© Gunnar Tómasson

11 December 2017

 Two-part solution of a literary puzzle.

FIRST PART

I. The Murder of William Peeter

(Creative News)

18247

Victim

7482 = William Peeter

Murderer

6642 = Edward Drew

Date

2511 = 25 January – 11th month old-style

1612 = 1612 A.D.

18247

II. Envious Death and Monument Shakspeare

(Stratford, Holy Trinity Church)

129308

19949 = STAY PASSENGER WHY GOEST THOU BY SO FAST

22679 = READ IF THOU CANST WHOM ENVIOUS DEATH HATH PLAST

24267 = WITH IN THIS MONUMENT SHAKSPEARE: WITH WHOME

20503 = QUICK NATURE DIDE WHOSE NAME DOTH DECK YS TOMBE

20150 = FAR MORE THEN COST: SIEH ALL YT HE HATH WRITT

21760 = LEAVES LIVING ART BUT PAGE TO SERVE HIS WITT

129308 

III. William Peeter – A FVNERALL Elegye

(By W. S., 1612 – Opening lines)

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14718 = Since Time, and his predestinated end,

16856 = Abridg’d the circuit of his hope-full dayes;

20211 = Whiles both his Youth and Vertue did intend,

16907 = The good indeuor’s, of deseruing praise:

15453 =What memorable monument can last,

18496 = Whereon to build his neuer lemish name?

24860 = But his owne worth, wherein his life was grac’t?

15085 = Sith as it euer hee maintain’d the same.

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As in:

129308 = Envious Death etc.

7482 = William Peeter

1796 = GRAAL – Quest of the Holy Grail

4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power

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IV. Snorri Sturluson – Advice to Young Poets¹

(Edda, Skáldskaparmál, Ch. 8)

197920

16349 = En þetta er nú at segja ungum skáldum,

15868 = þeim er girnast at nema mál skáldskapar

16723 = ok heyja sér orðfjölða með fornum heitum

23725 = eða girnast þeir at kunna skilja þat, er hulit er kveðit.

22969 = þá skili hann þessa bók til fróðleiks ok skemmtunar.

19899 = En ekki er at gleyma eða ósanna svá þessar frásagnir

17985 = at taka ór skáldskapinum fornar kenningar,

14787 = þær er höfuðskáld hafa sér líka látit.

19481 = En eigi skulu kristnir menn trúa á heiðin goð

17358 = ok eigi á sannyndi þessa sagna annan veg en svá

12776 = sem hér finnst í upphafi bókar.

197920

As in:

1000 = Light of the World

25920 = Cosmic Time – Platonic Great Year

6067 = Miðeyjarhólmr – Saga Myth, Locus of Quest´s End

4000 = Flaming Sword – Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power

18247 = William Peeter‘s “Murder” – Transformation

100 = The End

142586 = A FVNERALL Elegye

197920

SECOND PART

V. Edward Oxenford’s Imperfect Book

(Letter to Robert Cecil)

511378

9205 = My very good brother,

11119 = yf my helthe hadd beene to my mynde

20978 = I wowlde have beene before this att the Coorte

16305 = as well to haue giuen yow thankes

15468 = for yowre presence at the hearinge

15274 = of my cause debated as to have moued her M

10054 = for her resolutione.

23461 = As for the matter, how muche I am behouldinge to yow

22506 = I neede not repeate but in all thankfulnes acknowlege,

13131 = for yow haue beene the moover &

14231 = onlye follower therofe for mee &

19082 = by yowre onlye meanes I have hetherto passed

13953 = the pykes of so many adversaries.

16856 = Now my desyre ys. Sythe them selues

15903 = whoo have opposed to her M ryghte

17295 = seeme satisfisde, that yow will make

7234 = the ende ansuerabel

22527 = to the rest of yowre moste friendlye procedinge.

12363 = For I am aduised, that I may passe

22634 = my Booke from her Magestie yf a warrant may be procured

21532 = to my Cosen Bacon and Seriant Harris to perfet yt.

