, because there is a perfect sequence in the order of this list, following the dates of publication. This can be seen in a moment by the termination : " This present volume, with the particulars, contained in the same." 1657.* In a letter dated June 30, 1622, Bacon speaks of the " /)« Avg- inentis Scientiarum" as a work already in the hands o^ translators, and likely to be finished by the end of the summer. " Libi'um meum de progi'essu Scientiarum traducendmn commisi. Ilia translatio, volente Deo, sub finem a^statis perficietur." Therefore it was not published till the autumn of 1623. (Spedding's preface to " De Augmentis.") Tenison mentions " Mr. Ilerbeit " — that is, George Herbert * This " Fcrfrct List " is also to be refound in the 1G71 " Resuscitatio." HERMES STELLA. 115 the poet — as one of the translators employed. But we have it upon Rawley's authority that Bacon took a great deal of pains with it himself (proprio marte plurimum desudavit) — so that we must consider the whole translation as stamped with his authority. Many years before he had asked Dr. Playf er to do it ; who (according to Tenison) sent him a specimen, but " of such super- fine Latinity, that the Lord Bacon did not encourage him to l.ibour further in that work, in the penning of which he desired nob so much neat and polite, as clear masculine and apt expression," And it is not improbable that some such difficulty may have occurred. But Playfer's failure may be sufficiently accounted for by the state of his health. A memorandum in the Oommentarius Solutus dated 26 July, 1608, — " Proceeding with the translation of my book of Advancement of Learning — hearken- ing to some other if Playf er should fail," — shows that at that time it was still in his hands ; and he died at the beginning of the next year. (Spedding's preface to " De AvTgmentis,") So that the reader will perceive readily enough that the " De Augmentis " of 1623, fii^st published in this complete form of IX. books for the Jrrst time, existed already in English and Avas written in English. Don't let the I'eader fall into the easy erroi- of confounding or thinking we ai-e mixing up the "Advancement of Learning " (published in two Books) 1605, with the " De Aug- mentis" or "Advancement of Learning" of 1623, although we refind the original two books incorporated and enlarged in the latter IX. books. This is a most important distinction and a question upon which it is easy, without great attention, to get mixed up about. Bacon terms this 1623 " De Augmentis " as a second birth of the 1605 "Advancement." What we maintain is that although written in English (as the fact of translation informs us) the original "Be Au(j mentis" was never published, but ivithhehl exce-pt in the 1623 Latin form. In short there exists only one English version of the " De Augmentis," and that is this 1640 Oxford edition translated by Gilbert Wats. What we should like to 1—2 ii6 HERMES STELLA. know is this — What became of the original MSS. or Eivjlisli version from which the Latin translation of the 1623 Be Awjmeniis was made? Are we sure and positive that this posthumous 1640 translation is not the original English version by Bacon himself ? Students of Bacon's style, phraseology, and peculiarities of language, will recognize in Dr. Wats' professed translation, the pen and hand of the mighty author himself. We had long been of this belief, before we came across this perfect list of true works to coi-roborate our suspicions. But the great proof is the necessity of a translation at all. The " De Augmentis " is written in English by Bacon, translated into Latin, and again re-trans- lated, 1640, by Gilbert Wats ! The fact that a translation was a desideratum proves thei'e was no English version. Why did Bacon, who published the first two Books in English in 1605, and who completed the IX. in English also, withhold this English version ? Are we certain he did not keep his idea of making a Posthuvia Proles of it ? In a letter to King James I. touching the " Advancement," Bacon writes " This book was the first thing " that ever I presented to your Majesty ; and it may be will be " the last. For I had thought it should have been Posthuma " Proles. But God hath otherwise disposed /b?' a while. It is a " translation, but enlarged almost to a new woi'k." So that the idea of making a posthumous work of it is only laid aside '•'•for a whileP It is striking to find Wats in his preface to his supposed translation writing : — " Now I flioLild, fay fomdhiug touching Tranflation ; and as it is mine. The very Action is fomewhat obnoxious to censure ; being of the nature of tJiofe, the failing whereof may dif grace more, than the carrying of it through, credit the undertaker. But, bcfides the confcience of the deed done ; for other ends I coidd not HERMES STELLA. 117 have; {the Author now dead, and alive mihi nee injuriis nee beneficiis notus) and that to be a Tranflator is more than to be an Author, fomefuch as there be ; and that it is nofuch mean office, to bear a light before a Lord Chancellor of England : I fhould execute it, were the example mine ; fo, zurites learned Savil ; Jo, eloquent Sandys; fo, Malvezzi's Noble Interpreter; zvith whom conferred I am Icffe than a fhadozv. So, many able and eminent names of France and Italy, and other Nations ; So the Ancients of former ages and of all Arguments. But if any he fo folemne, fo fevere, and of fucJi primitive tafts, they can azjoay with no waters, zuhich come not from the fpring-head ; nor endure to drink of Tiber, that paffes tlirougJi Thames ; They may give over here, if they fo plcafc, and proceed no farther. This interpretation zvas not meant for fuch faftidious palates, and yet, it may be, for as diftinguishing as theirs are. Now if this very action be thus liable to exception, much more muft my performance be. Certainly books by Tranflation commonly take zvind in the effufion ; and for strength fall fJiort of their Originals ; as rcflcxed beams are weaker than direct: but then it muft be under- //oof^ 0/ Originals, truly fo. For if a Writer deliver himfelfe out of his Native language, I fee not why a Tranflator rendring him in it, may not come neare him : and in this cafe, the Author liimfclfc is the Interpreter, being he tranflates his own thoughts, zuhich origi/ially fpeak his mother tongue. ii8 HERMES STELLA. " In this case, tlxe autlior liimself is the interpreter, beinff he " translates his own thoughts, ivliicli orit/inalh/ speak his mother " tongue y Wats is quite aware that orif/inalli/ this " De Augmentis" was written in the " mother tongue" viz., English ! " Are we not told here that the Author is himself the interpreter 1 And mark that profound hint, " it must be understood of Originals truly so " ! Or that other " Tiber that passes through Thames ! " — the transference of an original source, so as to pass for another source (Thames) — with which it has nothing in common as to character ! It may be as well to remind the reader of Bacon's two ways of publishing he intends to follow, which he gives us in " Valerius Terminus," chapter xviii. : — " That the discretion anciently observed, though by the pre- " cedent of many vain persons and deceivers abused, of publishing " part and reserving j^nTt to a private succession, and of publishing " in such a manner, whei'eby it may not be to the taste or " capacity of all, but shall as it ivere single and adoi^t his reader, is '• not to be laid aside." Again, " Publicandi autem ista ratio ea est, ut ti[ua3 ad ingeni- " orum correspondeutias captandas et mentium ai^eas purgandas " pertinent, edantur in vulgus et per ora volitent ; reliqua per " manus tradantur cum electione et judicia " — the " reliqua " being as it appears a little further on " ipsa interpretationis formula et inventa per eandem." Here we are presented with the two ways of publishing,oneof which a public one — butthe otherCreliqua) which (mark) is the formula discovered for interpreting the other, is reserved/or a private succession (per manus tradantur cum elec- tione et judicia), and seems to us to apply with great force to these posthumous works, that Wats, Rawley, and Gruter, publish in 1640, 1653, 1657, etc. The words Bacon employs ^^ Reserve for a jirivate succession" are in every word pregnant with the idea of holding back — not publishing himself, but leaving private persons, (like his secretary, Rawley) to publish them after his death as a jirivate succession. BERMES STELLA. 1x9 Is it probable that Bacon left with Gruter, or Rawley, the choice of publishing his " reliqua,'" when they thought fit ? Why does Bacon as early as 1603 take these extraordinary pre- cautious, to acquaint us with his uietliods of publishing? We must indeed be very blind if we cannot take the instruc- tions to heart, and see that by " reliqua " Bacon means remains unpuhlished by his first, open or unreserved system. These " reliqua " however, he tells us, are the keys or formula of inter- pretation, for the opening of the other already published part by the unreserved method. It seems to us Bacon is clearly indi- cating " That the invented key, or formula for the interpretation of the other part," is only to be found amongst those "reliqua" or remains which are to succeed him as posthumous works, edited by private hands. By the expression " reserved for a private suc- cession," Bacon is telling us that this second mysterious .system of publishing, is not like the other open (edantur in vulgus et per ora volitent) bvit secret — and stored up, or reserved for suc- cession — that is to succeed him, which thoroughly falls in with what he says elsewhere that a man's works should follow him : — " I count the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation 0/ that ivhich is to folloiv a man, not to go along ivith him." What plainer language can we have than this ? Does not Bacon tell us that to publish before his death is an untimely anticipation of what he intends to follow him, and not go along with him ? It is easy to see that tlie idea of Posthumous Work is strong with Bacon from the time of " Valerius Terminus," 1603. And the reasons we sug- gest are as follows : — Bacon wi-ote for posterity, after some time had passed, and those works of his which are less concealed and more open, which were for " after ages," connected with the interpretation of the plays, neither touched his own times, were not pressing, and would gain security and immunity from suspicion or too close an inspection by being relegated to Posthumous Publication, or to 120 HERMES STELLA. other hands or names. There were perhaps also others in that age of ciphers, who were partakers in this mighty secret, who might abuse the confidence reposed in them, or who might pre- maturely discover the cipher and the authorship of the plays. The character of Wats' translation, with its ii^rregular paging, endless capitals, and italics, mingled without rhyme or reason, is patent upon its surface. We go so far as to say that had this work been issued during Bacon's lifetime or carried his name, it would long ere this have attracted attention. Certainly, if Mr. Donnelly had come upon it, we think it would have proved more interesting to him even than the Folio 1623. Its posthu- mous date, and its carrying the air of being a translation by a private individual has j^ut it out of court and out of all suspicion of being of any value outside that of a translation. We must confess that we ourselves for a long time found this 1640 date andWats'name as a lion in the path, which stopped all conjecture over its air of authority, its Baconian phraseology, its irregular paging, its ex cathedra size, printing, portrait, relationship to Oxford and Bacon's University, Cambridge, and the poems (Manes Yerulami- niani) which are plainly written with plenaiy inspiration, as to the dramatic, poetic, side of Bacon's life and writings. No matter how critics may object, one thing is certain ; that is, the 1640 Oxford translation of the "Advancement of Learning " is one of Bacon's true works, and we believe the most important one for posterity that he ever wrote. In this Perfect List of Bacon's True Works, there are only tu'o translations in the entire list. One is the " History of Life and Death," the other the " De Awjmeniis Scientiarum," translated into English by Doctor Guilbert Watts. And as if to prove its authenticity, the next entry touches the " liesuscitatio " or work in which this list is found. " This 2^resent volume, tvi/h the imrticulars *' contained in the same." Care is taken to avoid any misconcep- tion that this may be a printer's list, or outside the work itself. And these two come tofjether in order of dates — 1640-1657 — as HERMES STELLA. 