© Gunnar Tómasson
3 March 2016
Stay Passenger, Why goest thou by so fast?
(Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon)
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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
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Prince Hamlet‘s Mission in Hell
(Saga-Shakespeare Myth)
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Alpha – 65613
18729 = Oh all you host of heauen! Oh Earth; what els?
15857 = And shall I couple Hell? Oh fie: hold my heart
21200 = And you my sinnewes, grow not instant Old;
9827 = But beare me stiffely vp.
Christian Law-Speaker in Hell
Under A Pagan Arsonist‘s Skin
(Brennu-Njálssaga)
-11000 = Þorgeirr Tjörvason¹
10900 = Kolr Þorsteinsson
Omega – 63795
(First folio, 1623)
16746 = The Workes of William Shakespeare,
17935 = Containing all his Comedies, Histories, and
13106 = Tragedies: Truely set forth,
16008 = according to their first Originall.
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Mission Accomplished – The Devil Dead and Buried
(Will Shakspere’s grave curse)
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Prince Hamlet’s Mission
Alpha
65613 = Prince Hamlet in Hell
– 1 = Monad – Hidden
Omega
7524 = The Second Coming
-3858 = The Devil – Dead
The Grave Curse²
14036 = Good frend for Iesus sake forbeare
12888 = To digg the dust enclosed heare
17791 = Blest bee ye man that spares these stones
15315 = And curst bee hee that moves my bones.
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“The Man Who Knew Shakespeare” – Extract
(Publisher Robert Giroux, NYT, 13 February 2000)
Jonson is the unanswerable argument against idiotic beliefs that Shakespeare’s plays were written by somebody else, like the Earl of Oxford (who died in 1604, before “Lear“ and “The Tempest“ were written).
Not only did Ben Jonson know Shakespeare, he said he loved him. “I loved the man and do honour his memory (this side idolatry) as much as any,“ he wrote in 1619, three years after Shakespeare’s death. He also falsely criticized several plays, especially “Julius Caesar.“ Why? The obvious answer is envy, and resentment of the only poet and playwright he knew to be his superior. Yet in February 1616 — with Shakespeare still living! — King James had been persuaded to honor Jonson as England’s poet laureate.
[…]
For centuries, few believed that Ben Jonson was buried in Westminster Abbey standing up. The story went that in his old age Jonson proposed to the dean of the abbey that since he was too poor to afford a space six feet long, perhaps they could bury him erect. This was good for a laugh until the 19th century, when workmen digging near his grave saw a coffin standing upright in a 2-by-2 space. The marble square above the spot bears the words: O RARE BEN JONSON [read: O RARE BEN JOHNSON].
Ben Jonson Playcast as Will Shakspere
(Author of The Devil is an Asse)
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Stratfordian
666 = Man-Beast
Will Shaken by Death
(Burial record)
10026 = Will Shakspere, gent.
2502 = 25 April – Second month of year old-style
1616 = 1616 A.D.
Will Awaiting Resurrection
(First folio explanatory verse)
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.³
My Shakespeare Rise!
(Ben Jonson, First folio Poem)
Prince Hamlet Borne Stiffely Vp
2801 = Penis
4000 = Flaming Sword
2414 = Vagina
6783 = Mons Veneris
Will Buried Upright in Westminster Abbey
Will = Slang for Penis
7671 = O RARE BEN JOHNSON
Metamorphosis
Shakspere become Brave New World
7000 = Microcosmos – Creation/Man in God‘s Image
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¹ As in 4000 + 7000 = 11000, where 4000 = Flaming Sword/Cosmic Creative Power incarnate in 7000 = Microcosmos/Creation/Man in God‘s Image.
² In 1631, a year before his death, John Weever published the massive Ancient Funerall Monuments, which recorded many inscriptions from monuments around England, particularly in Canterbury, Rochester, London, and Norwich. […] In one of [his] notebooks, under the heading „Stratford upon Avon,“ Weever recorded the poem from Shakespeare’s […] gravestone, as follows: Good frend for Iesus sake forbeare To digg the dust enclosed heare Blest bee ye man that spares these stones And curst bee hee that moves my bones.
In the margin opposite the heading „Stratford upon Avon“, Weever wrote „Willm Shakespeare the famous poet“, and opposite the last two lines of the epitaph he wrote „vpo[n] the grave stone“. Although Weever […] was not 100% accurate in the details of his transcription, it is obvious that the inscriptions on both the monument and the gravestone were substantially the same in 1631 as they are today. Furthermore, Weever apparently knew Shakespeare personally — his 1598 Epigrammes includes the first full poem in honor of Shakespeare ever printed, a sonnet entitled „Ad Gulielmum Shakespear“ in which he praises Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, and Romeo and Juliet. This entry in his private notebook shows that he knew that the poet he had praised in print more than 30 years earlier was the same person buried in Stratford upon Avon. (David Kathman, http://www.shakespeareauthorship.com/monrefs.html
³ One of the First Folios in the Folger Shakespeare Library (no. 26 according to the Folger numbering) contains three handwritten poems on the last end page of the volume, written in a secretary hand dating from approximately the 1620s. The first of these is the poem from Shakespeare’s monument in the Stratford church („Stay passenger why go’st thou by so fast“). The second is not recorded elsewhere, and goes as follows:
Heere Shakespeare lyes etc. (David Kathman).
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