O Westmoreland, thou art a summer bird, It will be found that summer, haunch, winter, sings and lifting are all Cipher words, the tail ends of various stories, and the genius of the poet linked them together in this exquisite fashion. There was, to the ordinary mind, no connection between haunch, a haunch of venison, and summer, winter and sings, but in an instant the poet, with a touch, converted the haunch into the hindmost part of the winter. It is no wonder that Bacon said of himself that he found he had "a nimble and fertile mind." 1 2d Henry IV., iv, 2. HEN WE CHAPTER XIII. THE YOUTHFUL SHAKSPERE DESCRIBED. We will draw the curtain and show you the picture. Twelfth Night, i, 5. "my Lord" (as the peasants called him) - Sir Thomas captured one of the marauders and destroyers of his property, he was of course curious to know who it was. And so by the same root-number (playing between the end of scene second, 76:1, and the subdivisions of 75:1) we find the following words coming out: face of the wounded man, he Little did Sir Thomas think, And when the blood was scraped away from the recognized William Shagspere, one thone partie." as he gazed upon him, that the poor wounded wretch was to be, for centuries, the subject of the world's adoration, as the greatest, profoundest, most brilliant and most philosophical of mankind. The whole thing makes history a mockery. It is enough, in itself, to cast a doubt upon all the established opinions of the world. I would note the fact that the word scraped occurs in but two other places in all the Plays! 505-167-338-30-308-49-259-90-169. 505-167-338-30-308-50-258-63 (73:1)=195— 169 75:1 He 95 75:2 remembered 50-145-50-95. And here follows the description of the youthful Shakspere, as he appeared on his native heath:-one of the half-civilized boys of "the bookless neighborhood" of Stratford; the very individual referred to in the traditions of beer-drinking, poaching and rioting which have come down to us. To save work for the printers I will hereafter, instead of printing 505-167— 338, in each line, content myself with commencing each line with 338. 338-30 (74:2)-308-145-163—3 b (145)=160. 338-30-308-146-162. 457-162-295+1-296. 296 160 338-145-193—3 (145)—190-1b col.-189. 338-145-193—3 b (145)=190. 577-190-=387+1= 388 338-50 (74:2)-288-49 (76:1)-239-145—94. 577 (189) Here we have, brought out by the same root-number (338), a whole wardrobe: cap-shirts-cloak — stockings — shoes — smock; together with out-at- heels — on - back out at - elbows; and also horson knave weare- nothing almost-naked. Why if this is the work of chance—did not some of these words, descriptive of clothing, come out by the other root-numbers, or by this same rootnumber, when applied to other pages? Smock occurs but once in this play and but six other times in all the Plays; elbow is found but once in this act and but twice in this play; shirts occurs but this once in this act; slops is found only this one time in this play, and but one other time in all the Plays; this is the only time stockings is found in the play, and it occurs but eight times besides in all the Plays; this is the only time shoes is found in this play; and this is the only time cap occurs in this act; and this is the only time infamy is found in this play. Can any one believe that all these rare words came together, in so small a compass, by chance; and that, by another chance, they were each of them made the 338th word from some one of a few clearly defined points of departure in counting? Observe those words almost naked. Each is derived from 338; nay, each is derived from 338 minus 50-288. We commence with 288 at the end of scene 2 and go forward to the next column, and we have almost; we take 288 again, and commence at the end of the next scene and go forward again to the next column, and we have naked! This alone would be curious; but taken in connection with all the other words in this sentence, which cohere arithmetically and in sense and |