A link to the 16th century - St Paul's Churchyard
Lyra
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St Paul's £3.8m churchyard opened
The new South Churchyard, St Paul's cathedral
The new churchyard reproduces the layout of the medieval chapter house
St Paul's cathedral's £3.8m new south churchyard has been unveiled as
part of the London landmark's 300th anniversary restoration programme.
The design has been laid out using the footprint of the medieval
chapter house sited there until it was destroyed in the Great Fire of
London in 1666.
It uses the same Purbeck stone as the building's remains, which still
lie 4ft (1.2m) below the current site.
The south churchyard entrance has also been restored and a lift added.
Its designer, Martin Stancliffe, Surveyor to the Fabric, said he had
wanted to create an open space secluded from the traffic "to form a
welcoming access point for visitors to the cathedral that would also
give them an insight into the site's fascinating history."
The Right Reverend Graeme Knowles in the new South Churchyard
The Right Reverend Graeme Knowles said the new space was wonderful
The Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, The Right Reverend Graeme Knowles,
thanked donors for their support.
"It's wonderful that we are opening this beautiful outside space to
visitors so that they can enjoy the area and its magnificent views of
the cathedral," he said.
The churchyard restoration is the latest in the £40m project to
totally restore the Wren-designed cathedral - 300 years after its
final stone in was laid in 1708.
Art Neuendorffer
http://hlas.jottit.com/greg_reynolds
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"Greg Reynolds is fair, *KIND, TRUE* ."
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Thomas Thorpe's dedication to the translation of Lucan?
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*TO HIS KIND AND TRUE FRIEND, EDWARD BLOUNT*
.
<<Blount: I purpose to be BLUNT with you, and out of
. my dullness to encounter you with a dedication
. in the memory of that pure elemental wit Chr. Marlowe, whose
GHOST or genius is to be *SEEN WALK THE CHURCHYARD* >>
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http://hiwaay.net/~paul/bacon/devices/gestaintro.html
<<No Knight [of the Helmet] shall put out any money upon STRANGE
returns or performances to be made by his own person; as to hop up the
stairs to the top of ST. PAUL's without intermission; or any other
such-like agilities or endurances; except it may appear that the same
performances or practices do enable him to some service or employment;
as if he do undertake to go a journey BACKWARD, the same shall be
thought to enable him to be *an ambassador into TURKEY* .>>
<<The apparition walked BACKWARD from him; and at EVERy step it took,
the window raised itself a little, so that when the spectre reached
it, it was wide open. It beckoned Scrooge to approach, which he did.
When they were within two paces of each other, Marley's Ghost held up
its hand, warning him to come no nearer.>>
<<Do you know whether they've sold the prize TURKEY that was hanging
up there -- Not the little prize TURKEY: the big one.' `What, the one
as big as me.' returned the boy.>>
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. Ghosts of PAULES CHURCHYARD
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. VENVS AND ADONIS
Imprinted by Richard Field, and are to be fold at the
figne of the white Greyhound in PAULES CHURCHYARD. 1593.
.
. "LUCRECE. London.
. Printed by Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison,
. and are to be sold at the signe of
. the white Greyhound in PAULES CHURCHYARD, 1594" 4to.
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<<If we were not perfectly convinced that
Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there
would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll
at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts,
than there would be in any other middle-aged
gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy
spot -- say *SAINT PAUL'S CHURCHYARD* for instance --
literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
Scrooge nEVER painted out Old Marley's name. There
it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door:
Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as
Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business
called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley,
but he answered to both names.
It was all the same to him.>>
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Like Greene, Marlowe & Shakspeare
Laurence STERNE (1713-1768) "author" of
_TristRAM Shandy_ & _The Sermons of Mr. Yorick_
. died quite suddenly after a big meal.
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"In the end, he put up his hand, AS IF TO STOP A BLOW,
. and died in a minute."
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(one yeastyday he *STERNELY STRUXK* his tete in a tub
. for to watsch the future of his FATES
but ere he SWIFTLY stook it out again, - _Finnegans Wake_
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HARVEY, GABRIEL THE WRITERS POSTSCRIPT:
OR A FRENDLY CAUEAT TO THE SECOND SHAKERLEY OF POWLES.
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Is it a *DREAME* ? or is the Highest minde,
*That EUER haunted POWLES* , or hunted winde,
Bereaft of that same sky-surmounting breath,
That breath, that taught the Timpany to swell?
He, and the Plague contended for the game:
The hawty man extolles his hideous thoughtes,
And gloriously insultes vpon poore soules,
That plague themselues: for faint harts plague themselues.