121 true works ! Can we believe that Rawley wovild have thus incl ailed a translation of a private individual? As he tells us in his preface, there are many surreptitious copies and mangled editions, and he takes extraordinary pains to exclude them. But the convincing proof is in the 1640 " Advancement " itself. One part is interlaced with another part, in endless connection and indirect i"eference, if we may so express it. By continually studying it, we find an obscurity in expression in one jslace, enlightened by an explanation in another. Thus Bacon terms Poetry Feigned History, and on another page discusses Feigned History freely, with references to poetry. Cfesai^'s Analogy, page 53 (bis) finds further connection with Notes of things or Congruity from real characters or Figures, on page 259, Book VI. No translator could have done this, unless the author were inspiring him, because it was necessary to employ the same words in indirect relationship, so as to obscure and reveal at once. It is an entire system of indirect logic, or grammatical philosophy by analogy from beginning to end. After a severe study we arise from the work convinced that it is written with only one object — the cipher in relation to the plays and the real authorship of them. The 1623 " De Au^/mentis Scientiarum." We have in our possession a copy of the 1623 Latin edition of the " De Augmentis Scientiarum," or " Advancement of Learning " in IX. Books. It is a valuable copy, in white vellum with gilt edges, and has in Bacon's hand on the first loose sheet " Ex dono Authoris," being evidently a presentation copy, given to some one by the mighty author himself. Upon collating it with Wats' 1640 Oxford translation we are immediately struck with the conviction that Wats did not translate from this Latin edition, but either from some other source, or else he gives us the ori<^inals from whence this 1623 edition was translated into Latin, 122 HERMES STELLA. One fact cannot be controverted, and that is that Bacon wrote the " i?6 A.ugmeHtis" in Eiigllsh first. We ai'e not aUuding to the 1605 "Advancement of Learning," but to the " De Aucjinentis'" of ] 623, that is to the additional eight Books wliich treat of the divi- sions of the sciences {^Partitiones Scientiamm). The first book, or the original " Advancement " was incorporated in tliis " second birth'" of it as Bacon terms it, but altered as Rawley presently tells us. That it was written in English, we have shown elsewhere, inasmuch as Bacon employed hands to translate it into Latin, — first Playfer (whom he abandoned), then Herbert and others. But he never (during liis lifetime) gave the world any English version of this " second hirth" oi 1623, beyond the original *' Advancement" dedi- cated to the King in 1 G0.5. Fortunately we possess complete proof of this assertion, in the Latin preface by Rawley which accompanies the 1623 edition of the "Df Aur/mentis." We reproduce it: — RAWLEY'S PREFACE TO THE 1623 " DE AUGMENTIS." GUILIELMUS RAWLEY sacra? Theologiaj Professor Illustrissimi Domini D. Francisci Baconis Verulamio, Vice Comitis Sancti Albani, Sacellanus, Lectori, S. Cum Domino meo placuei'it, eo me digiiari Honore, ut in edendis Operihus suis, opera mea usus sit ; non abs re fore existimavi, si Lectorem de aliquibus, quce ad hunc Primum Tomum pertinent, breviter moneam. Tractatum istum, de Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum, ante annos Octodecim, edidit Dominatio sua, LinguS, Patria, in duos tantimamodo Libros distributum ; et liegioi suce Majestati dicavit, quod et nunc facit. Non ita pridem animmn adjecit, ut in Latinam Linguam verteretur. Inaudierat siquidem illud apud Exteros expeti : Quinetiam solebat subinde dicere, Libros Modernis Linguis conscriptos, non ita multo post Decocturos. Ejus igitur Translationem, ab insignioribus quibusdam Eloquentia viris elaboratam, propria quoq Recensione castigatam, jam emittit. Ac Liber Primus certe, quasi mei'a Translatio est, in Paucis HERMES STELLA. 123 atlmodum mutatus : At rcliqui Odo, (\\\\ ]\irtitiones, Scientiarum tradimt, atque ; unico ante Libro continebantur, ut Novum Opus, et nunc primum eclitum, prodit. Caussa antem prsecipua, quje Dominationem sua movit, ut Opus hoc retractaret, et in plurimis amplificaret, ea fuit ; Quod in Instauratione Magnd (quam diu postea edidit) Fartitiones Scientiarum, pro prima Instaurutionis I'arte Constituit ; quam sequeretur Novum Organum ; dein IFistoria Naturalis ; et sic deinceps, Cum igitur reperiret Partem cam de Partitionihus Scientiarum jam pridem elaborate, (licet minds solid"; quam argumenti Dignitas postularet) optimum fore putavit, si retractaretur, et redigeretiu' in opus justum et completum. Atque hoc pacto, Fidem suam liberari intelligit, de Prima Parte Instaurationis prtBstitam. Quantum ad opus ipsum, non est tenuitatis mepe, de eo aliquid prsefari. Prseconium ei, quod optime conveniat, existimo futuru illud, quod Demosthenes interdum dicere solebat de rebus gestis Atheniensium veterum ; Laudatorem Us dignum esse solummodo Tempus. Deum Opt : Max : obnixe precor, ut pro Dignitate Operis, fructus uberes, diuturnique, et Auctori, et Lectori, contingant. This preface is of inestimable value, because it once for all de- cides and puts out of question or doubt certain points of impor- tance touching the 1605 "Advancement" and this "De Augmentis " of 1623 in IX. Books. First of all, it tells us that this is the first volume or part of the Instauratio Magna. Secondly, that 18 years back (1605) the "Advancement" was published in two Books dedicated to King James I. Thirdly, that the eight additional books, with which the altered early " Advancement " of 1605 are incorporated, is a new work, and are now for tYiQ first time published. Fourthly, that although a new work, it was written in English and translated into the present Latin fox-m. Fifthly, that the three first divisions of the Instauration respec- tively embrace the " De Augmentis " as the first part; the " Novum Organum " as the second; and the " Natural History" as the third. 124 BERMES STELLA. It may seem apparent waste of argument to debate a point un- contested, but this question touches the original English version in which Bacon ivrote the 1623 " De Augmentis," from which it was ti"anslated into Latin, and which (unlessWats' pretended translation (1640) of the " De Augmentis" is it) never %vas puhlished at all. Why did Bacon, who had ah-eady in 1605 published the first two Books in English, withhold the English version (in which he wrote the second birth of it, in its enlarged form of 1623) from his countrymen ? This is the drift and aim of our argument. Did he reserve the Originals (from which it was translated into Latin) for a Posthuma Proles, for a " reserved " and ^^ private succession " of publishing (for other hands) " to follow him, not to go along Avith him " ? That is our belief ; and if true, it accounts at once for the extraordinary character of the 1640 Oxford " Advance- ment of Learning," inasmuch as it is even a more complete and ex cathedra version of the " De Augmentis" than the Latin 1623 edition itself. A few remarks upon comparing the two works will not be amiss. We emphatically maintain that Wats did not translate his 1640 edition of the " Advancement " from the 1 623 Latin edition. From whence did he then draw his materials ? But first as to some few proofs of this. Let us make a few remarks upon the 1623 Latin " De Augmentis Scientiarum " which lies open before us. The slightest inspection between this work and the English 1640 translation not only re- veals a world of difference between the two works, but discovers the astounding fact that the 1640 edition contains a great deal more than is to be found in the 1623 Latin original. The Latin 1623 edition has nothing beyond Rawley's preface. There is no intro- duction, nothing from Bacon's hand, simply the nine books, the paging regular, no marginal citations, no italics beyond the Latin quotations, — nothing to excite the slightest suspicion, like the 1640 Oxford translation. On examining the latter, we find it con- tains 61 pages of letterpress in addition to the work itself, and HERMES STELLA. 125 not to be found in the 1G23 Latin edition. The following prefa- tory pieces are to be found in the 1G40 translation by Wats, and are not to be found in the 1623 edition. How does it come that Gilbert Wats inserted all these additional dedications and prefaces, distribution of the work, and plan? Where did he find the originals ? In the 1640 Oxford "Advancement." 1. Dedication by Bacon to the Universities of Oxford and Cam- bridge. 2. Francis Verulam consulted thus, and thus concluded with himself ; the publication whereof he conceiv'd did concern the present and future age. In this Preface he gives a profovind hint of this delay or posthumous publication in the words, " Neither is this an ambitious but soUicitous fesiination." 3. Francis Lo. Verulam : His Great Instauration. The Preface, 16 pages. 4. The Distribution of the Work into Six Parts. 18 pages. 5. The General Argument of the IX. Books. 6. The Arguments of the Ciiapters of each Book. 7. The Platform of the Design. 8. Emanation of the Sciences from the Intellectual faculties of Memory, Imagination, Reason. None of these pieces ai^e to be refound in the 1623 Latin edition. At the end we find the same discrepancies. The 1640 (Oxford) contains a Catalogue of Pai-ticular Histories, another dedication or epilogue to Trinity College, Cambridge. But what is far more striking is the irregular paging and the marginal citations in Latin, with asterisks or stars to mark them, nothing of this being refound in the original 1623. Nor does Wats tell us in his preface from what source he translated. It is true he apologises for the marginal citations, and for the " Index of Sacred and Profane Authors," at the end of the volume. But he does not tell us why he introduces the Distribution Preface, or 126 HERMES STELLA. the Dedications to the Universities, or where he found the originals. This work is literally one maze of apparently senseless and inexplicable italicising, and sometimes Roman capitalising of the letterpress. Insignificant words are to be found in italics alone and apart, others in capitals, but manifestly as we shall prove for a purpose. The paging is irregular to an enormous extent, and when taken up again it is always correctly talcen up, though the intervening irregularity may amount to 10 pages. This proves the irregular paging has been counted correctly, and therefore recognised. For example, after page 280 we find this paging :— 280—202, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 289. Let the reader correct it, and he will find 289 is correct ! then follows on 289, 218, 291 correct again ; showing the error was consciously made, recognised, and counted correctly, but, in spite of this, left intentionally false ! We are perfectly aware how com- mon it is to find old books mispaged. But we do not often find it so repeated for eight pages in sequence, and then rightly cor- rected on the 10th page ! But we prove elsewhere that these false pagings are in correspondence with the false j^agings of the 1623 Folio Shakespeare. One example, and a striking one. The first false page in the 1623 Folio Shakespeare follows 49, and is the true 50. It is falsely paged 58, " Merry Wives of Windsor." The^V^^ false paging in the 1640 Oxford translation of the " De Augmentis " follows also jjage 49, and is the true 50. It is falsely paged 52, Shakespeare's age when he died. The previous page, 49, has for the 50th word in italics, Theatre, to prepare us for the Shakespeare Theatre, \\ itli which the next few irregulai- pages are in correspondence, as we shall show. The reader will under- stand, with evidence such as this (and not only this, but a vast deal moi-e), the importance of the question we are discussing. It is nothing more nor less than the problem of the Cipher Key to the plays, and proof whether that Cipher Key is not the post- HERMES STELLA. 127 humous translation of the 1G40 Oxford "Advancement of Learn- ing," which we are convinced was from the hand of Bacon himself, and had no more to do with (lilliert Wats than with Galileo, except as a cover for its dangerously open character and source. Let it be borne in mind that Bacon's completed life of G6 years would no doubt play an important role in this cipher problem and design. Tliat was a thing that could not come under his own supervision, except as a foresight, and the only way to pro- vide for its proper treatment was to make a Posthuma I'rohs of his great work, the " Advancement," and leave to other hands the task of italicising or otherwise taking his age at death into proper account. There are in the dates of the publication of his posthumous works, susincious facts to suggest that Rawley, in putting out his works, was following some plan. Between the first publishing of the "Advancement of Learning," 1605, and the second birth of the " De Augmentis," 162.3, there is a period of 17 or 18 years. In exactly another period of 17 years it again appears, 1640, translated by Gilbert Wats. In again another 17 years, Eawley publishes, 1657, the ^^ Hesuscitatio," with a reference to the 1640 "Advancement," in the true and perfect list of his lordship's works. The first part of King Henry IV. is the 17th play in the Catalogue of the 1623 Folio Shakespeare ! In this play on real page 53 (false 55) we get the scene where the name Francis is brought in 21 times. The great root number 53 is most prominent in the false paging of that play, and in the 1640 " Advancement." In 1653, Gruter publishes at Amsterdam, Bacon's Remains left in the hands of Mr. Bosvile and Sir J ohn Constable. There is method in all this, if jihilosophy could but find it out. Rawley again publishes in 1670, when we get the " Miscellany Works of Bacon," the second part of the " Resusci- tatio," and it is curiovis to find that between 1653 (Gruter) and 1670 is again 17 years. Between 1640 and 1653 is 13 years. Between 1657 (" Resuscitatio") and 1670 (2nd " Resuscitatio ") 128 HERMES STELLA. is also 13 years. In 1613 Bacon was 53 years old. In 1617 Bacon was 57 years old. Professor Arber writes (in his " Harmony of Bacon's Essays ") upon the Posllmmous Latin Edition 1638 entitled " Operum Moraliuni et Civilium," and containing the Vlth and last text of the essays, as follows : — " However the omission in this Text of two of the Essays, of Prophecies and of Masques and Triumjilis may be accounted for : it is clear that when Bacon penned his dedication to Buclcimjham, this Latin version ivas virtuallij completed. *' My Historie of Henry the Seventh (ivhich I have noiv also translated into Latin)," with Doctor Rawley's express statement at page xiv. and its inclusion by him in the text of Bacon's true works at the end of the 'Resuscitatio,' suffi- ciently proves this. Lord Bacon seems to have thought that the English editions would all perish, but that the ' Latine ' vokime would ' last as long as books last.' It is therefore to be looked upon as the final expression of his mind, his last appeal to future ages." (List of Texts, page 40, Latin Bibliography.) The i-eign of King Henry VII., in Latin, is in this work followed by the Essays. This is downright proof that Bacon was preparing, or pre-editing his posthumous works. His letter to Buckingham, in which he says this is a dedicatory preface to the third and Jlnal English text edition oi \Q2b (Printed by John Haviland for Hanna Barret, 1625) and the fact tliat Bacon uses the word " also,"" cou^Dling the Essays with King Henry VII., 'translated into Latin' is carried out by the fact, that the Essays do follow King Henry VII., both being (as the entire work) in Latin. We refind the dedicatory epistle to Buckingham with the words as before, now in Latin : " Historiam Eegni Henrici Septimi (quam etiam iii Latinum verti)." Now here is proof that a work which appeared twelve years after Bacon's death was prepared by him and allowed to run unpublished for this number of years. Is it not probable on parallel grounds, that the 1640 Translation of the " I)e Aug- mentis " was also by him, seeing Doctor Rawley places it amongst HERMES STELLA. 