BROBDINGNA(G) BANTER
Neuendorffer
King Henry VI, Part i Act 1, Scene 4
TALBOT But with a baser man of arms by far
Once in contempt they would have BARTER'd me:
Which I, disdaining, scorn'd; and craved death,
Rather than I would be so vile esteem'd.
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BARTER, v. i. [OE. bartren, OF. barater, bareter, to cheat, exchange,
perh. fr. Gr. ? to do, deal (well or ill), use practices or tricks, or
perh. fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. brath treachery, W. brad.] To traffic or
trade, by exchanging one commodity for another.
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BANTER, v. t. [Prob. corrupted fr. F. badiner to joke, or perh. fr. E.
bandy to beat to and fro. cf. {BARTER}] 1. To address playful
good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something
pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he
BANTERed me about my credulity.
Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then BANTERed on my haggard
looks the next day. --W. Irving.
2. To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit,
characteristic, and the like. [Archaic]
If they BANTER your regularity, order, and love of study, BANTER in
return their neglect of them. --Chatham.
3. To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest. [Obs.]
We diverted ourselves with BANTERing several poor scholars with hopes of
being at least his lordship's chaplain. --De Foe.
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BROBDINGNA[G] BANTER
ABBINGTON BERNARD
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Shakspere's illiterate grandaughter Elizabeth was unable
to continue the Shakspere line dispite two marriages:
first with Thomas Nash, Esq and then
with Sir John BERNARD of ABBINGTON.
ABB(ING)TO(N)BERNARD
ABBOT (GINN) BERNARD
ginnee, n.; pl. GINN. [Ar.] (Arabian & Mohammedan Myth.) A genius or
demon; one of the fabled genii, good and evil spirits, supposed to be
the children of fire, and to have the power of assuming various forms.
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<<The whole of mankind is surrounded by elemental spirits [GINN]
which can do him service. These could be brought to his will by the
Rosicrucian by IMPRISONING THEM IN A RING, a MIRROR or a stone, and
compelling them to appear when desired. Here is a distinct parallel
with Arabian cabbalistical literature, some of which, folklorized,
is in the Arabian Nights.>> - Arkon Daraul, Secret Societies
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Alexander Pope
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/apope.htm
<<In middle age Alexander Pope was 4ft 6in tall and weared a
stiffened canvas bodice to support his spine. Pope associating with
anti-Catholic Whig friends, but by 1713 he moved towards the Tories,
becaming one of the members of Scriblerus Club. His friends among Tory
intellectuals included Swift, Gay, Congreve and Robert HARLEY, 1st
Earl of Oxford. During his last years Pope designed a romantic
'grot' in a tunnel which linked the waterfront with his back garden.
It was walled with shells and pieces of MIRROR.
Pope died on May 30, 1744.>>
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Imprisoning them in a RING
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King Henry IV, Part i Act 2, Scene 4
FALSTAFF My own knee! when I was about thy years, Hal, I was
not an eagle's talon in the waist; I could have
crept into any alderman's thumb-RING: a plague of
sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a
bladder. There's villanous news abroad: here was
Sir John Bracy from your father; you must to the
court in the morning. That same mad fellow of the
north, Percy, and he of Wales, that gave Amamon the
bastinado and MADE LUCIFER cuckold and swore the
devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh
hook--what a plague call you him?
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MADE LUCIFER
EMARICDULFE
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Chandos' ear-RING in
George Vertue's 1737 sketch of the Earl of Oxford
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Was Oxford's Portrait Shakespeare's?
by Richard Whalen
http://www.everreader.com/manindep.htm
<<A decade after the Shakespeare Jubilee occurred an indication
that someone may have believed that Oxford was Shakespeare.
This clue was in a portrait inventory that seemed to imply that
a portrait of Oxford was thought to be that of Shakespeare.
Derran Charlton, an archival researcher of South Yorkshire, England,
made the discovery at Wentworth Woodhouse and published his finding
in the De Vere Society Newsletter last May 1995.
The inventory of portraits, dated 1782, lists all the heirloom portraits
mentioned in the 1696 will of William, Earl of Wentworth --except one.
Missing from the inventory list is a portrait of Edward de Vere, 17th
earl of Oxford. Where did that portrait go?
