© Gunnar Tómasson

25 October 2016

I. Background – Book of Icelanders and Njála

(Saga Myth)

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Sheets of Ari Priest the Wise

  9953 = Schedae Araprestsfroda

Njála

  6257 = Mörðr hét maðr.

12685 = Höfðingjaskipti varð í Nóregi.

11274 = Fara menn við þat heim af þingi.

13530 = Ok lýk ek þar Brennu-Njálssögu.

Ek

       -1 = Hidden Monad

5827 = Snorri goði

Book of Icelanders

  5464 = Íslendingabók

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II. First Folio Omega Page

(1623)

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 [Posthumus]

16581 = Make no collection of it.  Let him shew

15289 = His skill in the construction.

Lucius

6498 = Philarmonus.

Soothsayer

6928 = Heere, my good lord.

Lucius

9000 = Read, and declare the meaning.

2471 = Reades.

24167 = When as a Lyons whelpe, shall to himselfe vnknown,

11006 = without seeking finde,

11809 = and bee embrac’d by a peece of tender Ayre:

21082 = And when from a stately Cedar shall be lopt branches,

18501 = which being dead many yeares shall after reuiue,

20237 = bee iyonted to the old Stocke, and freshly grow,

18503 = then shall Posthumus end his miseries,

22220 = Britaine be fortunate, and flourish in Peace and Plentie.

18025 = Thou Leonatus art the Lyons Whelpe,

18080 = The fit and apt Construction of thy name

16575 = Being Leonatus, doth import so much:

20848 = The peece of tender Ayre, thy vertuous Daughter,

17353 = Which we call Mollis Aer, and Mollis Aer

19924 = We terme it Mulier; which Mulier I diuine

22895 = Is this most constant Wife, who euen now

16165 = Answering the Letter of the Oracle,

24035 = Vnknowne to you vnsought, were clipt about

13804 = With this most tender Aire.

Cymbeline

9907 = This hath some seeming.

Soothsayer

12593 = The lofty Cedar, Royall Cymbeline

19881 = Personates thee: And thy lopt branches point

23355 = Thy two Sonnes forth: who by Belarius stolne

19175 = For many yeares thought dead, are now reuiu’d

19300 = To the Maiesticke Cedar ioyn’d; whose Issue

14591 = Promises Britaine, Peace and Plenty.

Cymbeline

3134 = Well,

17579 = My Peace we will begin:  And Caius Lucius,

20040 = Although the Victor, we submit to Cæsar,

15143 = And to the Romane Empire; promising

21441 = To pay our wonted Tribute, from the which

20009 = We were disswaded by our wicked Queene,

20001 = Whom heauens in Iustice both on her, and hers,

9168 = Haue laid most heauy hand.

Soothsayer

18314 = The fingers of the powres aboue, do tune

15670 = The harmony of this Peace;  the Vision

21926 = Which I made knowne to Lucius ere the stroke

21601 = Of yet this scarse-cold-Battaile, at this instant

16814 = Is full accomplish’d. For the Romaine Eagle

22300 = From South to West, on wing soaring aloft

16956 = Lessen’d her selfe, and in the Beames o’th’Sun

22102 = So vanish’d: which foreshew’d our Princely Eagle,

16441 = Th’Imperiall Cæsar, should againe vnite

17178 = His Fauour, with the Radiant Cymbeline,

15261 = Which shines heere in the West.

Cymbeline

7510 = Laud we the Gods,

24502 = And let our crooked Smoakes climbe to their Nostrils

21051 = From our blest Altars.  Publish we this Peace

20587 = To all our Subiects.  Set we forward:  Let

14971 = A Roman, and a Brittish Ensigne waue

23065 = Friendly together: so through Luds-Towne march,

14265 = And in the Temple of great Iupiter

20329 = Our Peace wee’l ratifie:  Seale it with Feasts.

18177 = Set on there:  Neuer was a Warre did cease

20903 = (Ere bloodie hands were wash’d) with such a Peace.

      3915 = Exeunt.

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III. The Workes of William Shakespeare

(First Folio frontispiece)

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  16746 = The Workes of William Shakespeare,

17935 = Containing all his Comedies, Histories, and

13106 = Tragedies: Truely set forth,

16008 = according to their first Originall.

22800 = The names of the principall actors in all these playes.

9322 = William Shakespeare

13172 = Samuel Gilburne, Richard Burbadge,

11932 = Robert Armin, John Hemmings,

18236 = William Ostler, Augustine Philips,

11446 = Nathan Field, William Kempt,

14649 = John Underwood, Thomas Poope,

11943 = Nicholas Tooley, George Bryan,

15063 = William Ecclestone, Henry Condell,

13098 = Joseph Taylor, William Slye,

13275 = Robert Benfield, Richard Cowly,

12746 = Robert Goughe, John Lowine,

15552 = Richard Robinson, Samuell Crosse,

  15208 = John Shancke, Alexander Cooke, John Rice.

