© Gunnar Tómasson
15 March 2016
I. The Ides of March are Come.
I Cæsar, but not gone.
(Act III, Sc. i – First Folio)
1541770
4916 = Flourish.
24433 = Enter Cæsar, Brutus, Cassius, Caska, Decius, Metellus,
25886 = Trebonius, Cynna, Antony, Lepidus, Artimedorus, Publius,
8352 = and the Soothsayer.
Cæsar
9508 = The Ides of March are come.
Soothsayer
8887 = I Cæsar, but not gone.
Artimedorus
11592 = Haile Cæsar: Read this Scedule.
Decius
17267 = Trebonius doth desire you to ore-read
20518 = (At your best leysure) this his humble suite.
Artemidorus
17809 = O Cæsar, reade mine first: for mine’s a suite
19816 = That touches Cæsar neerer. Read it great Cæsar,
Cæsar
22379 = What touches vs our selfe, shall be last seru’d.
Artemidorus
14149 = Delay not, Cæsar, read it instantly.
Cæsar
11037 = What, is the fellow mad?
Publius
6900 = Sirra, giue place.
Cassius
22754 = What, vrge you your Petitions in the street?
9210 = Come to the Capitoll.
Popillius
19963 = I wish your enterprize to day may thriue.
Cassius
15019 = What enterprize Popillius?
Popillius
6575 = Fare you well.
Brutus
11992 = What said Popillius Lena?
Cassius
22191 = He wisht to day our enterprize might thriue:
15837 = I feare our purpose is discouered.
Brutus
15806 = Looke how he makes to Cæsar: marke him.
Cassius
16942 = Caska be sodaine, for we feare preuention,
20350 = Brutus what shall be done? If this be knowne,
18558 = Cassius or Cæsar neuer shall turne backe,
10528 = For I will slay my selfe.
Brutus
9990 = Cassius be constant:
21899 = Popillius Lena speakes not of our purposes,
18125 = For looke he smiles, and Cæsar doth not change.
Cassius
24829 = Trebonius knowes his time: for look you Brutus
17249 = He drawes Mark Antony out of the way.
Decius
16210 = Where is Metellus Cimber, let him go,
19500 = And presently preferre his suite to Cæsar.
Brutus
16379 = He is addrest: presse neere, and second him.
Cynna
19433 = Caska, you are the first that reares your hand.
Cæsar
16879 = Are we all ready? What is now amisse,
17969 = That Cæsar and his Senate must redresse?
Metellus
21506 = Most high, most mighty, and most puisant Cæsar
19567 = Metellus Cymber throwes before thy Seate
5778 = An humble heart.
Cæsar
12472 = I must preuent thee Cymber:
21733 = These couchings, and these lowly courtesies
14345 = Might fire the blood of ordinary men,
16504 = And turne pre-Ordinance, and first Decree
14255 = Into the lane of Children. Be not fond,
18986 = To thinke that Cæsar beares such Rebell blood
20290 = That will be thaw’d from the true quality
27136 = With that which melteth Fooles, I meane sweet words,
22347 = Low-crooked-curtsies, and base Spaniell fawning:
12618 = Thy Brother by decree is banished:
17586 = If thou doest bend, and pray, and fawne for him,
18113 = I spurne thee like a Curre out of my way:
25524 = Know, Cæsar doth not wrong, nor without cause
8655 = Will he be satisfied.
Metellus
21609 = Is there no voyce more worthy then my owne,
20385 = To sound more sweetly in great Cæsars eare,
15686 = For the repealing of my banish’d Brother?
Brutus
18142 = I kisse thy hand, but not in flattery, Cæsar:
16107 = Desiring thee, that Publius Cymber may
12806 = Haue an immediate freedome of repeale.
Cæsar
7924 = What, Brutus!
Cassius
11142 = Pardon, Cæsar; Cæsar, pardon:
19425 = As lowe as to thy foote doth Cassius fall,
19052 = To begge infranchisement for Publius Cymber.
Cæsar
16379 = I could be well mou’d if I were as you,
22538 = If I could pray to mooue, Prayers would mooue me:
19543 = But I am constant as the Northerne Starre,
19698 = Of whose true fixt, and resting quality
16134 = There is no fellow in the Firmament.
