© Gunnar Tómasson
13 June 2017
Overview
A
176807 = Augury – The Fall of the mightiest Iulius.
335368 = Letter. Donald J. Trump to FBI Director James Comey.
472399 = Letter. Jeff Sessions to President Donald J. Trump
3081832 = Memorandum. Rod J. Rosenstein to Attorney General
57716 = The Fall of the mightiest Iulius.
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B
1441199 = The Ides of March are come – I Cæsar, but not gone.
621625 = This same day Must end the work the Ides of March begun.
100571 = Ambition’s Debt is paid.
1960727 = C/D
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C
988942 = Cæsar, now be still, I kill’d not thee with halfe so good a will.
2099 = Brutus “shuffles off his mortal coil”/The Inborn Gates of Hell.
969686 = Ben Jonson/Archetypal Brute
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D
1960727 = Then spake Iesus to the multitude and his disciples.
A
Augury – The Fall of the Mightiest Iulius
(Hamlet, Act I, Sc. i, 1611)
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Horatio
16320 = A moth it is to trouble the mindes eye:
16377 = In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
17116 = A little ere the mightiest Iulius fell
21038 = The graues stood tennantlesse, and the sheeted dead
17695 = Did squeake and gibber in the Romane streets
23629 = As starres with traines of fire, and dewes of bloud
20717 = Disasters in the Sunne; and the moist starre,
22679 = Vpon whose influence Neptunes Empier stands,
21236 = Was sick almost to doomesday with eclipse.
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Letter. Donald J. Trump to FBI Director James Comey.
(10 May 2017)
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8203 = Dear Director Comey:
26129 = I have received the attached letters from the Attorney General
22927 = and the Deputy Attorney General of the United States
13320 = recommending your dismissal
23355 = as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
14996 = I have accepted their recommendation
20334 = and you are hereby terminated and removed from office,
8540 = effective immediately.
19166 = While I greatly appreciate you informing me,
12807 = on three separate occasions,
15669 = that I am not under investigation,
14790 = I nevertheless concur with
18640 = the judgment of the Department of Justice
20729 = that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau.
24609 = It is essential that we find new leadership for the FBI
15406 = that restores public trust
23456 = and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission.
25693 = I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.
6599 = Donald J. Trump
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Letter. Jeff Sessions to President Donald J. Trump
(9 May 2017)
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7708 = Dear Mr. President:
25641 = As Attorney General, I am committed to a high level of discipline,
26945 = integrity and the rule of law to the Department of Justice –
17570 = an institution that I deeply respect.
22613 = Based on my evaluation, and for the reasons expressed
23813 = by the Deputy Attorney General in the attached memorandum,
17943 = I have concluded that a fresh start is needed
10290 = at the leadership of the FBI.
29265 = It is essential that this Department of Justice clearly reaffirm
27362 = its commitment to longstanding principles that ensure
33014 = the integrity and fairness of official investigations and prosecutions.
29904 = The Director of the FBI must be someone who follows faithfully
24402 = the rules and principles of the Department of Justice
30592 = and who sets the right example for our law enforcement officials
12507 = and others in the Department.
20326 = Therefore I must recommend that you remove
10382 = Director James B. Comey, Jr.
19636 = and identify an experienced and qualified individual
15911 = to lead the great men and women of the FBI.
4545 = Sincerely,
6689 = Jeff Sessions
Memorandum. Rod J. Rosenstein to Attorney General
(9 May 2017)
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15814 = Memorandum for the Attorney General
10654 = FROM: Rod J Rosenstein
20214 = SUBJECT: Restoring public confidence in the FBI
22852 = The Federal Bureau of Investigation has long been regarded
23033 = as our nation‘s premier federal investigative agency.
28803 = Over the past year, however, the FBI‘s reputation and credibility
13356 = have suffered substantial damage,
21432 = and it has affected the entire Department of Justice.
29556 = That is deeply troubling to many Department employees and veterans,
12131 = legislators and citizens.
32110 = The current FBI Director is an articulate and persuasive speaker about
29765 = leadership and the immutable principles of the Department of Justice.
