© Gunnar Tómasson
11 October 2015
I. Jesting Pilate
(Francis Bacon, Of Truth, 1625)
33294
16829 = What is truth; said jesting Pilate;
16465 = and would not stay for an answer.
33294
II. Truth Crucified
(King James Bible, 1611)
57541
1 = Monad – Father
16777 = THIS IS IESVS THE KING OF THE IEWES – Matt. 27:37
9442 = THE KING OF THE IEWES – Mark 15:26
13383 = THIS IS THE KING OF THE IEWES – Luke 23:38
17938 = IESVS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE IEWES – John 19:19
57541
III. Thou Canst Neuer Dye
(First folio, 1623)
464058
6556 = TO THE MEMORIE
9775 = of the deceased Authour
10757 = Maister W. Shakespeare.
21339 = SHAKE-SPEARE, at length thy pious fellowes give
27690 = The world thy Workes; thy Workes, by which, out-live
23143 = Thy Tombe, thy name must: when that stone is rent,
20473 = And Time dissolves thy Stratford Moniment,
21551 = Here we alive shall view thee still. This booke,
17964 = When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke
16075 = Fresh to all Ages; when Posteritie
20717 = Shall loath what ‘s new, thinke all is prodegie
20012 = That is not Shake-speares; ev’ry Line, each Verse,
18442 = Here shall revive, redeeme thee from thy Herse.
14951 = Nor Fire, nor cankring Age, as Naso said,
20205 = Of his, thy wit-fraught Booke shall once invade.
15543 = Nor shall I e’re beleeve, or thinke thee dead
22080 = (Though mist) untill our bankrout Stage be sped
22293 = (Impossible) with some new straine t’ out-do
14700 = Passions of Juliet, and her Romeo;
14629 = Or till I heare a Scene more nobly take,
22344 = Then when thy half-Sword parlying Romans spake,
18695 = Till these, till any of thy Volumes rest,
19941 = Shall with more fire, more feeling be exprest,
20110 = Be sure, our Shake-speare, thou canst never dye,
21145 = But crown’d with Lawrell, live eternally.
2928 = L. DIGGES
464058
I + II + III = 33294 + 57541 + 464058 = 554893
IV. Answer: Life’s but a walking Shadow
(The Tragedie of Macbeth, Act V, Sc. v, First folio)
554893
18403 = Enter Macbeth, Seyton, & Souldiers, with,
8343 = Drum and Colours.
Macbeth
21757 = Hang out our Banners on the outward walls,
23086 = The Cry is still, they come: our Castles strength
19926 = Will laugh a Siedge to scorne: Heere let them lye,
13600 = Till Famine and the Ague eate them vp:
25999 = Were they not forc’d with those that should be ours,
18203 = We might haue met them darefull, beard to beard,
20078 = And beate them backward home. What is that noyse?
11226 = A Cry within of Women.
Seyton
15780 = It is the cry of women, my good Lord.
Macbeth
17369 = I haue almost forgot the taste of Feares:
18952 = The time ha’s beene, my sences would haue cool’d
15646 = To heare a Night-shrieke, and my Fell of haire
22673 = Would at a dismall Treatise rowze, and stirre
23924 = As life were in’t. I haue supt full with horrors,
23242 = Direnesse familiar to my slaughterous thoughts
21957 = Cannot once start me. Wherefore was that cry?
Seyton
9748 = The Queene (my Lord) is dead.
Macbeth
12050 = She should haue dy’de heereafter;
20111 = There would haue beene a time for such a word:
22689 = To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow,
17099 = Creepes in this petty pace from day to day,
15476 = To the last Syllable of Recorded time:
17611 = And all our yesterdayes, haue lighted Fooles
19767 = The way to dusty death. Out, out, breefe Candle,
18629 = Life’s but a walking Shadow, a poore Player,
23287 = That struts and frets his houre vpon the Stage,
13957 = And then is heard no more. It is a Tale
15789 = Told by an Ideot, full of sound and fury
8516 = Signifying nothing.
554893
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