21305 = The Skies are painted with vnnumbred sparkes,
15567 = They are all Fire and every one doth shine:
18563 = But, there’s but one in all doth hold his place.
23070 = So, in the World; ‘Tis furnish’d well with Men,
15675 = And Men are Flesh and Blood, and apprehensiue;
15653 = Yet in the number I do know but One
15556 = That vnassayleable holds on his Ranke,
13067 = Vnshak’d of Motion: and that I am he,
16339 = Let me a little shew it, euen in this,
19864 = That I was constant Cymber should be banish’d,
15998 = And constant do remaine to keepe him so.
Cinna
3200 = O Cæsar, –
Cæsar
16936 = Hence: Wilt thou lift up Olympus!
Decius
4910 = Great Cæsar, –
Cæsar
16307 = Doth not Brutus bootlesse kneele?
Casca
7232 = Speake, hands, for me!
6500 = They stab Cæsar.
Cæsar
13836 = Et tu, Brute? _______ Then fall Cæsar. Dyes
Cinna
12536 = Liberty, Freedome, Tyranny is dead,
20780 = Run hence, proclaime, cry it about the Streets.
Casca
19015 = Some to the common Pulpits, and cry out,
14707 = Liberty, Freedome, and Enfranchisement.
Brutus
15381 = People and Senators, be not affrighted:
18152 = Fly not, stand still: Ambition’s debt is paid.
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II. Ambition’s debt is paid
(Creation Myth)
15277
6429 = Mesocosmos
8848 = Ambition’s debt is paid.
15277
4177 = Fiat lux!
4000 = Flaming Sword
7000 = Microcosmos – Creation/Man in God’s Image
15277
III. Incurring/Paying Ambition’s debt
(History 1976-2016)
1 = Monad
8525 = Gunnar Tómasson
12385 = Guðrún Ólafía Jónsdóttir
1825 = Death
13031 = International Monetary Fund
9948 = Harvard University
7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands – Central Bank of Iceland
11587 = Character Assassination
5881 = Níðingsverk – Barbarity
7750 = Psychiatric Rape
6603 = Mannorðsmorð – Vicious Slander
16439 = Criminal Obstruction of Justice
15277 = Ambition’s debt incurred/paid
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I + III = 1541770 + 116398 = 1658168
IV. Murther most foule, as in the best it is.
Prince Hamlet‘s Revenge
(Hamlet, First Folio, Act I, Sc. v)
1658168
9462 = Enter Ghost and Hamlet.
Hamlet
22112 = Where wilt thou lead me? speak; Ile go no further.
Ghost
2883 = Marke me.
Hamlet
3756 = I will.
Ghost
11748 = My hower is almost come,
22142 = When I to sulphurous and tormenting Flames
10942 = Must render up my selfe.
Hamlet
7778 = Alas poore Ghost.
Ghost
19231 = Pitty me not, but lend thy serious hearing
10823 = To what I shall unfold.
Hamlet
9425 = Speake, I am bound to heare.
Ghost
21689 = So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt heare.
Hamlet
3270 = What?
Ghost
10539 = I am thy Fathers Spirit,
19489 = Doom’d for a certaine terme to walke the night;
15474 = And for the day confin’d to fast in Fiers,
19868 = Till the foule crimes done in my dayes of Nature
10839 = Are burnt and purg’d away?
7855 = But that I am forbid
18785 = To tell the secrets of my Prison-House,
20467 = I could a Tale unfold, whose lightest word
25179 = Would harrow up thy soule, freeze thy young blood,
27383 = Make thy two eyes like Starres, start from their Spheres,
16795 = Thy knotty and combined locks to part,
15570 = And each particular haire to stand an end,
20558 = Like Quilles upon the fretfull Porpentine:
17082 = But this eternall blason must not be
19562 = To eares of flesh and bloud; list Hamlet, oh list,
16884 = If thou didst ever thy deare Father love.
Hamlet
3459 = Oh Heaven!
Ghost
22153 = Revenge his foule and most unnaturall Murther.
Hamlet
4660 = Murther?
