| Chapter 16 Addendum Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? After all, fiction has to make sense. --Mark Twain In this Addendum I hope to interest recruits, those that can endure cryptographic drudgery merely for the hope of discovery, for the chancy promise of a moment of fleeting intellectual delight. I expect them to be rewarded because there are few things that I have kept in reserve. For this purpose I have provided the code for a computer program written in Microsoft GWBASIC. But a computer is not absolutely necessary. One may cut up long strips of paper with two identical, twenty-one letter alphabets typewritten vertically, in series, on each one. Sliding them along beside one another is surely a way that the composers of caesar cryptograms produced their own ciphers 400 or more years ago. Sophisticated slide devices like this were recently in use in cryptographic parlors until computers displaced them. Unfortunately, a modern bedsidecopy of the plays or poems won't do for this work and the cost of an original forbids. For research, only a facsimile reprint of Shakespeare's publications will be of service. The spelling and even the phrasing of current editions has been corrected to suit modern editors: for example, the first word of dialogue in a recent copy of the First Folio is not "Bote-swaine" but "Bosun". The editors have done their readers many favors in rewording the allusions, modernizing the spelling and even in lifting whole passages from earlier versions of the plays and substituting them for others that were shown in the First Folio. The motives for these corrections are laudable because they were intended to improve the understanding and interest of students. However, only true reproductions of the originals are suitable for the uses of cryptology. Only sixteen (quarto editions) of the thirty-six plays assembled in the 1623 First Folio had previously been printed. There have been several facsimile reprints of the Folio published in the last hundred years and copies are likely to be located in a university or public library; other such editions include the poems and quarto versions of the plays. The most recent and widely distributed facsimile publication of the First Folio is one done by the Yale University Press from their copy (London: Goeffrey cumberlege, Oxford University Press, first edition of 1954, with subsequent printings in 1954 and 1955). The title is the same as the original. There are at least two earlier facsimiles. The best source for photo or xerographic copies, in the United States, of pages of the originals and of other 16th and 17th century material in printed or manuscript form, is the Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East capitol St. S.E., Washington, D. c. 20003 (202-544-4600). The library is administered by the Trustees of Amherst college. Requests are answered quickly and their charges are reasonable. The same is true of The Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, cA 91108 (818-405-2100). In England the most complete collections of Elizabethan and Jacobean books are to be found in the British Library, Reference Division, Photographic Service, Great Russell St., London WC1B 3DG. There are at least three concordances to Shakespeare's works that have been produced. These are lists of all of the words the author employed, arranged in alphabetical order with a quotation of the line or sentence in which each of them occur; a citation is given for the name of the play, the act, the scene and the line number. The editors and publishers have agreed to a standard notation for their references. They have left the Acts alone (there are almost always five), but they have altered the Scenes so that often there are more scenes than the playwright labeled or planned on. This sometimes affects the line numbers as compared to counting them in the original. But a convention has been adopted and is used in the more recent references, as: W. Tale, iv, 4, 402 . This translates to "The Winters Tale, Act 4, Scene 4 at line 402 following the first line in that Act and Scene". Or perhaps L.L.L. v, 2, 552 . Still, only modern editions of the plays show where the newly defined Scenes begin. And Sonnet echoes should not be ignored; these are cited as: 1, 1, indicating Sonnet number 1, line number 1. A compiled version of my cryptographic program on a 3 1/2" disk is available from the author for $10.00, and it is in the public domain. The follwing is a list of 267 versions of Bacon's name found in the 1623 Folio edition of the plays, the "apocryphal" plays printed in the 1664 Folio, and in the Poems. Using the program, the initial capital letters of each line of