THE GREAT CRYPTOGRAM:

FRANCIS BACON'S CIPHER in The
SO-CALLED SHAKESPEARE PLAYS.

BY IGNATIUS DONNELLY, Author
of "Atlantis: The Antediluvian World," and
"Ragnarök:The Age of Fire and Gravel":

"And now Iwill vnclaspe a Secret booke
And to your quicke conceyuing Discontents
Ile reade you Matter, deépe and dangerous,
As full of perill and aduenturous Spirit,
As to o'erwalke a Current, roaring loud,
On the vnftedfaft footing of a Speare."

Ist Henry IV., Act I, Sc.3.

-Chicago;
New York and London-
R.S.Peale & Company.
1888.

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