© Gunnar Tómasson

16 November 2017

Overview

A

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378620 = Dedication, Venus and Adonis

971261 = Dedication, Epigrammes, 1616

1198375 = Ben Jonson, Epigrammes, Poems I – X

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B

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  94300 = Incarnations of Christ, ca. 400 B.C. – 1626 A.D.

1927965 = Francis Bacon, Essay Of Truth

480672 = Snorri Sturluson í annat sinn/a second time

  45319 = Snorri Sturluson – Poem’s End

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C

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 274184 = A New Breed of Men Sent Down from Heaven

1184171 = First Dedication, First Folio, 1623

1089901 = Second Dedication, First Folio, 1623

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Section A

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I. William Shakespeare‘s First Published Work

(Dedication, Venus and Adonis, 1593)

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  9987 = TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE

20084 = Henrie Vvriothesley, Earle of Southampton,

8814 = and Baron of Titchfield.

21943 = Right Honourable, I know not how I shall offend

23463 = in dedicating my vnpolisht lines to your Lordship,

25442 = nor how the worlde vvill censure mee for choosing

25266 = so strong a proppe to support so vveake a burthen,

17161 = onelye if your Honour seeme but pleased,

13387 = I account my selfe highly praised,

18634 = and vowe to take aduantage of all idle houres,

23217 = till I haue honoured you vvith some grauer labour.

23437 = But if the first heire of my inuention proue deformed,

15796 = I shall be sorie it had so noble a god-father:

12970 = and neuer after eare so barren a land,

16690 = for feare it yeeld me still so bad a haruest,

17496 = l leaue it to your Honourable suruey,

18884 = and your Honor to your hearts content,

27199 = vvhich I wish may alvvaies answere your ovvne vvish,

17766 = and the vvorlds hopefull expectation.

11662 = Your Honors in all dutie,

 9322 = William Shakespeare

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II. Ben Jonson – Epigrammes, 1616

First Heir of Shakespeare’s Invention

(Dedication)

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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.

28324 = While you cannot change your merit, 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:

20228 = For, when I made them, 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,

26249 = the common voyce is (for their securitie) 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:

30864 = I must expect, at your Lo: hand, the protection of truth, and libertie,

24129 = while you are constant to your owne goodnesse.

26974 = In thankes whereof, 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;

29367 = or, if all answere not, in all numbers, the pictures I haue made of them:

23367 = I hope it will be forgiuen me, 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

25729 = (though, there, I haue auoyded all particulars, 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.

25650 = For, if I meant them not, it is so. 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,

31414 = to consider truth or vertue; but, with the trade of the world,

19671 = lend their long eares against men they loue not:

17288 = and hold their deare 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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III. Ben Jonson – Poems I – X

(Epigrammes, 1616)

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I

5506 = To The Reader.

17877 = Pray thee, take care, that tak’st my booke in hand,

18317 = To reade it well: that is, to vnderstand.

II

  4663 = To My Booke.

20137 = It will be look’d for, booke, when some but see

13709 = Thy title, Epigrammes, and nam’d of mee,

20807 = Thou should’st be bold, licentious, full of gall,

26279 = Wormewood, and sulphure, sharpe, and tooth’d arbor;

18428 = Become a petulant thing, hurle inke, and wit,

19946 = Deceiue their malice, who could wish it so.

17395 = And by thy wiser temper, let men know

19429 = Thou art not couetous of least selfe fame,

15171 = Made from the hazard of anothers shame:

22747 = Much lesse with lewd, prophane, and beastly phrase,

22976 = To catch the worlds loose laughter, or vaine gaze.

19499 = He that departs with his owne honesty

18282 = For vulgar praise, doth it too dearely buy.

III

  7844 = To My Booke-seller.

20829 = Thou, that mak’st gaine thy end, and wisely well,

15933 = Call’st a booke good, or bad, as it doth sell,

18233 = Vse mine so, too: I giue thee leaue.  But craue

20357 = For the lucks sake, it thus much fauour haue,

18402 = To lye vpon thy stall, till it be sought;

16313 = Not offer’d, as it made sute to be bought,

19607 = Nor haue my title-leafe on posts, or walls,

16994 = Or in cleft-sticks, aduanced to make calls

19559 = For termers, or some arbor-like seruing-man,

26273 = Who arbor can spell th’hard names: whose knight lesse can.

