© Gunnar Tómasson

20 January 2017

I. Edward Oxenford‘s Imperfect Book

(Letter to Robert Cecil)

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    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

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II + III + IV = 244789 + 262237 + 4352 = 511378

II. Greenes Groats-worth of Wit

(1592)

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  15176 = The printer to the gentle readers.

24027 = I haue published heere Gentlemen for your mirth and benefite

16090 = Greenes groates worth of wit.

20543 = Vvith sundry of his pleasant discourses,

9445 = ye haue beene before delighted:

19059 = But now hath death giuen a period to his pen:

13982 = onely this happened into my handes

19876 = which I haue published for your pleasures:

22916 = Accept it fauourably because it was his last birth

19325 = and not least worth: In my poore opinion.

26846 = But I will cease to praise that which is aboue my conceipt,

15733 = and leaue it selfe to speake for it selfe:

14224 = and so abide your learned censuring.

    7547 = Yours VV. VV.

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III. The First Folio of 1623

(Frontispiece)

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  16746 = The Workes of William Shakespeare,

17935 = Containing all his Comedies, Histories, and

13106 = Tragedies: Truly 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.

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IV. “Heathen” Edward de Vere’s

Path to Death

(Saga Myth)

4352

        1 = Monad

6500 = Þríhyrningr – Triangle

4000 = Flaming Sword

-6149 = Edward de Vere

4352

V. Robert Greene/Edward de Vere’s Swansong

(Groatsworth of Witte)

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  10518 = To the Gentlemen Readers.

4116 = Gentlemen.

18255 = The Swan sings melodiously before death,

19700 = that in all his life vseth but a iarring sound.

16111 = Greene though able inough to write,

25601 = yet deeplyer searched with sickenes than euer heeretofore,

22486 = sendes you his Swanne like songe, for that he feares

23071 = he shal ne[ ]er againe carroll to you woonted loue layes,

22265 = neuer againe discouer to you youths pleasures.

20892 = How euer yet sickenesse, riot, Incontinence,

24328 = haue at once shown their extremitie, yet if I recouer,

26490 = you shall all see, more fresh sprigs, then euer sprang from me,

27138 = directing you how to liue, yet not diswading ye from loue.

28447 = This is the last I haue writ, and I feare me the last I shall writ[ ].

13812 = And how euer I haue beene censured

12370 = for some of my former bookes,

11251 = yet Gentlemen I protest,

16909 = they were as I had speciall information.

7924 = But passing them,

20392 = I commend this to your fauourable censures,

14886 = and like an Embrion without shape,

19605 = I feare me will be thrust into the world.

17922 = If I liue to ende it, it shall be otherwise:

23670 = if not, yet will I commend it to your courtesies,

25931 = that you may as well be acquainted with my repentant death,

18477 = as you haue lamented my careles course of life.

23613 = But as Nemo ante obitum felix, so Acta Exitus probat:

19808 = Beseeching therefore to be deemed heereof as I deserue,

16249 = I leaue the worke to your likinges,

  13451 = and leaue you to your delightes.

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VI. Edward Oxenford’s Book Perfected

(Shakespeare Myth)

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           1 = Monad/Her Magestie

511378 = Imperfect Booke (# I)

Perfect Book

  8990 = Brave New World

Poem’s End

Snorri Sturluson’s Magic Poem

(Háttatal)

    5521 = Njóti aldrs

3902 = ok auðsala

7274 = konungr ok jarl,

7826 = þat er kvæðis lok.

4143 = Falli fyrr

3150 = fold í ægi,

6684 = steini studd,

    6819 = en stillis lof.

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