© Gunnar Tómasson
27 April 2016
I. Sporting With Humane Follies, Not With Crimes
(Every Man in His Humour, 1616 text)
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4830 = Prologve.
17241 = Though neede make many Poets, and some such
16774 = As art, and nature haue not betterd much;
21897 = Yet ours, for want, hath not so lou’d the stage,
17415 = As he dare serue th’ill customes of the age:
17601 = Or purchase your delight at such a rate,
17203 = As, for it, he himselfe must iustly hate.
17208 = To make a child, now swadled, to proceede
17110 = Man, and then shoote vp, in one beard, and weede,
28348 = Past threescore yeeres: or, with three rustie swords,
20685 = And helpe of some few foot-and-halfe-foote words,
19196 = Fight ouer Yorke, and Lancasters long iarres:
23205 = And in the tyring-house bring wounds, to scarres.
18225 = He rather prayes, you will be pleas’d to see
17173 = One such, to day, as other playes should be,
22710 = Where neither Chorus wafts you ore the seas;
23368 = Nor creaking throne comes downe, the boyes to please;
15984 = Nor nimble squibbe is seene, to make afear’d
18357 = The gentlewomen; nor roul’d bullet heard
22546 = To say, it thunders; nor tempestuous drumme
22563 = Rumbles, to tell you when the storme doth come;
16095 = But deedes, and language, such as men doe vse:
19810 = And persons, such as Comoedie would chuse,
19926 = When she would shew an Image of the times,
23846 = And sport with humane follies, not with crimes.
17988 = Except, we make ‘hem such by louing still
23677 = Our popular errors, when we know th’are ill.
18285 = I meane such errors, as you’ll all confesse
16660 = By laughing at them, they deserue no lesse:
22972 = Which when you heartily doe, there’s hope left, then,
18924 = You, that haue so grac’d monsters, may like men.
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II. Then, You, that haue so grac‘d monsters, may like men
(Holy Trinity Church, Stratford)
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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.
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III. Person chosen to Shew an Image of The Times
(The Taming of the Shrew, First folio)
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18801 = Enter Begger and Hostes, Christophero Sly.
Begger
9104 = Ile pheeze you infaith.
Hostess
12766 = A paire of stockes you rogue.
Begger
13791 = Y’are a baggage, the Slies are no Rogues.
10399 = Looke in the Chronicles,
17151 = we came in with Richard Conqueror:
24345 = therefore Paucas pallabris, let the world slide: Sessa.
Hostess
23174 = You will not pay for the glasses you haue burst?
Begger
6178 = No, not a deniere.
19856 = go by S. Ieronimie, goe to thy cold bed, and warme thee.
Hostess
20982 = I know my remedie, I must go fetch the Head-borough.
Begger
25800 = Third, or fourth, or fift borough, Ile answere him by Law.
17155 = Ile not budge an inch boy. Let him come, and kindly.
5330 = Falles asleepe.
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IV. Sirs, I will practice on this drunken man
(The Taming of the Shrew, First folio)
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Lord
19654 = What’s heere? One dead? Or drunke? See doth he breath?
Huntsman
21131 = He breath’s my Lord. Were he not warm’d with Ale,
20169 = this were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly.
Lord
21474 = Oh monstrous beast, how like a swine he lyes.
20662 = Grim death, how foule and loathsome is thine image:
20135 = Sirs, I will practise on this drunken man.
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V. The Lord’s Play and Ben Jonson’s Part
(Shakespeare Myth)
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1 = Monad/Lord Verulam
11203 = The Great Instauration/Play
4692 = Ben Jonson/Actor in Play
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VI. Poor Actor ends his Hour on Stage
And is heard no more
(The Taming of the Shrew, First folio)
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13299 = The Presenters aboue speakes.
Man
16937 = My Lord you nod, you do not minde the play.
Beggar
17001 = Yes by Saint Anne do I, a good matter surely:
10962 = Comes there any more of it?
Lady
9596 = My Lord, ‘tis but begun.
Beggar
19574 = ‘Tis a verie excellent peece of worke, Madame Ladie:
10016 = would ‘twere done.
7176 = They sit and marke.
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VII. Actor: I ha’ learned so much verse out of
a iealous mans part in a play.
(Every Man in His Humour, Omega Page)
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Clem.
6984 = all married anew.
22831 = Come, I coniure the rest, to put of all discontent.
30369 = You Mr. Downe-right, your anger, you master Kno-well, your cares;
18998 = master Kitely, and his wife, their iealousie.
19554 = For, I must tell you both, while that is fed,
18073 = Hornes i’ the mind are worse then o’ the head.
Kite.
21787 = Sir thus they goe from me, kisse me, sweet heart.
17583 = See, what a droue of hornes flye, in the ayre,
21182 = Wing’d with my clensed, and my credulous breath!
24458 = Watch ‘hem, suspicious eyes, watch, where they fall.
18024 = See, see! on heads, that thinke th’ haue none at all!
22526 = O, what a plenteous world of this, will come!
18811 = What ayre raynes hornes, all may be sure of fame.
25513 = I ha’ learned so much verse out of a iealous mans part, in a play.
Clem.
10756 = ‘Tis well, ‘tis well.
25299 = This night wee’ll dedicate to friendship, loue and laughter.
25262 = Master bride-groome, take your bride, and leade: every one, a fellow.
8869 = Here is my mistris.
35712 = Brayne-Worme! to whom all my addresses of courtship shall have their reference.
13262 = Whose adventures, this day,
19464 = when our grand-children shall heare to be made a fable,
26226 = I doubt not, but it shall find both spectators and applause.
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VIII. Francis Bacon’s Essay Of Truth
(1625)
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Alpha
16829 = What is Truth; said jesting Pilate;
16465 = and would not stay for an Answer.
Omega
19395 = Surely the Wickednesse of Falshood, and Breach
20429 = of Faith, cannot possibly be so highly expressed,
13942 – as in that it shall be the last Peale,
24494 = to call the Judgements of God, vpon the Generations of Men,
20293 = It being foretold, that when Christ commeth,
15732 = He shall not finde faith vpon the earth.
The Papacy
-4000 = Dark Sword
The Last Peale
100 = The End/Ragnarök/Twilight of the Gods
2600 = FINIS
IX. Dread the passage of Jesus, for he does not return.
(Medieval warning/prophecy)
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21288 = Time Jesum transeuntem et non revertentem.
Peace, the peale begins
(Loues Labour’s Lost, Act V, Sc.i)
Boy:
15678 = They haue beene at a great feast of Languages,
9992 = and stolne the scraps.
Clown:
21528 = O they haue liu’d long on the almes-basket of words.
19431 = I maruell thy M. hath not eaten thee for a word,
16196 = for thou art not so long by the head as
14034 = honorificabilitudinitatibus:
20669 = Thou art easier swallowed then a flapdragon.
Page:
7463 = Peace, the peale begins.
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