Ghost
18629 = Murther most foule, as in the best it is;
20891 = But this most foule, strange, and unnaturall.
Hamlet
11813 = Hast, hast me to know it,
15426 = That with wings as swift
17684 = As meditation, or the thoughts of Love,
11099 = May sweepe to my Revenge.
Ghost
5591 = I finde thee apt;
20490 = And duller should’st thou be then the fat weede
18672 = That rots it selfe in ease, on Lethe Wharfe,
18843 = Would’st thou not stirre in this.
7499 = Now Hamlet heare:
19608 = It’s given out, that sleeping in mine Orchard,
21032 = A Serpent stung me: so the whole eare of Denmarke,
13077 = Is by a forged processe of my death
18982 = Rankly abus’d: But know thou Noble youth,
18951 = The Serpent that did sting thy Fathers life,
13593 = Now weares his Crowne.
Hamlet
15252 = O my Propheticke soule: mine Uncle?
Ghost
19142 = I that incestuous, that adulterate Beast
29730 = With witchcraft of his wits, hath Traitorous guifts.
21415 = Oh wicked Wit, and Gifts, that have the power
22656 = So to seduce? Won to to this shamefull Lust
22351 = The will of my most seeming vertuous Queene.
17021 = Oh Hamlet, what a falling oft was there,
18901 = From me, whose love was of that dignity,
21371 = That it went hand in hand, even with the Vow
13881 = I made to her in Marriage; and to decline
25184 = Upon a wretch, whose Naturall gifts were poore
24348 = To those of mine. But Vertue, as it never wil be moved,
21122 = Though Lewdnesse court it in a shape of Heaven:
17577 = So Lust, though to a radiant Angell link’d,
20657 = Will sate it selfe in a Celestiall bed & prey on Garbage.
20310 = But soft, me thinkes I sent the Mornings Ayre;
18535 = Briefe let me be: Sleeping within mine Orchard,
17248 = My custome alwayes in the afternoone;
19016 = Upon my secure hower thy Uncle stole
17466 = With iuyce of cursed Hebenon in a Violl,
16672 = And in the Porches of mine eares did poure
18685 = The leaperous Distilment; whose effect
17290 = Holds such an enmity with bloud of Man,
25233 = That swift as Quick-silver, it courses through
15783 = The naturall Gates and Allies of the Body;
19585 = And with a sodaine vigour it doth posset
16801 = And curd, like aygre droppings into Milke,
18159 = The thin and wholsome blood: so did it mine;
15969 = And a most instant tetter bak’d about,
22687 = Most Lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust,
7531 = All my smooth Body.
16992 = Thus was I, sleeping, by a Brothers hand,
19671 = Of Life, of Crowne, and Queene at once dispatcht;
18043 = Cut off even in the Blossomes of my Sinne,
16349 = Unhouzzled, disappointed, unnaneld,
18018 = No reckoning made, but sent to my account
15902 = With all my imperfections on my head;
16946 = Oh horrible, Oh horrible, most horrible;
17164 = If thou hast nature in thee beare it not;
13314 = Let not the Royall Bed of Denmarke be
15607 = A Couch for Luxury and damned Incest.
22022 = But howsoever thou pursuest this Act,
22240 = Taint not thy mind; nor let thy Soule contrive
19204 = Against thy Mother ought; leave her to heaven,
19764 = And to those Thornes that in her bosome lodge,
19266 = To pricke and sting her. Fare thee well at once;
22305 = The Glow-worme showes the Matine to be neere,
15555 = And gins to pale his uneffectuall Fire:
12486 = Adue, adue, Hamlet; remember me. Exit.
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Footnote.
¹ Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Myth
Two Brothers
5321 = Romulus
3436 = Remus
Brennu-Njálssaga
6257 = Mörðr hét maðr.
12685 = Höfðingjaskipti varð í Nóregi.
11274 = Fara menn við þat heim af þingi.
13530 = Ok lýk ek þar Brennu-Njálssögu.
The First Folio
16746 = The Workes of William Shakespeare,
17935 = Containing all his Comedies, Histories, and
13106 = Tragedies: Truely set forth,
16008 = according to their first Originall.
100 = The End.
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