516-167-349-22 b & h=327-30-297-49 (74:2)— 248 516-167-349-22b & h-327-30-297-193-104— 244 74:1 hole 516-167-349-22 b & h=327-50-277-145 (76:2)- 132 516-167-349-22 b & h=327-30-297-193-104. 508-104-404-5-405. 516-167-349-22 b & h-327-30-297-50-247145-102. 498-102-396+1=397. 516-167-349-22 b & h=327-30-297-193-104 397 76:1 follow -15 b & h=89. 284-89-195+1-196+6 h= 202 516-167-349-22 b & h=327-50-277-145 (76:2) 577-152-425+1=426+17 b & h=443. 516-167-349—22 b & h=327-50-277-50 (76:1)= 227 516-167-349-22 b & h=327-50-277-145 (76:2) 443 Here are fifty-six more words, growing out of the same root-number: 516-167 -349-22 b & h=327, modified by 30 or 50, which gave us whole pages of narrative in the last chapter. We will see hereafter that we advance in order, from the more complex to the more simple; that is, the above root-number 327, obtained by counting in the 22 bracketed and hyphenated words in the second subdivision of column 2 of page 74, is followed by 516-167-349, where we leave out of the count the 22 bracketed and hyphenated words. And this is cunningly contrived, because one trying to unravel the Cipher would first undertake the more simple and obvious forms, and would scarcely think of obtaining a root-number by counting in the bracketed and hyphenated words in the second subdivision of column 2 of page 74, or any similar subdivision. The brother" here referred to was Shakspere's brother Gilbert, born in 1566, two years after Shakspere's birth. If Shakspere came to London in 1587, Gilbert was then twenty-one years of age. Very little is known of him. Halliwell-Phillipps thinks he was in later life a haberdasher in London.' But as his name does not occur in the subsidy lists of the period, it is not unlikely that he was either a partner with, or assistant to, some other tradesman of the same occupation. The fact that he is found in London accords with the intimation in the Cipher narrative, that he came there with his brother, and probably was at first also a hanger-on about the play-houses. The reader will here observe how the words glove making grow out of the same root-number; one being 327 minus 30, the other 327 minus 50. Observe also how the terminal number 104 produces is, the, son, of, followed, glove, in, he, and, themselves, and that; while 277 gives us he, a, yet, the, of, making, was, the, rumors that, both, Will, his, did, trade, for, time, and before. If there is no Cipher here, how could glove and making and all these other words grow out of 327 modified by 50 and 30? E CHAPTER XI. SHAKSPERE WOUNDED. This morning, like the spirit of a youth Antony and Cleopatra, iv, 2. VERY Cipher word in this chapter is the 338th word from the same points of departure as in the previous chapters. I gave in Chapter VI., page 694 ante, something of the story of Shakspere's youth, and yet but a fragment of it. I am of the opinion that it runs out, with the utmost detail and particularity, on the line of the root-number 338 [505-167 (74:2)=338] to the end of 2d Henry IV., and, possibly, to the beginning of 1st Henry IV. I gave in Chapter IV. the statement that Shakspere— Goes one day and with ten of his followers did lift the water-gate of the jish pond off the hinges, and turns all the water out from the pond, froze all the fish, and girdles the orchard. And also: They drew their weapons and fought a bloody fight, never stopping even to breathe. And further, that when he ran away from home — He left his poor young jade big with child. Now between the description of the destruction of the fish-pond and the account of the fight there comes in another fragment of the story. The narrative seems to be a confession, made by Field. Hence its particularity. It is believed that Richard Field, the printer, was a Stratford man. In 1592 Shakspere's father, with two others, was appointed to value the goods of "Henry Feelde, of Stratford, tanner," supposed to have been the father of Richard Field the printer." Halliwell-Phillipps asserts positively that he was his father.' Richard Field was also, as I have shown, the first printer of Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. - Collier's English Dramatic Poetry, iii, 439. 2 Outlines, p. 69. 505-167-338-248-90-24 b & h (248)=66—5 b— 61 505-167-338-49 (74:2)—289. 498-289-209+1 214 505-167-338-50 (76:1)-288. 498-288-210+1= 211 505-167-338. 498-338-160+1—161+10 b & h= 171 505-167-338-50-288-146 (76:2)—142—3 b (146)— 139 The reader will observe that every word of this sentence is derived from the same root-number (505—167—338), and he will also note how often the terminal root-number, 54, is used. Then follows the description of the "bloody fight" given in Chapter VI. The story of Shakspere's deer-killing is found in the latter part of 1st Henry IV. We take the same root-number, 505-167-338, and, commencing on the first column of page 73 (part of “The Heart of the Mystery'), we find that, by intermingling the terminal fragments of the second scene of 2d Henry IV. with the terminal fragments of the last scene of 2d Henry IV., we get these words: 314 505-167-338-50-288-142 (73:1)—146—1 h (142) -145+170-315-1 h col.=314. 505-167-338-50-288-49 (76:1)-239-90 (73:1) 149 505-167-338-50-288-169 (73:1)-119—1 1⁄2 (169)= 118 505-167-338-50-288-142 (73:1)=146—1 h (142)— 145 72:2 As I have before noted, Jack had probably in that day the sound of shack, for the word, being derived from the French, retained the sh or zh sound. We find this given by Webster to Jacquerie. The word Jack will be found repeatedly used, in the Cipher, for the first syllable of the name of Shakspere. It will be noted in this example that out of seven words all are derived from 338—50—288, ́except one, which is 338-30; two are derived from 288-169-119; two from 288-49 (76:1)=239, and two are derived from 288-142-146. This recurrence of terminal root-numbers is very significant. I would explain that 142 is the number of words from the end of the first subdivision of 73:1 to the bottom of the column; and 79 and 90 are, of course, the two other principal subdivisions of that column. And the reader will observe that to obtain 338-169 we have deducted the number of words from the top of the first subdivision of 73:1 down the column; while when we have 338-142 we have the number of words from the bottom of that same subdivision down the same column. It will thus be seen that there is a relation and an order in the formation of the sentence; that it moves from the two ends of the same subdivision. It seems that Shakspere and "our party" had killed a deer, made a fire and had the body "half eaten:" If the reader will count down from the top of 74:1 he will find the word eaten cunningly hidden in the middle of the hyphenated word worm-caten-hole. 505-167-338-30-308-198-110. 110 75:1 He found 505-167-338-30-308-141 (73:1)=167. 170 167-3+1-4. 4 72:2 it 505-167-338-193-145+346 (72:2)-491-1 h col.- 490 Let the reader consider for an instant how different are the words that are here the 338th from certain clearly established points of departure, as compared with the words produced by 523-167-356; or as compared with those which came out from 505 and 523 minus the subdivisions of 75:1. Compare: Shakspere had |