23297 = If, without these vile arts, it will not sell,

21536 = Send it to Bucklers-bury, there ‘twill, well.

IV

   5515 = To King Iames         .

20085 = How, best of Kings, do’st thou a scepter beare!

21875 = How, best of Poets, do’st thou arbor weare!

22827 = But two things, rare, the FATES had in their store,

19472 = And gaue thee both, to shew they could no more.

19579 = For such a Poet, while thy dayes were greene,

19411 = Thou wert, as chiefe of them are said t’have beene.

16868 = And such a Prince thou art, wee daily see,

20350 = As chiefe of those still promise they will bee.

21467 = Whom should my Muse then flie to, but the best

17309 = Of Kings for grace; of Poets for my test?

V

  5928 = On The Vnion.

21887 = When was there contract better driuen by Fate?

19129 = Or celebrated with more truth of state?

20481 = The world the temple was, the priest a king,

21458 = The spoused paire two arbor, the sea the ring.

VI

  7092 = To Alchymists.

17745 = If all you boast of your great art be true;

21512 = Sure, willing pouertie liues most in you.

VII

10519 = On The New Hot-hovse.

19319 = Where lately arbor’d many a famous whore,

17121 = A purging bill, now fix’d vpon the dore,

16418 = Tells you it is a hot-house: So it ma’,

18208 = And still be a whore-house.  Th’are Synonima.

VIII

  4489 = On A Robbery.

19692 = Ridway rob’d Dvncote of three hundred pound,

17787 = Ridway was tane, arraign’d, condemn’d to dye;

19702 = But, for this money was a courtier found,

20153 = Beg’d Ridwayes pardon; Dvncote, now, doth crye;

15978 = Rob’d both of money, and the lawes reliefe

17758 = The courtier is become the greater thiefe.

IX

12443 = To All, To Whom I Write.

20136 = May none, whose scatter’d names honor my booke,

19224 = For strict degrees of ranke, or title looke:

14468 = ‘Tis ‘gainst the manner of an Epigram:

9583 = And, I a Poet here, no Herald am.

X

  9125 = To My Lord Ignorant.

16365 = Thou call’st me Poet, as a terme of shame:

13552 = But I haue my reuenge made, in thy name.

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Section A

I + II + III = 378620 + 971261 + 1198375 = 2548256

Section B

IV + V + VI + VII = 94300 + 1927965 + 480672 + 45319 = 2548256

Section C

VIII + IX + X = 274184 + 1184171 + 1089901 = 2548256

Section B

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IV. Platonic-Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare

Incarnations of Christ

(Construction G. T.)

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4946 = Socrates

1654 = ION

3412 = Platon

14209 = Quintus Horatius Flaccus

12337 = Publius Virgilius Maro

11999 = Sextus Propertius

11249 = Publius Ovidius Naso

11359 = Snorri Sturluson

9814 = Sturla Þórðarson

5385 = Francis Bacon

7936 = Edward Oxenford

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V. Francis Bacon’s Essay, Of Truth

(1625)

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 16829 = What is Truth; said jesting Pilate;

16465 = and would not stay for an Answer.

18074 = Certainly there be, that delight in Giddinesse

13235 = And count it a Bondage, to fix a Beleefe;

22340 = Affecting Free-will in Thinking as well as in Acting.

24810 = And though the Sects of Philosophers of that Kinde be gone,

21536 = yet there remaine certaine discoursing Wits,

12152 = which are of the same veines,

18070 = though there be not so much Bloud in them,

14517 = as was in those of the Ancients.

19835 = But it is not onely the Difficultie, and Labour

17822 = which Men take in finding out of Truth;

14466 = Nor againe, that when it is found,

16605 = it imposeth vpon mens Thoughts;

13519 = that doth bring Lies in fauour,

24851 = But a naturall, though corrupt Loue, of the Lie it selfe.

16509 = One of the later Schoole of the Grecians,

19915 = examineth the matter, and is at a stand, to thinke

21204 = what should be in it, that men should loue Lies;

24494 = Where neither they make for Pleasure, as with Poets;

26333 = Nor for Aduantage, as with the Merchant; but for the Lies sake.

7815 = But I cannot tell:

17572 = This same Truth, is a Naked, and Open day light,

21950 = that doth not shew, the Masques, and Mummeries,

20056 = and Triumphs of the world, halfe so Stately,

10902 = and daintily, as Candlelights.

19942 = Truth may perhaps come to the price of a Pearle,

10647 = that sheweth best by day:

26281 = But it will not rise, to the price of a Diamond or Carbuncle,

16547 = that sheweth best in varied lights.

16697 = A mixture of a Lie doth euer adde Pleasure.

18306 = Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken

15728 = out of Mens Mindes, Vaine Opinions,

15926 = Flattering Hopes, False valuations,

16567 = Imaginations as one would, and the like;

13966 = but it would leaue the Mindes,

17950 = of a Number of Men, poore shrunken Things;

16165 = full of Melancholy, and Indisposition,

13441 = and vnpleasing to themselues?

15790 = One of the Fathers, in great Seuerity,

12325 = called Poesie, Vinum Dæmonum;

14068 = because it filleth the Imagination,

18552 = and yet it is, but with the shadow of a Lie.

23809 = But it is not the Lie, that passeth through the Minde,

19114 = but the Lie that sinketh in, and setleth in it,

20452 = that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before.

19135 = But howsoeuer these things are thus,

17631 = in mens depraued Iudgements, and Affections,

19303 = yet Truth, which onely doth iudge it selfe,

16947 = teacheth, that the Inquirie of Truth,

19407 = which is the Loue-making, or Wooing of it;

24317 = The Knowledge of Truth, which is the Presence of it;

21439 = and the Beleefe of Truth, which is the Enioying of it;

17137 = is the Soueraigne Good of humane Nature.

23316 = The first Creature of God, in the workes of the Dayes,

12236 = was the Light of the Sense;

15062 = The last, was the Light of Reason;

13986 = And his Sabbath Worke, euer since,

16231 = is the Illumination of his Spirit.

24837 = First he breathed Light, vpon the Face, of the Matter or Chaos;

15511 = Then he breathed Light, into the Face of Man;

15000 = and still he breatheth and inspireth

13512 = Light, into the Face of his Chosen.

14216 = The Poet, that beautified the Sect,

22778 = that was otherwise inferiour to the rest,

12983 = saith yet excellently well:

18762 = It is a pleasure to stand vpon the shore

16065 = and to see ships tost vpon the Sea;

21011 = A pleasure to stand in the window of a Castle,

22322 = and to see a Battaile, and the Aduentures thereof, below:

14652 = But no pleasure is comparable, to

21546 = the standing, vpon the vantage ground of Truth

9474 = (A hill not to be commanded,

19050 = and where the Ayre is alwaies cleare and serene;)

17193 = And to see the Errours and Wandrings,

18416 = and Mists, and Tempests, in the vale below:

23256 = So alwaies, that this prospect, be with Pitty,

15853 = and not with Swelling, or Pride.

14791 = Certainly, it is Heauen vpon Earth,

14444 = to haue a Mans Minde moue in Charitie,

9099 = Rest in Prouidence,

16653 = and Turne vpon the Poles of Truth.

24147 = To pass from Theologicall and Philosophicall Truth,

16506 = to the Truth of ciuill Businesse;

26945 = It will be acknowledged, euen by those, that practize it not,

24509 = that cleare and Round dealing, is the Honour of Mans Nature;

12692 = And that Mixture of Falshood,

15180 = is like Allay in Coyne of Gold and Siluer,

18979 = which may make the Metall worke the better,

8066 = but it embaseth it.

18111 = For these winding, and crooked courses,

12669 = are the Goings of the Serpent;

23514 = which goeth basely vpon the belly, and not vpon the Feet.

23313 = There is no Vice, that doth so couer a Man with Shame,

14034 = as to be found false, and perfidious.

18522 = And therefore Mountaigny saith prettily,

24123 = when he enquired the reason, why the word of the Lie,

20405 = should be such a Disgrace, and such an Odious Charge?

12538 = Saith he, If it be well weighed,

16568 = To say that a man lieth, is as much to say,

25983 = as that he is braue towards God, and a Coward towards men.

15156 = For a Lie faces God, and shrinkes from Man.

