THE GREAT CRYPTOGRAM:

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

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

"And now Iwill vnclaspe a Secret booke
Aud to your quicke conceyuing Difcontents
lle reade you Matter, deepe and dangerous,
As full of perill and aduenturous Spirit,
As to o'erwalke a Current, roaring loud,
On the vnitedfaft footing of a Speare."
Ist Henry N., Act,Sc.3.

VOL. I.

London

Sampson Low, Marston. Searle & Rivington,L
SDunstan's Bouse. Fetter Jane.
1888.

Republished 1972

Scholarly Press, Inc., 22929 Industrial Drive East
St. Clair Shores, Michigan 48080

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