Thomas Swift

[art]

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PUTTENHAM's (Conspiracy) List of Noble poets (1589):
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1) Edward, Earl of Oxford (1550-1604)

2) Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, (1536-1608)
. - Grand Master Freemason (1561-1567)
. {Stone Guild => Guildensteen}

3) Henry, Lord Paget, of Beaudesert ( -1572?)

4) Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) Oxford 'foil' &
. (FEL)low John Dee(007) protegee with Oxford.

5) Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) Jonson's boss

6) Master Edward Dyer (1543-1607) Rosicrucian
. {Rosenkreutz => Rosencrantz}

7) Master Fulke Greville (1554-1628) Sidney friend,
. classmate & biographer; stabbed to death by servant!

8) George Gascoigne (1525-1577) Oxford/Turberville mentor

9) Nicholas Bretton (1553-1625) Mary Sidney Pembroke friend

10) George Turberville (1540-1610) pioneer of blank verse

Master Edward Dyer for Elegie
most sweet, solemn, and of high conceit."
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Henry Peacham's The Compleat Gentleman (1622), outstanding poets
of Elizabeth's reign: "Edward Earle 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* >>
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Mary Cheke --- William Cecil --- Mildred Cooke
| {Burghley} |
| (1520-98) Anne Cecil---Edward deVere
| {Oxford}
| (1550-1604)
{Exeter} Thomas Cecil---Dorothy Neville
(1542-1622) |
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Elizabeth DRURY---William Cecil{Exeter}--- Elizabeth MANNERS
| (1566-1640) (2nd cousin of ROGER)
|
Elizabeth CECIL---Thomas Howard{Berkshire}
| (1625-1669)
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Elizabeth Cecil Howard --- JOHN DRYDEN
(1631-1700)
Poet Laureate (1668)
{THE FATHER of Shakespeare Criticism &}
http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/biography/autobio.html
{close relative of Jonathan Swift's grandmother}
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W. Shakspere--- Mrs. Davenant |
(1564-1616) | V
| Tom Swift--- Dryden
William Davenant ----- ?? |
(1606-1668) | /----------\
Poet Laureate | | |
1638 daughter--- Tom Swift Jonathan---Abig. Erick
| |
Tom Swift Jonathan Swift
{Rector of *PUTTENHAM*} {Mr.Lemuel GulliVER}
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17th-century References to Shakespeare's Stratford Monument
http://shakespeareauthorship.com/monrefs.html
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<<In 1631, a year before his death, John WeEVER published the massive
Ancient Funerall Monuments, which recorded many inscriptions from
monuments around England, particularly in Canterbury, Rochester,
London, and Norwich. Shakespeare's monument does not appear in the
published book, but two of WeEVER's notebooks, containing his drafts
for most of the book as well as many unpublished notes, survive as
Society of Antiquaries MSS. 127 and 128. In one of these notebooks,
under the heading "Stratford upon Avon," WeEVER recorded the poems
from Shakespeare's monument and his gravestone, as follows:
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. Iudcio Pilum, Genio Socratem, Arte Maronem
. Terra tegit, populus maeret, Olympus habet.

. Stay Passenger, why goes[T] thou by so fast
. Read i[F] your canst whome env[I]ous death hath plac'd
. [W]ithin this monument [S]hakespeare with who[M]e
. Quick Nature dy'd wh[O]se name doth deck his [T]ombe
. far more then co{S}t, sith all yt hee hath {W}ritt
. L(E)ave(S) liv(I)ng A(R)t but page to serve hi{S W}itt.
.
. ob Ano doi 1616 AEtat. 53. 24 die April
.
. Good frend for Iesus sake [F]orbeare
. To digg th{e d[U]s}t enclosed heare
. Bl[E]st bee ye man that spa[R]es these stones
. And c[U]rst bee hee that move[S] my bones.
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In the margin opposite the heading "Stratford upon Avon",
WeEVER wrote "Willm Shakespeare the famous poet",
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and opposite the last two lines of the epitaph
he wrote "vpo[n] the grave stone".>>
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. h o u b y s o f a s t R e a d i [F] y
. o u r c a n s t w h o m e e n v [I] o
. u s d e a t h h a t h p l a c d [W] i
. t h i n t h i s m o n u m e n t [S] h
. a k e s p e a r e w i t h w h o [M] e
. Q u i c k N a t u r e d y d w h [O] s
. e n a m e d o t h d e c k h i s [T] o
. m b e f a r m o r e t h e n c o {S} t
. s i t h a l l y t h e e h a t h {W} r
. i t t L(E)a v e(S)l i v(I)n g A (R) t
. b u t p a g e t o s e r v e h i {S W}
. i t t.