24102 = He deserves our appreciation for his public service.
21698 = As you and I have discussed, however, I cannot defend
28505 = the Director‘s handling of the conclusion of the investigation
28732 = of Secretary Clinton‘s emails, and I do not understand his refusal
28006 = to accept the nearly universal judgment that he was mistaken.
29026 = Almost everyone agrees that the Director made serious mistakes;
34696 = it is one of the few issues that unites people of diverse perspectives.
40021 = The director was wrong to usurp the Attorney General‘s authority on July 5, 2016,
38561 = and announce his conclusion that the case should be closed without prosecution.
30716 = It is not the function of the Director to make such an announcement.
34054 = At most, the Director should have said the FBI had completed its investigation
23564 = and presented its findings to federal prosecutors.
28935 = The Director now defends his decision by asserting that he believed
18836 = attorney General Loretta Lynch had a conflict.
35735 = But the FBI Director is never empowered to supplant federal prosecutors
19493 = and assume command of the Justice Department.
30710 = There is a well established process for other officials to step in
27835 = when a conflict requires the recusal of the Attorney General.
30917 = On July 5, however, the Director announced his own conclusions
28121 = about the nation‘s most sensitive criminal investigation,
35654 = without the authorization of duly appointed Justice Department leaders.
16291 = What was Clinton FBI probe about?
34766 = Compounding the error, the Director ignored another longstanding principle:
31508 = we do not hold press conferences to release derogatory information
23303 = about the subject of a declined criminal investigation.
22282 = Derogatory information sometimes is disclosed
28589 = in the course of criminal investigations and prosecutions,
19108 = but we never release it gratuitously.
29558 = The Director laid out his version of the facts for the news media
25494 = as if it were a closing argument, but without a trial.
29441 = It is a textbook example of what federal prosecutors and agents
9311 = are taught not to do.
28569 = In response to skeptical question at a congressional hearing,
21065 = the Director defended his remarks by saying that his
29849 = „goal was to say what is true. What did we do, what did we find,
13092 = what do we think about it.“
28779 = But the goal of a federal criminal investigation is not to announce
16937 = our thoughts at a press conference.
27664 = The goal is to determine whether there is sufficient evidence
19419 = to justify a federal criminal prosecution,
31919 = then allow a federal prosecutor who exercises authority delegated
27318 = by the Attorney General to make a prosecutorial decision, and then –
32088 = if prosecution is warranted – let the judge and jury determine the facts.
30365 = We sometimes release information about closed investigations
26971 = in appropriate ways, but the FBI does not do it sua sponte.
25472 = Concerning his letter to the Congress on October 28, 2016,
31503 = the Director cast his decision as a choice between whether he would
29980 = „speak“ about the FBI‘s decision to investigate the newly-discovered
11617 = email messages or „conceal“ it.
21773 = „Conceal“ is a loaded term that misstates the issue.
34937 = When federal agents and prosecutors quietly open a criminal investigation,
13336 = we are not concealing anything;
30932 = we are simply following the longstanding policy that we refrain
19148 = from publicizing non-public information.
20025 = In that context, silence is not concealment.
31754 = My perspective on these issues is shared by former Attorneys General
32518 = and Deputy Attorneys General from different eras and both political parties.
29096 = Judge Laurence Silberman, who served as Deputy Attorneys General
39130 = under President Ford, wrote that „it is not the bureau‘s responsibility to opine
19678 = on whether a matter should be prosecuted.“
33867 = Silberman believes that the Director‘s „Performance was so inappropriate
33976 = for an FBI director that [he] doubt[s] the bureau will ever completely recover.“
30969 = Jamie Gorelick, Deputy Attorney General under President George W. Bush,
31650 = to opine that the Director had „chosen personally to restrike the balance
36881 = between transparency and fairness, department from the department‘s traditions.“
26531 = They concluded that the Director violated his obligation to
30542 = „preserve, protect and defend“ the traditions of the Department and the FBI.
37779 = Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who served under President George W Bush,
38477 = observed the Director „stepped way outside his job in disclosing the recommendation
27382 = in that fashion“ because the FBI director „doesn‘t make that decision“.
