Parallel - Hail and Pearls

First, Shake-Speare:

"I'll set thee in a shower of gold, and hail
Rich pearls upon thee".
  Anthony and Cleopatra 2.5.45-6

Now, Bacon: "Such difference as is between the melting hailstone and the solid pearl".
   Essex Device (1595)

Comment:  "Hail" collocated with "pearl" by both authors.

Parallels on Infinite and Compounded

First Shake-Speare:

"The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent
any thing that intends to laughter more than I invent, or is invented on me;"
  2 Henry IV 1.2.5-6

"What a piece of work is man...how infinite in faculties...the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals"
  Hamlet 2.2.303-7

  "Nor custom stale
Her infinite variety"
  Anthony and Cleopatra  2.2.235-6

Now Bacon:
"Infinite variety of behaviour and manners of men"
  Letter to Earl of Rutland

"Of all substances which nature hath produced, man's body is the most extremely compounded...[7 lines later]

Man in his mansion, sleep, exercise, passions, hath infinite variations; and it cannot be denied but that the body of man of all other things is the most compounded mass. The soul on the other side is the simplest of substances."
  The Advancement of Learning

"In the mass and composition of which man was made, particles taken from the different animals were infused and mixed up with the clay; for it is most true that of all things in the universe man is the most  composite."
  The Wisdom of the Ancients 

"The souls of the living are the delight of the world."
   The Wisdom of the Ancients

Comment: "Our two authors' descriptions are strikingly similar. Compare "infinite variety" / "infinite variety" & "infinite variations"; "beauty of the world" / "delight of the world"; and "compounded" / "compounded". Why does Falstaff say "This foolish-compounded clay, man"?. He could have said simply "This foolish clay, man". Bible passages describe Man as clay, but not as compounded. But Shake-Speare probably introduced "compounded" to vent Bacon's view that of all substances Man's body is the most compounded. (As Bacon in the Advancement of Learning uses "compounded mass" of Man, so Shake-Speare in Hamlet 3.4.49 uses "compounded mass" of Earth.)

Parallel - Ashes of Chance and Fortune

First, Shake-Speare

from Anthony And Cleopatra 5.2.172-3

"Or shall I show the cinders of my spirits
Through the ashes of my chance"?

Now Bacon:

"Beneath the ashes of my fortune the sparks of love shall ever remain alive".
   Letter to Count Gondomar (in Latin)

"The sparks of my affection shall ever rest quick under the ashes of my fortune, to do you service".
   Letter to Lord Falkland

"While I live, my affection to do your Lordship service shall remain quick under the ashes of my fortune."
   Letter to Lord Digby

"I hope I am rather embers than dead ashes, having the heat of good affections under the ashes of my fortune".
   Notes for interview with King James

Note: Fire under ashes was a familiar poetical conceit. But no parallel has been cited for the metaphor of fire etc under "ashes of fortune" or "ashes of chance". Shake-Speare uses "chance" rather than Bacon's "fortune" because the metre required a monosyllable. Some scholars amend "spirits" to "spirit" - they evidently do not know Bacon's theory of "spirits". I.M. Ingleby amended "chance" to "glance". He and the rest evidently did not know the Bacon parallels just quoted. All the Bacon texts were in 1622. Likewise it was chronologically impossible for Bacon to have borrowed from Anthony And Cleopatra which was not published till 1623.