The Partial Pig

August 16th, 2007 - No Responses

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.]