His Own Admissions

Just after the publishing of a Shakespearean portfolio in 1623, Bacons "Alter-ego" sent him a letter stating ""The most prodigious wit that ever I knew, of my nation and this side of the sea, is of your Lordship's name, though he be known by another."

A very intimate friend of Bacons, John Florio, in referring to a Shakespearean sonnet wrote "a friend of mine who loved better to be a poet than to be counted so"

Lastly a man named John Aubrey, a contemporary of those who knew Bacon, wrote of him in a letter "His lordship was a good poet, but concealed, as appears by his letters."

Contemporary Evidence

In a letter to King James I, he writes concerning himself "So, desiring you to be good to concealed poets, I continue...."