subject: Re: a certain young gay nobleman

text:
"David L. Webb" <[email]> wrote :

                 Not off hand.
     (It's really not something I bother thinking about much.)

   If it is not obvious to you that Dickens _Christmas Carol_
      is Masonic there's really not much hope for you.

     Having a uniVERsity  education, literate parents & a Freemason mentor
was certainly a wonderful advantage to any struggling artist. Indeed, Mark
Twain had a whole army of Freemasons selling _Huckleberry Finn_ door to door
for him (presumeably at no charge!)

  And I've asked you many times to critic my "proof"
             that Oxford IS Shake-speare,
     but you have neVER had an answer for me.

                  But here's another chance:
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JUDGE 4:20  Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and
it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is
there any man here? that thou shalt say, No. Then Jael Heber's wife took
a NAIL of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto
him, and smote the NAIL into his TEMPLES, and fastened it into the
ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died. And, behold, as
Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him,
Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came
into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the NAIL was in his TEMPLES.

JUDGE 5:24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite
be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. He asked water, and
she gave him milk; she brought forth BUTTER in a lordly dish. She put
her hand to the NAIL, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and
with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had
pierced and stricken through his TEMPLES.
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       Francis Bacon: Viscount St. Albans [by Aubrey]

<<Sir JOHN DanVERS told me that [Francis Bacon] was much
  delighted in his curious pretty GARDEN at Chelsey, and as
 he was walking there one time he fell downe in a dead-sowne.
    My Lady DanVERS rubbed his face, TEMPLES, etc.>>
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    <<The Oxford Physic Garden was founded by
      HENRY DanVERS, Earl of Danby, in 1621.
      The 1st gardener was Jacob Bobart, who is to
      blame for the common English WEED, OXFORD RAGWORT.
      He grew the first examples of the plant in England
      from seeds collected on the slopes of Mount ETNA.>>

http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/oxfordshire/info/gardens.html

<<Charles & HENRY DanVERS were on the run after killing Henry Long
  on 4 October, 1594. The Southampton secreted the two in a lodge
  in his Titchfield park, and helped arrange for their flight to
   France. When a local sheriff came by ferry to investigate the
 escape, several of the Earl's servants, including "Signior Florio,
     an Italian," threatened to throw the sheriff overboard.>>

         1621  _Novum organum_ by  Frances Bacon.
    Scientific method of observation & experiment advocated.
         1621  First botanic garden in England
    Eden = Oxford Physic Garden = quadripartite Oz
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<<The Oxford Physic Garden shows the quadripartite design
  that symbolizes the 4 rivers of life & the 4 continents
  of Europe, Africa, Asia & America. Botanic gardens were
  conscious attempts to recreate the Garden of Eden by
  gathering flowers, shrubs & herbs from all over the world.>>
                           - _Atlas of Legendary Places_

          http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/oz/MapOz.html
       http://www.oz-central.com/graphic/p_map_01.jpg

     <<The Oxford Physic Garden: shaped like a diamond.>>

     <<Dorothy's Land of Oz is shaped like a diamond,
                       with the Emerald City in the center.>>
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    "I thought Oz was a great Head," said Dorothy.
"And I thought Oz was a lovely Lady," said the Scarecrow.
"And I thought Oz was a Ball of Fire," exclaimed the Lion.
"And I thought Oz was a terrible Beast," said the Tin Woodman.

   "No, you are all wrong," said the little man meekly.
                                       "I have been making believe."

  "Making believe!" cried Dorothy. "Are you not a Great WIZARD?"

  "Hush, my dear," he said. "Don't speak so loud, or you will be
overheard- and I should be ruined. I'm supposed to be a Great WIZARD."
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                 So Who Wrote Shakespeare?

*1*  It would certainly be someone whose name
        was stategically hidden in the works of Shake-speare:

*2*  It might very well be someone whose life history
         was hidden in "the facts" of Shakspere's life:

*3*  It would probably be someone whose life history
            was hidden in the works of Shake-speare:

       Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford
      is the only one for which this is all true:
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*1*  Someone whose name was stategically hidden in the works:
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                  UNO.VERE-VIRGIL.   POET.
                  OUR.EVER-LIVING.   POET.
                 NIL.VERO-VERIU(S).  POET.
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            Shakespeare's _Poems_(1640)  -- I. B.

                HIS EVERLIVIN{G W}OR[kes]

                         {W}
                  VERONIH{I}LVERI(u)S
                         {G}

          W I G , v. t. To censure or rebuke;
            to hold up to reprobation; to scold.
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         _The History of Troylus and Cresseida_ (1609)
           "A nEVER writer, to an EVER reader."
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  ...for my name is *WIL[  ]L* - Sonnet 136
   David Webb wrote:   [CU] is Irish Gaelic for "HOUND"
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   P[UC]K   Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a HOUND,
            A HOG, a headless bear, sometime a FIRE;
            And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,
            Like horse, HOUND, HOG, bear, fire, at EVERy turn.

     Printed by Richard Field, and are to be sold at the signe
      of the white GREYHOUND in Paules Church-yard, 1594" 4to.
             "L[UC]RECE. London.
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   P[UC]K   WIL[UC]L   LIVE   ABCDEFGHIJKLM   VIVERE   WIZARD
   K[FX]P   DRO[FX]O   OREV   ZYXWVUTSRQPON   EREVIV   DRAZIW
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                    VENVS  AND ADONIS
      Imprinted by Richard Field, and are to be sold at the
     signe of the white GREYHOUND in Paules Church-yard. 1593.
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        http://library.thinkquest.org/10395/text/canisma.html

<<LAELAPS was placed in the skies following Orion, where he is
 doomed forever to chase LEPUS the HARE in the southern sky.>>

        'LELAPS the HOUND' chasing 'LEPUS the HARE':

                1610  Spencer's _Faerie Queene_,
                1611  King James Bible,
                1614  Raleigh's _History of the World_
                1620  Bacon's _Novum Organum_
                1623  Shakespeare _Folio_

          http://www.sirbacon.org/links/abaconi1.htm
          http://www.sirbacon.org/links/spenser2.html

          TALBOT HOUNDs have large drooping ears.

 "How would it have joyed brave TALBOT (the terror of the French)
 to think that after he had lyne two hundred yeares in his TOMBE,
 hee should triumphe again on the Stage, and have his bones newe
 embalmed with the teares of ten thousand spectators at least;"
- Nashe's _Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Diuel_(1592)
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HOLOFERNES   Ovidius Naso was the man: and why, indeed, Naso,
            but for smelling out the odouriferous flowers of
            fancy, the jerks of invention? Imitari is nothing:
            so doth the HOUND his master, the APE his keeper,
                          the TIRED HORSE his rider.
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<<In a village of La MANCHA, there lived not long since
  one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack,
  an old b[UC]kler, a LEAN HACK, & a GREYHOUND for coursing.>>
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      http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lgboyd/chapter5.htm

<<The DE VERES were an ancient dynastic family seated at their ancestral
   village of VER (from which they took their name), near Bayeaux and
the River VIRE,in MANCHE on the Normandy coast of present-day northern
France. The name of the town itself came from the "VER," a Norse word
   meaning *FISHDAM* that the Vikings had introduced into Normandy.>>
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  << [Shakespeare] was honest, and of an open & free nature
  had an excellent Phantsie ; brave notions & gentle expressions
             wherein hee *FLOW'D* with that facility,
       that sometime it was necessary he should be *STOP'd* :>>
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        http://library.thinkquest.org/10395/text/canisma.html

<<LAELAPS was placed in the skies following Orion, where he is doomed
forever to chase LEPUS the HARE in the southern sky just out of reach
 of his JAWS. From his orbiting position he could watch for *NILE*
 floodwaters to start north. As soon as Canis Major showed his JAWS,
          [by Sirius rising shortly before the sun did]
   Egyptian priests would send the signal over the countryside.>>
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          T O  T  H E O   [N]  L    i   E B E G      E T T E R O
          F T  H  E S E   [I]  n    s   U I N G      S O N N E T
          S M *r* W h a   [L]  L    h a]  P P I  [N]   E S S E A
          N D *t* h a t   [E]  T   [E|r]  N I T  [I]   E P R O M
          I S *E* D B Y O      U   [R|e]  V E R  [L]   I V I N G
          P O *E* t W       i s h  [E|t]  H T H  [E]   W E L L W
          I S *h* I N G A        [d V e]  N T U      R E R I N S
          E t *T* I N G

       Asteroid Names:    #197. ARETE    #394. ARDUINA
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<<[SOCRATES to Hermogenes]: *ARETE* signifying in the 1st place
ease of motion, then that the STREAM of the good soul is UNIMPEDED,
   and has therefore the attribute of *EVER FLOWING* without
     let or hindrance, and is therefore called *ARETE*, or,
   more correctly, aeireite (EVER-FLOWING)>> - CRATYLUS by Plato
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          http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/metis.htm

  <<Ean Begg feels [the Prieure] is connected with many of the Black
   Virgin sites all over Europe. If the organization's full name is
  the Prieure de Notre Dame du Sion, and if it is site of ORVAL is
  connected to the worship of the bear-goddess Arduina, venerated by
   the Sicambrian Franks of the area and their Merovingian kings.

                      Mary Arduina of ARDENNES
     http://www.taliesin.clara.net/sidhi.htm#Arduina

    Celtic goddess of woodlands, wild life, the hunt and the moon;
           Guardian and Eponym of the ARDENNES Forest
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       http://shakespeareauthorship.com/oxbib.html
    http://shakespeareauthorship.com/sf/thingitself.html

 [Oxford Bible:] On Kathman's list but not Stritmatter's:
            "Cross" mark on Revelation 22:

Rev    | 22 |     |            | +
       | 22 |11-12|    N(R)    |
       | 22 |14-15|    N(R)    |
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                   Revelation 22

1: And he shewed me *a pure river of water* of life, clear
  as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

4: They shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.

13:    I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end,
                  the first and the last.

14:        Blessed are they that do his commandments,
          that they may have right to the tree of life,
         and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15: For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and
  murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a LIE.

