Chapter II: Part I

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Personal--Mrs. Elizabeth Wells Gallup 1

Explanatory Introduction First Edition 5

Preface, Second Edition 15

Argument 18

Notes on the Shakespeare Plays 28

Stenography in the time of Queen Elizabeth 35

Francis Bacon, Biographical 39

Ciphers 47

Cyphars in Advancement of Learning, 1605 51

Cyphars in De Augmentis 52

Bi-literal Cipher Plan and Illustration 53

Fac-simile pages from De Augmentis, 1624 57

Fac-simile pages from Novum Organum, 1620 63

Fac-simile title page Vitae et Mortis 67

Shakespeare Plays--Fac-simile Quarto Title Pages 69

Publisher’s Note 76

BI-LITERAL CYPHER.

DECIPHERED SECRET STORY. 1579 to 1590.

Shepheard’s Calender 1579 Anonymous 79

The Araygnement of Paris 1584 George Peele 80

The Mirrour of Modestie 1584 Robert Greene 82

Planetomachia 1585 Robert Greene 87

A Treatise of Melancholy 1586 T. Bright 89

Euphues-Morando 1587 Robert Greene 91

Perimedes-Pandosto 1588 Robert Greene 93

Spanish Masquerado 1589 Robert Greene 94