© Gunnar Tómasson

16 September 2016

I. From the most able, to him that can but spell

(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.

28951 = Especially, when the fate of all Bookes depends upon your capacities:

20912 = and not of your heads alone, but of your purses.

37361 = Well! It is now publique, [&]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:

33105 = even those, are now offer’d to your view cur’d, 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 + III = 120215 + 969686 = 1089901

II. And so we leave you to other of his Friends,

whom if you need, can bee your guides.

(Construction)

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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

As ‟Guides‟

    4000 = Flaming Sword/Cosmic Creative Power

Ben Jonson ‟Guided Home‟

Grave Inscription

    7671 = O RARE BEN JOHNSON¹

‟Marlovian‟

Painting Inscription

  14144 = QUOD ME NUTRIT ME DESTRUIT²

      100 = THE END

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III. Ben Jonson’s ‟Ripest Studies‟

(Dedication, Epigrammes, 1616)

969686

  17752 = To The Great Example Of Honor And Vertve,

6625 = The Most Noble

15805 = William, Earle of Pembroke, L. Chamberlayne,

100 = &c. [c = 100 when combined with &]

3177 = My Lord.

28324 = While you cannot change your merit, I dare not change your title:

12370 = It was that made it, and not I.

17687 = Vnder which name, I here offer to your Lo:

17687 = the ripest of my studies, my Epigrammes;

19735 = which, though they carry danger in the sound,

16695 = doe not therefore seeke your shelter:

20228 = For, when I made them, I had nothing in my conscience,

17746 = to expressing of which I did need a cypher.

18345 = But, if I be falne into those times, wherein,

14205 = for the likenesse of vice, and facts,

21707 = euery one thinks anothers ill deeds obiected to him;

20514 = and that in their ignorant and guiltie mouthes,

26249 = the common voyce is (for their securitie) Beware the Poet,

23308 = confessing, therein, so much loue to their diseases,

18752 = as they would rather make a partie for them,

13719 = then be either rid, or told of them:

30864 = I must expect, at your Lo: hand, the protection of truth, and libertie,

24129 = while you are constant to your owne goodnesse.

26974 = In thankes whereof, I returne you the honor of leading forth

28945 = so many good, and great names as my verses mention on the better part)

18807 = to their remembrance with posteritie.

13576 = Amongst whom, if I haue praysed,

20608 = vnfortunately, any one, that doth not deserue;

29367 = or, if all answere not, in all numbers, the pictures I haue made of them:

23367 = I hope it will be forgiuen me, that they are no ill pieces,

15943 = though they be not like the persons.

19615 = But I foresee a neerer fate to my booke, then this:

26225 = that the vices therein will be own’d before the vertues

25729 = (though, there, I haue auoyded all particulars, as I haue done names)

19689 = and that some will be so readie to discredit me,

22557 = as they will haue the impudence to belye themselues.

25650 = For, if I meant them not, it is so. Nor, can I hope otherwise.

23198 = For, why should they remit any thing of their riot,

23216 = their pride, their selfe-loue, and other inherent graces,

31414 = to consider truth or vertue; but, with the trade of the world,

19671 = lend their long eares against men they loue not:

15713 = and hold their dear Mountebanke, or Iester,

19716 = in farre better condition, then all the studie,

12299 = or studiers of humanitie.

25583 = For such, I would rather know them by their visards,

19563 = still, then they should publish their faces,

18123 = at their perill, in my Theater, where Cato,

18224 = if he liu’d, might enter without scandall.

15499 = Your Lo: most faithfull honorer,

    4692 = Ben. Ionson.

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

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¹ In the ancient creation myth, “Man“ symbolizes the Male procreative tool at both Alpha and Omega – Creation and Death – of Man‘s course through life. Thus Ben Jonson’s body is buried standing upright  in a 2×2 feet grave in Westminster Abbey in apparent allusion to his having been play-cast in Shake-Speare Myth as the male procreative tool of mythical Man-Beast of Seventh Day alias Will Shakspere, gent.:

7671 = O RARE BEN JOHNSON

10026 = Will Shakspere, gent.

17697

As in:

  1000 = Light of the World

7 = Man-Beast of Seventh Day

4692 = Ben Jonson

2801 = Penis

2414 = Vagina

  6783 = Mons Veneris

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² The Cipher Value of the ‟Marlovian‟ phrase, QUOD ME NUTRIT ME DESTRUIT, 14,144, underscores the above construction of Ben Jonson’s burial arrangements in Westminster Abbey as follows:

10026 = Will Shakspere gent.

2592 = 25 April – 2nd month old-style

1616 = 1616 A.D.

      100 = THE END

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