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     "under the potent influence of Newman"
  http://www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/mad364.html
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Aubrey Thomas Hunt de Vere
 
Poet, critic, and essayist, b. at Curragh Chase, County Limerick,
Ireland, 10 January, 1814; died there, 21 January, 1902.
 
He was the third son of Sir Aubrey de Vere and Mary Spring Rice,
sister of the first Lord Monteagle. Aubrey Vere, second son
of the 16th Earl of Oxford, was his direct ancestor.
 
Aubrey de Vere early showed his rare poetic temperament. His young
imagination was strongly influenced by his friendship with the
astronomer, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, through whom he came to
a knowledge and reverent admiration for Wordsworth & Coleridge.
In 1832 he entered Trinity College, Dublin, where he devoted
himself to the study of metaphysics, reading Kant & Coleridge.
 
  Later he visited Oxford, Cambridge, and Rome,
  and came under the potent influence of Newman.
 
He also visited the Lake Country of England, and he afterwards spoke
of the days under Wordsworth's roof as the greatest honour of his
life. His veneration for Wordsworth was singularly shown in after
life, when he never omitted a yearly pilgrimage to the grave
of that poet until advanced age made the journey impossible.
 
As a critic, Aubrey de Vere shows discriminating power in the two
volumes of "Essays" in which he writes of Sir Henry Taylor, Keats,
Landor, and others, and of the power and passion of Wordsworth.
He would have been satisfied to be known solely as the
interpreter of Wordsworth, whom he considered the greatest
poet after Milton. His charm of description is shown
in two early volumes of "Sketches of Greece and Turkey".
 
In a volume of "Recollections" (London, 1897) may be found
reminiscences of many notable people and events. The personality
of Aubrey de Vere was singularly charming. He was of tall & slender
physique, thoughtful and grave in character, of exceeding dignity
and grace of manner, and retained his vigorous mental powers
to a great age. He was undoubtedly one of the most profoundly
intellectual poets of his time. As he never married, the name
of de Vere at his death became extinct for the second time,
and has been assumed by his nephew.>>
 
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04763a.htm
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1832 Aubrey Thomas Hunt de Vere entered Trinity College, Dublin,
 
1832  Thomas Mercer JONES founds Stratford, Ontario.
 
1832 The Skull & Bones secret society is founded at YALE U.
        http://www.tlwinslow.com/timeline/time183x.html
 
    Jan  6, 1832  LOUIS AUGUSTE GUSTAVE DORE born in Strasbourg
    Jan 27, 1832  CHARLES (LEWIS CARROLL) DodGson born
 c. Jan 27, 1832  Goethe's Faust completed
    Mar 22, 1832  Goethe dies
    May 4,  1832  Mercury TRANSIT of the sun
    May 20, 1832  EVARIste (pERcIVAl) GALOIS duels
    Jul 22, 1832  Napoleon II dies
    Sep 21, 1832  Sir WALTER SCOTT dies
    Nov  3, 1832  Thomas Mercer JONES married by Bishop of Quebec
    Nov 14, 1832  Catholic CHARLES CARROLL dies
    Nov 29, 1832  Louisa May Alcott born
    Dec 15, 1832  Gustave Eiffel born
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1832 Jean Pierre Jacques AUGUSTE de Labouisse-Rochefort,
Voyages à Rennes-les-Bains, containing the opening words
 
  "From your happy ALPHaeus, Oh darling ARETHUSA!"
 
(possibly written in 1803). Labouisse-Rochefort compared
  the landscape of Rennes-les-Bains with Arcadia.
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http://www.stratford-canada.com/index1.php
http://www.stratford-canada.com/stratford7.php
 
<<Stratford began to take shape in 1832 when
Thomas Mercer Jones, a Canada Company director,
gave a picture of William Shakespeare to William SARGINT,
the owner of the Shakespeare Hotel. A stone marks the site
of this hotel, near 70 Ontario Street. Jones gave the village
the name of Stratford and the creek, which had been
known as Little Thames, was renamed the Avon River.
 
In 1834 surveyor John MacDonald created the town plan;
he placed the geographic centre of town at the point where
four townships met, not far from today's Wade's Flower Shop.
He then created four main roads radiating from the centre.
Three of these roads were named for the Great Lakes
    to which they lead, Huron, Erie and Ontario.
 
