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There are a few proverbs not in the Promus that are in Shakespeare, but 

 these may be found in Bacon's letters and speeches. 



There are 240 foreign proverbs in the Promus and 151 of them are also in the 

 plays. It is hardly probable that Shakespeare had sufficient knowledge of French, 

 Italian and Spanish to enable him to introduce them alone and adopt sentiments 

 from them as if they were household words. 



The frequent occurrence in the plays of the wise saws of the ancients leads 

 to the conviction that they were not taken at first hand from the various classical 

 authors, but from the commentaries of Eraismus, and there are 225 of these Er > 

 mus notes in Shakespeare. And it is remarkable that they are not set down 

 the Promus in the order in which they occur in Erasmus, but are arranged a; 

 for a purpose. 



In the Promus occurs the adage, "To drive out a nail with a nail." T 

 adage is introduced in "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" and also in " Coi 

 lanus," and its setting in both pieces is so peculiar and Baconian as to be mc 

 remarkable. We see Bacon's strong tendency to use antithetical forms of speef^h 

 and metaphors founded upon his scientific researches, and in both cases appears 

 an original and erroneous scientific theory of Bacon's regarding heat. It is almost 

 past belief that any two men should, at precisely the same period, have conceived 

 the same theories and made the same mistakes. 



The few Latin proverbs which were favorites of Bacon, and often quoted by 

 him in letters and speeches (though not in the Promus) are all in Shakespeare. 



One of his favorites Bacon does not use later than 1600 ; nor does it appear 

 in any play of Shakespeare written after that time. Of 350 similes and metaphors 

 in Bacon, 300 are found in Shakespeare. 



In some of Bacon's letters, in which he discusses his writing by name, there 

 is allusion to another class of writings which he calls "Works of creation," with- 

 out describing them definitely. Sir Toby Matthew, to whom these letters were 

 written, wrote to Bacon: " The most prodigious wit that ever I knew is of your 

 name, though he be known by another." 



Perhaps this does not prove that Bacon and Shakespeare were identical, but 

 such evidence as it affords might suffice to hang a man if he were on trial for his 

 life. — Cor. N. Y. Sun. 



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