Note 85 — THE COMMON KNOWLEDGE OF SHAKESPEARE AND BACON
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See also his remarks on the saying “homo est planta inversa,” Cent. VII, 607, and compare Burton, Anat: of Melancholy, vol. 2, p. 193. Ed. 1800. The scientific facts with regard to sex-difference in the vegetable world were not discovered till some seventy years after Shakspere’s death.