In 1933 a general strike, which started with furniture workers
   and chicken pluckers, became so unruly that the army,
along with its tanks, was called in to put a stop to the strike.
The strike was a major event in Canadian industrial history and
is the subject of playwright James Reaney's play Kingwhistle!>>
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<<Marriage Performed by C. J. QUEBEC, the Bishop of Quebec 3 November,
1832, by special license, Thomas Mercer JONES, Esq., of the town of
York, bachelor, and Elizabeth Mary Strachan, of the same place,
spinster.  Witnesses, Elizabeth BRUNSKLEY, Cecil GIVINS, Alexander
WOOD, G.C. STRACHAN, John FENTON.  The bride was a daughter of
Dr. STRACHAN, rector of York, while the bridegroom was a resident
on the northwest corner of York and Front streets, and one
of the founders of the Bank of British North America.>>
 
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maryc/old3.htm
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Sondheim! A Choral Celebration - Arranged by Mac Huff
http://www.bellevuechamberchorus.net/Research/20thCentury/Music/Sondh...
ChoralCelebration.htm
 
"Putting it Together" (from Sunday in the Park with George - 1984).
Based on the famous George SEURAT pointillistic painting "A Sunday
Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", the fictitious story line
concerns George, a painter, who thinks he has to choose between his art
and his lover, Dot, because he feels he cannot balance both in his life.
In the second act George's great-grandson (also an artist)
 comes back to the island with similar problems.
 
<<When Stephen Sondheim adapted Aristophanes' Frogs
  for a performance in the Yale swimming pool in 1974,
  the "Brek-ek-ek-ex co-ax co-ax," chant was familiar
  to Yale students; the croaking chorus was sung
  while Charon was rowing Dionysus across the pool.>>
 
"Comedy Tonight" (from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
-1962) - Based on the plays of the Greek playwright PLAUTUS, the show
portrays the farcical story of a young hero, named HERO, who has fallen
in love with a COURTESAN. He enlists his conniving slave, Pseudolos,
to get the girl for him in exchange for his freedom. "Comedy Tonight"
is the opening number, performed in the classical manner of a Greek
chorus commenting on the action that is about to ensue, and
is sung by Prologus (who becomes Pseudolos) and the Proteans.
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   "SATURA HÊ" : (Latin) SATIRE, of a COURTESAN
    "ARETHUSA"
 
    Eugenio Montale's _SATURA_
http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall99/satura.htm
 
"One can read SATURA as an elegy for Western Literary Modernism
 itself, for the passing of a great era."-Harold Bloom
 
      SATURA Prize (for poetry)
http://www.friendlystreetpoets.org.au/satura.htm
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The bas-relief of Les Bergers d'Arcadie was executed
 by Léon Vaudoyer (1803-1872), whilst the bust
 of Poussin, above it, is signed "P. Lemoyne".
 
  http://smithpp0.tripod.com/psp/id17.html
.
  _ET IN ARCADIA EGO_ by Paul Smith.
.
The first appearance of the 'Tomb in Arcadia'
  appeared in Virgil's Eclogues V, 42ff:
.
  "A lasting monument to Daphnis raise
With this inscription to record his praise;
 
'Daphnis, the fields' delight, the shepherds' love,
         Renown'd on earth and deifi'd above;
Whose flocks excelled the fairest on the plains,
But less than he himself surpassed the swains."
 
      1590s Sir Philip Sidney,
  The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.
  Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke,
 
  A Dialogue betweene two Shepheards,
Thenot and Piers, in praise of Astrea.
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        Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
           Chapter V: A Visit to Box Five
 
Right on top of the cliff, lost in M. Lenepveu's copper ceiling,
figures grinned and grimaced, laughed and jeered at MM. Richard
 and Moncharmin's distress. And yet these figures were usually
  VERy serious. Their names were Isis, Amphitrite, Hebe,
Pandora, Psyche, Thetis, Pomona, Daphne, Clytie, Galatea
 and ARETHUSA. Yes, ARETHUSA herself and Pandora, whom
we all know by her box, looked down upon the two new managers
 of the Opera, who ended by clutching at some piece of wreckage
 and from there stared silently at Box Five on the grand TIER.
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                "ARETHUSA"
               "THRU A SEA"
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      P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding)
 
