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![[Picture: Bacon.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-Shakspere-Biography/pages/332-Bacon/332-Bacon-q90-765x884.jpg "[Picture: Bacon.]")
Francis Bacon, the lawyer, and William Shakspere, the actor, are unconscious each of the greatness of the other. The difference of their rank probably prevents that communication which might have told each something of the other’s power. (p. 332)
This engraving is based on an unidentified portrait of Sir Francis Bacon.
