© Gunnar Tómasson

25 January 2018

Overview

A

Jonson’s First Folio Ode

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B

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385508 = Bacon – Writings withheld until treatise for public is published

969686 = Jonson – Dedication of Epigrammes, 1616.

174329 = Saga Cipher and Alpha/Omega of Dante’s Commedia

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C

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102292 = Light of the World’s Mission

1117947 = Hamlet – March afarre off

309284 = Horatio – How these things came about

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Addendum

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                             Sweet Swan of Avon’s Return

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Section A

I. Ben Jonson‘s Commendatory Ode

(First Folio 1623)

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 11150 = To the memory of my beloved,

5329 = The AVTHOR

10685 = MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

867 = AND

9407 = what he hath left us.

17316 = To draw no envy (Shakespeare) on thy name,

13629 = Am I thus ample to thy Booke, and Fame:

20670 = While I confesse thy writings to be such,

19164 = As neither Man, nor Muse, can praise too much.

21369 = ‘Tis true, and all mens suffrage. But these wayes

20516 = Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise;

17686 = For seeliest Ignorance on these may light,

23213 = Which, when it sounds at best, but eccho’s right;

17565 = Or blinde Affection, which doth ne’re advance

19375 = The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance;

18692 = Or crafty Malice, might pretend this praise,

19456 = And thinke to ruine, where it seem’d to raise.

18294 = These are, as some infamous Baud, or Whore,

23199 = Should praise a Matron: – What could hurt her more?

18170 = But thou art proofe against them, and indeed

16465 = Above th’ill fortune of them, or the need.

16324 = I, therefore, will begin. Soule of the Age!

20370 = The applause! delight! the wonder of our Stage!

18434 = My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by

16611 = Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lye

15597 = A little further, to make thee a roome:

17952 = Thou art a Moniment, without a tombe,

19673 = And art alive still, while thy Booke doth live,

19194 = And we have wits to read, and praise to give.

18259 = That I not mixe thee so, my braine excuses, –

22232 = I meane with great, but disproportion’d Muses;

19760 = For if I thought my judgement were of yeeres,

21584 = I should commit thee surely with thy peeres,

23104 = And tell, how farre thou didst our Lily out-shine,

19727 = Or sporting Kid, or Marlowes mighty line.

21016 = And though thou hadst small Latine, and lesse Greeke,

21296 = From thence to honour thee, I would not seeke

20635 = For names; but call forth thund’ring Æschilus,

14527 = Euripides, and Sophocles to us,

15939 = Paccuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead,

15425 = To life againe, to heare thy Buskin tread

19665 = And shake a Stage: Or, when thy Sockes were on,

14842 = Leave thee alone for the comparison

18781 = Of all that insolent Greece or haughtie Rome

20033 = Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.

21540 = Triumph, my Britaine, thou hast one to showe

18910 = To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe.

14789 = He was not of an age, but for all time!

19879 = And all the Muses still were in their prime,

17867 = When, like Apollo, he came forth to warme

16143 = Our eares, or like a Mercury to charme!

19768 = Nature her selfe was proud of his designes,

18609 = And joy’d to weare the dressing of his lines!

22712 = Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit,

20715 = As, since, she will vouchsafe no other Wit.

16006 = The merry Greeke, tart Aristophanes,

22701 = Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please;

12944 = But antiquated, and deserted lye,

15906 = As they were not of Natures family.

17575 = Yet must I not give Nature all; Thy Art,

16885 = My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part:

17709 = For though the Poets matter, Nature be,

16202 = His Art doth give the fashion. And, that he,

24373 = Who casts to write a living line, must sweat

18045 = (such as thine are) and strike the second heat

17403 = Upon the Muses anvile: turne the same,

19618 = (And himselfe with it) that he thinkes to frame;

16266 = Or, for the lawrell, he may gaine a scorne,

15633 = For a good Poet’s made, as well as borne.

21914 = And such wert thou. Looke how the fathers face

15715 = Lives in his issue, even so, the race

20651 = Of Shakespeares minde and manners brightly shines

17328 = In his well torned and true-filed lines:

15712 = In each of which, he seemes to shake a Lance,

14757 = As brandish’t at the eyes of Ignorance.

21616 = Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were

17318 = To see thee in our waters yet appeare,

19678 = And make those flights upon the bankes of Thames,

14184 = That so did take Eliza and our James!

15161 = But stay, I see thee in the Hemisphere

14530 = Advanc’d, and made a Constellation there!

