by A. Phoenix.
It is true there be some affairs which require extreme secrecy.
[Francis Bacon, Of Counsel: Spedding, Works, VI, p. 425]
In addition to all the above cryptic devices secretly inserted by Bacon in the Shakespeare First Folio there are also many remarkable and astonishing references and allusions to himself and members of the Bacon family, which for four hundred years have remained unfamiliar or unknown to the ordinary schoolmen, the casual student, and effectively the rest of the world.