129 the list of Bacon's True works in the " Resuscitatio" 1657 and 1G71 ? Sseing also that everything concurs to point to the conclusion that the 1623 " Dz Awjmenlls'' was originally written in English, ami translatel into Latin ? Bacon did not write it in Latin. For he solicited various hands to translate it (Do'^tor Playfer for one), yet the En'jlish version was never given the world in any form duiing Bacon's lifetime. This is extraordinary when we consider that the two first Books of the "Advancement " were published KJO.") in English, and that the essays were published in Englisli, and even the lleign of King Henry VII. (1622) in English. If Bacon gave a Latin form to some of his works, he always gave (except in this case) an Englisli form also and chiefly or entirely wrote in his own language, else he would nob have called in the assistance of Doctor Playfer and others to translate the original oi the 1623 "Augmentis " into Latin. We must ask if Bacon thought fit to make a Fosthutna Proles of this work, as he indeed suggests in one of his letters ? And we must ask how it is that this 1640 translation is issued under the auspices of the Universities (particularly Ox ford) and bears such extraordinary internal signs of Bacon's own hand, his peculiar style, and certain departures from the Latin text, not to be ascribed to the translator ? The Dedications by Bacon to the Universities is not in the 1623 Latin edition, nor are his prefaces, but they are to be found in the IGIO transla- tion ascribed to Wats. What are we to say to the mispaging, the endless and senseless italicising, amounting to a hundred words upon some pages? Our theory is that these Posthumous Works answer to Bacon's reserved or /n'ivate method of pub!ishing,whereby he might safely indulge in cipher and mispaging without fear of premature detection. Whilst we are seai'ching in the Latin fa' cathedra editions of his works, the real keys for unlocking this cipher problem is in such works as the 1640 supposed transla- tion, and in the 1671 "Resuscitatio." We have already furnished proof Bacon prepared a posthumously published work, twelve years b3f ore it appeared, and two years after (1640) we have the K I30 HERMES STELLA. English original, written by Bacon (we suggest) himself, but re- served for IG or 17 years. (Its reaWusicZc date is 1C39.) That this is the truth and will ultimately be proved beyond question is our profound conviction, upon other grounds which we cannot adduce here. The 1G40 " Advancement " (translated or sup- posed to be translated from the 1G23 " De Augmentis") is per- haps the most valuable and extraordinary work, after the Plays, in the woi'ld. It is nothing short of a key or Clplier hoolc of directions, for unlocking the 1G23 Folio Plays. No translator would dai-e to place Bacon's name in the margin (p. 53 bis) identifying Bacon with the Due de Guise without authority. Why is it done ? It does not occur in the 1G23 edition. Besides what are we to understand by Bacon's statement that his method of jmh- TisJiinij is to embrace two distinct plans ; one being 2-)ublic (in his own words to fly abroad in men's mouths) — that is, openly and v.nrcserved ; the other reserved or kept back, to a private succes- sion of hands with judgment. This shows he had some secret that could not openly carry his name, but was obliged to be put forth posthumously and seci'etly. Such a plan commands our admira- tion and assent for its secrecy, and for its ingenious system of escaping,whilst challenging scrutiny. And is it not striking to find this declaration in " Valerius Terminus," a work only pub- lished a century after Bacon's death ? The title alone gives us a hint of an end or '• Terminus," and the work embraces fragments refound in the ^^De Aur/mentis," as parts of chapters. The title ''Valerius" is possibly borrowed from Valerius Frohns,yvho wrote .a l)ook on Notes or Ciphers (supposed to be Cfcsar's), Avhich is at once in concord with Bacon's De Anahgia or Grcnnmaticnl J'hilosojdnf. APPENDIX. GREAT CIPHER TABLE, No. t, (Vide page 228 RosusL-itiitio 1071, Part I.) 7iave . 1. . 1. .22o. 620 tfOU 2, •) . 224 . 019 not . ;3. >) . . 223 . 618 a . 4. 4. .222. 617 desire . . 5. r,. .221. 616 1o . G. n. .220. 015 yee / . / . .219. 014 Rome:-' . 8. 613 My 9. 012 Lord 10. 611 Privy . 11. 610 Seal 12. 609 answeret 13. 608 ijes 8. 14. .218. 607 indeed . . 9. lo. .217. 00(! Sir 10. OO") The 17. 604 Kitui . 10. 18. .210. 003 said 19. 602 and. . n. 20. .21. -5. 601 wluj ! . . 12. 21. .214. 600 My . 22. 599 Lord 23. .■598 answered 24. r,97 Because . . 13. 26. .213. 596 if . 14. 26. .212. 595 it . lo. 27. .211. 594 please . .16. 28. .210. 593 i/oiir . 17. 29. .209. 592 Majcsiij 18. 30. . 208 . 591 it ' ' . . 19. 31. .207. 590 was . 20. 32. . 206 . 589 the . 21. 33. . 205 . 588 seat '22 . 34. .204. 587 of . 23. o~) . . 203 . 586 tJie (jreatest . monarvlti and the Semi nan, of the hrarest , men of the worhl . V'hilst . it iuas heathen, And then secondly hecanse . afterwart it was the see «f so man// holji Bishops in the primitive rhnrch . 24. 25. 26. 28. 29, 30 , 31 . 34. 35. 36 . 37. 38 . 39 . 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. h 45 . 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52 . 53 . 54. 36. .202, 37. .201 , 38. .200, .'U) . . 1 !)9 , 198. ,197, ,190, 1 95 , .194. .193, .192, .191, .190, .189. .188, .187, .180. .185. .1S4. 55. .183. 56. .182. 57. .181. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 40, 47, 48. 49, 50, 51. 52. 53 , 54. 56, 57. 58 . ''»^ . .180 59 . .179 00. .178 01. .177 02. .176 63. .175 04. .174 05. .173 00. .172 67. .171 68. .170 69. .169 70. .168 . 585 .58-1- . 583 .582 .581 . 580 .579 . 57S. .577 .576 .575 .574 . 57'") .572 .571 .570 .50!) . 5(i8 .5()7 . 566 . 565 .564 .563 . 562 ,561 , 560 .559 ,558 , 557 6 .-)(■> , 555 , 554 , 553 552 551 132 APPENDIX. most . o9. 71. .167. . 550 fon/ive . . 92. .115. .134. . 506 of . (!(). ~.) .!()(). .549 otJier . 93. .116. .133. . 505 them . (i 1 . .I(i5. . 548 men . 94. .117. .132. . 504 viarti/rs 62 . 74 .164. .547 their . 95. .118. .131. . 503 Tlie ' . . 7.") . 546 sins . 96. .119. . 1 30 . . .-)02 Kilt;/ . 03. 76. .163. . 545 to . 97. . 1 20 . .129. .501 would . / t . . 544 confess . . 98 . .121. . 1 28 . . 500 not 78. . 543 7iis . !)9. .122. .127. .499 give 79. . 542 oivn .100. .123. .126. .498 it 80. .541 sins .101. .124. .125. .497 over 81. . 540 tipon .102. . 1 25 . .124. .496 but 82. . .539 his .103. .126. .123. . 495 said 83. . 538 l-nees .104. .127. .122. .494 And . 64 . . 84. .162. .537 hefo)'e . .105. .128. .121. .493 for . . 6.J . . 85. .161. . 536 a .106. .129. .120. .492 notlibig . .66.. 86. . 1 60 . .535 Chajilaii il07. .130. .119. .491 else ? . . 67.. 87. .159. . 534 or . 1 08 . .131. .118. .490 My 88. . 533 Priest . . 1 09 . .132. .117. .489 Lord 89. . 532 And . .110. .133. .116. .488 answered 90. .531 the .111. .134. .115. .487 Yes . '. 68.. 91. .158. . 530 other .112. .135. .114. . 486 if .69.. 92. .157. .529 to .113. .136. .113. .485 it . 70. . 93. .156. .528 hear .114. .137. .112. .484 lylease . . 71. . 94. . 1 55 . .527 Antichri.. HUr>. .138. .111. . 483 yoiir . 72. . 95 . .154. . 526 saif .116. .139, .110. .482 Ma jest >! 7:] . . 96. .153. . ry2r, h is .117. .140. .109. .481 for ^ . . 74. . 97. .152. .524 creed .118. .141. .108. .480 two . /•").. 98. .151. . 523 Sir .142. .479 thitu/s . . 76. . 99. . 1 50 . .522 SicJ tolas 119. .143* 107. .478 more ; . . 77 . . 100. .149. .521 Bacon . . 1 20 . .144. .106. .477 The . 78.. 101. .148. .520 l)einy ..176.. .445 it .219.. .402 one ,.177.. .444 please , . .220. . .401 of ..178.. .443 you .221.. .400 tiic ..179.. .442 My .222. . .399 malefad ors . . 1 80 . . .441 Lord .223. . .398 mightily ..181.. .440 your .224.. .397 importuned ..182.. .439 name . . .225. . .396 for ..183.. .438 is .226.. . 395 to ..184.. .437 Bacon ..121. .227.. 105. . 394 save ..185.. .436 and . 228 . . . 393 his ..186.. .435 mine .229.. .392 life ,.,187.. .434 is . 230 . . .391 which ..188.. . 433 Hofj ..122. .231.. 104. .390 when ..189.. .432 and . 232 . . .389 nothing ..190.. .431 in . 233 . . .388 that ..191.. .430 all . . . .234.. .387 he ..192.. .429 ages . 235 . . .386 had ..193.. .428 Hoff ..123. .236.. 103. .385 said ..194.. .427 and .237.. .384 did ..195.. .426 Bacon . .124. .238. .102. . 383 avail, ..196.. .425 have . 239 . . .382 he ..197.. .424 been . . . 240 . . .381 at ..198.. .423 so .241.. .380 length ..199.. .422 near .242.. .379 desired . . 200 . . .421 Kindred . 243 . . .378 his ..201.. .420 that . 244 . . .377 * Tliis double " n " is to be refoiind in all copies of tlie 1671 Resuscitatio, to our hands, an 1 we leave it. as it stands. 134 AI'PENDIX. are not to Le separate: I .li^K. hut .Ii'G. . reijlicd . Judge . Bacon . .li>7". '. you .128.. and .129. . I 130.. cannot . .131.. he .132.. Kindred 133. . except . 134.. !/0U 135.. 'he 13G.. Hanged 137.. for . 138. . Hog . is 139.. "not 140. . Bacon . initil 1-41 . . it 142.. he 143. . tucU 144.. Jiaw/ed . 145.. Two scliolars and a country . man travelling upon the road one night 245. .376 lodged . 240. ..'575 all 247. .374 in 248 . .373 one 249 . .372 inn 250. .371 and 251 . .101. .370 supped . 252 . .100. .369 together 25.'!. .368 where . 254. .367 the 255 . . 99. .366 scholars 256. . 98. .365 thought 257. . 97. .364 to 258. . 96. .363 have 259. . 95. .362 put 260. . 94. .361 a 261. . 93. .360 trick 262. . 92. -.359 upon 263 . . 91. .358 the 264. . 90. .357 country . 265 . . 89. .356 man 266. . 88. . 355 which 267. .354 was 268 . . 87. .353 thus 269 . . 86. .352 the 270. .351 scholars . 271. . 85. .350 appointe 272. . 84. .349 for . . 273. . 83. .348 supper . 274. . 82. .347 two 275. . 81* 346 pigeons . 276. .345 and 277. .344 a 278. .343 fat 279. .342 capon 280 . .341 which . 2S1 . . 340 being . 28i> . . 339 ready 283 . .338 was 284. .337 brought 285. .336 up 28(). . 335 and 28 7. .334 they . *■ Tlic Proof ttiat fliis pafic is all ciiilicr is sIioa-ii thus :— ilcdiic' 81 and 346 ami we gtt 265, which is llie niiiiibtr ol Iht- liist wuid " Jlanycd" (2nd col.). 288 , 289, 290 , 291, 292, 293. 294. 205 . 296 . 297. 298 . 299 . 300. 301. 302. 303. 304. 305. 306. 307. 308 . 309 . 310. 311. 312. 313. 314. 315. 316. 317. 318. 319. 320. 321. ;•■>•> .323 . 324 . 325 . 326. 327. 328. .•!2S». 330. .333 .332 . 33 1 . 330 .329 .328 .327 .326 .325 .324 .323 .322 .321 .320 .319 .318 .317 .316 .315 .314 .313 .312 .31 1 .310 .309 . 308 .307 . 306 . 305 . 304 . 303 . 302 .301 . 300 . 299 . 298 .297 . 296 . 295 . 294 . 293 . 292 .291 APPENDIX. having set down the one schohir took up one pigeon the otlier schohir took the other pigeon thinking thereby that the •country man should have sate still until that they "were ready for the carving of the capon Avhich he j^erccivin took the ■capon and ..'].U. . 290 .332. . 289 .333. .288 . 33-1 . .287 ..335. .286 . 336 . .285 .337. .284 .338. . 283 . 339 . . 282 .340. .281 .341. .280 .342. .279 .343. .278 .344. .277 .345. .276 ..346. .275 . 347 . .274 .348. .273 . 349 . .272 . 350 . .271 .351. .270 .352. .269 .353. .268 .354. .267 .355. .266 .356. .265 .357. .264 .358. .263 . 359 . . 262 .360. .261 .361. . 260 .362. .259 .363. .258 .364. .257 . 365 . .256 .366. .255 .367. .254 .368. .253 .369. .252 .370. .251 ^n .371. .250 .372. .249 .373. .248 .374. .247 .375. .246 laid .376. it .377. on . . .378. his .379. trencher .380. and . 38 1 . thus . 382 . said .383. daintlhi 146 .384. 80 contrived 147 .385. 79 everij . . 148 .386. 78 one . .149 .387. 77 a ..150 .388. 76 bird . .151 .389. 75 Jack ..152 .390. 74 lloherts . .153 .391. 73 was .392. desired . . .393. by his .394. . 395 . tailor . 396 . when ..397. the . 398 . reckoning .399. grew somewhat .400. .401. high . 402 . to . 403 . have .404. a . 405 . bill .406. of .407. his .408. hand . 409 . lioherts 154 .410. 