© Gunnar Tómasson

29 April 2018

 I. Finally these things must be revealed*

 (Minerva Britanna, Emblem #38, 1612)

198409

6877 = Tandem Divulganda

19292 = The waightie counsels, and affaires of state,

21324 = The wiser mannadge, with such cunning skill,

17779 = Though long lockt up, at last abide the fate,

16292 = Of common censure, either good or ill:

18491 = And greatest secrets, though they hidden lie,

22067 = Abroad at last, with swiftest wing they flie.

Ancient Creation Myth

 6306 = Prometheus – Providence

-1000 = Darkness

Saga Myth

(13th century)

7086 = Brennu-Njálssaga

Shakespeare Myth

(First Folio 1623)

16746 = The Workes of William Shakespeare,

22079 = Containing all his Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies:

24970 = Truely set forth according to their first Originall.

FINIS

   100 = The End

198409

*The text comes with a figure of a winged key with a motto

– Tandem divulganda – Finally these things must be revealed.

Invocative, e.g., of Phoenix and Turtle and Saga Cipher Key.

II. The Phoenix and the Turtle. Final Section

 (Loves Martyr, or, Rosalins complaint)

198409

4473 = Threnos

11517 = <Beautie, Truth and Raritie,                       B*

9896 = >Grace in all simplicitie,                             A

11176 = <Here enclosde, in cinders lie.                   C

14375 = >Death is now the Phoenix nest,

13292 = <And the Turtles loyall brest,

11405 = >To eternitie doth rest.

10514 = <Leauing no posteritie,                               O

13783 = <Twas nO>t their infirmitie,                       ON

12068 = >It was married chastitie.                           ISC

12729 = <Truth may seeme, but cannot be,            C

12714 = >Beautie bragge, but tis not she,

10909 = <Truth and Beautie buried be.

14787 = >To this vrne let those repaire,                  N

12652 = <That are either true or faire,

12797 = >For these dead Birds, sigh a prayer.         FRA

9322 = William Shake-Speare

198409

*INSERT

Francisco Bacono

The acrostic Francisco Bacono – By Francis Bacon – is embedded in the Threnos. Instructions: Begin with Alpha letter of Omega line, F, then proceed to the right as indicated by > to the first R and continue to the first A. Then proceed to the left from the end of the second-last line to the N in the third-last line going to the right. Use the same alternating directions to arrive at the letter O in the word “not“ in line eight from the end to form the word FRANCISCO.

The final letter O is also the last letter of ONOCAB, proceeding to the right from O, alternating directions as before to arrive at initial B of the first line. Reading the selected letters from the initial B then forms the word BACONO.

A world-renowned code-breaker – William F. Friedman – studied this text and, for some reason, concluded that it did not contain the acrostic FRANCISCO BACONO.

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III. A Cipher Solution of the Stratfordian Mystery

(Stratford Holy Trinity Church)

198409

19949 = STAY PASSENGER WHY GOEST THOU BY SO FAST

22679 = READ IF THOU CANST WHOM ENVIOUS DEATH HATH PLAST

24267 = WITH IN THIS MONUMENT SHAKSPEARE: WITH WHOME

20503 = QUICK NATURE DIDE WHOSE NAME DOTH DECK YS TOMBE

20150 = FAR MORE THEN COST: SIEH ALL YT HE HATH WRITT

21760 = LEAVES LIVING ART BUT PAGE TO SERVE HIS WITT

Read If Thou Canst

(Construction G. T.)

Alpha

  1000 = Light of the World

10773 = Spiritus Sanctus

-10467 = Osiris-Isis-Horus

Omega

4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power

First Folio

16746 = The Workes of William Shakespeare,

22079 = Containing all his Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies:

24970 = Truely set forth according to their first Originall.

198409

IV. Two Different Title Pages of Love‘s Martyr etc.

(Internet)

208926

First

8386 = Robert Chester’s

19596 = „Love’s martyr, or, Rosalins complaint“ (1601):

12071 = with its supplement.

11863 = „Diverse poeticall essaies“

11930 = on the Turtle and Phoenix

541 = by

21208 = Shakspere, Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Marston

1600 = etc. = 87195

Second

12409 = The anuals of great Brittaine.

