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Moby-Dick (1851) by Herman Melville
CHAPTER 76 The Battering-Ram
.
So that when I shall hereafter detail to you all
the specialities and concentrations of potency
.
EVERywhe[R]e lur[K]ing i[N] this [E]xpan[S]ive m[O]nste[R];
.
when I shall show you some of his more inconsiderable braining
feats; I trust you will have renounced all ignorant incredulity,
and be ready to abide by this; that though the Sperm Whale stove
a passage through the Isthmus of Darien, and mixed the Atlantic
with the Pacific, you would not elevate one hair of your eye-brow.
For unless you own the whale, you are but a provincial and
sentimentalist in *TRUTH*. But clear *TRUTH* is a thing for
salamander giants only to encounter; how small the chances
for the provincials then? What befell the weakling youth
lifting the dread goddess’s *VEIL* at Lais?
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__ <= 5 =>
. E V E R y
. w h e [R] e
. l u r [K] i
. n g i [N] t
. h i s [E] x
. p a n [S] i
. v e m [O] n
. s t e [R]
[ROSENKR] -5 {1 in 130}
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The Song of Hiawatha (1855)
~ 146,000 letters
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"Why stand *IDLY* looking at us,
Leaning on the rock behind you?
Come and wrestle with the others,
Let us pitch the quoit togethe[R]!"
.
. Lazy [K]wasi[N]d mad[E] no an[S]wer,
.
T[O] thei[R] challenge made no answer,
Only *ROSE* , and slowly turning,
Seized the huge rock in his fingers,
Tore it from its *DEEP* foundation,
Poised it in the air a moment,
Pitched it sheer into the river,
Sheer into the *SWIFT* Pauwating,
Where it still is seen in Summer.
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. [R]!L a z y
. [K] w a s i
. [N] d m a d
. [E] n o a n
. [S] w e r,T
. [O] t h e i
. [R] c h a l
. l e n g e
.
[ROSENKR] -5 {1 in 820}
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"David L. Webb" <david.l.w...@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> Why do you emphasize "deep," "swift," "idly," etc., Art?
> All are utterly unremarkable, commonplace English words.
1) DEEP:
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http://shakespeareauthorship.com/array2.html
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0301u: RGTSRVEAIILEHHWONIERYEMPTREHNSNPLHMEONSEHOTGENHT
0302u: TFIEIRNDNSLWTEIEGVREODIRINT *A DEEP HART* NGVIE *FEEBLEO*
0303u: HONTNETVGHWEHTSTPILVVBSOEIETTASIALWSNSINSTRTEIOT
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Douay-Rheims Psalm 63:7 Man shall come to *A DEEP HEART*
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<<The Douay-Rheims Bible, also known as the Rheims-Douai Bible
or Douai Bible and abbreviated as D-R, is a translation
of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English.
.
The New Testament was published in one volume with
extensive commentary and notes in 1582.
.
The Old Testament followed in 1609-10 in two volumes,
also extensively annotated.
.
The purpose of the version, both the text and notes,
was to uphold Catholic tradition in the face of the
Protestant Reformation which was heavily influencing England.>>
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. Douay-Rheims Bible Psalms 63:
.................................
Exaudi Deus orationem.
A prayer in affliction, with confidence in God that
he will bring to nought the machinations of persecutors.
.
1. Unto the end, a psalm for David.
.
2. Hear, O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee:
DEliVER my soul from the fear of the enemy.
.
3. Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant;
from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.
.
4. For they have whetted their tongues like a sword;
they have bent their bow a bitter thing,
.
5. To shoot in secret the undefiled.
.
6. They will shoot at him on a sudden,
and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness.
They have talked of hiding snares;
they have said: *Who shall see them?*
.
7. They have searched after iniquities:
they have failed in their search.
Man shall come to *A DEEP HEART*:
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7. Scrutati sunt iniquitates defecerunt scrutantes
scrutinio cogitationibus singulorum et *CORDE PROFUNDO*
...................................
*A DEEP HEART*... Crafty, subtle, deep projects and designs;
which nevertheless shall not succeed; for God shall be exalted
in bringing them to nought by his wisdom and power.
- New Advent Catholic Bible
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"David L. Webb" <david.l.w...@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> Why do you emphasize "deep," "swift," "idly," etc., Art?
> All are utterly unremarkable, commonplace English words.
2) DEEP:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift
<<Tom SWift is the name of the central character in five series,
totaling over 100 volumes, of juvenile science fiction and adventure
novels that emphasize science, invention, and technology. The
character was created by Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of the
Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book-packaging firm. His adventures have
been written by a number of different ghostwriters over the years.
Most of the books are published under the collective pseudonym Victor
Appleton. The 33 volumes of the second series use the pseudonym Victor
Appleton II. The character first appeared in 1910. New titles have
been published as recently as 2007. Most of the various series focus
on Tom’s inventions, a number of which have anticipated actual
inventions. The character has been presented in different ways over
the years. In general, the books portray science and technology as
wholly beneficial in their effects, and the role of the inventor
in society has been treated as admirable and heroic.>>
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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.
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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It is my contention that the good Reverend
Thomas Swift (Age 36) was responsible for the
1631 "John WeEVER" tract & he signed it accordingly
(along side the Latin name of Edward de Vere):
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17th-century References to Shakespeare's Stratford Monument
http://shakespeareauthorship.com/monrefs.html
.
<<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:
..........................................................
. 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
. Leaves living Art but page to serve his witt.
.
. ob Ano doi 1616 AEtat. 53. 24 die April
.
. Good frend for Iesus sake forbeare
. To digg the dust enclosed heare
. Blest bee ye man that spares these stones
. And curst bee hee that moves my bones.
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In the margin opposite the heading "Stratford upon Avon",
WeEVER wrote "Willm Shakespeare the famous poet",
.
and opposite the last two lines of the epitaph
he wrote "vpo[n] the grave stone".>>
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____________ <= 18 =>
.
_ I u d c i o P i l u m G e n i o S o
_ c r a t e m A r t e M a r o n e m T
_ e r r a t e g i t p o p u l u s m a
_ e r e t O l y m p u s h a b e t S t
_ a y P a s s e n g e r w h y g o e s
. [T] t 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.
Prob. of [TOM SWIFT] ~ 1 in 3,700,000 (any skip)
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____________ <= 18 =>
.
- G o o d f r e n d f o r I e s u s s
- a k e f o r b e a r e T o d i g g t
. h{e d[U] s}t e n c l o s e d h e a r
_- e B l[E] s t b e e y e m a n t h a t
- s p a[R] e s t h e s e s t o n e s A
- n d c[U] r s t b e e h e e t h a t m
_ o v e[S] m y b o n e s
Prob. of [UERUS] ~ 1 in 1090 (any skip)
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. {ed}ouardus *VERUS* , COMES Oxoniae,
. Vicecomes Bulbeck, Dominus de Scales
. & Badlismer, D. Magnus Angliae Ca-
. merarius: Lectori. S. D.
.
http://comp.uark.edu/~mreynold/aulicus.html
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. "The Father of Shakespeare Criticism"
. Poet Laureate John Dryden [Aug.9, 1631 - May 1, 1700]
<<Poet, born in Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, C England, UK.
John Dryden studied at Cambridge, and went to London in 1657, where
he wrote several plays and satires for the court. His first successful
play, written in heroic couplets, was The Indian Emperor (1665).
After 1676, he began to write in blank verse, producing his best play,
All for Love (1678). In 1668 he became Poet Laureate and in 1670
historiographer royal. Called to defend the king's party, he wrote
a series of satires, notably Absalom and Achitophel (1681), which
did much to turn the tide against the Whigs. To this era also belong
the didactic poem Religio laici (1682), which argues the case for
Anglicanism, and The Hind and the Panther (1687), marking his
conversion to Catholicism. His political reward was a place
in the customs; but he lost his laureateship on the accession
of William III (1688). He also wrote a number of important
critical works, many in his late years.>>
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Dryden is buried at Westminster in the Poets' Corner
_______ between Chaucer and Cowley.
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"Father of Shakespeare Criticism" married Elizabeth CECIL Howard!
......................................................
Mary Cheke --- William Cecil --- Mildred Cooke
_________ | {Burghley} __ |
_________ | (1520-98) Anne Cecil---Edward deVere
_________ | {Oxford} (1550-1604)
_________ | (1st Cousin to Suffolk's dad)
_________ |
{Exeter} TOM CECIL --- Dorothy Neville
____ (1542-1622)_ |
______________ |
Eliz. DRURY--- William Cecil {Exeter} --- Elizabeth MANNERS
_________ | (1566-1640) (2nd cousin of ROGER MANNERS
_________ | __________ son-in-law of Nov.5 Phil.Sidney)
_________ |
_________ | Cath. Knyvet --- Thomas Howard{SUFFOLK}
_________ | ________ | _ (1561-1626) Discoverer
_________ | ________ | _ of Nov.5 Gunpowder Plot!!
_________ | ________ |
Elizabeth CECIL---Thomas Howard ____ Sir Erasmus Dryden
____________ | {Berkshire} (1625-1669) |
____________ | ___ Erasmus Dryden of Tichmersh
____________ | __________ |
Elizabeth Cecil Howard --- JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)
______________ Poet Laureate (1668-1700)
________________ {THE FATHER of Shakespeare Criticism &}
__ http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/biography/autobio.html
______ {close relative of Jonathan Swift's grandmother}
__________________________ |
W. Shakspere--- Mrs. Davenant _____- |
__(1564-1616) | _______________ V
___________ | ____ Thom. Swift --- Dryden
William Davenant ----? (1595-1658)_ |
(1606-1668) ___ | _______ /------------\
Poet Laureate __ | _______ | ____ |
(1638-1668) daughter---Thom.Swift Jonathan---Abig. Erick
_______________ | _______________ |
__________ Thom.Swift ___ Jonathan Swift
___ {Rector of PUTTENHAM} ___ (1667 - 1745)
______________________ {Mr.Lemuel GulliVER}
______________________ Nov.5, 1699 (start)
______________________ Nov.5, 1715 (end)
"I think Cowley's Pindaricks are much preferable to his Mistress"
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"The Bastard Son of Shakspere" Poet Laureate William Davenant
__ managed (Elizabeth?) DRURY Lane Theatre!
...............................................................
