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were big ! FRANCIS BACON'S The Greatest Birth<br />

THE MYSTERIOUS MANNER OF THE ACTOR<br />

SHAKSPERE (SIC !)<br />

Sus rostra si forte humi<br />

A litera.m impresserit, num propterea.<br />

Suspicabere mfegram Tragoedia.m, veluti<br />

Literzm nam, ab ea.<br />

posse describi ?<br />

FRANCISCI<br />

BACONI Temporis Partus<br />

Maximus.<br />

What though a pig perchance may dig<br />

And print an A flh ground with burrowing greedy<br />

snout,<br />

Do you think it possible, say, a tragic play such a pig<br />

Could essay, like th' A ? Who would doubt such conceit<br />

of Time.<br />

Now the man whose name answered to the ideas<br />

conveyed by hurling-spear and spear-hurler, the man<br />

of whom Ben Jonson said he seemed " to shake a<br />

Lance," that man's name, as we already stated, was<br />

never mentioned by Francis Bacon, one so excellently<br />

versed in all things pertaining to literature, and who<br />

for years had been the Literary Counsellor to Queen<br />

Elizabeth.<br />

The name of the actor William, however, known

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