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Ignatius Donnelly’s Book Issued at Last. —j A WORK OF GREAT INTEREST Did Shaxpnror Francis Bacon Write Shakespeare J F>cllmlnary Sketches The Wonderful Scholar Bacon—The Illiterate Stratford Family—How Did Sh—sp-- r— Spell IDs Name? —His Daughters—l,earning of the Plays—Law of the I’lays—-Course of the Discussion —How Ignatius Donnelly Ex hausts the Subject. ■ hi /\v-. te v - M''-'i A* 1 At, In tbo latter part of the sixteenth century two great lights suddenly blazed out in the galaxy of British intellects. Bo f.ir did they ! surpass all who went before, that each is ' taken ns the founder of a new system, both ns the beginners of a new era. So great have j they seemed to nil who have come alter that comparison is consider'd high praise. So far ' did they outshine all contemporaries in their several lines, that those arc for the most part only quoted as witnesses to these two; and while the time abounded in heroes, states ! hu n, scientists and explorers, these two gave 1 Ht that distinctive glory which still attaches 1 to the Elizabethan ago. These men were a certain dramatist, whosS name is in dis pute, but usually printed and Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam and Viscount of St. Albans. Comes now I the Hon. Ignatius Donnelly and offers to prove that those two were one; that “Shakespeare” is a nom de plume, adopted in mild burlesque of a cer tain witty actor and stage manager; that the authorship of the plays was concealed for political reisons, and thus the ignorant actor 1 has been credited With the philosopher’s work. It is c.s if we should place Pike's <! ' Peak Upon Popocatapetl, or add the strength ’, of Samson to the muscles and stature of j Gcliah. If we must add the greatest philoso ' ph or /low n to that time to the greatest dra : matist of all time, the colossal intellect thus i- j evoked overpowers the common mind, and • wc can only remit the explanation to the philosophy of miracles. 1,1 i Let us, therefore, examine Mr. Donnelly’s ls ; argument carefully, and ritld to it what ’ 1 ! otbefs have discovered, for the theory is no n I new thing For nearly half a century it has i been gaining adherents; at least, 250 books and pamphlets thereon have been issued, and ! literary men arc already ranged in two. hos- 0 tJo camps—the Baconians and Shakospear -7 ians. This article is merely an attempt to '•* ! present the evidence in compact form, and V j point out the strongest and weakest count's ' tn ?Jr. Donnelly’s plea, just issued. the contrasted two. ( ! j No two men could differ more widely than ■’s I tho known philosopher and the supposed ’ 1 1 dramatist. Lord Bacon was nobly born, rich (except during one period of his life) and ’’l learned beyond ail men of bis time, a re -1() j fined courtier, a profound lawyer and an 4) able judge, an aristocrat In politics and a ■, ■ life long companion of noblemen and tho ' adherents of royalty. Os the supposed j dramatist the exact reverse was true ill I every respect until tho middle or latter part ' of his life, when ho had gained fame and i fortune. The contrasted evidence is amaz ing and startlingly suggestive. Os Lord j Bacon wc know as much us jf any man in I English history. Ho was born at York I house, in the Strand, Loud n, Jan. 22, 1561, ! and died at Highgate, April 9, 1626. His j father was a baronet, Sir Nicholas Bacon; i his mother of noble blood and extraordinary ! talents. The few specimens extant of her i letters me perfect models of graceful and I classical English. Tho style is noticeably 1 “Shakespearian.” She adopted Puritan i views, and her letter warning her sons, Francis and Anthony, against theatre, I bears a striking similarity t.o passages in the ' great dramas. Francis was procoelous mid j his health was delicate-. At 8 j ears of ago ’ ho read the books usually perused by his ; ! parents; at 11 ho produced ar. essay on t’lo • I laws of the imagination, at 12 he entered Trinity college, Cambridge, whence ho gi*ad : nated with high honors, and at the age of 16 : ho issued a [ rotest against the philosophy of • Aristotle, then preferred at the college, and against the general system of teaching. “They learn nothing,” he said, “except to be lieve. They are like a becalmed ship, they move but by tho wind of other mail’s breath 1 and have 1:0 oars of their own to steer withal.’