© Gunnar Tómasson
6 March 2016
I. William Shakespeare – Three Memorial Poems
(First folio, 1623)
962698
(a) But crown’d with Lawrell, live eternally
(L. Digges)
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,
21551 = Here we alive shall view thee still. This booke,
17964 = When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke
16075 = Fresh to all Ages; when Posteritie
20717 = Shall loath what ‘s new, thinke all is prodegie
20012 = That is not Shake-speares; ev’ry Line, each Verse,
18442 = Here shall revive, redeeme thee from thy Herse.
14951 = Nor Fire, nor cankring Age, as Naso said,
20205 = Of his, thy wit-fraught Booke shall once invade.
15543 = Nor shall I e’re beleeve, or thinke thee dead
22080 = (Though mist) untill our bankrout Stage be sped
22293 = (Impossible) with some new straine t’ out-do
14700 = Passions of Juliet, and her Romeo;
14629 = Or till I heare a Scene more nobly take,
22344 = Then when thy half-Sword parlying Romans spake,
18695 = Till these, till any of thy Volumes rest,
19941 = Shall with more fire, more feeling be exprest,
20110 = Be sure, our Shake-speare, thou canst never dye,
21145 = But crown’d with Lawrell, live eternally.
2928 = L. DIGGES
(b) Exit of Mortalitie – Re-entrance to a Plaudite
(I. M.)
14892 = To the memorie of M. W. Shake-speare.
27140 = Wee wondred (Shake-speare) that thou went’st so soone
24085 = From the Worlds-Stage, to the Graves-Tyring-roome.
24276 = Wee thought thee dead, but this thy printed worth,
26520 = Tels thy Spectators, that thou went’st but forth
18344 = To enter with applause. An Actors Art,
13798 = Can dye, and live, to acte a second part.
14884 = That’s but an Exit of Mortalitie;
13268 = This, a Re-entrance to a Plaudite.
967 = I. M.
(c) Those hands, which you so clapt, go now, and wring
You Britaines brave; for done are Shakespeares dayes
(Hugh Holland)
15196 = Upon The Lines and Life of the Famous
14041 = Scenicke Poet, Master William
4951 = Shakespeare
23985 = Those hands, which you so clapt, go now, and wring
20961 = You Britaines brave; for done are Shakespeares dayes:
16687 = His dayes are done, that made the dainty Playes,
18103 = Which made the Globe of heav’n and earth to ring.
20375 = Dry’de is that veine, dry’d is the Thespian Spring,
21918 = Turn’d all to teares, and Phoebus clouds his rayes:
22434 = That corp’s, that coffin now besticke those bayes,
22587 = Which crown’d him Poet first, then Poets King.
14968 = If Tragedies might any Prologue have,
20387 = All those he made, would scarse make one to this:
19314 = Where Fame, now that he gone is to the grave
21596 = (Deaths publique tyring-house) the Nuncius is,
20537 = For though his line of life went soone about,
17489 = The life yet of his lines shall never out.
4937 = Hugh Holland
962698
II. For though his line of life went soone about,
The life yet of his lines shall never out.
Alpha
(Francis Meres)
110408
29693 = As the soule of Euphorbus was thought to liue in Pythagoras:
29189 = so the sweete wittie soule of Ouid liues in mellifluous &
10860 = hony-tongued Shakespeare,
13942 = witnes his Venus and Adonis,
26624 = his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his priuate friends,
100 = & c. [c = 100 in &c.]
110408
Omega
(Pythagorean Creation Myth)
18202
13756 = Pythagoras-Lysis-Archippus – Tri-Unite
Poet‘s Line of Life
1000 = Light of the World
345 = Soul‘s Mortal Foundation
666 = Man-Beast
216 = Soul‘s Resurrection – Triangle 3-4-5 raised to third power, 27+64+125=216
432 = Right Measure of Man
Metamorphosis
-6149 = Edward de Vere
7936 = Edward Oxenford
18202
I + II = 962698 + 110408 + 18202 = 1091308
III. Hamlet/Shakespeare – Take him for all in all
We shall not look upon his like again.
(Hamlet, Act V, Sc. ii – First folio)
1091308
15079 = March afarre off, and shout within.
Hamlet
21084 = What warlike noyse is this? Enter Osricke.
Osricke
22993 = Yong Fortinbras, with conquest come fro¹ Poland
24474 = To th’Ambassadors of England giues this warlike volly.
Hamlet
5901 = O I dye Horatio:
24502 = The potent poyson quite ore-crowes my spirit,
19230 = I cannot liue to heare the Newes from England,
17032 = But I do prophesie th’election lights
14414 = On Fortinbras, he ha’s my dying voyce,
22842 = So tell him with the occurrents more and lesse,
23314 = Which have solicited. The rest is silence. O, o, o, o. Dyes.
Horatio
10167 = Now cracke a Noble heart:
11836 = Goodnight sweet Prince,
18286 =And flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest,
14342 = Why do’s the Drumme come hither?
16923 = Enter Fortinbras and English Ambassador,
18137 = with Drumme, Colours, and Attendants.
Fortinbras
10437 = Where is this sight?
Horatio
12180 = What is it ye would see;
21128 = If ought of woe, or wonder, cease your search.
Fortinbras
18987 = His quarry cries on hauocke. Oh proud death,
20646 = What feast is toward in thine eternall Cell.
17251 = That thou so many Princes, at a shoote,
11980 = So bloodily hast strooke.
Ambassador
8962 = The sight is dismall,
17034 = And our affaires from England come too late,
22958 = The eares are senselesse that should give vs hearing,
17106 = To tell him his command’ment is fulfill’d
17885 = That Rosincrance and Guildensterne are dead:
16857 = Where should we haue our thankes?
Horatio
9607 = Not from his mouth,
15062 = Had it th’abilitie of life to thanke you:
16660 = He neuer gaue command’ment for their death
22657 = But since so iumpe vpon this bloodie question,
20905 = You from the Polake warres, and you from England
18723 = Are heere arriued. Giue order that these bodies
14365 = High on a stage be placed to the view,
20828 = And let me speake to th’yet vnknowing world,
20781 = How these things came about. So shall you heare
16187 = Of carnall, bloudie, and vnnaturall acts,
20116 = Of accidentall iudgements, casuall slaughters
17748 = Of death’s put on by cunning, and forc’d cause,
19567 = And in this vpshot, purposes mistooke,
17470 = Falne on the Inuentors heads. All this can I
7002 = Truly deliuer.
Fortinbras
10425 = Let us hast to heare it,
14076 = And call the Noblest to the Audience.
20198 = For me, with sorrow, I embrace my Fortune,
18870 = I haue some Rites of memory in this Kingdome,
14639 = Which are ro¹ claime my vantage doth
4289 = Inuite me.
Horatio
18476 = Of that I shall haue alwayes cause to speake,
8322 = And from his mouth
16597 = Whose voyce will draw on more:
17888 = But let this same be presently perform’d,
15823 = Even whiles mens mindes are wilde,
8809 = Lest more mischance
12621 = On plots, and errors happen.
Fortinbras
8917 = Let foure Captaines
15105 = Beare Hamlet like a Soldier to the Stage,
14203 = For he was likely, had he beene put on
12980 = To haue prou’d most royally:
7504 = And for his passage,
22923 = The Souldiours Musicke, and the rites of Warre
9882 = Speake lowdly for him.
15535 = Take vp the body; Such a sight as this
18956 = Becomes the Field, but heere shewes much amis.
12625 = Go, bid the Souldiers shoote.
1091308
¹As in First folio text.
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