[111] We know from Archbishop Tenison’s Remains that Ben Jonson was one of Bacon’s “good pens.” Baconiana 1679, p. 60.
[112] See articles in the modern Baconiana for July, 1904, and April, 1905, on Bacon’s Scrivenery.
[113] Some think the scribbler was Bacon himself, which, if true, is certainly of no little importance.
[114] John Murray, 1903.
[115] This Labeo is alluded to as a jurist of eminence in the time of Augustus by Justinian in his Institutes. See Sandars’s Translation (Longmans, 1869), at p. 18.
[116] Mr. Begley suggests (p. 17) that the Cynic’s helmet is an allusion to the Knights of the Helmet, of whom we read in the Gesta Grayorum, and, as he writes, we know that Bacon was “responsible for this Device performed at his own Gray’s Inn during the year 1594.” As to “Talus” and his flail, see Spenser’s Fairy Queen, Bk. V, Cant. i, st. 12.