Ebook Some Acrostic Signatures of Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban

This was the right answer and gave him the victory; where upon he slew the Sphinx. The fable adds very prettily that when the Sphinx was subdued, her body was laid on the back of an ass for there is nothing so subtle and abstruse, but when it is once thoroughly understood and published to the world, even a dull wit can carry it.