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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There once was a cryptical crane,
Who wore an expression of pain
And refused to be fed
Because some one said
He resembled one Hamlet, a Dane.
[Oliver Herford in The Century Magazine. Vol. LXXXIV, September 1912, no. 5, p. 801.]
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Categorised in 1910s