72 said .411. I .. . .412. am .413. content, . .414. but .415. you must .416. .417. let .418. no .419. man .420. 245 244 243 242 241 240 239 238 237 236 235 234 233 232 231 230 229 228 227 226 225 224 223 '22-2 221 220 219 218 217 216 215 214 213 212 211 210 209 208 207 206 205 204 203 202 201 136 APPENDIX. know .421. it .422. wlieii .423. the .424. tailor .425. brought .426. liim .427. the .428. bill .429. hu .430. tore .431. it .432. as .433. in .434. choler . 435 . and .436. said .437. to . 438 . liim .439. IJOU .155. .440. 71 use .156. .441. 70 me .157. .442, 69 not .158. .443. 68 well .159. .444. 67 yon .160. .445. 66 'promisef. I 161. .446. 65 me .162. .447. 64 that .163. . 448 . 63 no .164. . 449 . 62 man .165. . 450 . 61 should .166. .451. 60 Jcnoiv .167. . 452 . 59 it .168. .453. 58 and .169. .454. 57 here .170. .455. . 56 you .171. . 456 . . 55 have .172. .457. . 54 put .173. . 458 . 53 in. .174. . 459 . 52 Be .175. .460. 51 it .176. .■161. 50 Jcnoiv Ji .177. .462. 49 vnto .178. .463. 48 all .179. .464. 47 men .180. .465. 46 200 I'll .181 .166. . 45. 199 these .182. .4(57. . 44. 198 presents 183. .468. . 43. 197 Sir .469. 196 Walter . .184. .470. . 42. 195 llaleiijh . .185. .471. . 41. 194 was .472. 193 wont .473. 192 to .474. 191 say .475. 190 of .476. 189 the .477. 188 Ladies . .478. 187 of .479. 186 Queen . . 480 . 185 Elizabeth 186. .481. 40. 184 privy . . 482 . 183 Chamber .483. 182 and .484. 181 bed . 485 . 180 chamber .486. 179 that 187. .487. 39. 178 they .188. .488. 38. 177 tvere .189. .489. 37. 176 like 190. .490.. 36. 175 witclies . .191. .491. 35. 174 they .192. .492. 34. 173 could .193. .493. 33. 172 do .194. .494. 32. 171 hurt .195. .495. 31. 170 hut 196. . 496 . 30. 169 they 197. .497.. 29. 168 could . 1 98 . . 498 . 28. 167 do .199. . 499 . 27. 166 no . 200 . . 500 . 26. 165 good .201. . 501 . 2o. 164 There . . 502 . . 163 was . 503 . . 162 a , . 504 . 161 minister . 505 . . 160 deprived . 506 . 159 for .507. 158 inconformity . . 508 . 157 who . 509 . . 1 56 said .510.. .155 . 1 54 .153 ,152 .151 .150 .149 .148 .147 .146 .145 .144 .143 .142 .141 .140 .139 ,138 .137 .136 ,135 .134 ,13P> ,132 ,131 ,130 ,129 ,128 ,127 ,126 ,125 124 ,123 ,122 ,121 ,120' ,119 lis 1 17 1 1() 115 1 14 APPENDIX. m to some . . o 1 -1 of ...■51 ••! his ...■"> 1 4 friends . . . ..•il.-, tliat ...>1G if ...-,17 they . . ...-.18 deprived ...-)19 him . . .520 . it ..■yl\. should . . ..Tyl-l. cost . . ry2S . an . . 524 . hundred . . .52o . mens . . o20 . lives ..o27. the . .528. party . . . . 529 . understood ...530. it ..5.31. as . . 532 . if ...533. being . . 534 . a ..635. turbulent ..636. fellow . . ..537. he ..538. would . . ..539. have ...540. moved . . ..541. sedition ..542. and ..543. complained . . 544 . of ..545. him ..546. whereupon . . 547 . being ..548. con vented . . 549 . and . . 550 . opposed ..551. upon . . 552 . that ..553. speech . . . . 554 . he . .555. no ' said . r,oe . . cr. 109 his . 557 . . (i4 108 meaning- .oo^^. . (i."r 107 was . 559 . . 62 106 that . 202 . 560 . .21. . (il 105 if . 203 .561. •>:) . 60 104 he .204. . 562 . •>■) . 59 103 lost . 205 . 563 . 21 . . 5,8 102 his .206. . 564 . 20 . . 57 101 henefice . .207. . 565 . 19. . 56 100 he . 208 . . 566 . 18. , 5.5 99 would . . 209 . .567. 17. . 54 98 practice . .210. . 568 . 16. . 53 97 phiisic . .211. .569. 15. . 52 96 and .212. .570. 14. . 51 95 then .213. .571.. 13. . 50 94 he .214. .572.. 12. . 49 93 thonijlit . .215. . 573 . 11. . 48 92 he ' . .216. .574. . 10. . 47 91 should . .217. . 57.5 . . 9. . 40 90 I'ill .218. .576. . 8. . 45 89 an .219. .577. . 7 . 44 88 hundred 220. .578. . 6. 43 87 men .221 . .579. , 5. 42 86 in 222. .580. . 4. 41 85 time 223. .581.. 3. 40 84 Secretary . 582 . . , 39 83 Bourns 224. . 583 . . 2 ^ 38 82 son . 584 . . ^ 37 81 kept . . 585 . . , 36 80 a . 586 . . 35 79 gentleman's .587. . 34 78 wife . 588 . . 33 / / in . 589 . . 32 76 tShrop- 1 sJiire) 225. .590.. 1. . 31 75 74 who 591 . . 30 73 lived 592 . . 29 72 from . 593 . . 28 71 her 594 . . 27 70 husband 595 . . 26 69 with 596 . . 25 68 him 597.. 24 67 when 598.. 23 66 he .599 . . •>■) ^38 APPENDIX. was ..600.. . 21 with . . . .011. . . 10 weary . . ..GOl. . . 20 to . .012. . . !» ■of ..602.. . 19 take ..613. . . 8 her ..603.. . IS her ..014. . . 7 he ..604.. . 17 home . . . .015. . . (! ■caused . . . . 605 . . . 10 and . .610. . . 5 her . . 600 . . . 1--) ottered . . ..617. . . 4 husband ..607.. . 14 him . .018. . . 3 -to . . 608 . . . l.'i live . . (H t ) . 2 be . . 60!) . . . . 12 luiiidred . .020. .. 1 '.'>2) as p. 52, col. 101, 1. K. H. IV. Is lie lit M. Pords already tliinks't thou 'i Sure he 4. 0. 7 . 8. 0. 10. . ;}6:2 .361 .;U)0 ..'5o9 .;5o8 . oo7 .3. JO ,354 ,3o3 by this ; or will be presently but truly he 11. . .3o2 11'.. .351 1 ."> . . . 350 14.. . 34!) 1 r, . . .348 l(j . . .347 17.. .346 IS. . .345 19.. .344 20.. .343 APPENDIX. 141 is .21. ..34i> now . 66 . . . .297 very- 22 ..341 Sir . 67. . . . 296 courageous . 2:'>. . . 340 llu:/h . . 3 . . i>^ . . 54 . . 295 mad . 2i. . . 339 no . 69. . . . 294 about . 2.'). ..338 school . . . 70. . . . 29;; liis . . . 2(i. ..337 to . . . . 71. . . . 292 throwii^y' . 27. . . 336 day . 72.. ...291 into l^'-<. ..335 No ' •> . . . . 290 the , 2i). . . 334 master . . . 74. . . . 289 water. . . . ;30. . .333 tSleiider . . 4 . . 75.. 53. .288 Mistris . . . yi. . . 332 is . 76. . ..287 Ford .. -2. . -V2 . . 55.. 331 let . II.. . . 286 desiies . . . --r-i. ..330 the . 78.. . . 285 you . ;J4. . .329 boys . 79.. ...284 to . . . . -.i''). . .328 leave . 80 . . ..283 come . ;i(J. . .327 to . . . . 81.. . . 282 suddeulj^ . 37. ..326 play . 82.. . .281 He . 38. . . 325 Blessing . 83 . . . .280 be .. . . 3i). . . 324 of . 84. . ..279 M-ith . 40. . . 323 his . f^-') . . ..278 her . 41. . . 322 heart. . . . 86.. ..277 by ... . 4l>. ..321 Sir . 87. . . .276 and . 43. . . 320 Uvijli . . 5 . . 88. . 52. .275 i>y ... . 44. . .319 my . 89 . . . .274 lie . 45. . .318 husband . 90 . . . .273 but . 46. ..317 says . 91. . ..272 bring . 47. ..316 my . 92 . . ..271 my . 48. . .315 son . 93 . . ..270 young . . . 49. ..314 profits . . . 94. . . .2()9 man, . .50 . . ..313 nothing . 95 . . . .268 here . .51. ..312 in . 96.. ..267 to . .52 . . ..311 the . 97.. . .2CA) schoole : . 53. ..310 world . 98. . ..265 look .54.. . . 309 at ... . 99. . . . 264 where . . . 55 . . . . 308 his .100. . . . 263 his . 50 . . . .307 book . . .101. . . .262 master . . . 57 . . . 306 I . . . .102.. ..261 comes . . . 58 . . . . 305 pray . . .103.. . . 260 'tis . 59 . . . . 304 you . . .104. . . .259 ti ... . GO . . . . 303 ask .105. . . . 258 playing . . ,01.. . . 302 him . 1 06 . . . .257 day . . . . &2.. ..301 some .107.. . . 2rA\ I .. . . 03.. . . 300 questions .lOS. . . .255 see .64.. . . 299 in . 109. . . . 254 how . 65 . . . .298 1 his .110.. . . 206 142 ATPENDIX. accidence. .111. .252 your .156.. Come . . .112. .2.51 tatlino. . 230 pray .178. how . 1 34 . .229 you .179. many ASo. .228 peace , . .180. numbers .136. .227 What . . .181. is .137. .226 is .182. in . 1 38 . . 225 Lapis . . 11 . .183. . 46 noims . . .139. .224 William 12. .184. 45 Two .140. .223 A . . . .185. truly .141. . 222 Stone . . .186. I .. . .142. .221 and .187. thought . 1 43 . .220 what .188. there .144. .219 is .189. had .14o. .218 a .190. heen .146. .217 Stone . . .191. one .147. .216 William 13. .192. 44 K umber .148. .215 A. .193. more .149. .214 peeble . . .194. because . . . 1 .-,() . .213 no . 1 95 . they .ir,i . .212 it ... .196. say . 1 r>-2 . .211 is .I!t7. ods . I ">3 . .210 Lapis . . 14. .198. 43 nouns . . .l.-i4. . 20i) I . 1 99 . Peace . . .loo. .208 pi ay . . . 200 . . APPENDIX. M3 16 i: you remember in your brain Lapis . . that is ii good . . William what is lie William that does lend articles . , Articles. . are borrowed of the pronoun and be thus declined tSinr/ular- iter NominaiivolQ Jiic . . 20 Jure . . 21 Jwc . . 22 Xominativo2S IIi(j . . 24 hari . . 25 lioff . . 26 pray . . you mark i;enitivo. . 27 18 .201, . 202 . . 203 , . 204 . .2 or,. .20(). .207. . 208 . . 20!) . . 2 1 . .211. .212. .2iy. .214. ,2ir), .216. .217. .218. .219. ,220. .221 . ,222. . 223 . 224. ,225. ,226. 227. ,228. ,2') 9. %•■ , 280 . .231. 232. 233. 234. ,235. 236 . 237. 238 . 239 . 240. 241 . 242. 42 41 40, 39, 38. 37. 36. 35. 34. 33. 32. 31. 30. .162 .161 .160 .159 .158 .157 .156 .155 .154 .153 .152 .151 .150 .149 .148 .147 .146 .145 .144 .143 .142 .141 .140 .139 .138 .137 .136 .135 .134 .133 .132 ,131 ,130 ,129 .128 ,127 .126 ,125 124 123 122 ,121 lluJHS . . 28 ..243.. Well . . . 244 . . what . . 245 . . is . .246.. your ..247.. accusatii e 29 ..248.. case . 30 . . 249 . . Accusati vo .'5 1 ..250.. h inc 32 ..251. . 1 . .252. . pray . .253. . you ..254.. have . . -ITni . . your . . .256.. r e m e ir i- brance . ..257.. (child) . .258.. Accusati I'o 33 . . 259 . . hing . 34 . 260 . . hang . 35 .261.. hog . 36 . 262 . . Hang . . 263 . . Hog . . 264 . . is . 265 . . Latin . 266 . . for .267., Bacon . .268. . I .2()!). . warrant .270.. you .271. . Leave . 2 / 2 . . your .273.. prables . .274. . O'man . .275.. Wliat . .276. . is .277.. the .278.. Focative 37. .279. . case . 38. . 280 . . William 39. .281.. . 40. .282... Vocative 41. . 283 . . til " IlanavL . 42. '• fbial .284. . r>. 53. 1st. T 29 . 1 20 .119 .lis .117 . i 16 2s .115 27 .114 26 .ii;j. ■2.1 .112 .111 .110 .109 .108- .107 . 1 06 . ]().> 24. . 1 04 23 . . 1 o;; •JO .102 21 *101 . .100 . 99 . 98 ; . 96 . 95 . 94 . 93 . 92 . 91 . 90 . S9 , . 88 . 87 . 86 . 85 20. . 84 19. . 83 18. . 82 17. . 81 16. . SO 15. . 7!) 31ark tliat 262 + 101=363 (/%) agrees with " llangsd" (bis) p. 53, 1st K. H. lY 144 APPENDIX. Rememb'r . . 28.5 . . 78 she ..324.. ]VilIiam 43 . .280 .. 14. . 77 he ..325.. Focative 44 . .287 . . 13.. 76 a ..326.. is . . 288 . . 7-") whore . ..327.. Caret . . 45 . . 280 . . 12. . 74 For . . 328 . . And . . 290 . . 73 shame . ..329.. that's . . . .291 ..72 O'man . .,330.. a . 292 . . 71 you ...331.. good . . 293 . . 70 do ..332.. root . .294 . . . . 69 ill . . 333 . . O'niun . . . 29.J . . 68 to ..334.. forbeare . 296 . . 67 teach . . 335 . . Peace . . .297 . . 66 the . . 336 . . what .298 . . 6o child . ...337.. is .299 . . 64 such . . 338 . . your . 300 . . 63 words . . . .339 . . ijenitive . . 46 .301 . 11.. 62 he ..340.. i-ase 47 . 302 . 10. . 61 teaches . ..341.. Flvral . . 48 .303 . 9. . 60 him . . 342 . . ( William) 49 .304 . 8 . . .59 to . . 343 . . Genitive no . 30.-, . 7 . . 58 hie . . 344 . . Case ol . 306 . 6. . 57 and . . 345 . . 1 .307 . . rjG to . . 346 . . (jenitive r,2 .308 •") . . 55 hac ..347.. Horvm . . r,p, . 309 . 4.. 54 which . . . 348 . . harvii) . . o4 . 3 1 . 3 . . 53 they'll . . . 349 . . horimt . . rjo .311 . 2. . 52 do . . 350 . . Ven- fast ..351.. geance . . .312 . . 51 enough . . . 352 . . of . 3 1 3 ... 50 of . . 353 . . Ginj-e's .314 . . 49 them- Case .31o . . 4S selves . ..354.. fie .316 . . 47 and . . 355 . . on .317 ... 46 to . . 356 . . her .318. . . 45 call ..357.. never . . .319. . . 44 horvm . . 56. .358. . 1.. name .320. . . 43 tie ..359.. her . . .321. . . 42 ujion ..360.. child . . ;;•).) .. 41 you ..361.. if .•■!2.3. . . 40 O'man . . . 362 . . APPENDIX. 145 GREAT CIPHER TABLE , No. ■:>■ {Vide page 5-4 M. W. \V., col. 107 Comedies.) Continued from page 5.'), O'man . . . . 86:3 . . 101 . 1 . . . . 488 art . . . -"^Bi . . 100 . 2 . 432 thou . .'JOo . . 99 . 8 . . 481 Liuiatics . 'M\ . . 82 . . 20 . . 414 foolish. . . 383 . . 81 . . 21 . . 418 Christian* , 384 . . 80 . 22 . 412 creatures . 38.-) . . 79 . . 23 ! . 411 as . 386 . . 78 . . 24 . . 410 I . 887 . 77 . . 25 . . 409 would . . . 888 . . 76 . . 26 . . 408 desires . . . 389 . 75 . . 27 . . 407 Pre'thee . 890 . . 74 . . 28 . . 406 hold . . . 391 . . 78 . . 29 . . 405 tliy . . . 892 . . 72 . . 30 . . 404 peace . . . 893 . . 71 . . 31 . . 408 Show . . . 894 . . 70 . . 32 . . 402 me . 895 . . 69 . . 88 . . 401 now . 396 . . 68 . . 34 . . 400 {Wmiam) . 57 . . 397 . . 67 . . 35 1 18 . . 86 j . 899 some . . . 398 . . 66 . . 398 declensions . 399 . . 65 . . 8/ . . . 397 of . . 400 . . 64 . . 38 . . 396 * " Ckristiiin " 80 agrees with " Xames" 80, col. 103 llistoiies (see page 165). 146 APPENDIX. your . . pronouns Forsooth I have forgot It is Qxd Qucp Quod if you forget your Qiiies your Qm s and your Quods you must be preeches Go your way and pUiy go He is a better scholar than I thought he Avas He is a tiood 58 60 Gl 62 63 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 40 S 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 ■J 21 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 . 63 . . 39 . . 62 . . 40 . . (;i . . 41 . . 60 . . 42 . . 59 . . 43 . . 58 . . 44 . . 57 . . 45 . . 56 . 46 . 55 . 47 . 17 .. . 54 . 48 . 16 . . . 53 . . 49 . . 15 . . . 52 . . 50 . . 51 . . 51 . . 50 . 52 . . 49 . 53 . . 48 . 51 . 14 .. . 47 . 55 . . 46 . 56 . 13 .. . 45 . 57 . . 44 . 58 . . 43 . 59 . 12 .. . 42 . 60 . . 41 . 61 . . 40 . 62 . . 39 . 63 . . 38 . 64 . . 37 . 65 . . 36 . 66 . 3 5 . 67 . . 34 . 68 . . 33 . 69 . 32 70 . . 31 . 71 . . 30 . 72 . . 29 . 73 .. . 28 . 74 . . 27 . 75 . . 26 . 76 . . 25 . / / . . 24 . . 78 . . 23 . . 79 .. 22 80 .. . 21 .. 81 .. . 20 . . 82 .. . 19 . 83 .. APPENDIX. M7 sprag memory rarowell Mistriss Pacfe Adieu Good Sir Ihujli Get you home boy Come we stay too long Miatriss Ford yom- sorrow hath eaten up my sufferance I see you are obsequious in your love, and I profess requital to a hairs breadth . 44G . . IS . . 84 . . 447 . . 17 . . ^') . . 41 s . . 16 . . 86 . . 64 . . 449 . . 15 . . 87 . . 60 . . 400 . . 14 . . 88 . . 4.-,l . . 13 . . 89 . . 4.-) 2 . . 12 . . 90 . . 4.5.i . . 11 . . 91 . . GG . . 454 . . 10 . . 