© Gunnar Tómasson
3 August 2017
A – Epigrammes # I–X
(Ben Jonson, First Folio 1616)
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I.
5506 = To The Reader.
17877 = Pray thee, take care, that tak’st my booke in hand,
18317 = To reade it well: that is, to vnderstand.
II.
4663 = To My Booke.
20137 = It will be look’d for, booke, when some but see
13709 = Thy title, Epigrammes, and nam’d of mee,
20807 = Thou should’st be bold, licentious, full of gall,
26279 = Wormewood, and sulphure, sharpe, and tooth’d withall;
18428 = Become a petulant thing, hurle inke, and wit,
21395 = Deceiue their malice, who would wish it so.
17395 = And by thy wiser temper, let men know
19429 = Thou art not couetous of least selfe fame,
15171 = Made from the hazard of anothers shame:
22747 = Much lesse with lewd, prophane, and beastly phrase,
22976 = To catch the worlds loose laughter, or vaine gaze.
19499 = He that departs with his owne honesty
18282 = For vulgar praise, doth it too dearely buy.
III.
7844 = To My Booke-seller.
20829 = Thou, that mak’st gaine thy end, and wisely well,
15933 = Call’st a booke good, or bad, as it doth sell,
18233 = Vse mine so, too: I giue thee leaue. But craue
20357 = For the lucks sake, it thus much fauour haue,
18402 = To lye vpon thy stall, till it be sought;
16313 = Not offer’d, as it made sute to be bought,
19607 = Nor haue my title-leafe on posts, or walls,
16994 = Or in cleft-sticks, aduanced to make calls
19559 = For termers, or some clarke-like seruing-man,
26273 = Who scarse can spell th’hard names: whose knight lesse can.
23297 = If, without these vile arts, it will not sell,
21536= Send it to Bucklers-bury, there ‘twill, well.
IV.
5515 = To King Iames
29985 = How, best of Kings, do’st thou a sceptre beare!
21875 = How, best of Poets, do’st thou laurell weare!
22827 = But two things, rare, the FATES had in their store,
19472 = And gaue thee both, to shew they could no more.
19579 = For such a Poet, while thy dayes were greene,
19411 = Thou wert, as chiefe of them are said t’have beene.
16868 = And such a Prince thou art, wee daily see,
20350 = As chiefe of those still promise they will bee.
21467 = Whom should my Muse then flie to, but the best
17309 = Of Kings for grace; of Poets for my test?
V.
5928 = On The Vnion.
21887 = When was there contract better driuen by Fate?
19129 = Or celebrated with more truth of state?
20481 = The world the temple was, the priest a king,
21458 = The spoused paire two realmes, the sea the ring.
VI.
7092 = To Alchymists.
17745 = If all you boast of your great art be true;
21512 = Sure, willing pouertie liues most in you.
VII.
10519 = On The New Hot-hovse.
19319 = Where lately harbour’d many a famous whore,
17121 = A purging bill, now fix’d vpon the dore,
16418 = Tells you it is a hot-house: So it ma’,
18208 = And still be a whore-house. Th’are Synonima.
VIII.
4489 = On A Robbery.
19692 = Ridway rob’d Dvncote of three hundred pound,
17787 = Ridway was tane, arraign’d, condemn’d to dye;
19702 = But, for this money was a courtier found,
20153 = Beg’d Ridwayes pardon; Dvncote, now, doth crye;
15978 = Rob’d both of money, and the lawes reliefe,
17758 = The courtier is become the greater thiefe.
IX.
12443 = To All, To Whom I Write.
20136 = May none, whose scatter’d names honor my booke,
19224 = For strict degrees of ranke, or title looke:
15364 = ‘Tis ‘gainst the manner of an Epigram:
9583 = And, I a Poet here, no Herald am.
X.
9129 = To My Lord Ignorant.
16365 = Thou call’st me Poet, as a terme of shame:
13552 = But I haue my reuenge made, in thy name.
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B – Shakespeares Sonnets
(I, II and CLIII, CLIV, 1609)
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Alpha – I and II
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.
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.
Omega – CLIII and CLIV
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.
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.
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C – Bath and Healthfull Remedy for Men Diseasd
Or, Ben Jonson‘s Revenge on His Lord Ignorant
(Construction G. T.)
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Stratfordian Vp-start Crow
(Robert Greene, Groatsworth of Witte)
10282 = Yes trust them not:
29160 = for there is an vp-start Crow, beautified with our feathers,
23774 = that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde,
25415 = supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse
7638 = as the best of you:
16349 = and beeing an absolute Iohannes fac totum,
25466 = is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey.
Revenge Saga-Sonnet Style
Alpha
1 = Monad
4884 = Reykjaholt
Omega
Death
2801 = Penis
2414 = Vagina
6783 = Mons Veneris
Brennu-Njálssaga
Omega Sentence
13530 = Ok lýk ek þar Brennu-Njálssögu.
Revenge
In My Lord Ignorant’s Name
(Stratfordian’s Burial Name and Date)
10026 = Will Shakspere, gent.
2502 = 25 April – 2nd month old-style
1616 = 1616 A.D.
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Postscript I
(Greenes Groatsworth of Witte)
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15176 = The printer to the gentle readers.
24027 = I haue published heere Gentlemen for your mirth and benefite
16090 = Greenes groates worth of wit.
20543 = VVith sundry of his pleasant discourses,
9445 = ye haue beene before delighted:
19059 = But now hath death giuen a period to his pen:
13982 = onely this happened into my handes
19876 = which I haue published for your pleasures:
22916 = Accept it fauourably because it was his last birth
19325 = and not least worth: In my poore opinion.
