© Gunnar Tómasson

4 January 2016

I. Edward de Vere – Fallen Man

(Shakespeares Sonnets, I and II)

532709

# I

19985 = From fairest creatures we desire increase,

18119 = That thereby beauties Rose might neuer die,

16058 = But as the riper should by time decease,

15741 = His tender heire might beare his memory:

22210 = But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,

25851 = Feed’st thy lights flame with selfe substantiall fewell,

14093 = Making a famine where aboundance lies,

22081 = Thy selfe thy foe, to thy sweet selfe too cruell:

23669 = Thou that art now the worlds fresh ornament,

15027 = And only herauld to the gaudy spring,

21957 = Within thine own bud buriest thy content,

18648 = And, tender chorle, makst wast in niggarding:

20168 = Pitty the world, or else this glutton be,

  18054 = To eate the worlds due, by the graue and thee.

271661

# II

22191 = When fortie Winters shall beseige thy brow,

16472 = And digge deep trenches in thy beauties field,

20500 = Thy youthes proud liuery so gaz’d on now,

19497 = Wil be a totter’d weed of smal worth held:

17451 = Then being askt, where all thy beautie lies,

19311 = Where all the treasure of thy lusty daies;

20498 = To say within thine owne deepe sunken eyes,

21834 = How much more praise deseru’d thy beauties vse,

22077 = If thou couldst answere this faire child of mine

17540 = Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse

19210 = Proouing his beautie by succession thine.

21619 = This were to be new made when thou art ould,

  22848 = And see thy blood warme when thou feel’st it could.

261048

271661 + 261048 = 532709

II. Earl of Oxford’s Quest for Redemption

(Letter to Robert Cecil)

511378

20324 = My very good brother,  yf my helthe hadd beene to my mynde

37283 = I wowlde have beene before this att the Coorte as well to haue giuen yow thankes

30742 = for yowre presence at the hearinge of my cause debated as to have moued her M

33515 = for her resolutione. As for the matter, how muche I am behouldinge to yow

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

27362 = for yow haue beene the moover & onlye follower therofe for mee &

33035 = by yowre onlye meanes I have hetherto passed the pykes of so many adversaries.

32759 = Now my desyre ys. Sythe them selues whoo have opposed to her M ryghte

30507 = seeme satisfisde, that yow will make the ende ansuerabel to the rest

28912 = of yowre moste friendlye procedinge. 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.

32307 = And thus wishinge all happines to yow, and sume fortunat meanes to me,

33324 = wherby I myght recognise soo diepe merites, I take my leave this 7th of October

11101 = from my House at Hakney 1601.

20273 = Yowre most assured and louinge Broother

    7936 = Edward Oxenford

511378

III. Edward Oxenford’s Redemption

(Shakespeares Sonnets, CLIII and CLIV)

# CLIII

13228 = Cvpid laid by his brand and fell a sleepe,

13445 = A maide of Dyans this aduantage found,

18187 = And his loue-kindling fire did quickly steepe

18007 = In a could vallie-fountaine of that ground:

20891 = Which borrowd from this holie fire of loue,

16961 = A datelesse liuely heat still to indure,

19450 = And grew a seething bath which yet men proue,

18055 = Against strang malladies a soueraigne cure:

19283 = But at my mistres eie loues brand new fired,

21662 = The boy for triall needes would touch my brest,

16374 = I sick withall the helpe of bath desired,

15780 = And thether hied a sad distemperd guest.

18172 =  But found no cure, the bath for my helpe lies,

  19223 = Where Cupid got new fire; my mistres eye.

248718

# CLIV

15579 = The little Loue-God lying once a sleepe,

14878 = Laid by his side his heart inflaming brand,

22758 = Whilst many Nymphes that vou’d chast life to keep,

14399 = Came tripping by, but in her maiden hand,

17635 = The fayrest votary tooke vp that fire,

20156 = Which many Legions of true hearts had warm’d,

12929 = And so the Generall of hot desire,

15303 = Was sleeping by a Virgin hand disarm’d.

16961 = This brand she quenched in a coole Well by,

20944 = Which from loues fire tooke heat perpetuall,

14642 = Growing a bath and healthfull remedy,

18706 = For men diseasd, but I my Mistrisse thrall,

18170 = Came there for cure and this by that I proue,

  23496 = Loues fire heates water, water cooles not loue.

246556

248718 + 246556 = 495274

 IV. Ben Jonson on Earl of Oxford’s Redemption

(TIMBER; or Discoveries etc.)

  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,

25930 = 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;

27993 = had an excellent Phantsie; 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.

34546 = His wit was in his owne power; 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.

25827 = Hee replyed: Cæsar did never wrong, but with just cause:

18145 = and such like; which were ridiculous.

20502 = But hee redeemed his vices, with his vertues.

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

516432

Virtues To Be Praysed

  1000 = Light of the World

9322 = William Shakespeare

Vices To Be Pardoned

-4000 = Dark Sword – Consort for Dark Lady

-6149 = Edward de Vere

    173

516432 + 173 = 516605

I + III = 532709 + 495274 = 1027983

II + IV = 511378 + 516605 = 1027983

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