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- # Heywood’s Rape of Lucrece.
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## Context
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## Contents
The subsection contains a brief excerpt from Shakespeare's "Lucrece," noting a scribbled quote: "reuealing day through euery Crany peepes and see." It dismisses arguments that this scribble indicates Bacon's authorship of Shakespeare's works. The text also mentions that the manuscript has been reprinted by T. Le Marchant Douse and Thomas Burgoyne, highlighting their differing interpretations of the manuscript's significance.
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¹ Shakespeare’s name is repeated many times, in various forms, on this outside leaf, together with the titles of two of his plays, Rychard the Second and Rychard the Third. The crude excerpt from Lucrece runs:—‘reuealing day through euery Crany peepes and see.’ The careless scribble has little significance, and was possibly the work of a scribe testing a new pen. No attention need be paid to the arguments which would treat the manuscript rigmarole as evidence of Bacon’s responsibility for Shakespeare’s works. The MS. has been twice reprinted lately, by Mr. T. Le Marchant Douse, who takes a sensible view of the problem offered by the scribble, and by Mr. Thomas Burgoyne, who is inclined to take the incoherences seriously.
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