Acting upon this clue, search is made for the next interpolation. It is found but three pages further on, in the absurd grave-diggers’ scene. This is preceded by the direction, “Enter two clowns.” Now clowns do not dig graves, and grave-diggers are not generally clowns. It was clearly the intention of the writer to call special attention to the following lines. And the passage itself contains matter which is more ridiculous than anything in Ophelia’s crazy words: “If the man go to the water and drown himself, it is will he nill he, he goes; mark you that; but if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself.” What rot is this which the great Bacon utters? There is a rat behind this arras. But how to get at him! We turn for help to the cryptogram. We find, on page 555 of that volume, the account of Mr. Donnelly’s first discovery. He noted the word “Bacon,” on page 53 of I “Henry IV.” He counted the number of italicized words in the first column of that page and found it to be 7; multiplied that number by the page number, and found the product 371; and, lo! the 371st word was “Bacon.” We go back to the grave-diggers. On the page where they are voicing idiocy, there are six italicized words in the first column. The number of the page is 276. Divide 276 by 6, and the quotient is 46. Count upward from the bottom of the second column, and the 46th word is “nill he,” so printed for concealment. This phrase, “will he nill he,” occurs nowhere else in the plays. It is here for a purpose. The mad song gave “Don.” The graveyard scene gives, by Mr. Donnelly’s process, closely followed, “nill he.” “Don nill he;” “Donnelly.” Eureka! we are on the trail of the mystery, and the cipher has been at work here. There must be more behind. Now, lest anyone should entertain the injurious and erroneous suspicion that this is mere burlesque let it be stated here that what has preceded, and what follows is the result, in every instance, of accurate mathematical work. A few of the Donnelly numbers, and the numbers of pages and of words on a page were used, and no others. The cipher employed is the Donnelly cipher. The words on every page, the italicized words, the bracketed words and the hyphenated words were counted separately and numbered. The edition used is the fac-simile reproduction of the 1623 folio. Every computation has been carefully made. And if any reader doubts, he is requested to procure a copy of the reprint, make the count and verify the figures for himself, and prove to himself that the cipher discovery which follows is as literally worked out, as credible, as truly the work of Lord Bacon as anything to be found from cover to cover of “The Great Cryptogram.”