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WIGSTOW Discoveries in the Bacon Problem



DISCOVERIES IN

THE BACON PROBLEM

W.

F.

C.

WIGSTON,

AUTHOR OF "BACON, SHAKESPEARE, AND THE ROSICEUCIANS " "HERMES STELLA; "FRANCIS BACON, THE COLUMBUS OF LITERATURE." ;

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PREFACE. In publishing

who

am

pamphlet,

this little

it is

modern

for the

labours,

my

useless

him.

my

literary thief, having robbed

man

Indeed, I

stolen property,

an author of

his

at liberty to blow out his victim's brains with the

is

weapon he has

It is a peculiarity of the

stolen. it

of private enemies,

and the

This

is

Bacon-Shake-

affords endless opportunities for the malice

to extinguish a writer

writings.

in the position of a

trying to recover

speare problem that

is

am

who have robbed

in pursuit of thieves

is

told

I

latest

by means

form

of literary persecution

of his

own

discoveries

and

very easily effected by unscrupulous persons,

who, oblivious of the rights of private property, would pluck out even the heart of Hamlet's mystery by prying into his port-

manteau or papers. judgment, whether

I

To

lovers

of fair-play I

have been robbed

must leave the

of the discoveries

which

form the argument of the following chapters, and which, by

word time

of 1

mouth, have been handed about London some lay claim to these discoveries,

I

whence they came from. by means of

his

own

It

labours.

process for the sufferer, but

own work knowing

after all?

are

all

one.

it

is

very easy to cut a

It

may

not,

of

man

out

be a very pleasant

can be borne, for

The truth

little

and everybody knows

being and

is

it

not his

the truth of



—

CHAPTER AND EUPOLIS

POLLIO

The

who speak

persons

IN BACON'S

"HOLY WAR."

"Holy War," which

in Bacon's

cast

is

form of a dialogue, are Eusebius, Gamaliel, Zebedseus,

in the

Bacon opens the piece thus

Martius, Eupolis, Pollio.

met

I.

House

at Paris (in the

Gamaliel, Martius

of Eupolis) Eusebius,

was

Eupolis himself

dispositions.

Zebedaeus,

persons of eminent quality, but of several

all

;

" There

:

And

also present.

while

they were set in conference, Pollio came into them from court.

And

as soon

manner he

as

said

" Pollio.

he

Here be four

good world

;

for

you are

yet you are friends.

and without

after his witty

of you, I think

may be

If Ave five (Pollio)

the Little."

(Bacon's

the

house of Eupolis. of Pollio,

In the

The next

who opens

from court and

as a

wit.

is

fifth essence.

first is

first

and

temperate,

make the great world, "Holy War," 1G22).

(throughout the entire writing)

and Eupolis.

were able to make a

for Eupolis, because he

In examining this dialogue, the

Pollio

and pleasant

as differing as the four elements,

As

passion, he

"Eupolis.

may make

saw them,

:

alone,

thing thai strikes one

prominence given to

the

place the meeting

point to notice

the dialogue and

you

is

is

is

in

the

the importance

described as coming

Hut, in the description of

Pollio, as

the

Little World, or Microcosm, of which Eour others are described as

the Great World, or Macrocosm, left out,

and Pollio playing

as

remarkable

to

find

it

is

it.

were a representative

himself.

A

Eupolis part, in


POLLIO A VD

have already pointed out

l

drnn

who was born

right

fond of bringing

pancratiasl

the

Demopseetus,

Uhen.

216

\.

hanes

.1

name."

comic

D.).

Eupolis, ch.

i

anonymously

-

\

a

a Comic

oi

or under

he ridiculed the

-

Eupolis

Baid i"

is

have

piece under the name of Demostratus, probably

tlii-

-.inn' as

lii-

work wa

last

name

Like Pollio, he seems

his pieces

In

thai

of

my

in

146.

B.C.

<>ut

••

;it

'//.s

Eupolis was the

known.

roll

i

handsome

EC/Pi

\

sect,

i.

