Note 12 — SHAKESPEARE—A THEORY
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The nebulous Temporis Partus Maximus, of very uncertain date, was scarcely more serious, I suppose, than the eloquent eulogies of “knowledge” or “philosophy” in Bacon’s “apparently unacknowledged” Conference of Pleasure, 1592, and Gesta Graiorum, 1594, though towards the close of his life he seems to have claimed for it a somewhat higher value.