Davenant or *d'Avenant, Sir William (1606 - 1668) Poet & playwright,
born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, SC England, UK. His father kept the
Crown at Oxford, at which Shakespeare used to stop between London
and Stratford - hence the rumour that he was Shakespeare's
illegitimate son. In 1628 he took to writing for the stage, his
most successful work being The Wits (1636). In 1638, he became Poet
Laureate, and was later manager of the (Elizabeth?) DRURY Lane
Theatre. He was knighted in 1643 for services to the Crown during
the Civil War. In 1656, he helped to revive drama, banned under
Cromwell, and brought to the stage the first public opera in England.
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Jonathan Swift's pseudonym Mr.Lemuel GulliVER
.............................................................
http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/front/publisher.html
<<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 Church-Yard at Banbury,
in that County, sEVERal Tombs and Monuments of the GulliVERs.>>
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A letter from Capt. Gulliver, to his Cousin Sympson:
.............................................................
<<And besides 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.>>
<<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.>>
<< I have now done with all visionary Schemes for EVER.
April 2, 1727.>>
E. VERE's birthdate: April 2, 1550
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_______ Walpurgisnacht = April 30
418 Roman Emperor Honorius issued a decree denouncing Pelagianism,
which taught that humanity can take the initial
and fundamental steps toward salvation by
its own efforts, apart from divine grace.
1006 Brightest supernova in recorded history is observed
1349 Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated
1492 Ferdinand & Isabella expel Jews from Spain
1563 Charles VI expels Jews from France
1602 William Lilly born (astrologer/author/almanac compiler)
1777 Carl Friedrich Gauss born
1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US
1945 Adolph Hitler & wife Eva Braun commit suicide
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Walburga, OSB Abbess
(also known as Bugga, Gaudurge, Vaubourg, Walpurga, Walpurgis)
http://207.172.3.91/saintpat/ss/0225.htm
Born in Devonshire, Wessex, England, 710 AD;
died at Heidenheim, Swabia, Germany, February 25, 779;
feasts of her translation:
May 1, 870 (translation to Eichstatt)
October 12, (Columbus Day) and
SEPTEMBER 24, 893 (translation to ZUTPHEN
- scene of Sidney's Sept.22, 1586 wounding).
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http://207.172.3.91/saintpat/ss/0225.htm
<<When Saint Boniface evangelized the Germans, he took with him as
fellow apostles his two nephews, Willibald and Winebald, who were the
sons of Saint Richard, king of the West Saxons. So successful was
their enterprise that fresh reinforcements of missionaries were
requested and the monasteries of England were stirred by the
news of their progress. Boniface asked for a colony of nuns to
be sent out. Among them was his own niece, Walburga, a nun of
Wimborne under Saint Tatta and sister of Willibald & Winebald.
Winebald founded a double monastery at Heidenheim, where she was
appointed abbess and Winebald ruled the men. She must have been a
remarkable woman, for so great was her influence that on his death the
bishop of Eichstatt appointed Walburga in his place and gave her
charge over both the men's & women's congregations. Walburga died as
abbess of Heidenheim, whence her relics were translated to Eichstatt.
This English woman had the curious destiny of attaining a place in
German folklore. The night of May 1 (the date of the transfer of her
relics to Eichstatt in 870) became known as Walpurgisnacht. May 1 had
been a pagan festival marking the beginning of summer and the revels
of witches, hence the traditions of Walpurgisnacht, which have no
intrinsic connection with the saint. Nevertheless, her name became
associated with witchcraft and other superstitions (cf. Goethe's
Faust, pt. i, Walpurgis night in the Hartz mountains). It is
possible, however, that the protection of crops ascribed to her,
represented by the three ears of corn in her icons, may have been
transferred to her from Mother Earth (Walborg).
In art, Saint Walburga is generally portrayed as a royal abbess with a
small flask of oil on a book. At times (1) she may have three ears of
corn in her hand; (2) angels hold a crown over her; (3) she is shown
in a family tree of the Kings of England; (4) she is shown together
with her saintly brothers; or (5) miracles are taking place because
of the oil extruding from her tomb. She is venerated at Eichstatt.
Walburga has been portrayed by artists from the 11th until the 19th
centuries. Especially noteworthy is a 15th-century tapestry cycle of
her life. A modern abbess of Eichstatt was sufficiently important to
be selected to negotiate the surrender of the town to the Americans
at the end of the Second World War.>>
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Milton entered into a publishing agreement w/printer Samuel Simmons
for _Paradise Lost_ on 27 April 1667.
George Wither died on 2 May 1667.
Abraham Cowley died on 28 July 1667.
Jonathan Swift born on St. Andrew's Day, 1667.
Philip Sidney born on St. Andrew's Day, 1554.
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http://www.cs.utah.edu/~goller/books/COWLEY/BIOG.TXT
Abraham Cowley [24 July 1618 - 28 July 1667]
<<English poet, dramatist and essayist. He is best known for his
Pindaric Odes and his unfinished epic, The Davideis. He also wrote
A Poem on the Late Civil War and several odes & elegies. His plays
include The Guardian (1641), later revised as The Cutter of Coleman
Street (1661). He is often described as the last poet of the
Metaphysical school, writing The Mistress in the manner of Donne.
But his style was mainly classical, more suited to the Augustan
style of his successors like Dryden.
Cowley was born in London, the posthumous son of a bookseller. He was
educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1640
he was named Fellow at Trinity but was ejected in 1644 because he was
a royalist who had even written a play performed for the King's
entertainment two years earlier. He went to live at Oxford, a
stronghold of the royalists, before fleeing the Civil War to join
the group of exiles in Paris, France. He served as secretary to
Lord Jermyn, the Queen's chamberlain. He also undertook
various diplomatic missions at the bidding of the Queen,
Maria Henrietta, whom he officially served as CIPHER secretary.
He returned to London in 1654, possibly on a mission,
and was arrested and briefly imprisoned. Having written his first
poem, Pyramus and Thisbe (1628) when he was just ten, his Poetical
Blossoms (1633) made him become known as a precocious talent. An
established and popular poet, he produced his collected Poems in 1656.
The 1660 Restoration of Charles II brought him great joy and he
celebrated the event in one of his best-known odes, Upon the Blessed
Restoration and Return of His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second.
Though he was given back his Fellowship at Cambridge in 1661, he did
not receive the royal favours he might have expected. He retired to
Chertsey, Surrey, from where he gave continued support to the Royal
Society of Science he had helped founded.
So great was his esteem that when he died he was laid to rest
next to Chaucer and Spenser at Westminster Abbey.>>
http://www.findagrave.net/pictures/7092.html
Cowley, Abraham b. 1618. d. 1667: A poet, whose great contemporary
reputation soon waned. He worked in Paris for a while as confidential
secretary to Queen Henrietta Maria. He returned to England after the
Restoration, expecting recognition of his service, dying in retirement
a few years later. The names of other poets and authors who do not
have actual grave markers were added to his grave marker.
http://www.hn.psu.edu/Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/cowley/default.html
On the Death of Mr. William Hervey
On the Death of Sir Henry Wooten
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_A Tale of a Tub, to which is Added the Battle of the Books_ - Swift
.
