© Gunnar Tómasson

13 December 2017

I. The Ghost‘s First Two Visits on Stage

(Hamlet, Act I, Sc. i. First Folio, 1623)

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Marcellus

5475 = Holla Barnardo.

Barnardo

12499 = Say, what is Horatio there?

Horatio

4177 = A peece of him.

Barnardo

19792 = Welcome Horatio, welcome, good Marcellus.

Marcellus

18533 = What,  ha’s this thing appear’d againe to night.

Barnardo

8047 = I haue seene nothing.

Marcellus

16590 = Horatio saies, ’tis but our Fantasie,

15548 = And will not let beleefe take hold of him

21128 = Touching this dreaded sight, twice seene of vs:

14510 = Therefore I haue intreated him along

23011 = With vs, to watch the minutes of this Night,

14532 = That if againe this Apparition come,

16303 = He may approue our eyes, and speake to it.

Horatio

15483 = Tush, tush, ’twill not appeare.

Barnardo

9328 = Sit downe a-while,

16162 = And let vs once againe assaile your eares,

18689 = That are so fortified against our Story,

16166 = What we two Nights haue seene.

Horatio

11084 = Well, sit we downe,

15573 = And let vs heare Barnardo speake of this.

Barnardo

7040 = Last night of all,

26514 = When yond same Starre that’s Westward from the Pole

19680 = Had made his course t’illume that part of Heauen

20546 = Where now it burnes, Marcellus and my selfe,

9091 = The Bell then beating one.

Marcellus

6276 = Peace, breake thee of: = 381777

See Appendix I

7521 + 1000 – 4000 + 378620 – 1364 = 381777

  7476 = Enter the Ghost.

11868 = Looke where it comes againe.

Barnardo

16136 = In the same figure, like the King that’s dead.

Marcellus

18434 = Thou art a Scholler, speak to it Horatio.

Barnardo

19197 = Lookes it not like the King?  Marke it Horatio.

Horatio

21948 = Most like:  It harrowes me with fear & wonder.

Barnardo

11087 = It would be spoke too.

Marcellus

10706 = Question it Horatio.

Horatio

24708 = What art thou that vsurp’st this time of night

20034 = Together with that Faire and Warlike forme

16401 = In which the Maiesty of buried Denmarke

18449 = Did sometimes march:  By Heauen I charge thee speake.

Marcellus

5374 = It is offended.

Barnardo

9138 = See, it stalkes away.

Horatio

14440 = Stay:  speake; speake:  I Charge thee, speake.

7301 = Exit the Ghost.      = 614474 – 381777 = 232697

See Appendix II

197920 + 2604 + 11359 + 4000 + 9814 + 7000 = 232697

Marcellus

14861 = ‘Tis gone, and will not answer.

Barnardo

19156 = How now Horatio? You tremble & look pale:

18856  = Is not this something more then Fantasie?

10426 = What thinke you on´t?

Horatio

14784 = Before my God, I might not this beleeue

18787 = Without the sensible and true auouch

7841 = Of mine owne eyes.

Marcellus

9722 = Is it not like the King?

Horatio

11142 = As thou art to thy selfe,

15860 = Such was the very Armour he had on,

18723 = When he th’Ambitious Norwey combatted:

17753 = So frown’d he once, when in an angry parle

14983 = He smot the sledded Pollax on the Ice.

6079 = ‘Tis strange.

Marcellus

20866 = Thus twice before, and iust at this dead houre,

21384 = With Martiall stalke, hath he gone by our Watch.

Horatio

26081 = In what particular thought to work, I know not:

18021 = But in the grosse and scope of my Opinion,

24114 = This boades some strange erruption to our State.

Marcellus

21349 = Good now sit downe, & tell me he that knowes,

24337 = Why this same strict and most obseruant Watch,

18095 = So nightly toyles the subiect of the Land,

17396 = And why such dayly Cast of Brazon Cannon,

19525 = And Forraigne Mart for Implements of warre:

28309 = Why such impresse of Ship-wrights, whose sore Taske

17940 = Do’s not diuide the Sunday from the weeke,

22431 = What might be toward, that this sweaty hast

20667 = Doth make the Night ioynt-Labourer with the day:

12864 = Who is ‘t that can informe me?