              The Story of [A]RETHUSE & [A]LPHEYS
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http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=ARBU&photoID=arbu_3v.jpg
http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Coins/Arethusa.html
 
 <<Ancient Syracusan coins featuring the image of [A]RETHUS[A], patron
nymph of Syracuse. ARETHUSA was a naiad (a water nymph) who frolicked in
the vicinity of Olympia and who was desired & pursued by the river-god
[ALPH]eios. She appealed for assistance from Artemis, goddess of the
 moon & hunt and the protector of women (the Roman Diana). Aretemis
transformed her into *an underground stream* emerging as a freshwater
spring on the Sicilian island of Ortygia, the future site of Syracuse.
 
  Undaunted, [A]lpheios diverted his river's flow underground to
    follow [A]RETHUS[A], and both of their waters now mingle
    eternally in the Fountain of [A]RETHUS[A] in Ortygia.
         Aeneid - Virgil **  BOOK III
 
    There lies an isle once call'd th' Ortygian land.
      ALPHeus, as old fame reports, has found
     From Greece a secret passage under ground,
      By love to beauteous [A]RETHUS[A] led;
    And, mingling here, they roll in the same sacred bed.
 
[A]RETHUS[A]'s image on coins is usually accompanied by dolphins, which
were common in the sea around Ortygia in classical times. The coins of
ARETHUSA are arguably the most beautiful minted by the ancient Greeks.
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           "ARETHUSA"
            TRUE'S AHA
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      Bleak House by Charles Dickens ** CHAPTER XLIII
 
"This," said Mr. Skimpole, "is my Beauty daughter, ARETHUSA--plays
and sings odds and ends like her father. This is my Sentiment
daughter, LAURA--plays a little but don't sing. This is my
  Comedy daughter, Kitty--sings a little but don't play.
    We all draw a little and compose a little,
   and none of us have any idea of time or money."
 
    "That bad man!" said the Comedy daughter.
"At the VERy time when he knew papa was lying ill by his
 wallflowers, looking at the blue sky," Laura complained.
"And when the smell of HAY was in the air!" said ARETHUSA.
"It showed a want of poetry in the man," Mr. Skimpole assented,
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        Othello, The Moor of Venice  Act 1, Scene 3
 
IAGO Virtue! a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we ARE THUS
or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which
our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant
nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up
thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or
distract it with many, either to have it sterile
with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the
power and corrigible authority of this lies in our
wills. If the balance of our lives had not one
scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the
blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us
to most preposterous conclusions: but we have
reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal
stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this
       that you call love to be a sect or scion.
 
               Act 2, Scene 3
 
OTHELLO How comes it, Michael, you ARE THUS forgot?
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       Much Ado About Nothing  Act 5, Scene 1
 
DON PEDRO: Who have you offended, masters, that you ARE THUS
bound to your answer? this learned constable is
too cunning to be understood: what's your offence?
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     King Henry VI, Part iii Act 1, Scene 2
 
YORK You Edward, shall unto my Lord Cobham,
With whom the Kentishmen will willingly rise:
In them I trust; for they are soldiers,
Witty, courteous, liberal, full of spirit.
While you ARE THUS employ'd, what resteth more,
But that I seek occasion how to rise,
And yet the king not privy to my drift,
Nor any of the house of Lancaster?
 
    [Enter a Messenger]
 
But, stay: what news? Why comest thou in such post?
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         The Winter's Tale  Act 2, Scene 3
 
PAULINA: You, that ARE THUS so tender O'ER his follies,
   Will nEVER do him good, not one of you.
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  http://www.fbrt.org.uk/pages/essays/essay-ciphers.html
 
<<'AA' is an important signature of the Rosicrucian fraternity,
      used since the time of the Ancient Egyptians.>>
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           "AA NEFER" was bull :-) in which
       the soul of Osiris was said to be incarnated!
       [Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology p.44]
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           The DOUBLE AA (_Folio_) headpiece:
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~paul/shakespeare/1623Folio/front8.html
 
         Vpon the Lines and Life of the Famous
        Scenicke Poet, Master WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. - H.H.
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         The DOUBLE AA (_Faerie Queene_) headpiece.
          http://fly.hiwaay.net/~paul/aa/alpha.html
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<<The History of the Order of the Amaranth dates back to the time of
the Reign of Christina, Queen of Sweden, in the year 1653. Christina
was the only daughter of GUSTAVUS Adolphus (1594-1632) King of Sweden.
 
