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1 82 FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES reason for so doing : " which serveth both to keepe themselves more in Guard, and to make others carry it, with more Pleasure." Here, then, we find another reason why Bacon wrote his Shakespeare Plays and why he " concealed " his name, when giving them to the world. He him self kept in the background of concealment; the jokes and jests perpetrated as it seemed by the actor Shakspere, were more easily borne by the Courtiers, than if they had been hurled consciously by him, their equal. Besides, the fact of the matter being so wrapped in mystery added to the pleasure of the author and of others. And still Bacon was not yet satisfied ; he goes on in the same Essay to tell us the following little story : A sudden, bold, and unexpected Question, doth many times surprise a Man, and lay him open. Like to him, that having changed his Name, and walking in Pauls, Another suddenly came behind him, and called him by his true Name, whereat straightwaies he looked back. All these details in the Essay, "Of Cunning," are, as we said before, new interpolations added in the year 1625. The only new addition to the Essay, " Of Seeming Wise," is the short sentence at the end all the rest ; having been printed as early as 1612. But a passage that quoted therein again shows us, how fond even at time already, Bacon was of changing Latin prose authors into rhymers. Bacon writes : Some are never without a difference, and commonly by Amusing Men with a Subtilty, blanch the matter ; Of whom
FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES 183 A. Gellius saith; Hominem delirum, qui Verborum Minutiis Rerum frangit Pondera (a mad man who, in stickling for words destroys the weightiness of the matter). Those are not Gellius' words (Edward Arber dis covered a similar idea expressed by Quintilian, but clothed in very different words) ; but, what is of greater importance (a fact which Arber, the publisher of the excellent Essay- Edition, never noticed) : Bacon again rhymes the words : Of whom A. Gellius saith ; Hominem deltntm, qui Verborum Minutiis Rerum frangit Pondera. The final sentence added in 1625 says : Seeming Wise men may make shift to get Opinion : But let no Man choose them for Employment For ; certainly, you were better take for Businesse, a Man somewhat Absurd, then over Formall. Here again we find Bacon recommending the employment of " a Man somewhat Absurd." But we cannot possibly touch upon all the details pointing to parallel passages in the Plays, nor keep repeating how often the name of Julius Caesar (the well-known title of one of the Roman dramas bearing Shakespeare's name) occurs in the Book, etc. etc. In glancing through, we would only recall the fact that the next Essay recounts the dream of Calphurnia, Caesar's wife, and all connected therewith. That Essay bears the heading " Of Friendship," and was dedicated (as Bacon himself says in a letter, not in the Essay- Book itself) to his intimate friend Sir Toby
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