39935 = Alberto Gonzales, who also served as Attorneys General under President George W Bush,
16788 = called the decision „an error in judgement.“
36442 = Eric Holder, who served as Deputy Attorneys General under President Clinton and
40498 = Attorneys General under President Obama, said that the Director‘s decision „was incorrect.
31985 = It violated long-standing Justice Department policies and traditions.
27525 = And it ran counter to guidance that I put in place four years ago
38029 = laying out the proper way to conduct investigations during an election season.“
34616 = Holder concluded that the Director „broke with these fundamental principles“
33176 = and „negatively affected public trust in both the Justice Department and the FBI“.
38019 = Former Deputy Attorneys General Gorelick and Thompson described the unusual event
28465 = as „real-time, raw-take transparency taken to its illogical limit,
22464 = a kind of reality TV of federal criminal investigation,“
23766 = that is „antithetical to the interests of justice“.
35153 = Donald Ayer, who served as Deputy Attorneys General under President HW Bush,
36245 = along with former Justice Department officials, was „astonished and perplexed“
33354 = by the decision to „break[] with longstanding practices followed by officials
17840 = of both parties during past elections.“
38109 = Ayer‘s letter noted, „Perhaps most troubling… is the precedent set by this departure
30533 = from the Department‘s widely-respected, non-partisan traditions.“
29516 = We should reject the departure and return to the traditions.
28904 = Although the President has the power to remove an FBI director,
17234 = the decision should not be taken lightly.
33907 = I agree with the nearly unanimous opinions of former Department officials.
38633 = The way the Director handled the conclusion of the email investigation was wrong.
32694 = As a result, the FBI is unlikely to regain public and congressional trust
32368 = until it has a Director who understands the gravity of the mistakes
13359 = and pledges never to repeat them.
16064 = Having refused to admit his errors,
35935 = the Director cannot be expected to implement the necessary corrective actions.
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The Fall of the mightiest Iulius
(Psalm 119.89. Myth)
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6862 = Foreuer, O LORD,
13070 = thy word is setled in heauen.
Imperfect Creation
Satan
10738 = The mightiest Iulius.
-4000 = Dark Sword – Man-Beast
Perfect Creation – Christ‘s Church
And the gates of hell shall not preuaile against it.
(Matt. 16:18, KJB 1611)
-6529 = The Gates of Hell
St. Peter‘s Basilica Completed 1612
Commemorative inscription*
23501 = IN HONOREM PRINCIPIS APOST PAVLVS V BVRGHESIVS
14074 = ROMANVS PONT. MAX. AN. MDCXII PONT. VII.
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*Paul V Borghèse, pape, a fait ceci en l’an 1612,
en l’honneur du prince des apôtres.
B
The Ides of March are come –
I Cæsar, but not gone.
(Act III, Sc. i – First Folio)
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4916 = Flourish.
24433 = Enter Cæsar, Brutus, Cassius, Caska, Decius, Metellus,
25886 = Trebonius, Cynna, Antony, Lepidus, Artimedorus, Publius,
8352 = and the Soothsayer.
Cæsar
9508 = The Ides of March are come.
Soothsayer
8887 = I Cæsar, but not gone.
Artimedorus
11592 = Haile Cæsar: Read this Scedule.
Decius
17267 = Trebonius doth desire you to ore-read
20518 = (At your best leysure) this his humble suite.
Artemidorus
17809 = O Cæsar, reade mine first: for mine’s a suite
19816 = That touches Cæsar neerer. Read it great Cæsar,
Cæsar
22379 = What touches vs our selfe, shall be last seru’d.
Artemidorus
14149 = Delay not, Cæsar, read it instantly.
Cæsar
11037 = What, is the fellow mad?
Publius
6900 = Sirra, giue place.
Cassius
22754 = What, vrge you your Petitions in the street?
9210 = Come to the Capitoll.
Popillius
19963 = I wish your enterprize to day may thriue.
Cassius
15019 = What enterprize Popillius?
Popillius
6575 = Fare you well.
Brutus
11992 = What said Popillius Lena?
