© Gunnar Tómasson
23 April 2016
I. Better Angel tempted from sight
(Shakespeares Sonnet # 144, 1609)
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18697 = Two loues I haue of comfort and dispaire,
23229 = Which like two spirits do sugiest me still,
14249 = The better angell is a man right faire:
20540 = The worser spirit a woman collour’d il.
17166 = To win me soone to hell my femall euill,
16951 = Tempteth my better angel from my sight,
18593 = And would corrupt my saint to be a diuel:
21464 = Wooing his purity with her fowle pride,
16939 = And whether that my angel be turn’t finde,
16376 = Suspect I may, yet not directly tell,
16141 = But being both from me both to each friend,
12802 = I gesse one angel in an others hel.
19853 = Yet this shal I nere know but liue in doubt,
14021 = Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
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II. Ghost: I am thy Fathers Spirit.
(Hamlet, Act I, Sc. v. First folio)
76209
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?
76209
III. Tis now the verie witching time of night
(Hamlet, Act III, Sc. ii. First folio)
98891
20620 = Tis now the verie witching time of night,
24057 = When Churchyards yawne and Hell it selfe breaths out
25916 = Contagion to this World. Now could I drink hot blood,
16280 = And do such bitter businesse as the day
12018 = Would quake to looke on.
98891
IV. Saint corrupted to be a diuel
(Shakespeare Myth)
20272
7 = Man of Seventh Day
1825 = Death
17252 = Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere
1000 = FIRE
-9838 = Christopher Morley
10026 = Will Shakspere, gent.
20272
V. Bad Angel’s Gravestone Inscription
(Stratford Holy Trinity Church)
60030
14036 = Good frend for Iesus sake forbeare
12888 = To digg the dust enclosed heare
17791 = Blest bee ye man that spares these stones
15315 = And curst bee hee that moves my bones.
60030
I – V = 247021 + 76209 + 98891 + 20272 + 60030 = 502423
VI. The Up-start Crow
(Shakespeare Myth)
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Greene’s Groats-worth of Wit
10282 = Yes trust them not:
29160 = for there is an vp-start Crow, beautified with our feathers,
23774 = that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde,
25415 = supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse
7638 = as the best of you:
16349 = and beeing an absolute Iohannes fac totum,
25466 = is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey.
Who is there?
Stratford Holy Trinity Church
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
Death’s Envy
3045 = LOGOS
345 = Soul’s material frame
216 = Soul’s resurrection
4000 = Flaming Sword
3394 = JESUS
Upstart Crow’s Gravescript
14036 = Good frend for Iesus sake forbeare
12888 = To digg the dust enclosed heare
17791 = Blest bee ye man that spares these stones
15315 = And curst bee hee that moves my bones.
On Picture of Crow‘s severed head
(Ben Jonson, First folio)
5506 = To the Reader.
18235 = This Figure, that thou here seest put,
16030 = It was for gentle Shakespeare cut;
13614 = Wherein the Graver had a strife
15814 = With Nature, to out-doo the life:
16422 = O, could he but have drawne his wit
13172 = As well in brasse, as he hath hit
19454 = His face; the Print would then surpasse
16560 = All that was ever writ in brasse.
13299 = But, since he cannot, Reader, looke
15354 = Not on his Picture, but his Booke.
541 = B. I.
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VII. The Genius of Antiquity…
In 1598 an unknown author of considerable talent and great charm wrote a series of satires, which he called Scialetheia, or A Shadow of Truth. In his snapdragon verses he described the vanity of the times. Staying late after the play at the Curtain, he had the wit to see that the dark theatre, vast and secret, represented something unfathomably precious. (Robert Payne, By Me, William Shakespeare, 1980, p. 75):
…Come to complain of our variety Of fickle fashions
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13328 = The City is the map of vanities,
16587 = The mart of fools, the magazin of gulls,
20512 = The painter’s shop of Anticks: walk in Paul’s
18826 = And but observe the sundry kinds of shapes
21682 = Th’ wilt swear that London is as rich in apes
14080 = As Africa Tabraca. One wries his face.
20587 = This fellow’s wry neck is his better grace.
14586 = He coined in newer mint of fashion,
24232 = With the right Spanish shrug shows passion.
15935 = There comes on in a muffler of Cadiz beard,
19993 = Frowning as he would make the world afeard;
18479 = With him a troop all in gold-daubed suits,
19235 = Looking like Talbots, Percies, Montacutes,
21589 = As if their very countenances would swear
17842 = The Spaniard should conclude a peace for fear:
17567 = But bring them to a charge, then see the luck,
23345 = Though but a false fire, they their plumes will duck.
21733 = What marvel, since life’s sweet? But see yonder,
14906 = One like the unfrequented Theatre
18199 = Walks in vast silence and dark solitude.
20492 = Suited to those black fancies which intrude
19795 = Upon possession of his troubled breast:
19151 = But for black’s sake he would look like a jest,
15724 = For he’s clean out of fashion: what he?
14513 = I think the Genius of antiquity,
14586 = Come to complain of our variety
7465 = Of fickle fashions.
The Genius of Antiquity
And its Modus Operandi
3045 = LOGOS
3635 = Emmanuel
345 = Soul’s material frame
216 = Soul’s resurrection
4000 = Flaming Sword
-3858 = The Devil
6677 = God with us
And they called his name:
3394 = JESUS
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