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Fun with Baconian Ciphers
Part 6
3) Our next
candidate is from The Tragedie of King Lear. It’s discussed in Secret
Shakespearean Seals mentioned earlier. You can follow along and check at
this facsimile:
The first
thing we’ll note is that this occurs on page 287 of the Tragedies.
(Note: no cipher candidate has been noticed on page 287 of the Comedies. And
there is no page 287 in the Histories). What we see on this page is the
apparent name Sir Francis Bacon represented as
“Sir
France is bee Con”
in a kind of anagram-acrostic made up of
syllables. There is a pattern to each syllable making up this “name”. Not
counting the last word on the page “Sir,” the other syllables are each in a
line than begins with the Italicized name of a character and the remainder of
each of these four lines goes all the way to the right margin. In addition,
each of these four full lines has a total of 33 letters when excluding the
“name syllables” of “France’, ‘is’, ‘bee’, and ‘Con’. No other of the 13 lines
like these in this second column, or of the 5 lines like these in the first
column, have 33 letters in them whether or not the last word is excluded in the
letter count.
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