Bacon is Shake-Speare / Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies - Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence

(d) your
"William Shakespeare." Almost directly above this
your
appears also William Shakespeare.

[Illustration: Full-Size Facsimile of Written Ornament on Outside Page of Northumberland MSS.]

[Illustration: Full-Size Facsimile of Written Ornament in "Les Tenure de Monsieur Littleton." Annotate by Francic Bacon.]

(e) The three curious scrolles at the top right-hand corner are very
similar to the scrolls which are found upon the title page of a law
book entitled, "Les Tenures de Monsieur Littleton," printed in 1591, in
the possession of the writer, which is throughout noted in what the
authorities at the British Museum say is undoubtedly the handwriting of
Francis Bacon.

As I have pointed out upon page 114 and upon various other pages in my book "upside down" printing is a device continually employed by the authors of certain books in order to afford revelations concerning Bacon and Shakespeare. As a whole this curious scribbled page affords remarkable evidence that William Shakespeare is "yourself" Francis Bacon.

Now and now only can a reasonable explanation be given for the first time of the purpose of the reference to Priscian, in lines 14 and 15, Plate 21, Page 87. And it is a singular circumstance that so far as the writer is aware not one of the critics has perceived that the mockery of Priscian forms a neat English iambic hexameter, indeed, in almost all modern editions of the Shakespeare plays, both the form and the meaning of the line have been utterly destroyed. In the original the line reads "Bome boon for boon prescian, a little scracht, 'twil serve."

Perhaps the reader will be enabled better to understand the sneer and the mockery by reading the following couplet—

A fig for old Priscián, a little scrátcht, 'twil serve
A poet súrely need not áll his rúles observe.

And we still more perfectly understand the purpose of the hexameter form of the reference to Priscian if we scan the line side by side with the "revealed" interpretation of the long word honorificabilitudinitatibus.