© Gunnar Tómasson

9 March 2018

I. The Feare of Every Man that heard Him,

was lest Hee should make an End.

(Ben Jonson)

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15278 = ONE, though hee be excellent, and the chiefe,

11426 = is not to bee imitated alone.

24794 = For never no Imitator, ever grew up to his Author;

19456 = likenesse is alwayes on this side Truth:

17069 = Yet there hapn’d, in my time, one noble Speaker,

19268 = who was full of gravity in his speaking.

21957 = His language, (where hee could spare, or passe by a jest)

11694 = was nobly censorious.

11941 = No man ever spake more neatly,

27128 = more presly, more weightily, or suffer’d lesse emptinesse,

16116 = lesse idlenesse, in what hee utter’d.

25086 = No member of his speech, but consisted of the owne graces:

12838 = His hearers could not cough,

18818 = or looke aside from him, without losse.

11644 = Hee commanded where hee spoke;

19535 = and had his Judges angry, and pleased at his devotion.

19885 = No man had their affections more in his power.

13303 = The feare of every man that heard him,

12816 = was lest hee should make an end.

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II. Tell vs, when shall these things be?

(Matt. Ch. 24, King James Bible, 1611)

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24:1

21627 = And Iesus went out, and departed from the temple,

11513 = and his Disciples came to him

19631 = for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

24:2

11050 = And Iesus said vnto them,

21937 = See yee not all these things?  Verily I say vnto you,

22490 = there shall not be left heere one stone vpon another,

16199 = that shall not be throwen downe.

24:3

17198 = And as he sate vpon the mount of Oliues,

19738 = the Disciples came vnto him priuately, saying,

15937 = Tell vs, when shall these things be?

16985 = And what shall be the signe of thy coming,

10941 = and of the end of the world?

24:4

16855 = And Jesus answered, and said vnto them,

12204 = Take heed that no man deceiue you.

24:5

13693 = For many shall come in my name, saying,

12491 = I am Christ: and shall deceiue many.

24:6

22747 = And yee shall heare of warres, and rumors of warres:

11450 = See that yee be not troubled:

28146 = for all these things must come to passe, but the end is not yet.

24:7

16211 = For nation shall rise against nation,

10997 = and kingdome against kingdome,

16054 = and there shall be famines, and pestilences,

14024 = and earthquakes in diuers places.

24:8

17757 = All these are the beginning of sorrowes.

24:9

25907 = Then shall they deliuer you vp to be afflicted, and shall kill you:

19326 = and yee shall bee hated of all nations for my names sake.

24:10

20887 = And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another,

9927 = and shall hate one another.

24:11

22016 = And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceiue many.

24:12

13386 = And because iniquitie shal abound,

13830 = the loue of many shall waxe cold.

24:13

24244 = But he that shall endure vnto the end, the same shall be saued.

24:14

13182 = And this Gospell of the kingdome

13490 = shall be preached in all the world,

25439 = for a witnesse vnto al nations, and then shall the end come.

24:15

24897 = When yee therefore shall see the abomination of desolation,

22005 = spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, stand in the holy place,

15840 = (who so readeth, let him vnderstand.)

24:16

23765 = Then let them which be in Iudea, flee into the mountaines.

24:17

23585 = Let him which is on the house top, not come downe,

15224 = to take any thing out of his house:

24:18

15601 = Neither let him which is in the field,

14843 = returne backe to take his clothes.

24:19

17841 = And woe unto them that are with child,

17636 = and to them that giue sucke in those dayes.

24:20

22968 = But pray yee that your flight bee not in the winter,

9622 = neither on the Sabbath day:

24:21

15317 = For then shall be great tribulation,

29204 = such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time,

8202 = no, nor euer shall be.

24:22

17978 = And except those dayes should be shortned,

12419 = there should no flesh be saued:

22480 = but for the elects sake, those dayes shall be shortned.

24:23

13939 = Then if any man shall say vnto you,

18522 = Loe, heere is Christ, or there: beleeue it not.

24:24

24033 = For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets,

17987 = and shal shew great signes and wonders:

30121 = insomuch that (if it were possible,) they shall deceiue the very elect.

24:25

10844 = Behold, I have told you before.

24:26

17089 = Wherefore, if they shall say vnto you,

16966 = Behold, he is in the desert, goe not foorth:

19582 = Behold, he is in the secret chambers, beleeue it not.

24:27

19775 = For as the lightening commeth out of the East,

15207 = and shineth euen vnto the West:

18948 = so shall also the coming of the Sonne of man be.

24:28

15516 = For wheresoeuer the carkeise is,

17943 = there will the Eagles bee gathered together.

24:29

20432 = Coming after the tribulation of those dayes,

25488 = shall the Sunne be darkned, and the Moone shall not giue her light,

15502 = and the starres shall fall from heauen,

18659 = and the powers of the heauens shall be shaken.