Then Pindar slew ———, and ———, and Oldham, and ——— and Afra the Amazon
light of foot; Never advancing in a direct Line, but wheeling with
incredible Agility and Force, he made a terrible Slaughter among the
Enemy's Light-Horse. Him, when Cowley observed, his generous Heart
burnt within him, and he advanced against the fierce Antient,
imitating his Address, and Pace, and Career, as well as the Vigour of
his Horse, and his own Skill would allow. When the two Cavaliers had
approach'd within the Length of three Javelins; first Cowley threw a
Lance, which miss'd Pindar, and passing into the Enemy's Ranks, fell
ineffectual to the Ground. Then Pindar darted a Javelin, so large and
weighty, that scarce a dozen Cavaliers, as Cavaliers are in our
degenerate Days, could raise it from the Ground: yet he threw it with
Ease, and it went by an unerring Hand, singing through the Air; Nor
could the Modern have avoided present Death, if he had not luckily
opposed the Shield that had been given him by Venus. And now both
Hero's drew their Swords, but the Modern was so aghast and disordered,
that he knew not where he was; his Shield dropt from his Hands; thrice
he fled, and thrice he could not escape; at last he turned, and
lifting up his Hands, in the Posture of a Suppliant, God-like Pindar,
said he, spare my Life, and possess my Horse with these Arms; besides
the Ransom which my Friends will give, when they hear I am alive, and
your Prisoner. Dog, said Pindar, Let your Ransom stay with your
Friends; but your Carcass shall be left for the Fowls of the Air, and
the Beasts of the Field. With that, he raised his Sword, and with a
mighty Stroak, cleft the wretched Modern in twain, the Sword pursuing
the Blow; and one half lay panting on the Ground, to be trod in pieces
by the Horses Feet, the other half was born by the frighted Steed
thro' the Field. This *Venus took, wash'd it seven times in Ambrosia,
then struck it thrice with a Sprig of Amarant; upon which, the Leather
grew round and soft, the Leaves turned into Feathers, and being
gilded before, continued gilded still; so it became a Dove and
She harness'd it to her Chariot.>>
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"David L. Webb" <david.l.w...@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> Why do you emphasize "deep," "swift," "idly," etc., Art?
> All are utterly unremarkable, commonplace English words.
3) IDLE:
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TOTHEONLI__ *E* BEGETTE *R* OFTHESEINVINGSON
NETSMRWHA *L* LHAPPIN_ *E* SSEANDTHAETERNIT
IEPROMISE-__ *D* BYOVREV *E* RLIVINGPOTWISHET
HTHEWELLW *I* SHINGA_ *DVE* NTVRERINETTING
FORTH <= 35 =>
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*VEER* : *LABOUR* (Danish)
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["Edward *DE VEER* , only son of John, born the Twelfth day
of April A 1550, Earle of Oxenforde (Ogburn, 1998, 765).
..............................................
In the name of God Amen. I *Iohn DE VEER* Erle of Oxinforde,
Lorde greate Chamberlayne of Englonde Vicounte Bulbeck &c,
__ *being of hole and parfecte MYNDe*
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- 1562 Will of the 16th Earl of Oxford (28 July 1562)
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/DOCS/16will2.html
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The *MASON* poor, that builds the lordly HALLs,
Dwells not in them, they are for high degree;
His cottage is compact in *PAPER* walls,
And not with brick or stone as others be.
.
The *IDLE DRONE* that *LABOURs* not at all
Sucks up the *SWEET of HONEY* from the bee.
Who worketh most, to their share least doth fall;
With due *DESERT REWARD* will nEVER be.
. -- *EDWARD DE VERE*
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Greg Reynolds <even...@core.com> wrote:
.
> thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
> full character'd witH LASting memory,
> which shall above that *IDLE rank* remain
> beyond all date, even to eternity;
.
.. - Sonnet 122
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Hank Whittemore’s Shakespeare Blog
http://tinyurl.com/43rtdvu
..................................................
The MONUMENT edition of the Sonnets and SHAKE-SPEARE’S
TREASON the one-man show demonstrate that
“Shakespeare” was a Pen Name used for Royal Politics
http://tinyurl.com/3g9np7m
Below the emblem Peacham writes,
“Who liketh best to live in *IDLEness* ”
– and in an early poem by Oxford in
The Paradise of Dainty Devices in 1576 he wrote:
That nEVER am less *IDLE L.O. * , than when I am alone
............................................
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/cleopatra.htm
.
_The Tragedie of Cleopatra_ by Samuel *DAnIEL*
.
But if that *LABOUR* some mortality
Found this *SWEET* error, only to confine
The curious search of *IDLE* vanity,
That would the depth of darkness undermine:
Or rather, to give rest unto the thought
Of wretched man, with th'after-coming [joy]
Of those conceivèd fields, whereon we dote,
To pacify the present world's [annoy].
----------------------------------------------------
http://www.shakespearefellowship.org/etexts/si/11-6.htm
........................................................
. Edmund [SPENSER]'s _Tears of the Muses_ (1590)
.
. "All these, and all that else the Comic Stage,
. With seasoned wit and goodly pleasance graced,
. By which man's life in his likest image
. Was limned *FORTH*, are wholly now defaced;
. And those *SWEET* wits which wont the like to frame
. Are now despised and made a laughing game.
.
. "And he the man whom Nature's self had made
. To mock herself and *TRUTH* to imitate,
. With kindly counter under Mimic shade,
. Our pleasant Willie, ah! is dead {of late}.
. With whom all joy and jolly merriment
. Is also deaded and in doleur drent.
.
. "But that same gentle spirit from whose *PEN*
. Large streams of honey and *SWEET* nectar flow,
. Scorning the boldness of such base-born men,
. Which dare their follies *FORTH* so rashly throw,
. Doth rather choose to sit in *IDLE CELL* ,
. Than so himself to mockery to sell."
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. T O T H E R I G H T H O N O R A B L E
. Henrie VVriothesley, Earle of Southampton,
. and Baron of Titchfield.
.
. RIght Honourable, I know not how I shall offend in
. dedicating my vnpolisht lines to your Lordship, nor
. how the worlde vvill censure mee for choosing so
. strong a proppe to support so vveake a burthen,
. onelye if your Honour seeme but pleased, I ac-
. count my selfe highly praised,
. and vowe to take aduantage of all *IDLE* houres,
.
TILL I
[H]AU[E] HO[N]OU[R]ED [Y]OU [W.]I T[H.] SO[M]E G[r.]AUER
LABOUR.
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. _Venus & Adonis_ Dedication to Henrie Wriothesley:
.
"TILL I HAVE HONOURED YOU WITH SOME GR-AVER LABOUR"
.
--- "[T] I L
---- [L] I [H]
-- [A] V [E]
- [H] O [N]
- [O.] U [R]
-- [E.] D [Y]
.
. O U [W.]
---- I T [H.]
.
. S O [M]
- E G [r.]
.
. -AVER LABOUR"
.
. The chance of finding *HENRY W.H. Mr.*
. (or something roughly to that effect)
. within one of the two Shak. poetry dedications
. to *Henry* Wriothesley is about 1 in 4,000,000
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. Othello, The Moor of Venice Act 1, Scene 3
.
IAGO: Our bodies are our *G-ARDENs* , to the which
. *OUR WILLS are G-ARDENers* : 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
. *IDLE-ness* , or manured with *IN-DUSTry* , why, the
. power & corrigible authority of this *LIES in OUR WILLS*
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WASHINGTON IRVING, 1819 - p.48, Stratford-On-Avon, Sketch Book.
.
<<A flat stone marks the spot where the bard is buried. There are
FOUR lines inscribed on it, said to have been written by himself,
. and which have in them something extremely AWFUL.>>
...............................................
http://library.thinkquest.org/5175/images/grave1.jpg
. GOOD FREND FO{R} [IE]{SUS}'_S(AKE)__ FOR[BE]ARE,
___ TO DIGG THE D{U}[ST] ___ EN(CLO)ASED [HE]ARE:
............................................
_. BLESTE BE Ye MA_{N} Yt___ SPA[RE]S THES STONES,
__ AND CVRST BE H_{E} Yt___ MO[VE]S MY BONES.
...............................................
<<The inscription on the tombstone has not been without its effect. It
has prevented the removal of his remains from the bosom of his native
place to Westminster Abbey, which was at one time contemplated. A few
years since also, as some *LABORERs* were digging to make an adjoining
vault, the earth caved in, so as to leave a vacant space almost
*like an ARCH* through which one might have reached into his grave.>>
-----------------------------------------------------
No one, howEVER, presumed to meddle with
his remains so awfully guarded by a malediction;
and lest any of the *IDLE* or the curious or any collector
of relics should be tempted to commit depredations,
the old sexton kept watch over the place for two days,
until the vault was finished and the aperture closed again.
He told me that he had made bold to look in at the hole,
but could see neither coffin nor BONES -
- *NOTHING BUT DUST* . It was something, I thought,
to have seen the *DUST* (*POLVERE*) of Shakespeare.>>
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_______ _The *SCOURGE* of Folly_
. registered Oct. 8, 1610 by JOHN *DaVIEs*
Fucus, the furious Poet writes but Plaies;
So, playing, writes: that’s, *IDLY* writeth all:
Yet, *IDLE PLAIES* , and Players are his Staies;
Which stay him that he can no lower fall:>>
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Probability of *D(???)ANIEL* ~ 1/330
.........................................
________ <= 9 =>
____ TOTHEON-_ {L} __I
____ EBEGETT__ {E} -R
____ OFTHESE__ {I} -_N
____ SVINGSO__ {N} _N
____ ETSMRWH- {A} _L
____ LHAPPINE___ _S
____ SEANDTHA__ _T
____ ETERNITI____- _E
____ PROMISE__- {D} -B
____ YOVR _- EVER L
____ IVIN ___- GPOE T
____ WISH-- [E] THT _ H
____ EWEL [L] WIS _- H
____ INGA_- [D] VEN _ T
____ VRER-- [I] NSE __ T
____ TING _ _ FORTH
............................................
. _Ulysses and the Siren_ by Samuel {D-ANIEL}
.
