Part 16

[116] Mr. Begley suggests (p. 17) that the Cynic’s helmet is an allusion to the Knights of the Helmet, of whom we read in the _Gesta Grayorum_, and, as he writes, we know that Bacon was “responsible for this Device performed at his own Gray’s Inn during the year 1594.” As to “Talus” and his flail, see Spenser’s _Fairy Queen_, Bk. V, Cant. i, st. 12.

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