Baconian Facts

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Excerpt from Baconian Facts: An Epilogue to the Farce of "Bacon Vs. Shakespeare"Shakespeare could have acquired no knowledge of French, Span ish and Italian, since their attainment was not an extraordinary accomplishment, and what was easily possible to other men could not have been impossible to him.It is not, however, Shakespeare's presumed knowledge of any language, but his actual, incomparable mastery of his native English that induces wonder and compels admiration. In his time English was untaught, was despised by those who sought fame and immortality, and by no one more despised than by Francis Bacon. He would not trust his works to its custody, he thought it would not endure, he said it would play the bankrupt with books and he had his works carefully translated into Latin, the universal language, because as I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.