26846 = But I will cease to praise that which is aboue my conceipt,
15733 = and leaue it selfe to speake for it selfe:
14224 = and so abide your learned censuring.
7547 = Yours VV. VV.
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As in: My Lord Ignorant
(Construction G. T.)
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182641 = Ben Jonson‘s Revenge – C
My Lord Ignorant
4410 = Lazarus
Vp-Start Crow
Baptism
17252 = Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere
2602 = 26 April – 2nd month old-style
1564 = 1564 A.D.
Burial
10026 = Will Shakspere, gent.
2502 = 25 April
1616 = 1616 A.D.
Ben Jonson at Play‘s End
7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God‘s Image
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Postscript II
(Greenes Groatsworth of Witte)
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10518 = To the Gentlemen Readers.
4116 = Gentlemen.
18255 = The Swan sings melodiously before death,
19700 = that in all his life vseth but a iarring sound.
16111 = Greene though able inough to write,
25601 = yet deeplyer searched with sickenes than euer ereofre,
22486 = sendes you his Swanne like songe, for that he feares
23071 = he shal ne[ ]er againe carroll to you ereof loue layes,
22265 = neuer againe discouer to you youths pleasures.
20892 = How euer yet sickenesse, riot, Incontinence,
24328 = haue at once shown their extremitie, yet if I recouer,
26490 = you shall all see, more fresh sprigs, then euer sprang from me,
27138 = directing you how to liue, yet not diswading ye from loue.
28447 = This is the last I haue writ, and I feare me the last I shall writ[ ].
26182 = And how euer I haue beene censured for some of my former ereo,
28160 = yet Gentlemen I protest, they were as I had ereof information.
28316 = But passing them, I commend this to your fauourable censures,
34491 = and like an Embrion without shape, I feare me will be thrust into the world.
17922 = If I liue to ende it, it shall be otherwise:
23670 = if not, yet will I commend it to your courtesies,
25931 = that you may as well be acquainted with my repentant death,
18477 = as you haue lamented my careles course of life.
23613 = But as Nemo ante obitum felix, so Acta Exitus probat:
19808 = Beseeching therefore to be deemed ereof as I deserue,
29700 = I leaue the worke to your likinges, and leaue you to your delightes.
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As in: Francis Bacon’s Last Letter
Background
(Alfred Dodd)
Every schoolboy knows the story told in their history books how Francis Bacon one snowy day on or about All Fools Day, 1 April 1626, drove with the King’s Physician, Sir John Wedderburn, to Highgate and that at the foot of the Hill he stopped, bought a fowl, and stuffed it with snow with his own hands in order to ascertain whether bodies could be preserved by cold. During the procedure, we are told, he caught a chill, and instead of Dr. Wedderburn driving him back to Gray’s Inn (whence he had come) or taking him to some warm house, the worthy doctor took him to an empty summer mansion on Highgate Hill, Arundel House, where there was only a caretaker; and there Francis Bacon was put into a bed which was damp and had only been “warmed by a Panne” (a very strange thing for a doctor to do) with the result that within a few days he died of pneumonia. Dr. Rawley, his chaplain, says that he died “in the early morning of the 9th April, a day on which was COMMEMORATED the Resurrection of Our Saviour”.
That is the story and this is:
Francis Bacon’s Last Letter
(Easter Morning 1626)
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14285 = To the Earle of Arundel and Surrey.
7470 = My very good Lord:
27393 = I was likely to have had the fortune of Caius Plinius the Elder,
19392 = who lost his life by trying an experiment
21445 = about the burning of the mountain Vesuvius.
27312 = For I was also desirous to try an experiment or two,
23426 = touching the conservation and induration of bodies.
27127 = As for the experiment itself, it succeeded excellently well;
19881 = but in the journey between London and Highgate,
18137 = I was taken with such a fit of casting,
20866 = as I knew not whether it were the stone,
24599 = or some surfeit of cold, or indeed a touch of them all three.
19809 = But when I came to your Lordship’s house,
20992 = I was not able to go back, and therefore was forced
10541 = to take up my lodging here,
27187 = where your housekeeper is very careful and diligent about me;
10692 = which I assure myself
24956 = your Lordship will not only pardon towards him,
14898 = but think the better of him for it.
21030 = For indeed your Lordship’s house is happy to me;
18831 = and I kiss your noble hands for the welcome
15120 = which I am sure you give me to it.
30197 = I know how unfit it is for me to write to your lordship
15772 = with any other hand than mine own;
32508 = but in troth my fingers are so disjointed with this fit of sickness,
12980 = that I cannot steadily hold a pen…
Ancient Creation Myth
Get thee hence Satan
(Matt. 4:10-11)
-3858 = The Devil
Spirit‘s Resurrection – Consummation
Devoutly to be wish‘d
(Hamlet, Act III, Sc. i)
2414 = Vagina
7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God‘s Image
10594 = Sir Francis Bacon, Knight
The End
22692 = “This was the last letter that he ever wrote.“
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…Here the letter ends abruptly. Whatever else was written has been suppressed by Sir Tobie Matthew, one of the Rosicrosse, on which Spedding remarks, “It is a great pity the editor did not think fit to print the whole.” For some mysterious reason the letter was not printed until 1669 in Matthew’s Collection, captioned “This was the last letter that he ever wrote.” (Francis Bacon’s Personal Life-Story, Rider&Co, London, 1986, pp. 539-540)
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Gunnar Tómasson
