[Illustration: Plate I From "Sylva Sylvarum," 1627]


BACON IS SHAKE-SPEARE

BY

SIR EDWIN DURNING-LAWRENCE, BT.


"Every hollow Idol is dethroned by skill,
insinuation and regular approach."


Together with a Reprint of
Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies.

Collated, with the Original MS. by the late F.B. BICKLEY,
and revised by F.A. HERBERT, of the British Museum.


MCMX



TO THE READER

The plays known as Shakespeare's are at the present time universally
acknowledged to be the "Greatest birth of time," the grandest
production of the human mind. Their author also is generally