1481 = Or,

20805 = A most excellent monument wherein may be seene

16202 = all the antiquities of this kingdome,

21988 = to the satisfaction both of the vniuersities,

29193 = or any other place stirred with emulation of long continuance.

19653 = Excellently figured out in a worthy poem.

208926

IV + VI = 208926 + 302452 = 511378

V. Edward Oxenford‘s Booke from Her Magestie

(Letter to Robert Cecil)

511378

9205 = My very good brother,

11119 = yf my helthe hadd beene to my mynde

20978 = I wowlde have beene before this att the Coorte

16305 = as well to haue giuen yow thankes

15468 = for yowre presence at the hearinge

15274 = of my cause debated as to have moued her M

10054 = for her resolutione.

23461 = As for the matter, how muche I am behouldinge to yow

22506 = I neede not repeate but in all thankfulnes acknowlege,

13131 = for yow haue beene the moover &

14231 = onlye follower therofe for mee &

19082 = by yowre onlye meanes I have hetherto passed

13953 = the pykes of so many adversaries.

16856 = Now my desyre ys. Sythe them selues

15903 = whoo have opposed to her M ryghte

17295 = seeme satisfisde, that yow will make

7234 = the ende ansuerabel

22527 = to the rest of yowre moste friendlye procedinge.

12363 = For I am aduised, that I may passe

22634 = my Booke from her Magestie yf a warrant may be procured

21532 = to my Cosen Bacon and Seriant Harris to perfet yt.

25516 = Whiche beinge doone I know to whome formallye to thanke

16614 = but reallye they shalbe, and are from me, and myne,

23196 = to be sealed up in an aeternall remembran&e to yowreselfe.

18733 = And thus wishinge all happines to yow,

13574 = and sume fortunat meanes to me,

19549 = wherby I myght recognise soo diepe merites,

13775 = I take my leave this 7th of October

11101 = from my House at Hakney 1601.

15668 = Yowre most assured and louinge

4605 = Broother

7936 = Edward Oxenford

511378

VI. The Antiquities of this Kingdome

(Virgil, Fourth Eclogue)

302452

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.¹

Emulation of long continuance

(Construction G. T.)

1000 = Light of the World

2131 = Jörð – Earth

Man in God‘s Image

7000 = Microcosmos

Saga Authors

11359 = Snorri Sturluson

9814 = Sturla Þórðarson

302452

INSERT

The 46th Psalm

(Anthony Burgess)

It would be pleasant to think that Shakespeare was responsible, in part, for the majesty of the following:

[See # VII.]

Whether he had anything to do with it or not, he is in it.  It is the forty-sixth Psalm.  The forty-sixth word from the beginning is SHAKE, and the forty-sixth word from the end, if we leave out the cadential ‘Selah’,  is SPEAR[E].  And, in 1610, Shakespeare was forty-six years old.  If this is mere chance, fancy must allow us to think that it is happy chance.  The greatest prose-work of all time has the name of the greatest poet set cunningly in it.“ (Anthony Burgess, Shakespeare, Penguin Books, 1972, pp. 233-234)

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VII. God is our refuge and strength;

a very present helpe in trouble.

(King James Bible, 1611)

433745

46:1

27783 = God is our refuge and strength; a very present helpe in trouble.

46:2

25140 = Therfore will not we feare, though the earth be removed:

25186 = and though the mountaines be caried into the midst of the sea,

46:3

21736 = Though the waters thereof roare, and be troubled,

29088 = though the mountaines shake with the swelling thereof.  Selah.

46:4

7214 = There is a river,

21306 = the streames wherof shall make glad the citie of God:

19776 = the holy place of the Tabernacles of the most High.

46:5

18882 = God is in the midst of her: she shal not be moved:

15090 = God shall helpe her, and that right early.

46:6

17597 = The heathen raged, the kingdomes were moved:

15907 = he uttered his voyce, the earth melted.

46:7

15221 = The Lord of hosts is with us,

14069 = the God of Jacob is our refuge.  Selah.

46:8

15149 = Come, behold the Workes of the Lord,

17919 = what desolations hee hath made in the earth.

46:9

21932 = He maketh warres to cease unto the end of the earth:

23023 = hee breaketh the bow, and cutteth the speare in sunder,

14120 = he burneth the chariot in the fire.

