Yeah, I see that. Our Bill got himself a secret education, kept his writings secret, and wrote like a proper toff too boot. In which case, he must be very vexed that we saw through it all and gave him credit anyway. :-) (er ... an awful lot of people, including most Shakespearean Academics, concede that the author had a high degree of formal education. There's masses and masses of theories which explain how our Bill got educated, and why he and his educators kept it very hush hush). I still have a raised eye-brow over why our Bill dedicated some of his sonnets to de Vere's boyfriend.
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