(RISE) -4
[TOM SWIFT] -18

Prob. of [TOM SWIFT] ~ 1 in 100,000 (any skip)
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. o v e [S]_M y b o n e s
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{FOSSE} 18 : A grave (Old French)
[F. UERUS] 18

Prob. of *F. UERUS* ~ 1 in 23,800 (any skip)
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______ Hamlet (Q2, 1604) Act I, Scene V
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/Ham/Q2/scene/1.5
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Ghost: No reckning made, but sent to my account
. Withall my {IMPE}R{F}ECTions on my hea[D],
. O h{O}rrible, ô horribl[E], mo{S}t horrible.
. If tho[U] ha{S}t nature in thee b[E]ar{E} it not,
. Let not the [R]oyall bed of Denmark[E] be
. A couch for luxury and damned incest.
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No reckning made, but sent to my account
Withall my - <= *18* =>

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- b L[E]M o {S} t h o r r i b l e I f t
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- r Y a n d d a m n e d i n c e s t
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{FOSSE} 18 : A grave (Old French)
[DEUERE] 18
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17th-century References to Shakespeare's Stratford Monument
http://shakespeareauthorship.com/monrefs.html
.
Next to the infamous engraving in Dugdale's Antiquities of
Warwickshire, Dugdale transcribed both the Latin and English
verses from Shakespeare's tomb, along with the verse from
the gravestone. Except for minor spelling differences
(entirely typical of Dugdale), these verses
are the same as those seen today.

The Latin reads:

. Ivdicio Pylivm, genio Socratem, arte Maronem,
. Terra tegit, popvlvs maeret, Olympvs habet

which may be translated thus:

. In judgment a Nestor, in wit a Socrates, in Art
. a Virgil; the earth b{U}ries [him], [T]h{E} people
. m[O]u{R}n [him], Oly[M]p{U}s posses[S]e{S} [him]
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____ <= 10 =>
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. t h e e a r t -h- b {U}
. r i e s h i m [T] h {E}
. p e o p l e m [O] u {R}
. n h i m O l y [M] p {U}
. s p o s s e s [S] e {S} [him]
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W. H. Auden - 'Family Ghosts'
http://tinyurl.com/28usvlr

Rev. Thomas Swift
Birth: 1595
Death: 1658;(Age 63)

Occupation: Vicar of Goodrich, Herefordshire

Event: A staunch Royalist, 'plundred by the roundheads
. six and thirty times';(Mercurius Rusticus, 1685);

http://tinyurl.com/23nmgrm

Marriage Elizabeth Dryden before 1640;(Age 45);

Birth of a child

#1 1640 (Age 45); Son: Jonathan Swift [father of author]
#2 Son: Dryden Swift
#3 Son: Thomas Swift [son-in-law of William Davenant]
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http://www.bartleby.com/219/0401.html

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907–21).
Volume IX. IV. § 1. [Jonathan] Swift’s parentage and descent.

<<SWIFT’s writings are so closely connected with the man that they
cannot be understood properly without reference to the circumstances
under which they were produced. The best way, therefore, of arriving
at Swift’s views and methods will be to set out briefly the chief
events of his life, and, afterwards, to consider
the more important of his writings.
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Jonathan Swift’s royalist grandfather, Thomas Swift, of a Yorkshire
family, was vicar of Goodrich, and married Elizabeth Dryden, niece of
Sir Erasmus Dryden, the poet’s grandfather. The eldest of his large
family, Godwin, a barrister, went to Ireland, where he became wealthy;
and some of his brothers followed him. One of them, Jonathan, who had
married Abigail Erick, was made steward of the king’s inns, Dublin,
but he did not live long, and, seven months after his death, on 30
November, 1667, his only son, Jonathan, was born. The widow was left
dependent mainly on her husband’s brother, Godwin. A nurse took the
child to Whitehaven, and kept him there three years; and, not long
after his return to Dublin, his mother returned to her relatives in
England, leaving the boy in his uncle’s care. He was sent to Kilkenny
school, where he met Congreve; and, when he was fourteen, he was
entered as a pensioner at Trinity College, Dublin. Why he afterwards
felt so much resentment against his relatives is not clear;
for his uncle gave him, not “the education of a dog,” but
the best obtainable in Ireland. Swift was often at war with
the college authorities; but he got his degree in 1685.>>
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Art Neuendorffer