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The reader will observe that we have here a sentence of twenty-three words, which not only cohere with each other grammatically and rhetorically, but accord with the history of events as they have come down to us. We have just seen that the Queen beat Hayward. What was his offense? History tells us that it was because of the dedication of his book to the Earl of Essex. And here, without our looking for it, the root-number 505-219-286—22 b & h=264 brings out the question of Cecil: said to him: Come, speak out. Why didst thou put the name of my Lord the Earl upon the title-leaf of this volume? And of these twenty-three words every one originates from 505-219, counting in the bracketed and hyphenated words in 219, to-wit, 22, which gives us the formula as above: 505-219-22 b & h -264. And out of these twenty-three words fifteen are found in the same column of page 75, within a few inches of space; and the other four are found in the next preceding column. Surely never before did accident pack so much reason, history, grammar, rhetoric and sense into so small a compass. And what a marvelous piece of composition is this, where we find the names of Marlowe, Archer, Hayward, Shakspere, Cecil, Henslow, the old jade, the Contention of York and Lancaster, King John, the Fortune, the Curtain, act, scene, stage, and such sentences as the above, all grouped together on three pages. And so arranged that many of the words are used over and over again.

Take the words which constitute the name of Cecil - I say. nothing of other pages, but speak only of these three, or, strictly speaking, these two and a half pages, containing about 2,000 words. The word ill, the terminal syllable of Cecil, occurs in the plays, either alone or hyphenated with other words, about 250 times. It occurs in the entire Bible, including the Old and New Testament, but eleven times! And yet, as the equivalent of evil, we would expect to find it used many times in writings having such relation to moral wrong-doing as the Scriptures. The word ill occurs in the second part of Henry IV. eighteen times standing alone; it does not occur once alone in the first part of Henry IV. But it is cunningly concealed in " ill-sheathed knife,” “ill-weaved ambition” and “ ill-spirited Worcester;" and also in hill, pronounced in those good old days, "'ill." This word hill, unusual in dramatic poetry or elevated composition, occurs 'seven times in the first part of Henry IV. and only once in the second part. Why these differences? Because, as I have shown, the first part was first published, to run the gauntlet of suspicion, and Bacon took especial care to exclude all words that might look like Cipher work; and assuredly, if Cecil suspected a Cipher narrative, or had any intimation of such, he would be on the lookout for such words as might, compounded, constitute his own name.

On these three pages the word ill occurs twice, both times in the first subdivision of 75:1.

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And just as we found the position of the words and the dimensions of the pages, columns, scenes and subdivisions of scenes adjusted to each other to produce old jade, etc., so we find these words seas ill and says ill holding curious relations to the text. For instance

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I here give seven seas or says and seven ills; but this does not begin to exhaust the possibilities. The reader will observe that Cecil is especially referred to in that part of the narrative which grows out of 523-198-325, and 516-167-349.

In answer to Cecil's question, Hayward is foolish enough to praise Essex as a great and good man and the first among princes, (505-219-286-22 b & h=264— 193-71. 508-71-437+1-438, 75:2, princes), and then we have, preceding the sentence given in the first part of this chapter, the words following, describing the Queen's rage:

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Then follows the description of the beating of Hayward already given.

We learn from Bacon's anecdote that the Queen did not believe that Hayward was the real author of the pamphlet history of the deposition of Richard II., but suspected that some greater person was behind him. And the Cipher tells us that she tried to frighten him into telling who this person was. She threatens him with

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Observe the symmetry of this sentence. Every word grows out of the same root-numbers, (523—219—304—22 b & h=282); loss is the 28th word up from the bottom of the second subdivision of 75:1, and his is the 28th word up from the bottom of the second subdivision of 75:1; while of is the 282d word up the same 75:1 and ears the 282d word up the corresponding column of the next preceding page, towit: 74:1. In every case the bracketed and hyphenated words are not counted in. While if we carry the same 282 through the second column of page 74 and up the preceding column it brings us to old, (the old jade); or, counting in the three bracketed words in the lower part of 74:1, to the word crafty. The Queen denounces Hayward. She speaks of —

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505-219-286-22 b & h-264-198-66. 193-66 259 505-219-286-22 b & h-264-197-67+193-260. 505-219-286-22 b & h-264—193-71. 193+71—

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75:1

nature.

505-219-286-22 b & h=264-50-214-10 b col.- 214

Every one of these eighteen words comes out of the same root-number (505219=286—22 b & h=264) which produced the sentence of twenty-three words recently given, and all these forty-one words cohere in meaning. And what is still more remarkable, every one of the eighteen words in the above sentence is found in the same column of the same page, and all of them in the compass of nine lines; and thirteen out of the eighteen are found in two lines! If this be accident, it is certainly something astounding. Observe also that we have here four thys. There is not a single thy on the whole of the preceding page, 74; nor on the whole of the succeeding page, 76. Why is this difference? Because here the Queen is talking fiercely to an inferior, Hayward, and is thouing him. There are three thys in these two lines, and every one of them is used by the root-numbers in the above sentence; and one is used twice. And it is only possible to thus use thirteen words out of two lines containing seventeen words, by the subtle adjustment of the bracketed and hyphenated words; and six of the above words are the 71st word from the end of the first subdivision of 75:1, or the beginning of the second subdivision of the same; while five are the 67th word and three the 66th word from the same points of departure.

I am aware that it may be objected that it is claimed that Hayward was not arrested until 1599, and that the first part of Henry IV. (interlocking through the Cipher with this second part) was published in 1598. But the date of Hayward's arrest is obscure and by no means certain; and if it were certain, it does not follow that because a quarto edition of the play of 1st Henry IV. has been found, with the date 1598 on the title-page, it is therefore certain that it was published in that year. It would be but a small trick for the mind that invented such a complicated cipher to put an incorrect date on the title-leaf of a quarto to avoid suspicion, for who would look for a cryptogram, describing events that occurred in 1599, in a book which purported to have been published in 1598?

CHAPTER IX.

CECIL SAYS SHAKSPere did nOT WRITE THE PLAYS.

Your suspicion is not without wit or judgment.

Othello, iv, 2.

WE

E come now to an interesting part of the narrative — the declaration of Cecil's belief that neither Marlowe nor Shakspere was the real author of the Plays which were put forth in their names.

And it will be noticed by the reader how marvelously the whole narrative flows out of one root-number. That is to say, the third number, 516, is modified by having deducted from it 167, to-wit: the number of words after the first word of the second subdivision of column 2 of page 74, down to and including the last word of the subdivision. And the reader cannot fail to notice what a large part of the Cipher narrative of Shakspere and Marlowe flows from this second subdivision.

And the reader will also observe that in this second subdivision

there are 21 words in brackets and one additional hyphenated word--or 22 in all; these added to the 167 make 189; and 189 deducted from 516 leaves 327. Or, the same result is obtained by 167, and then deducting from the

first deducting from 516 the

remainder 22 for the bracketed and hyphenated words.

the formula thus:

516-167-349—22 b &h=327.

Every word of all the sentences in the following chapter grows out

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