Nubes, accuses Eupolis

his

pying his Maricas from the Equites, which bad before

its

(v.

i.)

the parabasis "t

in

mentioned by Suidas

]><»-\

Donaldson's "Theatre of the

I

n repre

1

:

.

.

.

a,

:

name,

i

An

— (Nubes, Eupolis was a Comic playwright nearly of the same

tophanes.

The

titles of

more than

been collected by Meursius. of bis •i

for

was

U<-

day and

unity

t

Es

Shakespeare by parallel, or

play, called

drama,

in

-

y.u.-j.-

-•

Elerodian

as Aris-

Eupolis introduced by

for

Eupolis

himself?

which

.

<m

Eustathius

Iliad,

ii.

is

was, according 297),

p.

which the Helots, as chorus, dressed up

(Athenaeus,

iv. p. 1!

The student

will

I

honour

in

notice the date

\

.'•.

.

.iii.

of

t}»-

10: Hor.

1

ii.

like

Satyrs

Collected Edition

Pollio

79: Sat.

i.

t Horace, " K

iii

hi.L'li

terms.

10-12: Charis.

i.

tae," i

name

to

satirical

"Holy War" I'ii-t

i

Cam.

a

of Bacchus.

oi

1622 and the next year 1623, the *

<'

Comedies have

ecause as Comedist, Athenaeus ascribes to him a

intei

is

r

;i,u

bold and severe satirist

a

city.

of his

i

to liav<- brought

of Apollcclorus.

— (Athen.

v.

f

216

D.).

hia plays on

the stage in

tin-


—

IN BACON'S "HOLY WAR."

3

of the Plays are published, whilst

we hear

Kosicrucians in Paris this year.

Seeing the Folio Plays must

have taken a long time to

we may

inasmuch as he

a

synonym

meeting of the

fairly

adjudge 1622

Pollio answers to Bacon,

press.

a Courtier and wit.

is

be noted Eupolis

It is to is

print,

were in the

as the year they

of a

is

termed the

for the quintessence, that

the

sum

abstract of the best of the four other characters.

that by the introduction of two

Tragic and Comic Poet,

For Eupolis calls

him

we have

and

total

It strikes

me

names which were borne by a a hint for two concealed poets.

see Fabricius (Bib. Graec,

" iratum "

which

fifth essence,

is

ii.

p.

Persius

445, Harb.).

:

Audaci quicunque adflate Cratino, Iratum Eupolidem praegrandi cum sene pallcs, &c. —(Persius,

Quintilian classes

i.

123).

him with Aristophanes and Cratinas "Plures :

ejus auctores, Aristophanes tamen, et Eupolis, Cratinusque prae-

In the Mapixag he attacked Hyperbolus, in the

cipui (x. 88.).

an Athenian so named, in the Affrpdnura Melanthius.

A-Jro'Auy.og,

In the

Ba-T<xi

countrymen.

he inveighed against the effeminacy of

In his AaxsdaiiMvsg he assailed Cimon,

him of an unpatriotic

his

accusing

bias towards everything Spartan.

His

death was generally ascribed to the vengeance of Alcibiades.

By

his orders he

the Athenian this story

;

shown that

was thrown overboard during the passage of

armament

But Cicero

to Sicily, B.C. 415.

several comedies were

is

a parallel for the plays, for

plays appeared in

Shakespeare),

102.'$,

in

the

which had never

had

composed by Eupolis some

time after the date assigned to this pseudo-death. point there

refutes

since Fratosthenes, the Alexandrian Librarian,

first

been

it

In

this

shown (known as

has been

folio edition

published before, and

comparison between the latest quartos and

the

emendations and enlargements.

said

Eupolis

it is

folios

show

was divert-

ing in his mirth and ingenious in covert insinuation and double


AND EUPOZJS

POLL/0

iramatic Art and

•• I

onlj

Id

found thinker

will

when he began how greatly

observe ilia

belonged to

Lit."),

[e

discovery

this

wan

(thai

and

dramatic

celebrated

a

I

The pro

to exhibit

trengthens the case of Pollio, being introduced as

mi•

Bacon's

iii

"Holy War"

writei

1

dies.

names are introduced. and

left

for Asinius

For Pollio evidently wrote

dramatic authorship a matter

bis

known only

few friends

to a

pregnanl

a

is

ailed

was yet

His history nt

appeared

that

really

is

Palestine

'

in

ages of the Church.