Cassius
22191 = He wisht to day our enterprize might thriue:
15837 = I feare our purpose is discouered.
Brutus
15806 = Looke how he makes to Cæsar: marke him.
Cassius
16942 = Caska be sodaine, for we feare preuention,
20350 = Brutus what shall be done? If this be knowne,
18558 = Cassius or Cæsar neuer shall turne backe,
10528 = For I will slay my selfe.
Brutus
9990 = Cassius be constant:
21899 = Popillius Lena speakes not of our purposes,
18125 = For looke he smiles, and Cæsar doth not change.
Cassius
24829 = Trebonius knowes his time: for look you Brutus
17249 = He drawes Mark Antony out of the way.
Decius
16210 = Where is Metellus Cimber, let him go,
19500 = And presently preferre his suite to Cæsar.
Brutus
16379 = He is addrest: presse neere, and second him.
Cynna
19433 = Caska, you are the first that reares your hand.
Cæsar
16879 = Are we all ready? What is now amisse,
17969 = That Cæsar and his Senate must redresse?
Metellus
21506 = Most high, most mighty, and most puisant Cæsar
19567 = Metellus Cymber throwes before thy Seate
5778 = An humble heart.
Cæsar
12472 = I must preuent thee Cymber:
21733 = These couchings, and these lowly courtesies
14345 = Might fire the blood of ordinary men,
16504 = And turne pre-Ordinance, and first Decree
14255 = Into the lane of Children. Be not fond,
18986 = To thinke that Cæsar beares such Rebell blood
20290 = That will be thaw’d from the true quality
27136 = With that which melteth Fooles, I meane sweet words,
22347 = Low-crooked-curtsies, and base Spaniell fawning:
12618 = Thy Brother by decree is banished:
17586 = If thou doest bend, and pray, and fawne for him,
18113 = I spurne thee like a Curre out of my way:
25524 = Know, Cæsar doth not wrong, nor without cause
8655 = Will he be satisfied.
Metellus
21609 = Is there no voyce more worthy then my owne,
20385 = To sound more sweetly in great Cæsars eare,
15686 = For the repealing of my banish’d Brother?
Brutus
18142 = I kisse thy hand, but not in flattery, Cæsar:
16107 = Desiring thee, that Publius Cymber may
12806 = Haue an immediate freedome of repeale.
Cæsar
7924 = What, Brutus!
Cassius
11142 = Pardon, Cæsar; Cæsar, pardon:
19425 = As lowe as to thy foote doth Cassius fall,
19052 = To begge infranchisement for Publius Cymber.
Cæsar
16379 = I could be well mou’d if I were as you,
22538 = If I could pray to mooue, Prayers would mooue me:
19543 = But I am constant as the Northerne Starre,
19698 = Of whose true fixt, and resting quality
16134 = There is no fellow in the Firmament.
21305 = The Skies are painted with vnnumbred sparkes,
15567 = They are all Fire and every one doth shine:
18563 = But, there’s but one in all doth hold his place.
23070 = So, in the World; ‘Tis furnish’d well with Men,
15675 = And Men are Flesh and Blood, and apprehensiue;
15653 = Yet in the number I do know but One
15556 = That vnassayleable holds on his Ranke,
13067 = Vnshak’d of Motion: and that I am he,
16339 = Let me a little shew it, euen in this,
19864 = That I was constant Cymber should be banish’d,
15998 = And constant do remaine to keepe him so.
Cinna
3200 = O Cæsar, –
Cæsar
16936 = Hence: Wilt thou lift up Olympus!
Decius
4910 = Great Cæsar, –
Cæsar
16307 = Doth not Brutus bootlesse kneele?
Casca
7232 = Speake, hands, for me!
6500 = They stab Cæsar.
Cæsar
13836 = Et tu, Brute? ______ Then fall Cæsar. Dyes
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This same day
Must end the work the Ides of March begun.
(Act V, Sc. i – First Folio)
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Cassius
12879 = Now most Noble Brutus,
17568 = The gods today stand friendly, that we may,
15686 = Louers in peace, leade on our dayes to age!
23178 = But since the affayres of men rests still incertaine,
21190 = Let’s reason with the worst that may befall.