Ulys. Delicious nymph, suppose there were
. Nor honor nor report,
. Yet manliness would scorn to *WEAR*
. The time *IN IDLE SPORT* .
. For toil doth give a better touch,
. To make us feel our [joy] ;
. And ease finds tediousness, as much
. As *LABOR*, yields [annoy]
............................................
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/cleopatra.htm
.
_The Tragedie of Cleopatra_ by Samuel *DAnIEL*
.
But if that *LABOUR* some mortality
Found this *SWEET* error, only to confine
The curious search of *IDLE vanity* ,
That would the *DEPTH of darkness* undermine:
Or rather, to give rest unto the thought
Of wretched man, with th'after-coming [joy]
Of those conceivèd fields, whereon we dote,
To pacify the present world's [annoy].
If it be so, why speak I then to the air?
But 'tis not so, my Antony doth hear:
His *EVER-LIVING* ghost attends my prayer,
And I do know his hovering sprite is near.
And I will speak, and pray, and mourn to thee.
O pure immortal soul that deign'st to hear,
I feel thou answer'st my credulity
With touch of comfort, finding none elsewhere.
Thou know'st these hands entombed thee HERE {of late},
Free and unforc'd, which now must servile be,
Reserv'd for bands to grace proud Caesar's state,
Who seeks in me to triumph over thee.
O if in life we could not *sEVERED* be,
Shall Death divide our bodies now asunder?
Must thine in Egypt, mine in Italy,
Be kept the Monuments of Fortune's wonder?
If any powers be there whereas thou art,
(Sith our country gods betray our case,)
O work they may their gracious help impart,
To save thy woeful wife from such disgrace.
Do not permit she should in triumph show
The blush of her reproach, joined with thy shame:
But (rather) let that hateful tyrant know,
That thou and I had power t'avoid the same.
But what do I spend breath and *IDLE* wind,
In vain invoking a conceivèd aide ?
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<<Among Daniel's most characteristic works, _Musophilus_ is
a dialogue between a courtier and a man of letters addressed
to Fulke Greville, and is a general defence of learning,
and in particular of poetic learning as an instrument in
the education of the perfect courtier or man of action.>>
..............................................
. _Musophilus_ (1599) by Samuel *DAnIEL*
.
Philocosmus: Fond man Musophilus, that thus dost spend,
. In an vngainefull Arte thy deerest dayes,
. Tyring thy wits, and toyling to no end,
. But to attaine that *IDLE SMOAKE of PRAISE* :
. Now when this busie world cannot attend
. Th'vntimely Musicke of neglected layes.
. Other delights then these, other desires
. This wiser profit-seeking Age requires.
. Poore *IDLE* honours that can ill defend
. Your memories that cannot keepe their owne.
. And whereto serue that wondrous Trophei now,
. That on the goodly Plaine neere Wilton stands?
. That huge dumbe heape, that cannot tell vs how,
. Nor what, nor whence it is, nor with whose hands,
. Nor for whose *GLORY*, it was set to shew
. How much our pride mocks that of other lands?
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*ALL IS TRUE* : *TUTTE E VERE* (Italian)
........................................................
Letter written by Sir Henry WOttON (former spy for Essex)
. to Edmund Bacon on July 2, 1613:
.
"Now, to let matters of State sleep, I will entertain you at
the present with what hath happened this week at the banks side.
The Kings Players had a new Play, called *ALL IS TRUE* ,
representing some principall pieces of
the raign of Henry 8. which was *SET FORTH* with
many extraordinary circumstances of Pomp & Majesty,
even to the matting of the stage; the Knights of the Order,
with their Georges & Garter, the Guards with their embroidered
Coats, and the like: sufficient in TRUTH within a while to make
greatness VERy familiar, if not ridiculous. Now, King Henry
making a Masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain
Chambers being shot off at his entry, some of the *PAPER* ,
and other STUFF wherewith one of them was stopped , did light
on the thatch, were being thought at first but an *IDLE SMOAK*
, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled
inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming withing
less than an hour the whole house to the *VERy* grounds."
.
This was the fatal period of that virtuous FABRIC ; wherein yet
nothing did perish but wood & straw, and a few forsaken *CLO-AKS*
. only one man had his *Breeches* set on fire, that would
. perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit
. of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.
.........................................
_____ Henry Wotton's fEVERED DEath:
. 4 Dec 1639 => First observed Venus TRANSIT
................................................
"the influence of humor, which ... hurles FOORTH
*NOTHING but SMOOKE* and congested vapours" -- Jonson
.........................................
And let our crooked *SMOKES* climb to their nostrils
And *SMOKE the TEMPLE* with our sacrifices. Cymbeline: V, v
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http://www.montypython.net/scripts/give-up.php
First Voice Over: (Eric *IDLE* )
What other ways are there of recognizing a mason?
(Shot from camera concealed in a car so we get reactions of passers-
by. A busy city street- i.e. Threadneedle Street. In amongst the
throng four city gents are leaping along with their trousers round
their ankles. They are wearing bowler hats and pinstripes. Another
city street or another part of the same street. Two city gents, with
trousers rolled up to the knee, approach each other and go into the
most extraordinary handshake which involves rolling on the floor etc.)
Second Voice Over: (John Cleese) Having once identified a mason
immediate steps must be taken to isolate him from the general public.
Having accomplished that it is now possible to cure him of these
unfortunate masonic tendencies through the use of behavioural
psychotherapy. (we see a cartoon city gent locked into a cell)
In this treatment the patient is rewarded for the correct response
and punished for the wrong one. Let us begin. Would you like
to give up being a mason? Think carefully. Think. Think.
Cartoon City Gent: No.
(A large hammer attacks the city gent.)
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http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2011/11/21/111121sh_shouts_idle
The New Yorker
Shouts & Murmurs
Who Wrote Shakespeare?
by Eric *IDLE* November 21, 2011
* (Most likely Michael Palin, really.)
While it is perfectly obvious to everyone that Ben Jonson wrote all of
Shakespeare’s plays, it is less known that Ben Jonson’s plays were
written by a teen-age girl in Sunderland, who mysteriously
disappeared, leaving no trace of her existence, which is clear proof
that she wrote them. The plays of Marlowe were actually written by a
chambermaid named Marlene, who faked her own orgasm, and then her own
death in a Deptford tavern brawl. Queen Elizabeth, who was obviously a
man, conspired to have Shakespeare named as the author of his plays,
because how could a man who had only a grammar-school education and
spoke Latin and a little Greek possibly have written something as bad
as “All’s Well That Ends Well”? It makes no sense. It was obviously an
upper-class twit who wished to disguise his identity so that Vanessa
Redgrave could get a job in her old age.
Many people believe that Richard III not only was a good man who would
never hurt a fly but actually wrote “She Stoops to Conquer,” and that
the so-called author, Oliver Goldsmith, found the play under a tree in
1773 while visiting Bosworth Field, now a multistory car park (clearly
an attempt to cover up the evidence of the ruse). Oscar Wilde’s plays
were written by a stable boy named Simon, though Wilde gave them both
a good polish. Chaucer was written by a Frenchman on holiday, while
Simone de Beauvoir wrote all of Balzac and a good deal of “Les
Misérables,” despite the fact that she was not yet born when she did
so. Beau Brummell wrote nearly all of Jane Austen, and two men and a
cat wrote most of Charles Dickens, with the exception of “A Tale of
Two Cities,” which Napoleon wrote while visiting St. Helena.
Incidentally, Napoleon was not Napoleon but a man named Trevor
Francis, who later turned up playing for Birmingham City.
Thomas Jefferson produced the Declaration with the aid of a
ghostwriter, a woman of color named Betty Mae, who was a non-voluntary
worker. “Moby-Dick” was written not by Herman Melville but by Herman
Melbrooks, who wrote most of it in Yiddish on the boat over from Coney
Island. “The Shorter Pepys,” a Penguin paperback, was actually written
by the taller Pepys, a man named Doris Pepys, who was no relation but
worked as a candle cleaner in Wapping (home of the Liar). Henry James
did write all of his own works, because nobody else could be that
boring, and, more significant, no one else has ever bothered
to claim them.
Mere lack of evidence, of course, is no reason to denounce a theory.
Look at intelligent design. The fact that it is bollocks hasn’t
stopped a good many people from believing in it. Darwinism itself is
only supported by tons of evidence, which is a clear indication that
Darwin didn’t write his books himself. They were most likely written
by Jack the Ripper, who was probably King Edward VII, since all
evidence concerning this has been destroyed.
Paranoia? Of course not. It’s alternative scholarship. What’s wrong
with teaching alternative theories in our schools? What are liberals
so afraid of? Can’t children make up their own minds about things like
killing and carrying automatic weapons on the playground? Bush was
right: no child left unarmed. Why this dictatorial approach to
learning, anyway? What gives teachers the right to say what things
are? Who’s to say that flat-earthers are wrong? Or that the Church
wasn’t right to silence Galileo, with his absurd theory (actually
written by his proctologist) that the earth moves around the sun.
Citing “evidence” is so snobbish and élitist. I think we all
know what lawyers can do with evidence. Look at Shakespeare.
Poor bloke. Wrote thirty-seven plays, none of them his.
-------------------------------------
Art Neuendorffer
Moby-Dick (1851) by Herman Melville
CHAPTER 76 The Battering-Ram
.
