My lord, why, ’tis a monstrous thing,

You snore so loud—you’ll wake the King.”

Bacon and Shakespeare

Shakespeare! whoever thou mayst prove to be,

God save the Bacon that men find in thee!

If that philosopher, though bright and wise,

Those lofty labors did in truth devise

Then it must follow, as the night the day,

That “Hamlet,” “Lear,” “Macbeth” and each great play

That certifies nobility of mind,