16:       I am the root and the offspring of David,
              *and the bright & morning star*
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<<MORNINGSTAR is a middling tall, leanly athletic male whose vigilante
   uniform generally is stylized, red motorcycle racing leathers,
   a black leather jacket, and a red Zorro-style mask. Curiously,
     his outfit bears a vague resemblance to that favored by
   the metahuman VAGABOND - a notorious member of The Hexagon.>>
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                      http://www.entrenet.com/~groedmed/lcm.html

<<In 1572 Elizabeth I's Ministers passed through Parliament the

              "Act for Punishment as VAGABONDS";

this required all entertainers to obtain a NOBLE patron who would
vouch for their conduct as they travelled through the countryside.>>

      'And I have only to add, sir,' said Mr. Pickwick, now thoroughly
        angry, 'that I consider you a rascal, and a--a--ruffian--and--
         and worse than any man I EVER saw, or heard of, except that
           pious and sanctified VAGABOND in the MULBERRY LIVERY.'
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 Genesis 4:12  a fugitive and a VAGABOND shalt thou be in the earth.

 Genesis 4:14  from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive
             and a VAGABOND in the earth; and it shall come to pass,
                that EVERy one that findeth me shall SLAY me.

              All's Well That Ends Well  Act 2, Scene 3

  LAFEU   Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a
          kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a VAGABOND and
           no TRUE TRAVELLER: you are more saucy with lords &
           honourable personages than the commission of your
           birth and virtue gives you heraldry. You are not
            worth another word, else I'LD CALL YOU KNAVE.

'It is my fate,' said Mr. Micawber, 'to walk the WALK as a VAGABOND.
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               [Hamlet (Quarto 1) 5.1]

Clowne   She ought not to be buried In christian buriall.
      2.             Why sir?
Clowne        Mary because shee's drownd.
      2.    But she did not drowne her selfe.
Clowne   No, that's certaine, the water drown'd her.
      2.    Yea but it was against her WILL.
Clowne   No, I deny that, for looke you sir, I stand here,
          If the water come to me, I drowne not my selfe:
          But if I goe to the water, and am there drown'd,

 Q2 & Folio:   "CLAMBRING TO HANG, AN ENVIOUS SLIVER BROKE"

     http://www.bunnyears.net/kitwilliams/masqpage15.html

               RED LETTER WORD:      SILVER / SLIVER

        BORDER PHRASE: "Over the water, a destination;
                        under the sky, a culmination."
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 Q2 & Folio:   "CLAMBRING TO HANG, AN ENVIOUS SLIVER BROKE"

                        V E R O N I L V E R I U S
                        A           L
                        G           E
                        A           N
                        B           K
                        O           C
                        N           N
                       [D]          I
                                    R
                                    B
                                    S
                                    A
                                    M
                                    O
                                    H
                                    T
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     << A packed jury instructed by CECIL found that
        THOMAS BRINCKNELL had caused his own death by
         wilfully hurling himself on Oxford's rapier.

 Condemned as a suicide, Brincknell was denied Christian burial,

    and his pregnant widow AGNES & 3-year-old son QUYNTYN

  were stripped of their assets & abandoned to her relatives
     and the parish church.>>  --    Prof. Alan Nelson
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       It is *extremely* difficult to find the 28 letters of
         a basic "VERONILVERIUS/THOMAS BRINCKNELL" cross:

                    V E R O N I L V E R I U S
                                L
                                E
                                N
                                K
                                C
                                N
                                I
                                R
                                B
                                S
                                A
                                M
                                O
                                H
                                T

              in a string of less than 39 letters:

             My 3 Million letter literary data base
           contains just one 38 letter string with the
              "VERONILVERIUS/THOMAS BRINCKNELL" cross:

1) "va lives that bluediorn and storridge can mak" (Finnegans Wake)
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    And yet, a *single Act* of _Hamlet_ (Q2 Act 4) has not one
           but TWO such strings with less than 36 letters!

   *CLAMBRING TO HANG, AN ENVIOUS SLIVER BROKE*    35 letters
    *BLIVION, OR SOME CRAVEN SCRUPLE OF THINK*     33 letters
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            Estimated probability of finding the
          "VERONILVERIUS/THOMAS BRINCKNELL" cross
                  in a given string of:

 35 letters  { *CLAMBRING TO HANG, AN ENVIOUS SLIVER BROKE* }

                    ~  1 / 50,000,000

 33 letters  { *BLIVION, OR SOM[E-CRAVEN-S]CRUPLE OF THINK* }

                    ~  1 / 1,000,000,000
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        Estimated probability of finding two such strings
                IN A SINGLE ACT of Shakespeare :

                      ~  1 / 3,000,000
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           The Comedy of Errors  Act 3, Scene 1

  DROMIO OF EPHESUS:     MAUD,   BRIDGET,   (=> BRIDGET)
                        MARIAN,   CICEL,     (=> CECIL)
                       Gillian,   GINN! (=> "children of fire having
                               the power of assuming various formes")
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            ARCHILOCHUS solar eclipse:      April 6,  648 BC   Friday

             Koran descends to Earth:       April 6,  610 AD   Monday
           Clements' St.Methodius dies:     April 6,  884      Monday
              Petrarch meets LAURA:         April 6, 1327      Monday
              LAURA dies of plague:         April 6, 1348      Sunday
                  RAPHAEL born:             April 6, 1483      Sunday
                  RAPHAEL dies:             April 6, 1520  Good Friday

 {LUCIO:  Does BRIDGET PAINT still, Pompey, ha?   [MfM Act 3, Sc. 2]}

                   DURER dies:              April 6, 1528      Monday
                Kent EARTHQUAKE:            April 6, 1580   Wednesday
              BRIDGET Vere's birth:         April 6, 1584      Monday
              Thomas Hobbes' birth:         April 5, 1588  Good Friday
           Sir Francis Walsingham dies:     April 6, 1590      Monday
             Historian John Stow dies:      April 6, 1605     Sat/Wed.
        "native of Crete" EL GRECO dies:    April 7, 1614      Monday
         Start of _The SOUND & the FURY_:   April 6, 1928  Good Friday
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    << Upon the sixth of April, Alexander the Great was born.

        Upon the same day he conquered Darius,
          won a great victory at sea, & died the same day.

   Neither was this day less fortunate to his father Philip;
       for on the same day he took Potidea; >> - JOHN AUBREY, F.R.S.
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  <<Suddenly, in Babylon, Alexander the Great was taken sick after
      a splendid entertainment. There he drank much unmixed wine,
       & finally, filling a huge beaker, downed it at a gulp.>>

   <<Shakespeare, Drayton, & Ben Jonson,
        had a merie meeting, and itt seems drank too hard,
           for Shakespear died of a feavour there contracted.>>
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   Ham.    To what base vses we may returne Horatio.
       Why may not Imagination trace the Noble dust of A-
            lexander, till he find it stopping a bunghole.

   Hor. 'Twere to consider: to curiously to consider so.

   Ham.    No faith, not a iot. But to follow him thether
  with modestie enough, & likeliehood to lead it; as thus.
    Alexander died: Alexander was buried: Alexander re-
  turneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make
     Lome, and why of that Lome (whereto he was conuer-
        ted) might they not stopp a Beere-barrell?
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*2*  Someone whose life history
         was hidden in "the facts" of Shakspere's life:
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 F. Beaumont married heiress: ur[SUL(a)IS]ley of [SUN]dridge

        [ http://www.athenapub.com/britbath.htm ]

<<BATH, England: In the late 1st century AD the Romans built
    Aquae SULIS: a bath complex around the sacred spring.
        A temple to SULIS Celtic goddess of healing
      merged with the Roman goddess of wisdom, MINERVA.>>
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 Whenever the Romans occupied a new colony they were careful to
propitiate the GENIUS of the land. BRITANNIA was the personified
GENIA of Britain & was first depicted on a coin of Antoninus Pius
(d. AD 161). BRITANNIA, with the attributes & weapons of MINERVA,
   appeared on coins during the reign of Charles II in 1665,
        and became the symbol of the British Empire.>>
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              _MINERVA BRITANNA_ Banner Folding:

                          (V I\V\  I T U R
                   I  N G      \E\  N I O
                  |C||E||T| E   \R\  A M
                  |O||R||T| I S  \E\  R
                  |U||N||T|

     http://f01.middlebury.edu/FS010A/students/Minerva/title.jpg
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[CU]ckold, n. [OE. coc-{COU}, F. {COU}-{COU}, cf. L. CU-CU-lus.]
   refering to the habit of the female CU-ckoo to lay her eggs
      in the nests of other birds, to be hatched by them.

         The Rape of Lucrece [Stanza 122]

     'Why should the WORM intrude the maiden BUD?
      Or hateful *CUCKOOS* hatch in SPARROWS' nests?

<<I am mad to think how minute a cause has prevented me hitherto from
reading Shakspeare. But until now, every copy that was come-atable
to me, happened to be in a VILE small print unendurable to my eyes
 which are tender as *YOUNG SPARROWS* . But chancing to fall in
 with this glorious edition, I now exult in it, PAGE after PAGE.>>
        -- Melville Letter to Evert Duyckinck, February 24 1849

       [T]o fill with WORM-holes stately monuments,
       [T]o feed oblivion with decay of things,
       [T]o BLOT old books and alter their contents,
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  JOHN AUBREY, F.R.S.:  [Shakspeare] was a handsome,
              well-shaped man,  VERiE good companie,
           and of a VERiE ready, pleasant, and smooth wit.
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<<I have heard that Mr. Shakspeare supplied the stage with 2 plays
EVER year, and for itt had an allowance so large, that hee spent att
 the rate of ï¿½1,000 a-year.>> - *REVEREND WARD* , Diary 1661-63
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                                *REVEREND WARD*

                      E D W A R D  V E R E
                                         R
                                         N

                E R N :  a *PLEDGE* ; akin to Gael. EARLAS,

                 PLEDGING 2 plays a-year [for 18 years]
EDWARD VERE earned ï¿½1,000 a-year: [June 26, 1586 - June 24, 1604]
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  ``I see,'' said Wamba, after a short pause, ``that
   the fool must be still the fool, and put his neck
    in the venture which wise men shrink from. You
    must know, my dear cousins and countrymen, that
    I more russet before I wore motley, and was bred
    to be a friar, until a BRAIN-fEVER came upon me
      and left me just wit enough to be a fool.''
                    -- _Ivanhoe_ by Sir Walter Scott
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          _Heart of Mid-Lothian_ by Sir Walter Scott

   Interrogated, declares, that among the ill-language the
 woman gave her, she did say sure enough that the declarant
    had hurt the BAIRN when she was in the BRAIN fEVER;
   but that the declarant does not believe that she said
    this from any other cause than to frighten her,
         and make her be silent

BAIRN, n. [Scot. bairn, AS. bearn, fr. beran to bear; akin
  to Icel., OS., &Goth. barn.] A child. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

   "Has he not well provided for the BAIRN!" --Beau. & Fl.
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   John (7th) Earl of Oxford at Battle of Crï¿½cy on AUGUST 26, 1346
 genius Archbishop Thomas of BRAD(ward)INE dies on AUGUST 26, 1349
                             BRAIN:ED(ward)                  +5ï¿½53
                          B. [ARDEN (ward)] I.    ----------------
 Mary ARDEN's sister, MARgerY Webbe, was buried on AUGUST 26, 1614
 BUTCHER son-in-law Lope de Vega dies in Madrid on AUGUST 26, 1635
 BUTCHER son-in-law John Hall dies 3 mo. later on Lope's birthday.
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  [Patron Saint of BU'CHERS] St. Adrian : SEPT.8 & AUGUST 26
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      http://users.erols.com/saintpat/ss/0908.htm#marg

<<Saint Adrian: as a Roman imperial officer watching
 23  Christians being beaten before Emperor Maximian:

          "Let me be counted as one of these."

