Eva. I pray you have your remembrance (childe) Accusative, king, hang, hog. *
* Note.—In the folio Ac-cusativo king, hang, hog are in
italics as here printed.
Qu. Hang-hog, is latten for Bacon, I warrant you.
Observe that "Bacon" is spelled with a capital "B," and also note that in this way we are told quite clearly that Hang-hog means Bacon. In very numerous instances a hog with a halter (a rope with a slip-knot) round its neck appears as part of some engraving in some book to which Bacon's name has not yet been publicly attached. I shall again refer to "Hang-hog" as we proceed.
Next, let us carefully examine
The Second Page 53
in the Folio of the Plays, which in the first column contains the commencement of the first scene of the second act of the first part of "King Henry the Fourth." Two carriers are conversing, and we read:—
1 Car. What Ostler, come away, and be hangd; come away.
2 Car. I have a Gammon of Bacon, and two razes of Ginger, to be delivered as farre as Charing-crosse.
Observe that gammon is spelled with a capital "G," and Bacon also is spelled with a capital "B." Thus we have found Bacon in the second page 53. But I must not forget to inform my readers that this second page 53 is really and evidently of set purpose falsely numbered 53, because page 46 is immediately followed by 49, there being no page numbered 47 or 48 in the Histories, the second part of the Plays.