New-York tribune., 1909-05-15
Literary Nesss and Criticism
amples The first We choose is this sonnet IN
THE Passionate Pilgrime':

amples. The first We choose is this sonnet IN
THE Passionate Pilgrime':
If Musicke and sweet Poetrie agree, ,>
As they must needs (the Sister and the hrother)
Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me-
Because thou lov'st the one, and the 2theT; Eth
Dovvland to thee is deere, whose heavenly tueh
Upon the Lutte. dooth TaEsh humane e sense siGb
spenser TO me. whose deepe Concelt lfnsa Is secH'
Thou Ioy'st to heare the sweet meodious sound,
Ana sn%' 7 in deene Delight am chiefly drownd,
When as himselfe to singing he betakes.
one Cod is God Of both las Poets falIel ,o;,,e
one Knight loves Both, and both in thee 'eil0i
Following Mr.. Booths directions we begin 10
read from the capital 80" OF the WORD One
which begins the last line; we read 10 tle is"''
upwards. on all the letters OF all the "oiuS'
smelling Racon's name backwards that Is Oilo-
cab Ocsicnarf and we arrive at the r IN the
word ''if' at the upper left hand corner Ilu'
We have the name francisco Bacoho' anu d
A. pootb noints out we have that name link
ing together the first and last hnes IN Pie''y
conceit IF Muscke and sweet Poetrie agree, l,
1,ro,,o,soo racono one knight, loves both.
Now What Is Mr. Booths answer TO the obvious
comment that this may be entirely the result OIL
eccidentq He would retort that II his cipher
only worked out once in the mass OF materlal III
which he has searched for Bacons signature ms
case would fall to the ground, but that II II
works out repeatedly, through poem after poem
and play after play, We must take him seriously
I et us examine one or two more OF HIS sPeti
mems. taking next the lines facing the portrait
in the first Folio:
This Figure, that thou here seest put
II was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the GraVer had striie
With Nature to out-doo the ite:
o. could he but have drawne his wit
As TralI I'm brasse, he hath hit
MS face the Print would then surpasse
ALL that ever writ IN biaeSe-
Rut since he cannot, Reader, looke
Not on his Picture, but his Boohe-
II may he observed that as these acrosucs are
5enandept upon Typography. they must be stuoled
:, the original editions and hence the facslmlles
nr;nted bv Mr.. Booth. Hence too, our reproouc-
tion of the foregoing lines in the precise ar
ranqep7ent which they follow in the first Foho'
To find the name OF Bacon IN these lines MI
F3ootb directs the reader TO begin to read from
the initial ..R', of the word But (Which begins
the next to the last Iine) and TO continue read
ing on the initials of the outside words OF 'ile
stanza upwards and all the way around the
stanza. spelling Bacon you will arrive at the
initial ''Nl" of the word Not the first word OF
the last line In ten different ways he finds TINS
signature in these lines, fact which someho"
does more TO weaken than TO strengthen the
readers confidence; but before we traverse the
broad question involved in the book we Will look
at another acrostic which Mr.. Booth finds in the
first column of the first page of Hamlet in
the first Folio The passage follows. reproduc-
ing the arrangement of the lines in the first
Folio: