© Gunnar Tómasson
22 May 2018
Archetypal Robert Greene
(S. Schoenbaum)
With [Robert] Greene we cannot always separate fact from fiction in the fantasias he composed on autobiographical themes, or the legend made of him by his contemporaries. The pattern of his life – necessarily pieced together from the testimony of biased witnesses – assumes the lineaments of archetype.
[…]
[One] evening he over-indulged in Rhenish wine and pickled herrings, and this excess brought on his last illness. He was then lodged with his mistress, ‘a sorry ragged quean’, and their bastard in the house of a shoemaker of Dowgate, one Isam, and his wife. For a month Greene lingered in squalor, deserted by friends but attended by a troop of lice. Mrs. Isam gave him the penny-pot of malmsey he pitifully begged, while Gabriel Harvey exulted in the downfall of the wicked:
A rakehell, a makeshift, a scribbling fool:
A famous bayard in city, and school.
Now sick as a dog, and ever brainsick:
Where such a raving and desperate Dick?
[…]
Between prayers Greene scribbled his last confessions, and near the end wrote piteously to his cast-off Dorothea, asking her to forgive him and pay the ten pounds he owed his host. When he died, Mrs. Isam crowned him with a garland of bays, in accordance with his last wish. Before the year was out the bookstalls of St. Paul’s Churchyard displayed The Repentance of Robert Greene, Master of Arts and Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit, bought with a million of Repentance. Decribing the folly of youth, the falsehood of makeshift flatterers, the misery of the negligent, and mischiefs of deceiving Courtesans. Written before his death and published at his dying request.
Thus lived and died Robert Greene, the saddler’s son who would not willingly let the world forget that he was a Master of Arts. His progress furnishes a direct antithesis to that of the glover’s son from Stratford who never proceeded beyond grammar school. But Greene’s career holds more than an exemplary interest. In the Groatsworth of Wit he makes the first unmistakable reference we have to Shakespeare in London. […]
Yet the Groatsworth of Wit contains – no question – a desperate shaft directed at Shakespeare. The author hurls it later, after having abandoned any pretence at fiction; he speaks as Greene, offering, while life still beats, the bitter wisdom of experience. […] (William Shakespeare – A Compact Documentary Life, Oxford University Paperback, 1978, pp. 147-151)
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Another reading of the record:
I. Robert Greene
(Construction G. T.)
5968
5975 = Simon Peter
-7 = Dead Man-Beast of Seventh Day
5968
II. Get thee behind mee, Satan
(Matt. 16-21-23, KJB 1611)
199022
16:21
29661 = From that time foorth began Iesus to shew vnto his disciples,
18499 = how that he must goe vnto Hierusalem,
26389 = and suffer many things of the Elders and chiefe Priests & Scribes,
14138 = and be killed, and be raised againe the third day.
16:22
19850 = Then Peter tooke him, and began to rebuke him, saying,
22014 = Be it farre from thee Lord: This shal not be vnto thee.
16:23
14777 = But he turned, and said vnto Peter,
20644 = Get thee behind mee, Satan, thou art an offence vnto me:
23056 = for thou sauourest not the things that be of God,
9994 = but those that be of men.
199022
III. Greenes Repentance
(Greenes, Groats-Worth of Witte)
117898
17013 = GREENES, GROATS-WORTH of witte,
16389 = bought with a million of Repentance.
20333 = Describing the follie of youth, the falshood of make-
20495 = shifte flatterers, the miserie of the negligent,
17047 = and mischiefes of deceiuing Courtezans.
26621 = Written before his death and published at his dyeing request.
117898
IV. The Vp-start Crow
(Ibid.)
138084
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.
138084
II + III + IV + VI = 199022 + 117898 + 138084 + 56374 = 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. Three Saga-Shakespeare Links
(Construction G. T.)
56374
A
Saga Aspects of de Vere Myth
1000 = Light of the World
Platonic Solids
(Einar Pálsson)
11110 = Jörð-Vatn-Loft-Eldr-Tími – Earth-Water-Air-Fire-Time
Platonic Solids Personified
(Brennu-Njálssaga)
14943 = Mörðr-Helgi-Grímr-Skarpheðinn-Kári
Cosmic Time
25920 = Platonic Great Year
Metamorphosis
-6149 = Edward de Vere
9550 = The Compleat Gentleman – Henry Peacham, 1622
56374
B
Íslendingabók Ara fróða – Father of Saga Literature
Book of Icelanders by Ari the Wise
56374
9953 = Schedae araprestsfroda – Sheets of Ari Priest the Wise
Date of Snorri Sturluson’s
“Murder”/Transformation
2307 = 23 September – 7th month old-style
1241 = 1241 A.D.
Transformation
-6960 = Jarðlig skilning – Earthly Understanding
5596 = Andlig spekðin – Spiritual Wisdom
It is obligatory to accept that which is truer
(Íslendingabók – Letter perfect text)
16998 = En hvatki es nusagt es i froþo þesom
21675 = þa er scyllt at hava þat helldur er sannara reynisc.*
The Book
5464 = Íslendingabók
FINIS
100 = The End
56374
* Whatever is now said in these studies,
that which is truer must be accepted.
C
Time out of Joint
56374
1 = Monad
Alpha
(Hamlet)
11445 = The Time is Out of Joint
6960 = Jarðlig skilning – Earthly Understanding
Robert Greene‘s Prayer
(Groatsworth of Witte)
10388 = Lord have mercie upon mee
8671 = and send me grace to amend
7042 = and become a new man.
Omega
Prayer Answered
4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power
Date of Greene‘s Death
307 = 3 September – 7th month old-style
1592 = 1592 A.D.
5968 = Robert Greene*
56374
*5975 = Simon Peter
-7 = Slain Man-Beast of Seventh Day
5968
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Gunnar Tómasson
