© Gunnar Tómasson

26 April 2017

„I am ‘sort of’ haunted by the conviction that the divine William

is the biggest and most successful fraud

ever practiced on a patient world. „

(Henry James, 1843-1916)

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I. Snorri Sturluson’s 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

15251 = eða girnast þeir at kunna skilja þat,

8474 = 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

II. First mention of Plays by Young Shakespeare

(Francis Meres, Palladis Tamia, 1598)

290397

29693 = As the soule of Euphorbus was thought to liue in Pythagoras:

29189 = So the sweete wittie soule of Ouid liues in mellifluous &

10860 = hony-tongued Shakespeare,

13942 = witnes his Venus and Adonis,

26624 = his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private friends,

100 = &c.   [c = 100 in &c]

18593 = As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best

15496 = for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines:

12652 = so Shakespeare among ye English

21891 = is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage;

24098 = for Comedy, witnes his Ge’tleme’ of Verona, his Errors,

22072 = his Love labors lost, his Love labours wonne,

21969 = his Midsummers night dreame, & his Merchant of Venice:

19872 = for Tragedy, his Richard the 2.  Richard the 3.  Henry the 4.       

23346 = King John, Titus Andronicus and his Romeo and Juliet.

290397

III. Who‘s there?

(Construction G. T.)

23061

1000 = Light of the World

Incarnate

7936 = Edward Oxenford

Become

Cosmic Creative Power

4000 = Flaming Sword

True Man and True God*

10125 = Sannr Maðr ok Sannr Guð

23061

* Icelandic 13th century term for Jesus Christ

I + II + III = 197920 + 290397 + 23061 = 511378

II + V  + VI + VII = 290397 + 36573 + 142431 + 41977 = 511378

IV. Edward Oxenford‘s Booke and Cosen Bacon

(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

V. Epigraph First Published Work

 (Venus and Adonis, 1593)

36573

20165 = Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo
16408 = Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua,
36573

VI. Christopher Marlowe‘s Translation

(Ovid, Amores, Book 1, Elegia 15)

142431

19425 = Let base conceited wits admire vilde things,

19004 = Faire Phoebus leade me to the muses springs.
18139 = About my head be quivering Mirtle wound,

14368 = And in sad lovers heads let me be found.
14336 = The living, not the dead can envie bite,
17312 = For after death all men receive their right:
20568 = Then though death rackes my bones in funerall fier,

19279 = Ile live, and as he puls me downe, mount higher

142431

VII. A Pagan‘s Path to Spiritual Wisdom

(Saga Myth)

41977

Earth

2131 = Jörð

Satan

-1000 = Darkness

Sacred Triangle of Pagan Iceland

Pagan’s Path to Spiritual Wisdom

7196 = Bergþórshváll

6067 = Miðeyjarhólmr

3027 = Helgafell – Holy Mountain

Cosmic Time

25920 = Platonic Great Year

Transformation

-6960 = Jarðlig skilning – Earthly Understanding

5596 = Andlig spekðin – Spiritual Wisdom

41977

VIII. (Deformed) First Heire of Shakespeare’s Inuention

(Venus and Adonis, Dedication)

378620

9987 = TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE

20084 = Henrie Vvriothesley, Earle of Southampton,

8814 = and Baron of Titchfield.

21943 = Right Honourable, I know not how I shall offend

23463 = in dedicating my vnpolisht lines to your Lordship,

25442 = nor how the worlde vvill censure mee for choosing

25266 = so strong a proppe to support so vveake a burthen,

17161 = onelye if your Honour seeme but pleased,

13387 = I account my selfe highly praised,

18634 = and vowe to take aduantage of all idle houres,

23217 = till I haue honoured you vvith some grauer labour.

23437 = But if the first heire of my inuention proue deformed,

15796 = I shall be sorie it had so noble a god-father:

12970 = and neuer after eare so barren a land,

16690 = for feare it ield me still so bad a haruest,

17496 = l leaue it to your Honourable suruey,

18884 = and your Honor to your hearts content,

27199 = vvhich I wish may alvvaies answere your ovvne vvish,

17766 = and the vvorlds hopefull expectation.

11662 = Your Honors in all dutie,

9322 = William Shakespeare

378620

IX. Satan’s Temptation of Jesus

(Matt. 4:1-11, KJB 1611)

529042

4:1

28613 = Then was Iesus led vp of the Spirit into the Wildernesse,

11214 = to bee tempted of the deuill.

4:2

20530 = And when hee had fasted forty dayes and forty nights,

13181 = hee was afterward an hungred.

4:3

16482 = And when the tempter came to him, hee said,

10566 = If thou be the Sonne of God,

15281 = command that these stones bee made bread.

