CRYPTOGRAPHY: The Biliteral Cipher Reveals the True Author of Shakespeare's Sonnets

[@tvfun32]

This research is illuminating and revealing. Learned something new. Thank You!

[@baconisshakespeare]

Hi Kate, This is another important and ground-breaking contribution to Bacon-Shakespeare scholarship and our understanding of the publication of ‘1609’ edition of the Sonnets. There is little doubt in my mind (which is in keeping with the wide consensus among Baconian and orthodox Shakespeare scholars) that following the dedications to Southampton (who resided with Bacon at Gray's Inn prior to this: i. e., from 1589 onwards) of Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594) that he is the Fair Youth in the Sonnets, which it is believed, were written over a period of some two decades. In the years leading up to the ill-advised Essex uprising (i.e., in the second half of the 1590s) the relationship between Bacon and Southampton began to cool. Following the uprising in February 1601 Essex was executed and Southampton (after his death sentence was commuted) was imprisoned in the Tower. On the accession of James I Southampton was released from prison. Buried away in Spedding’s seven-volume Letters and Life of Bacon is a virtually unknown letter from Bacon to Southampton where he pointedly says to him in direct reference to their previous close relationship ‘I may safely be now that which I was truly before’: It may please your Lordship, I would have been very glad to have presented my humble service to your Lordship by my attendance, if I could have foreseen that it should not have been unpleasing unto you. And therefore, because I would commit no error, I choose to write; assuring your Lordship (how credible soever it may seem to you at first) yet it is as true as a thing that God knoweth, that this great change hath wrought in me no other change towards your Lordship than this, that I may safely be now that which I was truly before. And so craving no other pardon than for troubling you with this letter, I do not now begin, but continue to be Your Lordships humble and much devoted. [Spedding, Letters and Life, III, pp. 75-6] It is not known whether Southampton replied to this letter and in light of his attitude towards Bacon following his fall from grace where Southampton was less than sympathetic and urged that strong measures should be taken against Bacon, we can assume they never rekindled their previous intimate relationship. During the period leading up to the 1609 publication of the Sonnets, and thereafter, Bacon began to have an increasingly close relationship with William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, who as you point out was Grand Master of England. It was during this tenureship that Bacon jointly dedicated to Pembroke the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio.

[@juliekemp419]

Most interesting to me; so good to have so sound rationale on this particular relationship. Thank you once again 'Bacon is Shakespeare' author and scholar. So so many gaps in my apprehension of dear Francis' grand life. All is connections, understanding and depth. All the anguish and disappointment and effort he had to contend with. Dear Man.

[@CyclesandTrends]

Please see the notes underneath the video for the previous parts to this video and links to websites mentioned. Thank you

[@stevenhershkowitz2265]

Never Before Imprinted is an anagram for Be In Print For M. E De Vere

[@CyclesandTrends]

Thanks for watching and for your comment, Steven. That may well be, but realistically in what era did anyone ever speak like that ‘Be in print for...’? The codes when they left them were not convoluted but clear. The cover more likely says Shakespeares Sonnets Never Before Imprinted because that is 12 letters, 7 letters and 20 which = 39 (again!) - as I say in my video you will find 39 is encoded in the dedication too, and it is Simple Cipher for F Bacon. See www.fbrt.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Baconian-Rosicrucian_Ciphers.pdf