© Gunnar Tómasson

25 September 2017

Hidden Poetry

The Author

  4951 = (Shakespeare)

Alpha

  6149 = Edward de Vere

Omega

  7936 = Edward Oxenford

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New Man

4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power – Coming of Christ

7936 = Edward Oxenford

7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God‘s Image

  100 = The End

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To Draw No Envy (Shakespeare) On Your Name

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2131 = Jörð – Earth (Icelandic)

6149 = Edward de Vere

1000 = Light of the World

7936 = Edward Oxenford

  100 = The End

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Am I thus ample to your Book and Fame

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5385 = Francis Bacon

5596 =  Andlig spekðin – Spiritual Wisdom

-6960 = Jarðlig skilning – Earthly Understanding

1 = Monad/Father

5915 = Blóð Krists – Christ’s Blood/Icelandic

4692 = Ben Jonson

 -1000 = Darkness

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I. Ben Jonson Commendatory Ode

(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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II. Hee redeemed his vices, with his vertues

(Ben Jonson, Discoveries)

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19116 = I remember, the Players have often mentioned it

22552 = as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing,

21394 = (whatsoever he penn’d) hee never blotted out line.

22406 = My answer hath beene, would he had blotted a thousand.

18121 = Which they thought a malevolent speech.

24813 = I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance,

15271 = who choose that circumstance

22022 = to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted.

22162 = And to justifie mine owne candor, for I lov’d the man,

25930 = and doe honour his memory (on this side Idolatry) as much as any.

19837 = Hee was (indeed) honest, and of an open, and free nature;

10140 = had an excellent Phantsie;

17853 = brave notions, and gentle expressions;

18375 = wherein hee flow’d with that facility

23484 = that sometime it was necessary he should be stop’d:

  23469 = Sufflaminandus erat; as Augustus said of Haterius.

18146 = His wit was in his owne power;

16400 = would the rule of it had beene so too.

27845 = Many times hee fell into those things, could not escape laughter:

24385 = As when hee said in the person of Cæsar, one speaking to him:

13195 = Cæsar thou dost me wrong.

3946 = Hee replyed:

21881 = Cæsar did never wrong, but with just cause:

18145 = and such like; which were ridiculous.

20502 = But hee redeemed his vices, with his vertues.

25042 = There was ever more in him to be praysed, then to be pardoned.

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III. Ever more in him to be praysed, then to be pardoned.

(Christian Myth)

14703

Father

         1 = Monad

Son’s Sacrificial Death

  5915 = Blóð Krists – Christ’s Blood

Redemption

 -6149 = Edward de Vere

  7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God’s Image

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IV. Shakespeare’s Works and Imitators

(Francis Meres, Palladis Tamia, 1598)

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29693 = As the soule of Euphorbus was thought to liue in Pythagoras:

29189 = So the sweete wittie soule of Ouid liues in mellifluous &

10860 = hony-tongued Shakespeare,

13942 = witnes his Venus and Adonis,

26624 = his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private friends,

100 = & c. [c = 100 in &c]

18593 = As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best

15496 = for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines:

12652 = so Shakespeare among ye English

21891 = is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage;

24098 = for Comedy, witnes his Ge’tleme’ of Verona, his Errors,

22072 = his Love labors lost, his Love labours wonne,

21969 = his Midsummers night dreame, & his Merchant of Venice:

19872 = for Tragedy, his Richard the 2.  Richard the 3.  Henry the 4.       

23346 = King John, Titus Andronicus and his Romeo and Juliet.

9412 = As Epius Stolo said,

26151 = that the Muses would speak with Plautus tongue,

15096 = if they would speak Latin: so I say

29618 = that the Muses would speak with Shakespeares fine filed phrase,

12778 = if they would speake English.

23379 = As Musæus, who wrote the loue of Hero and Leander,

22368 = had two excellent schollers, Thamaras [&] Hercules:

18917 = so hath he in England two excellent Poets,

21519 = imitators of him in the same argument and subiect,

17375 = Christopher Marlow, and George Chapman.

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V. Edward Oxenford‘s Imperfect Book

To be perfected by Cosen Bacon

(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

7234 = the ende ansuerabel

22527 = to the rest 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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