Excerpt from Francis Bacon Wrote Shakespeare: The Arguments Pro and Con Frankly Dealt With Bacon, in his first four terms, made orders and decrees, and freed more than suitors in his court from the law's uncertainty. One of his sayings was, Fresh justice is sweetest. Scarcely one of Bacon's decisions was ever reversed. Great events from little causes Spring. It is a well-authenticated fact that the beginning of the malice which ultimately ruined Bacon resulted from some angry words spoken by Bacon to Mr. Secretary Win wood about a dog. Winwood, in Bacon's presence, cruelly beat his dog when lying on a stool. Bacon remonstrated, Every gentleman did love a dog. From that moment Winwood sought opportunities of discrediting and injuring Bacon, and circumstances in connection with a proposed marriage Offered by Coke - who was always Bacon's enemy - to Buckingham's younger brother, enabled Winwood, who was the inter mediary negotiator, to make Buckingham hostile to Bacon. The whole intrigue is too voluminous to be related here, but the records are easily accessible, and to some extent amusing reading. Although matters were patched up with Buckingham, both he and Coke, from the time of this episode, were on the alert to do Bacon injury. Perhaps a brief summary of the links in the chain which pulled down Bacon might usefully be given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.