© Gunnar Tómasson
22 October 2016
I. Sonnets I, II, CLIII and CLIV
(Shakespeares Sonnets, 1609)
271661 + 261048 + 248718 + 246556 = 1027983
Alpha – I and II
19985 = From fairest creatures we desire increase,
18119 = That thereby beauties Rose might neuer die,
16058 = But as the riper should by time decease,
15741 = His tender heire might beare his memory:
22210 = But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
25851 = Feed’st thy lights flame with selfe substantiall fewell,
14093 = Making a famine where aboundance lies,
22081 = Thy selfe thy foe, to thy sweet selfe too cruell:
23669 = Thou that art now the worlds fresh ornament,
15027 = And only herauld to the gaudy spring,
21957 = Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
18648 = And, tender chorle, makst wast in niggarding:
20168 = Pitty the world, or else this glutton be,
18054 = To eate the worlds due, by the graue and thee.
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22191 = When fortie Winters shall beseige thy brow,
16472 = And digge deep trenches in thy beauties field,
20500 = Thy youthes proud liuery so gaz’d on now,
19497 = Wil be a totter’d weed of smal worth held:
17451 = Then being askt, where all thy beautie lies,
19311 = Where all the treasure of thy lusty daies;
20498 = To say within thine owne deepe sunken eyes
21834 = How much more praise deseru’d thy beauties vse,
22077 = If thou couldst answere this faire child of mine
17540 = Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse
19210 = Proouing his beautie by succession thine.
21619 = This were to be new made when thou art ould,
22848 = And see thy blood warme when thou feel’st it could.
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Omega – CLIII and CLIV
13228 = Cvpid laid by his brand and fell a sleepe,
13445 = A maide of Dyans this aduantage found,
18187 = And his loue-kindling fire did quickly steepe
18007 = In a could vallie-fountaine of that ground:
20891 = Which borrowd from this holie fire of loue,
16961 = A datelesse liuely heat still to indure,
19450 = And grew a seething bath which yet men proue,
18055 = Against strang malladies a soueraigne cure:
19283 = But at my mistres eie loues brand new fired,
21662 = The boy for triall needes would touch my brest
16374 = I sick withall the helpe of bath desired,
15780 = And thether hied a sad distemperd guest.
18172 = But found no cure, the bath for my helpe lies,
19223 = Where Cupid got new fire; my mistres eye.
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15579 = The little Loue-God lying once a sleepe,
14878 = Laid by his side his heart inflaming brand,
22758 = Whilst many Nymphes that vou’d chast life to keep,
14399 = Came tripping by, but in her maiden hand,
17635 = The fayrest votary tooke vp that fire,
20156 = Which many Legions of true hearts had warm’d,
12929 = And so the Generall of hot desire,
15303 = Was sleeping by a Virgin hand disarm’d.
16961 = This brand she quenched in a coole Well by,
20944 = Which from loues fire tooke heat perpetuall,
14642 = Growing a bath and healthfull remedy,
18706 = For men diseasd, but I my Mistrisse thrall,
18170 = Came there for cure and this by that I proue,
23496 = Loues fire heates water, water cooles not loue.
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II. Francis Bacon’s Essayes
(Dedication, 1625)
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16411 = TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MY VERY GOOD LO.
12189 = THE DVKE of Buckingham his Grace,
9271 = LO. High Admirall of England.
5815 = EXCELLENT LO.
22090 = SALOMON saies; A good Name is as a precious oyntment;
8263 = And I assure my selfe,
22962 = such wil your Graces Name bee, with Posteritie.
21416 = For your Fortune, and Merit both, haue beene Eminent.
20248 = And you haue planted Things, that are like to last.
13223 = I doe now publish my Essayes;
25098 = Which, of all my other workes, haue beene most Currant:
15033 = For that, as it seemes, they come home,
13886 = to Mens Businesse, and Bosomes.
18429 = I haue enlarged them, both in Number, and Weight;
15649 = So that they are indeed a New Worke.
