These instructions as to the method of enumeration being premised, particular attention is called to the extreme simplicity of the Hamlet cipher as compared with the key to Henry IV; which is as profusely numbered as the hairs of the righteous. This table shows at a glance, as will be seen by comparison with the following cipher narrative, all the numbers used in combination to produce the secret story which the author has discovered.
Of Donnelly's root numbers 516, 523 Of Donnelly's modifiers 30, 50, 198 Page numbers from Hamlet 273, 274, 276 Roman words, p. 273, col. 2 306 " " " 274, " 1 397 " " " 276, " 1 423
By combining these in different ways, adding or subtracting at pleasure as Mr. Donnelly does, the number of italicized, bracketed and hyphenated words separately, and reserving the right which he claims liberally to increase or decrease the result by 1 arbitrarily, there is obtained in every case the number indicating the given word on each page, reading from top or bottom as the case may be, in its appropriate column. If there is anything wrong with the result, the fault must lie with Lord Bacon and the Great Cryptogram. Here is what the cipher, so amazingly simple in its convolutions, cries out across the centuries since Bacon died to the unbeliever of to-day:
WORD Page and Col. 523-273= 250 273:2 Don} 276/6= 46 276:2 nill he,} Donnelly 523-306=217 273-217=56+30=86-50=36-2_i_= 34 273:2 the 523-273=250 516-250=266+2_i_= 268 273:2 author, 523-306=217 274-217=57-2_h_= 55 274:2 politician 523-50=473-273= 200 273:2 and 523-397=126+276=402-50= 352 276:1 mountebanke, 523-274=249+50=299-4_b_=295-2_b_= 293 274:1 will No. words _p._ 274, col. 1= 395 275:2 worke 516+50=566-273=293-30= 263 273:2 out 523+50=573-397=176-30=146-5_h_= 141 274:2 the 516-306=210-198=12+10_i_= 22 274:1 secret 523-397=126-1= 125 274:2 of 523-274=249 306-249=57+11_i_+1= 69 274:1 this 516-423=93+50=143-2_i_=141-1_h_=140-1= 139 276:1 play. 523-274=249-30=219-2_h_-1= 216 274:2 The 523+30=553-423= 130 278:2 Sage 523-397=126+30=156-2_h_= 154 274:2 is 523-274=249+5_h_=254-1= 253 274:2 a 516-274=242+50=292+5_h_+1= 298 274:2 daysie.
The nineteenth century world may well close its ears to tales of Cecil's envy and Shakespeare's gout, and the wrath of the red-haired queen, to listen to the voice of Bacon, saying "Donnelly, the author, politician and mountebanke, will worke out the secret of this play. The Sage is a daysie."