Eusebius lived during

saw him when journeying

first

the suite

first

that

is,

le

and

R< se

this

given

motto we by

of

Augustus.

Diocletian

rid

'

Freemasons that elected

7

inscribed

re-find

Rosicrucian

the It

Anus.

did

he

as

morning sun.

its

In

Holy War," Bacon introduces Constantino's motto, "In .

pentai

the

in

to the point

time of Constantine, and

through

writing

history,

undoubtedly the most interesting and mosl mi-

is

work

But what

matter of the entire

the freshness of

in

in this

For Eusebius has been justly

the father of ecclesiastical

whilst Christianity

of the pei

hint for the subject

ement of this " Holy War."

privately

of doubtful certainty,

and Horace.

like Virgil

ime of Eusebius, given to one dialogue,

the cele

Pollio,

can hardly bechance these two

It

is

we'll

this

within

Khunrath

known

hoc

the his

in

to students of

motto and the sign

with the mystic brotherhood.

of the

Eusebius

mixed up with the Arian heresy, siding with

At the synod held

at

Nicea

in

Bithynia, and

sum-

moned by Constantino, Eusebius had the first seat on the right and in the name of the- whole synod, addressed the '.,

Em]

I

who

tine,

sat.

on

of the opposite parties. .

many marks

of

favour.

bracing as

it

does

The tin-

a

golden

chair,

between

Constantine honoured him ecclesiastical

rsion of Constantine,

history

of

tie-

early

and the

estab-

persecution of


IN BACON'S " HOI Y WAR." lishment of Christianity,

is

most important and relative to the

subject discussed in Bacon's "

was selected

for a

still

5

Holy War."

more subtle

I submit, this

reason.

That

is,

name

the pro-

found connection known to exist between the tenets of the Rosicrucians and Neo-Platonism, which flourished during the

period Eusebius writes upon.

The doctrines

of the Rosicrucians

have been deduced by some profound writers from Animonius Saccas,

whom

who was

Eusebius mentions (Book

vi. ch. xix.)

and Origen,

a student of Plato, also comes under notice.

this history, containing the lives of Apollonius,

Constantine, and other writers, its

;

sources and period.

is

In short,

Simon Magus,

conspicuously Rosicrucian in


(HAITI BACCHUS AND WINK

may

I

do

16,

]..

There

is

216,

Bks.,

Adv." Aldis Wright).

thus:— "One

writes

called

father)— possibly

it

bu1 the

i<

whom

to

of demons."

'Dcemonum

Bacon

it

of a lie."

refers,

the

calls

And

595-608).

St

cibus

est

runs

(in

one

And

bo

(a

works

of

carmina poetarum

"

(Epist.

the

"De

Falsa

we mast repeat

<>f

to

is

i.

calls 16).

Damasus)

146).

Incest,

Corc. 4).

Legatione" of Demosthenes,

ourselves (especially us

it

to

and truth

Augustine

ni his letters

the

Jerome

erroris ab ebriis dodoribus propinatum (Gonfes. in .leronie

greal

in

filleth

(ii. -"»77)

for poetry

Agrippa combines both these citations (Do

nelius

"

fathers,

In Plato's " Republic''

the whole discussion (ch. x.

The passage

shadow

view of poetry.

a similar

mi

the

of

poesy vinum dcemonum,* because

imagination, and yet

and

II.,

essay upon Truth, gives us the key or proof of his

He

meaning. ity,

"Two

(Bk.

no mistake about this hinl for poetry or the drama.

in his

.

Demos-

with

sporteth

Philocrates

as

marvel (Athenians) thai Demosthenes and

nol

he drinketh water, and I drink ioim

differ; for

xxii.

II.

SYMBOLS OF DRAMATIC INSPIRATION.

