-30-
The early
Baconian researchers that found this compared it to the earlier quarto and did
not find the same pattern, as if this folio page was rearranged to produce the
peculiar counts. The only speaking character in the play that is called
“Knight” is in this column. This character has 5 speeches. The first two of the
5 speeches have the Italicized spelling of ‘Knigh’. Then for the last three
times, it is spelled ‘Knight’, ‘Knigh’, and lastly ‘Knight’. This shows an
inconsistency with two of the spellings using a last “t”. Perhaps this was to
enable a line count of ‘33’ in those two lines?
Also, we now
look at all the full lines (the ones that run to the margin) in the second
column that begin with an italicized
character name. There are 13 of these lines prior to the ones containing the
Bacon code syllables. The total number of Character name letters in these first
13 lines of the second column total 54 and the last 4 full lines (with the
candidate coded name) total 21 letters, the difference being 33. Then
also, the total letter count of the last words in the same first 13 full
lines (that begin with a Italicized character name) totals 47 while the total
for the last 4 lines totals 14, again with a difference of 33. Over all,
these multiple counts of the significant number 33 (“Bacon” in Simple alphabet)
along with the closeness of Bacon’s name as “Sir France is bee Con”, and the
significant # 287, appears to be beyond coincidence.
Here are the
column two line tallies:
Line
# of Letters Italicized Char. Ltrs.
Last Word Letters
2
36
4 3
5
35
4 4
7
38
4 5
13
38 4 2
15
41
4 1
21
29
4 11
26 40
4 1
31
32
4
7
34
39
4 2
40
34 4 4
43
36
5 4
44
35
4
1
46
39
5 2
Totals
472
54 47
Second Column
Section B
Line
# # of Letters Italicized
Char. Ltrs. Last Word Letters Name Syllable
49 33
6 2 “is”
56 33
5
3 “bee”
59 33
4
3 “Con”
65 33
6 6 “ France”
Totals
132
21 14
Some of this
analysis is taken from a researcher named (or going by the name of) Joel
Dias-Porter. http://www.apprendre-en-ligne.net/crypto/bibliotheque/PDF/diasporter.pdf
He also
mentions that although these 5 syllables can be rearranged to make up other
words, they can’t seem to be arranged into another coherent sentence.
This
signature candidate is another that was not reviewed by the Friedmans in
their book, despite its appeal and popularity among Baconians. Maybe his
interest was primarily with ciphers with which a probability could be assigned
and not with codes or word puzzles where such a probability wasn’t accessible.
Or maybe he just never came across it.
Next we’ll
look at some more instances of the significant number of 33.
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