© Gunnar Tómasson
Palm Sunday
20 March 2016
I. Marlowe’s Translation of Ovid’s Amores
(Book 1, Elegia 15)
298870
Alpha
22773 = Envie, why carpest thou my time is spent so ill,
20689 = And tearmes my works fruits of an idle quill?
20588 = Or that unlike the line from whence I sprong,
19712 = Wars dustie honors are refused being yong,
20425 = Nor that I studie not the brawling lawes,
17527 = Nor set my voyce to sale in everie cause?
16730 = Thy scope is mortall, mine eternall fame,
17995 = That all the world may ever chaunt my name.
Omega
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
298870
II. Stay passenger, why goest thou by so fast…
(Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon)
129308
19949 = STAY PASSENGER WHY GOEST THOU BY SO FAST
22679 = READ IF THOU CANST WHOM ENVIOUS DEATH HATH PLAST
24267 = WITH IN THIS MONUMENT SHAKSPEARE: WITH WHOME
20503 = QUICK NATURE DIDE WHOSE NAME DOTH DECK YS TOMBE
20150 = FAR MORE THEN COST: SIEH ALL YT HE HATH WRITT
21760 = LEAVES LIVING ART BUT PAGE TO SERVE HIS WITT
129308
III. Read if thou canst whom envious death has plast…
(My reading)
83200
1 = Monad
85535 = Dedication, Shakespeares Sonnets¹
Promised Eternitie
-6149 = Edward de Vere – Dead
3713 = Utopia
100 = The End
83200
I + II + III = 298870 + 129308 + 83200 = 511378
IV. Edward Oxenford‘s Imperfect Booke
(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. To those ignorant in the affairs he went about.
(Queen’s Privy Council, June 29, 1587)
274889
13324 = Whereas it was reported
20960 = that Christopher Marlowe was determined
10834 = to have gone beyond the seas
10972 = to Rheims and there remain,
19800 = their Lordships thought good to certify
18025 = that he behaved himself orderly and discreetly
17855 = whereby he had done her Majesty good service,
20745 = and deserved to be rewarded for his faithful dealing.
25159 = Their Lordships request that the rumour thereof
14324 = should be allayed by all possible means
17152 = and that he should be furthered in the degree
18014 = he was to take this next commencement;
19521 = because it was not her Majesty’s pleasure
11702 = that anyone employed as he had been
21815 = in matters touching the benefit of his country
9384 = should be defamed by those
16687 = ignorant in the affairs he went about.
Gone Beyond the Seas
-11384 = Christopher Marlowe
274889
—-
Rheims-Utopia
3288 = Rheims
3713 = Utopia
7001
1 = Monad
7000 = Microcosmos – Creation/Man in God‘s Image
7001
—-
I = V + VI = 274889 + 23981 = 298870
VI. Shugborough Monument Inscription²
(My reading)
23981
(a)
7582 = Les Bergers d‘Arcadie
9299 = Njáll Þorgeirsson – Title character of Brennu-Njálssaga
7000 = Microcosmos – Creation/Man in God‘s Image
100 = The End
23981
(b)
7582 = Les Bergers d‘Arcadie
-1000 = Darkness
10594 = Sir Francis Bacon, Knight
-4000 = Dark Sword
10805 = Sweet Swan of Avon
23981
(c)
1 = Monad
3637 = Mr. W. H.
4763 = Epigrammes
7671 = Ben Johnson
7909 = Salomon’s House³
23981
(d)
1000 = Light of the world
2131 = Jörð – Earth in Icelandic
6852 = D. O U O S V A V V M.
Metamorphosis
– 5975 = Simon Peter
5829 = Simon bar Iona
Quod Me Nutrit, Me Destruit – 14144
What Nourishes Me, Destroys Me
Text on Christopher Morley’s Painting
As in: 10026 + 2502 + 1616 = 14144
10026 = Will Shakspere, gent
Burial date
2502 = April 25 (April 2nd month old-style)
1616 = 1616 A.D.
23981
Footnotes
¹10233 = TO THE.ONLIE.BEGETTER.OF.
11550 = THESE.INSUING.SONNETS,
9775 = Mr. W.H., ALL HAPPINESSE
7932 = AND.THAT.ETERNITIE.
4480 = PROMISED.
541 = By.
10347 = OUR EVER-LIVING POET.
5122 = WISHETH.
9575 = THE WELL-WISHING.
6780 = ADVENTURER.IN
7354 = SETTING.FORTH.
1846 = T.T.
85535
²The Shugborough Inscription is a sequence of letters – O U O S V A V V, between the letters D M – carved on the 18th-century Shepherd’s Monument in the grounds of Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire, England, below a mirror image of Nicolas Poussin’s painting, the Shepherds of Arcadia. It has never been satisfactorily explained, and has been called one of the world’s top uncracked ciphertexts.
³ 7582 + 6306 – 5979 = 7909, where
7582 = Les Bergers d‘Arcadie
6306 = Prometheus – Ancient symbol of Providence
-5979 = Girth House – Orkney Islands – Holy Sepulchre Opened/Death defeated
7909 = Salomon‘s House – Francis Bacon‘s New Atlantis
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Gunnar Tómasson