IS

Bacon writes: "But, thenes, you

i;

p.

hits off the

ami wine-drinkers cannot other men, both ancientB and moderns, have in

readily) that jest, that 'water-drinkers ly tliink alik<-.'

For

all

drunk a crude liquor like water, either springing spontaneously Uect nr drawn ap by logic, as by wheels from a well. But iik and pledge our neighbours in a liquor made from countless grir/»s, ivd gathered by clutters CKF8HET) intiti: wineam- LASTLY, PIKED AXD CLARIFIED in Tin: vat. And so no wonder if we ich in common with others" (exxiii. Book I., "Aphorisms " Novum Organum."). on the Interpretation of Nature." :

I

-


—

SYMBOLS OF DRAMATIC INSPIRATION. 355.

7

very worthy of note that Bacon introduces again

It is

this story in his

"Novum Organum "

purpose of illustrating (which he compares

to

how

123), expressly for the

(i.

own method

his

and the philosophy

wine),

philosophy

or

own

of his

times

Dionysus or Bacchus as God of the Vine, grape and

differ.

wine, was the originator of the vintage and Goat-songs, which

became the

from choruses

gradually

arts

Comedy and

of

Tragedy.

Bacon writes

:

"

Wherefore

knowledge, concerning the

wherein

if

do conclude

I

culture

any man, considering the parts

my

enumerated, do judge that

labour

common

which

thereof,

Athenians, that Demosthenes and I do

I

mind;

drink wine.'

And

like as

have

I

by

others, as

sense and experience, he juclgeth well

as Philocrates sported with Demosthenes,

water, and

the

but to collect into an

is

art or science that which hath been pretermitted

matters of

moral

this part of

and regiment of

'

You may

differ, for

we read

:

but

not marvel,

he drinketh

of

an ancient

parable of the two gates of sleep Sunt geminre sonini Cornea, qua veris

portffi,

facilis

quarum

altera fertur

datur exitus umbris

:

Altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto,

Sed

falsa

ad coelum mittunt insomnia manes

:

we put on sobriety and attention, we shall find it a sure maxim in knowledge, that the more pleasant liquor of wine, is so

if

the more vaporous, and the braver gate of ivory sendeth forth the falser

ment

This if

dreams"

(p.

215-216, xxii.

16,

Book

II.

"Advance-

of Learning," Aldis Wright). is

a most important passage, so important that, indeed,

there existed no other indication of Bacon's

mind save

this, it

would suffice to prove he was profoundly conversant with the Mysteries of the Ancient Poets, and had discovered some secret relationship between Virgil's "Georgics" and the sixth hook of

the " Aineid," from which Bacon quotes, because Bacon's " Culture and regiment of the Mind," which he terms

ANIMI,

is

clearly

borrowed for

its title

from

Db

GrEORGICIS

Virgil's " Georgics."


AND WINE AS And

undoubtedly

i-

profound hint

;i

the

nym

for poetic inspiration

will

1

li

ots

'•

Demosthenes

this Btory

Organum"(i. 123)

"N<

which

In/,

which was current

Two

1'"

of

The passage

cited from

the Theatre, for

it

was

time

comes

m

want

now," said

it

to !Âť

should

in

it

if

]>.

"

355, and Bohn,

"It

matic pieces

said. "

the vintagi

Athens,

in

the

Demos

said, "

it'

any

At

''Certainly," said

in

ii.

1,

"or

which Philocrates rose

No wonder, men

nol

them

lei

"Don't be interrupting; "mind yon don't

opinion,

of

for

("De

and you laughed.' vol.

is

1

altogether."

it

in

Athens, thai drinks

he

1

a 1

water,

Falsa Legati

133.)

to Wine," says Athenaeus,

i>

closely connected with

Athenians,"

of

another time

manner and

mm

is

turns out differently,

out

J'.srliinr-,

and Demosthenes agree I drink

"

'

it

lam

be acting unfairly."

flippant

").

the Theatre of Dionysus thai

but

;

ntment. out of

and the philosophy

be sure you praise and honour and crown

true,

men, and not

wine,

Demosthenes

in

thenes was to accept the crown. of this

to

the

in

bet

32 1-322, notes, A. Wright,

(p.

ning

aj

]

use of by Bacon

for illustrating th differenct

compares

li>

his

in

made

is

and

touching water

Aldis Wrighl points

introduced with purpose by Bacon.

out in his ni'tr- thai

The

important and Btriking fact that

Philocrates and is

is

or

frequently

and dramatic enthusiasm.

also observe the

the

the passage

for the Theatre

Wine

using the word

[ins,

m

stud.