92 . . 4oo . 9 . . 93 . . 4oG . 8 . . 94 . . 4o7 . / . . 95 . . 4r,8 . G . . 96 . . 459 . 5 . . 97 . . 4(i0 . 4 . . 98 . . 401 . ''> . 99 . . 4G2 . 2 . 100 . . 4G;3 . 1 . . 101*. . G7 . . 4G4 . . 102 . 1 .. . G8 . . 4Go . . 103 . 2 . 4G6 . . 104 . 3 . . . 467 . . 105 . 4 . . . 468 . . 106 . 5 . . . 469 . . 107 . 6 . . . 470 . . 108 . 7 .. . 471 . . 109 . 8 . . . 472 . . 110 . 9 .. . 473 . . Ill . . 10 .. . 474 . . 112 . . 11 .. . 475 . . 113 . . 12.. . 476 . . 114 . . 13 .. s . 477 . . 115 . . 14 . . . 478 . . 116 . . 15 . . . 479 . . 117 . . 16 .. . 480 . . 118 . . 17 .. . 481 . . 119 . . 18 .. . 482 . . 120 . . 19 . . . 483 . . 121 . . 20 .. . 484 . . 122 . . 21 .. . 485 . . 123 . 22 . 486 . . 124 . . 23 .. . 487 . . 125 . . 24 . . . 488 . . 126 . . 25 . . 350 340 348 347 346 345 344 34. -J 342 341 340 339 338 337 336 335 334 333 332 331 330 329 328 327 326 325 324 323 322 321 320 319 31H 317 3l(; 315 314 313 312 311 310 309 308 End of Sc'fiie I., Act IV. 148 APPENDIX. not only Mistriss Ford in the simple office of Love, but in all the accoutrement complement and ceremony of it But are you sure of your husband now Y He's a birding Sweet Sir Joli a What hoa gossip Ford what hoa Step into th' chamber Sir . . 489 . . . 127 . 26 .. . . 490 . . 128 . 27 . . . . 491 . . 129 .. 28 .. . . 69 . . 492 . 6 . . 130 .. 29 .. . . 493 . . 131 . 30 .. . . 494 . . 132 . . 31 .. . . 495 . . 133 .. 32 . . . . 496 . . . 134 .. 33 .. . . 497 . . 135 . . 34 .. . . 498 . . 1 36 . . 35 . . . . 499 . . . 137 .. 36 .. . . 500 . . . 138 . . 37 .. . . 501 . . . 139 .. 38 .. . . 502 . . 140 . 39 . . . . 503 . . 141 . 40 .. . . 504 . . 142 . 41 .. . . 505 . . 143 . 42 .. . . 506 . . 144 . 43 . . . . 507 . . 145 . 44 . . . . 508 . . 146 . 45 .. . . 509 . . 147 . 46 . . .. 510 . . 148 . 47 .. .. 511 . . 149 . 48 .. .. 512 . . 150 . 49 .. . . 513 . . 151 . 50 .. . . 514 . . 152 . 51 .. . . 515 . . 153 . 52 .. . . 516 . . 154 . 53 .. . . 517 . . 155 . 54 .. . . 518 . . 156 . 55 .. . . 519 . . 157 . . 56 . . . . 520 . . 158 . . 57 . . . . 521 . . 159 . . 58 . . . . 70 . . 522 . 5 . . 160 . . 59 . . . . 523 . . 161 . . 60 . . . . 524 . . 162 . . 61 . . . . 525 . . 163 . . 62 . . . . 71 . . 526 . 4 . . 164 . . 63 . . . . 527 . . 165 . . 64 .. . . 528 . . 166 . . 65 .. . . 529 . . 167 . . 66 .. . . 530 . . 168 . . 67 . . . . 531 . . 169 . 68 . . . . 532 . . 170 , . 69 . . . . 533 . . 171 . . 70 .. APPENDIX. 149 Jolui . 72 . . .5:54 . 3 . . 172 . . 71 . . 262 How . r).'io . . 173 . . 72 . . 261 now . o3(J . . 174 . . 73 . . 260 sweet . o.'}? . . 175 . . 74 . . 259 heart X . . 088 . . 176 . 75 . , 258 wliose . o39 . . 177 . . 76 . . 257 at . 040 . . 178 . 77 . . 256 liome . o41 . . 179 . 78 . . 255 b asides . o42 . . 180 . . 79 . . 254 yonr . 543 . . 181 . . 80 . . 253 self ? . /544 . . 182 . . 81 . . 252 AVhy . o45 . . 183 . . 82 . . 251 none . o46 . . 184 . . 83 . . 250 but . o47 . . 185 . . 84 . . 249 mine . o48 . . 186 . . 85 . . 248 own . -'549 . . 187 . . 86 . . 247 people . 5.30 . . 188 . . 87 . . 246 Indeed 'i . 551 . . 189 . . 88 . . 245- No . 552 . . 190 . . 89 . . 244 certainly . . 553 . . 191 . . 90 . . 24:3. speak . 554 . . 192 . = 91 . . 242 louder . 555 . . 193 . . 92 . . 241 Truly . 556 . . 194 . . 93 . . 240 1 . 557 . . 195 . . 94 . . 239 am . 558 , . 196 . . 95 . . 238 so . 559 . . 197 . . 96 . . 237 i;lad . 560 . , 198 . . 97 . . 236 you . 561 . . 199 . . 98 . . 235 have . 562 . . 200 . . 99 . . 234 no . 563 . . 201 . . 100 . . 233 body . 564 . . 202 . . 101 . . 232 here . 565 . . 203 . . 102 . . 231 Why ? . . 566 . . 204 . . 103 . 230 why . 567 . . 205 . . 104 . 229 woman . 568 . . 206 . . 105 . 228 your . 569 . . 207 . . 106 . 227 husband . 570 . . 208 . . 107 . •2-1^ is . 571 . . 209 . . 108 . 225 in . 572 . . 210 . . 109 . . 224 liis . 573 . . 211 . . 110 . 223 old . 574 . . 212 . . Ill . 222 lines . 575 . . . 213 . . 112 . 221 again . 57(5 . . . 214 . . 113 . . 220 he . 577 . . 215 , . 114 . 219 so . 578 . . 210 . . 115 . 218 ISO APPENDIX. takes on yonder with my husband so rails against all married mankind so curses all Eves daughters of what complexion soever and so buffets liimself on the For-~^ head) crying peere- ) out j peere- ) out J that any madness 1 ever yet beheld seemed but tameiiess civility . -570 . . 217 . 116 .. . 580 . . 218 . . 117 .. . 581 . . 219 . 118 .. . 582 . . 220 . 119 .. . 583 . . 221 . 120 . . . 584 . 222 . 121 . . . 585 . 223 . 122 .. . 58G . 224 . 123 .. . 587 . . 225 . 124 .. . 588 . . 226 . 125 .. . 589 . . 227 . 126 . . . 590 . . 228 . 127 .. . 591 . . 229 . 128 ,. . 592 . . 230 . . 129 . . . 593 . . 231 . 130 .. . 73 . . 591 . 2 . 232 . 131 . . . 595 . . 233 . . 132 .. . 590 . . 234 . 133 .. . 597 . . 235 . 134 . . tl . 598 . . 23G . . 135 .. . 599 . . 237 . 136 . . . GOO . . 238 . . 137 . . . GOl . . 239 . . 138 . . . 002 . . 240 . . 139 . . . G03 . . 241 . . 140 . . . 004 . . 242 . . 141 . . . 005 . . 243 . . 142 .. . GOG . . 244 . . 143 . . . 607 . . 245 . , 144 . . . G08 . . 246 . . 145 . . . 009 . . 247 . . 146 . . . 010 . . 248 . . 147 .. . on . . 249 . . 148 . . . 012 . . 250 . . 149 . . . 013 . . 251 . . 150 . . . 014 . . 252 . . 151 . . . 015 . . 253 . . 152 .. . GIG . . 254 . 153 . . . 017 . . 255 . 154 . . . 018 . . 25G . 155 . . . 019 . . 257 . 156 .. . 620 . . 258 . . 157 . . . 021 . . 259 . 158 . . . 622 . . 200 . 159 . . . 623 . . 201 . 160 .. APPENDIX. 151 and patience to this his distemper he is in now ; I am ghid the fat Knight is not here. Why does he talk of liim ? Of none but him and swears he was carried out the hist time he search'd for him in a basket 624 G27 628 629 6;30 631 632 633 634 630 636 637 638 639 640 641 642 643 644 645 646 647 648 649 60O 60 1 6o2 653 654 655 656 657 658 659 660 661 662 663 664 665 666 667 668 . 262 . . 161 .. . 263 . . 162 .. . 264 . . 1(!3 . . . 265 . . 164 .. . 266 . . 165 . , . 267 . . 166 . . . 268 . . 167 .. . 269 . . 168 .. . 270 . . 169 .. . 271 . . 170 .. . 272 . . 171 .. . 273 . . 172 .. . 274 . 173 . . . 275 . . 174 ., . 276 . 175 .. . 277 . 170 .. . 278 . . 177 .. . 279 . 178 . . . 280 . 179 .. . 281 . 180 .. . 282 . 181 .. . 283 . 182 . . . 284 . 183 . . . 285 . . 184 .. . 286 . . 185 . . . 287 . 186 .. . 288 . 187 .. . 289 . 188 .. . 290 . . 189 . . . 291 . . 190 . . . 292 . . 191 .. . 293 . 192 .. . 294 . . 193 ... . 295 . 194 .. . 296 . . 195 . , . 297 . . 196 . . . 298 . . 197 .. . 299 . . 198 .. . 300 . . 199 .. . 301 . . 200 . . . 302 . . 201 . . . 303 . . 202 . . . 304 . . 203 . . . 305 . . 204 . . . 3Q6 . ; 205 . . 172 171 170 169 168 167 16(5 165 164 163 162 161 160 159 158 157 156 155 154 153 152 151 150 149 148 147 146 145 144 143 142 141 140 139 138 137 136 135 134 133 132 131 130 129 128 152 APPENDIX. Protests . . to my husband . . he is now here and hath drawn him and the rest of their company . . from their sport, to make another experiment of his suspicion . But I am ^dad the Knight is not here ; now lie shall see his own foolerie J low 669 .. . . 307 . . 206 .. 670 .". . . 308 . . 207 .. 671 .. . . 309 . . 208 . . 672 . . . . 310 . . 209 . 673 . . .. 311 .. 210 . 674 . . . . 312 . . 211 . 675 . . . . 313 .. 212 . 676 . . . . 314 .. 213 . 677 . . . . 315 . . 214 . 678 . . .. 316 .. 215 . 679 . . . . 317 ., 216 . 680 . . . . 318 . . 217 . 681 . . .. 319 .. 218 . 682 .. . . 320 . . 219 . 683 .. .. 321 .. 220 . 684 .. . . 322 . . 221 . 685 . . .. 323 .. 222 . ^^%Q . . . . 324 . . 223 . 687 . . .. 325 . 224 . 688 . . . . 326 . . 225 . 689 . . . . 327 . . 226 . 690 . . . . 328 . 227 . 691 .. . . 329 . 228 . 692 . . ... 330 . 229 . 693 . . . . 331 . 230 . 694 . . .. 332 . 231 . 695 . . . . 333 . 232 . 696 .. . . 334 . . 233 . 697 . . .. 335 . . 234 . 698 .. . . 336 . . 235 . 699 .. . . 337 . . 236 . 700 .. . . 338 . . 237 . 701 . . . . 339 . . 238 . 702 . . . . 340 . . 239 . 703 . . . . 341 . . 240 . 704 . . . . 342 . . 241 . 705 . . . . 343 . . 242 . 706 . . . . 344 . . 243 . 707 . . . . 345 . . 244 . 70S . . . . 34() . . 245 . 709 . . . . 347 . . 246 . 710 .. . . 348 . . 247 . 711 .. . . 349 . . 248 . 712 .. . . 350 . . 249 . 713 . . .. 351 . . 250 . APPENDIX. 153 near .. 714 . , . 352 . . 251 . . 82 is . . 7 1 .", . . 353 . . 252 . . 81 he . . 7i(; . . 354 . . 253 . . 80 Mistri&s . . 717 . . 355 . . 254 . . 79 Paife 74.. 71S . 1. . 356 . . 255 . . 78 Hard . . 71i) . . 357 .. 256 . 77 by . . 720 . . 35s . . 257 . . 76 at ... 721 . . 35i) . , 258 . 75 Street . . 722 . . 360 . . 259 . . 74 end . . 72;5 . . 361 . . 260 . 73 he . . 724 . . 362 . . 261 . . 72 Avill . . 72.", . . 363 . . 262 . . 71 be . . 720 . . 364 . . 263 . . 70 liere . . 727 . . 365 . . 264 . . 69 anon . . 728 . . 366 .. 265 . . as I . . 729 . . 367 . . 266 . . 67 am ... 730 . . 368 .. 267 . . 66 undone .. 731 . . 369 . 268*. . 65 the .. 732 . . 370 . 269 . . 64 Knight . . . 733 . . 371 . 270 . . 63 is .. 734 . . 372 . 271 . . 62 here . . 735 . . 373 . 272 . . 61 Why . . 736 . . 374 . 273 . . ()0 then . . 737 . . 375 . 274 . . 59 you . . 738 . . 376 . 275 . oH are . . 739 . . 377 . 276 . 57 utterly . . 740 . . 378 . 277 . . 5() sham'd .. 741 . . . 379 . 278 . '>■'> and . . 742 . . 380 . 279 . . 54 he's . . 743 . . . 381 . 280 . 5;> but . . 744 . . . 382 . 281 . . 52 a . . 745 . . . 383 . 282 . . 51 dead . . 746 . . . 384 . . 283 . . 50 man . . 747 . . . 385 . . 284 . . 49 what . . 748 . . . 386 . . 285 . . 48 a . . 749 . . . 387 . 286 . . 47 wo-.nan .. 750 . . . 388 . . 287 . . 46 are . . 751 . . . 389 . . 288 . . -15 30U ? . . 752 . . . 390 . 289 . . 44 Away . . 753 . . . 391 . . 290 . . 4;; with . . 754 . . . 392 . . 291 . . 42 him . . 755 . . . 393 . . 292 . . 41 away . . 756 . . . 394 . . 29;i . . 40 * JIark lien > that tli( ; numbers porrespoiidii H to " C, immon of Jia run" (369, 370.371) fall against the numbers ct " Lacon I tcarraid" (268, 263, 270;, wliicli cannot bechance. 154 APPENDIX. ■with . 757 . . . 395 . . 294 . . him . 758 . . . 396 . . 295 . . Better . 759 .. . 397 . . 296 . . shamo . 760 .. . 398 . . 297 . . than . 701 . . . 399 . . 298 , . murder . 762 . . . -100 . . 299 . . which . 763 . . . 401 . . 300 . . ■way . 764 . . . 402 . . 301 . . should . 765 . . . 403 . . 302 . . he .. . . 766 . . . 404 . . 303 . . go? . 767 .. . 405 . . 304 . . How . 768 . . . 406 . . 305 . . should . . . 769 . . . 407 . . 306 . . I . . . . 770 . . . 408 . . 307 . . bestow . 771 .. . 409 . . 308 . . him 't . 772 . . . 410 .. 309 .. Shall i 1 '•> . . . 411 .. 310 .. I .. . . 774 . . . 412 .. 311 .. put . 775 . . . 413 .. 312 .. liim . 776 . . . . 414 .. 313 .. into . 777 . . . 415 . . 314 . . the . 778 . . . 416 .. 315 .. basket . 779 . . . 417 . . 316 . . again ? . . . 780 . . . . 418 .. 317 . . No . 781 .. . . 419 .. 318 .. He . 782 . . . . 420 . . 319 . . come . 783 . . . . 421 . . 320 . . no . 784 . . . . 422 . . 321 . . more . 785 . . . . 423 . . 322 . . i'th . 786 . . . . 424 . . 323 . . basket. . 787 . . . . 425 . . 324 . . May . 788 . . . . 426 . . 325 . . I . . . . 789 . . . . 427 . . 326 . . not . 790 . . . . 428 . . 327 . . o-O . 791 .. . . 429 . . 328 . . out . 792 . . . . 430 . . 329 . . ere . 793 . . . . 431 . . 330 . . he . 794 . . . . 432 . . 331 . . comes . . . 795 . . . . -133 . . 332*. . * If we arlil the col «•„,., Is ,.„\ lfi7 HUt.nric nunilier K \ lint (■(illll 7 to 332 we get 433, intr t,liH fiMi't.ioii tii n. wlii<'li is exactly the nvii End of page 5J. APPENDIX. 155 GREAT CIPHER TABLE, No. 4. Henry W ••' I'iige 00 1st iving lit And . . . 1 .. then -) the . 3.. power . . . 4. . of .. . . . Scotland . 6. . and 7 . . of .. . .8.. Yorke . . .9.. to .10.. join .11.. with .12.. Mortimer . 13. . Ha .14.. and . 1.5. . so .16.. they .17.. shall . . .18.. In faith .19.. it . . ' . .20.. is ■ .21.. exceedingly . 22 . . well . . . 23 . . aim'd . 24 . . And . 2o. . 'tis . 26. . no .27.. little . . . 28. . rfeason . . .29.. bids .30.. us .31.. speed . . . 32 . . to . . . . 33 . . save .34.. onr . . .35.. heads , . .36.. * We adhere to Mr. Donnelly's count. Folio, therefore two words. by . . . 1, j-iiauuiicay. .37.. raising . . .38., of .. . .39.. a . . . . 40. . head .41.. For .42.. beare . . .43.. our .44.. selves . . .45.. as . 46. . even . 47. . as .48.. we . 49. . can . 50 . . The . 51. . King . . . 52 . . will . . 53 . . always . . . 54. . think . . . 55 . . him . 56 . . in . 57. . our .58.. debt . . . 59 . . And . 60 . . think . . .61.. we . 62 . . think . . . 63 . . our .64.. selves . . .do.. imsatisfied . 66. . till . . 67. . he . . 68 . . hath . . ..69.. found . . ..70.. a ..71.. time ..72.. Charles Wainc " is separated in the 1623 156 APPENDIX. to .. . . 7;3 . . time ..118. pay .74.. is . .119. us . 75. . ripe ..120. home . . .76.. which . . . .121. And . 77. . will . .122. see .78.. be ..123. already . . . 79 . . suddenly ..124. how : . . 80 . . He ..125. he . . . . 81 . . steal . .126. doth . . .82.. to ..127. begin .83.. Olendower ..128. to . 84 . . and ..129. make .85.. lose ..130. us .86.. Mortimer ..131. strangers . 87.. where . . ..132. to .88.. you . .133. his .89.. and . .134. looks .90.. Dov(jJas ..135. of .91.. and . .136. love . 92. . our ..137 He .93.. powers . . ..138 does . 94. . at . .139 he .95.. once ..140 does .96.. as ..141 we'll . . .97.. I ..142 be . 98.. will ..143 reveng'd .99.. fashion . . ..144 on .100.. it . . 1 45 him .101.. shall ..146 Cousin . . .102.. happily . . ..147 farewell .103.. meet ..148 No .104.. to . .149 further . . ..105.. beare . .150 go .106.. our ..151 in ..107.. fortunes . .152 this ..108.. in ..153 Then . . ..109.. our . . 1 54 I ..110.. own . . 1 55 by . .111. . strong . . . .156 letters . . ..112.. arms . .157 shall . . ..113.. which . . 