  His Christian wife of 13 months, Natalia, ministered
to Adrian and his fellow prisoners, who suffered excruciating
tortures. After Adrian had been sentenced to death, visitors were
forbidden, but Natalia DISGUISED HERSELF AS A BOY & bribed
her way into the prison to ask Adrian's prayers for her in heaven.

As the axe dismembered Adrian over an anvil,
 Natalia managed to save one of his hands.  Distraught,
she had to be restrained from casting herself into the fire when
Adrian's body was burned with the other martyrs. A rain storm
 extinguished the fire, allowing Christians to gather the remains.

        Sometimes Saint Adrian  is shown
         being thrown from a cliff into the sea
       or being brought to land by DOLPHINS(?).>>
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   Dec. 4, 1639, Henry Wotton dies during first obs. VENUS TRANSIT
  [Dec. 4, 1154 - Sept. 1, 1159]       ADRIAN IV
  Sept. 1, 1159, only English pope nic(H)ola(S) br(EAKSPEAR) dies
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JOHN 19:33  when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already,
    they *BRAKE* not his legs: But one of the soldiers with a *SPEAR*
     pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
      And he that saw it bare record, and his record is *TRUE*:
    and he knoweth that he saith *TRUE*, that ye might believe.
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        JOHN AUBREY, F.R.S.: DAY FATALITY OF ROME,

<<In the year of Christ 410, in the month of August,
 Rome was trampled under foot, and her heathen inhabitants
 were miserably slaughtered by the victorious army of Alaric, a
Christian King of the Goths. Kedrenus saith it was AUGUST 26th.>>

 AUGUST 26, 410 + [5ï¿½5ï¿½5ï¿½5] => AUGUST 26, 1635 Lopï¿½ de Vega dies.
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           HENRY JAMES letter [AUGUST 26, 1903] to Violet Hunt

<<I am "a sort of" haunted by the conviction that the divine William is
the biggest and most successful fraud ever practised on a patient world.
   The more I turn him round and round the more he so affects me.>>
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<<[Shakespeare] gorged on farming terms [like] MEERS>> -p.35, Honan

              MEER/MERE, n. A boundary. --Bacon.:

    BAILIFF:   Mining Officer who directs & lays out the MERES
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    BAILIFF                 ______________________
   GLOVEmaker-             /                      \
  BUTCHER John --------- MARY                    MARgerY Webbe
    [could write          | [could write     [d. St.Adrian's Day]
     his 'marke']         |  her 'marke']
[bur. St.Adrian's Day]    | [d. St.Adrian's Day]
                       ___|___________
                      /               \             [illiterate]
                  MARgerY          Shakspere ------------ Anne
                                 [BROOK House]        |[b. 1556]
                              [Shaxpere's Boys]       |
                              [Shakspere GLOVES]      |
                              [Golding's 'OVID']      |
                            [Stratford upon Avon]     |
                         [God's 'I am that I am']     |
                         [1586 DEER Park poacher]     |
                        [ï¿½1,000/year for 18 years]    |
                     [MERES' Top 10 in comedy (1598)] |
                     [1608 Lessor of BLACKFRIARS Th.] |
                                                      |
                                 Hall M.D. -------- SUSANna
                  [d. on Lope's 73rd birthday     [b. May 26]
                   3 mo. after de Vega dies]   [could write name]
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<<Ops (Opis) The Roman goddess of the earth as a source of fertility,
   and a goddess of abundance and wealth in general (her name means
     "PLENTY"). As goddess of harvest she is closely associated
      with the god Consus. She is the sister and wife of Saturn.

         The festival OPALIA, was observed on DECEMBER 19.

   The major temple was of Ops Capitolina, on Capitoline Hill,
               where Caesar located the TREASURY.>>
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      Sonnet 136:  WILL will fulfil the TREASURE of thy love,
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     Edward de Vere marries daughter of TREASURER William Cecil:

 OPALIA = OP-HEL-IA = Anne Cecil [age 15] on  DECEMBER 19, 1571
                              (during Venus/Uranus/Sun conj.)
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        Katherine HAMLETT drowns in the Avon  DECEMBER 18, 1579
 (Venus 8 year{-2 day} cycle: during Venus/Mercury/Sun/Moon conj.)
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                 John ----------- MARgerY
                           |
                     ______|____
                    /           \     m. OPALIA(1571) [Sonneteer]
                 MARY          Oxford ---------------    Anne
                          [BROOKE House]       |       [b. 1556]
                         [Oxford's Boys]       |
                         [Oxford GLOVES]       |
                       [Golding's 'OVID']      |
                     [Stratford atte Bowe]     |
                   [God's 'I am that I am']    |
                   [1604 DEER Park warden]     |
                 [ï¿½1,000/year for 18 years]    |
              [MERES' Top 10 in comedy (1598)] |
              [1583 Lessor of BLACKFRIARS Th.] |
                                               |
                      Herbert (Philip) ----- SUSAN
                 [b. St. LONGINUS day]    [b. May 26]
                   [Folio dedicatee]    [Jaggard dedicatee]
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 #1 sister:  SUSAN      Vere Herbert dies February 1, 1629
                                                      +222
                                         -----------------
       Frankenstein's Mary S-HEL-ley dies February 1, 1851
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         St. Brigit is honored on Imbolg: February 1st

    http://www.angelfire.com/de/poetry/Whoswho/Brigit.html

 <<BRIGIT is an Irish Goddess with two sisters also named BRIGIT.

    These 3 SISTERS were often amalgamated into one entity.

     #1)  a goddess of poetry, handicrafts, & learning;
     #2)      a goddess of smiths & metalworking;
     #3)      a goddess of healing & fertility.
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           The Comedy of Errors  Act 3, Scene 1

DROMIO OF EPHESUS:     MAUD,   BRIDGET,   (=> BRIDGET) #2 sister
                      MARIAN,   CICEL,     (=> CECIL)
                     Gillian,   GINN! (=> "children of fire having
                             the power of assuming various formes")
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        <<The Stentoften runestone (ca. 620 C.E.) reads:
 "I, master of the runes, bury here GINN-runes (runes of power).">>

     http://zurix.apana.org.au/asatru/Webpage2/Ftpstone.htm
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 #3 sister) Elizabeth Vere:   [July 2, 1575 - (G)March 20, 1626]
            Thomas Cranmer:   [July 2, 1489 - (J)March 21, 1556]
            {3 blind mice}
         Latimer & Ridley burned at stake:        Oct. 16, 1555
                                                            +29
          Susan Vere's husband:                 -----------------
    Philip Herbert born St. LONGINUS day          Oct. 16, 1584
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    Filid--Hecht: Disting/Imbolg: time of swearing of *OATHS*
                               HUGUENOT means: "OATH fellows"
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<<LONGINUS: centurion at the Crucifixion who acknowledged Christ
        as "the son of God" (Matt. 27:54; Mark 15:39; Luke 23:47).
     This centurion is also identified as the soldier who pierced
        "His side with a LANCE" (John 19:34), because the name
      is derived from the Greek word LONGCHE, meaning a LANCE.>>
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    http://www.angelfire.com/de/poetry/Whoswho/Brigit.html

<<St. Brigit/Brigid (the saint and the goddess) is associated with
 the coming of spring (VER). A folk-story tells how she played the
  FOOL by lighting a crown of candles and wearing it on her head
     to distract Herod's soldiers from the Holy Infant.

The ancient Filid or BARDS were under her direct inspiration for
the creation of filidhecht (poetry), and she was also important to
 the Druids as a goddess of divination. In Romano-Celtic temples
    she was frequently amalgamated with the goddess MINERVA.

 Like the Norse goddess *HEL* the one side of her face was ugly,
        but the other side was VERy comely.>>
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     "MINERVA strengthens thy right hand, BELLONA reigns
       in thy body, within thee burns the fire of MARS.
       Thine eyes flash fire, thy WILL SHAKES A SPEAR;"

                           --  Gabriel Harvey on Edward de Vere
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February 2, 1529,(The Courtier) BALTHASAR Castiglione dies in Toledo
February 2, 1585,   Shakespeare twins, Hamnet & Judith baptized.

February 2, 1650,     Charles II's mistress NELL GWIN born
February 2, 1685,  Charles II: "Let not poor Nellie starve" & died.

    BRITANNIA, with the attributes & weapons of MINERVA,
   appeared on coins during the reign of Charles II in 1665,
        and became the symbol of the British Empire.

February 2, 1882,        James Joyce, born  [Thurs.]
February 2, 1922,        Ulysses published  [Thurs.]

February 2, 1709,  British sailor Alexander Selkirk rescued  [Wedn.]
February 2, 1785,           Haydn's Freemasonry letter       [Wedn.]

February 2, 1862,  SAMU(el) CLEMENS 1st uses pseudonym: Mark Twain
February 2, 1870,  CLEMENS marries Olivia Langdon in Elmira  [Wedn.]
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     THE 4TH POPE: CLEMENS roMAnUS (St. CLEMENT)
       Patron saint of THE *GUILD*  Died c. 100.
    http://users.erols.com/saintpat/ss/1123.htm#clem

 "O God, make us children of quietness, and HEIRS of peace"
                                                --Saint CLEMENT.

