Bacon's Signature Ciphers in Shakespeare -89- Summary

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We have now collected quite a number and variety of seemingly camouflaged sotto voce hints of identity that can all be associated to Francis Bacon. Here now is a Summary of signature cipher candidates and other correlations. Brackets hold significant cipher figures. Some key phrases are also included. Page numbers are italicized.

1)     The Bacon-Tobey acrostic. Page 9

2)      The Sonnets – 287. Enlarged letters K and A. Bacon’s Tomb count 287. Page 24

3)     “Sir France is bee Con” on Page 287 of Histories. Many counts of “33”.   Page 29

4)     Page 100 of the Comedies with “Thirtie three” very close by it. Page 34

5)     “Caesars three and thirtie wounds”.  

6)     The tapster “Francis” and “Anon” repetitions in King Henry IV. [33 and 67]  Page 35

7)     “His name I pray you.” The Count Rossillion.   [letter count of 33] plus ‘S. Francis’. Page 38

8)       “What’s thy name?” Cleo.  Anthony   :  “Bacon” [letter count of 33].  Page 39

9)      Cleo. What’s your name?   :   “Lord Bacon”  [letter count of 33]  Page 39

10)    “ninteene Zodiacks”  “foureteene yeares” “‘tis surely for a name.” “I stumble in” [67]

11)    “And let us Cyphers,” “a crooked Figure” in Henry V Prologue. [count of 33]. Page 41

12)    “Free” as last spoken word in The Tempest.  [33, 111, 67, meaning of ‘Francis’] 

13)    A self-referential Letter to oneself that is an “Angry word” as well as a “figure”. [9 + 24]

14)    Pg. 33 Who is Sylvia = 146 = Baconi – “TIS FB”. Also p. 146 Histories—two St. Albans.

15)    Vio. heere comes the Count;   Duke. Who saw Cesario?  [Cesario = 67]. Page 44

16)    “now you are not ipse, for I am he”. “A figure in Rhetoricke”  [Clowne = 67]     Page 45

17)    “He is drown’d in the brooke, looke but in, and you shall see him. “There I shall see mine owne figure. A foole or cipher” = 100 = “Francis Bacon”. Page 46

18)   “I am not…as I seem to be….this disguise”. Page 222 = FraBaconi; plus “FBAKN”

19)   “Who’s there?” “Stand & unfold your selfe” Francisco and “Fran. 33”    Page 47

20)    "Hang-hog" is latten for Bacon,"  “Page 53”, “S. Nicholas”, ”Hanging”, etc. Page 49

21)    “Mine were the verie Cipher of a Function” [33] on page 67 of the Comedies.   Page 53

22)     “St Albones” on page 67 of the Histories.  Page 53

23)    ‘cornu’ = 67; [a e I o u  = 67]. Letter count of 33. What is the figure? “I, Francis Bacon” 

24)   ‘To the Reader’ preface. Counts of 287, 67, and 33. “This Figure”.  Page 57

25)    Title Page with letter count of 157. Page 58

26)    Missing page 157. “Wherein the Spirit held his wont to walke.” “Enter Ghost” count of 33.

27)    Missing page 282. “Francis Bacon”. Last column word count of 111.  Page 60

28)    Mispage 259 – “Shakespeare”, of the Tragedies, instead of page 279. 

29)    Page 259 -- “That is, Francis Bacon” in Baconiana.   Page 62

30)   “but we will draw the Curtain, and shew you the picture.” [count of 33] page 259.

31)    “Por. Goe, draw aside the curtaines, and discover”, --   leading into page 171. [‘Francis’] “Quick, quick, draw the curtain straight”  Page 65

32)    “George Sea-coale”  “Beacon” = “Francis Bacon” Page 111. Blest with a good name. Pg 67

33)    A Foole, a Lord, a Lawyer, a Philosopher, a Knight. From 80-13 [67] this spirit walkes in.

34)     “I am come to know your pleasure. “me” FBA CON.  Page 71

35)     “How many is one thrice told?” 3Elles=33 “A most fine Figure. To prove you a Cypher”.

36)    “Then ell to Sore makes fiftie Sores” “I an hundred make with one more L”. Page 73

37)    “Loues Labour’s lost” = 100,  “hid & bard”. Page 74

38)    “B A Three O N” plus [three - three]

39)    “sixe or seven, two tree howres” “Francisco”.   Page 75

40)    “VV I L L” adds up to “111” the Kay value for “Bacon”. Page 77

41)    The Northumberland MS. “By Mr. Francis Bacon”; “Your William Shakespeare” “Will”

42)    “will” bottom of page 102 of Comedies, before page 103 “Shakespeare”. Page 79

43)    “Lawyer” bottom of page 103 of Histories. “Will Shakespeare Lawyer”.

44)    Page 103 of Advancement and Proficience of Learning “Revealed Will and Secret Will”

45)    Gilbert Wats’ name counts to 259 in the Kay Alphabet.    Page 80

46)    Sonnet 111. “Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,” 259 Kay count. Page 81

47)   Sonnet 76.  “That every word doth almost sel my name,” Page 82

48)    A Lover’s Complaint changed to The Lover’s Complaint. Counts of 287 and 100 derived.

49)   Shakespeares “Sonnets” = “100” = “Francis Bacon” Page 83

50)  Lucrece’s image of Achilles’ Speare and its bi-fold powers – associated with ‘33’ and Bacon

51)  Signature moment 2 – Mispage 993 for 399. Bacon’s Advancement – ‘speare shakers’

52)   Bacon = Achilles=ShakeSpeare and disguised author