[The Order of the Amaranth is a fraternal organization composed
 of Master Masons and their properly qualified female relatives.]
 
Records show that Queen Christina created the order of the Amaranth,
to honour the Lady [A]marant[A]...The Jewel was about the size of a
half-a-crown, (English money) or the size of an American silver Dollar,
it was made of Gold, with a Round Wreath wrought and enameled like a
Laurel, and in the centre two letters in the form of an A, reversed, &
set with a cluster of Diamonds. The 2 A's represented the First & Last
 
  letters of the name [A]marant[A], and about the wreath was written
  "dolco nella memoria" which means "sweet is the memory".>>
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         The DOUBLE AA (_Venus & Adonis_) headpiece:
              http://fly.hiwaay.net/~paul/new.html
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     <http://www.sirbacon.org/aasonnet%20copy.gif>
<http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1501-1600/hakluyt/plant.htm>
      <http://www.bartleby.com/3/1/33.html#txt7>
 
<<In this elaborate frontispiece from 'Generall Historie,' Elizabeth
as Virginia is in the left panel wearing a crown with breasts bared
as the symbol of her virginity. The three royals are Anne, James and
Charles. Bacon's double AA symbol from the double AA headpieces
     in the Shakespeare works is represented in a crown
        decorating one of the 'General Historie'  maps.
 
 
'Hidden forms of the light and dark "A A" device present themselves in
even stranger places, such as within the crown of the royal insignia,
in one of the maps from Captain John Smith's 'Generall Historie of
Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles (1624).' Later editions of
this book restore the royal insignia back to it's proper form, making
this a unique occurrence of this artifact. An image of this device is
pictured below. The dark "A" is turned upside down to avoid notice>>
 
<http://www.all-things-bacon.com/gifs/oak.ht1.gif>
<http://www.all-things-bacon.com/gifs/snailkiss.gif>
<http://www.all-things-bacon.com/intro.html>
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                A = alpha/aleph = bull/ox
                  A =  "stream" (Danish)
 
                     A-A = OX-Ford = Bull-beck
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                [A]lice's [A]dventures underground
                A         A    =>    "underground stream"
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  http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lava.html
There are three types of lava and lava flows:
         pillow, pahoehoe, and *AA*
 
    *AA* is characterized by a rough, jagged,
     spinose, and generally clinkery surface.
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       Ennosigee feu du CENTRE DE TERRE,
       Fera trembler c
       Deux grâds rochers long têps feront la guerre,
       Puis Arethuse rougira nouueau fleuue.
 
                   Nostradamus 1.87

** Earthshaking fire from the centre of the EARTH will cause
     tremors around the New City. Two great rocks will war
 
     for a long time, then [A]RETHUS[A] will redden a new river.
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                   "ARETHUSA"
                   "EARTH:USA"
 
 "Great men ARE THUS A collyrium to clear our eyes from egotism,
      and enable us to see other people and their works."
 
       - Uses of Great Men   by  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803?1882)
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              Religio Medici - Thomas Browne
  <<Heresies perish not with their Authors, but, like the river
 
       [A]RETHUS[A], though they lose their currents in one place,
                    they rise up again in another.>>
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<<" [A]RCADI[A] was known as the source of the River ALPHaeus,
     the "underground stream" which figures prominently
       in Coleridge's poetry & in esoteric literature.>>
 
            "Where ALPH, the sacred river, ran
             Through caverns measureless to man
             Down to a sunless sea."
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          "(S)ALEPH" River => "OX" Ford     10/6
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FREDERICK Barbarossa drowns under the weight of his own armor
            in the SALEPH river on June 10, 1190
 
EXACTLY 45 years after his meetings with BREAKSPEAR (Pope Adrian IV)
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            Measure for Measure Act 3, Scene 1
 
DUKE. Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. Have you not
        heard speak of MARIANA, the sister of FREDERICK,
           the great soldier who miscarried at sea?
 

