Bacon's Signature Ciphers in Shakespeare -75- BA3ON

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38)  In this same play of Loves Labour’s Lost, on page 143, bottom of the second column is another enticing cipher candidate. In five labored lines we have the name of BACON if one can but see that the letter ‘C’ is represented by the number three. And to add support to this recognition we have the number ‘33’ represented by the two ‘three’s in the same line.

http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=firstfolio&PagePosition=161

or

http://isebeta.uvic.ca/Library/facsimile/book/SLNSW_F1/161/?zoom=4


I don’t know who discovered this candidate. I only found it by chance along with some others at this website:   

http://www.drop.by/a/bacon-cipher/