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In far Elizabethan days / (Ho! By my Halidome! Gadzooks! ) / Lord Bacon wrote his own essays, / And lots of other people's books; / Annexing as a pseudonym / Each author's name that suited him.
All notoriety he'd shirk, / Nor sought for literary credit, / Although the best of Shakespeare's work / Was his. (For Mrs. Gallup said it, / And she, poor lady, I suppose, / Has read the whole of it, and knows.)