(2.) Similarly, I found out the origin of "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall," &c., to refer to the death of William the Conqueror (_L'homme qui dompte_), who was ruptured in leaping a burnt wall at Rouen; being very stout,--"he had a great fall," and burst asunder like Iscariot, while "all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't set Humpty Dumpty up again." We must remember that the wise Fools of those days dared not call magnates by their real names,--nor utter facts openly: so accordingly (3) they turned Edward Longshanks into "Daddy Longlegs,"-- and (4) sang about King John's raid upon the monks, and the consequent famine to the poor, in "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie," &c.,--the key to this interpretation being "a dainty dish to set before the king," John being a notorious glutton.
My friends at Ledbury Manor, where there is a gallery full of my uncle Arthur's Indian pictures, will remember how I expounded all this to them some years ago.

In this connection of literary discovery, let me here give my exposition of the mystic number in Revelations, 666,--which, "_more meo_" I printed thus on a very scarce fly-leaf, as one of my Protestant Ballads not in any book:-- "Here is wisdom--Let him that hath understanding count the number of the Beast--for it is the number of a Man--and his number is six hundred threescore and six."-- Rev.xiii.

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"Count up the sum of Greek numeral letters 'Kakoi Episkopoi'-- bishops all ill; Strangely I note that those mystical fetters Bind in their number this mystery still-- Six hundred threescore and six is the total, Spelling the number and name of a man, Chief of bad bishops and lies sacerdotal, That of all wickedness stands in the van.
"Antichrist! what?
can a feeble old creature, Pope though they style him, be rank'd in his place As the Goliath in fashion and feature Warring gigantic with God and His grace?
Is he so great--to be dreaded, abhorred, Single antagonist, braving God's wrath, Bearing foul Babylon's seal on his forehead, Chosen Triumvir with Sin and with Death?
"Yea; the presumption of priestly succession Make the _all one_ a whole Popedom of Time, So that each head for his hour of possession Wears the tiara of ages of crime: Rome is infallible, Rome is eternal, Rome is unchangeable, cruel, and strong, Leagued with the legions of darkness infernal, Crushing all right and upholding all wrong." Note .-- The value of the Greek letters, as numerals, in the two words above, is as follows:--The three kappas = 60, the three omicrons = 210, the three iotas = 30, the two pis = 160, the one sigma = 200, the one epsilon = 5, and the one alpha = 1; in all exactly making 666.

This is "a private interpretation" of the writer's own discovery, not to be found elsewhere, and quite as convincing as Lateinos and the inscription on St.Peter's.
My friend Evelyn contributed to the perfection of the discovery.

It was he who suggested Kakoi to Episcopoi, to make up the number.