Bacon is Shake-speare . 4 (as stated in the play),was John Heywood, the last of the Kings words spoken by Hamlet exactly describe JohnHeywood, who was wont to set the table in a roar withhis jibes, his gambols, his songs, and his flashes of merri-ment. He was a favourite at the English Court duringthree if not four reigns, and it is recorded that QueenElizabeth as a Princess rewarded him. It is anabsolutely gratuitous assumption that he was obligedpermanently to leave England when she became it is believed that he was an intimate friend ofthe Bacon family, and must hav
Bacon is Shake-speare . 4 (as stated in the play),was John Heywood, the last of the Kings words spoken by Hamlet exactly describe JohnHeywood, who was wont to set the table in a roar withhis jibes, his gambols, his songs, and his flashes of merri-ment. He was a favourite at the English Court duringthree if not four reigns, and it is recorded that QueenElizabeth as a Princess rewarded him. It is anabsolutely gratuitous assumption that he was obligedpermanently to leave England when she became it is believed that he was an intimate friend ofthe Bacon family, and must have carried little FrancisBacon any number of times upon his back, and thelittle fellow must have kissed him still more often-times. The story in the play ot Hamlet seems,therefore, to fit in exactly with the facts of Baconslife ; but it is not possible that the most fertileimagination of the most confirmed Stratfordian cansuppose that the Stratford actor ever saw JohnHeywood, who died long before Shakspere came CHAPTER VIII. The Author revealed in theSonnets. Bacon also reveals much of himself in the playAs you like it, which of course means Wisdomfrom the mouth of a fool. In that play, besides givingus much valuable information concerning his mask William Shakespeare, he also tells us why it wasnecessary for him to write under a pseudonym. Speaking in the character of Jaques, who isthe alter ego of Touchstone, he ii, Scene 7. O that I were a foole,I am ambitious for a motley Thou shalt haue It is my onely suite, Prouided that you weed your better iudgementsOf all opinion that growes ranke in them,That I am wise. I must haue libertyWiithall, as large a Charter as the blow on whom I please, for so fooles haue:And they that are most gauled with my folly. They most must laugh Inuest me in my motley: Giue me leaue 70 Bacon is Shakespeare* To speake my minde, and I will through and throughCleanse the foule bodie of th infected worldIf
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