19395 = Surely the Wickednesse of Falshood, and Breach

20429 = of Faith, cannot possibly be so highly expressed,

18582 = as in that it shall be the last Peale, to call the

19854 = Iudgements of God, vpon the Generations of Men,

20293 = It being foretold, that when Christ commeth,

15732 = He shall not finde faith vpon the earth.

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VI. Snorri Sturluson – ”A Second Time”

(Construction G. T.)

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  16450 = ”Snorri Sturluson í annat sinn” – Edda, Uppsalabók

Francis Bacon’s Prophecy

He shall not finde faith vpon the earth.

   -4000 = Dark Sword/Man-Beast

Abomination of Desolation

(Contemporary history)

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Gates of Hell

13031 = International Monetary Fund

9948 = Harvard University

7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands – Central Bank of Iceland = 30125

Right Measure of Man

Persecuted

  8525 = Gunnar Tómasson

12385 = Guðrún Ólafía Jónsdóttir

Modes of Persecution

11587 = Character Assassination

5881 = Níðingsverk – Barbarity

7750 = Psychiatric Rape

6603 = Mannorðsmorð – Vicious Slander

16439 = Criminal Obstruction of Justice

Persecutors – Jesting Pilates

U.S. Government

12867 = William Jefferson Clinton – President

4496 = Janet Reno – Attorney General

International Monetary Fund

8899 = Jacques de Larosière – Managing Director

7678 = Michel Camdessus – Managing Director

5517 = William B. Dale – Deputy Managing Director

2713 = Dick Erb – Deputy Managing Director

6584 = Jacques J. Polak – Economic Counsellor

4734 = Tun Thin – Asian Department Director

9349 = W. John R. Woodley – Asian Department Deputy Director

3542 = Ken Clark – Director of Administration

3339 = Graeme Rea – Director of Administration

3227 = P. N. Kaul – Deputy Director of Administration

5446 = Nick Zumas – Grievance Committee Chairman

Harvard University

3625 = Derek C. Bok – President

8175 = Henry Rosovsky – Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

8566 = James S. Duesenberry – Chairman, Department of Economics

11121 = Paul Anthony Samuelson – Ph. D., Nobel Laureate in Economics

8381 = Walter S. Salant – Ph. D., Brookings Institution Senior Fellow

Iceland Government

10244 = Vigdís Finnbogadóttir – President

11361 = Salóme Þorkelsdóttir – Althing President

6028 = Davíd Oddsson – Prime Minister

10295 = Þorsteinn Pálsson – Minister of Justice

8316 = Jón Sigurdsson – Minister of Commerce

5940 = Jónas H. Haralz – World Bank Executive Director

Other Iceland

6648 = Jóhannes Nordal – Central Bank Governor

8864 = Bjarni Bragi Jónsson – Central Bank Chief Economist

14314 = Benjamín Jón Hafsteinn Eiríksson – Harvard Ph. D.

9720 = Matthías Jóhannessen – Editor, Morgunblaðið

Other

10989 = Orenthal James Simpson

8015 = John & Patsy Ramsey

4953 = Osama bin Laden

Violent Crimes

3586 = Murder

6899 = Nicole Brown

4948 = Ron Goldman

6100 = Brentwood

1204 = 12 June (4th month old-style)

1994 = 1994 A.D.

3718 = Jonbenet

3503 = Boulder

2510 = 25 December (10th month old-style)

1996 = 1996 A.D.

5557 = The Pentagon

9596 = World Trade Center

1107 = 11 September (7th month old-style)

2001 = 2001 A.D.

Other

7920 = Excelsior Hotel

5060 = Paula Jones

803 = 8 May (3rd month old-style)

1991 = 1991 A.D.

4014 = Kiss it!

8486 = The White House

7334 = Kathleen Willey

2909 = 29 November (9th month old-style)

1993 = 1993 A.D.

22091 = I’ve wanted to do this ever since I laid eyes on you.

6045 = The Oval Office

8112 = Monica Lewinsky

1509 = 15 November (9th month old-style)

1995 = 1995 A.D. = 438097¹

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VII. Snorri Sturluson – Poem’s End

(Edda, Háttatal, 102. v.)

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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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Section C

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VIII. A New Breed of Men Sent Down from Heaven

(Virgil, Fourth Eclogue)

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16609 = Ultima Cumaei venit iam carminis aetas;

20087 = Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo.

18681 = Iam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna,

18584 = Iam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto.

