St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-04
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but it remained for Mr.. Donnelly's prophetic
soul to discover the awful secret and caba-
listic significance OF those portentous words
just quoted from The Merry Wives OF
Windsorv'
am convert and Mr.. Donnelys disciple,
and like one from whose eyes the scales of
error have just fallen, feel that ! am en-
dowed with new and stronger vision, that
enables me, also, to discover new and other
lights than those Mr.. Donuelly has as yet re-
VealCd to us. and which, added to Mr.. Dom
nellys illumination, must establish, b eyond
all question, that Bacon wrote the so-called
Shakespeare pla s. My discovered treasure
was buried in 1.-The Jew of Malta" act w., d.
81, written by Marowe, who was a coutemp-
orary of Shakespeare, aud died in 1895. THAR
more. the servant of Barabas-t he Jew of
Malta-while they are strangling the 'friar,' -
says:
Pull amain,
IT'S neatly done, sir; here's no print at all =.
&c. let him lean upon his staff; excellent
he stands
As if he were begging for bacon"
Why did Marlowe mention print" "staf'
and ''begginy for bacon i'll connection with
the ''friar'' if he was not darkly limiting at
the Baconian theory Who can doubt thar this
language is alegorical-"as headstrong as an
allegory on the banks of the Nile'-and re-
fers TO Bacon and Shakespeare? Who ev er
heard of "friar'' without thinking of Fr;ar
Bacon, and therefore of Francis Bocon? And
is not there a Friar Francis in Bacon's Much
Ado About Nothiug?" Yes, and why the
word print if it does not mean that this
Grow" Shakespeare, in others Feathers, -
was to be plucked before he could print
his borrowed "bombast?' And what can be
palmer than that the word "staff' means
Shakespeare? Mr.. Donnelly says that peer
Out in act 4, scene 2. and ''Shakes Chain, -
in scene of Bacon's "Merry Wives of
Windsor" means Shakespeare. But in the
order in which these words occur,
we have the ominous legend.
peer out shakes a chanr There
fore, as the ''peer" and the "Shakes" do not
occur in the proper order TO make Shakes
peare, and are separated by q whole inter
vening scene, it is inferred that Mr.. Donnelly
avais himself Of poets license to regard
'shakes" as understood when peer" occurs
in the second scene. and peer to be mentally
supplied after ''shakes." in The fourth scene.
1t seems. however, that as Greene made
'Shake-scene" mean Shakespeare. Mr.. Don.
nelly may with vastly greater certainty be
convinced that shakes chain can be
nothing else than the name of that immortal
vagabond, Shakespeare, himself; and thai
either. or all, or any, of these logical conclu
Eions, ought to be proof, as strong as holy
writ, to every believer In the Baconian the
ory Returning, then. to apply these invinci
Bile Donnelly-ann arguments to Marlowes
CIPHER stat" and what do we see? Why
let ''shakeS' be understood, and we have
Shakstaff! Now, Websters electromagnetic
II was Webster's-said that staff in is print
tive sense, means stab. and therefore. as
DRYDEN uses it, q weapon Of attack or de
Tense, or, as Mr.. Donnelly would say, q spear
But Marlowe was a scholar, and probably
knew Italian, and staffa, in Italian means s
stirrup; whence staffiere, a stirrup-Iolder
Beholdl Shakespeare, the stirrup-holder a