© Gunnar Tómasson

7 September 2016

I. Samuel Johnson – Preface to Shakespeare

(First paragraph, 1765)

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  24023 = That praises are without reason lavished on the dead,

28761 = and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity,

26108 = is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who,

14112 = being able to add nothing to truth,

19382 = hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox;

35118 = or those, who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients,

31668 = are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses,

27742 = and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy,

  14900 = will be at last bestowed by time.

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As in:

  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

Who is there?

    3635 = Emmanuel

Baptism

  17252 = Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere

2602 = 26 April – 2nd month old-style

1564 = 1564 A.D.

Emmanuel’s Course Through Life

Sacred Triangle of Pagan Iceland

    7196 = Bergþórshváll

6067 = Miðeyjarhólmr

3027 = Helgafell

Macrocosmic Time

  25920 = Platonic Great Year

The Last Judgement

  11099 = Il Giudizio Universale – Sistine Chapel

Burial

  10026 = Will Shakspere, gent.

2502 = 25 April

    1616 = 1616

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II. Samuel Johnson – Preface to Shakespeare

(Pen-ultimate paragraph, 1765)

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  30420 = It is to be lamented, that such a writer should want a commentary;

30582 = that his language should become obsolete, or his sentiments obscure.

31187 = But it is vain to carry wishes beyond the condition of human things;

25349 = that which must happen to all, has happened to Shakespeare,

6867 = by accident and time;

31461 = and more than has been suffered by any other writer since the use of types,

23464 = has been suffered by him through his own negligence of fame,

36995 = or perhaps by that superiority of mind, which despised its own performances,

21221 = when it compared them with its powers,

24678 = and judged those works unworthy to be preserved,

26566 = which the criticks of following ages were to contend

  16720 = for the fame of restoring and explaining.

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As in:

Horace‘s Monument

  15415 = Exegi monumentum aere perennius
15971 = regalique situ pyramidum altius,

18183 = quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens
16667 = possit diruere aut innumerabilis
15808 = annorum series et fuga temporum.
16838 = Non omnis moriar multaque pars mei
17125 = vitabit Libitinam; usque ego postera
15977 = crescam laude recens.  Dum Capitolium
16702 = scandet cum tacita virgine pontifex,
17493 = dicar, qua violens obstrepit Aufidus
17316 = et qua pauper aquae Daunus agrestium
19190 = regnavit populorum, ex humili potens,
14596 = princeps Aeolium carmen ad Italos
15421 = deduxisse modos.  Sume superbiam
15021 = quaesitam meritis et mihi Delphica
15259 = lauro cinge volens, Melpomene, comam.¹

“Thy Stratford Moniment“

(L. Digges, First Folio)

    4951 = Shakespeare

-1 = Monad, Sleeping

Sacred Triangle of Pagan Iceland

    7196 = Bergþórshváll

6067 = Miðeyjarhólmr

3027 = Helgafell

The Longest WORD

(Loue‘s Labour‘s Lost)

  14034 = honorificabilitudinitatibus

Edda World Tree

Shakes at Time of the End

    7154 = Askr Yggdrasils²

      100 = THE END

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  III. Samuel Johnson – Preface to Shakespeare

(Last paragraph, 1765)

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  16162 = Among these candidates of inferiour fame,

20196 = I am now to stand the judgment of the publick;

25445 = and wish that I could confidently produce my commentary

30342 = as equal to the encouragement which I have had the honour of receiving.

23138 = Every work of this kind is by its nature deficient,

23676 = and I should feel little solicitude about the sentence,

  25543 = were it to be pronounced only by the skilful and the learned.

164502

As in:

    4669 = Cosen Bacon²

End-of-Time Murder

    7482 = William Peeter

Slain by

6642 = Edward Drew

Date

2511 = 25 January – 11th month old-style

1612

In Memoriam

(W. S. – Original spelling)

  14718 = Since Time, and his predestinated end,

16856 = Abridg’d the circuit of his hope-full dayes;

20211 = Whiles both his Youth and Vertue did intend,

16907 = The good indeuor’s, of deseruing praise:

15453 = What memorable monument can last,

18496 = Whereon to build his neuer blemisht name?

24860 = But his owne worth, wherein his life was grac’t?

  15085 = Sith as it euer hee maintain’d the same.

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I + II + III = 221814 + 305510 + 165502 = 692826

IV + V = 526846 + 165980 = 692826

IV. Francis Bacon’s Last Letter

(Alfred Dodd)

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Every schoolboy knows the story told in their history books how Francis Bacon one snowy day on or about All Fools Day, 1 April 1626, drove with the King’s Physician, Sir John Wedderburn, to Highgate and that at the foot of the Hill he stopped, bought a fowl, and stuffed it with snow with his own hands in order to ascertain whether bodies could be preserved by cold.  During the procedure, we are told, he caught a chill, and instead of Dr. Wedderburn driving him back to Gray’s Inn (whence he had come) or taking him to some warm house, the worthy doctor took him to an empty summer mansion on Highgate Hill, Arundel House, where there was only a caretaker; and there Francis Bacon was put into a bed which was damp and had only been “warmed by a Panne” (a very strange thing for a doctor to do) with the result that within a few days he died of pneumonia.  Dr. Rawley, his chaplain, says that he died “in the early morning of the 9^th April, a day on which was COMMEMORATED the Resurrection of Our Saviour”.