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IV. First Folio Dedication

(1623)

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      8208 = TO THE MOST NOBLE

867 = AND

7373 = INCOMPARABLE PAIRE

5027 = OF BRETHREN

10897 = WILLIAM Earle of Pembroke,

100 = [&] c. [c = 100 in “&c”]

23572 = Lord Chamberlaine to the Kings most Excellent Maiesty.

867 = AND

11590 = PHILIP Earle of Montgomery,

100 = [&] c.

14413 = Gentleman of his Maiesties Bed-Chamber,

22026 = Both Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter,

12835 = and our singular good LORDS.

7826 = Right Honourable,

25994 = Whilst we studie to be thankful in our particular,

22062 = for the many fauors we haue receiued from your L.L.

15163 = we are falne vpon the ill fortune,

23449 = to mingle two the most diuerse things that can bee,

7485 = feare, and rashnesse;

23489 = rashnesse in the enterprize, and feare of the successe.

23541 = For, when we valew the places your H.H. sustaine,

20442 = we cannot but know their dignity greater,

19953 = then to descend to the reading of these trifles:

13987 = and, while we name them trifles,

25700 = we haue depriu’d our selues of the defence of our Dedication.

14022 = But since your L.L. haue beene pleas’d

21688 = to thinke these trifles some-thing, heeretofore;

25557 = and haue prosequuted both them, and their Authour liuing,

17599 = with so much fauour: we hope, that

27770 = (they out-liuing him, and he not hauing the fate, common with some,

21390 = to be exequutor to his owne writings)

21711 = you will vse the like indulgence toward them,

14513 = you haue done vnto their parent.

10083 = There is a great difference,

23131 = whether any Booke choose his Patrones, or finde them:

8125 = This hath done both.

26340 = For, so much were your L.L. likings of the seuerall parts,

22932 = when they were acted, as before they were published,

12680 = the Volume ask’d to be yours.

21363 = We haue but collected them, and done an office to the dead,

16553 = to procure his Orphanes, Guardians;

22380 = without ambition either of selfe-profit, or fame:

20760 = onely to keepe the memory of so worthy a Friend, &

17475 = Fellow aliue, as was our SHAKESPEARE,

24877 = by humble offer of his playes, to your most noble patronage.

17511 = Wherein, as we haue justly obserued,

28933 = no man to come neere your L.L. but with a kind of religious addresse;

25208 = it hath bin the height of our care, who are the Presenters,

25744 = to make the present worthy of your H.H. by the perfection.

31596 = But, there we must also craue our abilities to be considerd, my Lords.

19548 = We cannot go beyond our owne powers.

29952 = Country hands reach foorth milke, creame, fruites, or what they haue:

20669 = and many Nations (we haue heard) that had not gummes &

22965 = incense, obtained their requests with a leauened Cake.

29471 = It was no fault to approch their Gods, by what meanes they could:

26494 = And the most, though meanest, of things are made more precious,

14733 = when they are dedicated to Temples.

27816 = In that name therefore, we most humbly consecrate to your H.H.

19643 = these remaines of your seruant Shakespeare;

29906 = that what delight is in them, may be euer your L.L. the reputation his, &

23734 = the faults ours, if any be committed, by a payre so carefull

26463 = to shew their gratitude both to the liuing, and the dead, as is

15589 = Your Lordshippes most bounden,

4723 = IOHN HEMINGE.

      5558 = HENRY CONDELL.

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V. The King James Bible

(Dedication, 1611)

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     17083 = To the most high and mightie Prince, James

14782 = by the grace of God King of Great Britaine,

13600 = France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. [c = 100 in &c]

16142 = The Translators of The Bible, wish        

23471 = Grace, Mercie, and Peace, through Iesvs Christ our Lord.

25844 = Great and manifold were the blessings (most dread Soueraigne)

18175 = which Almighty GOD, the Father of all Mercies,

27472 = bestowed vpon vs the people of ENGLAND, when first he sent

26231 = your Maiesties Royall person to rule and raigne ouer vs.

20761 = For whereas it was the expectation of many,

20349 = who wished not well vnto our SION,

17198 = that vpon the setting of that bright

15710 = Occidentall Starre Queene ELIZABETH

9424 = of most happy memory,

18376 = some thicke and palpable cloudes of darkenesse

18648 = would so haue ouershadowed this land,

13878 = that men should haue bene in doubt

15782 = which way they were to walke,

15261 = and that it should hardly be knowen,

19547 = who was to direct the vnsetled State:

12947 = the appearance of your MAIESTIE,

14404 = as of the Sunne in his strength.

27059 = instantly dispelled those supposed and surmised mists,

17924 = and gaue vnto all that were well affected

22864 = exceeding cause of comfort; especially when we beheld

20399 = the gouernment established in your HIGHNESSE,

18518 = and your hopefull Seed, by an vndoubted Title,

9996 = and this also accompanied

19326 = with Peace and tranquillitie, at home and abroad.