20229 = Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum

18431 = Desinet ac toto surget gens aurea mundo,

17698 = Casta fave Lucina: tuus iam regnat Apollo.

18480 = Teque adeo decus hoc aevi te consule, inibit,

18919 = Pollio, et incipient magni procedere menses;

22004 = Te duce, si qua manent sceleris vestigia nostri,

20495 = Inrita perpetua solvent formidine terras.

18330 = Ille deum vitam accipiet divisque videbit

20448 = Permixtos heroas et ipse videbitur illis

22153 = Pacatumque reget patriis virtutibus orbem.

A New Breed of Men

2082 = Faith

1000 = Light of the World

-5975 = Simon Peter – Matt. 16:23

5829 = Simon bar Iona – Matt. 16:17-18

  100 = The End

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IX. First Dedication

TO THE MOST NOBLE AND INCOMPARABLE

PAIRE OF BRETHREN

(First Folio 1623)

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  8208 = TO THE MOST NOBLE

13267 = AND INCOMPARABLE PAIRE OF BRETHREN

10897 = WILLIAM Earle of Pembroke,

100 = [&] c. [c = 100 in “&c”]

23572 = Lord Chamberlaine to the Kings most Excellent Maiesty.

867 = AND

11590 = PHILIP Earle of Montgomery,

100 = [&] c.

14413 = Gentleman of his Maiesties Bed-Chamber,

22026 = Both Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter,

12835 = and our singular good LORDS.

7826 = Right Honourable,

25994 = Whilst we studie to be thankful in our particular,

22062 = for the many fauors we haue receiued from your L.L.

15163 = we are falne vpon the ill fortune,

23449 = to mingle two the most diuerse things that can bee,

7485 = feare, and rashnesse;

23489 = rashnesse in the enterprize, and feare of the successe.

23541 = For, when we valew the places your H.H. sustaine,

20442 = we cannot but know their dignity greater,

19953 = then to descend to the reading of these trifles:

13987 = and, while we name them trifles,

25700 = we haue depriu’d our selues of the defence of our Dedication.

14022 = But since your L.L. haue beene pleas’d

21688 = to thinke these trifles some-thing, heeretofore;

25557 = and haue prosequuted both them, and their Authour liuing,

17599 = with so much fauour: we hope, that

18400 = (they out-liuing him, and he not hauing the fate,

30760 = common with some, to be exequutor to his owne writings)

21711 = you will vse the like indulgence toward them,

14513 = you haue done vnto their parent.

10083 = There is a great difference,

23131 = whether any Booke choose his Patrones, or finde them:

8125 = This hath done both.

26340 = For, so much were your L.L. likings of the seuerall parts,

22932 = when they were acted, as before they were published,

12680 = the Volume ask’d to be yours.

21363 = We haue but collected them, and done an office to the dead,

16553 = to procure his Orphanes, Guardians;

22380 = without ambition either of selfe-profit, or fame:

20760 = onely to keepe the memory of so worthy a Friend, &

17475 = Fellow aliue, as was our SHAKESPEARE,

24877 = by humble offer of his playes, to your most noble patronage.

17511 = Wherein, as we haue justly obserued,

28933 = no man to come neere your L.L. but with a kind of religious addresse;

25208 = it hath bin the height of our care, who are the Presenters,

25744 = to make the present worthy of your H.H. by the perfection.

31596 = But, there we must also craue our abilities to be considerd, my Lords.

19548 = We cannot go beyond our owne powers.

29952 = Country hands reach foorth milke, creame, fruites, or what they haue:

20669 = and many Nations (we haue heard) that had not gummes &

22965 = incense, obtained their requests with a leauened Cake.

29471 = It was no fault to approch their Gods, by what meanes they could:

26494 = And the most, though meanest, of things are made more precious,

14733 = when they are dedicated to Temples.

27816 = In that name therefore, we most humbly consecrate to your H.H.

19643 = these remaines of your seruant Shakespeare;

29906 = that what delight is in them, may be euer your L.L. the reputation his, &

23734 = the faults ours, if any be committed, by a payre so carefull

26463 = to shew their gratitude both to the liuing, and the dead, as is

15589 = Your Lordshippes most bounden,

4723 = IOHN HEMINGE.

5558 = HENRY CONDELL.