4:4

18472 = But he answered, and said, It is written,

11833 = Man shall not liue by bread alone,

26509 = but by euery Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

4:5

20924 = Then the deuill taketh him vp into the holy Citie,

16520 = and setteth him on a pinacle of the Temple,

4:6

8004 = And saith vnto him,

20580 = If thou bee the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe:

28489 = For it is written, He shall giue his Angels charge concerning thee,

15292 = & in their handes they shall beare thee vp,

22323 = lest at any time thou dash thy foote against a stone.

4:7

19606 = Iesus said vnto him, It is written againe,

17802 = Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

4:8

25356 = Againe the Deuill taketh him vp into an exceeding high mountaine,

20642 = and sheweth him all the kingdomes of the world

8143 = and the glory of them:

4:9

22688 = And saith vnto him, All these things will I give thee

19710 = if thou wilt fall downe and worship me.

4:10

12627 = Then saith Iesus vnto him,

17837 = Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written,

18110 = Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God,

13398 = and him onely shalt thou serue.

4:11

11082 = Then the deuill leaveth him,

17228 = and behold, Angels came and ministred vnto him.

529042

X. Christopher Morley‘s Murder

 (Construction G. T.)

42360

Archtypal Tyrant

2707 = Macbeth

Locus of First Inuention

5627 = Stratford

Deptford Hostess

5156 = Eleanor Bull

Three Companions

6429 = Ingram Frizer

7470 = Nicholas Skeres

6069 = Robert Poley

Date

3003 = 30 May – 3rd month old-style

1593 = 1593 A.D.

Satanic Monster Slain

-9838 = Christopher Morley

28216

14144 = A, B and C

42360

A

Marlowe‘s Portrait Inscption

14144

7984 = Quod me nutrit

6160 = me destruit – What nourishes me, destroys me.

14144

B

Stratfordian Dead and Buried

14144

10026 = Will Shakspere, gent.

2502 = 25 April – 2nd month old-style

1616 = 1616 A.D.

14144

C

Beast of Revelation

14144

3563 = Nature

Red in Tooth and Claw

666 = Man-Beast

Satan

-1000 = Darkness

Macbeth‘s Last Stand

10915 = Turn Hell-hound, turn

14144

VIII + IX + X = 378620 + 529042 + 42360 = 950022

XI. See what a hook the Lord put in

the nostrils of this barking dog.

The Theatre of God‘s Judgements

(Thomas Beard, 1597)

950022

23840 = Not inferior to any of the former in Atheism and Impiety,

16956 = and equal to all in manner of punishment,

14045 = was one of our own nation,

16073 = of fresh and late memory called Marlowe,

10516 = by profession a scholar,

26420 = brought up from his youth in the University of Cambridge,

27057 = but by practice a playwright and a Poet of scurrility, who,

21592 = by giving too large a swing to his own wit,

20536 = and suffering his lust to have the full reins,

30598 = fell (not without just desert) to that outrage and extremity,

14588 = that he denied God and His son Christ,

22968 = and not only in word blasphemed against the Trinity,

27484 = but also (as it is credibly reported) wrote books against it,

18494 = affirming our Saviour to be but a deceiver,

23120 = and Moses to be but a conjurer and seducer of the people,

18777 = and the Holy Bible to be but vain and idle stories

14561 = and all religion but a device of policy.

15120 = But see what a hook the Lord put

15768 = in the nostrils of this barking dog.

18348 = It so fell out, that in London streets

26022 = as he purposed to stab one whom he sought a grudge unto

14776 = with his dagger, the other party,

14947 = perceiving so, avoided the stroke,

19453 = that withal catching hold of his wrist,

15178 = he stabbed his own dagger into his head,

29364 = in such sort, that notwithstanding all the means of surgery

23541 = that could be wrought, he shortly after died thereof.

16081 = The manner of his death being so terrible

20303 = (for he even cursed and blasphemed to his last gasp,

27420 = and together with his breath an oath flew out of his mouth)

24514 = that it was not only a manifest sign of God’s judgement,

24979 = but also an horrible and fearful terror to all that beheld him.

22339 = But herein did the justice of God most notably appear,

13983 – in that he compelled his own hand

18035 = which had written those blasphemies

17123 = to be the instrument to punish him,

18497 = and that in his brain, which had devised the same.

17792 = I would to God (and I pray it from my heart)

28829 = that all atheists in this realm, and in all the world beside, would,

21316 = by the remembrance and consideration of this example,

16788 = either forsake their horrible impiety,

24251 = or that they might in like manner come to destruction;

20363 = and so that abominable sin which so flourished

10282 = among men of greatest name,

22734 = might either be quite extinguished and rooted out,

15942 = or at least smothered, and kept under,

28309 = that it durst not show its head any more in the world’s eye.

950022

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¹Snorri Sturluson’s 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 of the book.