1 58 direct . . ..114.. now . .159 your . . ..115.. we ..160 courte . . ..116.. hold ..161 when . .117.. at . .162 APPENDIX. 157 much . 1 g:} . luicertahity . 1 ()4 . . Farewell .16;-,.. good .1(36.. Lrother . . .167.. Ave .168.. shall . . .169. . thrive . . .170. . I .171. trust .17i>.. luicle Adieu .17.",. .174. .17.-,. let .176. the .177. hours .17S. be .179. short .180, till .181. fields .182. and .18.3. bhnvs .184. and .185. groans . . .186. applaud. . .187. our .188. sport. .189. 1 '•'■ Heigh-ho au't .190. .191. . . be .192. . tp . . not .193. . '-+3 . . four .194. by ..195. the ..196. +3 day ..197. ■ ' ' He . .198. • '? • ' be .199. . 262 . . hang'd* . . . . 200 . .261.. Charles. . . . 201 . tvaine . . . . 202 . is . . 203 . over . . 204 . the . . 205 . 263 262 261 260 259 258 257 * Mark ' be hang'd' agrees with M. W. W. new . 206 . chimney .207. and . 208 . yet . 209 . our .210. horse .211. not .212. pack't . .213. what .214. Ostler . .215. anon .216. anon .217. I .218. prcthee . .219. Tom . 220 . beat .221. Cuts . .222. saddle . . 223 . put .224. a . 225 . few .226. flocks .227. in . 228 . the .229. point . 230 . the .231. poor .232. jade . 233 . is . 234 . rung .235. in . 236 . the .237. withers . . 238 . out . 239 . of .240. all .241. cesse . 242 . Pease . . 243 . and .244. beans . 245 . are . 246 . as .247. dank ,. •' rTnr, . 248 . 9R7 9R'? . 2.-,6 .255 . 254 .253 .252 .251 . 250 .249 .248 .247 .246 .245 .244 .243 .242 .241 .240 .239 .238 .237 .236 .235 .234 .233 .232 .231 . 230 .229 .228 .227 .226 . 225 . 224 .223 .222 .221 .220 .219 .218 .217 .216 .215 .214 Hang Hog ' 261, 262, or " Hog Hang " 262, 263, p. E3, 158 APPENDIX. liere lis a dog and this is the next way to i^ve poor Jades the Boats Tliis lionse is turned upside down since Rohin the Ostler died Poor fellow never since the price of oats rose it was tlie death of him 1 think 249. 250, ,251 ,252, 253 , ,254, ,255, 50. , 257 258 . ,259, 260 , ,261 ,262. .268, ,264. 265. ,260. ,267 268. ,269, 270, 271 ,272, ,273 ,274, 275. 276, 277 ,278, ,279, 280. ,281 282 . ,283, 284, 285, 286, 28: 288, 289, ,290, ,291 ,292. 29^ 213 212 211 210 209 208 207 206 205 204 203 202 201 200 199 198 197 196 195 194 193 192 191 190 189 188 187 186 185 184 183 182 181 180 179 178 177 176 175 174 173 172 171 170 1 09 this .294. is .295. the . 296 . . most .297. %allanons .298. house . . . 299 . . in .300. all .301. . London .302.. road . 303 . . for .304. . fleas .305.. I . . . . 306 . . am .307. . stxin;^- . . .308. like " . . .309. a .310.. tencli . . .311. Like . . .312. a .313. tench . . .314. There . . .315. is .316. n'ere .317. a . . .318. King .319. in . .320. Christendom . .321. could ..322. be ..323. better . . . .324. bit ..325. than . .326. I ..327. have . .328. been . .329. since . .330. the ..331. first . .332. cock . .333. why . 334 . you . . 3')5 . will . .336. allow ..337. us . .338. APPENDIX. 159 jourden and then ■vve leak in your cliinuioy and your Chambe breeds fleas like a loach what Ostler come away and be hang'd* come away I have a gammon of Bacon and two razes of ginger to be delivered as far •lye ,330 .340 .341 , 342 .343 .344 34.-) , 340 . 347 .348 . 349 .3/30 .3r>I ,352 . 353 . 354 ,355 .356 357 ,358 ,359 .360 .361 ,362 ,363 ,364 ,365 .366 ,367 .368 .369 ,370 .371 ,372 ,373 .374 ,375 ,370 .377 .378 .379 .380 .381 92 91 90 123 122 121 120 119 118 117 116 115 114 113 112 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 100 99 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 91 90 89 88 87 86 85 84 83 82 81 as .382.. Charing . 383 . . Cross . . 384 . . The . 385 . . turkies . . 386 . . in .387.. my ^ . .3.88. . pannier, are .389.. . 390 . . quite starved . .391.. .392.. what . 393 . . Ostler . . 394 . . a .395.. plague . on . 396 . . .397.. thee . 398 . . hast . 399 . . thou .400.. never .401.. an .402.. ej'e in .403.. .404.. thy head . 405 . . .406.. Cans't . .407.. not .408.. hear .409.. And . .410.. t'were . .411.. not .412.. as .413.. good . .414.. a .415.. deed .416.. as .417.. drink .418.. to .419.. break .420.. the .421.. pate of ..422.. . . 423 . . thee ..424.. 1 r- '3 M. w.w. (262+101=363) 3C; 80 7!) 78 / / 70 75 74 7o 72 71 70 09 68 67 60 05 04 03 02 01 60 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 52 51 50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 -ICl (col.)=262. JNlark £63- 99 = 264 = Hog (264) p. 53 M. \\ . W. c6o APPENDIX. very villain come and lie hanged hast no faith in thee Good morrow carriers Whats 42^-5. . 37 426. . 36 427. . 35 428. . 34 429. . 33 430. . 32 431. . 31 432. . 30 433 . . 29 434. . 28 435 . . 27 436. . 26 437. . 25 438. . 24 439. . 23 440. 22 441. . 21 442. . 20 443. . 19 clock ..444.. . 18 I . . 445 . . 17 think ..446. . 16 it ..447.. . 15 lie ..448. . 14 two ..449. . 13 a . . 450 . . 12 clock ..451. . 11 I ..452. . 10 prethee . . . 453 . . 9 lend . . 454 . . 8 me . . 455 . 7 thy . . 456 . . 6 lanthorn ..457. 5 to . . 458 . . 4 see . . 459 . . 3 my ..460. 2 gel ..461. . 1 GREAT CIPHER TABLE, No. 5. Page 52 (falsely paged 54), 1st. K. H. IV., cohnnn 104, Histories. Same number of words (362) as page 53, M. W. W. you four shall front them in the Narrow lane Xed and I will walk lower, if they scape fi'om your 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 .362 .361 . 360 . 359 . 358 .357 .356 .355 .354 .353 .352 .351 .350 .349 .348 . 347 .346 . 345 .341 .343 encounter then they light on \is But how many be of them Some eight or ten will they not rob 21 22 23 24 25 '1% 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 .342 .341 .340 .339 .338 .337 .336 .335 .334 .333 .3.32 .331 .330 .329 .328 .327 .326 .325 .324 .323 APPENDIX. i6i us? What a coward Sir John Paunch . Indeed 1 am not John of Gaunt your grandfather but yet no coward Hal wee'l leave that to the proof Sirra Jack thy horse stands behind the hedge when thou need'st him there thou shalt * Note "hang'd,' " afoot ' and " a v: M. W. W. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62, 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. .322 .321 .320 .319 .318 ,317 316 ,315 .314 .313 .312 .311 .310 .309 .308 .307 .306 .305 .304 . 303 .302 .301 .300 .299 .298 ,297 .296 .295 .294 .293 .292 ,291 ,290 ,289 ,288 ,287 286 ,285 ,284 ,283 ,282 ,281 find him Farewell and stand fast Now cannot I strike liim if I should be hang'd Ned where are our disguises Here hard by stand close Now my masters happy man be liis dole say I every man to his business Come 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. 107, 108. 109. 110. 111. 112. 113. 114. 115. 116. 117. 118. 119. 120. 121. 122. 123. 124. 264 263 .280 .279 .278 .277 .276 .275 .274 .273 .272 .271 .270 .269 .268 .267 .266 *265 .264 .263 .262 .261 .260 .259 .258 .257 .256 . 255 .254 .2.53 252 .251 . 250 .249 .248 .247 .246 .245 .244 .243 .242 .241 .240 .239 265, agrees with "hang'd." 265, p. 228 " Resuscitatio." If we count hile " as single worUs, then 263, 264 correspond to " Hang Hog " p 53, M 1 6,2 APPENDIX. neighbour ..125.. . . 238 down . .167., ..196 the . . ..126.. . . 237 with . . 168 . . ..195 boy ..127. . ..236 them ..169.. ..194 shall . . ..128.. . . 235 fleece . . 1 70 . . . .198 lead . 129.. . . 234 them ..171.. ..192 our ..130. . ..233 ..172.. . .191 horses • ..131.. . .232 we . . 173 . . . .190 down ..132.. . . 231 are ..174. . ..189 the ..133.. . . 2.30 undone . . ..175.. . .188 hill ..134.. . .229 both ..176. . . .187 Wee'l . ..135.. . .228 we ..177.. ..186 walk ..136.. . -227 and ..178.. ..185 a- ) . foot S . ..137.. . .226 ours ..179.. ..184 ..138.. 137.. 225 for ..180.. ..183 a- ) . while ) . ..139. . . 224 ever ..181.. ..182 ..140. 138. .223 Hang . . ..182. . ..181 and ..141. . .222 ye . .183. . . .180 ease ..142. 221 gorbellied ..184.. ..179 our ..143. ..220 Knaves . . ..185.. ..178 legs ..144. ..219 are ..186.. ..177 Stay . ..145. ..218 you ..187.. ..176 Jesu ..146. . 217 undone ? ..188. . ..175 bless ..147. ..216 No ..189.. ..174 us ..148. . , . .215 ye ..190.. ..173 Strike . ..149. ..214 fat ..191. ..172 down ..150. ..213 Chuffes . . ..192. ..171 with ..151. ..212 I ..193. ..170 them ..152. ..211 would . . ..194. . .169 cut ..153. ..210 your ..195. . .168 the ..154. ..209 store ..196. ..167 villians . ..155. ..208 were ..197. ..166 throats . ..156. ..207 here . .198. ..165 a ..157. ..206 on ..199. ..164 whorson . .158. . . 205 Bacons . . ..200. .198* 163 Catapillars ..159. ..204 on ..201. ..162 Bacon . . 1 60 . .158* 203 what . . 202 . ..161 fed ..161. . . 202 ye . . 203 . ..160 knaves ..162. ..201 Knaves . . . .204. ..159 they ..163. . . 200 young . . . . 205 . ..158 hate ..164. ..199 men ..206. ..157 us . . 1 65 . ..198 must . . 207 . ..156 youth . . 1 66 . ..197 live ..208. ..155 * Tliese figures, 158, 198 (2nd ool.) represent the alternative count (down), "a-foot" and " a-ivhile" being treated as single words. APPENDIX. 163 you .209. . .154 for . . 254 . . ..109 are .iMO. . . 1 53 ever ..255.. . .108 Grand . . .211.. . 1 52 Stand . . . . 256 . . . .107 Jurers . . .212.. ..151 close ..257.. . .106 are .213.. .150 I . . 258 . . . .105 ye ..214.. ..149 hear . . 259 . . ..104 Wee'l . . ..21.5. . ..148 them . . 260 . . . 1 03 jure .216. . . .147 coming . . .261.. .102 ye .217.. ..146 Come . . .262. . .101 i 'faith . . ..218.. ..145 my .263. . .100 The ..219.. ..144 masters. , .264.. . 99 thieves . . .220. . . . 143 let . 265 . . . 98 have .221.. ..142 us .266.. . 97 bound . . .222. . ..141 share •267.. . 96 the .223. . ..140 and . 268 . . . 95 true .224. . .139 then .269.. . 94 men . 225 . . .138 to .270.. . 93 NOAV . 226 . . ..137 horse .271.. . 92 could .227. ..136 before . . .272.. . 91 thou .228. . ..135 day . 273 . . . 90 and .229.. ..134 and .274.. . 89 I .230. . .133 the .275. . . 88 rob .231.. .132 Prince . . .276.. . 87 the . 232 . . .131 and .277.. . 86 thieves . . . 238 . . .130 Poins . . .278.. . 85 and .234.. .129 be .279. . . 84 go .. . 235 . . .128 not .280.. . 83 merrily . . . 236 . . .127 two .281.. . ^1 to . .237.. .126 arrant . . .282.. . 81 London . . .238.. .125 cowards. . . 283 . . . 80 it . 239 . . .124 there's . . . 284 . . . 79 would . . . 240 . . .123 no .285..- . . 78 be . 241 . . .122 equity . . .286.. . 77 argument .242.. .121 stirring . . .287.. . 76 for .243.. .120 There's . . .288.. . 75 a .244.. .119 no . . .289.. . 74 week .245. . .118 more .290.. . 73 Laughter .246.. .117 valour . . .291.. . 72 for .247.. .116 in .292. . . 71 a . . . . 248 . . .115 that .293.. . 70 month . . .249.. .114 Poins . . . 294 . . . 69 and . . . 250 . . .113 than . 295 . . . 68 a . . . . 251 . . .112 in .296.. . 67 good . 252 . . .111 a . . . .297.. . 66 jest .253.. .110 wild . . . 298 . . M— 2 . 65 164 APPENDIX. duck . .299.. .. 64 fellow . . . .331., ,. 32 Your . .300. . .. 63 for ..332.. .. 31 money . . ..301.. .. 62 an . . 3,33 . . .. 30 villains . . ..302.. .. 61 officer . . ..334.. .. 29 got . . 303 . . .. 60 Away . . . . 335 . . .. 28 with . . 304 . . .. 59 good . . 336 . . .. 27 much . . 305 . . .. 58 Ned . . 8.. 337.. .. 26 ease . . 306 . . . . 57 Falstaff. . 9 . . 338 . . .. 25 Now . . 307 . . .. 56 sweats . . . . 339 . . .. 24 merrily . . . . 308 . . .. 55 to . . 340 . . .. 23 to . . 309 . . .. 54 death ..341.. .. 22 horse . .310.. .. 53 and ..342., .. 21 The ..311.. .. 52 lards ..343.. . . 20 thieves . . . .312. . . . 51 the ..344.. .. 39 are . .313. . . . 50 lean . . 345 . , ..18 scattered . .314. . .. 49 eaith ..346.. .. 17 and . .315. . .. 48 as . . 347 . . .. 16 possessed . .316.. . . 47 he . . 348 , . .. 15 with . .317.. . . 46 walks . . . . 349 . . .. 14 fear ..318.. . . 45 along ,.350... .. 13 so . .319. . . . 44 were't . . ..351.. .. 12 strongly . .320. . . . 43 not , . 352 . . .. 11 that ..321.. .. 42 for ,.353., ,. 10 they ..322.. . . 41 laughing ..354.. .. 9 dare . . 323 . . . . 40 I . .355. . .. 8 not . .324. . . . 39 should . . . . 356 . . .. 7 meet . .325. . .. 38 pity ..357.,. ., 6 each ..326.. .. 37 him , . 358 . . . . 5 other ..327.. . . 36 How ..359.. .. 4 each 328. . .. 35 the ,.360.. ., 3 takes . .329. . .. 34 rogue ..361.. .. 2 his ..330.. .. 33 1 roar'd . . ..362.. .. 1 Ned prethee GREAT CIPHER TABLE, No. 6, Page 53 (55*) (1st K. H. IV., Scene 4, Act II.). Col. 106 Histories. 1..137 2. .136 come out 3 . . 1 35 4. ,134 * Lord Bacon was 55 years old in 1616 (when Shakesppare died setatis 53), and in his 56th ypar. It is very curious to find " /''rands," liis Cliristian name, introduced upon pages corresponding to liis own and Slialiespeare's age, 1616. APPENDIX. 165 of that fat room and lend me thy hand to laugh . . a little. . . Where . . hast been Eall . . With . . three or four Logger- } heads f amongst 3 or fourscore hogsheads I have sounded the verie base string . . of humility. Sirra I am sworn . . brother . , * Mark, upon the next table (page 168) the 62nd word down is " Name." If the hyphenated word " Loggerheads " counts as one word, then " Francis " is also 62. See, again, page 146, " Pronouns," 62. 5. 133 to a. 132 a 7 . 131 leash 8. .130 of 9. .129 Drawers 10. .128 and 11. .127 can 1-2. .126 call 13. .125 them 14. .124 by 15. .123 their 16. .122 names . . 17. .121 as 18. .120 l^om 19. .119 Dick . . 20. .118 and* 21. .117 Francis 22. .116 They . . 23. .115 take 24. .114 it 25. .113 already , . 26. .112 upon 27. .111 • their 28. .110 confidence 29. .109 that 30. .108 though . . 31. .107 I 32. .106 be 33. .105 but 34. .104 prince . . 35. .103 of 36. .102 Wales .. 37. .101 yet 38. .100 I 39. . 99 am 40, . 98 the 41. . 97 King . . 42. . 96 of 43. . 95 courtesy 44. . 94 telling . . 45. . 93 me 46. hip f . 92 riao-P IRS flatly . . t.hft fi^nd wnr 47.. 91 48.. 90 49.. 89 50.. 88 51.. 87 52.. 86 53.. 85 54.. 84 55. . 83 56.. 82 57.. 