So that when I shall hereafter detail to you all
the specialities and concentrations of potency
.
EVERywhe[R]e lur[K]ing i[N] this [E]xpan[S]ive m[O]nste[R];
.
when I shall show you some of his more inconsiderable braining
feats; I trust you will have renounced all ignorant incredulity,
and be ready to abide by this; that though the Sperm Whale stove
a passage through the Isthmus of Darien, and mixed the Atlantic
with the Pacific, you would not elevate one hair of your eye-brow.
For unless you own the whale, you are but a provincial and
sentimentalist in *TRUTH*. But clear *TRUTH* is a thing for
salamander giants only to encounter; how small the chances
for the provincials then? What befell the weakling youth
lifting the dread goddess’s *VEIL* at Lais?
....................
__ <= 5 =>
. E V E R y
. w h e [R] e
. l u r [K] i
. n g i [N] t
. h i s [E] x
. p a n [S] i
. v e m [O] n
. s t e [R]
[ROSENKR] -5 {1 in 130}
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The Song of Hiawatha (1855)
~ 146,000 letters
..............................
"Why stand *IDLY* looking at us,
Leaning on the rock behind you?
Come and wrestle with the others,
Let us pitch the quoit togethe[R]!"
.
. Lazy [K]wasi[N]d mad[E] no an[S]wer,
.
T[O] thei[R] challenge made no answer,
Only *ROSE* , and slowly turning,
Seized the huge rock in his fingers,
Tore it from its *DEEP* foundation,
Poised it in the air a moment,
Pitched it sheer into the river,
Sheer into the *SWIFT* Pauwating,
Where it still is seen in Summer.
..............................
. [R]!L a z y
. [K] w a s i
. [N] d m a d
. [E] n o a n
. [S] w e r,T
. [O] t h e i
. [R] c h a l
. l e n g e
.
[ROSENKR] -5 {1 in 820}
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"David L. Webb" <david.l.w...@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> Why do you emphasize "deep," "swift," "idly," etc., Art?
> All are utterly unremarkable, commonplace English words.
1) DEEP:
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http://shakespeareauthorship.com/array2.html
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0301u: RGTSRVEAIILEHHWONIERYEMPTREHNSNPLHMEONSEHOTGENHT
0302u: TFIEIRNDNSLWTEIEGVREODIRINT *A DEEP HART* NGVIE *FEEBLEO*
0303u: HONTNETVGHWEHTSTPILVVBSOEIETTASIALWSNSINSTRTEIOT
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Douay-Rheims Psalm 63:7 Man shall come to *A DEEP HEART*
..........................................................
<<The Douay-Rheims Bible, also known as the Rheims-Douai Bible
or Douai Bible and abbreviated as D-R, is a translation
of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English.
.
The New Testament was published in one volume with
extensive commentary and notes in 1582.
.
The Old Testament followed in 1609-10 in two volumes,
also extensively annotated.
.
The purpose of the version, both the text and notes,
was to uphold Catholic tradition in the face of the
Protestant Reformation which was heavily influencing England.>>
--------------------------------------------------
. Douay-Rheims Bible Psalms 63:
.................................
Exaudi Deus orationem.
A prayer in affliction, with confidence in God that
he will bring to nought the machinations of persecutors.
.
1. Unto the end, a psalm for David.
.
2. Hear, O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee:
DEliVER my soul from the fear of the enemy.
.
3. Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant;
from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.
.
4. For they have whetted their tongues like a sword;
they have bent their bow a bitter thing,
.
5. To shoot in secret the undefiled.
.
6. They will shoot at him on a sudden,
and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness.
They have talked of hiding snares;
they have said: *Who shall see them?*
.
7. They have searched after iniquities:
they have failed in their search.
Man shall come to *A DEEP HEART*:
...................................
7. Scrutati sunt iniquitates defecerunt scrutantes
scrutinio cogitationibus singulorum et *CORDE PROFUNDO*
...................................
*A DEEP HEART*... Crafty, subtle, deep projects and designs;
which nevertheless shall not succeed; for God shall be exalted
in bringing them to nought by his wisdom and power.
- New Advent Catholic Bible
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"David L. Webb" <david.l.w...@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> Why do you emphasize "deep," "swift," "idly," etc., Art?
> All are utterly unremarkable, commonplace English words.
2) DEEP:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift
<<Tom SWift is the name of the central character in five series,
totaling over 100 volumes, of juvenile science fiction and adventure
novels that emphasize science, invention, and technology. The
character was created by Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of the
Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book-packaging firm. His adventures have
been written by a number of different ghostwriters over the years.
Most of the books are published under the collective pseudonym Victor
Appleton. The 33 volumes of the second series use the pseudonym Victor
Appleton II. The character first appeared in 1910. New titles have
been published as recently as 2007. Most of the various series focus
on Tom’s inventions, a number of which have anticipated actual
inventions. The character has been presented in different ways over
the years. In general, the books portray science and technology as
wholly beneficial in their effects, and the role of the inventor
in society has been treated as admirable and heroic.>>
------------------------------------------
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]
---------------------------------------------------------------
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.
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.>>
--------------------------------------------
It is my contention that the good Reverend
Thomas Swift (Age 36) was responsible for the
1631 "John WeEVER" tract & he signed it accordingly
(along side the Latin name of Edward de Vere):
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17th-century References to Shakespeare's Stratford Monument
http://shakespeareauthorship.com/monrefs.html
.
<<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:
..........................................................
. 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
. Leaves living Art but page to serve his witt.
.
. ob Ano doi 1616 AEtat. 53. 24 die April
.
. Good frend for Iesus sake forbeare
. To digg the dust enclosed heare
. Blest bee ye man that spares these stones
. And curst bee hee that moves my bones.
.........................................................
In the margin opposite the heading "Stratford upon Avon",
WeEVER wrote "Willm Shakespeare the famous poet",
.
and opposite the last two lines of the epitaph
he wrote "vpo[n] the grave stone".>>
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____________ <= 18 =>
.
_ I u d c i o P i l u m G e n i o S o
_ c r a t e m A r t e M a r o n e m T
_ e r r a t e g i t p o p u l u s m a
_ e r e t O l y m p u s h a b e t S t
_ a y P a s s e n g e r w h y g o e s
. [T] t 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.
Prob. of [TOM SWIFT] ~ 1 in 3,700,000 (any skip)
...........................................
____________ <= 18 =>
.
- G o o d f r e n d f o r I e s u s s
- a k e f o r b e a r e T o d i g g t
. h{e d[U] s}t e n c l o s e d h e a r
_- e B l[E] s t b e e y e m a n t h a t
- s p a[R] e s t h e s e s t o n e s A
- n d c[U] r s t b e e h e e t h a t m
_ o v e[S] m y b o n e s
Prob. of [UERUS] ~ 1 in 1090 (any skip)
...................................
. {ed}ouardus *VERUS* , COMES Oxoniae,
. Vicecomes Bulbeck, Dominus de Scales
. & Badlismer, D. Magnus Angliae Ca-
. merarius: Lectori. S. D.
.
http://comp.uark.edu/~mreynold/aulicus.html
---------------------------------------------------------
. "The Father of Shakespeare Criticism"
. Poet Laureate John Dryden [Aug.9, 1631 - May 1, 1700]
<<Poet, born in Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, C England, UK.
John Dryden studied at Cambridge, and went to London in 1657, where
he wrote several plays and satires for the court. His first successful
play, written in heroic couplets, was The Indian Emperor (1665).
After 1676, he began to write in blank verse, producing his best play,
All for Love (1678). In 1668 he became Poet Laureate and in 1670
historiographer royal. Called to defend the king's party, he wrote
a series of satires, notably Absalom and Achitophel (1681), which
did much to turn the tide against the Whigs. To this era also belong
the didactic poem Religio laici (1682), which argues the case for
Anglicanism, and The Hind and the Panther (1687), marking his
conversion to Catholicism. His political reward was a place
in the customs; but he lost his laureateship on the accession
of William III (1688). He also wrote a number of important
critical works, many in his late years.>>
......................................................
Dryden is buried at Westminster in the Poets' Corner
_______ between Chaucer and Cowley.
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"Father of Shakespeare Criticism" married Elizabeth CECIL Howard!
......................................................