"

Wink, with which

the double reference t" mint,

"thai the invention

due; they were attributed

Athen.,

lib.

Temple

of

ii.

cap.

to

Icaria

According

3).

to

of

during

Rolle, al

Rhea, there was a spot consecrated

under the name of Olympias, where a hole was shown through which

it

ped,

was supposed the waters

the deluge of Deucalion

of

and where every year honey was poured.

that Deucalion built this temple,

had been at Athens.

and

it

Close to this temple the

pointed out (" Diod. Sic,"

lib.

v.

p.

It

was added

was believed Deucalion

223).

tomb of Deucalion It is well to

point


SYMBOLS OF DRAMATIC INSPIRATION. Wisdom

out one of Bacon's fables of the

Deucalion (Rolle,

p.

159,

160,

vol.

of the Ancients

Another

iii.).

o

upon

is

upon

is

Icarus.

Aristotle assures us that tragedy derived

invention from

its

the Dithyrambs which were sung in honour of Bacchus.

was no species It

was a kind

of poetry

which was supposed to be composed in

whom

by the God Bacchus,

the intoxication inspired brated,

There

more ancient than Dithyrambie poetry.

of poetry

and Bacchic fury was indispensable

it

cele-

for its composition.

Athenseus quotes this passage from Archilochus

:

— " Oui, je

sais

entonner un brillant dithyram.be en l'honneur de Bacchus, lorsque jai'le

cerveau foudroye par

Epicharmus

ou Ton ne boit que de "Athen. Deipnos.," Rolle writes

Bacchus

:

"

lib.

La

l'eau."

—" —

iii.).

:

this other passage of

n'y a pas de dithyrambe

II

(Rolle, p. 511-513, vol.

Rom."

v.

406

;

Tacitus,

Even the Actors were consecrated

of Bacchus), " formoient a

in the

When

ii.

to

;

they quitted the theatre they

Rolle,

Bacchus

:

workmen

Athunes un corps nombreux laid their

et im-

masks

temple of Bacchus Quisnam dixerit puer ? Quod Baccho teniplum,

ulii

personam adpenduntur.

Horace invokes Bacchus as the God In the " Knights Nicias. It is

vide

consacree a

lib.

" Les acteurs appeles," riyj7rai biovuftaxoi (artists or

portant."

iii.,

xiv. cap. 6).

tragedie etoit uniquement

" (" Schol. Arist.

p. 195, vol.

And

le vin."

in his Philoctetus

is

" of

Aristophanes

of Poetry.

we read

:

best for us to drink bull's blood, for the death of Themistooles

preferable.

Dem. No, by Jove, but pure xoinc to tlic good genius;* for possibly we hit upoa some good thought. Are your thoughts, then, on the wine Nicias. "Pure Wine" see now How could a mau when drunk hit upon any happy device ? Dem. Is it so, fellow ? You are a trifling, bubbling water-drinker. Have you the audacity to abuse wiue as an enemy to the intellect? What than

may

!

!

The "good genius" was Bacchus

{vide Potter, vol.

ii,

p. 379).


(<

,

AND WINE AS

7;7'.s

... oaf bubbling \

i!

\

1'

tiki'

tin'

cup of

and

libatien,

Athcnee, que

ilit

,

cap.

ii.

bus

offer

tame,

it

in

t'll

1

name

tin'

you,

of

tin'

invente

avoil

t .i l >1

iv.

i

Theatres

les

des

musique,

de

ecoles

que

pieces

Lee

«'t

de

Athen.,

vid<

iii.,

<|u'il

militaires dans bos armies " (76.

de boutes fonctions

ptoil

Diod. Sic."

