© Gunnar Tómasson 11 March 2018 As in: Brutus onely ouercame himselfe (Julius Cæsar, Act V, Sc. v, First Folio) Messala Strato, where is thy Master? Strato Free from the Bondage you are in Messala, The Conquerors can but make a fire of him: For Brutus onely ouercame himselfe, And no man else hath Honor […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 10 March 2018 Prologus – Exodus 3:13-15 (King James Bible, 1611) 13 And Moses saide vnto God, Behold, when I come vnto the children of Israel, and shall say vnto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me vnto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 9 March 2018 I. The Feare of Every Man that heard Him, was lest Hee should make an End. (Ben Jonson) 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; […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 8 March 2018 The children of Israel walked vpon drie land (Exodus, 14:29-30, King James Bible 1611) But the children of Israel walked vpon drie land, in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall vnto them on their right hand, and on their left. Thus the Lord […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 7 March 2018 I. Fair Phoebus lead me to the Muses’s springs. (Venus and Adonis, 1593) 36573 20165 = Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo 16408 = Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua.* 36573 As in: 10347 = Our Ever-living Poet 1 = Monad At the Muses‘ Springs (See IV. below) 10805 = […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 6 March 2018 I. Shakespeares Sonnets – Reference Cipher Value (1609. See Addendum A) 1027983 Alpha Sonnets I and II 271661 = Sonnet I 261048 = Sonnet II Omega Sonnets CLIII and CLIV 248718 = Sonnet CLIII 246556 = Sonnet CLIV 1027983 II + III/IV/V= 748041 + 279942 = 1027983 II. Structure […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 5 March 2018 Thou call’st me Poet, as a terme of shame: But I haue my reuenge made, in thy name. (Epigrammes, # X) I. The Golden Verses of Pythagoras (Nicholas Rowe, 1707) 989772 Alpha 22581 = I Hope the Reader will forgive the Liberty I have taken 22037 = in Translating these […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 4 March 2018 I. Shakespeare Authorship Question (Wikipedia) The Shakespeare authorship question is the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works attributed to him. Anti-Stratfordians—a collective term for adherents of the various alternative-authorship theories—believe that Shakespeare of Stratford was a front to shield the […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 3 March 2018 Reference Cipher Values (23 February 2018) 3531784 Isaiah, Ch. 29, KJB 1611 1603819 = And the vnderstanding of their prudent men shall be hid Francis Bacon, Essay Of Truth, 1625 1927965 = […] when Christ commeth, He shall not finde faith vpon the earth. 3531784 *** I + II […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 2 March 2018 Reference Cipher Values (23 February 2018) 3531784 Isaiah, Ch. 29, KJB 1611 1603819 = And the vnderstanding of their prudent men shall be hid Francis Bacon, Essay Of Truth, 1625 1927965 = […] when Christ commeth, He shall not finde faith vpon the earth. 3531784 *** III + IV […]