Im defence of the indifference for oer spelling tne Archbishop recalled that Shakespeare spelt Mis' paine fave ltarent ways ttt Jost poe tible tht the moor future may' ose {he anal clearing up'of the ola cone troversy whether "Shakespeare" was really written by Bacon. "The tomb Edmund Spenser, the. Elzabetvan Soot, in, Westminster Abbey is to be pened in order to see if contains Pfarewell signed" poem. by Shaker care, There isa fairy well Tihenticated story "that." when Spenser was buried. the poets of the stood round and drooped their "tributes" (as Emmeline Grangerford vould have called them) in the tomb, and_presumably. Shakespeare would have been among them. There are several diMculties in the way. It is nown that Spenser was buried in Westminster Abbey, but there is no record of the burial nor of the precise pot where he was buried, though one may suppose it was under or near the Spenser Memorial, Further, unless the poems were hermetically sealed up, or written on parchment, they will be dust by now. But even 'f-a poem sigmad "Shakespeare" was found. what does it prove? If, as the Baconians argue, Bacon got Shakespeare to let him use his name, be-use it would have been then below the dignity of the great man to write plays, might he not have done the same about a funeral ode to Spenser?
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