© Gunnar Tómasson

12 September 2016

First Review of Workes by Shakespeare

(Wikipedia)

Palladis Tamia, subtitled „Wits Treasury“, is a 1598 book written by the minister Francis Meres. It is important in English literary history as the first critical account of the poems and early plays of William Shakespeare. It was listed in the Stationers Register 7 September 1598.

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I. Of mellifluous & hony-tongued Shakespeare

(Palladis Tamia, 1598)

383224

  29693 = As the soule of Euphorbus was thought to liue in Pythagoras:

29189 = So the sweete wittie soule of Ouid liues in mellifluous &

10860 = hony-tongued Shakespeare,

13942 = witnes his Venus and Adonis,

26624 = his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private friends,

100 = & c.

18593 = As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best

15496 = for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines:

12424 = so Shakespeare among y English

21891 = is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage;

24098 = for Comedy, witnes his Ge’tleme’ of Verona, his Errors,

22072 = his Love labors lost, his Love labours wonne,

21969 = his Midsummers night dreame, & his Merchant of Venice:

19872 = for Tragedy, his Richard the 2.  Richard the 3.  Henry the 4. 

23346 = King John, Titus Andronicus and his Romeo and Juliet.

9412 = As Epius Stolo said,

26151 = that the Muses would speak with Plautus tongue,

15096 = if they would speak Latin: so I say

29618 = that the Muses would speak with Shakespeares fine filed phrase,

  12778 = if they would speake English.

383224

II. Edward Oxenford’s Imperfect Book

(Letter to Robert Cecil)

511378

    9205 = My very good brother,

11119 = yf my helthe hadd beene to my mynde

20978 = I wowlde have beene before this att the Coorte

16305 = as well to haue giuen yow thankes

15468 = for yowre presence at the hearinge

15274 = of my cause debated as to have moued her M

10054 = for her resolutione.

23461 = As for the matter, how muche I am behouldinge to yow

22506 = I neede not repeate but in all thankfulnes acknowlege,

13131 = for yow haue beene the moover &

14231 = onlye follower therofe for mee &

19082 = by yowre onlye meanes I have hetherto passed

13953 = the pykes of so many adversaries.

16856 = Now my desyre ys. Sythe them selues

15903 = whoo have opposed to her M ryghte

17295 = seeme satisfisde, that yow will make

13212 = the ende ansuerabel to the rest

16549 = of yowre moste friendlye procedinge.

12363 = For I am aduised, that I may passe

22634 = my Booke from her Magestie yf a warrant may be procured

21532 = to my Cosen Bacon and Seriant Harris to perfet yt.

25516 = Whiche beinge doone I know to whome formallye to thanke

16614 = but reallye they shalbe, and are from me, and myne,

23196 = to be sealed up in an aeternall remembran&e to yowreselfe.

18733 = And thus wishinge all happines to yow,

13574 = and sume fortunat meanes to me,

19549 = wherby I myght recognise soo diepe merites,

13775 = I take my leave this 7th of October

11101 = from my House at Hakney 1601.

15668 = Yowre most assured and louinge

4605 = Broother

    7936 = Edward Oxenford

511378

III. I know to whome formallye to thanke

(Creation Myth, Matt. 1:23, KJB 1611)

27332

Royal Creation Act

  5902 = Hieros Gamos

3635 = Emmanuel

5633 = Heimskringla – Circular Globe – Emmanuel’s “Head”

-1 = Monad “sleeps”

5486 = Höfuðlausn – Head-Ransom – “Head” separated from Body/Mortal Coil

Interpretation of “Head”

  6677 = God With Us

27332

IV. Workes of William Shakespeare

(First Folio frontispiece)

262237

  16746 = The Workes of William Shakespeare,

17935 = Containing all his Comedies, Histories, and

13106 = Tragedies: Truely set forth,

16008 = according to their first Originall.

22800 = The names of the principall actors in all these playes.

