Note 116 — FINAL NOTE
Reading edition
Mr. Begley suggests (p. 17) that the Cynic’s helmet is an allusion to the Knights of the Helmet, of whom we read in the Gesta Grayorum, and, as he writes, we know that Bacon was “responsible for this Device performed at his own Gray’s Inn during the year 1594.” As to “Talus” and his flail, see Spenser’s Fairy Queen, Bk. V, Cant. i, st. 12.