The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-05-19

TIE ORIGINAL PORTRAIT or sHAKEsPEARK
Lord Cardinal. the kings further pleasure is.
Because all those things you have done of late
BY your power ies,atne within this kingdom
Fall into the compass Of q prernun:re.
That therefore such q writ lie sued against yow
To forfeit all your goods. lands. tenene2ts,
Chattcls and Whatsoever, and to DO
Out OF the kings protection. This is my charge.
Stranger still, when case is disputed in
any of the plays, the drematist lays down the
law as it was il tho last preceding reports OF
the higher courts, even when that lad
changed the previous lew or the popular con-
eeption OF it. Thus the grave digger in
Hamlet" though discoursing clumsiiy that
Ophelia might be buried in consccrated
ground, lays down the law as it had been
laid down In "Plowdens Reports in the
case of Sir James Eales, who commit
ted suicide. If the Shakespeare preconcep-
ton were not so strong, the modern lawyer
would say that this passage written by n
man in practice and keeping up with the
decisions"
4. The author OF "Shakespeare" was fairly
well informed in botany, zoology and such
science as then existed
MINOR INTERNAL EVIDENCES.
The foregoing are only the most salient
proofs: but many more are cited. Thus the
dramatist never refers to Stratford-on-A Won,
the home OF the Shaxper or ShakSpere fam
lily; but there ere twenty three references to
st. Albans the horne Of Bacon. Warwick
shire is nowhere praised; but Kent and other
districts in the south are. The fauna and
flora Of the plays are not those of War
wickshire; neither Is the geography, the
nobility or the dialect. When "Shaks;,eares"
clowns talk dialect, the only Warwickshire
words are those common to that county and
the south of England Neither the politics,
nor the religion, nor the social life Of the
plays are those of Stratford -on-Avon By
all reasonable suppostion the Shaxperes
were democrats; the dramatist is an aristo-
crat who only mentions the common people
to ridicule them The dramatist lived
through the life and death struggle Of
Catholicism and Professionalism in England
yet it is impossible to decide which party be
favored, and both have claimed him He
plainly ridiculed the pope's claim to
sovereignty in England; but he rid
iculed the other party's extreme
view Just as keenIy, and as soon Us Queen
Elizabeth was dead he put forth play in
which her mother, Anne Boleyu, is mcrci
lessly dissected and held up to our contempt
We have presented but a 1.-THE of the
Baconians' evidences; the Shakespearia1s
meet them with weighty facts. First and
probably strongest on their side is what
logicians call the universal testimony. All
the world believed from the start that Will
lam Shakspere was the author; and how
could all the world be deceivedi They add
to this the written testimony Of three con-
temporary writers. The Baconians easily
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pere as pretender and the other only re-
fers to him as witty, easy writer; but tie
testimony of Ben Jonson is too direct and
explicit to be thus got over. He was very
intimate with Shakspere and for a time
acted as secretary to Bacon; he outlived them
both and received n pension from Charles / ;
he survived to time when the political di-
visions of Elizabeths md James courts were
obsolete, and as far rs can now be seen, he
was perfectly free to tell what he know. He
knew the universal sttribution of the PLAYS
to Shakspere and never contradicted it. If
be knew that Bacon WAS their author why
was he silent? If it was a fact and he did
not know it, how could he be deceived! Mr..
Donnelly's answer is ingenious, and to MANY
Will be conclusive; but in our limited space
we cannot set it forth.
Mr.. Donnelly's cipher we do not as vet Mt
tempt to master. At first view it appears to
US very complicated; but of the few who
have worked out sections of it, some insist
that it is conclusive. For explanation we
need In this place only use a familiar form.
Suppose that in some current writing we find
that the tenth word is our" the twentieth
father" the thirtieth 'who," the fortia.h
art" and thus on through the Lords
prayer-we are compelled to conclude that il
Is the result Of design. Mr. Donnelly's
cipher, however, proceeds on a far more
complicated plan. 1t is as if one should take
the fifth word, the tenth, the fftieth. the
hundredth, the hundred and fiftieth. and
thus on to 500; then return through a
totally different series of figures, arrived at
by dividing, to the place of beginning, and
then proceed on new series of which tho
separate increments were obtained by fixed
system of division between the previously
obtained incrernenta OF course, this Is not
Mr. Donnelly's system, but it gives some idea
OF 1t, and those who maintain that it is tho
true solution admit that many days labor.
OF TEDIOUS counting. are necessary to evolve