Mary Cheke --- William Cecil --- Mildred Cooke
_________ | {Burghley} __ |
_________ | (1520-98) Anne Cecil---Edward deVere
_________ | {Oxford} (1550-1604)
_________ | (1st Cousin to Suffolk's dad)
_________ |
{Exeter} TOM CECIL --- Dorothy Neville
____ (1542-1622)_ |
______________ |
Eliz. DRURY--- William Cecil {Exeter} --- Elizabeth MANNERS
_________ | (1566-1640) (2nd cousin of ROGER MANNERS
_________ | __________ son-in-law of Nov.5 Phil.Sidney)
_________ |
_________ | Cath. Knyvet --- Thomas Howard{SUFFOLK}
_________ | ________ | _ (1561-1626) Discoverer
_________ | ________ | _ of Nov.5 Gunpowder Plot!!
_________ | ________ |
Elizabeth CECIL---Thomas Howard ____ Sir Erasmus Dryden
____________ | {Berkshire} (1625-1669) |
____________ | ___ Erasmus Dryden of Tichmersh
____________ | __________ |
Elizabeth Cecil Howard --- JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)
______________ Poet Laureate (1668-1700)
________________ {THE FATHER of Shakespeare Criticism &}
__ http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/biography/autobio.html
______ {close relative of Jonathan Swift's grandmother}
__________________________ |
W. Shakspere--- Mrs. Davenant _____- |
__(1564-1616) | _______________ V
___________ | ____ Thom. Swift --- Dryden
William Davenant ----? (1595-1658)_ |
(1606-1668) ___ | _______ /------------\
Poet Laureate __ | _______ | ____ |
(1638-1668) daughter---Thom.Swift Jonathan---Abig. Erick
_______________ | _______________ |
__________ Thom.Swift ___ Jonathan Swift
___ {Rector of PUTTENHAM} ___ (1667 - 1745)
______________________ {Mr.Lemuel GulliVER}
______________________ Nov.5, 1699 (start)
______________________ Nov.5, 1715 (end)
"I think Cowley's Pindaricks are much preferable to his Mistress"
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"The Bastard Son of Shakspere" Poet Laureate William Davenant
__ managed (Elizabeth?) DRURY Lane Theatre!
...............................................................
Davenant or *d'Avenant, Sir William (1606 - 1668) Poet & playwright,
born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, SC England, UK. His father kept the
Crown at Oxford, at which Shakespeare used to stop between London
and Stratford - hence the rumour that he was Shakespeare's
illegitimate son. In 1628 he took to writing for the stage, his
most successful work being The Wits (1636). In 1638, he became Poet
Laureate, and was later manager of the (Elizabeth?) DRURY Lane
Theatre. He was knighted in 1643 for services to the Crown during
the Civil War. In 1656, he helped to revive drama, banned under
Cromwell, and brought to the stage the first public opera in England.
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Jonathan Swift's pseudonym Mr.Lemuel GulliVER
.............................................................
http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/front/publisher.html
<<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 Church-Yard at Banbury,
in that County, sEVERal Tombs and Monuments of the GulliVERs.>>
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A letter from Capt. Gulliver, to his Cousin Sympson:
.............................................................
<<And besides 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.>>
<<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.>>
<< I have now done with all visionary Schemes for EVER.
April 2, 1727.>>
E. VERE's birthdate: April 2, 1550
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_______ Walpurgisnacht = April 30
418 Roman Emperor Honorius issued a decree denouncing Pelagianism,
which taught that humanity can take the initial
and fundamental steps toward salvation by
its own efforts, apart from divine grace.
1006 Brightest supernova in recorded history is observed
1349 Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated
1492 Ferdinand & Isabella expel Jews from Spain
1563 Charles VI expels Jews from France
1602 William Lilly born (astrologer/author/almanac compiler)
1777 Carl Friedrich Gauss born
1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US
1945 Adolph Hitler & wife Eva Braun commit suicide
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Walburga, OSB Abbess
(also known as Bugga, Gaudurge, Vaubourg, Walpurga, Walpurgis)
http://207.172.3.91/saintpat/ss/0225.htm
Born in Devonshire, Wessex, England, 710 AD;
died at Heidenheim, Swabia, Germany, February 25, 779;
feasts of her translation:
May 1, 870 (translation to Eichstatt)
October 12, (Columbus Day) and
SEPTEMBER 24, 893 (translation to ZUTPHEN
- scene of Sidney's Sept.22, 1586 wounding).
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http://207.172.3.91/saintpat/ss/0225.htm
<<When Saint Boniface evangelized the Germans, he took with him as
fellow apostles his two nephews, Willibald and Winebald, who were the
sons of Saint Richard, king of the West Saxons. So successful was
their enterprise that fresh reinforcements of missionaries were
requested and the monasteries of England were stirred by the
news of their progress. Boniface asked for a colony of nuns to
be sent out. Among them was his own niece, Walburga, a nun of
Wimborne under Saint Tatta and sister of Willibald & Winebald.
Winebald founded a double monastery at Heidenheim, where she was
appointed abbess and Winebald ruled the men. She must have been a
remarkable woman, for so great was her influence that on his death the
bishop of Eichstatt appointed Walburga in his place and gave her
charge over both the men's & women's congregations. Walburga died as
abbess of Heidenheim, whence her relics were translated to Eichstatt.
This English woman had the curious destiny of attaining a place in
German folklore. The night of May 1 (the date of the transfer of her
relics to Eichstatt in 870) became known as Walpurgisnacht. May 1 had
been a pagan festival marking the beginning of summer and the revels
of witches, hence the traditions of Walpurgisnacht, which have no
intrinsic connection with the saint. Nevertheless, her name became
associated with witchcraft and other superstitions (cf. Goethe's
Faust, pt. i, Walpurgis night in the Hartz mountains). It is
possible, however, that the protection of crops ascribed to her,
represented by the three ears of corn in her icons, may have been
transferred to her from Mother Earth (Walborg).
In art, Saint Walburga is generally portrayed as a royal abbess with a
small flask of oil on a book. At times (1) she may have three ears of
corn in her hand; (2) angels hold a crown over her; (3) she is shown
in a family tree of the Kings of England; (4) she is shown together
with her saintly brothers; or (5) miracles are taking place because
of the oil extruding from her tomb. She is venerated at Eichstatt.
Walburga has been portrayed by artists from the 11th until the 19th
centuries. Especially noteworthy is a 15th-century tapestry cycle of
her life. A modern abbess of Eichstatt was sufficiently important to
be selected to negotiate the surrender of the town to the Americans
at the end of the Second World War.>>
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Milton entered into a publishing agreement w/printer Samuel Simmons
for _Paradise Lost_ on 27 April 1667.
George Wither died on 2 May 1667.
Abraham Cowley died on 28 July 1667.
Jonathan Swift born on St. Andrew's Day, 1667.
Philip Sidney born on St. Andrew's Day, 1554.
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http://www.cs.utah.edu/~goller/books/COWLEY/BIOG.TXT
Abraham Cowley [24 July 1618 - 28 July 1667]
<<English poet, dramatist and essayist. He is best known for his
Pindaric Odes and his unfinished epic, The Davideis. He also wrote
A Poem on the Late Civil War and several odes & elegies. His plays
include The Guardian (1641), later revised as The Cutter of Coleman
Street (1661). He is often described as the last poet of the
Metaphysical school, writing The Mistress in the manner of Donne.
But his style was mainly classical, more suited to the Augustan
style of his successors like Dryden.
Cowley was born in London, the posthumous son of a bookseller. He was
educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1640
he was named Fellow at Trinity but was ejected in 1644 because he was
a royalist who had even written a play performed for the King's
entertainment two years earlier. He went to live at Oxford, a
stronghold of the royalists, before fleeing the Civil War to join
the group of exiles in Paris, France. He served as secretary to
Lord Jermyn, the Queen's chamberlain. He also undertook
various diplomatic missions at the bidding of the Queen,
Maria Henrietta, whom he officially served as CIPHER secretary.
He returned to London in 1654, possibly on a mission,
and was arrested and briefly imprisoned. Having written his first
poem, Pyramus and Thisbe (1628) when he was just ten, his Poetical
Blossoms (1633) made him become known as a precocious talent. An
established and popular poet, he produced his collected Poems in 1656.
The 1660 Restoration of Charles II brought him great joy and he
celebrated the event in one of his best-known odes, Upon the Blessed
Restoration and Return of His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second.
Though he was given back his Fellowship at Cambridge in 1661, he did
not receive the royal favours he might have expected. He retired to
Chertsey, Surrey, from where he gave continued support to the Royal
Society of Science he had helped founded.
So great was his esteem that when he died he was laid to rest
next to Chaucer and Spenser at Westminster Abbey.>>
http://www.findagrave.net/pictures/7092.html
Cowley, Abraham b. 1618. d. 1667: A poet, whose great contemporary
reputation soon waned. He worked in Paris for a while as confidential
secretary to Queen Henrietta Maria. He returned to England after the
Restoration, expecting recognition of his service, dying in retirement
a few years later. The names of other poets and authors who do not
have actual grave markers were added to his grave marker.
http://www.hn.psu.edu/Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/cowley/default.html
On the Death of Mr. William Hervey
On the Death of Sir Henry Wooten
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_A Tale of a Tub, to which is Added the Battle of the Books_ - Swift
.
