© Gunnar Tómasson

17 August 2015.

I. The Queene (my Lord) is dead.

554893

(Macbeth, Act V, Sc. v – First Folio)

  26746 = Enter Macbeth, Seyton, & Souldiers, with, 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

9555 = Cannot once start me.

12402 = 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

II. Saga of Burnt Njáll

(Brennu-Njálssaga)

                Alpha

6257 = Mörðr hét maðr. – Man was named Mörðr.

12685 = Höfðingjaskipti varð í Nóregi. – There was a change of chieftains in Norway.

                Omega

11274 = Fara menn við þat heim af þingi. – At that people go home from Althing.

13530 = Ok lýk ek þar Brennu-Njálssögu. – And there I conclude Saga of Burnt Njáll.

43746

III. Fool At Way’s End

(Saga-Shakespeare Myth)

2770 = Flosi – Killer of Njáll by Arson

-6960 = Jarðlig skilning – Earthly understanding

  5596 = Andlig spekðin – Spiritual wisdom

  1406

IV. Francis Bacon‘s Essayes

(Dedication, 1625)

    9987 = TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE

18613 = MY VERY GOOD LO. THE DVKE of Buckingham his Grace,

9271 = LO. High Admirall of England.  

5815 = EXCELLENT LO.

22090 = SALOMON saies; A good Name is as a precious oyntment;

31225 = And I assure my selfe, such wil your Graces Name bee, with Posteritie.

21416 = For your Fortune, and Merit both, haue beene Eminent.

20248 = And you haue planted Things, that are like to last.

13223 = I doe now publish my Essayes;

25098 = Which, of all my other workes, haue beene most Currant:

15033 = For that, as it seemes, they come home,

13886 = to Mens Businesse, and Bosomes.

18429 = I haue enlarged them, both in Number, and Weight;

15649 = So that they are indeed a New Worke.

13471 = I thought it therefore agreeable,

18328 = to my Affection, and Obligation to your Grace,

24692 = to prefix your Name before them, both in English, and in Latine.

20651 = For I doe conceiue, that the Latine Volume of them,

13148 = (being in the Vniuersall Language)

12837 = may last, as long as Bookes last.

16577 = My Instauration, I dedicated to the King:

14781 = my Historie of HENRY the Seuenth

21369 = (which I haue now also translated into Latine)

23643 = and my Portions of Naturall History, to the Prince:

13053 = And these I dedicate to your Grace;

20322 = Being of the best Fruits, that by the good Encrease,

21295 = which God giues to my Pen and Labours, I could yeeld.

  10530 = God leade your Grace by the Hand.

20801 = Your Graces most Obliged and faithfull Seruant,

    4260 = FR. St. ALBAN

509741

II + III + IV = 1406 + 43746 + 509741 = 554893

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