"Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,

So dull, so dead in looke, so woe-be-gone,
Drew Priam's Curtaine in the dead of night,

And would have told him Halfe his Troy was burned.
But Priam found the Fire ere he his Tongue."

This is the only time the word "Curtain" occurs in this play. It is, however, referred to in twelve other plays, showing that much of the Cipher story referred to the doings at that famous play-house.

In the passage above quoted more than half the words are used in the internal cipher narrative, as we shall show. No wonder Bacon said of himself, that he had "a nimble mind." It was the most ingenious and subtle intellect that ever dwelt on this earth.

The "found" in "found the fire" is the same "found" which we showed went with "out," (389th word 2, 75), to furnish that expression "found out," set forth by us heretofore. The word "ere"-"ere he his tongue," is the ere of "ere the tragic death of More-low." Other cipher words in that paragraph will appear as we go on.

We recur again to 753- We add 167 and this gives us 920. Carry this through 447 and we have 473 left; carry this up 2, 75 and it brings us to the 37th word on the column, the word "to;"-thus 753+167-920-447473-509--473=36+1=37=“TO.”

We turn to 257 again. We deduct from it 50, leaving 207. To this we add the number of words in the second column of page 75, 509, and we have 207+509=716; deduct 100 and we have 616. Carry this backward through the first column of page 74, containing 284 words, and we have 616-284-332. Carry this backward again

through p. 73, and down 1, 73, and it brings us to the word "find," the 95th word, 1, 73. Thus: 332-237-95.

After a while we shall find the words "Bishop of Worcester❞—coming out of the root number 753, carried up the columns 1, 76 and 2, 75, and "Bishop" is the 332d word on 1, 76; and we have just seen that 332 is derived from 257.

The number 332 was obtained by adding 257-50=207 to 509=716, deduct 100=616; and carry this through I, 74 (284 words) and we have 332, "BISHOP." Then if we take 257+50=307 and again add 509 and we have 816 left. Carry this again through through 1, 74 (284), and then through 2, 74 (248 words) and deduct 29 and we have 255 left, and the 255th word is "WORCESTER."

But if we reverse the movement we have 753—167— 586+29-615-498=117; and 117 carried up 1, 76 brings us to the 332d word, "BISHOP."

But instead of deducting 167 from 753 let us add it: we then have 920. Carry this again through 1, 76, (498 words), and we have 422 left; deduct 167 from 422 and we have 255 left; and carry this up 2, 75, and it brings us to the same word "WORCESTER." It is a curious fact that this word "WORCESTER" is the 255th word down the column, (2, 75), and the 255th word up the column. Can any one believe that all these infinite adjustments of the text are the result of accident.

Sir John Whitgift, one of Bacon's tutors at Cambridge. was the Bishop of Worcester who married Shakspere to Anne Hathaway or Whatley or whatever her might have been, November 28, 1582. The bond to let them wed without three callings of the bans is still of

name

record; and in it Shakespere's name is given as "William Shagspere." The first child of this hurried union was born six months after the marriage. There is no record of the marriage of Shagspere and Ann Hathaway, but there is a record of the marriage of William Shagspere to Ann Whatley.

Some may think that the addition or subtraction of 100 is forced and artificial; as there is no modifier of 100; but if we have 257--50—207; and 257+50=307, the difference between the 207 and the 307 is 100. The words are thus thrown far apart and the difficulty of detecting the cipher is thereby increased.

Let us restate these last figures:

Down 257-50—207—100= 107+509—616—284-332 332, 1, 76—Bishop.

Down 257+50=307+509 816-284-532-248— 284 -29-255, 2, 75-Worcester. And again:

Up 753-167-586+29— 615— 498—117; 448— 117 =331-2=332, 1, 76—Bishop.

Up 753+167-920-498 422-167-255; 509-255 =254+1=255, 2, 75-Worcester.

In the first instance "Bishop" and "Worcester" come from 257 minus 50 and 257 plus 50, down the column; in the other case the words "Bishop" and "Worcester" are derived from 753 minus 167 and 753 plus 167, up the column. In each instance plus alternates with minus.

Who can doubt that these results could only have been secured by the most minute and accurate adjustments of the text, so that the same words could be used, in different parts of the narrative, up and down the same columns?

We recur to 753. Again we deduct 197; leaving 556; add to this again 167, and we have 723. Carry this again through 1, 75, which is equivalent to deducting 447, the number of words on the column, which leaves 276; carry this up the same 1, 75, and it brings us to the 172d word, "some."

Returning to 257, let us deduct 100, and we have left 157; add to this the modifier 218; and we have 375; deduct the modifier 192, the number of words above the end of the first subdivision of column one of page 75, and we have 183 left; and the 183d word on the preceding column 2, 74 is the word "one."

We shall find as we proceed that this modifier, 192, and its co-relative 253, the number of words below the first word of the second subdivision of the same column one, of page 75, play an important part in the cipher.

We recur to 753 and add 167 and 197 and 50. The last word, derived from 753 (some), was obtained by deducting 197. Now we add 167 plus 197 plus 50, and we have 1167. We carry this through page 74, (532 words), and we have 635 left; we carry this through page 73, (406 words), and we have 229 left; we carry this up 2, 72, and it brings us to the 360th word-"who."

When the count runs through two contiguous pages the "clew-word," which unites them, is not counted, as it is simply a repetition; but where a root number is carried to a page as a point of departure, then the "clewword" is used.

The next word is derived from 257 and goes down the column. We add 447, the number of words on column one, page 75, and we have 704. Carry this forward

through the 2d column of page 75, containing 509 words,

and we have left 195; deduct 50, and we have 145; and the 145th word on column two of page 76 is “will.”

We return to 753, and deduct 197, plus 167, plus 50, which gives us 773; to get the word "who," we added, to 753, 167+197+50, making 1167. If we start with that 773 and carry it through the second subdivision of column 1, of page 75, containing 254 words, we have 519 left; and this taken through the second column of page 75, containing 509 words, leaves us 10; which taken up the same column, (2, 75), brings us to the word "act."

The next word comes from 257. Add 100 and we have 357; add 167 and we have 524; add 50 and we have 574; add 29 and we have 603; carry this through 1, 75 and we have left 156, (603—447—156) and the 156th word, carried down 1, 75, is “the.”

The next word is "part." It comes from 753, and goes up the column. "Act" was derived from 753 minus 197 plus 167. We reverse this. Instead of deducting 197 we add it to 703; this gives us 950; and adding 167 we have 1067; add to this 447 and we have 1514. We deduct 248 and we have left 1266. We carry this back through p. 74, (532 words), and we have left 734; we carry this through page 73, (406 words), and we have left 328; we take this up the next column, (2, 72), and it brings us to the 261st word “part."

We return to 257. The last word, derived from this root-number, was "the." It was obtained by adding 150, (3 50s), to 257+167+29. We now add again 150 to 257, but deduct 167 instead of adding it, and we have the word numbered 240 on column one of page 74, to-wit: of. Thus: 257+100357, 357+50-407-167-240 "of."