12121 = But amongst all our Ioyes,

20593 = there was no one that more filled our hearts,

12579 = then the blessed continuance

21601 = of the Preaching of GODS sacred word amongst vs,

17008 = which is that inestimable treasure,

18678 = which excelleth all the riches of the earth,

19597 = because the fruit thereof extendeth it selfe,

27323 = not onely to the time spent in this transitory world,

14104 = but directeth and disposeth men

24591 = vnto that Eternall happinesse which is aboue in Heauen.

21523 = Then, not to suffer this to fall to the ground,

30913 = but rather to take it vp, and to continue it in that state, wherein

24340 = the famous predecessour of your HIGHNESSE did leaue it;

27586 = Nay, to goe forward with the confidence and resolution of a man

16494 = in maintaining the trueth of CHRIST,

12944 = and propagating it farre and neere,

19426 = is that which hath so bound and firmely knit

17031 = the hearts of all your MAIESTIES loyall

14221 = and Religious people vnto you,

19655 = that your very Name is precious among them,

18171 = their eye doeth behold you with comfort,

26424 = and they blesse you in their hearts, as that sanctified person,

29842 = who vnder GOD, is the immediate authour of their true happinesse.

24171 = And this their contentment doeth not diminish or decay,

19250 = but euery day increaseth and taketh strength,

22410 = when they obserue that the zeale of your Maiestie

26020 = towards the house of GOD, doth not slacke or goe backward,

22020 = but is more and more kindled, manifesting it selfe abroad

18605 = in the furthest parts of Christendome,

15825 = by writing in defence of the Trueth,

23901 = (which hath giuen such a blow vnto that man of Sinne,

8430 = as will not be healed)

21881 = and euery day at home, by Religious and learned discourse,

13424 = by frequenting the house of GOD,

25817 = by hearing the word preached, by cherishing the teachers therof,

9916 = by caring for the Church

18829 = as a most tender and louing nourcing Father.

19308 = There are infinite arguments of this right

22543 = Christian and Religious affection in your MAIESTIE:

22020 = but none is more forcible to declare it to others,

17320 = then the vehement and perpetuated desire

22604 = of the accomplishing and publishing of this Worke,

32321 = which now with all humilitie we present vnto your MAIESTIE.

23846 = For when your Highnesse had once out of deepe judgment

17057 = apprehended, how conuenient it was,

18847 = That out of the Originall sacred tongues,

19144 = together with comparing of the labours,

21033 = both in our owne, and other forreigne Languages,

19731 = of many worthy men who went before vs,

12929 = there should be one more exact

29045 = Translation of the holy Scriptures into the English tongue;

17764 = your MAIESTIE did neuer desist, to vrge

21746 = and to excite those to whom it was commended,

14331 = that the worke might be hastened,

24488 = and that the businesse might be expedited in so decent a maner,

24495 = as a matter of such importance might iustly require.

14074 = And now at last, by the Mercy of GOD,

15651 = and the continuance of our Labours,

30488 = it being brought vnto such a conclusion, as that we haue great hope

23456 = that the Church of England shall reape good fruit thereby;

23807 = we hold it our duety to offer it to your MAIESTIE,

17329 = not onely as to our King and Soueraigne,

26260 = but as to the principall moouer and Author of the Worke.

19776 = Humbly crauing of your most Sacred Maiestie,

16010 = that since things of this quality

17125 = haue euer bene subiect to the censures

17049 = of ill meaning and discontented persons,

16624 = it may receiue approbation and Patronage

25494 = from so learned and iudicious a Prince as your Highnesse is,

21401 = whose allowance and acceptance of our Labours

15850 = shall more honour and incourage vs,

11761 = then all the calumniations

23605 = and hard interpretations of other men shall dismay vs.

10548 = So that, if on the one side

23984 = we shall be traduced by Popish persons at home or abroad,

15346 = who therefore will maligne vs,

28146 = because we are poore Instruments to make GODS holy Trueth

20859 = to be yet more and more knowen vnto the people,

25267 = whom they desire still to keepe in ignorance and darknesse:

9729 = or if on the other side,

18634 = we shall be maligned by selfe-conceited brethren,

28157 = who runne their owne wayes, and giue liking vnto nothing

25716 = but what is framed by themselues, and hammered on their Anuile;

32015 = we may rest secure, supported within by the trueth and innocencie

7810 = of a good conscience,

24170 = hauing walked the wayes of simplicitie and integritie,

7044 = as before the Lord;

12205 = And sustained without,

29877 = by the powerfull Protection of your Maiesties grace and fauour,

16674 = which will euer giue countenance

16584 = to honest and Christian endeuours

25197 = against bitter censures, and vncharitable imputations.

10393 = The LORD of Heauen and earth

19648 = blesse your Maiestie with many and happy dayes,

21799 = that as his Heauenly hand hath enriched your Highnesse

20534 = with many singular, and extraordinary Graces;

24271 = so you may be the wonder of the world in this later age,

14503 = for happinesse and true felicitie,

24291 = to the honour of that Great GOD, and the good of his Church,

    24380 = through IESVS CHRIST our Lord and onely Sauiour.

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