© Gunnar Tómasson

13 August 2016

I. Nicholas Rowe – Shakespeare’s First Biographer

(Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718) was the first editor of William Shakespeare, modernising the punctuation and spelling to the practice of his day. His edition, published in 6 volumes in 1709, was a first in a number of ways:

It contained the first formal biography of William Shakespeare, completed with the aid of researches done in Stratford-upon-Avon by the Restoration actor Thomas Betterton, who worked with actors who had known Shakespeare. The biography included several of the legends relating to Shakespeare’s life, including arguably the most famous one of how he was caught poaching deer at Charlecote Park (although this story had already been in circulation before Rowe’s edition).

II. Rowe’s Edition of Shakespeare’s Works

(Title page)

17653 = The WORKS of Mr. William Shakespear;

8061 = in SIX VOLUMES.

9412 = ADORN‘D with CUTS.

34888 = Revis’d and Corrected, with an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author.

6611 = By N. ROWE, Esq;

CUTS RESTORED

8353 = Hárr-Jafnhárr-Þriði – Tri-Unite Edda Cosmic Instructor

9322 = William Shakespeare

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III. Platonic-Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Authors

(Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Myth)

94300

1654 = ION

3412 = Platon

4946 = Socrates

14209 = Quintus Horatius Flaccus

12337 = Publius Virgilius Maro

11999 = Sextus Propertius

11249 = Publius Ovidius Naso

11359 = Snorri Sturluson

9814 = Sturla Þórðarson

5385 = Francis Bacon

7936 = Edward Oxenford

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IV. Bird’s-eye view of Shakespeare’s Life and Family

(Wikipedia)

110233

   9389 = Lived: Apr 23, 1564 – Apr 23, 1616 (age 52)

3841 = Height: 6′ 4″ (1.93 m)

13708 = Spouse: Anne Hathaway (m. 1582 – 1616)

33395 = Children: Hamnet Shakespeare (Son) · Susanna Hall (Daughter) · Judith Quiney (Daughter)

24029 = Education: King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon

25871 = Buried: Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon

110233

V. Non, Sanz Droict – No, Without Right

(Shakespeare Myth)

110233

  Shakspere Coat of Arms

   7933 = Non, Sanz Droict

Non Sanz Droict – Not Without Right

   1000 = Light of the World

7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God’s Image

Platonic-Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Authors

   1654 = ION

3412 = Platon

4946 = Socrates

14209 = Quintus Horatius Flaccus

12337 = Publius Virgilius Maro

11999 = Sextus Propertius

11249 = Publius Ovidius Naso

11359 = Snorri Sturluson

9814 = Sturla Þórðarson

5385 = Francis Bacon

 7936 = Edward Oxenford

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VI. Shakespeare (Poet-Apish) Quotes

(Wikipedia)

214175

12863 = Our doubts are traitors,

19166 = and make us lose the good we oft might win,

9145 = by fearing to attempt.

16522 = Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

19428 = The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

25975 = He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.

15160 = There was never yet fair woman

12663 = but she made mouths in a glass.

10661 = There have been many great men

23008 = that have flattered the people who never loved them.

13811 = A man loves the meat in his youth

12479 = that he cannot endure in his age.

23294 = Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

214175

VII. Summary

Cipher Games, Old and New

94300 = Title of Shakespeare’s Works/Cuts restored (II)

110233 = Shakespeare’s Life and Family (IV)

214175 = Shakespeare’s (Alleged) Quotes (VI)

418708

VIII + IX = 281935 + 136773 = 418708

X = 418708

Poet-Ape + Páfinn¹ = 3478 + 2604 = 6082

Faith + Flaming Sword = 2082 + 4000 = 6082

¹The Pope – Icelandic

VIII. Ben Jonson – On Poet-Ape

(Epigrammes)

281935

   4707 = On Poet-Ape

22358 = Poore Poet-Ape, that would be thought our chiefe,

21702 = Whose workes are eene the fripperie of wit,

14123 = From brocage is become so bold a thiefe,

15695 = As we, the rob’d, leaue rage, and pittie it.

22145 = At first he made low shifts, would picke and gleane,

21385 = Buy the reuersion of old playes; now growne

17994 = To a little wealth, and credit in the scene,

19578 = He takes vp all, makes each mans wit his owne.

21867 = And, told of this, he slights it. Tut, such crimes

17655 = The sluggish gaping auditor deuoures;

23174 = He markes not whose ’twas first: and after-times

16562 = May iudge it to be his, as well as ours.

