"The marvelous accuracy, the real, substantial learning, of the three Roman plays of Shakespeare present the most complete evidence to our minds that they were the result of a profound study of the whole range of Roman history, including the nicer details of Roman manners, not in those days to be acquired in a compendious form, but to be brought out by diligent reading alone."
- Knight
To King James: "The good [of my works], if any be, is due Tanquam, adeps sacrificii" [as the fat of the sacrifice" to be incensed to the honour, first of the divine Majesty, and next of your Majesty."
- in Bacon's De Augmentis 1623. Previously said in Proficience and Advancement of Learning (1605)."
"Part of thy works truly lie buried." - - Robert Ashley
"The jewel most precious of letters concealed". --R.C. of Trinity
"So did Philosophy, involved in scholars riddles, call Bacon to her rescue; so by his touch entranced, she reard her crest: and as she crept along the ground in comic sock, he did not succor her with some device that gossips would approve, but made her wholly new. The with more polished art, he rose in higher buskin, and the Stagerite, another Virbius, lives again in a new Organon.
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