...The ghost of Francis Bacon frowns upon these shenanigans.
and dating Christopher Malowe!
Indeed.
E. told me Bacon’s a G.D. Fraud.
— somewhere in Shakespeare there’s a line if you rearrange the letters you get the above. I don’t remember exactly. It comes from “Timid Virgins Make Dull Company,” page 45.
https://archive.org/details/timidvirginsmake00drcr/page/18/mode/2up?q=g.d.+fraud
It’s limited preview so I’m shaky on the details.