<<[St. CLEMENT] left one writing- *a letter* to the Church of Corinth:

 "The strong must make sure that they care for the weak. The rich must
be certain to give enough to supply all the needs of the poor. The poor
must thank God for supplying their needs . . . We all need each other:
 the great need the small, the small need the great. In our body, the
  head is useless without the feet and the feet without the head. The
  tiniest limbs of our body are useful and necessary to the whole">>
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  William Cecil of St Clement Danes forced his ward Edward de Vere
   to underline Bible passages which discuss caring for the poor.
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                   St Clement{em} Danes
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                Brincknell Inquest 1567
    http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/DOCS/brinck.html

  <<Et quidam Ed{ward}us Baynam de Ciuitate p{re}d{i}c{t}a
    Taylor fuer{unt} insimul in quodam loco voc{at}o le Backe
     yarde infra do{m}um Mans{i}onal{em} Will{elm}i Cecyll
    Milit{is} apud St Clement{em} Danes . . . Et sic Iur{atores}
      p{re}d{i}c{t}i dicunt sup{er} sacr{u}m suu{m} q{uo}d
   p{re}d{i}c{t}us Thomas Brinckenell apud St Clement{em} Danes>>
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 4th Pope St. Clement drowned with an ANCHOR tied round his neck.
            http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/1123.htm
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Xrob wrote:

   John W. Kennedy wrote:

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<<HOPE, in heavenly blue, carries a small ANCHOR that recalls the
   biblical mention of HOPE "as an ANCHOR of the soul.">> - Spenser

   "I wish [it] may always answer your own wish and
             the world's HOPEful expectation."

    Your honour's in all duty, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

                Even as the SUN with purple-colour'd face
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                     "BARON MUNCHAUSEN"

                       ANCHORSUNBEAM
                             U
                             N
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                     Cymbeline Act 5 v

    Soothsayer      From south to west on wing soaring aloft,
               Lessen'd herself, and in the BEAMS o' the SUN
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            _Thomas Shelton and Hamet Benengeli_
                      by  Francis Carr
           http://www.sirbacon.org/links/carrq.html
       http://ww2.netnitco.net/users/legend01/falcon.htm

            THE FIRST EDITION OF "DON QUIXOTE." 1605

<<We see a hooded falcon resting on the gloved hand of a man hidden
    from view. Swirling shapes, possibly mist, on one side only,
    stress the fact that the falconer is hidden, just out of sight.
       Around the arm and the bird is the inscription:

                 POST TENEBRAS SPERO LUCEM
               after darkness I hope for light.

                                       P
                    B                  o
                  PoeTaster <=> TeneBras
                    n                  t

The inscription takes us to Chapter 68 of the 2nd Part of Don Quixote,
 in which the knight tells Sancho Panza that he too hopes for light:

O hard heart! oh ungodly Squire! oh ill given bread, and favours ill
placed which I bestowed, and thought to have more and more conferred
 upon thee . . . for I post tenebras spero lucem. I understand not
   that, said Sancho, only I know that whilest I am sleeping, I
     neither feare nor hope, have neither paine nor pleasure.

  In Cervantes' text, Quixote follows the words in Latin with a
 translation into the vernacular: "after darkness I expect light".
       Sancho, however, still says "I don't understand that".

Shelton's version makes sense. It seems that Cervantes' explanation has
been added to help the reader, but it is a mistake, as it makes Sancho's
reply incomprehensible. Was Cervantes' text a translation of Shelton?>>
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 St Clement's Day
------------------
 November 23, 1558   Elizabeth begins royal progress towards London.
             +3ï¿½3ï¿½3
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 November 23, 1585    Composer Thomas Tallis [T.T.], dies at 80.

 November 23, 1590      Marriage of James VI & Anne of Denmark

 November 23, 1616  sHAKespeaRe qUInCY, of Thomas & Judith, baptized.
 November 23, 1616  RIChard HAK(l)UY(t) dies
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  GONERIL  As you are old and REVEREND, you should be wise.
            Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires;
              Men so disorder'd, so DEBOSH'd and bold,
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   "he was not a company keeper lived in ShoreDITCH, wouldn't
       be DEBAUCHED, & if invited to writ: he was in paine."
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          DEBAUCH, v. t. & i. [F. D['E]BAUCHER,
                        OF. BAUCHE, bauge, hut,
                    cf. F. bauge LAIR OF A WILD BOAR]
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             _DiscoVERiEs_ by Ben Jonson (1640)
                 De Shakespeare *NoStrat*
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<<I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour
  to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned)
                                he nEVER BLOTTED out line.
       My answer hath been, would he had BLOTTED a thousand.>>
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   <<wee have scarse received from him a BLOT in his papers.>>
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   <<They awarded BELOTT 20 nobles. . .later noting:

             *'tous pere & gendre DESBAUCHEZ'*

both [HUGUENOT] father & son-in-law are low-lifes]>>- E.K.Chambers
        http://www.usm.maine.edu/~rabrams/belott.html
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COLOSSIANS 2:13   He QUICKened together with him; BLOTTING OUT
     the HANDWRITING of ordinances that was against us, which was
contrary to us and took it out of the way, NAILING it to his cross;
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                  *E.O*   NLIE   BEGET[T]E   ROFTHESEI
                 /N/*S*   UING   SONNE[T]S M  RWHALLH
                /A/p[P*I*  NES [S]EAND[T]HA\T\ ETERN
               /I/Ti[Ep *R* OM [I]SED  BYOUR\E\ VER
              /L/IVi[N]gp *O.E*[T]WI(S)HETHTH\E\ W
             /E/LLWi[S]hing    [A]DV(E)NTURERI\N\
            /S/ET TIn GFORT       HT(T)
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(1584) Foure Epytaphes, made by the [ANNIe] Countes of Oxenford,
       after the death of her young Sonne, the Lord Bulbecke, &c.

          [I]dall, for Adon, nev'r shed so many teares:
          [N]or Thet', for Pelid: nor Phoebus, for Hyacinthus
          [N]or for  *A T I S* , the mother of Prophetesses
          [A]t the brute of it, the Aphroditan Queene,
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   <<Several years after [the 9th Earl of Oxford was] killed
 *by a BOAR during a hunt* in *Brabant* in 1392, Holinshed tells
  us that "King Richard caused his corpse, being embalmed, to be
 conveyed into England, and so to the priory of Colnie in Essex,
      appointing him to be laid in a coffin of CYPRESS,>>
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  <<At 16 Oxford was writing polished poetry, & Edwards was
     collecting it (7 pieces were in his personal collection,
         later published as Paradise of DAINTY Devices)>>

                The Taming of the Shrew

  GREMIO   BASINS and EWERS to lave her DAINTY hands;
             My hangings all of Tyrian tapestry;
           In ivory coffers I have stuff'd my crowns;
           In CYPRESS chests my arras counterpoints,
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    "His dayes are done, that made the DAINTY Playes,
     Which made the Globe of heav'n and earth to ring."
                                           --  Hugh Holland
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                Hamlet, Prince of Denmark  Act 5, Scene 1

First Clown     What is he that builds stronger than either
                the MASON, the shipwright, or the CARPENTER?
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ISAIAH 44:13  The CARPENTER stretcheth out his RULE; he marketh
 it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it
  out with the COMPASS, and maketh it after the figure of a man,
 according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
  He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the CYPRESS and the oak,
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ISAIAH 14:7 So the CARPENTER encouraged the goldsmith,
                and he that smootheth with the hammer
 him that smote the ANVIL, saying, It is ready for the
 sodering: and he fastened it with NAILS, that it should
 not be moved. But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob
 whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
 and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said
 unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee,
 and not cast thee away.

 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for
 I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help
 thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the RIGHT HAND of my
 righteousness. Behold, all they that were incensed
 against thee shall be ASHAMED & CONFOUNDED: they shall be
 as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.

 Thou shalt seek them, and SHALT NOT FIND THEM,
 even them that contended with thee: they that war
 against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of
 nought. For I the LORD thy God will hold THY RIGHT HAND,
 saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
 Fear not, THOU WORM Jacob, and ye men of
 Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD,
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 "The village CARPENTER . . . lays out his work by
  EMPIRICAL rules learnt in his apprenticeship." --H. SPENCER.
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 <<Aubrey de Vere (c.1340- *APRIL 23, 1400*) 10th E. of Oxford;

       erroneously named as *beheaded* [February 1400]
              ('Oxford, Salisbury,', etc.),
   in Q1,2,3,4 of Rich. II, v, 6, . . . corrected in FfQ5
    to 'Salisbury, *SPENCER* ,' etc.; as in Hol.iii,516.>>
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  <<John Chamberlain says in a letter of January 17, 1599:
    " *SPENCER* our principall poet coming out of Ireland
         died at Westminster on Satterday last.">>  -- Terry Ross
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  Stratford Church Register marriage entries:

 January 17, 1579 "William WILLSONNE and Anne HATHAWAY of Shotterye."

                 January 17  St. Anthony's Day.

        <<On this day in the age of Queen Elizabeth,
           a sick pig would be led to the DUNG-HEAP
           and was not allowed to be slaughtered.>>
          http://www.nortexinfo.net/McDaniel/0117.htm

 November 28, 1582   William Shagspere & Anne Hathwey of Stratford
[November 28, 1660   founding  FELLOW of the Royal Society]
 November 27, 1582 Tues.  Wm Shaxpere & Anna Whateley of Temple Grafton
 November 27, 1095 Tues.  Pope Urban launches 1st Crusade [Templars]
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  November 27.5 <=> May 26   [St.John's day - 1 lunar month]

 Witty Susanna Shak. was 'born' on St. AUGUSTINE's day May 26, 1583
              SUSAN Vere  born  on St. AUGUSTINE's day May 26, 1587
        HENRY PORTER disappears on St. AUGUSTINE's day May 26, 1599

  Freemason Alexander Pushkin born St. AUGUSTINE's day May 26, 1799
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   HUGUENOT Abraham de Moivre born St. AUGUSTINE's day May 26, 1667
                                             +  7/8ths of a century
                                                  ------------------
   HUGUENOT Abraham de Moivre dies (as predicted) November 27, 1754
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    <<Hire only. HUGUENOT. ( He twitches .) It is a funny sound.>>

        Ulysses by James Joyce   [HUGUENOT: "OATH fellows"]
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   Stratford Publisher Richard Field had a HUGUENOT boss & wife.
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*3*  Someone whose life history was hidden in the works:
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http://sterling.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/projects/anglia/mbse19.htm

<<St. Mary, Bury St. Edmunds, Tomb of Sir William (1501) and Lady
 Margaret (1525) Carew, north side of chancel. Margaret is richly
  dressed with feet resting on two dogs, a TALBOT & GREYHOUND.>>
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 William Shakspere's son-in-law John Hall died at New Place on
  25 November 1635 and was interred in the chancel. His arms
 (three TALBOT heads erased), are impaled with Shakespeare's.>>
                 _Shakespeare a Life_,p. 398, Park Honan.
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 John Hall's son-in-law Thomas Nash died in 1647 and was buried
   in the 'Tombe' to the immediate right of W.Shakspere.

