Baconian Essays

chapter in _Shakespeare-Bacon_, headed “A Caricature of some Notable

Elizabethan Poet,” together with the chapter following), but among his manuscripts were found certain Notes with reference to George Wither which I cite lower down. It will be seen, however, that he was convinced that Jonson, while lampooning and ridiculing Wither, the scourger of the time, had for his main object ...