This book tries to show that a cipher designed by Francis Bacon, and based on the union of a clock and compass in dial form, exists in the First Folio of Shakespeare, printed in 1623. Contents: some reasons for a cipher and the cipher; gates and keys; cipher clues in Bacon's work; telling time; points of compass; dial hours in text; cipher in Macbeth; Bacon blazons or signatures; guide to maze pictures; hour count in Macbeth. With many charts and figures.