© Gunnar Tómasson
13 July 2016
I. There you are number’d.
(Dedication, First folio 1623)
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13561 = To the great Variety of Readers.
18892 = From the most able, to him that can but spell:
23910 = There you are number’d. We had rather you were weighd.
15557 = Especially, when the fate of all Bookes
13394 = depends upon your capacities:
20912 = and not of your heads alone, but of your purses.
13554 = Well! It is now publique, [&]
23807 = you wil stand for your priviledges wee know:
18554 = to read and censure. Do so, but buy it first.
21606 = That doth best commend a Booke, the Stationer saies.
26811 = Then, how odde soever your braines be, or your wisedomes,
15985 = make your licence the same, and spare not.
24287 = Judge your sixe-pen’orth, your shillings worth,
17527 = your five shillings worth at a time,
24612 = or higher, so you rise to the just rates, and welcome.
11893 = But whatever you do, Buy.
21523 = Censure will not drive a Trade, or make the Jacke go.
16347 = And though you be a Magistrate of wit,
14375 = and sit on the Stage at Black-Friers,
16653 = or the Cock-pit to arraigne Playes dailie,
19936 = know, these Playes have had their triall alreadie,
11212 = and stood out all Appeales;
25048 = and do now come forth quitted rather by a Decree of Court,
18968 = then any purchas’d Letters of commendation.
25920 = It had bene a thing, we confesse, worthie to have bene wished,
22206 = that the Author himselfe had liv’d to have set forth,
16780 = and overseen his owne writings;
18214 = But since it hath bin ordain’d otherwise,
14716 = and he by death departed from that right,
16744 = we pray you do not envie his Friends,
19372 = the office of their care, and paine, to have collected [&]
18118 = publish’d them; and so to have publish’d them,
14326 = as where (before) you were abus’d
24981 = with diverse stolne, and surreptitious copies,
17347 = maimed, and deformed by the frauds and stealthes
21644 = of injurious impostors, that expos’d them:
22192 = even those, are now offer’d to your view cur’d,
10913 = and perfect of their limbes;
25862 = and all the rest, absolute in their numbers, as he conceived the.
19215 = Who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature,
16850 = was a most gentle expresser of it.
13670 = His mind and hand went together:
24530 = And what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse,
25193 = that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.
28510 = But it is not our province, who onely gather his works,
12949 = and give them you, to praise him.
11633 = It is yours that reade him.
20122 = And there we hope, to your divers capacities,
21545 = you will finde enough, both to draw, and hold you:
23021 = for his wit can no more lie hid, then it could be lost.
12608 = Reade him, therefore; and againe, and againe:
11921 = And if then you doe not like him,
27037 = surely you are in some manifest danger, not to understand him.
19247 = And so we leave you to other of his Friends,
15036 = whom if you need, can bee your guides:
24153 = if you neede them not, you can leade yourselves, and others.
13893 = And such Readers we wish him.
4723 = John Heminge
5786 = Henrie Condell
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II. Stay Passenger, why goest thou by so fast?
(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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II + IV + V = 129308 + 10571 + 950022 = 1089901
III. Hidden Poetry – Read if thou canst
(Shakespeare Myth)
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13561 = To the great Variety of Readers
18892 = From the most able, to him that can but spell:
9182 = There you are number’d.
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13561 = Terribilis est locus iste. – This place is terrifying.
2487 = Anus – Seat of Man‘s Lower Emotions
-2118 = Time, End of
Text on Christopher Morley/Marlowe‘s Picture:
14144 = Quod me nutrit me destruit. – What nourishes Me, Destroys Me
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13561 = Terribilis est locus iste. – This place is terrifying.
2487 = Anus – Seat of Man‘s Lower Emotions
-2118 = Time, End of
Stratfordian‘s burial
10026 = Will Shakspere, gent.
2502 = 25 April – 2nd month old-style
1616 = 1616 A.D.
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3858 = The Devil
5627 = Stratford
1612 = Hell
16290 = Sacred Triangle of Pagan Iceland¹
10 = Decapitated Devil‘s Head Speaks Ten/Father
677 = EK – Ego in Icelandic
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IV. Advent of Microcosmos – End of Mesocosmos
(Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Myth)
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1 = Monad
7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God‘s Image
-6429 = Mesocosmos, End of The Devil‘s
677 = EK – Anonymous Author of Brennu-Njálssaga
Alias
9322 = William Shakespeare
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V. The Theatre of God’s Judgements
(Thomas Beard, 1593)
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23840 = Not inferior to any of the former in Atheism and Impiety,
16956 = and equal to all in manner of punishment,
14045 = was one of our own nation,
16073 = of fresh and late memory called Marlowe,
10516 = by profession a scholar,
26420 = brought up from his youth in the University of Cambridge,
27057 = but by practice a playwright and a Poet of scurrility, who,
21592 = by giving too large a swing to his own wit,
20536 = and suffering his lust to have the full reins,
30598 = fell (not without just desert) to that outrage and extremity,
14588 = that he denied God and His son Christ,
22968 = and not only in word blasphemed against the Trinity,
27484 = but also (as it is credibly reported) wrote books against it,
18494 = affirming our Saviour to be but a deceiver,
23120 = and Moses to be but a conjurer and seducer of the people,
18777 = and the Holy Bible to be but vain and idle stories
14561 = and all religion but a device of policy.
15120 = But see what a hook the Lord put
15768 = in the nostrils of this barking dog.
18348 = It so fell out, that in London streets
26022 = as he purposed to stab one whom he sought a grudge unto
29723 = with his dagger, the other party, perceiving so, avoided the stroke,
19453 = that withal catching hold of his wrist,
15178 = he stabbed his own dagger into his head,
29364 = in such sort, that notwithstanding all the means of surgery
23541 = that could be wrought, he shortly after died thereof.
16081 = The manner of his death being so terrible
20303 = (for he even cursed and blasphemed to his last gasp,
27420 = and together with his breath an oath flew out of his mouth)
24514 = that it was not only a manifest sign of God’s judgement,
24979 = but also an horrible and fearful terror to all that beheld him.
22339 = But herein did the justice of God most notably appear,
13983 = in that he compelled his own hand
18035 = which had written those blasphemies
17123 = to be the instrument to punish him,
18497 = and that in his brain, which had devised the same.
17792 = I would to God (and I pray it from my heart)
28829 = that all atheists in this realm, and in all the world beside, would,
21316 = by the remembrance and consideration of this example,
16788 = either forsake their horrible impiety,
24251 = or that they might in like manner come to destruction;
20363 = and so that abominable sin which so flourished
10282 = among men of greatest name,
22734 = might either be quite extinguished and rooted out,
15942 = or at least smothered, and kept under,
28309 = that it durst not show its head any more in the world’s eye.
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¹ 7196 = Bergþórshváll
6067 = Miðeyjarhólmr
3027 = Helgafell