        His namesake Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) wrote:

 "How would it have joyed brave TALBOT (the terror of the French)
 to think that after he had lyne two hundred yeares in his TOMBE,
 hee should triumphe again on the Stage, and have his bones newe
 embalmed with the teares of ten thousand spectators at least;"
         -- _Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Diuel_(1592)
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   Arthur Brooke drowned in the wreck of the GREYHOUND,

    GREYHOUND: A public-house sign, in honour of Henry VII.
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  A Bacon _Henry VII_ essay but NO Shake-speare _Henry VII_!
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      As told by the Duchess of Cleveland:

 Henry VII:   These handsome gentlemen & yeomen which I see
       on both sides of me, are surely your menial servants?

 John de Vere [15th] Earle of Oxford: They are not for mine ease;
                  they are most of them my  retainers.

 Henry VII: I may not endure to have my laws broken in my sight;
                  my attorney must speak with you.

    [DE VERE was fined ï¿½10,000 for having exceeded
           the number of retainers prescribed to him.]
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GONERIL  As you are old and REVEREND, you should be wise.
        Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires;
        Men so disorder'd, so DEBOSH'd and bold,
        That this our court, infected with their manners,
        Shows like a riotous inn: epicurism and lust
        Make it more like a tavern or a brothel
        Than a graced palace.
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Lord Burghley received a letter complaining of Oxford's compatriots
           committing robbery "upon Gadshill in Kent" in May, 1573
            the FOURTEENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF Elizabeth Regina.
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Clerk. Why then, [CUt]bert [CUt]ter, I indict thee by the
     name of [CUt]bert [CUt]ter, for robbing a poor carrier
     the 20 day of May last past, in the FOURTEEN YEAR OF
     THE REIGN of our sovereign Lord King Henry the fourth,
     for setting upon a poor Carrier upon Gadshill in Kent,
     and having beaten and wounded the said Carrier, and
      taken his goods from him. - _The Famous Victories_
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<<The historic role of the 11th Earl of Oxford at Agincourt was
  elaborated in _The Famous Victories of Henry the fifth_(1598)

  Oxford is the only English nobleman in the play!>> - Ogburn

 Richard de Vere held the hereditary distinction of Lord DRACONIS
Edmund: My father compounded with my mother under the DRAGON'S TAIL
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NO mention of Richard Vï¿½er [11th] earle of Oxenford in  _Henry V_
        nor of Robert Vï¿½er  [9th] earle of Oxenford in _Richard II_
          nor of John Vï¿½er  [7th] earle of Oxenford in _Edward III_
        nor of Robert Vï¿½er  [3rd] earle of Oxenford in   _John_
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                 Venus & Adonis

     He tells her, no; to-morrow he intends
     To hunt the BOAR with certain of his friends.
    'The BOAR!' quoth she; whereat a sudden pale,
     Like lawn being spread upon the blushing rose,
     Usurps her cheek; she trembles at his tale,
     And ON HIS NECK HER YOKING ARMS she throws:

    'But this foul, grim, and urchin-snouted BOAR,
     Whose downward eye still looketh for a grave,
     NE'ER SAW the beauteous LIVERY that he wore;
     WITNESS THE ENTERTAINMENT that he gave:
     If he did see his face, why then I know
     He thought to kiss him, and hath kill'd him so.
     ''Tis TRUE, 'tis TRUE; thus was Adonis slain:
     He ran upon the BOAR with his sharp SPEAR,
     Who did not WHET HIS TEETH at him again,
     But by a kiss thought to persuade him there;
     And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine
     Sheathed unaware the tusk IN HIS SOFT GROIN.
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 <<The 16th Earl, weary of the toil, alights from his horse
    & walks alone on foot; when suddenly down the path came
 the enraged beast with his mouth all foamy, HIS TEETH WHETTED,
     his bristles up, & all the signs of fury and anger.
   But the Earl alters not his pace, draws out his rapier
  and at the first encounter slew the BOAR.>> -Ogburn (p.430)
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 << A packed jury instructed by CECIL found that
    THOMAS BRINCKNELL had caused his own death by
     wilfully hurling himself on Oxford's rapier.>> - Alan Nelson
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  http://f01.middlebury.edu/FS010A/students/Minerva/title.jpg

                       "MENTE VIDEBOR"
                      "DE VERE IN TOMB"

     *QUICK* Nature dy'd whose name doth deck his *TOMBe*
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        Dedication to Oxford in Fairie Queene (1590)
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    (W)hich so to doe may thee right well befit,
    (S)ith th'antique glory of thine auncestry

       *Vnder a shady VELE is therein writ* ,
                     [VELLE = L., to WILL]
----------------------------------------------------

   *W I L L*  will fulfill the TREASURE of thy loue,
    I fill it full with wils,and my WILL one,
       Make but my name thy loue,and loue that still,
       And then thou louest me for my name is *W I L L*
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  [CU]ckold, n. [OE. coc-COU, F. COU-COU, cf. L. CU-CU-lus.]
  refering to the habit of the female CU-ckoo to lay her eggs
         in the nests of other birds, to be hatched by them.
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       LEVITICUS 21:10 =>  "the anointing of a cowan"
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LEVITICUS 21:10  And he that is *the high priest* among his brethren,
         upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is
     consecrated to put on the garments, shall not *UNCOVER his head*,
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Miguel Cervantes Saavedra "died" in poverty in Madrid April 23, 1616.
     Cervantes was borne from his house "with his face UNCOVERED."
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1 COR 11:4          EVERY MAN praying or prophesying,
              having his head COVERED, dishonoureth his head.

1 COR 11:7     For a man indeed ought not to COVER his head,
               forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God:
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  WIL[]L.    And good eu'n to you Sir.
  to[UC]h.   Good eu'n gentle friend. COUER THY HEAD,
                  COUER THY HEAD: Nay prethee bee couer'd.

    CU-CU-llus, n. [L., a hood.] 1. Roman hood or COWL.
-------------------------------------------------------------
     L[CU]LIW   ABCDEFGHIJKLM   EREVIV   WIZARD   EVIL
     O[XF]ORD   ZYXWVUTSRQPON   VIVERE   DRAZIW   VERO
------------------------------------------------------------
          As You Like It   Act 5, Scene 1  The forest.

  to[UC]h.      How olde are you Friend?
  WIL[]L.        Fiue and twentie Sir.
  to[UC]h.   A ripe age: Is thy name William?

  WIL[]L.          William, sir.
  to[UC]h.  A faire name. Was't borne i'th Forrest heere?

  WIL[]L.       I sir, I thanke God.
  to[UC]h.  Thanke God: A good answer: Art rich?

  WIL[]L.       'Faith sir, so, so.
  to[UC]h. So, so, is good, VERY good, VERY excellent good:
       and yet it is not, it is but so, so: Art thou wise?

  WIL[]L.   I sir, I haue a prettie wit.
  to[UC]h. Why, thou saist well. I do now remember a say-
ing: The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman
knowes himselfe to be a Foole. The Heathen Philoso-
pher, when he had a desire to eate a Grape, would open
his lips when he put it into his mouth, meaning there-
by, that Grapes were made to eate, and lippes to open.
You do loue this maid?

  WIL[]L.          I do sir.
  to[UC]h.   Giue me your hand: Art thou Learned?

  WIL[]L.           No sir.
  to[UC]h.  Then learne this of me, To haue, is to haue.
For it is a figure in Rhetoricke, that drink being powr'd out
of a cup into a glasse, by filling the one, doth empty the
other. For all your Writers do consent, that ipse is hee:
now you are not ipse, for I am he.

  WIL[]L.          Which he sir?
  to[UC]h. He sir, that must marrie this woman: Therefore
you Clowne, abandon: which is in the vulgar, leaue the
societie: which in the boorish, is companie, of this fe-
male: which in the common, is woman: which toge-
ther, is, abandon the society of this Female, or Clowne
thou perishest: or to thy better vnderstanding, dyest; or
(to wit) I kill thee, make thee away, translate thy life in-
to death, thy libertie into bondage: I will deale in poy-
son with thee, or in bastinado, or in steele: I will bandy
with thee in faction, I will ore-run thee with policie: I
will kill thee a hundred and fifty wayes, therefore trem-
ble and depart.
                   .       .       .       .

MISTRESS PAGE  He is a better scholar than I thought he was.

SIR HUGH EVANS       He is a good SPRAG MEMORY.
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     SPRAG, a. [Cf. Icel. spr[ae]kr sprightly, dial.]
              QUICK; lively; alert. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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              QUICK, a. [As. CUCU;  L. viVERE to LIVE]
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                 MINERVA BRITANNA Banner Folding

                          (V I\V\  I T U R
                   I  N G      \E\  N I O
                  |C||E||T| E   \R\  A M
                  |O||R||T| I S  \E\  R
                  |U||N||T|

     http://f01.middlebury.edu/FS010A/students/Minerva/title.jpg
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 Whenever the Romans occupied a new colony they were careful to
propitiate the GENIUS of the land. BRITANNIA was the personified
GENIA of Britain & was first depicted on a coin of Antoninus Pius
(d. AD 161). BRITANNIA, with the attributes & weapons of MINERVA,
   appeared on coins during the reign of Charles II in 1665,
        and became the symbol of the British Empire.>>

                   GENIO SOCRATEM

           Compare the posture of the Vesalius'
                "VIVITUR IN GENIO" skeleton:
       http://mesl.itd.umich.edu/w/wantz/images/vesdi02.jpg

    with the posture of the 1740 Westminster Shakespeare statue:
            http://www.sirbacon.org/gallery/west.htm

      Westminster:  "And like the baseless FNBRICK of a Vision"
          Vesalius:    "De humani corporis FABRICA"
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                   1640 *Wit's Recreation*:
                 To Master William Shakespeare

          Shakespeare, we must be silent in thy praise,
         'Cause our encomiums will but blast thy bays,
        Which *ENVY* could not, that thou didst so well
         *Let thine own HISTORIES prove thy chronicle*
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"The Lord Robert Vï¿½er [9th] earle of Oxenforde, whom the king
  in the last parliament had made marquesse of Dublin, was now,
  in this parliament created Duke of Ireland: the other lords
        sore *ENVYing* so high preferment in a man that
       so little *DESERVED*, as they took it." - Holinshed
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MATTHEW 27:18  . . .  for *ENVY* they had DEliVEREd him.

