Concerning the bi-literal cypher of Francis Bacon discovered in his works

by Elizabeth Wells Gallup

CONTENTS.

PART I.

	PAGE
Personal—Mrs. Elizabeth Wells Gallup	1
Explanatory Introduction First Edition	5
Preface, Second Edition	15
Argument	18
Notes on the Shakespeare Plays	28
Stenography in the time of Queen Elizabeth	35
Francis Bacon, Biographical	39
Ciphers	47
Cyphars in Advancement of Learning, 1605	51
Cyphars in De Augmentis	52
Bi-literal Cipher Plan and Illustration	53
Fac-simile pages from De Augmentis, 1624	57
Fac-simile pages from Novum Organum, 1620	63
Fac-simile title page Vitae et Mortis	67
Shakespeare Plays—Fac-simile Quarto Title Pages	69
Publisher’s Note	76

BI-LITERAL CYPHER.

DECIPHERED SECRET STORY. 1579 to 1590.

Shepheard’s Calender	1579	Anonymous	79
The Araygnement of Paris	1584	George Peele	80
The Mirrour of Modestie	1584	Robert Greene	82
Planetomachia	1585	Robert Greene	87
A Treatise of Melancholy	1586	T. Bright	89
Euphues-Morando	1587	Robert Greene	91
Perimedes-Pandosto	1588	Robert Greene	93
Spanish Masquerado	1589	Robert Greene	94

PART II.

DECIPHERED SECRET STORY FROM

EDMUND SPENSER:	PAGE
Complaints, 1591	1
Colin Clout, 1595	3
Faerie Queene, 1596	4
Faerie Queene, second part	7
SHAKESPEARE QUARTO:
Richard Second, 1598	10
GEORGE PEELE:
David and Bethsabe, 1599	11
SHAKESPEARE QUARTOS:
Midsommer Night’s Dream, 1600	12
Midsommer Night’s Dream, Fisher Ed.	13
Much Ado About Nothing, 1600	14
Sir John Oldcastle and Merchant of Venice, Roberts Ed.,
1600	15
Richard, Duke of York, 1600	18
FRANCIS BACON:
Treasons of Essex, 1601	20
SHAKESPEARE QUARTO:
London Prodigal, 1605	23
FRANCIS BACON:
Advancement of Learning, 1605	25
SHAKESPEARE QUARTOS:
King Lear, 1608	33
King Henry The Fifth, 1608	34
Pericles, 1609	35
Hamlet, 1611	36
Titus Andronicus, 1611	38
EDMUND SPENSER:
Shepheards Calender, 1611	40
Faerie Queene, 1613	43
BEN JONSON:
Plays in Folio, 1616	49
SHAKESPEARE QUARTOS:
Richard The Second, 1615	72
Merry Wives of Windsor, 1619	73
Contention of York and Lancaster, 1619	74
Pericles, 1619	77
Yorkshire Tragedy, 1619	78
Romeo and Juliet, no date	79
ROBERT GREENE:
A Quip For an Upstart Courtier, 1620	80
FRANCIS BACON:
Novum Organum, 1620	81
The Parasceve	133
Henry The Seventh, 1622	136
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE:
Edward The Second, 1622	151
FRANCIS BACON:
Historia Vitæ & Mortis, 1623	153
SHAKESPEARE PLAYS:
First Folio, 1623	165
ROBERT BURTON:
Anatomy of Melancholy, 1628	218
“Argument of the Iliad”	220
FRANCIS BACON:
De Augmentis Scientiarum, 1624	310
“Argument of the Odysses”	313
New Atlantis, 1635	334
Sylva Sylvarum, 1635, Rawley’s Preface	339
Natural History	341
William Rawley’s Note	368

PERSONAL.