© Gunnar Tómasson

5 January 2016

I. Edward Oxenford alias William Shakespeare

(See “Shakespeare” By Another Name, 4 January 2016)

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II. Ben Jonson: Commemorative Poem

(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 fro hence, hath mourn’d like night,

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

       4692 = BEN: IONSON.

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III. Starre of Poets Shines Forth…

(Cosmic Creative Power)

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  4000 = Flaming Sword

IV. …In the Workes of William Shakespeare…

(First Folio, 1623)

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16746 = The Workes of William Shakespeare,

17935 = Containing all his Comedies, Histories,

13106 = Tragedies: Truely set forth,

16008 = according to their first Originall.

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V. … and The Forty-Sixth Psalm

(King James Bible, 1611)

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“It would be pleasant to think that Shakespeare was responsible, in part, for the majesty of the following,” wrote author Anthony Burgess of the forty-sixth psalm of the King James Bible:

46:1

27783 = God is our refuge and strength; a very present helpe in trouble.

46:2

25140 = Therfore will not we feare, though the earth be removed:

25186 = and though the mountaines be caried into the midst of the sea,

46:3

21736 = Though the waters thereof roare, and be troubled,

29088 = though the mountaines shake with the swelling thereof.  Selah.

46:4

7214 = There is a river,

21306 = the streames wherof shall make glad the citie of God:

19776 = the holy place of the Tabernacles of the most High.

46:5

18882 = God is in the midst of her: she shal not be moved:

15090 = God shall helpe her, and that right early.

46:6

17597 = The heathen raged, the kingdomes were moved:

15907 = he uttered his voyce, the earth melted.

46:7

15221 = The Lord of hosts is with us,

14069 = the God of Jacob is our refuge.  Selah.

46:8

15149 = Come, behold the Workes of the Lord,

17919 = what desolations hee hath made in the earth.

46:9

21932 = He maketh warres to cease unto the end of the earth:

23023 = hee breaketh the bow, and cutteth the speare in sunder,

14120 = he burneth the chariot in the fire.

46:10

12080 = Be stil, and know that I am God:

13996 = I will bee exalted among the heathen,

12241 = I will be exalted in the earth.

46:11

15221 = The Lord of hosts is with us,

  14069 = the God of Jacob is our refuge.  Selah.                                                                                

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“Whether he had anything to do with it or not, he is in it.  It is the forty-sixth Psalm.  The forty-sixth word from the beginning is SHAKE, and the forty-sixth word from the end, if we leave out the cadential ‘Selah’, is SPEARE.  And, in 1610, Shakespeare was forty-six years old.  If this is mere chance, fancy must allow us to think that it is happy chance.  The greatest prose-work of all time has the name of the greatest poet set cunningly in it.” (Anthony Burgess, Shakespeare, Penguin Books, 1972, pp. 233-234)

I + III + IV + V = 1027983 + 4000 + 63795 + 433745 = 1529523

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