Oxenford’s letters…

…for truthe ys truthe thoughe never so owlde, and tyme cannot make that falsse whiche was once trwe…

sounds like Shakespeare doesn’t it? Or try this for advice on kingship…

…Nothinge adornes a kynge moore thein Iustice, nor in any thinge, doothe a kynge moore resemble god then in iustice, whiche ys the Hed of all vertue, and he that ys indued therwythe, hathe all the reste…

these quotes are from a letter dated 7 May 1603. As you may know this is 10 days later on the continent ie 17th May, what with the English stubbornly rejecting the Gregorian calendar. (Gregorian calendar |grəˈgôrÄ“É™n| noun: the calendar introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII, as a modification of the Julian calendar. To bring the calendar back into line with the solar year, 10 days were suppressed, and centenary years were made leap years only if they were divisible by 400. England did not adopt the reformed calendar until 1752, by which time 11 days had to be suppressed. At the same time, New Year’s Day was changed from March 25 to January 1, and dates using the new calendar were designated ‘New Style.’: taken from my mac dictionary).

there is so much to know about the Early Modern Period. So many conspiracies that the authorship of putative plays by playwright or playwrights unknown, or rather known as Shhh, was the least of their paranoia back then. The motive escapes me.