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THE

CRYPTOGRAPHY OF
SHAKESPEARE

PART ONE

BY

WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG

LOS ANGELES

HOWARD BOWEN

1712 Las Palmas Avenue

1922

12454.20.10

HARVARD COLLEGE

FEB 3 1923

LIBRARY

Harvard University Press. niversity

Copyright 1922
by

WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG

TO MY FATHER

ERRATA

Page 51, for "meanings" read "meaning".

Page 84, for "Theese" read "Theefe".
Page 95, for "tacituc" read "tacitus".

Page 226, for the entire passage dealing with the opening lines of
Romeo and Juliet substitute the following:

The opening lines of Romeo and Juliet, including the stage directions, read as follows:

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with Swords and Bucklers,
of the House of Capulet.
Sampson.

GRegory: A my word wee'l not carry coales.

No, for then we should be Colliars.

Consider in these lines the following acrostic letters:

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As the names of the speakers are rarely, if ever, included in the acrostic spelling, "Sampson" is to be disregarded. If regarded, it would make, with its acrostic "S", the reading: F. BACON'S. Now consider the following acrostic letters of the first two lines of the dialogue:

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GAMON is a variant of IAMON which will be considered in Part Two.

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