* From childhood he was polite and i witty. “How old are you, my pretty boy?” asked Queen Elizal>cth when his mother brought 1 him to court. j “Two years younger than your majesty’s; happy reign,” replied the witty little cour tier. He rend all the Greek and Latin authors critically, spoke French and Italian, and had sonic knowledge of Dani- h anil German. He traveled on the continent of Europe, studied in Faris, road Jaw two years, and was admitted to the bar at tho ago of 21. At 28 he was made counsel extraordinary to tho q'.ie«‘n, at 32 he was chosen member of parlia ment for Middlesex, and devoted himself to a reform of the laws. Subsequently he was special counsel to King Jam -s I; then solic itor general, attorney general, and finally lord high chancellor, hi 1618 he was created Baron Verulam, and in 1621 Viscount of St. Albans. Wc turn now to the allege iramatist, and are at 01109 almost lost in obscurity At first view lie would seem no more a real historical person than i.omulus or/Xgamemnon. Vv 0 know that there is a name, “Shakespeare,” attached to immortal works, from which we form exalted conceptions of the author, and a portrait accompanying the works, which is 1 admitted to be an “improvement” or flatter ing imitation of a very different picture Wo 1 also know that there was an individual whose ; name Lore a very slight similarity to the ' other in sound, and a closer resemblance in ! S]?elling; that he came at an early ago from I Bcratford-on-A von, lived thirty years in Lon don, grew very rich as manager of a theatre, i rdurned to his native place, and sjx-nt his ! few remaining yeai* in easy living, diver.-isled ; by some rather discreditable actions. But ' that individual’s real name we cannot know, ! since the few of his relatives who could write : spelled it in at least fifty-five different ways, from Jacquespcer, Shacks]>ecr and Jaxpyr, . though the slow evolution of Sbaxjwer, , ■ Shc.ckspyr, Shackspeer and Sbaxper, down ; to Shakspeer and fliiali/Shaks]>crc, at which ! it rested during the later years of William i Shrkspere, after he had tried thirteen diffcr- ent ways of spelling it, only to make its final ■ change some time after his death into J “Shakespeare,” when his heirs claimed the . 1 honor of the dramatic it was 1 asserted that the family had been founded by j a noted warrior who was knighted for his bravery nd th the spear. And. finally, there : is some evidence that the original was tho Norman nick name, fora peasant, Jacques- ; Pierro, which was pronounced Zhackspeair ' an<l meant “Jack Peter.” For information of this William Shaxper or Shakspero we turn first to the public and ; official annals of the time and find not a line, j We turn next to tho letters and other pro- ! ductions of eminent men of the time, and It i was indeed an ago of greatness. There were I Robert Earl of Essex, Sir Francis Drake, | Sir Walter Raleigh, Cecil Ix»rd Biirleigh, ; Nicholas, Anthony and Francis Bacon, i Sir Robert Cecil, Sir floury Wotton and Sir Philip Sidney, with Walsingham, I Coke, Camden, Hooker, Drake, Inigo i Jones and all that brilliant galaxy of warriors, scholars and navigators, who only j' began their career in the reign of Elir4ibcth | and Iwcamo noted in that of Janies, and i therefore must have been for a short time contemporary with William Shakspero. The literature still extant as made by these men is voluminous; yet in all of it there is no reference to the man, and very little in deed to the plays. Jy?t us pass this omission as duo to their preoccupation in other affairs and turn to the poets and other writers Os the time. Hero We find a sow, very few, inferences to William Shakspore as a genial 1 fellow, a boon companion at a supper and abounding in wit and humor. But one of all those, however, the noted Ben Jonson, j left any testimony implying that William Shakspero was a man of groat talents. To sum up: All we really know of the man was | gathered after his death by visitors to Strut- ! ford-on-A von. Seven years after the death | of Shakspere appeared the first complete edition of “Shakespeare,” called the edition of H>23; then the reporters of the day went to , Stratford and hunted up the particulars, and y hflt they i cjwrtcd, and their successors j have discovered, sums up substantially as follows: THE SH-K-SP-R-S OF STRATFORD-OX-AVON, j Stratford-on-Avon was one of tho dirtiest ' towns in England at a period when the filthi- | ncss wf common life was indescribable, i Night travel in the st reets was made danger ous by deep and.muddy puddles,and the poo- J pie utilized them for manure bins. When ' tb.e “reform movement” set in an aiderman I and several prominent citizens, including | one of the Shaxpeci‘3, were prosecuted foi* ! leaking manure heaps in front of their doors, j The dwellings generally were dark and noi- i some. In one of the best of those William Shakspero was born, in April, 1564; and in , a miieli more elegant one, called New Place, ! be died, April 23, 1616. His father, John Shagspur, or Shaxper, or Shakspore, could ■ not write, but was a fairly well to dociti- D- SHA KSPEREIA N AUTOGRAPHS. zon; his mother was equally uneducated, j