Parallel - Words of Dying Men

First, Shake-Speare:

        The tongues of dying men
Enforce attention like deep harmony.
Richard II, 2.1.5-6

"The words which men speak at their deaths, like the song of the dying swan, have a wonderful effect upon men's minds."
Bacon in The Wisdom of the Ancients

Comment: In both passages the words of dying men are effective and like music.

Parallel - Deal of World

First, Shake-Speare:

[Bolingbroke of his exile abroad] "What a deal of world I wander from the jewels that I love."
Richard II, 1.3.269-70

Bacon: "There was much ado and a great deal of world."
Letter to Buckingham describing Bacon's ceremonial installation as Lord Keeper

Comment: "Deal of world" is used in different senses in the two passages, but it sounds like an idiosyncratic expression.

Parallel - Dutch and English feasts

Shake-Speare:

Lo, as at English feast, so I regreet
The daintiest last to make the end most sweet.
Richard II 1.3.67-8   [note: 'regreet' meaning 'to greet again']

Now, Bacon: "Let not this Parliament end like a Dutch feast, in salt meats, but like an English feast in sweet meats".
A 1604 speech

Comment: It was the practice for English feasts, unlike Dutch feasts, to end with confectionary and fruit. Shake-Speare evidently had this distinction in mind, or he would not have specified "English feast".

Parallel - Chewed, Swallowed and Digested

First, Shake-Speare:

                       How shall we stretch our eye
When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed and digested
Appear before us?

 Henry V, 2.2.55-57

and now Bacon: "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested".
Essay on Studies

Parallel - Busy when Alone

First, Shake-Speare:

I, measuring his affections by my own,
Which most are busied when they're most alone.
Romeo And Juliet Q.1, 1.1.124-5

Bacon: His Majesty is never less alone than when he is alone.
Letter to Villiers

Comment: A very similar paradox, probably based on a dictum by Publius Scipio
-See The Tempest 3.1.15 and the Arden footnote where Ferdinand is more refreshed
the more he works while thinking of Miranda

Parallel - Hang-hog is Latin for Bacon

Shake-Speare:

Evans:   (Testing  William's Latin):   "I pray you have remembrance child, accusativo hing, hang, hog"    [i.e. a mispronunciation of the Latin hinc,hanc,hoc].

Mistress Quickly:   "Hang-hog" is Latin for Bacon, I warrant you."
  The Merry Wives of Windsor 4.1.39-41

Bacon:  Francis Bacon in his Apothegms tells the following joke reputedly cracked in real life by his own father: Sir Nicholas, when sitting as a judge, had a prisoner before him, named Hog, on a capital offence. Pleading for his life, Hog said: "Why, if it please you, my Lord, your name is Bacon and mine is Hog, and in all ages hog and bacon have been so near kindred that they are not to be separated" "Ay but", Sir Nicholas replied, "you and I cannot be kindred except you be hanged, for a hog is not bacon till it is well hanged".
    Apothegms (1625)
 

Comment: This charming Elizabethan joke may have had some oral circulation, especially in Sir Nicholas's lifetime. But is Shakspere, who was 14 when Sir Nicholas died in 1579, likely to have heard of it? There can be little doubt, as some Stratfordians recognise, that it prompted the lines by Evans and Mistress Quickly.

Parallel - Woman's body compared to countries

First Shake-Speare: 

From the Comedy of Errors [Dromio of Syracuse compares parts of Nell's body to countries]:
 1.1.124-5

Dromio S:   She is spherical like a globe. I could find countries in her . . .
Antipholus S: In what part of her body stands . . . Spain?
Dromio S:   Faith, I saw it not; but I felt it hot in her breath.

Now the Bacon quote: "There was given in evidence also, when the cause of the divorce was handled, a pleasant passage which was - that in a morning Prince Arthur; upon his uprising from bed with her [Katherine] called for drink, which he was not accustomed to; and finding the gentleman of his chamber that brought him the drink, to smile at it and note it, he said merrily to him that he had been in the midst of Spain, which was an hot region, and his journey had made him dry".
     History of Henry VII

Cockburn comment: Thus our authors both make a lascivious comparison of a hot woman with Spain. Dromio "saw it not" because it was her private parts. Note incidentally on the question of Bacon's personality his evident enjoyment of this story.