17931 = If we do lose this Battaile, then is this
19984 = The very last time we shall speake together:
15404 = What are you then determined to do?
Brutus
15472 = Euen by the rule of that Philosophy,
14051 = By which I did blame Cato, for the death
19501 = Which he did giue himselfe, I know not how:
14406 = But I do finde it Cowardly, and vile,
19113 = For feare of what might fall, so to preuent
19095 = The time of life, arming my selfe with patience,
20623 = To stay the prouidence of some high Powers,
11326 = That gouerne vs below.
Cassius
13765 = Then, if we loose this battaile,
16527 = You are contented to be led in Triumph
14976 = Thorow the streets of Rome.
Brutus
7042 = No, Cassius, no:
13000 = Thinke not thou Noble Romane,
19844 = That euer Brutus will go bound to Rome,
16711 = He beares too great a minde. But this same day
19149 = Must end that work the Ides of March begun.
20191 = And whether we shall meete againe, I know not:
19155 = Therefore our euerlasting farewell take:
17976 = For euer, and for euer, farewell Cassius,
17336 = If we do meete againe, why we shall smile;
21165 = If not, why then, this parting was well made.
Cassius
18046 = For euer, and for euer, farewell, Brutus:
14916 = If we do meete againe, wee’l smile indeed;
21535 = If not, ’tis true, this parting was well made.
Brutus
17661 = Why then leade on. O that a man might know
17668 = The end of this dayes businesse, ere it come:
17050 = But it sufficeth, that the day will end,
20505 = And then the end is knowne. Come ho, away. Exeunt.
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Ambition’s Debt is paid.
(Cæsar, Act III, Sc. i – First Folio)
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Cinna
12536 = Liberty, Freedome, Tyranny is dead,
20780 = Run hence, proclaime, cry it about the Streets.
Casca
19015 = Some to the common Pulpits, and cry out,
14707 = Liberty, Freedome, and Enfranchisement.
Brutus
15381 = People and Senators, be not affrighted:
18152 = Fly not, stand still: Ambition’s debt is paid.
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C
Cæsar, now be still,
I kill’d not thee with halfe so good a will.
(Cæsar, Act V, Sc. v, First Folio)
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27431 = Enter Brutus, Dardanius, Clitus, Strato, and Volumnius.
Brutus
22431 = Come poore remaines of friends, rest on this Rocke.
Clitus
22615 = Statillius shew’d the Torch-light, but my Lord
14738 = He came not backe: he is or tane, or slaine.
Brutus
21394 = Sit thee downe, Clitus: slaying is the word,
16002 = It is a deed in fashion. Hearke thee, Clitus.
Clitus
18735 = What I, my Lord? No, not for all the World.
Brutus
9486 = Peace then, no words.
Clitus
9389 = Ile rather kill my selfe.
Brutus
8186 = Hearke thee, Dardanius.
Dardanius
7540 = Shall I doe such a deed?
Clitus
4916 = O Dardanius.
Dardanius
4806 = O Clitus.
Clitus
19677 = What ill request did Brutus make to thee?
Dardanius
16522 = To kill him, Clitus: looke he meditates.
Clitus
18524 = Now is that Noble Vessell full of griefe,
16777 = That it runnes ouer euen at his eyes.
Brutus
19766 = Come hither, good Volumnius, list a word.
Volumnius
8965 = What sayes my Lord?
Brutus
11762 = Why this, Volumnius:
15079 = The Ghost of Cæsar hath appear’d to me
20095 = Two seuerall times by Night: at Sardis, once;
17915 = And this last Night, here in Philippi fields:
11202 = I know my houre is come.
Volumnius
6885 = Not so, my Lord.
Brutus
14113 = Nay, I am sure it is, Volumnius.
24548 = Thou seest the World, Volumnius, how it goes,
22418 = Our Enemies haue beat vs to the Pit: Low Alarums.
20447 = It is more worthy, to leape in our selues,
22529 = Then tarry till they push vs. Good Volumnius,
29663 = Thou know’st, that we two went to Schoole together:
17052 = Euen for that our loue of old, I prethee
24652 = Hold thou my Sword Hilts, whilest I runne on it.