22500 = Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage

19541 = Or influence, chide or cheere the drooping Stage;

24007 = Which, since thy flight frō hence, hath mourn’d like night,

18824 = And despaires day, but for thy Volumes light.

4692 = BEN: IONSON

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B

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II + III + IV = 385508 + 969686 + 174329 = 1529523

II. Bacon – Writings withheld until treatise published

(Cogita et Visa, 1607 – first printed 1857)

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23179 = When these writings have been put forth and seen

32373 = I do not doubt that more timid wits will shrink almost in despair

23575 = from imitating them with similar productions,

21715 = with other materials or on other subjects,

24634 = and they will take so much delight in the specimens given

19838 = that they will miss the precepts in them.

22593 = Still, many persons will be led to inquire into

22251 = the real meaning and highest use of these writings,

32063 = and to find the key to their interpretation and thus more ardently desire,

8995 = in some degree at least,

30783 = to acquire the new aspect of nature which such a key will reveal.

24169 = But I intend yielding neither to my own aspirations

14728 = nor to the wishes of others,

26846 = but keeping steadily in view the success of my undertaking,

20217 = having shared these writings with some,

11365 = to withhold the rest

26184 = until the treatise intended for the people shall be published.

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III. Ben Jonson – Epigrammes

(Dedication 1616)

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17752 = To The Great Example Of Honor And Vertve,

6625 = The Most Noble

15805 = William, Earle of Pembroke, L. Chamberlayne,

100 = &c. [c = 100 when combined with &]

3177 = My Lord.

16522 = While you cannot change your merit,

11802 = I dare not change your title:

12370 = It was that made it, and not I.

17687 = Vnder which name, I here offer to your Lo:

17687 = the ripest of my studies, my Epigrammes;

19735 = which, though they carry danger in the sound,

16695 = doe not therefore seeke your shelter:

20228 = For, when I made them, I had nothing in my conscience,

17746 = to expressing of which I did need a cypher.

18345 = But, if I be falne into those times, wherein,

14205 = for the likenesse of vice, and facts,

21707 = euery one thinks anothers ill deeds obiected to him;

20514 = and that in their ignorant and guiltie mouthes,

26249 = the common voyce is (for their securitie) Beware the Poet,

23308 = confessing, therein, so much loue to their diseases,

18752 = as they would rather make a partie for them,

13719 = then be either rid, or told of them:

13522 = I must expect, at your Lo: hand,

17342 = the protection of truth, and libertie,

24129 = while you are constant to your owne goodnesse.

26974 = In thankes whereof, I returne you the honor of leading forth

10580 = so many good, and great names

18365 = as my verses mention on the better part)

18807 = to their remembrance with posteritie.

13576 = Amongst whom, if I haue praysed,

20608 = vnfortunately, any one, that doth not deserue;

16333 = or, if all answere not, in all numbers,

13034 = the pictures I haue made of them:

23367 = I hope it will be forgiuen me, that they are no ill pieces,

15943 = though they be not like the persons.

19615 = But I foresee a neerer fate to my booke, then this:

26225 = that the vices therein will be own’d before the vertues

18719 = (though, there, I haue auoyded all particulars,

7010 = as I haue done names)

19689 = and that some will be so readie to discredit me,

22557 = as they will haue the impudence to belye themselues.

25650 = For, if I meant them not, it is so. Nor, can I hope otherwise.

23198 = For, why should they remit any thing of their riot,

23216 = their pride, their selfe-loue, and other inherent graces,

31414 = to consider truth or vertue; but, with the trade of the world,

19671 = lend their long eares against men they loue not:

15713 = and hold their dear Mountebanke, or Iester,

19716 = in farre better condition, then all the studie,

12299 = or studiers of humanitie.

25583 = For such, I would rather know them by their visards,

19563 = still, then they should publish their faces,

18123 = at their perill, in my Theater, where Cato,

18224 = if he liu’d, might enter without scandall.

15499 = Your Lo: most faithfull honorer,

4692 = Ben. Ionson.

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IV. Dante, Saga Cipher, Commedia

(Construction G. T.)

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Love That Moves Sun and Stars

       1 = Monad

1000 = Light of the World

Reykjaholt Covenant

(Iceland, ca. 1200-1225)

18278 = Skrín þat es stendr á altara meþ helgo domo

19936 = gefa þeir Magn oc Snorre at helfninge hvar þeirra

21953 = oc es þetta kirkio fé umb fram of þat es áþr es talet.

Cipher Embedded inText

11931 = Saga Cipher

Commedia

Alpha

Inferno Canto I.

