From SirBacon.org
You think the greatest works known in the English language, were written by an actor? The son of a glovemaker, who never travelled beyond London? Think Again......
The illustration is from Peacham's Rosicrucian 1612 emblem book "Minerva Britanna, or a garden of heroical devices, furnished and adorned with emblems and Impresas of sundry devices, newly devised, moralized and published." On the frontispiece is an oval wreathed with laurel, and a Latin motto which translated as: "One lives in one's genius, other things depart in death," Within the oval is the proscenium of a theater, the curtain supposed to conceal the figure of a man whose forearm only appears, the hand holding a pen which has just written "Mente Videbor": "By the mind shall I be seen."
