Chapter IX

OTHER PRIVATE SEALS
BrigM's Treatise of Melancholy, 1586 (Vantrollier's Edition)
Title-page. 12th, 13th, and 14th hnes, 66 letters. Last two lines of last page contain 33 letters. Faults escaped. 2nd line of italic, 33 letters. Lines (with words) on the page, 33 letters.
Same, 1586 (Windet's Edition)
Title-page. 14th, 15th, and 16th lines contain 33 letters.
Last line of the Epistle :
18
23
20
5
Roman letters The date The year 1586 Five italic words
66
Last two lines of last page. Letters, 33.
Same (1613 Edition)
Title-page. The four lines immediately above the name of Author, Letters, 66.
Last hne of title-page. Data 1613, if added as 16 + 13 = 29 + 4 words = 33.
Last page of Epistle. First three lines, letters 66.
Last page. 32 roman and 1 italic word, 33.
Bacon's Advancement of Learning, 1605
Title-page. Last Hne but one. Small roman letters, 33, Last two pages. Small italic letters, 33.
Spenser's Faerie Queene, 1611
Title-page. Counting " Arch-poet " as 2, there are 33 words.
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EEVELATIONS OF EOSICRUCIAN ARCANA 61
The line " Edw. Spenser," and the one above, contain together 33 roman letters.
The two last lines (printer's footnote) contain 33 roman and italic letters.
Page 1. Last Kne of the completed Canto, 33 roman letters.
The last page has the date 16012, the being of smaller size. This may indicate that a cipher of some kind has been placed in the book. Printer's footnote contains 33 roman and italic letters.
Page with the verse to the Countess of Pembroke. Last page of all contains :
Roman words . . . . . . . . . . 113
Less italic words . . . . . . . . . . 2
111
Ben Jonson's Works, 1616
Ben Jonson in his Dedication states that a certain " happy genius " had collaborated in " Sejanus." In his verse to Bacon, on the latter's sixtieth birthday, Jonson writes:
" Hail, happy genius of this ancient pile."
The biUteral decipher claims " Sejanus " to have been written by Bacon, and that it contains in it the rules for working Bacon's word-cipher.
Title-page. The two lines above the Author's name contain 23 letters, and the date 1603, added as 10, makes 33.
There are 76 italic letters on the page. " Deduct the 10 in 1603 = 66.
The Letter to Aubigny on next page contains 111 roman and italic words, omitting those in brackets.
In the Argument there are 60 italic words in brackets, the only roman word bracketed is " Senate," containing 6 letters. Total 66.
In the last two lines of the names of the Actors there are 33 letters.
Last page of book (1015). The last two Unes have 68 small roman letters. Deduct the 2 roman words in large type = 66.
Bacon's Advancement of Learning, 1640 On one side of the book in the Portrait Frontispiece there are:
Fancy letters . . . . . • • • . . 10
On the other side . . . . ■ . • • . . 20 Two books at the figures side are marked on their leaves as
I and II 3
33