18313 = Foole, as if halfe eyes will not know a fleece

24677 = From locks of wooll, or shreds from the whole peece?

281935

Páfinn + Jesting Pilate = 2604 + 6627 = 9231

Jörð² + Microcosmos + The End = 2131 + 7000 + 100 = 9231

²Earth – Icelandic

IX. Francis Bacon – Essay Of Truth

(Essayes, 1625)

136773

Alpha

16829 = What is Truth; said jesting Pilate;

16465 = and would not stay for an Answer.

Truth Crucified

         -1 = Monad

Omega

22422 = Surely the Wickednesse of Falshood, and Breach of Faith,

17402 = cannot possibly be so highly expressed,

13942 = as in that it shall be the last Peale,

24494 = to call the Iudgements of God, vpon the Generations of Men,

20293 = It being foretold, that when Christ commeth,

15732 = He shall not finde faith vpon the earth.

                Faith Not Found

-10805 = Sweet Swan of Avon

136773

Sweet Swan of Avon + The End = 10805 + 100 = 10905

Return of Sweet Swan of Avon = 10905

4823 = Árni beiskr³

2082 = Faith

4000 = Flaming Sword

10905

³ Killer of Snorri Sturluson

X. Murder Most Foul – The Last Pope

(Saga-Shakespeare Myth)

418708

Snorri Sturluson – Man in God’s Image

   7000 = Microcosmos

2692 = Ísland – Iceland/Brave New World

Snorri Sturluson’s Murder*

(Saga of Icelanders, Ch. 151)

29224 = Gizurr kom í Reykjaholt um nóttina eftir Mauritíusmessu.

20587 = Brutu þeir upp skemmuna, er Snorri svaf í.

23045 = En hann hljóp upp ok ór skemmunni í in litlu húsin,

9688 = er váru við skemmuna.

19023 = Fann hann þar Arnbjörn prest ok talaði við hann.

17663 = Réðu þeir þat, at Snorri gekk í kjallarann,

17668 = er var undir loftinu þar í húsunum.

21242 = Þeir Gizurr fóru at leita Snorra um húsin.

28547 = Þá fann Gizurr Arnbjörn prest ok spurði, hvar Snorri væri.

8875 = Hann kvaðst eigi vita.

22694 = Gizurr kvað þá eigi sættast mega, ef þeir fyndist eigi.

15638 = Prestr kvað vera mega, at hann fyndist,

12692 = ef honum væri griðum heitit.

22884 = Eftir þat urðu þeir varir við, hvar Snorri var.

25600 = Ok gengu þeir í kjallarann Markús Marðarson, Símon knútr,

26492 = Árni beiskr, Þorsteinn Guðinason, Þórarinn Ásgrímsson.

13048 = Símon knútr bað Árna höggva hann.

12169 = „Eigi skal höggva,” sagði Snorri.

8594 = „Högg þú,” sagði Símon.

12169 = „Eigi skal höggva,” sagði Snorri.

16079 = Eftir þat veitti Árni honum banasár,

17385 = ok báðir þeir Þorsteinn unnu á honum.

Lady Macbeth: “Hell is murky“

-1000 = Darkness

The Last Pope

   9010 = Petrus Romanus

418708

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

http://www.light-of-truth.com/ciphersaga.htm

* Gizurr arrived at Reykjaholt on the night after Mauritius mass.

They broke up the storehouse where Snorri slept. But he jumped up and out of the storehouse into the small houses which were by the storehouse.

There he found Arnbjörn priest and spoke to him. They decided that Snorri should enter the basement which was under the ceiling there in the houses.

Gizurr and his men began to search for Snorri in the houses. Then Gizurr found Arnbjörn priest and asked where Snorri was. He said that he did not know.

Then Gizurr said that they could not make peace if they did not meet. The priest said that he might perhaps be found if he was promised that his life would be spared.

Thereafter they became aware of where Snorri was. And they entered the basement, Markús Marðarson, Símon knútr, Árni beiskr, Þorsteinn Guðinason, Þórarinn Ásgrímsson.

Símon knútr asked Árni to strike him dead.

“Thou shalt not strike,” said Snorri.

“Thou shalt strike,” said Símon.

“Thou shalt not strike,” said Snorri.

After that Árni inflicted a fatal wound on him, and both he and Þorsteinn finished him off.