Horatio

3811 = That can I,

20733 = At least the whisper goes so: Our last King,

18954 = Whose Image euen but now appear’d to vs,

20967 = Was (as you know) by Fortinbras of Norway,

17904 = (Thereto prick’d on by a most emulate Pride)

20555 = Dar’d to the Combate. In which, our Valiant Hamlet,

24185 = (For so this side of our knowne world esteem’d him)

20235 = Did slay this Fortinbras: who by a Seal’d Compact,

14123 = Well ratified by Law, and Heraldrie,

19619 = Did forfeite (with his life) all those his Lands

20626 = Which he stood seiz’d on, to the Conqueror:

16588 = Against the which, a Moity competent

17516 = Was gaged by our King: which had return’d

14730 = To the Inheritance of Fortinbras,

17412 = Had he bin Vanquisher, as by the same Cou’nant,

12873 = And carriage of the Article designe,

21233 = His fell to Hamlet.  Now sir, young Fortinbras,

15412 = Of vnimproued Mettle, hot and full,

19394 = Hath in the skirts of Norway, heere and there

18466 = Shark’d vp a List of Landlesse Resolutes,

16421 = For Foode and Diet, to some Enterprize

19335 = That hath a stomacke in’t: which is no other

18998 = (As it doth well appeare vnto our State )

16495 = But to recouer of vs by strong hand

20521 = And terms Compulsatiue, those foresaid Lands

16416 = So by his Father lost:  and this (I take it)

18642 = Is the maine Motive of our Preparations,

20781 = The Sourse of this our Watch, and the cheefe head

16403 = Of this post-hast, and Romage in the Land.  = 1646174 – 614474 = 1031700

See Appendix III

3890 + 511378 + 516432 = 1031700

7642 = Enter Ghost againe.

17620 = But soft, behold:  Loe, where it comes againe.

21943 = Ile crosse it, though it blast me.  Stay Illusion:

17462 = If thou hast any sound, or vse of Voyce,

17704 = Speake to me:  If there be any good thing to be done,

18781 = That may to thee do ease, and grace to me; speak to me.

19474 = If thou art priuy to thy Countries Fate,

20547 = (Which happily foreknowing may auoyd)  Oh speake.

16354 = Or, if thou hast vp-hoorded in thy life

19296 = Extorted Treasure in the wombe of Earth,

23578 = (For which, they say, you Spirits oft walke in death)

20067 = Speake of it. Stay, and speake.  Stop it, Marcellus.

Marcellus

18114 = Shall I strike at it with my Partizan?

Horatio

11112 = Do, if it will not stand.

Barnardo

4125 = ‘Tis heere.

Horatio

4125 = ‘Tis heere.

Marcellus                                                                   

9800 = ‘Tis gone.   Exit Ghost.      = 1913918 – 1646174 = 267744

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See Appendix IV

197920 + 7284 + 1000 + 57540 + 4000 = 267744

and

Appendix V

1658168 + 7864 + 94300 + 4000 + 7000 + 142586 = 1913918

To be continued.

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Appendix I

381777

 7521 = Prisca Theologia

1000 = Light of the World

-4000 = Dark Sword – Man-Beast

378620 = Dedication Venus and Adonis – Deformed First Heire

Chaff

 -6960 = Jarðlig skilning – Earthly Understanding

Wheat

  5596 = Andlig spekðin – Spiritual Wisdom

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Appendix II

232697

197920 = Snorri Sturluson’s Advice to Young Poets

2604 = Páfinn – The Pope

11359 = Snorri Sturluson

4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power

9814 = Sturla Þórðarson

7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God’s Image

232697

Appendix III

1031700

  3890 = Christ

511378 = Edward Oxenford’s Letter to Robert Cecil

516432 = Ben Jonson – I remember the Players etc.

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Appendix IV

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197920 = Snorri Sturluson’s Advice to Young Poets

7284 = Jesus Christ

1000 = Light of the World

57540 = Jesus Crucified – Four Gospels, KJB 1611

4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power

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Appendix V

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1658168 = Murder of Hamlet’s Father

7864 = Jesus Patibilis – The Passible Jesus

94300 = Platonic-Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Authors

4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power

7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God’s Image

William Peeter – Eulogy

14718 = Since Time, and his predestinated end,

16856 = Abridg’d the circuit of his hope-full dayes;

20211 = Whiles both his Youth and Vertue did intend,

16907 = The good indeuor’s, of deseruing praise:

15453 =What memorable monument can last,

18496 = Whereon to build his neuer lemish name?

24860 = But his owne worth, wherein his life was grac’t?

15085 = Sith as it euer hee maintain’d the same.

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