    PEACHam: <<*Edward, Earl of Oxford* , the Lord Buckhurst,
    Henry Lord Paget; our Phoenix, the noble Sir Philip Sidney,
    M. Edward Dyer, M. Edmund *Spencer* , M. Samuel Daniel,
        with sundry others; whom, not out of *ENVY* >>

   Jonson: <<To draw no *ENVY* (Shakespeare) on thy name,
                 Am I thus ample to thy Booke, and Fame>>
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     Dedication to Oxford in Fairie Queene (1590)
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     To the right Honourable the Earle of Oxenford,
       Lord high Chamberlayne of England. &c.

     REceiue most Noble Lord in gentle gree,
     The vnripe fruit of an vnready WIT:
     Which by thy countenaunce doth craue to bee

     Defended from foule *ENUIES* poisnous bit.

    (W)hich so to doe may thee right well befit,
    (S)ith th'antique glory of thine auncestry

       *Vnder a shady VELE is therein writ* ,
                     [VELLE = L., to WILL]

     And eke thine owne long *liuing MEMORY* ,
     Succeeding them in TRUE nobility:

     And also for the loue, which thou doest beare
     To th'HELICONian ymps, and they to thee,
     They vnto thee, and thou to them most deare:
     Deare as thou art unto thy selfe, so loue
     That loues & honours thee, as doth behoue. --  E.S.
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           The Merry Wives of Windsor  Act 1, Scene 3

PISTOL:   Shall DUNGHILL curs confront the HELICONS?
              And shall good news be baffled?

 While tending his flock on Mt. HELICON, the Muses appeared
     to Hesiod in a mist and impelled him to epic poetry.

    The king gave the crown to Hesiod, declaring that
   it was right that he who called upon men to follow
  peace & husbandry should have the prize rather than one
  who dwelt on WAR & slaughter.  In this way, we are told,
   Hesiod gained the victory & received a brazen tripod:

`Hesiod dedicated this tripod to the Muses of HELICON after
he had conquered divine Homer at Chalcis in a contest of song'
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  http://www.unipissing.ca/department/history/2425/l-42me.htm

<<[Richard II] responded to his uncles' neglect by assembling a court
party around himself. These men were later reviled by their opponents
  as "UPSTARTS," but they were scarcely obscure men. The real issues
were not obscurity of birth, but greed & military failure. It was
  said that the WAR was going badly because the king, who was not
    particularly warlike himself, had surrounded himself by:

    "knights of Venus instead of BELLONA (the WAR goddess),"

 & that rich gifts to these idle men was impoverishing the crown and
necessitating high taxation. . .[Parliament was] especially aggravated
by the recent elevation of [Robert] de Vere (9th Earl of Oxford), one
of the least popular courtiers, to the rank of Duke of Ireland (1385).>>
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 *HEL* gives Odin 2 RAVENS: HuGINN & MuNINN (Thought & MEMORY):
         messengers opening pathways to death's realm.

       [T]o pluck the quills from ancient RAVENS' wings,
       [T]o dry the old oak's sap and cherish springs,
       [T]o spoil antiquities of hammer'd steel,

           The Rape of Lucrece    Stanza 122

      'Why should the WORM intrude the maiden BUD?
       Or hateful CUCKOOS hatch in sparrows' nests?

       [T]o fill with WORM-holes stately monuments,
       [T]o feed oblivion with decay of things,
       [T]o BLOT old books and alter their contents,
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                     Romeo & Juliet  1:1

  MONTAGUE   As is the BUD bit with an ENVIOUS WORM,
           Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,
              Or dedicate his beauty to the *SUN*
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http://mywebpages.comcast.net/runewolf/norse/norsesoul.htm

 HUGR: "Mind/thought" is made up of three faculties: (1) volition,
 (2) perception, & (3) cognition. This "seat of the will" is often
  used in Old Norse literature. It takes over the personalities of
  advanced runesingers because their evolution comes more and more
   under conscious control.

MINNI: "MEMORY" storehouse of all mysteries, the great rune-hoard.

  These two psychic aspects represented by ï¿½dhinn's RAVENS:
      HuGINN & MuNINN (Mind & Memory) in the "Grkmnismil":

   The whole earth over, every day hover HuGINN & MuNINN;
         I dread lest HuGINN droop in his flight,
           yet I fear me still more for MuNINN.
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<<"Sit you down and hear the news. Here's Cap'n FLINT-
   -I calls my parrot Cap'n FLINT, after the famous
 buccaneer. "Now, that bird," he would say, "is, maybe,
 two hundred years old, Hawkins--they live forever mostly;
 and if anybody's seen more wickedness, it must be the
    devil himself. She's sailed with England>>
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<<The Muses: These Greek deities of art and inspiration are among
  the most familiar of the ancient divinities. Originally there
  were only 3, at Mount HELICON: Melete, M N E M E , and Aoide.
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       Dear son of *MEMORY*, great HEIR of FAME,

             TOT      HEONL         IEBE
             GET      TEROF         THES
             EIN      SVING     [S]  ONN
             ETS [M] R  WHA     [L]  LHA
             PPI [N] E  SS  E   [A]  NDT
             HAT [E] T  ER  N   [I]  TIE
             PRO [M] I  SE  D   [B]  YOV
             REV [E] R  LI  V   [I]  NGP
             OET      WISH  E   [T]  HTH

             EWE      LLWI [S.] [H.] ING
             ADV      ENTV [R.] [E.] RIN
             SET      TING [F.] [O.] RTH
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   F.R.S.: [F]ellowship of the [R]oyal [S]ociety.
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       1742 Alexander Pope: THE DUNCIAD: BOOK IV

      "Who study *Shakespeare* at the Inns of Court,
       Impale a glow-WORM, or VERts profess,
       SHINE in the dignity of *F.R.S.* ,
      [S]ome, *DEEP Free-Masons*, join the silent race,
      [W]orthy to fill PYTHAGORAS's place"
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<<The earthly murderers would his MEMORY on earth BLOT out, but the
lofty Avenger hath his MEMORY in the heavens and on earth wide-spread.
They who would not erewhile to his living body bow down, they now
humbly on knees bend to his dead bones.>> - Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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                    Dear son of MEMORY, great HEIR of FAME,
                    What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?
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                 a n(EVER) writer to an EVER reader NEWES:
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                    [King Richard the Second (Quarto) 5.6]`

        North.  First to thy sacred state WISH I ALL HAPPINESSE,
                The next NEWES is, I haue to London sent
                The heades of OXFORD, Salisbury, Blunt and Kent,
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[9th Earl of] OXFORD's head was replaced
                  by SPENCER's head in the Richard II Folio:
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                    [King Richard the Second (Folio) 5.6]

        Nor.   First to thy Sacred State, WISH I ALL HAPPINESSE:
               The next NEWES is, I haue to London sent
               The heads of Salsbury, SPENCER, Blunt, and Kent:

                    [King Richard the Second (Folio) 4.1]

KING RICHARD II  Mark'd with a Blot, damn'd in the Booke of Heauen.
                   Nay, all of you, that stand and looke vpon me,
                   Whil'st that my wretchednesse doth bait my selfe,
                   Though some of you, with PILATE, WASH your hands,
                   Shewing an outward pittie: yet you PILATES
                   Haue here DEliUER'd me to my sowre Crosse,
                   And Water cannot wash away your sinne.

         North.    My Lord dispatch, reade o're these Articles.

         Rich.     Mine Eyes are full of Teares, I cannot see:
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 1579  "October" -- _The Shepheardes Calender_  by Edmund *SPENSER*

        How I could reare the Muse on stately stage,
        And teache her tread aloft in buskin fine,
        With QUEINT BELLONA in her equipage.
        But ah my corage cooles ere it be warme,

         The mysterious E.K. gives this gloss:

 <<QUEINT) strange BELLONA; the goddese of battaile, that is Pallas,
which may therefore wel be called queint for that (as Lucian saith) when
Iupiter hir father was in traueile of her, he caused his sonne VULCANE
with his axe to hew his head. Out which leaped forth lustely a valiant
 damsell armed at all poyntes, whom seeing VULCANE so faire & comely,
   lightly leaping to her, proffered her some cortesie, which the
   Lady disdeigning, *SHAKED her SPEAR at him*, and threatned his
 saucinesse. Therefore such [straungenesse] is well applyed to her.>>
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 PROSPERO    Fine apparition! My QUAINT Ariel,
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             Gabriel Harvey on Edward de Vere:

       "MINERVA strengthens thy right hand, BELLONA reigns
        in thy body, within thee burns the fire of MARS.
        Thine eyes flash fire, thy WILL SHAKES A SPEAR;"
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                 *England's HEL-ICON* (1600)
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    <<The subject of the medal, Cardinal Pietro Bembo.

http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg23/gg23-41365.0.html

The reverse shows the fabulous winged horse Pegasus striking the earth
 on Mount HELICON with his hoof; the fountain Hippocrene gushes forth.
The spring associated with poetry & literature was appropriate
                                   for writer & humanist Bembo.>>
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  "The Lord Robert Vï¿½er [9th] : the other lords
         sore *ENVYing* so high preferment in a man that
        so little *DESERVED*, as they took it." - Holinshed
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 William Webbe,_A Discourse on English Poetry_ (1586):

 "I may not omit the *DESERVED* commendations of many honourable
& noble Lords & Gentlemen in Her Majesty's Court, which, in the
   rare devices of poetry, have been and yet are most skilful;
  among whom the right honourable Earl of Oxford may challenge
     to himself the title of most excellent among the rest."
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     GLORY to the *DESERVED* author in these his poems.
                       Shakespeare's _Poems_(1640) -- I. B.
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    *October 25, 1415* [St.Crispin's day] Agincourt
    *October 25, 1400* [St.Crispin's day] Chaucer died?
               + 6ï¿½33)
    ------------------
    *October 25, 1598* Letter from Richard Quiney asking for
           a ï¿½30 loan. This is the only letter that has ever
        been found addressed to William Shakspere of Stratford.