24:30

23015 = And then shall appeare the signe of the Sonne of man in heauen:

19995 = and then shall all the Tribes of the earth mourne,

16614 = and they shall see the Sonne of man coming

23456 = in the clouds of heauen, with power and great glory.

24:31

25713 = And hee shall send his Angels with a great sound of a trumpet,

27450 = and they shall gather together his Elect from the foure windes,

14273 = from one end of heauen to the other.

24:32

13828 = Now learne a parable of the figtree:

25538 = when his branch is yet tender, and putteth foorth leaues,

13746 = yee know that Summer is nigh:

24:33

22165 = So likewise yee, when ye shall see all these things,

18601 = know that it is neere, euen at the doores.

24:34

24831 = Verely I say vnto you, this generation shall not passe,

13855 = till all these things be fulfilled.

24:35

13309 = Heauen and earth shall passe away,

17433 = but my wordes shall not passe away.

24:36

17368 = But of that day and houre knoweth no man,

18918 = no, not the Angels of heauen, but my Father onely.

24:37

11908 = But as the dayes of Noe were,

18948 = so shall also the coming of the Sonne of man be.

24:38

18772 = For as in the dayes that were before the Flood,

23712 = they were eating, and drinking, marrying, and giuing in mariage,

18545 = vntill the day that Noe entred into the Arke,

24:39

24596 = And knew not vntill the Flood came, and tooke them all away:

18948 = so shall also the coming of the Sonne of man be.

24:40

12462 = Then shall two be in the field,

14761 = the one shalbe taken, and the other left.

24:41

18257 = Two women shall be grinding at the mill:

15265 = the one shall be taken, and the other left.

24:42

8061 = Watch therfore,

23579 = for ye know not what houre your Lord doth come.

24:43

8184 = But know this,

18214 = that if the good man of the house had knowen

28728 = in what watch the thiefe would come, he would haue watched,

24006 = and would not haue suffered his house to be broken vp.

24:44

9700 = Therefore be yee also ready:

27529 = for in such an houre as you thinke not, the sonne of man commeth.

24:45

19521 = Who then is a faithfull and wise seruant,

22523 = whom his Lord hath made ruler ouer his houshold,

13063 = to giue them meat in due season?

24:46

26174 = Blessed is that seruant, whome his Lord when he commeth,

7845 = shall finde so doing.

24:47

10109 = Verely I say vnto you,

19136 = that hee shal make him ruler ouer all his goods.

24:48

21284 = But and if that euill seruant shal say in his heart,

11368 = My Lord delayeth his coming,

24:49

20611 = And shall begin to smite his fellow seruants,

16445 = and to eate and drinke with the drunken:

24:50

17458 = The Lord of that seruant shall come in a day

12964 = when hee looketh not for him,

16102 = and in an houre that hee is not ware of:

24:51

10645 = And shall cut him asunder,

23699 = and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites:

17677 = there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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INSERT

Ben Jonson Remembers

Francis Bacon

(# I. Construction G. T.)

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17069 = Yet there hapn‘d, in my time, one noble Speaker,

19268 = who was full of gravity in his speaking.

         1 = Monad

  1000 = Light of the World

    100 = The End/End of Time

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Ben Jonson Remembers

William Shakespeare

(First Folio, 1616)

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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.

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III. Ben Jonson, Commendatory Ode

(First Folio, 1616)

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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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IV. Good laws are born of evil acts*

(Minerva Britanna, 1612, p. 34)

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11922 = Ex malis moribus bonæ leges.                               

15049 = To the most iudicious, and learned,

10594 = Sir FRANCIS BACON, Knight.

21993 = The Viper here, that stung the sheepheard swaine,

15505 = (While careles of himselfe asleepe he lay,)

20621 = With Hysope caught, is cut by him in twaine,

18154 = Her fat might take, the poison quite away,

20149 = And heale his wound, that wonder tis to see,

19232 = Such soveraigne helpe, should in a Serpent be.

20053 = By this same Leach, is meant the virtuous King,

20110 = Who can with cunning, out of manners ill,

20557 = Make wholesome lawes, and take away the sting,

28164 = Wherewith foule vice, doth greeue the virtuous still:

20037 = Or can prevent, by quicke and wise foresight,

16918 = Infection ere, it gathers farther might.

Evil Acts¹

 3586 = Murder

The Drooping Stage

13031 = International Monetary Fund

9948 = Harvard University

7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands – Central Bank of Iceland

Chide

11587 = Character Assassination

5881 = Níðingsverk – Barbarity

7750 = Psychiatric Rape

6603 = Mannorðsmorð – Vicious Slander

16439 = Criminal Obstruction of Justice

Cheere

 8525 = Gunnar Tómasson

12385 = Guðrún Ólafía Jónsdóttir

Man as Temple of God

(Revelation, Ch. 21)

 7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God‘s Image

FINIS

 -2118 = Time

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* This dedication and text accompanies a picture showing Francis Bacon using a shepherd’s staff to bisect a snake writhing on the ground.

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¹ See Abomination of Desolation, (Passover and New Atlantis, 8 March 2018.)