Scanning the inventory, Derran Charlton also noted that a portrait of
the same dimensions was described simply as "Shakespeare". No portrait
of Shakespeare was mentioned in the will, nor has any been found, nor
has the inventory reference been linked to any of the other purported
portraits of Shakespeare the Stratford man.
Furthermore, the listing of the Shakespeare portrait was alongside
listings of portraits of Oxford's cousin, Lord Horace Vere, and his
grandson, James Stanley. Since Oxford's portrait is omitted from the
list and one called "Shakespeare" turns up among Oxford's relatives,
it seems quite possible that whoever drew up the inventory called the
Oxford portrait "Shakespeare".
Finally, a convergence of pictures of "Shakspeare" and of Oxford in the
18th century may someday fit the pattern. At the point of convergence
is Edward Harley, whose library became the Harleian Collection. In 1737
Harley took the engraver George Vertue with him to see Stratford and the
monument in Trinity Church. Vertue sketched the monument but declined to
show the face of the monument's "Shakspeare" in his sketch. Instead,
he substituted a likeness based on the so-called Chandos portrait of
Shakespeare. He also put Harley into his sketch, as a lone spectator
of this bust with a substitute face.
As it happens, Harley was the 2nd earl of Oxford (second creation),
while his wife had connections to the 17th earl of Oxford.
She was the great-great-granddaughter of Oxford's favorite cousin,
the famous Horace de Vere. Also, she had inherited the so-called
Welbeck portrait of the 17th Earl of Oxford, now at the National
Portrait Gallery.>>
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<<Swift was a Tory pamphleteer, desperately committed to the policies of
his Tory patrons Harley (the Earl of Oxford) and Viscount Bolingbroke)>>
- Marcus Cunliffe
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Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
by Jonathan Swift
THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER.
[As given in the original edition.]
The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient
and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us
on the mother's side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver
growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him
at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a
convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native
country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among
his neighbours.
Although Mr. Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire, where his
father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from
Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard
at Banbury in that county, several tombs and monuments of the
Gullivers.
Before he quitted Redriff, he left the custody of the following
papers in my hands, with the liberty to dispose of them as I
should think fit. There is an air of truth apparent through
the whole; and indeed the author was so distinguished for his
veracity, that it became a sort of proverb among his neighbours
at Redriff, when any one affirmed a thing, to say, it was as true
as if Mr. Gulliver had spoken it.
By the advice of several worthy persons, to whom, with the
author's permission, I communicated these papers, I now venture
to send them into the world, hoping they may be, at least for
some time, a better entertainment to our young noblemen, than
the common scribbles of politics and party.
RICHARD SYMPSON.
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A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN GULLIVER TO HIS COUSIN SYMPSON.
WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1727.
I do not remember I gave you power to
consent that any thing should be omitted, and much less that any
thing should be inserted; therefore, as to the latter, I do here
renounce every thing of that kind; particularly a paragraph about
her majesty Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious memory;
although I did reverence and esteem her more than any of
human species. The fact was altogether false; for to my
knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty's
reign, she did govern by a chief minister; nay even by two
successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and
the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the
thing that was not. Likewise in the account of the academy of
projectors, and several passages of my discourse to my master
HOUYHNHNM, you have either omitted some material circumstances,
or minced or changed them in such a manner, that I do hardly know
my own work. When I formerly hinted to you something of this in
a letter, you were pleased to answer that you were afraid of
giving offence; that people in power were very watchful over the
press, and apt not only to interpret, but to punish every thing
which looked like an INNUENDO (as I think you call it). But,
pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, and at about
five thousand leagues distance, in another reign, be applied to
any of the YAHOOS,
I find likewise that your printer has been so careless as to
confound the times, and mistake the dates, of my several voyages
and returns; neither assigning the true year, nor the true month,
nor day of the month: and I hear the original manuscript is all
destroyed since the publication of my book; neither have I any
copy left: however, I have sent you some corrections, which you
may insert, if ever there should be a second edition: and yet I
cannot stand to them; but shall leave that matter to my judicious
and candid readers to adjust it as they please.
If the censure of the YAHOOS could any way affect me, I should
have great reason to complain, that some of them are so bold as
to think my book of travels a mere fiction out of mine own brain,
I must confess, that as to the people of LILLIPUT,
BROBDINGRAG (for so the word should have been spelt, and not
erroneously BROBDINGNAG), and LAPUTA, I have never yet heard
of any YAHOO so presumptuous as to dispute their being,
or the facts I have related concerning them; because
the truth immediately strikes every reader with conviction.
