Is It Shakespeare the Great Question of Elizabethan Literature Answered in the
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" At the time, coming as it did vivd voce from such an authority, it appeared to me very convincing, and for a moment or two I seemed to feel certain that whatever Bacon wrote, he did not write the humours of Sir John Falstaff. Even still I often feel inclined to credit the Stratford man with some of the incidents and characters in the Falstaff plays. But the great critic's casual remark was not so strong as it sounds ; for, allow- ing the assertion to be accurate, there still remains plenty of... evidence that Bacon was a natural humorist, and very fond of indulging his vein. Ben Jonson, best of con- temporary witnesses, declared : " His (Francis Bacon's) language, when he could spare, or pass by, a jest, was hotly censorious ; " and Dr. Abbott, one of the best of Bacon's modern biographers, said : " If Francis owed his energy 128 SHAKESPEARIANS IN THE WITNESS-BOX to his mother, he was probably indebted to his father for his placid self-control and his rich humour. '''' Such re- marks discount considerably the value of the statement that, for the moment, rather nonplussed me.
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