The Partial Pig

Herford no. 21

A PIG who to “hamlet” was taken
Formed a theory that could not be shaken.
“In Hamlet,” said he,
“A cipher we see
That proves it was written by Bacon.”

[Oliver Herford in The Century Magazine. Vol. LXXXV, January 1913, no. 3, p. 479.]

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