15438 = Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

15885 = mi ritrovai per una selva oscura

12588 = ché la diritta via era smarrita.

Omega

Paradiso Canto XXXIII

13922 = Io ritornai da la santissima onda

13853 = rifatto si come piante novelle

13223 = rinnovellate di novella fronda,

16321 = puro e disposto a salire alle stelle.

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Translations

Reykjaholt Covenant

The shrine that stands on the alter with holy relics is the gift of Magnus and Snorri in equal parts and this church treasure is additional to what has been counted before.

Commedia

Alpha

Halfway through the journey we are living

I found myself deep in a darkened forest,

For I had lost all trace of the straight path.

Omega

Here powers failed my high imagination:

But by now my desire and will were turned,

Like a balanced wheel rotated evenly,

By the Love that moves the sun and the other stars.

C

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V + VI + VII = 102292 + 1117947 + 309284 = 1529523

V. Light of the World‘s Mission

(Construction G. T.)

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   -1000 = Darkness

Let there be light, and there was light.

    4177 = Fiat Lux

Alpha

 Crucified Light of the World

(King James Bible, 1611)\

16777 = THIS IS JESVS THE KING OF THE JEWES – Matt. 27:37
9442 = THE KING OF THE JEWES – Mark 15:26

13383 = THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWES – Luke 23:38
17938 = JESVS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWES – John 19:19

Omega

 Resurrection

 4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power

Mission Completed

St. Peter‘s Basilica – Perfect Creation

(Completed in 1612)

37575 = Façade inscription to mark its completion

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Inscription

23501 = IN HONOREM PRINCIPIS APOST PAVLVS V BVRGHESIVS

14074 = ROMANVS PONT. MAX. AN. MDCXII PONT. VII. *

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*IN HONOR OF THE PRINCE OF APOSTLES; PAUL V BORGHESE,

POPE, IN THE YEAR 1612 AND THE SEVENTH YEAR OF HIS PONTIFICATE.

VI. Hamlet – March afarre off

(Act V, Sc. ii. First Folio)

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 15079 = March afarre off, and shout within.

Hamlet

14387 = What warlike noyse is this?

 6697 = Enter Osricke.

Osricke

22993 = Yong Fortinbras, with conquest come frō Poland            [ō=o]

24474 = To th’Ambassadors of England giues this warlike volly.

Hamlet

5901 = O I dye Horatio:

24502 = The potent poyson quite ore-crowes my spirit,

19230 = I cannot liue to heare the Newes from England,

17032 = But I do prophesie th’election lights

14414 = On Fortinbras, he ha’s my dying voyce,

22842 = So tell him with the occurrents more and lesse,

23314 = Which haue solicited.  The rest is silence.  O, o, o, o.  Dyes.

Horatio

10167 = Now cracke a Noble heart:

11836 = Goodnight sweet Prince,

18286 = And flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest,

14342 = Why do’s the Drumme come hither?

16923 = Enter Fortinbras and English Ambassador,

18137 = with Drumme, Colours, and Attendants.

Fortinbras

10437 = Where is this sight?

Horatio

12180 = What is it ye would see;

21128 = If ought of woe, or wonder, cease your search.

Fortinbras

18987 = His quarry cries on hauocke.  Oh proud death,

20646 = What feast is toward in thine eternall Cell.

17251 = That thou so many Princes, at a shoote,

11980 = So bloodily hast strooke.

Ambassador

8962 = The sight is dismall,

17034 = And our affaires from England come too late,

22958 = The eares are senselesse that should giue vs hearing,

17106 = To tell him his command’ment is fulfill’d

17885 = That Rosincrance and Guildensterne are dead:

16857 = Where should we haue our thankes?

Horatio

9607 = Not from his mouth,

15062 = Had it th’abilitie of life to thanke you:

16660 = He neuer gaue command’ment for their death.

22657 = But since so jumpe vpon this bloodie question,

20905 = You from the Polake warres, and you from England

18723 = Are heere arriued.  Giue order that these bodies

14365 = High on a stage be placed to the view,

20828 = And let me speake to th’yet vnknowing world,

20781 = How these things came about.  So shall you heare

16187 = Of carnall, bloudie, and vnnaturall acts,

20116 = Of accidentall iudgements, casuall slaughters

17748 = Of death’s put on by cunning, and forc’d cause,

19567 = And in this vpshot, purposes mistooke,

17470 = Falne on the Inuentors heads.  All this can I

7002 = Truly deliuer.

Fortinbras

10425 = Let vs hast to heare it,

14076 = And call the Noblest to the Audience.