That is the story and this is Francis Bacon’s last letter:

14285 = To the Earle of Arundel and Surrey.

7470 = My very good Lord:

27393 = I was likely to have had the fortune of Caius Plinius the Elder,

19392 = who lost his life by trying an experiment

21445 = about the burning of the mountain Vesuvius.

27312 = For I was also desirous to try an experiment or two,

23426 = touching the conservation and induration of bodies.

27127 = As for the experiment itself, it succeeded excellently well;

19881 = but in the journey between London and Highgate,

18137 = I was taken with such a fit of casting,

20866 = as I knew not whether it were the stone,

24599 = or some surfeit of cold, or indeed a touch of them all three.

19809 = But when I came to your Lordship’s house,

20992 = I was not able to go back, and therefore was forced

10541 = to take up my lodging here,

27187 = where your housekeeper is very careful and diligent about me;

10692 = which I assure myself

24956 = your Lordship will not only pardon towards him,

14898 = but think the better of him for it.

21030 = For indeed your Lordship’s house is happy to me;

18831 = and I kiss your noble hands for the welcome

15120 = which I am sure you give me to it.

30197 = I know how unfit it is for me to write to your lordship

15772 = with any other hand than mine own;

32508 = but in troth my fingers are so disjointed with this fit of sickness,

  12980 = that I cannot steadily hold a pen…

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V. …they had their Cyphers and Jargons.

(Text; construction)

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Here the letter ends abruptly.  Whatever else was written has been suppressed by Sir Tobie Matthew, one of the Rosicrosse, on which Spedding remarks, “It is a great pity the editor did not think fit to print the whole.”  For some mysterious reason the letter was not printed until 1669 in Matthew’s Collection, captioned “This was the last letter that he ever wrote.”  So Francis Bacon’s last letter, like his first ones respecting his mysterious suit, the succession, betrays the same characteristics which he has himself described – and the reason – in his charge against Somerset for the murder of Overbury:

You suppressed, as much as in you was, TESTIMONY:  You did Deface, and Destroy, and Clip, and Misdate all Writings that might give LIGHT…. That is, Fear of Discovering SECRETS.  Secrets (I say) of a high and dangerous nature…. And like Princes Confederates they had their Cyphers and Jargons.

We thus see that these very tricks of suppression to destroy direct evidence in order to preserve a SECRET were not only known to Francis Bacon but, in exactly the same way, were practiced by him and his School (his “Confederates”); and the feature runs through all his letters and papers from youth to old age.  There are not only deletions by his own hand but by those to whom he entrusted his papers.  Spedding remarks upon it repeatedly throughout his seven volumes yet never once is he prompted to ask – nor in his final summing up – what is the reason for all this destroying, clipping, no-dating and misdating of papers?  Why is evidence suppressed?  What SECRETS have been hidden?  And yet Somerset’s charge – which Spedding must have read – is a direct pointer to the fact that there is a secret or a series of secrets waiting to be unearthed.  (Francis Bacon’s Personal Life-Story, Rider&Co, London, 1986, pp. 539-540; underlining added.)

24279 = You suppressed, as much as in you was, TESTIMONY: 

16549 = You did Deface, and Destroy, and Clip, and Misdate

16729 = all Writings that might give LIGHT….

16381 = That is, Fear of Discovering SECRETS. 

17956 = Secrets (I say) of a high and dangerous nature….

26042 = And like Princes Confederates they had their Cyphers and Jargons.

Commemorating the Resurrection

           1 = Monad

7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God‘s Image

-1000 = Darkness

10338 = The Devil‘s Bed and Bolster

of Our Saviour

   -7864 = Jesus Patibilis – The Passible Jesus Risen

19365 = IUDICIO PYLIUM,GENIO SOCRATEM, ARTE MARONEM

  20204 – TERRA TEGIT, POPULUS MÆRET, OLYMPUS HABET³

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¹ I have created a monument more lasting than bronze and loftier than the royal pyramids, a monument which neither the biting rain nor the raging North Wind can destroy, nor can the countless years and the passing of the seasons.  I will not entirely die and a great part of me will avoid Libitina, the goddess of Death; I will grow greater and greater in times to come, kept fresh by praise.  So long as the high priest climbs the stairs of the Capitolium, accompanied by the silent Vestal Virgin, I, now powerful but from humble origins, will be said to be the first to have brought Aeolian song to Latin meter where the raging Aufidius roars and where parched Daunus ruled over the country folk.  Embrace my pride, deservedly earned, Muse, and willingly crown me with Apollo’s laurel.

² Also, Francisco Bacono, 7154, acrostic in The Phoenix and the Turtle.

³ With the judgment of Nestor, the genius of Socrates, the art of Virgil,

earth covers him, the people mourn him, Olympus has him.