13471 = I thought it therefore agreeable,
18328 = to my Affection, and Obligation to your Grace,
13717 = to prefix your Name before them,
10975 = both in English, and in Latine.
20651 = For I doe conceiue, that the Latine Volume of them,
13148 = (being in the Vniuersall Language)
12837 = may last, as long as Bookes last.
16577 = My Instauration, I dedicated to the King:
14781 = my Historie of HENRY the Seuenth
21369 = (which I haue now also translated into Latine)
23643 = and my Portions of Naturall History, to the Prince:
13053 = And these I dedicate to your Grace;
20322 = Being of the best Fruits, that by the good Encrease,
21295 = which God giues to my Pen and Labours, I could yeeld.
10530 = God leade your Grace by the Hand.
20801 = Your Graces most Obliged and faithfull Seruant,
4260 = FR. St. ALBAN
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I + II = 1027983 + 509741 = 1537724
III + IV = 1529523 + 8201 = 1537724
III. Ben Jonson – Tribute to William Shakespeare
(First folio, 1623)
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11150 = To the memory of my beloved,
5329 = The AVTHOR
10685 = MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
867 = AND
9407 = what he hath left us.
17316 = To draw no envy (Shakespeare) on thy name,
13629 = Am I thus ample to thy Booke, and Fame:
20670 = While I confesse thy writings to be such,
19164 = As neither Man, nor Muse, can praise too much.
21369 = ‘Tis true, and all mens suffrage. But these wayes
20516 = Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise;
17686 = For seeliest Ignorance on these may light,
23213 = Which, when it sounds at best, but eccho’s right;
17565 = Or blinde Affection, which doth ne’re advance
19375 = The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance;
18692 = Or crafty Malice, might pretend this praise,
19456 = And thinke to ruine, where it seem’d to raise.
18294 = These are, as some infamous Baud, or Whore,
23199 = Should praise a Matron: – What could hurt her more?
18170 = But thou art proofe against them, and indeed
16465 = Above th’ill fortune of them, or the need.
16324 = I, therefore, will begin. Soule of the Age!
20370 = The applause! delight! the wonder of our Stage!
18434 = My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by
16611 = Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lye
15597 = A little further, to make thee a roome:
17952 = Thou art a Moniment, without a tombe,
19673 = And art alive still, while thy Booke doth live,
19194 = And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
18259 = That I not mixe thee so, my braine excuses, –
22232 = I meane with great, but disproportion’d Muses;
19760 = For if I thought my judgement were of yeeres,
21584 = I should commit thee surely with thy peeres,
23104 = And tell, how farre thou didst our Lily out-shine,
19727 = Or sporting Kid, or Marlowes mighty line.
21016 = And though thou hadst small Latine, and lesse Greeke,
21296 = From thence to honour thee, I would not seeke
20635 = For names; but call forth thund’ring Æschilus,
14527 = Euripides, and Sophocles to us,
15939 = Paccuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead,
15425 = To life againe, to heare thy Buskin tread
19665 = And shake a Stage: Or, when thy Sockes were on,
14842 = Leave thee alone for the comparison
18781 = Of all that insolent Greece or haughtie Rome
20033 = Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
21540 = Triumph, my Britaine, thou hast one to showe
18910 = To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe.
14789 = He was not of an age, but for all time!
19879 = And all the Muses still were in their prime,
17867 = When, like Apollo, he came forth to warme
16143 = Our eares, or like a Mercury to charme!
19768 = Nature her selfe was proud of his designes,
18609 = And joy’d to weare the dressing of his lines!
22712 = Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit,
20715 = As, since, she will vouchsafe no other Wit.
16006 = The merry Greeke, tart Aristophanes,
22701 = Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please;
12944 = But antiquated, and deserted lye,
15906 = As they were not of Natures family.
