BOOK II.—THE DEMONSTRATION.

PART I.

THE CIPHER IN THE PLAYS.

CHAPTER I.-How I CAME to Look for a CIPHER,

II. How I BECAME CERTAIN THERE WAS A CIPHER,

III.-A VAIN SEARCH IN THE COMMON EDITIONS,

IV. THE GREAT FOLIO OF 1623,

V. LOST IN THE WILDERNESS,

VI. THE CIPHER FOUND,

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PART II.

THE CIPHER NARRATIVE.

CHAPTER I.-THE TREASONABLE PLAY OF RICHARD II.,

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THE TREASONABLE HISTORY OF HENRY IV., WRITTEN BY DR.

HAYWARD,

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CHARACTERS OF FALSTAFF AND SIR TObie,

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VIII. THE QUEEN BEATS HAYWARD,

IX.-CECIL SAYS SHAKSPERE DID NOT WRITE the PLAYS,

X.-SHAKSPERE INCAPABLE of Writing THE PLAYS,

XI. SHAKSPERE WOUNDED,

XII.-SHAKSPERE CARRIED TO PRISON,

XIII. THE YOUTHFUL SHAKSPERE DESCRIBED,

XIV. THE Bishop of WORCESTER AND HIS ADVICE,

SHAKSPERE'S ARISTOCRATIC PRETENSIONS,

XVII. SHAKSPERE THE MODEL FROM WHICH BACON DREW THE

XVIII.-SWEET ANN HATHAWAY,

BACON OVERWHELMED,

XX. THE QUEEN's Orders tTO FIND SHAKSPERE,

XXI.-FRAGMENTS,

XXII. A WORD PERSONAL,

ILLUSTRATIONS.

FRANCIS BACON -THE TRUE SHAKESPEARE. After the portrait by Van Somer. Frontispiece.

WILLIAM SHAKSPERE. Fac-simile of the celebrated Droeshout portrait in the 1623 Folio,

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FAC-SIMILE Of a Page froM THE AUTHOR'S COPY OF THE GREAT FOLIO,

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WILLIAM HENRY SMITH,
WILLIAM D. O'CONNOR,
NATHANIEL HOLMES,
MRS. CONSTANCE M. POTT,
DR. WILLIAM THOMSON,
PROF. THOMAS DAVIDSON,

ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL OF ESSEX. After the portrait in the collection of the Earl of Verulam,

QUEEN ELIZABETH. After the portrait in the collection of the Marquis of
Salisbury,

Letter of Lord CHANCELLOR VERULAM (Francis Bacon) to the University of Cambridge. Fac-simile,

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BOOK I. •THE ARGUMENT·

"Nay, pray you come;

Or if thou wilt hold further argument,

Do it in notes.”

Much Ado about Nothing, II,3.