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Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown by Andrew Lang
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as "mistress to this theorie,"


"Which is a wonder how his Grace should glean it,"


as his youth was riotous, and was lived in all men's gaze,


"And never noted in him any study,
Any retirement, any sequestration
From open haunts and popularity."


The Bishop of Ely can only suggest that Henry's study or
"contemplation"


"Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,
Unseen,"


and Canterbury says


"It must be so, for miracles are ceased."


And thus the miracle of genius baffles the poet, for Henry's had been
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