The tyrant Sicknesse of base-minded slaues
Oh how it dominer's in Coward Lane?
So Surquidry rang-out his larum bell,
When he had girn'd at many a dolefull knell.
The graund Dissease disdain'd his toade Conceit,
And smiling at his tamberlaine contempt,
*STERNELY STRUCK-home the peremptory stroke*
He that nor feared God, nor dreaded Diu'll,
Nor ought admired, but his wondrous selfe:
Like *Iunos gawdy Bird* , that prowdly stares
On glittring fan of his triumphant taile:
Or like the ugly Bugg, that scorn'd to dy,
And mountes of Glory rear'd in towring witt:
Alas: but Babell Pride must kisse the pitt.
POWLES steeple, and a hugyer thing is downe:
Beware the next BULL-BEGGAR of the towne.
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<<SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP: his epitaph may be read in Stow's London
. (ed. Strype, 1720, bk. iii., p. 161). The tomb shared
. between him & [his father-in-law] Sir Francis Walsingham
.was considered unworthy of their renown.
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. "Philip and Francis have *NO TOMB* ,
. For great Christopher takes all the Room."
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the tomb of Sir Christopher Hatton(1540-91) in ST. PAUL's.
. IT WAS ONE OF THE FINEST MONUMENTS THERE.>>
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http://leeharrison.simplenet.com/bwp/dek/gloss.html
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Peter Farey wrote:
>
>The [following] inscription appears in ST. PAUL's Cathedral,
>on the tomb of Sir Francis Walsingham, which the poem
> itself (as an acrostic) in fact tells us.
S hall Honor, Fame and Titles of Renowne
I n Clods of Clay be thus inclosed still?
R ather will I, though wiser Wits may frown,
F or to inlarge his Fame, extend my Skill.
R ight gentle Reader, be it known to thee
A famous Knight doth here interred lie,
N oble by Birth, renowned by Policie,
C onfounding Foes which wrought our Jeopardie.
I foreign Countries their intents he knew;
S uch was his Zeale to do his Country Good,
W hen Dangers would by Enemies ensue
A s well as they themselves he understood.
L aunch forth, ye Muses, into Streams of Praise,
S ing and sound forth praiseworthy Harmony:
I n England, Death cut off his dismal Days,
N ot wronged by Death, but by false Treachery.
G rudge not at this unperfect Epitaph,
H erein I have exprest my simple Skill,
A s the first Fruits proceeding from a graffe;
M ake them a better whosoever WILL.
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April 6, 1590 Francis Walsingham, English secretary of state, dies
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648 -BC- Earliest total solar eclipse; chronicled by Greeks
6 -BC- Historical birth of Jesus Christ?
610 night the Koran descended to Earth [Monday before Palm S.]
1199 Richard I, the Lion-hearted, King of England (1189-99), dies
1327 Petrarch first sets eyes on Laura [Monday after Palm S.]
1348 Italian poet Petrarch's Laura, dies of plague
1483 Italian Raphael, [Raffaello Sanzio], born/christened?
1520 Italian Raphael, dies on his 37th birthday [Good Friday]
1528 German painter Albrecht Durer dies [Monday after Palm S.]
1580 6+ Kent earthquake badly damaged St Paul's in London
"to cassay the earthcrust at all of hours"
1584 Caravaggio apprenticed to Simone Peterzano of Milan
1584 Bridget de Vere's born. [Monday before Palm S.]
1588 Caravaggio ends apprenticeship to Simone Peterzano
1614 El Greco (Domeniko Theotokopoulos) dies
1722 Adm. Roggeveen discovers EASTER ISLAND on day before EASTER
1789 GEORGE WASHINGTON elected President [Monday after Palm S.]
1830 Mormons Founders Day
1843 Wordsworth as Poet Laureate
1874 Harry Houdini born [Monday after EASTER]
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April 6, 1327, Petrarch first sets eyes on Laura
April 6, 1348, Petrarch's Laura, dies of plague
April 6, 1483, RAPHAEL born/christened?
April 6, 1520, RAPHAEL dies on his 37th birthday.
April 6, 1528, DURER dies in Nürnberg
April 6, 1584, CARAVAGGIO apprenticed to painter Simone Peterzano
April 6, 1584, BRIDGET VERE is born.
April 6, 1588, CARAVAGGIO ends apprenticeship to Peterzano
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Measure for Measure Act 3, Scene 2
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LUCIO: Does BRIDGET paint still, Pompey, ha?
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April 7, 1614, EL GRECO dies.
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Art Neuendorffer