He Who Hath Filled Up All Numbers, And Performed That In Our Tongue Which May Be Compared Or Preferred Either To Insolent Greece Or Haughty Rome. In Short, Within His View, And About His Times, Were All The Wits Born That Could Honor A Language Or Help Study. Now Things Daily Fall, Wits Grow Downward, And Eloquence Grows Backward; So That He May Be Named And Stand As The Mark And Acme Of Our Language.

He who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome. In short, within his view, and about his times, were all the wits born that could honor a language or help study. Now things daily fall, wits grow downward, and eloquence grows backward; so that he may be named and stand as the mark and acme of our language.

Ben Jonson

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I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove.

Mark Rylance

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