160, vol.

(p.

des pieces

bourgade

[carie,

.1

partisans d'Euhemere pr<5tendoien1

lui-mdme qu'il

Vinvention

doit

I6n

imaginces

vendanges"

les

"Lea

•">!.

avoil

dramatiques,

fluent

•lies

I'Attique, pendant

'•

<

of pure wine,

Rolle writes in his " Recherches sur le Culte de Bacchus": '•

lil>.

bumper

-\

2).

B cchus was surnamed Maroneus, after the wine: tantum Marona, nee

uravi

Vi<

:

M

i

irom

bibi.

datus lumina Baccho.

o fo

(Tibull.

"Les

Rolle writes: .

fetes

de Bacchus

que

toienl aussi solennelles

lib.

iv.

.

Eleg.

v.

i.

57.)

cele'brees par les poetes,

celles qu'ils ce'le'broienl

<•]]

I'honneur

d'Apollon, mais avec cette difference, qu'ils Be couronnoient de lierre .-in-

au

lieu

de laurier,

et

Tu tamen sacris Numine debueraa

bederse cultoribua

•'•

"Perse, dans son prologue, abandonne ne, les jse les les

Palatin.

hvinne

On

images.

placoil

dans

les

bustes des poetes illustres,

el

ceuxqui ornoienl

le

fuit

Eleg.

iii.

lib

les deites

v.

.">,

de

15.)

la

pfile

habitans de I'Helicon, a ceus donl un lierre flexible

lierre. tels Etoient

avoit

unum

Bustinuisse tuo.

(OvH.

(.11

des libations de vin

faisoienl

qu'ils

ses autels.

construire I.-

pontes

Bolennel.

lis issi

(pp. 212-213,

voL

iii,

dans

le

le

les

statues

couronnes de

beau portique qu' Anguste le

monl

en I'honneur de Bacchus un

cel/'broient

Rolle).

etoient

temple d'Apollon, sur

chantoient

Bacchus

bibliotheques ils

Burtoul

avait-il le

pa/rce

Burnom de

que

le

rin

A/oatrxa?.o;


DRAMA TIC

5 YMBOLS OF

1

INSPIRA TION.

Bacon's profound distinction between

Water and Wine

explained and illustrated by the poet Horace

is

1

fully

:

Nulla placere din nee vivere carmina possunt Qua; scribuntur aqua; potoribus. (Horat.,

Martial, in the same sense, writes

Possum

nil

lib. i.,

Epist. 19.)

:

ego sobrius

bibenti

:

SuccuiTunt mihi quindecim

poetse.

("Epig.,"lib.

In the "Anthology

Yinum

est instar equi gestat tollitque poetas.

(" Antbol. Grrec.,"

Pindar writes

Epig. Soter.)

est

ad poculum senno.

:

Pariter

cum

vino ingrediente loquendi accedit tiducia.

The name Bacchus

Bacchus

to Hesychius, called

prize of

derived by some from the Eolian word

is

a bunch of grapes, and the Athenians, according

fta.Ti.yia, ftorpvg,

The

lib. i..

:

Audax

Lucian

ii.)

":

Comedy was

Theoinios,

and

his festivals Theonia.

a jar of wine and a basket of

In Bacon's Essay upon Judicature, he writes

emungit

elicit

wrought,

it

:

"

figs.

Qui fortiter

sanguinem, and where the wine-press

is

hard

yields a harsh wine, that tastes of the grape stone."

The following is Mr ttpedding's De Augm. " Certainly as we

the

:

which flow freely from the

first

translation of a passage in find it in wines, that those

treading of the grape are

sweeter than those which are squeezed out by the wine-press, because the latter taste somewhat of the stone and the rind are those doctrines of the Scriptures

when gently

controversies and

common

word and

its

so

crushed, and are not forced into

places."

This throws light upon Bacon's epithet of

"Novum Organum." the

;

most wholesome and sweet which ooze out

Vintages in the

This proves he understood and applied

connotations to the extracting of doctrines or

interpretation out of his

own

writings.

