Some choice Frensh Prover[bs.]
[Illustration: Tail Piece from Spencer's "Faerie Queen." 1617]
FOOTNOTES.
[1] Digges really means "When Time dissolves thy Stratford Mask".
[2] Through the whole play the fact that Puntarvolo represents Bacon is
continually apparent to the instructed reader. Note especially Act II.,
Scene 3, where Puntarvolo addresses his wife, who appears at a window,
in a parody of the address of Romeo to Juliet. Again in Act II., Scene 3,
Carlo Buffone calls Puntarvolo "A yeoman pheuterer." Pheuter or feuter
means a rest or supportfor a spear--which is informing.
[3] This fact so puzzling to Halliwell-Phillipps is fully explained when
it is realised that William Shackspere of Stratford could neither read
or write.
[4] The words attriuted to Apollo, are of course spoken by his Chancellor
Bacon. See note on the number 33 on page 112.
[5] While I am perfectly satisfied that the above explanation of the
meaning of the expression "All numbers" is the correct one; I am not
unaware that at the date at which the Discoveries appeared "All numbers"
would be generally understood in its classical sense; Jonson of course
not being permitted to speak too plainly.
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