effigy of a living ex-Chancellor were placed in the monument of the
dead Will Shakspere, and if, on asking why the alteration was made, I
were asked in reply, in Mr. Greenwood's words, "Was Dugdale's bust
thought to bear too much resemblance to one who was not Shakspere of
Stratford? Or was it thought that the presence of a woolsack" (the
cushion) "might be taken as indicating that Shakspere of Stratford
was indebted for support to a certain Lord Chancellor?" {186a} Such,
indeed, are the things that Baconians might readily say: do say, I
believe.

Dugdale's engraving reproduces the first words of a Latin
inscription, still on the monument:


Judicio Pylium, genio Socratem, arte Maronem
Terra tegit, populus maeret, Olympus habet:


"Earth covers, Olympus" (heaven? or the Muses' Hill?) "holds him who
was a Nestor in counsel; in poetic art, a Virgil; a Socrates for his
Daemon" ("Genius"). As for the "Genius," or daemon of Socrates, and
the permitted false quantity in making the first syllable of Socrates
short; and the use of Olympus for heaven in epitaphs, it is
sufficient to consult the learning of Mr. Elton. {186b} The poet who
made such notable false quantities in his plays had no cause to
object to another on his monument. We do not know who erected the
monument, and paid for it, or who wrote or adapted the epitaph; but
it was somebody who thought Shakespeare (or Bacon?) "a clayver man."
The monument (if a trembling conjecture may be humbly put forth) was
conceivably erected by the piety of Shakespeare's daughter and son-