Applying

as

it

does to

Bacchus and the drama, nothing could be more apposite for the Theatre.


CHAPTER BACON An Bai

"Bui

writes:

>n

if

All

\

\\m

any ono

III.

R

I

in

i

Particulars

anew, better hopes might

A n<

we promise

herein •

and

-.

Foi concerning

thus

We

• :

born

t'>

do

the end thai

the

\

unimpaired

sen

Experience and bo

bo

be entertained of

iew the putl ing off of

may

xcvii. bk. L,

Great,

in

his

God

life

of

him.

vanity.

relate

"Nov.

with

>i.\

spoke

mortal men, bul are

and declare wonders Org.").

conquesl

Bacchus as his model, and during brated bhe feasts of thai

all

his exploits -iEschinea

not live the

posterity

concerning us "' (Aph.

of

days

proposed

India,

soldiers cele-

his

the excesses of intoxica-

all

Alexander the Great imitated Bacchus.

tion.

l.

ourselves the fortune of Alexander the

Alexander and

certainly

Alexander

\

I

:

no one charge us with vanity before he hears

let

the result, which has in ••

i

of ripe age,

and purified mind, would apply himself

1

.

For the

latter,

having collected an immense army, consisting both of men and

women, and

Bet out

for the conquest of

shields, his broops

This

riotous

broop

India.

Instead of spears

were armed with drums and bhyrsuses.

spread

universal

consternation,

bhe

but

intention of [Bacchus being only bo beach the cultivation of the vine, he

was everywhere received

writes

"

:

When

as a

benignant deity.

dressing of vines, the method of preparing

coming

Bacon

a youth, he first introduced the cultivation

famous,

he

Bubdued

the

world,

wine—whence

and be-

even to the utmost

bounds of the Indies" (Dionysus). Bacon's self-comparison bo Alexander the Great

upon oi

not

pa-.-

1640. a.-

55 (mispaged In

Augurs

his

bo

<:',)><{ tin-

is

"Advancement

Distribution Preface, he declares

measure countries

in

again

of :

made

Learning"

"Wecome

our minds, butas Captains


BACON AS ALEXANDER THE GREAT. to invade

them

parallel with

for a conquest."

Alexander

is

I

am

convinced Bacon's

self-

intended as a side hint for Alexander's

—that the Theatre, Plutarch writes — " With much

'pomp of Bacchus,

13

is

and

its

presiding

God

or genius.

difficulty

:

Alexander traversed

country in sixty days, and then arrived in Gedrosia.

this

he found provisions in abundance fertile in itself,

army some time

and

Upon

horses.

his principal

it

was placed a

many

others,

covered with rich tapestry and purple hangings, and of trees fresh

lofty

day and

friends revelled

This carriage was followed by

shaded with branches

of

His chariot, which was very magnifi-

was drawn by eight

platform, where he night.

is

to refresh them-

he marched in Carmania for seven days in a kind

bacchanalian procession. cent,

There

for besides that the land

the neighbouring princes and grandees supplied

After he had given his

him. selves,

;

some others

gathered and flourishing.

In these were the rest of the king's friends and generals, crowned

with flowers and exhilarated with wine.

"In

whole company there was not to be seen a buckler,

this

a helmet, or spear

;

but,

instead of them, cups, flagons, and

in huge vessels of wine, and drank to each other, some as they marched along, and others

These the soldiers dipped

goblets.

seated at tables, which were placed at proper distances on the

way.

The whole country resounded with

songs,

and with the dances and riotous

flutes, clarionets,

frolicks of the

This disorderly and dissolute march was closed

immodest

figure,

bacchanals, as

if

the debauch."

—

It has

art than of

'The

and with

all

women. a very

witli

the licentious ribaldry of the

Bacchus himself had been present to carry on

(Alexander.)

been truly said of Alexander the Great, " Not

by

his

Great.'

less in

wonderful undertakings has he acquired the

He was

Avorld has ever seen,

munificence."

and

and

the greatest promoter of all

The mother

of

ail

title

that the

the artists of his time shared his

Alexander the Great

have wandered about at the foot of

Pieria,

is

said

to

with the Mimalloncs


AS ALEXANDER THE GREAT.

