© Gunnar Tómasson

26 February 2017

Foreword

Ben Jonson’s final resting place is a 2×2 feet grave in Westminster Abbay where his body was buried standing upright. In the context of ancient creation myth, this serves to identify Ben with MAN which is the HEATHEN term for the procreative tool of Cosmic Creative Power – PENIS. A tool that rises, shakes and dies “standing upright” and is referred to early in Ben Jonson’s First Folio Commendatory Ode:

My Shakespeare rise! 

The inscription “error” on his gravestone – O RARE BEN JOHNSON – serves to signal POET Ben Jonson’s alter ego as POET-APE – a point alluded to by T. S. Eliot through the chaotic structure of his poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (more on that presently). The relationship between Ben Jonson’s alter ego as mythical MAN that becomes WISER in Death or FRÓÐARI in the Icelandic Gylfaginning is as follows:

POET-APE as Ben Jonson’s

Dying MAN

4692 = Ben Jonson

3478 = POET-APE

2801 = PENIS

       10 = HEAD that “speaks ten“ – SEED of New Life – as MAN “dies“

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Ben Jonson become WISER

On BRUTE MAN’s Death

3310 = FRÓÐARI 

7671 = O RARE BEN JOHNSON

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J. Alfred Prufrock as MAN-BEAST of 7th Day

Drowns in Virgin’s Well at Day’s End

7678 = J. Alfred Prufrock

     -7 = Death of MAN-Beast

7671 = O RARE BEN JOHNSON

J. Alfred Prufrock as

Stratfordian POET-APE

(Prufrock’s Dying Voice)

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16768 = We have lingered in the chambers of the sea

23084 = By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown

20131 = Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

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As in:

Baptismal Name

(Alleged Holy Trinity Church Records)

17252 = Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere

2602 = 26 April – 2^nd month old-style

1564 = 1564 A.D.

Death by Drowning

2801 = PENIS

2414 = VAGINA

6783 = MONS VENERIS

Burial Name

10026 = Will Shakspere, gent.

2502 = 25 April

1616 = 1616 A.D.

Human voices wake us to

1442 = LIFE

As in:

3310 = FRÓÐARI 

7671 = O RARE BEN JOHNSON

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The Broad Picture 

I. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

(24 February 2017)

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Title

    14941 = The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

First Part

1971861 = LET us go then, you and I, …

Second Part

  383551 = No! I am not Prince Hamlet, …

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II. Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets etc.

(Construction)

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1529523 = Ben Jonson’s First Folio Commendatory Ode¹

714889 = Prince Hamlet’s To be or not to be Soliloquy²

  125941 = # III below

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III. Let there be light.

(Construction)

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    7128 = Let there be light – Gen. 1:3

And there was Light

    1000 = Light of the World

Alias

    9322 = WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Crucified

16777 = THIS IS IESVS THEKING OF THE IEWES – Matt. 27:37
9442 = THE KING OF THE IEWES – Mark15:26

13383 = THIS IS THE KINGOF THE IEWES – Luke 23:38
17938 = IESVS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OFTHE IEWES – John 19:19

Sweet Swan of Avon

    7524 = The Second Coming

10805 = Sweet Swan of Avon

-2118 = TIME, End of

Alpha and Omega

(Matt. 10:34, KJB 1611)

  19148 = Thinke not that I am come to send peace on earth;

  15592 = I came not to send peace, but a sword.

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

http://www.light-of-truth.com/ciphersaga.htm

¹Ben Jonson: Commemorative Poem

(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 fro hence, hath mourn’d like night,

18824 = And despaires day, but for thy Volumes light.

       4692 = BEN: IONSON.

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² Prince Hamlet’s Soliloquy

(Act III, Sc. i, First folio, 1623)

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    5415 = Enter Hamlet.

Hamlet

18050 = To be, or not to be, that is the Question:

19549 = Whether ’tis Nobler in the minde to suffer

23467 = The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune,

17893 = Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles,

16211 = And by opposing end them: to dye, to sleepe

13853 = No more; and by a sleepe, to say we end

20133 = The Heart-ake, and the thousand Naturall shockes

19800 = That Flesh is heyre too?  ‘Tis a consummation

17421 = Deuoutly to be wish’d. To dye to sleepe,

19236 = To sleepe, perchance to Dreame; I, there’s the rub,

19794 = For in that sleepe of death, what dreames may come,

21218 = When we haue shufflel’d off this mortall coile,

20087 = Must giue vs pawse. There’s the respect

13898 = That makes Calamity of so long life:

24656 = For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time,

24952 = The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely,

18734 = The pangs of dispriz’d Loue, the Lawes delay,

16768 = The insolence of Office, and the Spurnes

20720 = That patient merit of the vnworthy takes,

17879 = When he himselfe might his Quietus make

21696 = With a bare Bodkin? Who would these Fardles beare

17807 = To grunt and sweat vnder a weary life,

17426 = But that the dread of something after death,

21935 = The vndiscouered Countrey, from whose Borne

20927 = No Traueller returnes, Puzels the will,

19000 = And makes vs rather beare those illes we haue,

20119 = Then flye to others that we know not of.

20260 = Thus Conscience does make Cowards of vs all,

18787 = And thus the Natiue hew of Resolution

21086 = Is sicklied o’re, with the pale cast of Thought,

17836 = And enterprizes of great pith and moment,

22968 = With this regard their Currants turne away,

18723 = And loose the name of Action.  Soft you now,

16746 = The faire Ophelia? Nimph, in thy Orizons

9726 = Be all my sinnes remembred.

Ophelia

5047 = Good my Lord,

17675 = How does your Honor for this many a day?

Hamlet

  17391 = I humbly thanke you: well, well, well.

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