81 58.. 80 59.. 79 60. 78 61. 77 62. 76 63. 75 64. 74 65. 73 66. 72 67. 71 68. 70 69. . 69 70. . 68 71. . 67 72. . 66 73. . 65 74. . 64 75. . 63 76. . 62 77. . 61 78. . 60 79. . 59 80. . 58 81. . 57 82. . 56 83. . 55 84. . 54 85. . 53 86. . 52 87. . 51 88. . 50 i66 APPENDIX. no proud Jack like Fahtafft but a Corinthian a lad of mettle a good boy and when I am King of England I shall . 89. . 49 . 90. . 48 . 91. . 47 92. . 46 93. . 45 94. . 44 95. . 43 96. . 42 97. . 41 98. 40 99. 39 100. 38 101. 37 102. 36 103. 35 104. 34 105. 33 106. 32 107. 31 108. 30 109. 29 110.. 28 111.. 27 112.. 26 113.. 25 114.. 24 command all the good lads in East Cheape They call drinking deep dying scarlet and when you breath in your watering then they ..115. 23 . .116. 22 ..117. 21 ..118. 20 ..119. 19 ..120. 18 ..121. 17 ..122. 16 ..123. 15 ..124. 14 ..125. 13 ..126. 12 . .127. 11 ..128. 10 . .129. 9 ..130. 8 ..131. 7 ..132.. 6 . .133.. 6 ..134.. 4 ..135.. 3 ..136.. 2 ..137.. 1 Bottom page 53 (55), col. 106. GREAT CIPHER TABLE, No. I. 56* (54) col. 107, 1st K. H. IV. 7- they 1 . cry 2 hem 3 . and 4 . bid 5 . you 6 . play 7 . it 8 . oflf 9 . To . . . 10 . conclude . . . 11 . I . 12 . * Upon this page and col. 106 (pr 440 .. . . 138 439 .. . . 139 438 .. . 140 437 .. . 141 436 .. . 142 435 .. . 143 434 .. . 144 433 . . . 145 432 .. . 146 431 .. . 147 430 . . . 148 429 . . . 149 ^i,^^ ....^^ ,>»t;^ C...V. .,vM. ^~j^ vt,.ov...i.i3 page) we find "Francis" introduced 22 times, exacUy the double oi the 11 introductions of 'Shakespeare's Cliristian name, " WiUiam," upon cols. 106, 107 (Histories), page 53 (.Shaliespeare's age, 1616), M. W. W. APPENDIX. 167 am .. 13 . so .. 14 . good . . 15 . a .. 16 . proficient . . .. 17 . in .. 18 . one .. 19 . quarter . . 20 . of . . 21. an 22 . hour .. 23 . that .. 24 . I .. 25 , can .. 26 , drink .. 27 with .. 28 any .. 29 tinker .. 30 in .. 31 his .. 32 own .. 33 language . . .. 34 during .. 35 my .. 36 life .. 37 I .. 38 teU .. 39 thee .. 40 Ned 1 .. 41 thou .. 42 hast .. 43 lost .. 44 much . . 45 honour .. 46 that .. 47 thou .. 48 were't . . 49 not .. 50 with .. 51 me .. 52 in .. 53 this .. 54 action .. 55 but .. 66 Sweet .. 57 31 428 .. .. 150 427 .. .. 151 426 . . .. 152 425 .. .. 153 424 . . .. 154 423 . . .. 155 422 .. .. 156 421 .. .. 157 420 .. . . 158 419 .. .. 159 418 .. .. 160 417 .. .. 161 416 .. .. 162 415 .. .. 163 414 .. .. 164 413 .. .. 165 412 .. .. 166 411 .. .. 167 410 .. .. 168 409 .. .. 169 408 .. .. 170 407 .. .. 171 406 .. .. 172 405 .. .. 173 404 .. .. 174 403 .. .. 175 402 .. 1 . . 176 401 .. .. 177 400 .. 7 .. 178 399 .. .. 179 , 398 . . .. 180 , 397 .. .. 181 . 396 ., .. 182 . 395 . . .. 183 . 394 .. .. 184 . 393 . . , . 185 . 392 .. .. 186 . 391 .. .. 187 . 390 . . . . 188 . 389 . . .. 189 . 388 . . .. 190 . 387 . . .. 191 . 386 .. .. 192 . 385 . . .. 193 . 384 . . .. 194 1 68 APPENDIX. Ned ... 2 . . 58 . . 30 . . . 383 . . ~S .. to ... . 59 . . . 382 . sweeten . 60 . . . 381 . which 61 . . 380 . name* 62 . . 379 . of .. . . 63 . . . 378 . Ned .. 3 . 64 . 29 . . 377 . 9 .. I ... 65 . . 376 . give . 66 . . . 375 . thee 67 . . . 374 . this 68 , . . 373 . pennyworth 69 . . . 372 . of ... 70 . . 371 . sugar 71 . . 370 . clapt 72 . . 369 . even 73 . . 368 . now 74 , . 367 . into 75 . . . 366 . my 76 .. . 365 . hand 77 . . 364 . by .. . 78 . . 363 . an 79 . . 362 . under 80 . . 361 . skinker 81 . . 360 . one 82 . . 359 . that 83 . . 358 . never 84 .. . 357 . spake 85 . . 356 . other 86 . . 355 . Enghsh . . 87 .. . 354 . in . . 88 .. . 353 . his, . 89 .. . 352 . Hfe 90 .. . 351 . than 91 .. . 350 . eight . . 4 . . 92 .. . 28 . . 349 . . 10 .. shillings . , 5 . . 93 .. . 27 . . 348 . . 11 .. and . . 6 . . 94 .. . 26 . . 347 . . 12 .. six . . 7 . . 95 .. . 25 . . 346 . . 13 .. j)e>ice . . 8 . . 96 .. . 24 . . 345 . . 14 .. and 97 .. . 344 .. you . . 9 . . 98 .. . 23 . . 343 .. 15 .. are . . 10 . . 99 . . 22 . 342 .. 16 .. ivelcome . . 11 . . 100 .. . 21 . .341 .. 17 .. with 101 .. . 340 . . * See, also, col. 107, Comedies, " Pronouns," 62. APPENDIX. 169 this . . 102 . . 339 . . 239 shrill . . 103 . . 338 . . 240 addition . . 104 . . 337 . . 241 Anon . . 12 . . lOo . . 20 . . 336 . . 18 . . 242 Anon . . 13 . . 106 . . 19 . . 335 . . 19 . . 243 ISir . . 14 . . 107 . . 18 . . 334 . . 20 . . 244 score . . 15 . . 108 . . 17 . . 333 . . 21 . . 245 a . . . . 16 . . 109 . . 16 . . 332 . . 22 . . 246 pint .. 17 .. 110 . . 15 . . 331 . . 23 . . 247 of.. .. 18 .. Ill . . 14 . . 330 . . 24 . . 248 bastard . 19 .. 112 . . 13 . . 329 . . 25 . . 249 in . 20 . 113 . . 12 . . 328 . . 26 . . 250 the . 21 . 114 . . 11 . . 327 . . 27 . . 251 half . 22 . 115 . . 10 . . 326 . . 28 . . 252 moon . 23 . . 116 . 9 , , 325 . . 29 . . 253 or . . . . 117 . . 324 . . 254 so . . .. 118 . . 323 . . 255 But . . 119 . . 322 . . 256 ^al . 24 . . 120 . 8 . . 321 . . 30 .' . 257 to . . . . 121 . . 320 . . 258 drive . . 122 . . 319 . . 259 away . 123 . . 318 . . 260 time . . 124 . . 317 . . 261 till . 125 . . 316 . . 262 Falstaff come . 25 . 126 . . 127 . 7 . . 315 . . 314 . '. 31 '. . 263 . 264 I .. . 128 . . 313 . . 265 prethee do . 129 . . 130 . . 312 . . 311 . . 266 . 267 thou . 131 . . 310 . . 268 stand . 132 . . 309 . . 269 in . . . 133 . . 308 . . 270 some . 134 . . 307 . . 271 by- ) . . 135 . . 306 . . 272 room j . . 136 . . 305 . . 273 while . 137 . . 304 . . 274 I .. . 138 . . 303 . . 275 question . my puny drawer . 139 . . 140 .. . 141 . . 142 . . . 302 . . 301 . . 300 . . 299 . . 276 . 277 . 278 . 279 to . 143 .. . 298 . . 280 what . 144 . , . 297 . . 281 end . 145 .. . 296 . . 282 he . 146 .. . 295 . . 283 1,70 APPENDIX. gave me the sugar and do never leave calling Francis that his tale to me may be nothing but anon Step aside and He show thee a precedent Francis thou art perfect Francis* Anon Anon Sir look down into the Pomgarnet Kalfe come of Bacon,' ag 26 27 28 29 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 164 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 * Note, if we add the col. No. 107 to 262, 263, 264, we get 369, 370, 371, or " Gaminoa 294 293 292 291 290 289 288 287 286 285 284 283 282 281 280 279 278 277 276 275 274 273 272 271 270 269 268 267 266 265 264 263 262 261 260 259 258 257 256 255 254 253 252 32 33 34 35 ■iiist " Jlog Haiuj JJog," 262, 263, 264, p. 53, M. W. W APPENDIX. 171 hither Francis* . . 30 my Lord how long hast thou to serve Francis ? . . Forsooth . . five years and as much as to . . Francis Anon Anon Sir Five years Berlady a long lease for the clinking of pewter but Francisf . . darest thou be so valiant * This "Francis" gi Thus col. No. 107 + 36 t Mark, this " Franc and " Pronoun," 225, p 327 328 329 330 33i 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 3()1 362 363 364 365 366 367 ves hack the figures against " Nicholas," p. 228 "Eesuscitatio." = 143 ; 250 — 107 = 143, proving ciplur hy tliese results. IK," 2ib, agrees with " iVame," 225, p. 22"d "Eesuscitatio," and 53. M. W. VV. . ino . . 251 . . 191 . 2 . 250 . . 36 . . 192 . . 249 . . 193 . . 248 . . 194 . . 247 . . 195 . . 246 . . 196 . . 245 . . 197 . . 244 . . 198 . . 243 . . 199 . . 242 . . 200 . . 241 . . 201 . . 240 -. . 202 . . 239 . . 203 . . 238 . . 204 . . 237 . . 205 . . 236 . 206 . . 235 . . 207 . . 234 , . 208 . . 233 . . 209 . . 232 . 210 . . 231 . . 211 . . 230 . . 212 . . 229 . . 213 . . 228 . . 214 . . 227 . . 215 . . 226 . . 216 . . 225 . . 217 . . 224 . . 218 . . 223 . . 219 . 222 . 220 . . 221 . . 221 . . 220 . 222 . 219 . . 223 \ . 218 . . 224 . . 217 . . 225 . 216 . . 226 . . 215 . . 227 . . 214 . . 228 . . 213 . . 229 . . 212 . . 230 . . 211 . 172 APPENDIX. as .. 231 to .. 232 play .. 233 the .. 234 coward . . 235 with .. 236 thy indenture . . .. 237 . . 238 and .. 239 show .. 2-10 it .. 241 a .. 242 fair .. 243 paire of .. 244 .. 245 heels .. 246 and .. 247 run .. 248 from .. 249 it ? .. 250 .. .. 251 Lord .. 252 Sir .. 253 He .. 254 be .. 255 sworn .. 256 upon all .. 257 .. 258 the . . 259 books .. 260 in .. 261 England . . . . 262 I .. 263 could .. 264 find .. 265 in . . 266 my heart . . 267 .. 268 Francis* . . . . 269 Anon .. 270 Anon . . 271 Sir .. 272 How .. 273 210 .. .. 368 209 .. .. 369 208 .. .. 370 207 . . .. 371 206 . . .. 372 205 .. .. 373 204 .. .. 374 203 .. .. 375 202 . . .. 376 201 .. .. 377 200 . . .. 378 199 .. .. 379 198 .. . . 380 197 . ..381 196 .. . ..382 195 .. .. 383 194 .. ..384 193 .. .. 385 192 .. .. 386 191 .. .. 387 190 .. 388 189 .. .. 389 188 .. ..390 187 .. .. 391 186 .. .. 392 185 .. .. 393 184 . . .. 394 183 .. .. 395 182 .. . ..396 181 .. .. 397 180 .. .. 398 179 .. .. 399 178 .. ..400 177 .. .. 401 176 .. .. 402 175 .. .. 403 174 .. ..404 173 .. .. 405 172 .. .. 406 171 .. .. 407 170 .. .. 408 169 .. .. 409 168 .. .. 410 » Mark, this " Francis," 269, is in direct sequeuce to "Bacon," 268, p. 53, M. W. W. APPENDIX. 173 old .. 274 art .. 275 thou .. 276 Francis? . . 31 . . 277 Let .. 278 me .. 279 see .. 280 about .. 281 Michaelmas .. 282 next .. 283 I .. 284 shall . . 285 be .. 286 Francis .. 287 Anon .. 288 Sir .. 289 pray .. 290 you .. 291 stay .. 292 a .. 293 little .. 294 my .. 295 Lord .. 296 Nay .. 297 but .. 298 hark .. 299 you .. 300 Francis .. 301 for .. 302 the .. 303 sugar . . 304 thou . . 305 gavest . . 306 me .. 307 'twas .. 308 a .. 309 pennyworth . . 310 was't .. 311 not ? .. 312 . . 313 Lord .. 314 Sir .. 315 I . . 316 would .. 317 it . . 318 167 .. .. 411 166 .. .. 415 165 . . .. 413 164 1 3' 7 .. 414 163 .. . . 415 162 .. .. 416 161 .. .. 417 160 .. .. 418 159 .. .. 419 158 .. .. 420 157 .. .. 421 156 .. .. 422 155 .. .. 423 154 ;. .. 424 153 .. .. 425 152 .. .. 426 151 .. . . 427 150 .. .. 428 149 .. .. 429 148 .. .. 430 147 .. .. 431 146 .. .. 432 145 .. .. 433 144 .. .. 434 143 .. . . 435 142 .. . . 436 141 .. .. 437 140 .. . . 438 139 .. .. 439 138 .. .. 440 137 .. .. 441 136 .. .. 442 135 . . . . 443 134 .. .. 444 133 .. . . 446 132 .. .. 446 131 . . .. 447 130 . . .. 448 129 .. .. 449 128 . . .. 450 127 .. .. 451 126 . . .. 452 1 25 . . . . 453 124 . . . . 454 123 .. . . 455 174 APPENDIX. liad . . 319 . 122 . . 456 been . . 320 . . 121 . . . 457 two . . 321 . . 120 . . . 458 I . . 322 . . 119 . . . 459 ^vill . . 323 . . 118 . . . 460 give . . 324 . . 117 . . . 461 thee . . 325 . . 116 . . . 462 for . 326 . . 115 . . . 463 it . 327 . . 114 . . . 464 a . 328 . . 113 . . . 465 thousand . . 329 . . 112 . . . 466 poiuid. . 330 . . Ill . . . 467 Ask . 331 . . 110 . . . 468 me . 332 . . 109 . . . 469 when . 333 . . 108 . . . 470 thou . 334 . . 107 . . . 471 wiirt . 335 . . 106 . . . 472 and . 336 . . 105 . . . 473 thou . . 337 . . 104 . . . 474 shall't . 338 . . 103 . . . 475 have 339 . . 102 . • 476 it . 340 . . 101 . . 477 Francis . 341 . . 100 . .*478 Anon . 342 . . 99 . . 479 Anon . 343 . . 98 . .. 480 Anon . 344 . . 97 . . . 481 Francis ? . . 345 . . 96 . . 482 No . 346 . . 95 . . 483 Francis . 347 . . 94 . . 484 but . 348 . . 93 . . 485 to . 349 . . 92 . . 486 morrow . 350 . . . 91 . . 487 Francis . 351 . . 90 . . 488 or . 352 . . 89 . . 489 Francis . 353 .. . 88 . . 490 on . 354 . . . 87 . . 491 tliursday . . 355 . . . 86 .. . 492 or . 356 .. . 85 .. . 493 indeed . 357 .. . 84 .. . 494 Francis . 358 .. . 83 .. . 495 when . 359 . . . 82 .. . 496 thou . 3G0 . . • . 81 .. . 497 » Deduct the ^ col. No 107 from 478 = 371, wY ich is " i?«con " (371) p. 53, IstK. H. IV.. giving us " /■ raricis L 'icon " .' Ma rk, 478, 4 77, with IC 7 (col. IN 0.), stand against "Nicholas Bacon," p. 228 " EesusoitatiO." APPENDIX. 1/5 will't .. 361 ,. . 80 . . . . . . 498 But .. 362 .. . 79 . . 499 Francis .. 363 .. . 78 . . 500 my .. 364 .. 77 . . 601 Lord .. 36o .. . 76 . . 502 Will't . . 366 . . . 75 . . 503 thou .. 367 .. - 74 . . 604 rob .. 368 .. . 73 . . 605 this .. 369 .. . 72 . . 606 leathern . . 370 . . . 71 . . 507 jerkin .. 371 .. . 70 . . 508 Christal . .. 372 .. . 69 . . 509 button . . 373 . . . 68 . . 510 Not- .. 374 .. . 67 . . 511 pated .. 375 .. . 66 . . 512 Agate .. 376 .. . 65 . . 613 ring .. 377 .. . 64 . . 514 Puke .. 378 .. . 63 . . 515 stocking . .. 379 .. . 62 . . 516 Caddiee . . 380 . . . 61 . . 617 garter .. 381 . . . 60 . . 518 Smooth .. 382 .. . 59 . . 519 tongue . . 383 . . . 68 . . 520 Spanish . . 384 . . . 57 . . 521 pouch . . 385 . . . hO, . . 522 . . 386 . . . 55 . . 623 Lord .. 387 .. . 54 . . 524 Sir .. 388 .. . 63 . . 625 who .. 389 .. . 62 . . 626 do .. 390 .. . 61 . . 527 you .. 391 .. . 60 . . 628 mean ? . . 392 . . . 49 . . 629 Why .. 393 .. . 48 . . 530 then .. 394 .. . 47 . . 631 your .. 395 .. . 46 . . 532 browne .. 396 .. . 45 . . 633 bastard .. 397 .. . 44 . . 534 is . . 398 . . . 43 . . 535 your .. 399 .. . 42 . . 636 only . . 400 . . . 41 . . 537 drink .. 401 .. . 40 . . 638 for . . 402 . . , 39 . . 639 looke .. 403 .. . 38 . . 540 you . . 404 . . . 37 .. . 541 Francis . . 405 . . . 36 .. . 542 176 APPENDIX. yoiir . 406 white . 407 canvass . 408 doublet . . 409 will . 410 sully . . 411 Jn . 412 Barbary . 413 Sir . 414 it . 415 cannot . 416 come . 417 to . 418 so . 419 much . 420 what . 421 Sir . 422 Francis . 423 Away . 424 you . 425 rogue . 426 dost . 427 thou . 428 hear . 429 them . 430 call ? . 431 What . 432 standst . 433 thou . 434 still . 435 and . 436 hearst . 437 such . 438 a* ffll . 439 . 440 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 6 4 3 2 1 643 644 545 546 547 548 549 650 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 562 563 564 666 566 567 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 676 576 577 GREAT CIPHER TABLE, No. 8. Page 50, 1st K. H. IV., falsely paged 52, 99 col. Histories. But soft I .487 .486 .486 pray you did ..484 ..483 ..482 * If we subtract the col. No. 107 from 439 we get 332, which is tlie exact number of words of the second scene, Act iv.. upon col. 107, Comedies. It is open to question whether a fraction of a word like " cal " counts at aU. (See page 154.) APPENDIX. 