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X. Second Dedication

From the most able, to him that can but spell

(First Folio 1623)

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 13561 = To the great Variety of Readers.

18892 = From the most able, to him that can but spell:

23910 = There you are number’d.  We had rather you were weighd.

28951 = Especially, when the fate of all Bookes depends upon your capacities:

20912 = and not of your heads alone, but of your purses.

37361 = Well! It is now publique, [&]you wil stand for your priviledges wee know:

18554 = to read and censure.  Do so, but buy it first.

21606 = That doth best commend a Booke, the Stationer saies.

26811 = Then, how odde soever your braines be, or your wisedomes,

15985 = make your licence the same, and spare not.

24287 = Judge your sixe-pen’orth, your shillings worth,

17527 = your five shillings worth at a time,

24612 = or higher, so you rise to the just rates, and welcome.

11893 = But whatever you do, Buy.

21523 = Censure will not drive a Trade, or make the Jacke go.

16347 = And though you be a Magistrate of wit,

14375 = and sit on the Stage at Black-Friers,

16653 = or the Cock-pit to arraigne Playes dailie,

19936 = know, these Playes have had their triall alreadie,

11212 = and stood out all Appeales;

25048 = and do now come forth quitted rather by a Decree of Court,

18968 = then any purchas’d Letters of commendation.

25920 = It had bene a thing, we confesse, worthie to have bene wished,

22206 = that the Author himselfe had liv’d to have set forth,

16780 = and overseen his owne writings;

18214 = But since it hath bin ordain’d otherwise,

14716 = and he by death departed from that right,

16744 = we pray you do not envie his Friends,

19372 = the office of their care, and paine, to have collected [&]

18118 = publish’d them; and so to have publish’d them,

14326 = as where (before) you were abus’d

24981 = with diverse stolne, and surreptitious copies,

17347 = maimed, and deformed by the frauds and stealthes

21644 = of injurious impostors, that expos’d them:

33105 = even those, are now offer’d to your view cur’d, and perfect of their limbes;

25862 = and all the rest, absolute in their numbers, as he conceived the.

19215 = Who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature,

16850 = was a most gentle expresser of it.

13670 = His mind and hand went together:

24530 = And what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse,

25193 = that wee have scarse received from  him a blot in his papers.

28510 = But it is not our province, who onely gather his works,

12949 = and give them you, to praise him.

11633 = It is yours that reade him.

20122 = And there we hope, to your divers capacities,

21545 = you will finde enough, both to draw, and hold you:

23021 = for his wit can no more lie hid, then it could be lost.

12608 = Reade him, therefore; and againe, and againe:

11921 = And if then you doe not like him,

27037 = surely you are in some manifest danger, not to understand him.

19247 = And so we leave you to other of his Friends,

15036 = whom if you need, can bee your guides:

24153 = if you neede them not, you can leade yourselves, and others.

13893 = And such Readers we wish him.

4723 = John Heminge

5786 = Henrie Condell

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

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

¹Abomination of Desolation

Message posted to friends on 26 February 2014:

While in Iceland last August, I met with Pétur Halldórsson at the Cafe Milano in Reykjavík. We discussed matters of mutual interest, including what my Saga Cipher work might “mean“.

I took a napkin and, for emphasis, wrote down the number 438097. This is the Cipher Sum of some three dozen names of persons, institutions, dates and events during the reference period, including two famous murder cases, a sex scandal in high places, and presumptive lies told in connection therewith.

I told Pétur (what I had long surmised) that I believed that this number was associated with a watershed event in human history whose final phase was upon our world.

An earth-shaking culmination of human and spiritual evolution.

²A New Breed of Men Sent Down from Heaven

Now the last age by Cumae’s Sibyl sung has come and gone, and the majestic roll of circling centuries begins anew: justice returns, returns old Saturn’s reign, with a new breed of men sent down from heaven.  Only do thou, at the boy’s birth in whom the iron shall cease, the golden race arise, befriend him, chaste Lucina; ‘tis thine own Apollo reigns.  And in thy consulate, this glorious age, O Pollio, shall begin, and the months enter on their mighty march.  Under thy guidance, whatso tracks remain of our old wickedness, once done away, shall free the earth from never-ceasing fear.  He shall receive the life of gods, and see heroes with gods commingling, and himself be seen of them, and with his father’s worth reign o’er a world of peace.