The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-12

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= Henry IL < IL
AcfL Sc0zsL ,Ti>sS1 \sSl
Counting in the bracket words, and the hy-
phenated words as double:
12x75=9O0 12x75=9OO
$50 words first page. 447 words first column
80 words in brackets. 81 words in brackets.
10 words in hyphens. in hyphens.
574 ATT
IS brackets on page IS. 81 brackets and hyphens
3o4th word. 90 p'''' - ss9th word '''N'
9OO='Found" 9OO="Out"
"Let me say first in explanation that the multi
pies are not the most important part of the
cipher, as have found. Icannot now reveal the
whole rule when / do. it will prove to be so
simple and clear that any one, with the little
Chatto q Windus reprint of the folio of 1923,
which you can buy, believe for about So, can
decipher the plays for himself. The multiples
do not always bring the words out in their
ing in proper order the transposed words. But
to return to the example in the words
found out The play is second Henry ",
the induction and first scene. The last
page in the scene is seventy-six the number of
bracket words in the first column on page sew
enty-four, the first page of the scene, is eleven.
result is $780, The s36th word from
the beginning induction is found The
S36th word, counting from the beginning of the
VI &c
but it is more curious to repeat the process by
multiplying seventyfve, the next to the last
page, by twelve, the number of italic words in
the first column as before. The result is 900.
time, the 900th word from the beginning of the
induction is found as before. ana the very
same found Counting from the beginning of
the seventy-6fth page again. the 90Oth word is
out and the same out we had by the hrst
multiple. when did not include the bracket
and hyphen words in counting. Will any sane
man suppose that is the result Of chance! If
you think / may have erredin counting or in
multiplying count and multiply for yourself.
You will find it inexoraby as | say. You will
find the same compound phrase found out by
two different multiples and two different counts.
and lighting on precisely the same words, and
| those words very significant for the dread of
Bacons life was that he would be found out as
the author of the plays"
'How much of the inner story have you dug
out and what does it say!' asked
T have crossed the track of the cipher mid
way, probably. Where have crossed it Bacon
is telling about the conspiracy of the Essex men
| to overthrow the Cecil party, even if they had
| to force the deposition of the Queen and bring
| in King James. Il was to produce this result
that the historical plays were written, because
| in all of them except Henry the Fifth, who was
| the royal hero of Agincourt, the royal charac-
| tiers are represented as the basest of their kind
| King John is a cowardly miscreant and tyrant
/ Richard Ii weak fool who lost his crown by his
| foliy Henry w cold blooded usurper and
murderer Henry VI a weakling, and Richard
| III monster. In Richard the Second is repre-
| scented the deposition of the King and his MUIR
der The intention of the plays was to familiarize
i the public mind with the fact that kings were
| only men and a very base kind Of men, and that
! when their folly and their sins became too great
| the people had power to dethrone them All
| this tended to do away with the sanctity and re-
| ligious feeling that attended the idea of an
anonted sovereign. In Richard the Third, tho
| humpbacked tyrant was a satire upon Bacon
cousin, Sir Robert Cecil, Bacon's great enemy,
and who, as long as he lived, kept Bacon out of
] employment. At the point where / struck the
| cipher, Cecil has detected the purpose OF the
plays, especially of Richard the Second, and is
telling the Queen that the shallow, giddy and
| covetous King is intended rs mask for her
! The story says that to prove that Shak
| speare did not write the plays Cecil
proceeds to give her the facts that he had found
| out an0uC SnaSSpeafeS history, anu III u ne
| tells his story very much it has come down
to US by tradition that he was bond prentice to
! a butcher; when twenty years of age he fell into
vile courses, robbed Sir Thomas Lucys orchard
floose see are the cipher wordsl, and afterwards
! accompanied by some men and boys. killed his
! deer and beat two of his gamekeepers, very much
as will be found told in the beginning of the Merry
| Wives of Windsor he pursued and outrode
+, his pursuers Subsequently he was met By Bacon's
/ servant Harry Percy (Hotspurl, whose name
will be found in Spedding's life of Bacon, at the
door OF the Curtain play house, ragged and poor,
| half-sraryed, and begging for living He APP
| Iealed to Percy to give him something to eat
! these are the words of the cipher) and Percy
| relieved his necessities. Through Percy Shak
i speare became acquainted with Bacon. About
! the same time Marlowe was killed in brawl,
/ and Shakespeare became his substitute as
/ cover for Bacon Cecil tells Elizabeth that
/ Shakespeare is man rude OF speech, and
that he has neither the learning the
| wit the knowledge of art. nor the general intel
! lisence to have written such plays.
II had great trouble in getting the sequence OF
| order in which the words came, because l did
not know what Bacon was speaking about
| got the clue at last by using the name of Bacon's
| old play. now published with the Shakespeare
PLAYS, THE Contention Between the Two Fa
nous houses Of York and Lancaster Having
once worked that out my progress was much
| more rapid Before | found out the rule at all L
had proof OF the cipher in the Merry Wives OF
Windsor by comparing the first form of the play
with the present form, the last being about twice
rs great IN size. An entire new scene was in
troauced viz. act four, scene one, which has no
Conference with the plot of the play. In this
| scene Mrs. Pages son William was introduced
for tho first and last timo in the play, and his
name is repeated eleven times, five times being
given in brackets. In this scene the word Ba