177 King . . .. 7.. ..481 the . . 52. . . .436 Richard 1.. 8.. ..480 head . . 53 . . . . 435 then .. 9.. . .479 of . 54. . . . 434 Proclaim .. 10.. ..478 this . 55. . . . 433 my .. 11.. ..477 forgetful . 56 . . . .432 brother . . .. 12.. . .476 man . 57.. . .431 Mortimer 2.. 13.. . .475 and .58.. . .430 Heir .. 14. . . .474 for . 59. . ..429 to .. 15.. ..473 his .60.. ..428 the .. 16.. ..472 sake .61.. ..427 crown ? . . .. 17.. ..471 wore . 62.. . . 426 He .. 18. . ..470 the . 63.. ..425 did .. 19.. ..469 detested . 64. . . . 424 mv .. 20. . ..468 blot . 65 . . . . 423 self . . 21 . . . .467 of . . . . 66 . . . .422 did . . 22. . . . 466 murtherous . 67 . . . .421 hear . . 23. . . . 465 subornation ? . . 68. . . .420 it. .. 24. . ..464 Shall . . . 69. . . .419 Nay . . . . 25 . . . .463 it . . . . 70. . . .418 then . . 26 . . . .462 be . . . . 71.. . .417 I .. 27.. . .461 that . 72.. . .416 cannot . . .. 28.. . .460 you . 73.. . .415 bkime . . .. 29.. . . 459 a . . . . 74. . . .414 his .. 80.. . . 458 world . . . 75. . ..413 cotisin . . .. 31. . . .457 of .. . . 76.. ..412 Kinr; .. 32.. . .456 curses . . . 77. . . .411 that .. 33.. . . 455 undergo. . . 78. . ..410 wish'd . . .. 34.. . . 454 Being . . . 79. . ..409 him .. 35.. . . 453 the . 80. . . . 408 on .. 36.. . .452 agents . . .81.. ..407 the .. 37.. ..451 or .82.. • .406 barren . . .. 38. . . . 450 base . . . 83. . . .405 mountains .. 39.. . . 449 second . . . 84.. ..404 starv"d . . . . 40 . . . .448 means . . .85.. . . 403 But .. 41. . . .447 the .86.. ..402 shall . . .. 42. . . .446 Cords, . . .87.. ..401 it .. 43.. . .445 the . 88. . ..400 be .. 44. . ..444 ladder . . . 89.. . .399 that . . 45 . . . .443 or .90.. . . 398 you .. 46.. . .442 the 91. . . .397 that . . 47. . . .441 Hangman 92.. . .396 set . . 48. . . .440 rather . . .93.. . . 395 the . . 49 . . . .439 .. . 94.. . . 394 cro\ni . . . . 50 . . . .438 jiardon . . . 95. . . . 393 upon . . 51 . . . .437 if ... . 96. . . .392 ^7S APPENDIX. that 1 descend . so low to show the line and the predicament wherein you rani^e under this subtle King Shall it for shame be spoken in these days or fill up chronicles in time to come that men of your nobility and power did . 97. . 98. , 99. 100. ,101. .102. 103. 104. , 1 o.-i . .106. ,107. .108. ,109. .110. ,111. .112. .113. .114, ,115. .116. .117. .118. ,119. ,120. 121. ,122. ,123. .124. ,125. ,126. 127. 128. 129. ,130. ,131. 132. 1 33 . 1 34 . 135. 136. 137. 138. ,139. ,140. ,141. .391 .390 .389 .388 .387 .386 .385 . 384 .383 .382 .381 . 380 .379 .378 .377 .376 .375 .374 .373 . 372 .371 .370 .369 .368 .367 .366 .365 .364 . 363 .362 .361 .360 . 359 .358 .357 . 356 .355 , 354 ,353 .352 ,351 .350 .349 .348 .347 them ..142. both . . .143. in ..144. an . .145. unjust . . ..146. behalf . . ..147. As .148. both .149. of .150. you .151. God . . .152. pardon . . .153. it .154. hath . . . 1 55 . done .156. to .157. put .158. down .159. lUcliard . 3 .160. that .161. sweet . . . 1 62 . lovely . . .163. rose .164. and .165. plant .166. this .167. thorn . . .168. this .169. canker . . .170. Bolinr/hroJce 4 .171. And .172. shall . . .173. it .174. in . 175. more .176. shame . . .177.. be . . . .178.. further . . .179.. spoken . . .180.. that .181.. you .182.. are .183.. fool'd . . .184.. discarded . .185.. and .186.. APPENDIX. •79 shoolc . . ..187. .301 day . 232 . . .256 off ..188. . 300 and . . . 233 . . .255 by .189. .299 night . . . 234 . . .254 him . . . . 1 90 . . 298 to . 235 . . . 253 for . .191 . .297 answer . . .23(). . .252 whom . . . 1 9l> . .296 all .237.. .251 these ..193. .295 the . 238 . . .250 shames . . ..194. . 294 dul)t . 239 . . .249 ye .195. .293 lie .240.. .248 underwent . 1 96 . . 292 owes .241.. .247 No .197. .291 unto .242.. .246 yet .198. .290 you . 243 . . .245 time .199. . 289 even .244.. .244 serves . . .200. .288 with .245.. .248 wherein ..201. .287 the .246.. .242 you . . 202 . .286 bloody . . .247.. .241 may . 203 . .285 payment . 248 . . .240 redeem . . .204. .284 of . 249 . . .239 your . 20o . . 283 your . 250 . . .238 banish'd . 206 . .282 deaths . . .251.. .237 honours .207. .281 Therefore .252, . .236 and .208. .280 I . 253 . . .235 restore . . . 209 . .279 „„,., .254.. .234 SdV your .210. .278 Peace . . .255.. . 233 selves . . .211. .277 Cousin . . .256.. .232 into .212. . 276 say .257.. .231 the .213. . 275 no .258. . .230 good .214. .274 more .259. . .229 thoughts .215. .273 and .260. . .228 of .216. .272 now .261.. .227 the .217. .271 I . 262 . . .226 world . . .218. .270 will .263.. .225 again .219. .269 unclasp . 264 . . .224 Revenge .220. .268 a . 265 . . . 223 the .221. .267 Secret . . . 266 . . .222 gearing . . ..222. .266 Book . . ..267.. .221 and . .223. .265 And .268.. . 220 disdain'd .224. .264 to .269.. .219 contempt ..225. . 263 yoiu' . . .270.. .218 of ..226. . 262 quick .271.. .217 this .227. .261 conceiving .272.. .216 proud . . .228. .260 discontents, .273.. .215 King . . . .229. .259 lie .274.. .214 who . 230 . .258 read ..275.. ..213 studies . . .231. .257 you ..276.. N— 2 . .212 i8o APPENDIX. matter . . ..277.. ..211 Honor . . . . 322 . . ..166 deep ..278.. ..210 Cross . . 323 . . . .165 and ..279. . . . 209 it . .324.. ..164 dangerous . .280. . . . 208 from . . 325 . . ..163 as ..281.. ..207 the ..326. . . .162 full . .282. . . . 206 North . . . . 327 . . ..161 of ..283... . . 205 to . .328.. ..160 peril ..284. . . . 204 South . . ..329. . . .159 and . . 28.5 . . . . 203 And . . . .330. . ..158 adventurous . . 286 . . . . 202 let . .331. . ..157 spirit . .287.. . . 201 them ..332.. . .156 as . .288. . . . 200 grapple . . ..333.. . .155 to . .289.. . .199 the ..334.. ..154 o'er- ) . . . .290.. ..198 blood ..335.. ..163 walk f . . . .291.. ..197 more ..336.. ..152 a . . 292 . . . .196 stirs . .337.. ..151 current . . . .293.. . . 195 to . . 338 . . . . 1 50 roaring . . . .294. . . .194 rouse . .339. . . .149 loud . . 295 . . . .193 a . .340. . . .148 on . .296. . . .192 Lion ..341.. ..147 the . . 297 . . ..191 then ..342.. ..146 unstedfast . .298. . ..190 to . . 343 . . ..145 footing . . . .299. . . .189 start ..344.. ..144 of . .300. . . .188 a . . ..345.. ..143 a . .301.. ..187 hai'e . .346.. ..142 r.i^^,.-»,.*^i . . 302 . . ..186 Imagination ..347.. ..141 If . . 303 . . ..185 of . .348.. ..140 he . .304. . . .184 some . .349. . . .139 fall . . 305 . . ..183 great ..350.. ..138 in . . 306 . . ..182 exploit . . ..351.. ..137 good . . . .307. . . .181 drives . . ..352.. ..136 night . . . .308. . . .180 him . .353. . . .135 or . . 309 . . ..179 beyond . . ..354.. ..134 sink ..310. . ..178 the . .355.. .133 or ..311.. ..177 bounds . . . . 356 . . ..132 swim . .312. . . .176 of ..357.. . .131 Send . .313., . .175 patience . .358.. ..130 danger . . .314.. . .174 By .. . . 3.59 . . ..129 from .315.. . .173 heaven . . ..360.. . .128 the .316.. . .172 me . .361.. ,.127 East . . .317. . . . K 1 thinks . . . . 362 . . ..126 unto .318. . . .170 it ..363.. ..125 the .319. . . .169 weie . .364.. ..124 West . . .320. . . .168 an . .365.. ..123 So .321. . . .167 easy ..366.. ..122 APPENDIX. leap ..;}G7.. .121 Co- \ . ..411.. . 77 to . . 8()« . . .120 rival f . ..412.. . 76 pluck . . . 8()<) . . 119 all ..413.. . 75 bright . ..870.. .118 her ..414.. . 74 honor . ..371.. .117 di<;nities ..415.. . 73 from ..372.. .116 But ..416.. . 72 the ..373.. .115 out ..417.. . 71 pale ..374.. .114 upon ..418.. . 70 fac'd . ..375.. .113 this ..419.. . 69 moon . ..376.. .112 half . . 420 . . . 68 Or ..377.. .111 fac'd ..421.. . 67 dive ..378.. .110 fellowshij: ) . . 422 . . . 66 into ..379.. .109 He ..423.. . 65 the ..380.. .108 apprehenc is ..424.. . 64 bottom . ..381.. .107 a ..425.. . 63 of ..382.. .106 world . ..426. . . 62 the . . 383 . . .105 of ..427.. . 61 deep ..384.. .104 figures , . .428. . . 60 where . ..385.. .103 here ..429.. . 59 Fathom ..386.. .102 But ..430.. . 58 line ..387.. .101 not ..431.. . 57 could . ..388.. .100 the ..432.. . 56 never ..389.. . 99 form . . 433 . . . 56 touch . ..390.. . 98 of ..434.. . 64 the ..391.. . 97 what . . 435 . . . 53 ground . ..392.. . 96 he ..436.. . 52 And . ..393.. . 95 should . ..437.. . 61 pluck . . . 394 . . . 94 attend . ..438.. . 50 up ..395.. . . 93 Good . ..439.. . 49 drowned ..396.. . 92 Cousin . ..440,. . 48 honor . ..397.. . . 91 give ..441.. . 47 by ..398.. . . 90 me ..442.. . . 46 the ..399.. . . 89 audience . .443. . . . 45 Locks . .400.. . . 88 for . 444.. . . 44 So ..401.. . . 87 while J ..445. . . . 43 he ..402.. . . 86 . .446. . . . 42 that . . 403 . . . . 84 and ..447.. . 41 doth . . . 404 . . . . 85 list ..448.. . . 40 redeem . ..405.. . . 83 to . . 449 . . . . 39 her ..406.. . . 82 me ..450.. . . 38 thence . ..407.. . . 81 I ..451.. . . 37 might . ..408.. . . 80 cry . . 452 . . . . 36 wear ..409.. . . 79 you ..453.. . . 36 without ..410.. . . 78 mercy . ..454.. . . 34 1^2 APPENDIX. those ..45o.. . 33 have ..472.. . 16 same ..4/3G.. . 32 a ..473.. . 15 noble . ..457.. . 31 Scot . ..474.. . 14 Scots . ..458.. . 30 of ..475.. . 13 that ..459.. . 29 them ..476.. . 12 are ..460.. . 28 No ..477.. . . 11 your ..461.. . 27 if ..478.. . 10 prisoners ..462.. . 26 a ..479.. . 9 He . . 463 . . . 25 Scot . . 480 . . . 8 keep . . 464 . . . 24 would . ..481.. . 7 them . . 465 . . . 23 save ..482.. . 6 all ..466.. 22 his . . 483 . . . 5 By ..467.. . 21 soul, ..484.. . 4 heaven . ..468.. . 20 he ..485.. . 3 he ..469.. . 19 shall . ..486.. 2 shall . not ..470.. ..471.. . 18 . . 17 not. ..487.. . 1 BY THE SAME AUTHOR. Demy Si-o, cloihj Is. Qd. A NEW STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE. •' Certainly the most noteworthy and valuable of all the works elucidating the inner meaning of the greatest poet of modern times which have appeared. The books on Shakespeare, and his writings, would of themselves make a respectable library, numeiically considered. Most of them, however, are superficial and of small value, and many are absolutely worthless. The book under consideration, published anonymously in 1884, seems not to have received the careful attention which it undoubtedly merits. It is evidently the production of a scholar and thinker who has given the Shakespearean writings a critical and ex- haustive examination." — The PJatonist. " The thinking public should be deeply grateful to you for bringing out such a work in an age like the pi-esent, an age more noted for superficiality than anything else. In my judg- ment your book indicates the high water mark of Shakespearean elvicidation." — Letter from Editor of The riatonist. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. Demy 8i'o, Cloth extra, 7s. Gd. Bacon, Shakespeare, and the Rosicrucians. CONTEXTS:— Chapter I.— John Heydon— The Rosionician Apologist— His Pamily— And Character — Identity of Bacon's " New Atlantis " with Heydon's " Land of the Rosicrucians" — Bacon's Hand to be traced in the famous 'Rosicrucian Manifestoes- Discovery of his Initials among the Members of the Fraternity— Proofs that the ante- dating of the Origins of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood was a Splendid Fraud. Chapter II. — The Prophecy of Paracelsus— A Stage Player one of the greatest impostors of his age. probably Shakespeare— Description of the Rosicrucian IManifestoes— Lord Bacon as Chancellor of Parnassus— Meeting of the Rosicrucians in 1646 at Warrington, at a Lodge, iu order to carry out Lord Bacon's Ideas— Adoption of his Two Pillars, etc., etc. "A most remarkable book. Like its predecessor, 'A New Study of Shakespeare,' one cannot open it without learning: soraethins:. . . . But all the same the book is a curiosity, and no Shakespeaee-Bacon LIBRARY SHOULD BE WITHOUT IT." — Shahqjeariana (New York). " A noteworthy attempt has been made to fix the disputed authorship of the Shakespearian, and likewise of other writings, upon a set of literary eccentricities who existed in Shakespeare's time under the name of ' Rosi- crucians,' aftfr one Christian Rosenkrenz, a German noble of the fifteenth cputury. The fame of this curious literary ' sect ' has just been revived by Mr. W. F. C. Wigston. He endeavours to show that there existed in Shakespeare's day a learned college of men who wrote in secret, among whom were Lord Bacon, Sir Philip Sydney, Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson, and that tliese together concocted the plays." — Westminster Review. " If Mr. Donnelly's ' great cryptogram ' should turn out to be a real dis- covery, we do not see whj' Mr. Wigston's should not be so too. We fully believe that tlie two theories must stand or fall together." — Notes and Queries. Opinion of Mr. James Hughan, author of many Masonic books, and re- puted to be the highest Masonic authority in England : — " I have carefully read your able article in the journal of the Bacon Socifity with great interest and muc'i apijreciation . Prima facie, the case is made out, it appears to me, but beyond that I cannot go at present ; but the evidence is so remarkable, as well as curious, that no one of a thoughtful mind could possibly refuse your claim to consideration. The New Atlantis seems to be, and pkobably is. the key to the modern Rituals of Free-masonry. Youit Noble Volume on Bacon, Shakespeare, and the Rosicrucians does much to clear the waj\" "The most powerful argument j'et issued, on the Baconian side." — Information. 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