Then Pindar slew ———, and ———, and Oldham, and ——— and Afra the Amazon
light of foot; Never advancing in a direct Line, but wheeling with
incredible Agility and Force, he made a terrible Slaughter among the
Enemy's Light-Horse. Him, when Cowley observed, his generous Heart
burnt within him, and he advanced against the fierce Antient,
imitating his Address, and Pace, and Career, as well as the Vigour of
his Horse, and his own Skill would allow. When the two Cavaliers had
approach'd within the Length of three Javelins; first Cowley threw a
Lance, which miss'd Pindar, and passing into the Enemy's Ranks, fell
ineffectual to the Ground. Then Pindar darted a Javelin, so large and
weighty, that scarce a dozen Cavaliers, as Cavaliers are in our
degenerate Days, could raise it from the Ground: yet he threw it with
Ease, and it went by an unerring Hand, singing through the Air; Nor
could the Modern have avoided present Death, if he had not luckily
opposed the Shield that had been given him by Venus. And now both
Hero's drew their Swords, but the Modern was so aghast and disordered,
that he knew not where he was; his Shield dropt from his Hands; thrice
he fled, and thrice he could not escape; at last he turned, and
lifting up his Hands, in the Posture of a Suppliant, God-like Pindar,
said he, spare my Life, and possess my Horse with these Arms; besides
the Ransom which my Friends will give, when they hear I am alive, and
your Prisoner. Dog, said Pindar, Let your Ransom stay with your
Friends; but your Carcass shall be left for the Fowls of the Air, and
the Beasts of the Field. With that, he raised his Sword, and with a
mighty Stroak, cleft the wretched Modern in twain, the Sword pursuing
the Blow; and one half lay panting on the Ground, to be trod in pieces
by the Horses Feet, the other half was born by the frighted Steed
thro' the Field. This *Venus took, wash'd it seven times in Ambrosia,
then struck it thrice with a Sprig of Amarant; upon which, the Leather
grew round and soft, the Leaves turned into Feathers, and being
gilded before, continued gilded still; so it became a Dove and
She harness'd it to her Chariot.>>
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"David L. Webb" <david.l.w...@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> Why do you emphasize "deep," "swift," "idly," etc., Art?
> All are utterly unremarkable, commonplace English words.
3) IDLE:
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TOTHEONLI__ *E* BEGETTE *R* OFTHESEINVINGSON
NETSMRWHA *L* LHAPPIN_ *E* SSEANDTHAETERNIT
IEPROMISE-__ *D* BYOVREV *E* RLIVINGPOTWISHET
HTHEWELLW *I* SHINGA_ *DVE* NTVRERINETTING
FORTH <= 35 =>
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*VEER* : *LABOUR* (Danish)
............................................
["Edward *DE VEER* , only son of John, born the Twelfth day
of April A 1550, Earle of Oxenforde (Ogburn, 1998, 765).
..............................................
In the name of God Amen. I *Iohn DE VEER* Erle of Oxinforde,
Lorde greate Chamberlayne of Englonde Vicounte Bulbeck &c,
__ *being of hole and parfecte MYNDe*
..............................................
- 1562 Will of the 16th Earl of Oxford (28 July 1562)
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/DOCS/16will2.html
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The *MASON* poor, that builds the lordly HALLs,
Dwells not in them, they are for high degree;
His cottage is compact in *PAPER* walls,
And not with brick or stone as others be.
.
The *IDLE DRONE* that *LABOURs* not at all
Sucks up the *SWEET of HONEY* from the bee.
Who worketh most, to their share least doth fall;
With due *DESERT REWARD* will nEVER be.
. -- *EDWARD DE VERE*
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Greg Reynolds <even...@core.com> wrote:
.
> thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
> full character'd witH LASting memory,
> which shall above that *IDLE rank* remain
> beyond all date, even to eternity;
.
.. - Sonnet 122
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Hank Whittemore’s Shakespeare Blog
http://tinyurl.com/43rtdvu
..................................................
The MONUMENT edition of the Sonnets and SHAKE-SPEARE’S
TREASON the one-man show demonstrate that
“Shakespeare” was a Pen Name used for Royal Politics
http://tinyurl.com/3g9np7m
Below the emblem Peacham writes,
“Who liketh best to live in *IDLEness* ”
– and in an early poem by Oxford in
The Paradise of Dainty Devices in 1576 he wrote:
That nEVER am less *IDLE L.O. * , than when I am alone
............................................
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/cleopatra.htm
.
_The Tragedie of Cleopatra_ by Samuel *DAnIEL*
.
But if that *LABOUR* some mortality
Found this *SWEET* error, only to confine
The curious search of *IDLE* vanity,
That would the depth of darkness undermine:
Or rather, to give rest unto the thought
Of wretched man, with th'after-coming [joy]
Of those conceivèd fields, whereon we dote,
To pacify the present world's [annoy].
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http://www.shakespearefellowship.org/etexts/si/11-6.htm
........................................................
. Edmund [SPENSER]'s _Tears of the Muses_ (1590)
.
. "All these, and all that else the Comic Stage,
. With seasoned wit and goodly pleasance graced,
. By which man's life in his likest image
. Was limned *FORTH*, are wholly now defaced;
. And those *SWEET* wits which wont the like to frame
. Are now despised and made a laughing game.
.
. "And he the man whom Nature's self had made
. To mock herself and *TRUTH* to imitate,
. With kindly counter under Mimic shade,
. Our pleasant Willie, ah! is dead {of late}.
. With whom all joy and jolly merriment
. Is also deaded and in doleur drent.
.
. "But that same gentle spirit from whose *PEN*
. Large streams of honey and *SWEET* nectar flow,
. Scorning the boldness of such base-born men,
. Which dare their follies *FORTH* so rashly throw,
. Doth rather choose to sit in *IDLE CELL* ,
. Than so himself to mockery to sell."
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. T O T H E R I G H T H O N O R A B L E
. Henrie VVriothesley, Earle of Southampton,
. and Baron of Titchfield.
.
. RIght Honourable, I know not how I shall offend in
. dedicating my vnpolisht lines to your Lordship, nor
. how the worlde vvill censure mee for choosing so
. strong a proppe to support so vveake a burthen,
. onelye if your Honour seeme but pleased, I ac-
. count my selfe highly praised,
. and vowe to take aduantage of all *IDLE* houres,
.
TILL I
[H]AU[E] HO[N]OU[R]ED [Y]OU [W.]I T[H.] SO[M]E G[r.]AUER
LABOUR.
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. _Venus & Adonis_ Dedication to Henrie Wriothesley:
.
"TILL I HAVE HONOURED YOU WITH SOME GR-AVER LABOUR"
.
--- "[T] I L
---- [L] I [H]
-- [A] V [E]
- [H] O [N]
- [O.] U [R]
-- [E.] D [Y]
.
. O U [W.]
---- I T [H.]
.
. S O [M]
- E G [r.]
.
. -AVER LABOUR"
.
. The chance of finding *HENRY W.H. Mr.*
. (or something roughly to that effect)
. within one of the two Shak. poetry dedications
. to *Henry* Wriothesley is about 1 in 4,000,000
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. Othello, The Moor of Venice Act 1, Scene 3
.
IAGO: Our bodies are our *G-ARDENs* , to the which
. *OUR WILLS are G-ARDENers* : 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
. *IDLE-ness* , or manured with *IN-DUSTry* , why, the
. power & corrigible authority of this *LIES in OUR WILLS*
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WASHINGTON IRVING, 1819 - p.48, Stratford-On-Avon, Sketch Book.
.
<<A flat stone marks the spot where the bard is buried. There are
FOUR lines inscribed on it, said to have been written by himself,
. and which have in them something extremely AWFUL.>>
...............................................
http://library.thinkquest.org/5175/images/grave1.jpg
. GOOD FREND FO{R} [IE]{SUS}'_S(AKE)__ FOR[BE]ARE,
___ TO DIGG THE D{U}[ST] ___ EN(CLO)ASED [HE]ARE:
............................................
_. BLESTE BE Ye MA_{N} Yt___ SPA[RE]S THES STONES,
__ AND CVRST BE H_{E} Yt___ MO[VE]S MY BONES.
...............................................
<<The inscription on the tombstone has not been without its effect. It
has prevented the removal of his remains from the bosom of his native
place to Westminster Abbey, which was at one time contemplated. A few
years since also, as some *LABORERs* were digging to make an adjoining
vault, the earth caved in, so as to leave a vacant space almost
*like an ARCH* through which one might have reached into his grave.>>
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No one, howEVER, presumed to meddle with
his remains so awfully guarded by a malediction;
and lest any of the *IDLE* or the curious or any collector
of relics should be tempted to commit depredations,
the old sexton kept watch over the place for two days,
until the vault was finished and the aperture closed again.
He told me that he had made bold to look in at the hole,
but could see neither coffin nor BONES -
- *NOTHING BUT DUST* . It was something, I thought,
to have seen the *DUST* (*POLVERE*) of Shakespeare.>>
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_______ _The *SCOURGE* of Folly_
. registered Oct. 8, 1610 by JOHN *DaVIEs*
Fucus, the furious Poet writes but Plaies;
So, playing, writes: that’s, *IDLY* writeth all:
Yet, *IDLE PLAIES* , and Players are his Staies;
Which stay him that he can no lower fall:>>
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Probability of *D(???)ANIEL* ~ 1/330
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________ <= 9 =>
____ TOTHEON-_ {L} __I
____ EBEGETT__ {E} -R
____ OFTHESE__ {I} -_N
____ SVINGSO__ {N} _N
____ ETSMRWH- {A} _L
____ LHAPPINE___ _S
____ SEANDTHA__ _T
____ ETERNITI____- _E
____ PROMISE__- {D} -B
____ YOVR _- EVER L
____ IVIN ___- GPOE T
____ WISH-- [E] THT _ H
____ EWEL [L] WIS _- H
____ INGA_- [D] VEN _ T
____ VRER-- [I] NSE __ T
____ TING _ _ FORTH
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. _Ulysses and the Siren_ by Samuel {D-ANIEL}
.
