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Baconiana— Parallels between Shakespeare and Bacon- The Rodcrucian Character of the Stratford Monument— The supposed Violation of Lord Bacon's Oraye, relatedby Fuller— Further Parallels— The Induc- tion (Taming of the Mretr)— Sly, a Portrait of Shakespeare — Lord Bacon's coat-of-arms — Strange after-title of ''Valerius Terminus" — Antinomies in Bacon's Philosophy — ^Valerius Terminus — Summary of Shakespeare's Life — Bacon's Deatii — His Character — Further Parallels — His Monumental Inscription ...... 240