46:10

12080 = Be stil, and know that I am God:

13996 = I will bee exalted among the heathen,

12241 = I will be exalted in the earth.

46:11

15221 = The Lord of hosts is with us,

14069 = the God of Jacob is our refuge.  Selah.

433745

VIII. Ben Jonson Remembers Shakespeare

(Discoveries etc.)

516432

19116 = I remember, the Players have often mentioned it

22552 = as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing,

21394 = (whatsoever he penn’d) hee never blotted out line.

22406 = My answer hath beene, would he had blotted a thousand.

18121 = Which they thought a malevolent speech.

24813 = I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance,

15271 = who choose that circumstance

22022 = to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted.

22162 = And to justifie mine owne candor, for I lov’d the man,

25920 = and doe honour his memory (on this side Idolatry) as much as any.

19837 = Hee was (indeed) honest, and of an open, and free nature;

10140 = had an excellent Phantsie;

17853 = brave notions, and gentle expressions;

18375 = wherein hee flow’d with that facility

23484 = that sometime it was necessary he should be stop’d:

23469 = Sufflaminandus erat; as Augustus said of Haterius.

18146 = His wit was in his owne power;

16400 = would the rule of it had beene so too.

27845 = Many times hee fell into those things, could not escape laughter:

24385 = As when hee said in the person of Cæsar, one speaking to him:

13195 = Cæsar thou dost me wrong.

3946 = Hee replyed:

21881 = Cæsar did never wrong, but with just cause:

18145 = and such like; which were ridiculous.

20602 = But hee redeemed his vices, with his vertues.

25042 = There was ever more in him to be praysed, then to be pardoned.

516432

V + VIII + XI = 511378 + 516432 + 520940 = 1548750

IX + X = 1529523 + 19227 = 1548750

IX. Ben Jonson – Shakespeare Memorial Ode

(First Folio 1623)

1529523

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, [ō=o]

18824 = And despaires day, but for thy Volumes light.

 4692 = BEN: IONSON

1529523

X. Return of Sweet Swan of Avon

(Construction G. T.)

19227

Alpha

9322 = William Shakespeare

-1000 = Darkness

Omega

10805 = Sweet Swan of Avon

  100 = THE END

19227

INSERT

Reference Cipher Value

520940

87195 = Love‘s Martyr, or, Rosalyn‘s Complaint. # IV.

433745 = The 46th Psalm. # VII.

520940

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XI. The Last Judgement

(Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel)

520940

11099 = Il Giudizio Universale

FINIS

   100 = THE END

Francis Bacon – Essayes

(Dedication 1625)

16411 = TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MY VERY GOOD LO.

12189 = THE DVKE of Buckingham his Grace,

9271 = LO. High Admirall of England.                                           

5815 = EXCELLENT LO.

22090 = SALOMON saies; A good Name is as a precious oyntment;

8263 = And I assure my selfe,

22962 = such wil your Graces Name bee, with Posteritie.

21416 = For your Fortune, and Merit both, haue beene Eminent.

20248 = And you haue planted Things, that are like to last.

13223 = I doe now publish my Essayes;

25098 = Which, of all my other workes, haue beene most Currant:

9396 = For that, as it seemes,

19523 = they come home, to Mens Businesse, and Bosomes.

18429 = I haue enlarged them, both in Number, and Weight;

15649 = So that they are indeed a New Worke.

19918 = I thought it therefore agreeable, to my Affection,

25598 = and Obligation to your Grace, to prefix your Name before them,

10975 = both in English, and in Latine.

20651 = For I doe conceiue, that the Latine Volume of them,

13148 = (being in the Vniuersall Language)

12837 = may last, as long as Bookes last.

16577 = My Instauration, I dedicated to the King:

14781 = my Historie of HENRY the Seuenth

21369 = (which I haue now also translated into Latine)

23643 = and my Portions of Naturall History, to the Prince:

13053 = And these I dedicate to your Grace;

20322 = Being of the best Fruits, that by the good Encrease,

21295 = which God giues to my Pen and Labours, I could yeeld.

10530 = God leade your Grace by the Hand.

20801 = Your Graces most Obliged and faithfull Seruant,

 4260 = FR. St. ALBAN

520940                   

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¹Virgil, Fourth Eclogue

A 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.