Author "Notes on Elizabethan Poets," "Supposed Caricature of the Droeshout Portrait of Shakespeare"

 

_________________

 

NEW YORK
1921

Privately Printed by the Author

 

TO GRAYS INN

"Old Purpulii Britain's Ornament"
the Author Dedicates this humble offering

CONTENTS

Introduction	i-xciv
Shakespeare's Connection With the Inns of Court	1-25
Shakespeare's Plays Controlled by Bacon's friends	26-34
Why Queen Elizabeth Neglected Bacon &emdash;That Capias Utlegatum	34-35
Origin of Capias Utlegatum Insult Offered to Bacon by Queen Elizabeth's Attorney-General, Sir Edward Coke	37-49
Francis Bacon's Connection with Warwickshire and the Forest of Arden	50-78
Bacon's Connection with the Burbage's	79-119
You Would Pluck Out the Heart of My Mystery	120-150
Shakespeare's Lodgings in Silver Street	154-155
Bacon's Warwickshire Kinsmen and the Underhill's	156-161
Was Anne Cecil the Prototype of Helena in "All's Well "	162-168
Apendix A History of the Manor and Ancient Barony of Castle Combe. Re Sir John Falstaff's Ward	169-176
Appendix B Edmund Tilney, Master of the Revels	177-182
Appendix C List of Lands Owned by the Cooke's, Lords of Hartshill	184-188

"It is a point fit and necessary in the front or beginning of this work without hesitation or reservation to be professed, that it is no less true in this human kingdom of knowledge than in God's Kingdom of Heaven, that no man shall enter into it except he become first as a little child." &emdash; Bacon's Valerius Terminus

Shakespeare clothes the same truth as follows :

Hel. " He that of greatest works is finisher,
Oft does them by the weakest minister;
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown,
When judges hath been babes. Great floods have flown
From simple sources; and great seas have dried,
When miracles have by the greatest been denied."

The spirit of Truth breathes through these lines of Bacon's, for he had in his nature a quality of divineness. The same idea as expressed by Shakespeare is a

"Truth in beauty dyed."

The above quotations assimilate so well, and seem so of a piece, that I cannot divorce the one from the other, especially in these pages where their authors are so often referred to. And to confess a truth to the patient reader, they gave me courage to begin this, the second reprint of the Gesta Grayorum in 1913, and caused me to think as Helena did in All's Well,

"What I can do, can do no hurt to try." TO SEE THE REST OF THE TEXT
VISIT THIS PAGE

SirBacon.org - Sir Francis Bacon's New Advancement of Learning