Volumnius
15886 = That’s not an Office for a friend, my Lord.
6214 = Alarum still.
Clytus
17222 = Fly, flye, my Lord, there is no tarrying heere.
Brutus
20403 = Farewell to you, and you, and you, Volumnius.
20554 = Strato, thou hast bin all this while asleepe:
19893 = Farewell to thee, to Strato, Countrymen:
15437 = My heart doth ioy, that yet in all my life,
16259 = I found no man, but he was true to me.
15062 = I shall haue glory by this loosing day,
15870 = More then Octauius, and Marke Antony,
19379 = By this vile Conquest shall attaine vnto.
21107 = So fare you well at once, for Brutus tongue
16046 = Hath almost ended his liues History:
21799 = Night hangs vpon mine eyes, my Bones would rest,
19708 = That haue but labour’d, to attaine this houre.
13599 = Alarum. Cry within, Flye, flye, flye.
Clytus
5833 = Fly my Lord, flye.
Brutus
10117 = Hence: I will follow:
18105 = I prythee, Strato, stay thou by thy Lord,
15993 = Thou art a Fellow of a good respect:
17546 = Thy life hath had some smatch of Honor in it,
18913 = Hold then my Sword, and turne away thy face,
22243 = While I do run vpon it. Wilt thou, Strato?
Strato
19393 = Giue me your hand first. Fare you wel my Lord.
Brutus
19970 = Farewell good Strato. – Cæsar, now be still,
20131 = I kill’d not thee with halfe so good a will. Dyes.
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Brutus “shuffles off his mortal coil”
The Inborn Gates of Hell
(Creation Myth)
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1 = Monad
Mortal Coil
2315 = Tími/Time in Icelandic
2312 = Rúm/Space in Icelandic
Shuffled Off
4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power
-6529 = The Gates of Hell
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Ben Jonson/Archetypal Brute
(Epigrammes, 1616. Dedication)
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.
16522 = While you cannot change your merit,
11802 = 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:
8399 = For, when I made them,
11829 = 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,
18864 = the common voyce is (for their securitie)
7385 = 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:
13522 = I must expect, at your Lo: hand,
17342 = the protection of truth, and libertie,
24129 = while you are constant to your owne goodnesse.
9004 = In thankes whereof,
17970 = I returne you the honor of leading forth
10580 = so many good, and great names
18365 = (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;
16333 = or, if all answere not, in all numbers,
13034 = the pictures I haue made of them:
12427 = I hope it will be forgiuen me,
10940 = 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
18719 = (though, there, I haue auoyded all particulars,
7010 = 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.
13682 = For, if I meant them not, it is so.
11968 = 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,
15427 = to consider truth or vertue;
15987 = 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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D
Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples
(Matt. Ch. XXIII. King James Bible, 1611)
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23:1
25475 = Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
23:2
23671 = Saying, The Scribes and the Pharises sit in Moses seate:
23:3
21353 = All therefore whatsoeuer they bid you obserue,
8173 = that obserue and doe,
25205 = but doe not ye after their workes: for they say, and doe not.
23:4
21805 = For they binde heauie burdens, and grieuous to be borne,
12957 = and lay them on mens shoulders,
32647 = but they themselues will not mooue them with one of their fingers.
23:5
21985 = But all their workes they doe, for to be seene of men:
13943 = they make broad their phylacteries,
17004 = and enlarge the borders of their garments,
23:6
19224 = And loue the vppermost roomes at feasts,
15268 = and the chiefe seats in the Synagogues,
23:7
12060 = And greetings in the markets,
10163 = and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
23:8
8671 = But be not ye called Rabbi:
24551 = for one is your Master, euen Christ, and all ye are brethren.
23:9
17180 = And call no man your father vpon the earth:
18367 = for one is your father which is in heauen.
23:10
27675 = Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, euen Christ.
23:11
25067 = But hee that is greatest among you, shall be your seruant.
23:12
20474 = And whosoeuer shall exalt himselfe, shall be abased:
18214 = and he that shall humble himselfe, shall be exalted.