  1556:    Chaucer's tomb erected in Westminster Abbey,
              the first poet of "the Poets' Corner,"
          The date on the tombstone is *October 25, 1400*
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 ROBERT DE VERE  3rd Earl of Oxford, died *October 25, 1221*

<<On payment of *a thousand marks* he obtained LIVEry of his lands.
      His brother had been reckoned among the *EVIL counsellors*
          of King John, but he took the side of the barons,
       became one of the twenty-five executors of Magna Charta,
      forfeited his estates, and was excommunicated by the pope.
      The third earl's widow gave a site in the city of Oxford
         to (the *BLACKFRIARS* ) who had just come into England.>>
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  1583 Lessor of *BLACKFRIARS* Theatre:  Henry Evans => Edward de Vere
  1596 Lessor of *BLACKFRIARS* Theatre:        CUTHBERT BURBage

      [CUt]HE-BIRTH  is a shibboleth for FREEMASON!
       BUR-BAGE      means  BOAR-BADGE! (Oxford / Bacon)

  1608 Lessor of *BLACKFRIARS* Theatre:  Henry Evans => Shakspere
  1620 Lessor of *BLACKFRIARS* Theatre:        John Milton Sr.
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                   LU-CRE-CE
                   OF-XIV-XV
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  John, 7th Earl (1313-1360), a distinguished soldier, fighting
  at Crecy & 'Poitiers and in all Edward III.'s wars in his time.
                        ____|_____________________________
                       |                                  |
                       |                       Thomas 8th Earl of Ox
                       |                        (1336-1371; a1360)
      *Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford*                |
            (1339-23 APR 1400; a1392)                     |
                        |                       Robert 9th Earl of Ox
                        |                        (1362-1392; a1371)
       Richard de Vere 11th Earl of Oxford
        Lord Draconis (1385-1417; a1400)
            held a command at Agincourt
                    _____|_________________________________
                   |                                       |
       *John 12 Earl of Oxford*                            |
          (1408-1461; a1417)                               |
        ___________|______________              Sir Robert de Vere
       |           |              |                        |
       |     *Awbreie Vï¿½er*       |                        |
       |                          |                        |
*John 13 Earl of Oxford*  Sir George de Vere         John de Vere
   (1442-1513; a1462)             |                        |
                         John XIV Earl of Ox               |
                          (1499-1526; a1513)     John XV Earl of Ox
                                                   (d.1539; a1526)
                     ______________________________________|
                    |                                      |
             Sir Geoffrey Vere                  John 16th Earl of Ox
           _________|________                    (c.1516-1562; a1540)
          |                  |                              |
      Francis Vere     *HORATIO* Vere           Edward 17 Earl of Ox
      (1560--1609)      (1565--1635)              (1550-1604; a1562)
                             |
                    [4 gen.] |
                             |         George Vertue patron
                   Countess of Oxford ---  Edward Harley
                                         2nd Earl of Oxford
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 HAMLET           O good HORATIO, what a wounded name,
           Things standing thus unKNOWn, shall live behind me!
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           The Merry Wives of Windsor  Act 1, Scene 3

    PISTOL:     Then did the *SUN* on DUNGHILL SHINE.
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          http://www.everreader.com/knighsun.htm

<<In Alan Young's Tudor and Jacobean Tournaments . . . recounts
Oxford's participation in one of his last tournaments at Whitehall
    (prior to imprisonment in the Tower) on 22 January 1581.

   "the Earl of Oxford appeared in the Whitehall tiltyard
          as the Knight of the TREE OF THE *SUN* ">>
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   "I overtook, coming from Italy a great & famous Earl.
    Valiant and learn'd, and liberal as the *SUN*,
    Spoke and writ sweetly, or of learned subjects,
    Or of the discipline of public weals;
    And 'twas the Earl of Oxford." --  George Chapman (1613)
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        "Pro Vere Autumni Lachryme,"   George Chapman (1622)
            to the memory of Sir HORATIO VERE.
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           HORATIO Vere, Baron Vere of Tilbury

Born:       1565        Acceded:   24 JUL 1625
Interred:   8 MAY 1635, Westminster Abbey, London, England
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     Was Oxford's Portrait Shakespeare's? by  Richard Whalen
            http://www.everreader.com/manindep.htm

<<In 1737 Edward  Harley took the engraver George Vertue with him to
  see Stratford and the monument in Trinity Church. Vertue sketched
   the monument [with] Harley as a lone spectator [standing on the
   wife's grave]. As it happens, Harley was the 2nd earl of Oxford,
    while his wife was the great-great-granddaughter of Oxford's
  favorite cousin, the famous HORACE VERE. Also, she had inherited
       the Welbeck portrait of the 17th Earl of Oxford,>>
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                King Henry VI, Part iii    Act 3, Scene 3

13th Earl of OXFORD:   My elder Brother, the Lord Aubrey Vere
                               Was done to death?
                  and more then so, my Father [the 12th Earl],
                 Euen in the downe-fall of his mellow'd yeeres,
                 When Nature brought him to the doore of Death?
                 No Warwicke, no: while Life vpholds this Arme,
                  *This Arme vpholds the House of Lancaster*
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                      3 Henry VI Act V SCENE 5

KING EDWARD IV   Awaie with OXFORD to HAM(es cas)TELL straight,
                   For Summerset *off with his guiltie head* .
                   Awaie I will not heare them speake.

[13th Earl of OXFORD]:    Ile not trouble thee with *words*
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[13th Earl]:  EVERy man's conscience is a thousand *swords*
                    To fight against that bloody homicide.>>

   Terry Ross wrote:  Oxford's entire part in *Richard III* !!
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              John (de Vere), 13th Earl of Oxford.
 In command at the battle of Bosworth in support of Henry VII,
   and later against *UNDERCOOK* LAMbErT SIMNEL's rebellion.
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October 31, 1620,   John Evelyn [founder of Royal Society] born
October 31, 1632,           Jan Vermeer born
October 31, 1795,    John Keats born at the Swan & Hoop.
October 31, 1820,       Haydn's corpse found BEHEADED

   <<St. Quentin BEHEADED & DROWNED IN THE RIVER SOMME.
         QUYNTYN is the patron saint of PORTERS & TAILORS>>
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<<On 23 July 1567,
         while practicing fencing with Edward Baynam, a TAILOR,
         in the backyard of Cecil's house in the Strand, the
          17-year-old Oxford killed an unarmed UNDERCOOK named
               THOMAS BRINCKNELL with a thrust to the thigh.

 Condemned as a suicide, Brincknell was denied Christian burial,

    and his pregnant widow AGNES & 3-year-old son QUYNTYN

  were stripped of their assets & abandoned to her relatives
     and the parish church.>>  --    Prof. Alan Nelson
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<<On 23 July 1567,
         at Lochleven, Mary Queen of Scots was forced to sign
         an act of withdrawal in favor of her 1-year-old son,
     who was crowned as James VI five days afterward at Scone.>>
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 Richard II's GREYHOUND (named MATHE) deserted the king
                   & attached itself to Bolingbroke (Henry IV)
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 KING RICHARD II   At Coventry, upon Saint LAM(b)E(r)T's day:
                 There shall your swords and lances arbitrate
                 The swelling difference of your settled hate:
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 <<The name AMLETH derives frome the Old Norse for an idiot,
                     or for a tricky *Fool* who feigns idiocy.>>

<< *Epona* : from Celtic Gaul, was especially worshipped as a
   protectress of *horses* and a giver of well being to *fools*.>>
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   Katherine HAMLETT drowned in the Avon      December 18, 1579
      while fetching a pail of water.
  (during Venus/Mercury/Sun/Moon conj.)                    - 18
                                             -------------------
   Arthur Brooke admitted to Inner Temple     December 18, 1561
   sponsors: Grandmaster Thomas Sackville
 & Tom Norton, authors of *Gordobuc*(1560)  Feast Day of *Epona*
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   HAMLET       why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?
         Where be his quiddities now, his (cas es) ?
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John de Vere [13th Earl] released from HAM(es cas)TELL  in 1484
                                       HAM-NET was born in 1584
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          Shakspere & Cervantes die on *April 23, 1616*
    Exactly 18 dozen (6x6x6) years after 10th Earl of Oxford
(The *only* direct lineal ancestor of the 17th Earl in Shaksp.):
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<<Aubrey de Vere (c.1340- *APRIL 23, 1400*) 10th E. of Oxford;

       erroneously named as *beheaded* [February 1400]
              ('Oxford, Salisbury,', etc.),
   in Q1,2,3,4 of Rich. II, v, 6, . . . corrected in FfQ5
    to 'Salisbury, *Spencer* ,' etc.; as in Hol.iii,516.>>
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          Renowned *Spenser* , lie a thought more nigh
          To learned Chaucer; and rare Beaumont, lie
          A little nearer *Spenser* ; to make room
          For Shakespeare in your three-fold four-fold tomb

               William Basse (1622) _On Mr. Wm. Shakespeare,
                                      he dyed in April 1616."
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   My Shakespeare, *R I S E*! I will not LODGE thee by
        Chaucer or *S P E N Ser*, or bid Beaumont LIE
    A LITTLE FURTHER, to make thee a room. - Ben Jonson (1623)
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                  *E.O*   NLIE   BEGET[T]E   ROFTHESEI
                 /N/*S*   UING   SONNE[T]S M  RWHALLH
                /A/p[P*I*  NES [S]EAND[T]HA\T\ ETERN
               /I/Ti[Ep *R* OM [I]SED  BYOUR\E\ VER
              /L/IVi[N]gp *O.E*[T]WI(S)HETHTH\E\ W
             /E/LLWi[S]hing    [A]DV(E)NTURERI\N\
            /S/ET TIn GFORT       HT(T)
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          [I]dall, for Adon, nev'r shed so many teares:
          [N]or Thet', for Pelid: nor Phoebus, for Hyacinthus
          [N]or for *A T I S*, the mother of Prophetesses
          [A]t the brute of it, the Aphroditan Queene,