most of his relatives the same, and his own daughter Judith, at the age of 27, could not sign her namo. When William was but 15 years old his father became a bankrupt. William worked successfully as butcher and wool stapler till the age of 18, when he was 1 compelled to marry Anne Hathaway, 8 years older than himself. Their first child wtu* ! born a fe*v hfter, and their liulfliit-t and Judith, some two years after. ! The young husband and father became | rather dissolute; was prosecuted and whipped for stealing deer from the park of Sir 1 Thomas Lucy, and took revenge by circulat -1 ing a coarse piece of poetry ridiculing tho magistrate, for which he was so threatened that at the ago of 21 be tle.d to London. There : he lived a short time hy tho I'H.mhlest ocott- j patiyn?, then b< rniip an actor, and verysuoii | after appeared the first, and perhaps tho ! finest, of the Shakespearian plays. And here we are face to face with the first great mystery. If Shakspero wrote “Shakespeare,” then i we must believe that the illiterate village | boy advanced In two or three years to ! tho capacity of producing dramas which ' swt?ep tho whoio gamut of human feel ing, rise to the heights of learning and go j down tc tho depths of mental and moral philosophy, display a knowledge of courtly i life and gentle manners equal to that of Raleigh and an insight into the principles of 1 law almost rivaling Coke, at the same time , that they show a command of Latin derivft- j tives never in any other case gained except by a severer classical training, a smoothness of versification no other poet has attained without years of application and an insight Into the workings of the human heart never granted to any other writer. It almost sur passes the power of human credulity. It : is perhaps possible to accept it as a fact ’ without invoking miracle as tho explana- ' tion, but we need not wonder that many thousand thoughtful men disbelieve it. This is the first and greatest mystery, and ! the second is like unto it, namely—Why did William Shakspfre, If the great dramatist, sud l idy cease to write at the very time I Lord Bacon was promoted to high office, re- i tire to Stratford and never mention his im mortal works? As we have seen, the first plays appeared almost os soon as the youth liecame an actor, though there is evi dence that plays very similar in char acter and title had been shown in London before Shakspero arrived there. Before 1593 appeared seven playsand two poems, all these before William Shaks- i pcre was 30 years old! Between the latter; date and 1600 appeared thirteen more plays, j and thus they continued to appear till Bacon : was promote I—then Shakspero went to St rut- ! ford. As manager of the theatre in Loudon , lie had acquired a great fortune; we should I presume, therefore, that he would thereafter lead the life of a n tired scholar, and bis , mansion be the resort of learned men. Noth- . ing of the sort. Ou the contrary, he engaged ; in the browing business, loaned small sum.' . on ironclad mortgages, pursued debtors with j merciless severity, in one instance suing a ' man for twe shillings, indulged various vices, j contracted (according to one of his cotcm- , poraries) a loathsome disease, and finally died in a fever produced by a iong debauch and the accompanying exposure. In all Engkind the utmost research has failed to produce a scrap of his writing except five signatures; none of these had any connection with literature, nor is there any proved copy of anything he wrote in which he referred to “Shakespeare’s” dramas. Ho made a will in which he mentions all his petty household jtfufl*. his bowls, his breeches and his second best bed; but in it there is no word referring to his bocks, no mention of his plays or any claim to copyright, not uno allusion to his pos.s.biu fame. Did ever great, scholar or writer make a will without such reference? Well might .Ralph Waldo Emerson say, “I ■ cannot marry The facts to his verse.” The continued history of his family greatly adds to the mystery. His daughter Judith, at the age of 27, had her “mark” cer tified 10 because she could not write. His parents’ graves were unmarked by any stone and unknown to his children. His daughter Susannu married Dr. Hall in haste, and with- / out publication of banns. W v \ for which . bey were cited i- to appear Def orc the ec- / , clesiasticai coui-t, and were able to prervv that Judith snAKSPcns’s the haste was at laist ad- mark. visable. A little later the doctor sued two neighbors for libel, in that they had re ported bad conduct in his wife; and as there is no reoi rd us a verdict, lawyers have thought (hat the case was compromised. Dr. Hall was a busy and careful man. lie kept a voluminous diary of his patients, his life and many intcr«v*ts, which is still t-x --j taut, and has bcm greedily searched Dy i scholars: but it,conraiiiS nothing to prove claims to any rights in “Shakespeare.” In the next generation the family became ex tinct, the grandchildren dying childless; the property, the little that was left, went to collateral heli’s, and the family dropped into its original obscurity. That out of such a family should suddenly bave risen the great est genius of earth, descended from a long lino of peasants and boors; that he should have lived such a life, died such a death, left (laughters uneducated and taken no thought for his fame, is of course possible; but it is against all experience. INTERNAL EVIDENCES. 