verse may be entered. Modern editions of the Works usually follow the same capitalization of the first letter of each line. Most "p." references are to pages in the Yale University 1954 facsimile of the 1623 First Folio (act, scene, line). SHAKESPEARE - BACON CIPHER LOCATIONS List of Initial capital letters only. KEY CAPS = Initial Capital Letters. ** = Alternate 1st Capital Letters. *** = every 3rd 1st Capital Letter **** = every 4th 1st Capital Letter ***** = every 5th 1st Capital Letter ****** = every 6th 1st Capital Letter ******* =every 7th 1st Capital Letter [ = overlapping $$ = open text "cipher" or "decipher" nearby. + = no. of lines following. Quarto = Shakespeare quarto edition Other references are to various Shakespeare facsimiles. "To the memory" Poem ("Front matter" pages preceding the plays) BECEAN 1st 11 caps {**CAPS} ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL FRBEEKEEIN 1,1,245 {*****CAPS} But my intents are fixt, and + 50 FRBBACEN 2,1,88 p.235 {******CAPS} Bring in the Admiration, that we + 42 BECEN 2,3,130 p.238 {***CAPS} The propertie by what + 12 BACEN 2,4,50 p.240 {**CAPS} Par That you will take your + 8 ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA FBEKEAN 1,3,86 p.833 {**CAPS} Ile leave you Lady. + 18 BECQYN 2,5,31 p.838 {CAPS} Ile set thee in a shower of + 5 BECKAN 2,6,59 p.839 {****CAPS} Ant That will I Pompey + 21 BECQQAN 3,13,79 p.847 {CAPS} To heare from me you had + 6 BYKEN 4,7,8 p.850 {**CAPS} Ant They do retyre. + 8 BECEN 5,2,8 p.855 {**CAPS} The beggers Nurse, and Caesars + 9 AS YOU LIKE IT BECAYN Cel. I did not then intreat + 28 BACAN 3,2,103 p.195 {CAPS} If the cat will after kinde + 4 BAKEAN 3,5,57 p.199 {*******CAPS} Then any of her lineaments + 41 COMEDY OF ERRORS FBICAN 1,1,1 p.85 {**CAPS} Proceed Solinus to procure + 13 BECEN 4,1,32 p.93 {*****CAPS} I pray you see him + 22 [BECON [5,1,114 p.97 {******CAPS} [To separate the husband and the + 24 [BYCEN [5,1,135 p.97 {***CAPS} [It cannot be that she hath done + 12 BEQEN 5,1,312 p.99 {**CAPS} Though now this grained face of + 8 BACIN $$5,1,336 p.99 {**CAPS} S. Dromio I sir am Dromio + 9 CORIOLANUS BEEKEN 1,4,26 p.603 {****CAPS} Lar Their noise be our + 20 BOCEN 2,1,209 p. 607 {**CAPS} But with them, change of Honors +10 BECAN 2,3,222 p.611 {*****CAPS} Their Liberty, make them of no + 20 BACEN 4,6,114 p.622 {****CAPS} Brut But is this true sir? + 18 BICEN 4,7,4 p.623 {**CAPS} Their talke at Table, and + 8 CYMBELINE BACEEN 1,1,113 p.860 {CAPS} The loathnesse to depart + 15 FRBECENS 1,1,144 p.860 {**CAPS} It is your fault that I + 10 BECEN 1,6,141 p.865 {**CAPS} I dedicate my selfe to your + 8 BACQEAN 2,4,76 p.869 {**CAPS} In Workemanship, and Value + 10 BECEN 3,5,87 p.875 {****CAPS} I will not aske againe. + 18 BEQEN 4,2,69 p.877 {CAPS} I haue heard of such. What + 4 BAKEN 4,2,388 p.880 {*****CAPS} Ile hide my Master from the + 20 BYQEN 5,5,424 p.888 {****CAPS} Ioy'd are we, that you are. + 22 BEKIN 5,5,487 p.889 {****CAPS} + FINIS Th'Imperiall Caesar, should + 12 HAMLET BEKEEEN 1,2,86 p.744 {CAPS} In obstinate Condolement, is + 18 BECEN 1,4,54 p.747 {CAPS} That beetles o're his base into + 4 BEECEN 1,5,205 p.749 {***CAPS} Then your particular demands + 14 BYQEN 2,1,112 p.750 {*****CAPS} I am sorrie that with better + 25 BECCEN 3,1,30 p.755 {CAPS} That he as 'twere by accident + 5 FBECEN 3,1,84 p.755 {CAPS} Is sicklied o're with the pale + 4 [BECEIN [3,2,64 p.757 {*****CAPS} [To feed & cloath thee. Why + 29 [BEKEEN [3,2,88 p.757 {CAPS} [It is a damned Ghost that + 4 BECEN 3,3,92 1604 Quarto {***CAPS} That has no relish of salvation + 12 BECIN 3,4,49 1604 Quarto {CAPS} The heyday in the blood + 4 BECEN 3,4,210 p.762 {***CAPS} These profound heaues + 13 BACAN 4,3,83 p.763 {CAPS} Qu. I will not speake with + 4 BYKYN 4,7,4 p.765 {****CAPS} That he which hath your Noble + 16 BACAN 4,7,36 1604 Quarto {****CAPS} I loved your father and we love + 33 BECAN 4,7,80 1604 Quarton {****CAPS} Then setled age, his fables + 23 [BEACENS [4,7,127 p.766 {*****CAPS} [The Frenchman gaue you, +28 [BAECEN [4,7,143 p.766 {****CAPS} [It may be death. + 20 [BAECEN [4,7,167 p.766 {****CAPS} [There on the pendant boughes + 16 BAACCEN 5,2,138 p.769 {****CAPS} Hor. I, good my Lord. + 24 HENRY IV, PT.1 BACEN 1,1,79 p.350 {**CAPS} In enuy, that my lord + 8 BAKEN That I will by tomorrow + 4 [BEEQEN [3,1,71 p.362 {*****CAPS} [Mort The Arch-Deacon hath + 25 [BECKEN [3,1,78 p.362 {*****CAPS} [The remnant Northward, lying + 25 BEECAN 3,1,144 p.363 {***CAPS} Ile haste the Writer; and + 16 BECCAN 3,1,176 p.363 {***CAPS} In strange concealments: + 15 BACEN 5,2,5 p.372 {***CAPS} The King would keepe his word + 13 |
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