© Gunnar Tómasson

13 March 2018

Foreword

Jonathan Bate and David Kathman are among the world’s leading Stratfordian scholars. Here is a selection of (mostly) early 17^th century references cited by them in articles published on the Internet as documentary proof that Will Shakspere of Stratford-upon-Avon was recognized as the Poet who is widely recognized as the world’s supreme author.

In each case, a Cipher Construction of the references is set forth which the reader may consider as either coincidental or evidence of what Snorri Sturluson termed “hidden poetry” as practiced by authors in the Platonic-Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Tradition.

Jonathan Bate

References for Mr Waugh!

22 September 2017

(https://jonathanbate.com/2017/09/)

A jolly evening at the How To: Academy debating the identity of Shakespeare with my dear friend Alexander Waugh. I don’t think I’m ever going to change the mind of someone whose argument appears to rest on the proposition that Ben Jonson faked Heminge’ and Condell’s dedictory epistle and address to the reader in the First Folio, in which they clearly ascribe the plays to their fellow-actor – and who, for good measure, suggests that the bequest of mourning rings to Hemmings, Condell and Burbage in Shakespeare’s will might be a forged interpolation. But I enormously admire Alexander’s wit, warmth and energy. The only moment he lost his cool was when I denied his claim that nobody in the aftermath of Shakespeare’s death made the association between “the man from Stratford” and the famous writer. He said “You can’t make things up, Jonathan.” I told him I would send him some references, and he asked for them to be on his desk “by 9 o’clock in the morning” – so they will be, but here they are for any members of the audience who remain curious:

I.

1618: Weever‘s notebook (Society of Antiquaries MS 127) – transcription of the words on the Stratford monument and the poem on the tomb. In the margin opposite heading“Stratford upon Avon“: “Willm Shakespeare the famous poet“

Cipher Construction

10739 = Stratford upon Avon*

16250 = Willm Shakespeare the famous poet

         1 = Monad

26990

As in

11359 = Snorri Sturluson

9814 = Sturla Þórðarson

5385 = Francis Bacon

  432 = Right Measure of Man

26990

*10739 = Grettir Ásmundarson – Archetypal Saga Creative Power/Monad

II.

1619: Basse poem (Lansdowne MS 777, f.67): ”Under this carved marble of thine owne/ Sleep rare Tragedian Shakespeare, sleep alone”

Cipher Construction

17253 = Under this carved marble of thine owne

17668 = Sleep rare Tragedian Shakespeare, sleep alone

34921

As in

A

         1 = Monad

17252 = Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere

17253

and

 6149 = Edward de Vere

-1000 = Darkness

7936 = Edward Oxenford

4583 = Excalibur

17668

B

         1 = Monad

36573 = Epigraph, Venus and Adonis, 1593*

365 = One Year

-2118 = TIME, End of

   100 = Poem’s End

34921 

*20165 = Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo

  16408 = Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua.**

  36573

**Ovid’s Amores – Translation: Christopher Marlowe

Let base conceited wits admire vile things;

Fair Phoebus lead me to the Muses’ springs.

III.

1623: Digges poem in First Folio: ‘thy works, by which, outlive / Thy tomb, thy name must: when that stone is rent, / And time dissolves thy Stratford Monument’.

Cipher Construction

6556 = TO THE MEMORIE

9775 = of the deceased Authour

10757 = Maister W. Shakespeare.

21339 = SHAKE-SPEARE, at length thy pious fellowes give

27690 = The world thy Workes; thy Workes, by which, out-live

23143 = Thy Tombe, thy name must: when that stone is rent,

20473 = And Time dissolves thy Stratford Moniment,

16818 = Here we alive shall view thee still.