1. The plots of many of the play’s are from Latin, Greek and Italian authors, and whole lines and paragraphs are almost lit eral translations from the obscure classics. The ready explanation was that tho unlearned , Shakspero obtained his knowledge from translatioiis, but recent research has a con clusive negative In this; many bt tfcdsiJ works had not then been translated Into English, and at least one of them Is not translated yet Moro convincing still, in those cases where an English translation was j then extant the author of “Shakespeare” has rejected tho style and words of tho transla tion, and reproduced in his drama a literal ■ rendering of the original, thus proving that he had not only read it, but had iHnwftiitgHt I into tho very texture of bis mind. Even tho j so called mistakes of “Shakespeare” often | ' prove to be classical. Thus, in “Antony and Cleopatra” Charmian proposes a game of I billiards. In tho ordinary reader this ex cites a smilo. But tho encyclopedic brain' that produced “Shakespeare” knew tho curious fact—not one man in a million knows : it now—that the game of billiards antedates Cleopatra. In another place is a refer neo : to “Adonis’ Gardens,” of which tho learned ' Richard Grant White says: “No*mention of any Mich gardens in tho chirwic writings is known to scholars.” But James D. ButJdr | has found tho passage in the “Phtedrus of , , Plato,” used exactly ns in Shakespeare. I 2. The author makes a word wherever he needs it, makes it generally from a Lit in : root and invariably follows the best rub. s of j derivation, and gives the word its radical ; meaning. Os many hundred such words the j reader familiar with “Shakespeare” will 1 readily recall these: Deracinate, rubious, ! cautelous, annipotent, evitate, oppngnancy, ! j legerity and propinquity. These words afo I not the coinage of a man who know ihb Latin authors oiily In trauslat iofip. 3. The author of “Shakespeare” was a pro found lawyer. And his law was not like Hint of Charles Reade or Wilkie Collins, . “crammed” for the particular case, nor even like that of Samuel Warren, whoso “Ten Thousand a Year” is evidently written by a , lawyer and yet contains some very bad law: i on tho contrary, it is tho condensed excel lency of the common law Os England ?ti it i stood at the accession of James I, and so j thoroughly absorbed into the writer’s mind i that even in sportive lovo scenes or keen ridicule bo makes no mistake. This point was lately submitted to a few able lawyers in England, and their decision was that in all the court scenes and law phrases of “Sliake -1 speare” thebo was but one departure from tho ! actual law, that in the “Merchantof Venice.” Wo can readily see how tho htdesrutlijs df tli° i dramatic situation compelled tho author to , depart from tho correct rule in that case, for it would have been a very flat contradiction if I Antony had asked relief in equity from his bond Authors who dip into law run into j , danger; unless well read in the science they | are certain to blunder. But even in the most ’ ' careless allusions, or lovo scenes, the great i dramatist employs tho technical terms of ; law in their strict meaning and preserves j tho delicate distinctions between purchase and deeeent; heirs of tho blood and collater als, lildliJti’lbiit rind placid rit.lc»i, bmrr’gc tenure, fees and gavelkind, revefsioii riud recovery. Observe the legal terms, as we have capitalized them, in this love scene: A Contract of Eternal Bond of love. Confirmed by Mutual Joinder of your hands, Attested bj - the holy close of lips. Strengthened by Interehangement of .your rings, ■ And all the ceremony of this Compact : Scaled in my function by my Testimony. —iHvelfth Night, i. How many students of Blackstone, Coke | or Mansfield, at the end of a two years’ ' course could state tho law of constructive treason us clearly as Suffolk (in “H< nry VIII”) states it in this passage: THE ORIGINAL PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE. 1 Lord Cardinal, the king's further pleasure is, j Because all those things you have done