          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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         http://fly.hiwaay.net/~paul/aa/alpha.html
 
<<The BOAR, a symbol of Apollo, the divine SWINEHERD,
  is said to imprint the ground with the sign of 'AA'..."
 
    Bacon, from his "Masculine Birth of Time"...
           "Why, even country bumpkins have proverbs
                        which are apt expressions of TRUTH.

A PIG might print the letter A with his snout in the mud, but you
would not on that account expect it to go on to compose a tragedy.">>
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    Odyssey - Homer (tr. Samuel Butler)  BOOK XIII
 
"Go at once to the SWINEHERD who is in charge of your PIGS; he has
been always well affected towards you, and is devoted to Penelope
   and your son; you will find him feeding his PIGS near the
     rock that is called RAVEN by the fountain [A]RETHUS[A]"
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Euripides - IPHIGENIA AT AULIS - translated by E. P. Coleridge
 
           Enter CHORUS OF WOMEN OF CHALCIS.
 
To the sandy beach of sea-coast Aulis I came after a voyage
through the tides of Euripus, leaving Chalcis on its narrow firth,
my city which feedeth the waters of far-famed [A]RETHUS[A] near the sea,
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            Moby Dick - Melville  CHAPTER 41
 
<<It has been believed by some whalemen, that the Nor' West Passage,
so long a problem to man, was never a problem to the whale.
So that here, in the real living experience of living men,
the prodigies related in old times of the inland Strello mountain
in Portugal (near whose top there was said to be a lake in which the
wrecks of ships floated up to the surface); and that still more
wonderful story of the [A]RETHUS[A] fountain near Syracuse
(whose waters were believed to have come from the Holy Land by
an underground passage); these fabulous narrations are almost
  fully equalled by the realities of the whalemen.>>
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                    Sir Laurence Gardner
   Nexus Magazine, Volume 6, Number 5 (August-September 1999).
 
<<The Church held such enormous financial, political and military
power that the Grail adherents became an "underground stream",living
in fear of their lives at every turn. They were not only heretics:
they were singled out for punishment as sorcerers & necromancers.
And since they did not conform to papal dictates, Satanists!>>
 
<<In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Queen of the
Fairies is Titania, whose name represents the pre-Olympian god-race of
the Titans. In particular, she is the Moon Goddess Diana. Their king,
Oberon, however, had an historical base, being inspired by an ancestor
of Shakespeare's colleague Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
He was a founding member of Elizabeth Tudor's 16th-century Court
Poetry & Magic Syndicate - along with Francis Bacon, John Dee,
Edmund Spenser & others of the Rosicrucian "underground stream."
 
Edward de Vere was, at that time, Lord High Chancellor of England
- as had been many generations of his forebears, including Albrey,
the 12th-century Prince of Anjou & Guisnes, whose titular name,
Albe-Righ, meant Elf King. Despite their loyalty to Elizabeth,
the Syndicate knew that the House of Tudor had no prior right
to the English throne, having simply taken it, by might
of the sword, from the preceding House of Plantagenet.
 
That apart, the Plantagenets themselves were a junior branch of the
House of Anjou, whose senior branch was the House of Vere. Indeed,
in 1861, the noted royal historian Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay
described the Veres as "the longest and most illustrious line of
nobles that England has ever seen". Their ancestry was jointly
Pictish & Merovingian, descending from the ancient Grail
House of Scythia. Here was a true kingly line of the Elven
Race, and it was for this reason that Oberon (a variant of
Aubrey/Albrey, the historical Elf King) became Shakespeare's
King of the Fairies. Such was the translatory nature of
all Rosicrucian symbology, whether portrayed in stories,
 artwork, watermarks or the Tarot.
 
Some time earlier, in 1408, Edward de Vere's ancestor, Richard (Lord
Chamberlain & 11th Earl of Oxford), had been invested as a Knight of
the Garter by King Henry IV at Windsor Castle. Also invested at the
same time was King Sigismund of Hungary, who had revived the
ancient Egyptian Order of the Dragon - within which Richard
 de Vere held the hereditary distinction of Lord Draconis.
 