136551

As in

        1 = Monad

3045 = LOGOS

1000 = Light of the World

Revelation – Transformation

 5596 = Andlig spekðin – Spiritual Wisdom

-6960 = Jarðlig skilning – Earthly Understanding

Platonic-Augustan-Saga-

Shakespeare Authors

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 = 94300

In Memoriam

19365 = IUDICIO PYLIUM, GENIO SOCRATEM, ARTE MARONEM

20204 = TERRA TEGIT, POPULUS MÆRET, OLYMPUS HABET*

136551

*With the judgment of Nestor, the genius of Socrates, the art of Virgil,

Earth covers him, the people mourn him, Olympus has him.

IV.

Late 1620s: manuscript addition to a copy of the First Folio (Folger 26): Transcription of the poem on the tombstone + the poem on the Stratford monument + an original poem:

Cipher Construction

(Original spelling added)

23237 = Heere Shakespeare lyes whome none but Death could Shake

16602 = and heere shall ly till judgement all awake;

21976 = when the last trumpet doth unclose his eyes

22014 = the wittiest poet in the world shall rise.

The Last Judgement

(Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel)

       1 = Monad

3321 = Dies Irae – Day of Wrath

11099 = Il Giudizio Universale

98250

As in

1000 = Light of the World

432 = Right Measure of Man

The Last Pope –

Malachy Prophecy

13831 = In persecutione extrema S.R.E.

12051 = sedebit Petrus Romanus,

22136 = qui pascet oues in multis tribulationibus:

26227 = quibus transactis ciuitas septicollis diruetur,

19973 = & Iudex tremêdus iudicabit populum suum. *

2600 = Finis. **

98250

*19973 = and this is my memoriall vnto all generations. (Exodus, 3:15)

** In extreme persecution, the seat of the Holy Roman Church

will be occupied by Peter the Roman,

who will feed the sheep through many tribulations;

when they are over, the city of seven hills will be destroyed,

and the terrible or fearsome Judge will judge his people. The End.

David Katham

Seventeenth-century References

to Shakespeare’s Stratford Monument

(http://www.shakespeareauthorship.com/monrefs.html)

In 1630 an anonymous volume was published, entitled A Banquet of Jeasts or Change of Cheare. Jest no. 259 in this volume is as follows:

One travelling through Stratford upon Avon, a Towne most
remarkeable for the birth of famous William Shakespeare,
and walking in the Church to doe his devotion, espyed a
thing there worthy observation, which was a tombestone laid
more that three hundred years agoe, on which was ingraven
an Epitaph to this purpose, I Thomas such a one, and Elizabeth
my wife here under lye buried, and know Reader I. R. C. and
I. Chrystoph. Q. are alive at this houre to witnesse it.
[Shakspere Allusion-Book, I, 347]

This jest implies that the writer had been in the Stratford church, and that he believed that the William Shakespeare born there was „famous“; indeed, not yet 15 years after Shakespeare‘s death, he was apparently the town‘s main claim to fame. True, the writer does not explicitly say that Shakespeare was famous as a poet, but it is difficult to see why a grain dealer would bring such fame to his home town.

Cipher Construction

21947 = One travelling through Stratford upon Avon,

31081 = a Towne most remarkeable for the birth of famous William Shakespeare,

20083 = and walking in the Church to doe his devotion,

19375 = espyed a thing there worthy observation,

27680 = which was a tombestone laid more that three hundred years agoe,

24735 = on which was ingraven an Epitaph to this purpose,

25098 = I Thomas such a one, and Elizabeth my wife here under lye buried,

16205 = and know Reader I. R. C. and I. Chrystoph. Q.

  18945 = are alive at this houre to witnesse it.

205149

6306 = Prometheus – Providence, Francis Bacon, Wisdom of the Ancients.

1000 = Light of the World

94300 = Platonic-Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Authors, III. above.

3310 = Fróðari – Wiser (at end of Instruction on Creation, Edda, Gylfaginning)

9322 = William Shakespeare

10565 = JHWH – 10-5-6-5 in Hebrew gematria

    100 = THE END

330052

B E N  J O N S O N

O N  F R A N C I S  B A C O N

330052

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.

330052

***

Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

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