Bacon and Shakespeare
Shakespeare! whoever thou mayst prove to be,
God save the Bacon that men find in thee!
If that philosopher, though bright and wise,
Those lofty labors did in truth devise
Then it must follow, as the night the day,
That “Hamlet,” “Lear,” “Macbeth” and each great play
That certifies nobility of mind,
Was written by the “meanest of mankind.”