Re: Tom SWift wrote Shakspeare?
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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.
Translated into a number of languages, the books have sold over 20
million copies worldwide. Tom Swift has also been the subject of a
board game and a television show. Development of a feature film based
on the series was announced in 2008. A number of prominent figures,
including Steve Wozniak and Isaac Asimov, have cited "Tom Swift" as an
inspiration. Several inventions, including the taser, have been
directly inspired by the fictional inventions.
The character of Tom Swift was conceived in 1910 by Edward
Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book-packaging
company. Stratemeyer invented the series to capitalize on the market
for children's science adventure. The Syndicate's authors created the
Tom Swift books by first preparing an outline with all the plot
elements, followed by drafting and editing the detailed manuscript.
The books were published under the house name of Victor Appleton.
Edward Stratemeyer and Howard Garis wrote most of the volumes in the
original series; Stratemeyer's daughter, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams,
wrote the last three volumes. The first Tom Swift series ended in
1941. In 1954, Harriet Adams created the Tom Swift, Jr., series, which
was published under the name "Victor Appleton II". Most titles were
outlined and plotted by Adams. The texts were written by various
writers, among them William Dougherty, John Almquist, Richard Sklar,
James Duncan Lawrence, Tom Mulvey, and Richard McKenna. The Tom Swift,
Jr., series ended in 1971.>>
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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);
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:
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. Iudcio Pilum, Genio Socratem, Arte Maronem
. Terra tegit, populus maeret, Olympus habet.
. Stay Passenger, why goes[t] thou by so fast
. Read i[f] your canst whome env[i]ous death hath plac'd
. [W]ithin this monument [S]hakespeare with who[m]e
. Quick Nature dy'd wh[o]se name doth deck his [T]ombe
. far more then co{s}t, sith all yt hee hath {w}ritt
. 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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. [i]o u s d e a t h h a t h p l a c d
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. {s w}i t t.
Prob. of *TOM SWIFT* ~ 1 in 3,700,000 (any skip)
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- G o o d f r e n d f o r I e s u s s
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_ 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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.
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.
Prob. of *EVERUS* ~ 1 in 12,240 (any skip)
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- The Phoenix and the Turtle
.
LET the bird of loudest lay,
On the sole Arabian tree,
Herald sad and trumpet be,
To whose sound cha[s]te wings obey.
But tho[u] shrieking harbinge[r],
Foul precurrer of th[e] fiend,
Augur of the *fe{v}er's* end,
To this troupe {COME} thou not near!
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# finds in skips from ±2 to ±1001
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String NT OT Moby Dick (4,150,000,000)
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TOMSWIFT .09 .16 .08 (1 in 12,600,000,000)
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ROGERM 15 56 20 (1 in 45,600,000)
EVERUS 24 63 28 (1 in 36,000,000)
BACONO/I 25 73 44
FEEBLE 38 178 56 (1 in 17,000,000)
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MASONS 60 174 85 (1 in 13,000,000)
DEVERE 81 259 65 (1 in 10,250,000)
DEVEER 76 252 62
EDEVER 79 245 78
...........................
VERUS 175 473 220
BACON 183 579 294 (1 in 3,930,000)
MARYS 208 583 260
DEUEER 210 662 228
DEUERE 219 679 223
ARAISE 229 823 420
...........................
SWEETE 483 1112 507
UERUS 475 1235 648
MARLO 393 1638 644
OXEN 506 1430 1258 (1 in 1,300,000)
SPENS 617 1901 1276
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HIRAM 833 2881 898
SCANT 933 2733 1545 (1 in 796,000)
MASON 955 3193 1270 (1 in 766,000)
ESLEY 984 3469 1444
HENRY 1160 3598 1007
SHREW 1211 3238 1299
PHEON 1086 3780 1386
EVERE 1697 4951 1773 (1 in 493,000)
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NAILE 2319 9169 3990
OSIER 2716 8638 4192
WILL 2875 9881 6005
EUERE 4438 13711 5236 (1 in 177,500)
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FORD 6180 37269 16413 (1 in 69,300)
ROPE 9393 33352 16214
VERE 12696 39502 13996 (1 in 62,700)
MOAI 14308 46266 18452 (1 in 52,500)
HEWS 24146 61081 23593
UERO 20058 63511 25241
IDLE 19024 74864 28064
HEBE 31570 106235 32757
UERE 34713 107114 42928
HEIR 50855 175350 56576
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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!
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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!
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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
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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:
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<<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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Art Neuendorffer
BCD
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