Deciphering the First Folio

In 1936, Arthur Bradford Cornwall used complicated (and not very well explained) means - including some really odd spellings - to decipher the works of Bacon and Shakespeare, the King James Bible, and numerous other masterpieces. He spent a good deal of effort on the First Folio.

Scattered through all these works, he found variations on the same message. A good example is the manifesto he ferreted out from the First Folio's Catalogue of Plays [I have expanded his abbreviations in brackets]:

HEARKEN TO THE TRUTH, YE NATION !
SEEKE THE TRUTH ! FIGHT FOR THE TRUTH !

The first-borne sonne t' E. [Elizabeth], legally married t' R: Dudley, lo: Leicester [Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester], i' right, i' honor, and i' truth, on the death of her Ma : [Majesty]. I, the P: of W. [Prince of Wales], the roial heire, ought t' rule, the next king of England. The earle of Essex is th' younger brother.
She hath feared t' ackno'ledge and hath refused t' accept my true title.
I am the writer of all the chiefe workes which I have put forth i' the name of G: Peele, of R: Greene, of Ch: Marlowe, of Ed: Sp. [Edmund Spenser], of W: Sh. [William Shakespeare] (whom I killed) and of others. They are my maskes.
The Mss [manuscripts] of all these writi'gs I have hidden i' th' dark vault of a monument, i' a matrix, i' chest of wood.
They co'taine my harsh story i' cipher. If found, discover not too soone. Destroy not! Inter them for a century of yeares, until after I am dead.
Geo: V. [George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham] uniustly accused me of theft. King Iames hath tried & banisht me fro' England & all Brittish dominions.
Attention, Men of England! If I flie, flie! If I fight, fight! Helpe t' gaine the title t' the throne which is lost!
FR. (called) BACON, the Solomon of the Rosicrosse Society,
The unackno'ledged King of England

Odd spelling and convenient abbreviations aside - it would be difficult to come up with prose that sounds less like either Bacon or Shakespeare.

From Arthur Bradford Cornwall, Francis the First, Unacknowledged King of Great Britain and Ireland, Known to the World as Sir Francis Bacon, Man of Mystery and Cipher (Birmingham, UK: Cornish Brothers Ltd, 1936), p. 211.