V

.;

and

of Bacchus,

the statue of

her son

of

was

it

hrpheua to -w eal

*

he would

"thai

Baid,

Hence may be -rru the reason Bacon introduces the Pan

De lugmentis

"

in his

expedition

Bacchus,

t" «

»

described as

;it

"

on the heels

the head

Pan

history of

and

idia,

\

is

t"

is

sometimes called

K.

"

i.,

page

l*]M>n line

i«>

for the Satyrs

Midas pretended

Sileni. <>t

goes back

thai

In

Silenus

thai

Bacchus.

"The Bwarms <if subordinate beings, Nymphs by whom Bacchus was Burrounded"

Pans, and

289, vol.

(p.

myth

be found a

the Satyrs,

Muller writes,

>.

<

-.

;ill

is

thyrsuses and

with

closely related to that of Silenus,

instructed him in the orgies

The

an army, into the East,

<>t

cymbals, accompanied by Pan, Silenus, and the

fable of

Stage Plays.

<>i'

men and women armed

<>t'

make

."

I-it.

53,

Aik

of

i.-iit

Greece").

"Merry Wives

Windsor," we

of

find

the

:

Hang-Hog

Upon page

^ v .

"

is

latin for Bacon,

King Henry the

I

warrant you.

Fifth,"

we

Alexander

find

called a pig: .

What

call

you the town's name where Alexander

tin

pig was

I

Alexander the Grea Why. pray you, is not pig great! The pig, or the great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the magnanimous, are all one reckonings, save •.

I

.

the

I

p.

This full,

[f

dream I

is,

variation.

think Alexander the Great was born in Macedon. I

consider, a case of Induction, of which the plays are

Hog is

Latin for Bacon, and Alexander

Bacon stands for Alexander, and

then

if

little

.

. i

of suggesting such an

did

nol

ids of

a pig (or Hog), 1

should nol

evidence

that

otic

of

Bacon's

opening up the plays (or Instauration as an entire duction

il

is

versd.

apparently inconsequenl deduction,

abundanl

|

vice

by analogy.

The student

collation, this sort of relationship

term most frequent

in the plays, if

<>r

will

identity

find,

on

by a middle

he uses a Concordance.


APPENDIX FOR PAGE In the

De

8.

Corona, the decree of Ctesiphon respecting the

crowning of Demosthenes,

Crown should be

directs, that the

claimed in the theatre at the Dionyxia

— or festival

Demosthenes with being too vain

./Eschines reproached

content with the applause of his

own

when

Dionysia

Ctesiph.," vol.

was

469, Orat. Att.,

p.

iii.

Greece

all

present

Oxford).

fore very easy to perceive that Philocrates at

at

there-

It is

made

the

("Contra.

a smart hit

Demosthenes when he exclaimed: "He chinks water and I

drink wine

"

— implying Demosthenes had no right to be crowned

at the Dionysia.

For ./Eschines and Philocrates were colleagues,

the former belonging to the theatrical

Demosthenes says: "If any of praise

of

to be

fellow citizens, since he

must needs have the crown decreed him proclaimed great

pro-

of Bacchus.

it

men

this

profession,

comes

true,

and honour and crown these men, and not me,

altogether

"

— he

of Athens, that

for he

is

out of

it

inviting the smart letort

is I

all this

rival of

:

"

and Demosthenes agree not

altogether,

properly,

it

I

No

am

all.

out

wonder,

in opinion;

and does not drink wine"

does not belong to the theatrical profession at stand

and when

be sure you

i.e.,

To under-

must be understood that the great

Demosthenes, ^Eschines, objected on these grounds to

the crowning of Demosthenes in the Theatre of Bacchus, as

he were a dramatic writer, who had won ivy wreath or crown given. ./Eschines

and

is

ridiculed

assisting his

in

the contests the

In the Oration on the Crown,

by Demosthenes as playing third

mother

if

in the rites of l'>.uclni>.

parts,



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