of late By your power legatine within this kingdom Fall into the compass of a praemunire. That therefore such a writ be sued against yon: | To forfeit all your goods, lands, tenements, Chattels and whatsoever, and to be Out of the king's protection. This is my charge. Stranger still, when a case Is disputed in any of the plays, tho dramatist lays down the law as it was in tho last preceding reports of the higher courts, even when that hod ••hanged the previous law or the popular c«»n- ; erption of it. Tints tho grave digger In “Hamlet.,” though discoursing clumsily that ()] helia might be buried in consecrated ground, lays down the law as it had been laid down in “Plowden’s Reports” in tho • case Qf Sir James Hales, who commit ted suicide. If the Shake-spearo precon<•( p- , tion were not so strong, the modern lawyer would say that this passage was written by a j man in practice and “keeping up with tho , decisions.” ; 4. The author of “Shakespeare” was fairly well informed in botany, zoology and such i science as then existed. MINOR INTERNAL EVIDENCES. ! The foregoing are only the most salient proofs; but many more are cited. Thus the dramatist never refers to Stratford-on-Avon, . The home of the Sbaxper or Shakspero fam , ily; but there are twenty-three references to ! St. Albans, the home of Bacon. Warwick- • shire is nowhere praised; Kent and other ' districts in the south arc. Tho fauna mid flora of the plays are not those of War wickshire; neither is tho geography, the nobility or the dialect. When “Shakspeare’s" clowns talk dialect, the only Warwicks)::re words are those common to that county mid ihe’south of England. Neither the politics, 1 nor the religion, nor the social life of the plays arc those of Stratford-on-Avon. By all reasonable supj>osition the Shaxpercs j were democrats; the dramatist is an aristo crat who only mentions the common people to ridicule, them. The dramatist lived 1 i through the life and death struggle of • . Catholicism and Protestantism in England; yet it is impossible to decide which party lie favored, and both have claimed him. lie plainly ridiculed the pope's claim to sovereignty in England; but ho rid ! iculed tho other party’s extreme view just as keenly, and as soon as Queen Elizabeth was dead lie put forth a play in ! which her mother, Anno Boleyn, is merci j lessly dissected and held up to our contempt. i ; We have presented but a tithe of the Baconians’ evidences; the Shakespeare:iw » meet them with weighty facts. First and “ probably strongest on their side Is what logicians call the universal testimony. All > tho world believed from the start that Will- • • iam Shakspero was the author; and how could all the world be deceived? They rdd to tliis the written testimony of three con- > 1 temporary writers. The Baconians.casj’.y dispose of two, one of whom attacks Shaks pere as a pretender and the other only re fers to him as a witty, easy writer; but the testimony of Ben Jonson is too direct anti explicit to bo thus got over. Ho was very intimate with Shakspere and for a time acted ns secretary to Bacon; he outlived them both and received a pension from Charles I; ho survived to a time when the political di visions of Elizabeth’s and James’ courts tVefa obsolete, and as far ns can now be seen, be was perfectly free to toll what he khfew. He knew the universal attribution of the pJ&ys to Shakspere and never contradicted it. If he knew that Bacon was their author why was he silent? If it was a fact and ho did not know’ it, how could ho be deceived.' Mr. Donnelly’s answer is ingenious, and to many will be conclusive; but in our limited space we cannot set it forth. Mr. Donnelly’® cipher wo do not ns yet at tempt to master. At first view it appears to us very complicated; but of the few who have worked out sections of it, some insist that it is conclusive. For explanation wo ■ need in this place only use a familiar form. Suppose that in some current writing we find that the tenth word is “our,” the twentieth ! “father,” the thirtieth “who,” the fortiet i “art,” and thus on through tho Lord's prayer—we arc compelled tb conclude that it Is the Result df design. Mr. Donnelly’s , cipher, however, proceeds cftl a fur more complicated plan. It is as if one should tafeo* the fifth word, the tenth, the fiftieth, tile hundredth, the hundred and fiftieth, nnd thus on to 1,500; then return through a totally different series of figures, arrived at by dividing, to tho place of beginning, and then proceed on a new series of which the I separate increments were obtained by a fixed i system of division between the previously obtained increments. Os course, this is not Mr. Donnelly’s system, but it gives some idea i of it, nod those who maintain that it is the true solution rtdiidt that nitliiy cWys* labor, i of tedious counting, are necessary to ctolvc ’ even one paragraph of the concealed story. But when evolved, they insist, it gives tho inside history of Queen Elizabeth’s reign and shows why tho authorship had to be con i cealed. ' With this caution to tho reader we present ■' a few of the paragraphs formed by the words ' I thus numerically selected from “Henry IV,” ! the play in which • ■ Mr. Donnelly dis covered tbb cipher. 