9322 = William Shakespeare

13172 = Samuel Gilburne, Richard Burbadge,

11932 = Robert Armin, John Hemmings,

18236 = William Ostler, Augustine Philips,

11446 = Nathan Field, William Kempt,

14649 = John Underwood, Thomas Poope,

11943 = Nicholas Tooley, George Bryan,

15063 = William Ecclestone, Henry Condell,

13098 = Joseph Taylor, William Slye,

13275 = Robert Benfield, Richard Cowly,

12746 = Robert Goughe, John Lowine,

15552 = Richard Robinson, Samuell Crosse,

  15208 = John Shancke, Alexander Cooke, John Rice.

262237

I + II + III + IV = 383224 + 511378 + 27332 + 262237 = 1184171

V. First Folio Dedication

(First Folio 1623)

1184171

      8208 = TO THE MOST NOBLE

867 = AND

7373 = INCOMPARABLE PAIRE

5027 = OF BRETHREN

10897 = WILLIAM Earle of Pembroke,

100 = [&] c. [c = 100 in “&c”]

23572 = Lord Chamberlaine to the Kings most Excellent Maiesty.

867 = AND

11590 = PHILIP Earle of Montgomery,

100 = [&] c.

14413 = Gentleman of his Maiesties Bed-Chamber,

22026 = Both Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter,

12835 = and our singular good LORDS.

7826 = Right Honourable,

25994 = Whilst we studie to be thankful in our particular,

22062 = for the many fauors we haue receiued from your L.L.

15163 = we are falne vpon the ill fortune,

23449 = to mingle two the most diuerse things that can bee,

7485 = feare, and rashnesse;

23489 = rashnesse in the enterprize, and feare of the successe.

23541 = For, when we valew the places your H.H. sustaine,

20442 = we cannot but know their dignity greater,

19953 = then to descend to the reading of these trifles:

13987 = and, while we name them trifles,

25700 = we haue depriu’d our selues of the defence of our Dedication.

14022 = But since your L.L. haue beene pleas’d

21688 = to thinke these trifles some-thing, heeretofore;

25557 = and haue prosequuted both them, and their Authour liuing,

17599 = with so much fauour: we hope, that

27770 = (they out-liuing him, and he not hauing the fate, common with some,

21390 = to be exequutor to his owne writings)

21711 = you will vse the like indulgence toward them,

14513 = you haue done vnto their parent.

10083 = There is a great difference,

23131 = whether any Booke choose his Patrones, or finde them:

8125 = This hath done both.

26340 = For, so much were your L.L. likings of the seuerall parts,

22932 = when they were acted, as before they were published,

12680 = the Volume ask’d to be yours.

21363 = We haue but collected them, and done an office to the dead,

16553 = to procure his Orphanes, Guardians;

22380 = without ambition either of selfe-profit, or fame:

20760 = onely to keepe the memory of so worthy a Friend, &

17475 = Fellow aliue, as was our SHAKESPEARE,

24877 = by humble offer of his playes, to your most noble patronage.

17511 = Wherein, as we haue justly obserued,

28933 = no man to come neere your L.L. but with a kind of religious addresse;

25208 = it hath bin the height of our care, who are the Presenters,

25744 = to make the present worthy of your H.H. by the perfection.

31596 = But, there we must also craue our abilities to be considerd, my Lords.

19548 = We cannot go beyond our owne powers.

29952 = Country hands reach foorth milke, creame, fruites, or what they haue:

20669 = and many Nations (we haue heard) that had not gummes &

22965 = incense, obtained their requests with a leauened Cake.

29471 = It was no fault to approch their Gods, by what meanes they could:

26494 = And the most, though meanest, of things are made more precious,

14733 = when they are dedicated to Temples.

27816 = In that name therefore, we most humbly consecrate to your H.H.

19643 = these remaines of your seruant Shakespeare;

29906 = that what delight is in them, may be euer your L.L. the reputation his, &

23734 = the faults ours, if any be committed, by a payre so carefull

26463 = to shew their gratitude both to the liuing, and the dead, as is

15589 = Your Lordshippes most bounden,

4723 = IOHN HEMINGE.

      5558 = HENRY CONDELL.

1184171

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