20198 = For me, with sorrow, I embrace my Fortune,

18870 = I haue some Rites of memory in this Kingdome,

14639 = Which are ro claime my vantage doth     [ro = First Folio text]

4289 = Inuite me.

Horatio

18476 = Of that I shall haue alwayes cause to speake,

8322 = And from his mouth

16597 = Whose voyce will draw on more:

17888 = But let this same be presently perform’d,

15823 = Even whiles mens mindes are wilde,

8809 = Lest more mischance

12621 = On plots, and errors happen.

Fortinbras

8917 = Let foure Captaines

15105 = Beare Hamlet like a Soldier to the Stage,

14203 = For he was likely, had he beene put on

12980 = To haue prou’d most royally:

7504 = And for his passage,

22923 = The Souldiours Musicke, and the rites of Warre

9882 = Speake lowdly for him.

15535 = Take vp the body; Such a sight as this

18956 = Becomes the Field, but heere shewes much amis.

12625 = Go, bid the Souldiers shoote.

17610 = Exeunt Marching: after the which, a Peale of

 9029 = Ordenance are shot off.

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 VII. How these things came about:

All this can I truly deliuer

(Contemporary history)

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Horatio

8525 = Gunnar Tómasson

12385 = Guðrún Ólafía Jónsdóttir

The Gates of Hell

13031 = International Monetary Fund

9948 = Harvard University

7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands – Central Bank of Iceland

Accidentall iudgements,

casuall slaughters

11587 = Character Assassination

5881 = Níðingsverk – Barbarity

7750 = Psychiatric Rape

6603 = Mannorðsmorð – Vicious Slander

16439 = Criminal Obstruction of Justice

And in this vpshot, purposes mistooke,

   Falne on the Inuentors heads.

U.S. Government

12867 = William Jefferson Clinton – President

4496 = Janet Reno – Attorney General

International Monetary Fund

8899 = Jacques de Larosière – Managing Director

7678 = Michel Camdessus – Managing Director

5517 = William B. Dale – Deputy Managing Director

2713 = Dick Erb – Deputy Managing Director

6584 = Jacques J. Polak – Economic Counsellor

4734 = Tun Thin – Asian Department Director

9349 = W. John R. Woodley – Asian Department Deputy Director

3542 = Ken Clark – Director of Administration

3339 = Graeme Rea – Director of Administration

3227 = P. N. Kaul – Deputy Director of Administration

5446 = Nick Zumas – Grievance Committee Chairman

Harvard University

3625 = Derek C. Bok – President

8175 = Henry Rosovsky – Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

8566 = James S. Duesenberry – Chairman, Department of Economics

11121 = Paul Anthony Samuelson – Ph. D., Nobel Laureate in Economics

8381 = Walter S. Salant – Ph. D., Brookings Institution Senior Fellow

Iceland Government

10244 = Vigdís Finnbogadóttir – President

11361 = Salóme Þorkelsdóttir – Althing President

6028 = Davíð Oddsson – Prime Minister

10295 = Þorsteinn Pálsson – Minister of Justice

8316 = Jón Sigurðsson – Minister of Commerce

5940 = Jónas H. Haralz – World Bank Executive Director

Other Iceland

6648 = Jóhannes Nordal – Central Bank Governor

8864 = Bjarni Bragi Jónsson – Central Bank Chief Economist

14314 = Benjamín Jón Hafsteinn Eiríksson – Harvard Ph. D.

9720 = Matthías Jóhannessen – Editor, Morgunblaðið

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Addendum

Summary Presentation

Sweet Swan of Avon’s Return

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Saga Background

         1 = Monad

-4000 = Dark Sword – Man-Beast

10900 = Kolr Þorsteinsson – Last Arsonist to be slain in Brennu-Njálssaga

137522 = Flosi – Chief Arsonist – Makes his peace, then is lost at sea

Shakspere

Baptism

17252 = Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere

2602 = 26 April – 2^nd month old-style

1564 = 1564 A.D.

Burial

10026 = Will Shakspere, gent.

2502 = 25 April

1616 = 1616 A.D.

Out damned spot, out I say.

One, two, why then it´s time to doo´t

1338633 = Macbeth, Act V, Sc. i

Doctor of Physicke – Poore Player’s

CONSCIOUSNESS

    10805 = Sweet Swan of Avon*

         100 = The End

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*  8542 = Consciousness – Asleep in Lady Macbeth

-1000 = Darkness

 3263 = Beatrice – Wayting-Gentlewoman – Dark Lady’s Virgin Aspect

  10805