THE GREAT CRYPTOGRAM:

FRANCIS BACON'S CIPHER in The
SO-CALLED SHAKESPEARE PLAYS.

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BY IGNATIUS DONNELLY, Author
of "Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, and
"Ragnarök:The Age of Fire and Gravel.

"And now I will vnclaspe a Secret booke
Aud to your quicke conceyuing Discontents
Ile reade you Matter, deépe and dangerous,
As full of perill and aduenturous Spirit,
As to o'erwalke a Current,roaring loud,
On the vnftedfaft footing of a Speare."
Ist Henry N., Act1,Sc.3.

VOL. I.

London

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington,L**
St Dunstan's House, FetterFane.
1888.

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