Ulys. Delicious nymph, suppose there were
. Nor honor nor report,
. Yet manliness would scorn to *WEAR*
. The time *IN IDLE SPORT* .
. For toil doth give a better touch,
. To make us feel our [joy] ;
. And ease finds tediousness, as much
. As *LABOR*, yields [annoy]
............................................
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/cleopatra.htm
.
_The Tragedie of Cleopatra_ by Samuel *DAnIEL*
.
But if that *LABOUR* some mortality
Found this *SWEET* error, only to confine
The curious search of *IDLE vanity* ,
That would the *DEPTH of darkness* undermine:
Or rather, to give rest unto the thought
Of wretched man, with th'after-coming [joy]
Of those conceivèd fields, whereon we dote,
To pacify the present world's [annoy].
If it be so, why speak I then to the air?
But 'tis not so, my Antony doth hear:
His *EVER-LIVING* ghost attends my prayer,
And I do know his hovering sprite is near.
And I will speak, and pray, and mourn to thee.
O pure immortal soul that deign'st to hear,
I feel thou answer'st my credulity
With touch of comfort, finding none elsewhere.
Thou know'st these hands entombed thee HERE {of late},
Free and unforc'd, which now must servile be,
Reserv'd for bands to grace proud Caesar's state,
Who seeks in me to triumph over thee.
O if in life we could not *sEVERED* be,
Shall Death divide our bodies now asunder?
Must thine in Egypt, mine in Italy,
Be kept the Monuments of Fortune's wonder?
If any powers be there whereas thou art,
(Sith our country gods betray our case,)
O work they may their gracious help impart,
To save thy woeful wife from such disgrace.
Do not permit she should in triumph show
The blush of her reproach, joined with thy shame:
But (rather) let that hateful tyrant know,
That thou and I had power t'avoid the same.
But what do I spend breath and *IDLE* wind,
In vain invoking a conceivèd aide ?
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<<Among Daniel's most characteristic works, _Musophilus_ is
a dialogue between a courtier and a man of letters addressed
to Fulke Greville, and is a general defence of learning,
and in particular of poetic learning as an instrument in
the education of the perfect courtier or man of action.>>
..............................................
. _Musophilus_ (1599) by Samuel *DAnIEL*
.
Philocosmus: Fond man Musophilus, that thus dost spend,
. In an vngainefull Arte thy deerest dayes,
. Tyring thy wits, and toyling to no end,
. But to attaine that *IDLE SMOAKE of PRAISE* :
. Now when this busie world cannot attend
. Th'vntimely Musicke of neglected layes.
. Other delights then these, other desires
. This wiser profit-seeking Age requires.
. Poore *IDLE* honours that can ill defend
. Your memories that cannot keepe their owne.
. And whereto serue that wondrous Trophei now,
. That on the goodly Plaine neere Wilton stands?
. That huge dumbe heape, that cannot tell vs how,
. Nor what, nor whence it is, nor with whose hands,
. Nor for whose *GLORY*, it was set to shew
. How much our pride mocks that of other lands?
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*ALL IS TRUE* : *TUTTE E VERE* (Italian)
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Letter written by Sir Henry WOttON (former spy for Essex)
. to Edmund Bacon on July 2, 1613:
.
"Now, to let matters of State sleep, I will entertain you at
the present with what hath happened this week at the banks side.
The Kings Players had a new Play, called *ALL IS TRUE* ,
representing some principall pieces of
the raign of Henry 8. which was *SET FORTH* with
many extraordinary circumstances of Pomp & Majesty,
even to the matting of the stage; the Knights of the Order,
with their Georges & Garter, the Guards with their embroidered
Coats, and the like: sufficient in TRUTH within a while to make
greatness VERy familiar, if not ridiculous. Now, King Henry
making a Masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain
Chambers being shot off at his entry, some of the *PAPER* ,
and other STUFF wherewith one of them was stopped , did light
on the thatch, were being thought at first but an *IDLE SMOAK*
, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled
inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming withing
less than an hour the whole house to the *VERy* grounds."
.
This was the fatal period of that virtuous FABRIC ; wherein yet
nothing did perish but wood & straw, and a few forsaken *CLO-AKS*
. only one man had his *Breeches* set on fire, that would
. perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit
. of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.
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_____ Henry Wotton's fEVERED DEath:
. 4 Dec 1639 => First observed Venus TRANSIT
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"the influence of humor, which ... hurles FOORTH
*NOTHING but SMOOKE* and congested vapours" -- Jonson
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And let our crooked *SMOKES* climb to their nostrils
And *SMOKE the TEMPLE* with our sacrifices. Cymbeline: V, v
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http://www.montypython.net/scripts/give-up.php
First Voice Over: (Eric *IDLE* )
What other ways are there of recognizing a mason?
(Shot from camera concealed in a car so we get reactions of passers-
by. A busy city street- i.e. Threadneedle Street. In amongst the
throng four city gents are leaping along with their trousers round
their ankles. They are wearing bowler hats and pinstripes. Another
city street or another part of the same street. Two city gents, with
trousers rolled up to the knee, approach each other and go into the
most extraordinary handshake which involves rolling on the floor etc.)
Second Voice Over: (John Cleese) Having once identified a mason
immediate steps must be taken to isolate him from the general public.
Having accomplished that it is now possible to cure him of these
unfortunate masonic tendencies through the use of behavioural
psychotherapy. (we see a cartoon city gent locked into a cell)
In this treatment the patient is rewarded for the correct response
and punished for the wrong one. Let us begin. Would you like
to give up being a mason? Think carefully. Think. Think.
Cartoon City Gent: No.
(A large hammer attacks the city gent.)
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http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2011/11/21/111121sh_shouts_idle
The New Yorker
Shouts & Murmurs
Who Wrote Shakespeare?
by Eric *IDLE* November 21, 2011
* (Most likely Michael Palin, really.)
While it is perfectly obvious to everyone that Ben Jonson wrote all of
Shakespeare’s plays, it is less known that Ben Jonson’s plays were
written by a teen-age girl in Sunderland, who mysteriously
disappeared, leaving no trace of her existence, which is clear proof
that she wrote them. The plays of Marlowe were actually written by a
chambermaid named Marlene, who faked her own orgasm, and then her own
death in a Deptford tavern brawl. Queen Elizabeth, who was obviously a
man, conspired to have Shakespeare named as the author of his plays,
because how could a man who had only a grammar-school education and
spoke Latin and a little Greek possibly have written something as bad
as “All’s Well That Ends Well”? It makes no sense. It was obviously an
upper-class twit who wished to disguise his identity so that Vanessa
Redgrave could get a job in her old age.
Many people believe that Richard III not only was a good man who would
never hurt a fly but actually wrote “She Stoops to Conquer,” and that
the so-called author, Oliver Goldsmith, found the play under a tree in
1773 while visiting Bosworth Field, now a multistory car park (clearly
an attempt to cover up the evidence of the ruse). Oscar Wilde’s plays
were written by a stable boy named Simon, though Wilde gave them both
a good polish. Chaucer was written by a Frenchman on holiday, while
Simone de Beauvoir wrote all of Balzac and a good deal of “Les
Misérables,” despite the fact that she was not yet born when she did
so. Beau Brummell wrote nearly all of Jane Austen, and two men and a
cat wrote most of Charles Dickens, with the exception of “A Tale of
Two Cities,” which Napoleon wrote while visiting St. Helena.
Incidentally, Napoleon was not Napoleon but a man named Trevor
Francis, who later turned up playing for Birmingham City.
Thomas Jefferson produced the Declaration with the aid of a
ghostwriter, a woman of color named Betty Mae, who was a non-voluntary
worker. “Moby-Dick” was written not by Herman Melville but by Herman
Melbrooks, who wrote most of it in Yiddish on the boat over from Coney
Island. “The Shorter Pepys,” a Penguin paperback, was actually written
by the taller Pepys, a man named Doris Pepys, who was no relation but
worked as a candle cleaner in Wapping (home of the Liar). Henry James
did write all of his own works, because nobody else could be that
boring, and, more significant, no one else has ever bothered
to claim them.
Mere lack of evidence, of course, is no reason to denounce a theory.
Look at intelligent design. The fact that it is bollocks hasn’t
stopped a good many people from believing in it. Darwinism itself is
only supported by tons of evidence, which is a clear indication that
Darwin didn’t write his books himself. They were most likely written
by Jack the Ripper, who was probably King Edward VII, since all
evidence concerning this has been destroyed.
Paranoia? Of course not. It’s alternative scholarship. What’s wrong
with teaching alternative theories in our schools? What are liberals
so afraid of? Can’t children make up their own minds about things like
killing and carrying automatic weapons on the playground? Bush was
right: no child left unarmed. Why this dictatorial approach to
learning, anyway? What gives teachers the right to say what things
are? Who’s to say that flat-earthers are wrong? Or that the Church
wasn’t right to silence Galileo, with his absurd theory (actually
written by his proctologist) that the earth moves around the sun.
Citing “evidence” is so snobbish and élitist. I think we all
know what lawyers can do with evidence. Look at Shakespeare.
Poor bloke. Wrote thirty-seven plays, none of them his.
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Art Neuendorffer
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