Who Really Wrote Shakespeare? Part 2

To continue with the "(Sir Francis) Bacon is Shakespeare" theory I started writing about last time, here is an interesting story:

Found among Bacon's papers after he died was a page containing the word:

                  
                  HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS

A Dr. Platt wrote that it was a Latin anagram saying:
                    HI LUDI, TUITI SIBI, FR. BACONO NATI
which means: "These plays, produced by Francis Bacon, guarded for themselves." Not so, said Sir Edwin Durning- Lawrence, the author of Bacon is Shakespeare. He said it meant: 
          HI LUDI F.BACONIS NATI TUTTI ORBIS
which means: "These plays, F. Bacon's offspring, are preserved for the world." Then Durning-Lawrence offered 100 guineas to anyone who had a better solution to the meaning of this long word used in Love's Labour's Lost.

The best answer came from a Mr. Beevor, from St. Albans (nr, London) who won the prize and said the correct meaning is:
          ABI INIVIT F. BACON HISTRIO LUDIT 
which is Latin for: "Be off, F. Bacon, the actor has entered and is playing." 

And, if that isn't enough for the Baconians (the supporters of 'Bacon is Shakespeare'), how about the following phrases which appear word for word in both Shakespeare's plays and Promus of Formularies and Elegancies by Francis Bacon:
                          
                          Good wine needs no bush.
                          Thought is free.
                          The world (runs) on wheels.
                          Make use of thy salt hours.

But that is not all. Jon Michell in Who Wrote Shakespeare quotes ten more examples which are almost the same, word for word.

Of course, this may be explained by the fact that when our William (and Francis) were busy scribbling, there were no copyright laws. This meant that authors and playwrights could (and did) happily steal their rivals' best lines and use them as their own.

Next time I will bring more about the 'Bacon is Shakespeare' question with 'proof' quoted in an article from the based on an 
article that appeared in the Chicago Tribune, 1916.

I would like to finish by thanking Michael Vinograd who pointed out a typo in my blog, Shakespeare was a Lousy Historian, Part 2. He pointed out that Henry V married Catherine in 1420 and not in 1520.

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