7 I We give the names I / (1; \ as formed by the 1 L i cipher of common I I words nnd the real I 1 names in paren- \ o fa theses. The Mar- r : ‘J ?Jr lo’we mentioned ~ was a contempo rary find rival of ® :R Robert cecil. William Shakspefo. Queen Elizabeth is rep resented as talking with Ceci),cousin of Baduh but his enemy. Cecil s.T} s: “These plays are put abroad at first upon the stage in the name of more-low (Marlowe), a woebegone, sullen follow. He had engaged in a quarrel with one Arch or (Archer) a servant, about a wanton, ending in a bloody hand to hand fight, in which he was slain. Tho point of his own sword struck against his head And eye, (ticking feat l ul wounds.” Speaking of Marlowe’s blasphemy, he prtfc'&Jtls: “My father would, in his wrath, have burned the horson, rascally knave alive in the fire of Smithfield for the sin he bath committed against Heaven and tho state.” Speaking of the treasonable purposes of the plays, he I says that, having heard that the Essex party I were representing the deposition and mur i derot King Richard 11 on the stage and cheering uproariously at every hit, he sent a friend to ascertain the facts, who returned with the statement that tlib fopo'rts were true. The follbwing sentence is deseiip tivo of the scene in the ihifidr? oh the death of King Richard II: “But when poor King Richard fell a corpse at i Pomfret under uncounted blows, they made I the most fearful noise. Again and again it broke forth. It seemed as if they would | never stop. ♦ ♦ ♦ The play shows the victory of rebels over an anointed tyrant, iittd by this pipb he bath blown tho flame of rebellion almost into open wdr. These well known plays have even made the most holy matters of religion, which all good men hold in sincere respect, subjects for laughter, their aim being, it is supposed, to thus poison tho ipind of the discordant, wavering multitude. They mean in this covert way to make a ris ing and flood this fair land with blood.” In another part of the cipher story it reads thus: “Seas-ill (Cecil) said that More-low (Marlowe) or Shak’st-spurro (Shakspere) never writ a word of them. * * ♦ It is ' plain be is stuffing our ears with false re ports and lies this many a year. Hois a poor, ill-spirited, greedy creature and but a veil for some one else. I have ft suspicion that my kinsman’s servant, young Harry Percy, was the man to whom he gave every night the half of what he took through the day at the gate. Many rumors afo on the tongues of men that my cousin hath prepared not only tbo ‘Contention Between York and Lancaster,* and ‘King J<;'. i* and this play (Rich. II). but other plays which are put forth, at first under the name of More-h.'- (Marlowe) and now go abroad as prepared l y Shak’st-spurre *(Shakspere).” Still another | represents a conversation between Cecil and ‘ the Bishop of Worcester, and the bish- p says: “We know him (Shakspere) ns a ' butcher’s rude and vulgar prentice, and it was in our opinions not likely that he writ • them. He is neither witty nor learned 1 enough. The subjects are far beyond his i ability. It ir even thought here that your • cousin of St. Albans writes them.” I The beating of Hayward is described in another cipher paragraph. Hayward, it ; seems, bad been imprisoned for dedicating his “Life of Henry VII” totho Earl of Essex. I When brought before the queen to answer for his offense, the cipher s '.ys “The sullen 1 old jado doth listen with tho ugliest frown upon her brows, too enraged to speak, but rising up and starting forward, took Ha-word (Hayward) by his throat and choked him. ♦ * * The old jade struck my poor young friend a fearful blow with the steeled end of the great crutch, again and again. His limbs being so weakened by imprisonment and grief, he is net able to star’d the force of the blows. The hinges of his joints give way under him and ho falls to tboground. Seas-ill (Cecil) says to him, ‘Speak ent. Why did’st thou put the name of my lord the carl upon the title leaf of this volume.'”’ Hayward thereupon foolishly proceeds to praise Essex as a great and good man. The queen threat ens to have his ears cut off and concludes: “Thy hateful looks and the whiteness of thy face is apter than thy tongue to tell thy na ture.” bacon’s singular testimony. 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