YAHOO as I am, I was able in the compass of
two years (although I confess with the utmost difficulty)
to remove that infernal habit of lying, shuffling, deceiving,
and equivocating, so deeply rooted in the very souls
of all my species; especially the Europeans.
But I have now done with all such visionary schemes for ever.
APRIL 2, 1727
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BROBDING(R)AG => BROBDING(N)AG
f(a)bric => F(n)brick
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http://www.sirbacon.org/gallery/west.htm
"The Cloud cupt Tow'rs,
The Gorgeous Palaces
The Solemn Temples,
The Great Globe itself
Yea all which it Inherit,
Shall Dissolue;
And like the baseless Fnbrick of a Vision
Leave not a wreck behind."
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The Tempest Act 4, Scene 1
PROSPERO And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.
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Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
For, as for Robin, he does nothing but rally and BANTER when I speak of
it to him.' 'Why, truly, madam,' said I 'that matter stands as I wish it
did not, and I shall be very sincere with you in it, whatever befalls me
for it. . . Can any woman alive believe you in earnest, or think you
design anything but to BANTER her?' 'Well, well,' says he, 'I do not
BANTER you, I am in earnest; consider of it.'
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Art Neuendorffer
Neuendorffer
I was impressed by [G]andalf in _The Lord of the Rings_.
as played by Richard III's Ian McKellen
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<<The whole of mankind is surrounded by elemental spirits [GINN]
which can do him service. These could be brought to his will by the
Rosicrucian by IMPRISONING THEM IN A RING, a MIRROR or a stone, and
compelling them to appear when desired. Here is a distinct parallel
with Arabian cabbalistical literature, some of which, folklorized,
is in the Arabian Nights.>> - Arkon Daraul, Secret Societies
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CLARENCE Yea, Richard, when I know; for I protest
[A]s yet I do not: but, as I can learn,
[H]e hearkens after prophecies and dreams;
[A]nd from the cross-row plucks the letter G.
[A]nd says a WIZARD told him that by G
[H]is issue disinherited should be;
[A]nd, for my name of George begins with G,
It follows in his thought that I am he.
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BROBDINGNA[G] BANTER
ABBINGTON BERNARD
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Shakspere's illiterate grandaughter Elizabeth was unable
to continue the Shakspere line dispite two marriages:
first with Thomas Nash, Esq and then
with Sir John BERNARD of ABBINGTON.
ABB(ING)TO(N)BERNARD
ABBOT (GINN) BERNARD
ginnee, n.; pl. GINN. [Ar.] (Arabian & Mohammedan Myth.) A genius or
demon; one of the fabled genii, good and evil spirits, supposed to be
the children of fire, and to have the power of assuming various forms.
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<<The whole of mankind is surrounded by elemental spirits [GINN]
which can do him service. These could be brought to his will by the
Rosicrucian by IMPRISONING THEM IN A RING, a MIRROR or a stone, and
compelling them to appear when desired. Here is a distinct parallel
with Arabian cabbalistical literature, some of which, folklorized,
is in the Arabian Nights.>> - Arkon Daraul, Secret Societies
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Art Neuendorffer
Neuendorffer
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James Monroe appointed Sec. of State: April 2, 1811 [Easter OS]
Monroe died: July 4, 1831
President James Monroe first studied law under Thomas Jefferson
(who died on July 4, 1826 with John Adams)
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Early U.S. Presidents who were Freemasons:
01) George Washington
02) JAMES Monroe*
03) [A]ndrew [I]ackson
04) JAMES Polk
05) JAMES Buchanan
06) [A]ndrew [I]ohnson
*James Monroe: Except for records of his membership,
little is known of Monroe's Masonic life.
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BROBDING(R)AG = BROBDING(N)AG
f(a)bric = F(n)brick
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http://www.sirbacon.org/gallery/west.htm
"The Cloud cupt Tow'rs,
The Gorgeous Palaces
The Solemn Temples,
The Great Globe itself
Yea all which it Inherit,
Shall Dissolue;
And like the baseless Fnbrick of a Vision
Leave not a wreck behind."
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The Tempest Act 4, Scene 1
PROSPERO And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.
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Art Neuendorffer