(1584) Foure Epytaphes, made by the [ANNIe] Countes of Oxenford,
       after the death of her young Sonne, the Lord Bulbecke, &c.
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  B[U'C]HER son-in-law John Hall dies       Wed. 25 November 1635
WIL[   ]L of Elizabeth, Countess of Oxford, Wed. 25 November 1612
  B[U'C]HER son-in-law Lope de Vega born    Wed. 25 November 1562
     http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/DOCS/elizwill.html

<<I the lady Elizabeth Vere Countesse Dowager of Oxenford late wife
   of Edward de Vere late Earle of Oxenford doe make & ordayne
  this my last will. . . Item I give vnto my worthie good friend
S{i}r Edward Mooreknight my longe SILVER BASON wth the eWER to it.>>
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     <<Let one attend him vvith a SILUER BASON
       Full of Rose-water, and bestrew'd with Flowers,
       Another beare the EWER: the third a Diaper,
       And say wilt please your Lordship coole your hands.>>

          Introduction to _Taming of the ShREW_

  <<Enter aloft the drunkard with attendants, some with apparel,
         BASON and EWER, & other appurtenances, & Lord.]>>

   Second Servant:

     <<WILL't please your mightiness to wash your hands?
       O[xford?], how we joy to see your wit restored!
       O[xford?], that once more you knew but what you are!
       These fifteen years you have been in a dream;
       Or when you WAKED, so WAKED as if you SLePT.>>
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   http://shakespeareauthorship.com/sf/thingitself.html

[Oxford Bible] Verses on Kathman's list but not Stritmatter's:
   http://shakespeareauthorship.com/sf/1sam2611-12.gif

 1 SAMUEL 26:12  So David took the SPEAR & the CRUSE of WATER
from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it,
    nor knew it, neither AWAKED: for they were all ASLEEP;
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       [_A 1001 Nights_] THE SLEEPER AND THE WAKER
        {source for Taming of the Shrew prologue}

 <<There was once at Baghdad, a merchant who died leaving
   great store of wealth to his HEIR, Abu al-Hasan al-Khali.

   As soon as the Caliph was seated, the host brought him
  somewhat to eat. So he ate, and Abu al-Hasan ate with him.

      They gave not over eating till they were filled,
      when Abu al-Hasan brought BASIN & EWER & POTASH
              and they washed their hands.

The Caliph robed him in a rich robe & gave him a THOUSAND DINARS.

 The chief eunuch came in and said, "O Prince of TRUE BeliEVERs,
  the CHAMBERLAIN is at the door craving permission to enter.">>
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 LORD (high) CHAMBERLAIN Edward de VERE was the courtier
   in charge of the royal handwashing ceremony (Miller).

     http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/4260/ewer.html

<<The Office of EWERy had been in the Vere family for generations,
 with the special privilege of bearing water to the King or Queen
   on Coronation day. It is not known conclusively if Oxford
 performed this function at King James' Coronation in 1603, but
 he did petition to be paid for such service, as was the custom.>>
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           SPENSE: Italian EXTINGUISHED, QUENCHed

     *A BALL OF FIRE* at Kenilworth Castle in August of 1572
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<<The main event during the Queen's stay:

    Two forts had been built of "slender TIMBER covered with canvas."
    Of one "was governor the Earl of Oxford, a lusty gentleman, with
    a lusty band of gentlemen." Artillery pieces brought by the Earl
    of Warwick from the Tower of London were fired by powder trains

    "and so mad a great noise, as though it had been a sore assault. . .
the Earl of Oxford and his soldiers, to the number of two hundred, with
    CALIVERS and arquebusses, likewise gave DIVERS assaults; they in the
    fort shooting again, and casting out DIVERS fires, terrible to those
that have not been in like experiences. The wild fire falling into the
River Avon would for a time like still, and then rise and fly abroad,
casting forth many flashes and flames, whereat the Queen's Majesty
    took great pleasure. . ."

Realism got somewhat out of hand. Fireballs sailed over the Castle and
fell in the town, so that four houses were burning at one time. In a
house at the end of the bridge over the Avon on which *A BALL OF FIRE*
fell, a man and his wife were asleep. Only with difficulty were they
rescued by Oxford and Fulke Greville, who appears to have been his
opponent in the mock battle. Ward ways it is comforting to read that
    a purse was made up by the Queen and her courtiers to recompense
the householders.>> -- _The Mysterious William Shakespeare_ p.505
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_Charles Arundel contra Oxford: formal statement and three libels_
   http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/LIBELS/libel4.html#N_117_

   I have gone in and fownd the BEAST in the same plight,
   but to make it more apparant, my Lord harrye sawe more,
  and the boye confest it vnto southewell, and him selfe confirmid
     it to Mr William Cornewallis, thus muche for profe of his
    Sodomye who is a best [=BEAST] stayned with all impudicitie.
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    "I thought Oz was a great Head," said Dorothy.

"And I thought Oz was a BALL OF FIRE," exclaimed the Lion.

"And I thought Oz was a terrible BEAST," said the Tin Woodman.

   "No, you are all wrong," said the little man meekly.
            "I have been making believe."

  "Making believe!" cried Dorothy. "Are you not a Great WIZARD?"

  "Hush, my dear," he said. "Don't speak so loud, or you will be
overheard- and I should be ruined. I'm supposed to be a Great WIZARD."
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    K[CU]P   L[CU]LIW   ABCDEFGHIJKLM   EREVIV   EVIL   WIZARD
    P[XF]K   O[XF]ORD   ZYXWVUTSRQPON   VIVERE   VERO   DRAZIW
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    P[UC]K    Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a HOUND,
            A HOG, a headless bear, sometime a FIRE;
            And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,
            Like horse, HOUND, HOG, bear, fire, at EVERy turn.
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          W. H. = [W]illiam [H]erbert / [H]enry [W]riothesley
          V. G.
          U. F.
          T. E.
          S. D. = [S]tephen [D]edalus
          R. C. = [R]obinson [C]rusoe / [R]osi[C]rucians
          Q. B. = [Q]ueen [B]ess
          P. A. = [P]hillips, [A]ugustine
          O. Z. =     WIZARD
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'I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience.
        And to forge in the smithy of my soul,
   the uncreated conscience of my race.' - [S]tephen [D]edalus
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Art Neuendorffer


author: David L. Webb

subject: Re: a certain young gay nobleman

text:
In article <[email]>,
 "Art Neuendorffer" <[email]>
([email]) wrote:

   What?!  You can't name a few of the "Great books of the Western
World" that were NOT the work of the hilarious Masonic conspiracy whose
existence you hallucinate?

   You really don't bother thinking much.

   How would a cowan like [email] know that it
was "obvious[ly]" Masonic?

   I'm not sure how having a "Freemason mentor" would have helped much,
Art.

   If Freemasons are responsible for the great Shakespeare authorship
coVERup whose existence you so hilariously hallucinate, then why did
Mark Twain openly express doubts about Shakespeare's authorship, Art?
You're not making any sense whateVER -- not that your habitual readers
would eVER expect you to.

[Lunatic logorrhea snipped]

   It's 96K of idiotic crap, Art, all of which you've posted many times
pREViously; it's hard to decide which is funnier, the crackpot
cryptography or the nutcase numerology.  Are you happy now?


author: Art Neuendorffer

subject: Re: a certain young gay nobleman

text:
Western
conspiracy

"David L. Webb" <[email]>

                          Not off hand.

"David L. Webb" <[email]>

      Since no one has found much fault in my discoveries there really
hasn't been a need.

"David L. Webb" <[email]>

                The you admit that it is true!

be

mentor

"David L. Webb" <[email]>

         We're talking about talented young artists not mediocre
mathematicians.

door

"David L. Webb" <[email]>

    American & Scotish ('moniment') Freemasons enjoyed teasing their
Anglican cohorts.

        They grudgingly paid their dues from time to time, however:
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"Americans have already subscribed ï¿½1,000 for an American memorial
  window to be put in the Shakespeare Church at Avon. About
three-fourths of the visitors to Shakespeare's tomb are Americans. If
you will show me any American who has visited England and has not seen
that tomb, Barnum shall be on his track next week. It was an American
who roused into its present vigorous life, England's dead interest in
her Shakespearean remains. Think of that! Imagine the house that
Shakespeare was born in being brought bodily over here and set up on
American soil! That came within an ace of being done once. A reputable
gentleman of Stratford told me so. The old building was going to wreck
and ruin. Nobody felt quite reverence enough for the dead dramatist to
repair and take care of his house; so an American came along ever so
quietly and bought it. The deeds were actually drawn and ready for the
signatures. Then the thing got wind and there was a fine stir in
England! The sale was stopped. Public-spirited Englishmen headed a
revival of reverence for the poet, and from that day to this every relic
of Shakespeare in Stratford has been sacred, and zealously cared for
accordingly. Can you name the American who once owned Shakespeare's
birth place for twenty-four hours? There is but one who could ever have
conceived of such an unique and ingenious enterprise, and he is the man
I refer to - P. T. Barnum.

              MARK TWAIN - HARTFORD, Monday, April 26, 1875"
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"David L. Webb" <[email]>

                   I have "habitual readers?"

    [Is Tom Reedy's boy a son of an "habitual reader?"]

"David L. Webb" <[email]>

              OK, now CRITIQUE it in detail.

Critique n. [F. critique, f., fr. Gr. ???? (sc. ????) ]  A critical
examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical
dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a
criticism; as, Kant's ``Critique of Pure Reason.''

Art Neuendorffer


author: Maureen

subject: Building Hamlet Resources

text:
Hello--this is my first posting to this site.  I am currently building
a site for Hamlet resources to assist me in teaching Hamlet at the
English 30 level.  I just started teaching and would appreciate any
resources that I could add to my site (or advice on what works
well!!). Thanks for your time! Maureen McAuley


author: JerryDowns

subject: Re: Building Hamlet Resources

text:
On the internet group Shaksper a recent recommendation
was <Heart of Hamlet> by Bernard Grebanier. I've just
finished the book and think it would be of real service.

I've studied the play off and on for years. The Variorum
Hamlet and the Arden 2 (Jenkins) are good.

The many theories, particularly those of J D Wilson, have
contaminated Hamlet for years. In turn, the films are faulty.
Students will form opinions from movies that will preclude
proper study. Grebanier notes this danger well. Jerry Downs