23:13
25119 = But woe vnto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites;
20136 = for yee shut vp the kingdom of heauen against men:
14980 = For yee neither goe in your selues,
20823 = neither suffer ye them that are entring, to goe in.
23:14
23131 = Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites;
16942 = for yee deuoure widowes houses,
13236 = and for a pretence make long prayer,
19909 = therefore ye shall receiue the greater damnation.
23:15
22903 = Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites;
20209 = for yee compasse Sea and land to make one Proselyte,
7159 = and when hee is made,
25865 = yee make him two fold more the childe of hell then your selues.
23:16
18607 = Woe vnto you, yee blind guides, which say,
24905 = whosoeuer shall sweare by the Temple, it is nothing:
24059 = but whosoeuer shal sweare by the gold of the Temple,
4539 = he is a debter,
23:17
6592 = Ye fooles and blind:
14597 = for whether is greater, the gold,
17224 = or the Temple that sanctifieth the gold?
23:18
25058 = And whosoeuer shall sweare by the Altar, it is nothing:
31702 = but whosoeuer sweareth by the gift that is vpon it, he is guiltie.
23:19
6592 = Ye fooles and blind:
14841 = for whether is greater, the gift,
16754 = or the Altar that sanctifieth the gift?
23:20
27351 = Who so therefore shall sweare by the Altar, sweareth by it,
9808 = and by all things thereon.
23:21
24362 = And who so shall sweare by the Temple, sweareth by it,
13502 = and by him that dwelleth therein.
23:22
13227 = And he that shall sweare by heauen,
26788 = sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
23:23
23131 = Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites;
18305 = for yee pay tithe of mint, and annise, and cummine,
22948 = and haue omitted the weightier matters of the Law,
10056 = iudgement, mercie and faith:
25747 = these ought ye to haue done, and not to leaue the other vndone.
23:24
25127 = Ye blind guides, which straine at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
23:25
23131 = Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites;
23870 = for yee make cleane the outside of the cup, and of the platter,
23902 = but within they are full of extortion and excesse.
23:26
8477 = Thou blind Pharisee,
26683 = cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter,
16938 = that the outside of them may bee cleane also.
23:27
23131 = Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,
18581 = for yee are like vnto whited sepulchres,
18718 = which indeed appeare beautifull outward,
25419 = but are within full of dead mens bones, and of all vncleannesse.
23:28
25854 = Euen so, yee also outwardly appeare righteous vnto men,
22960 = but within ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie.
23:29
23131 = Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,
18445 = because ye build the tombes of the Prophets,
19984 = and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous.
23:30
18713 = And say, If wee had beene in the dayes of our fathers,
22167 = wee would not haue bene partakers with them
12428 = in the blood of the Prophets.
23:31
23386 = Wherefore ye bee witnesses vnto your selues,
25092 = that yee are the children of them which killed the Prophets.
23:32
18261 = Fil ye vp then the measure of your fathers.
23:33
16774 = Yee serpents, yee generation of vipers,
15606 = How can yee escape the damnation of hell?
23:34
7654 = Wherefore behold,
23099 = I send vnto you Prophets, and wisemen, and Scribes,
16221 = and some of them yee shall kill and crucifie,
22964 = and some of them shall yee scourge in your synagogues,
17132 = and persecute them from citie to citie:
23:35
10109 = That vpon you may come
18910 = all the righteous blood shed vpon the earth,
13469 = from the blood of righteous Abel,
19187 = vnto the blood of Zacharias, sonne of Barachias,
21724 = whom yee slew betweene the temple and the altar.
23:36
10306 = Verily I say vnto you,
21276 = All these things shal come vpon this generation.
23:37
26673 = O Hierusalem, Hierusalem, thou that killest the Prophets,
20149 = and stonest them which are sent vnto thee,
24890 = how often would I haue gathered thy children together,
22058 = euen as a hen gathereth her chickens vnder her wings,
8136 = and yee would not?
23:38
20206 = Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
23:39
8720 = For I say vnto you,
19179 = yee shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say,
19648 = Blessed is he that commeth in the Name of the Lord.
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