25516 = Whiche beinge doone I know to whome formallye to thanke

16614 = but reallye they shalbe, and are from me, and myne,

23196 = to be sealed up in an aeternall remembran&e to yowreselfe.

18733 = And thus wishinge all happines to yow,

13574 = and sume fortunat meanes to me,

19549 = wherby I myght recognise soo diepe merites,

13775 = I take my leave this 7th of October

11101 = from my House at Hakney 1601.

15668 = Yowre most assured and louinge

4605 = Broother

7936 = Edward Oxenford

511378

As in:

197920 = Snorri Sturluson – Advice to Young Poets

511378 = Edward Oxenford’s Imperfect Book

18247 = William Peeter‘s “Murder” – Transformation

142586 = A FVNERALL Elegye

Völuspá/Sybils Prophecy

    8733 = Vituð ér enn – eða hvat? – Sybil’s refrain: Dost thou know yet – or what?

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VI. To be, or not to be; that is The Quest, ION

(Hamlet, Act III, Sc. i. First Folio 1623)

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  5415 = Enter Hamlet.

Hamlet

18050 = To be, or not to be, that is the Question:

19549 = Whether ’tis Nobler in the minde to suffer

23467 = The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune,

17893 = Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles,

16211 = And by opposing end them: to dye, to sleepe

13853 = No more; and by a sleepe, to say we end

20133 = The Heart-ake, and the thousand Naturall shockes

19800 = That Flesh is heyre too?  ‘Tis a consummation

17421 = Deuoutly to be wish’d. To dye to sleepe,

19236 = To sleepe, perchance to Dreame; I, there’s the rub,

19794 = For in that sleepe of death, what dreames may come,

21218 = When we haue shufflel’d off this mortall coile,

20087 = Must giue vs pawse. There’s the respect

13898 = That makes Calamity of so long life:

24656 = For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time,

24952 = The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely,

18734 = The pangs of dispriz’d Loue, the Lawes delay,

16768 = The insolence of Office, and the Spurnes

20720 = That patient merit of the vnworthy takes,

17879 = When he himselfe might his Quietus make

21696 = With a bare Bodkin? Who would these Fardles beare

17807 = To grunt and sweat vnder a weary life,

17426 = But that the dread of something after death,

21935 = The vndiscouered Countrey, from whose Borne

20927 = No Traueller returnes, Puzels the will,

19000 = And makes vs rather beare those illes we haue,

20119 = Then flye to others that we know not of.

20260 = Thus Conscience does make Cowards of vs all,

18787 = And thus the Natiue hew of Resolution

21086 = Is sicklied o’re, with the pale cast of Thought,

17836 = And enterprizes of great pith and moment,

22968 = With this regard their Currants turne away,

18723 = And loose the name of Action.  Soft you now,

16746 = The faire Ophelia? Nimph, in thy Orizons

9726 = Be all my sinnes remembred.

Ophelia

5047 = Good my Lord,

17675 = How does your Honor for this many a day?

Hamlet

17391 = I humbly thanke you: well, well, well.

Ophelia

15437 = My Lord, I haue Remembrances of yours,

14927 = That I haue longed long to re-deliuer.

12985 = I pray you now, receiue them.

Hamlet

12520 = No, no, I neuer gaue you ought.

Ophelia

19402 = My honor’d Lord, I know right well you did,

24384 = And with them words of so sweet breath compos’d,

19172 = As made the things more rich, then perfume left:

14959 = Take these againe, for to the Noble minde

24436 = Rich gifts wax poore, when giuers proue vnkinde.

  5753 = There my Lord.

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¹ Snorri Sturlusonn – Advice to Young Poets

But now one thing must be said to young skalds, to such as yearn to attain to the craft of poesy and to increase their store of figures with traditional metaphors; or to those who crave to acquire the faculty of discerning what is said in hidden phrase: let such an one, then, interpret this book to his instruction and pleasure. Yet one is not so to forget or discredit these traditions as to remove from poesy those ancient metaphors with which it has pleased Chief Skalds to be content; nor, on the other hand, ought Christian men to believe in heathen gods, nor in the truth of these tales otherwise than precisely as one may find here in the beginning.