  One way or another, the nursery tales which emanated from the
"underground stream" were stories of lost brides & usurped kingship
 - based upon the subjugation of the Grail Bloodline
     by the Church of Rome and, in later times,
by the sectarian Puritans of the Protestant movement.>>
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           EDWARD BEAR & the SWAN named POOH
 
<<If you happen to have read another book about Christopher Robin, you
may remember that he once had a SWAN (or the SWAN had Christopher Robin,
I don't know which) and that he used to call this SWAN Pooh. That was a
long time ago, and when we said good-bye, we took the name with us, as
we didn't think the SWAN would want it any more. Well, when EDWARD BEAR
said that he would like an exciting name all to himself, Christopher
Robin said at once, without stopping to think, that he was
Winnie-the-Pooh. And he was.>> --  A.A. Milne
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                "ARETHUSA"
                "URSA HEAT"
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              PEOPLE OF THE BEAR
 
Edmund: My father compounded with my mother under the DRAGON'S TAIL;
               and my nativity was under URSA MAJOR;
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          http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/metis.htm
 
<<The Sicambrians, ancestors of the Franks, were known as the "PEOPLE
OF THE BEAR" for their worship of the BEAR-goddess [A]RDUIN[A]. The word
 "[A]RCADI[A]" comes from Arkas, patron god of that area of Greece, the
son of the nymph Callisto, sister of the huntress Artemis. Callisto's
constellation is also known to many as URSA MAJOR, the Great BEAR. The
name "Arthur" comes from the Celtic arth, related to "Ursus" -- namely,
"BEAR." In legend, the Merovingians were said to be descended from
 the Trojans, and Homer reports that Troy was founded by a colony
of Arcadians. The "Prieure documents" claim that the Arcadians were
 descended from BENjamites driven out of Palestine by their fellow
Israelites for idolatry. "[A]RCADI[A]" was also known as the source of
the River ALPHaeus, the "underground stream" which figures prominently
in Coleridge's poetry and in esoteric literature. The Merovingians
were "sacred kings" who reigned but did not rule, leaving the secular
governing function to chancellors known as the Mayors of the Palace.
It was one of these Mayors, Pepin the Fat, who founded the dynasty
   that came to supplant them -- the Carolingians.>>
 
<<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 [A]RDUIN[A], venerated
by the Sicambrian Franks of the area and their Merovingian kings.
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                  Mary [A]RDUIN[A] 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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Art Neuendorffer 

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The DOUBLE AA (_Folio_) headpiece:
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He shal haven in his hand
A Denemark and Engeland.
/Havelok, 610


Martha fel a-doun a Crois,
And spradde anon to grounde.
/MS. Coll. Trin. Oxon. 57

And that hii a Lammasse day myd her poer come
Echone to Barbesflet, and thes veage nome.
/Rob. Glouc. p. 200

A don, seris, sayd oure lordynges alle,
For ther the nold no longer lend.
/MS. Rawl. C. 86, f. 178

A the more I loke theron,
A the more I thynke I fon.
/Towneley Mysteries, p. 229

[[[notes: Prefixed to verbs of Anglo-Saxon origin, /A/ has sometimes
a negative, sometimes an intensative power.

Before a noun it is often a corruption of the Saxon /on/

In Elizabethan use there is clear use with adjectival deployment, by The
Author

(See Macbeth, iii. 5, or as in Macbeth, iii. 4 which features
"a-one")]]]

There was a common proverb, "he does not know great A from a bull's foot,"
which may remain Art, one of those allusions not susceptible to any literary
analysis, since its manger is embedded in another landscape entirely. There
is another proverb, "A.B. from a battledore", [Ray], and another from Taylor
the water-poet on Coryat, addressed "To the gentleem readers that understand
A.B. from a battledore".

I know not an A from the wynd-mylne,
Ne A.B. from a bule-foot, I trowe, ne thiself nother.
/MS. Digby 41, f. 5.

But as to A-A, that is another story, and in passing it is explained by
Junius vox dolentium. Hampole tells us that a male child utters the sound
a-a when it is born, and a female e-e, being respective of the initials of
their ancestors Adam and Eve.

See the Archaeologia, xix. 322

A couplet on the joys of heaven, in MS Coll. S. Joh. Oxon. 57, is called
signum a-a.

Aa! my sone Alexander, whare es the grace and
the fortune that oure goddes highte the?

That es to say, that thou scholde alwaye overcome
thynne enemys. /MS. Lincoln A. i. 17, f. 3.

Phil Innes

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