17575 = Yet must I not give Nature all; Thy Art,
16885 = My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part:
17709 = For though the Poets matter, Nature be,
16202 = His Art doth give the fashion. And, that he,
24373 = Who casts to write a living line, must sweat
18045 = (such as thine are) and strike the second heat
17403 = Upon the Muses anvile: turne the same,
19618 = (And himselfe with it) that he thinkes to frame;
16266 = Or, for the lawrell, he may gaine a scorne,
15633 = For a good Poet’s made, as well as borne.
21914 = And such wert thou. Looke how the fathers face
15715 = Lives in his issue, even so, the race
20651 = Of Shakespeares minde and manners brightly shines
17328 = In his well torned and true-filed lines:
15712 = In each of which, he seemes to shake a Lance,
14757 = As brandish’t at the eyes of Ignorance.
21616 = Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were
17318 = To see thee in our waters yet appeare,
19678 = And make those flights upon the bankes of Thames,
14184 = That so did take Eliza and our James!
15161 = But stay, I see thee in the Hemisphere
14530 = Advanc’d, and made a Constellation there!
22500 = Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage
19541 = Or influence, chide or cheere the drooping Stage;
24007 = Which, since thy flight frō hence, hath mourn’d like night,
18824 = And despaires day, but for thy Volumes light.
4692 = BEN: IONSON
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IV. Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage
Or influence…
8201
…Chide…
-2604 = Páfinn/The Pope
…Or cheere the drooping Stage
10805 = Sweet Swan of Avon
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Selected Summary
Previous Pieces of Hidden Poetry
A. 721747 + 1206218 = 1927965
[1] 721747: Ætlunarverk Snorra/Snorri’s Mission. In Sigurður Nordal – Hulinn Kveðskapur/Hidden Poetry. 16 October 2016.
[2] 1206218: Details in Section II.
[3] 1927965: Of Truth/Francis Bacon’s Essay. In Man’s Fall and The Last Judgement. 5 October 2016.
B. 11931 – 6429 + 7000 + 1193716 = 1206218
[4] 11931: Saga Cipher Key.
[5] 6429: Mesocosmos. Man-Beast.
[6] 7000: Microcosmos. Man in God’s Image.
[7] 1193716 – Details in Section III.
C. 85535 + 84288 – 4000 + 1027893 = 1193716
[8] 85535: Sonnets Dedication. In Edward Oxenford alias Christopher Marlowe. 20 March 2016
[9] 84288: Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Authors. Kynngimögnuð Orð Snorra Sturlusonar/Magical Words of Snorri Sturluson. 17 Oct. 2016.
[10] – 4000: Dark Sword. Opposite of 4000: Flaming Sword, Symbol of Cosmic Creative Power.
[11] 1027893: (Shakespeares Sonnets I, II, CLIII and CLIV, 1609). In Edward de Vere – Archetypal Stratfordian. 1 August 2016.
D. 1927965 + 492461 + 122122 = 2542548
[12] 1927965: Of Truth. In Man’s Fall and The Last Judgement. 5 October 2016.
[13] 492461: Details in Section V.
[14] 122122: William Shakespeare’s “Greatest Secrets”. 16 August 2016.
[15] 2542548: Dedication, King James Bible, 1611. The Wonder of the World in this Later Age. 18 September 2016.
E. 1 + 57540 + 360 + 438097 – 3637 + 100 = 492461
[16] 1 = Monad.
[17] 57540. The Crucified King of the Iewes.¹
[18] 360 = Devils’ Circle
[17] 438097: The Abomination of Desolation. In The Times They Are A-changin’. 14 October 2016.
[18] 3637 = Mr. W. H. – Sonnets Dedication.
[19] 100 = THE END
¹Crucifixion
16777 = THIS IS IESVS THEKING OF THE IEWES – Matt. 27:37
9442 = THE KING OF THE IEWES – Mark 15:26
13383 = THIS IS THE KINGOF THE IEWES – Luke 23:38
17938 = IESVS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OFTHE IEWES – John 19:19
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