Francisco Robles of Madrid
Art Neuendorffer
_DIANA & DIANUS_ (Wicca - Book of Shadows)
<<The most common names found associated with The Old Religion, in
Italy, are DIANA & Dianus. Dianus is the nature god, associated with
the woods, herds, fertility, and so on. He was present in the rites
of DIANA at the sacred grove of Nemi. He is also known as VERbius,
and is linked to the title *REX NEMORENSIS*. *Oaks were sacred* to
Dianus, which were present in the groves at Nemi. It seems likely
that, in time, he was also associated with the god Janus. Janus was
a god of doorways/ PORTALS (and of beginnings in general). In this
aspect, Janus was a guardian who kept non-initiates away from the
Mystery Traditions. He carried a WHIP and a rod, which could usher
in, or drive away. Dianus, as the guardian *REX NEMORENSIS*, is
easily linked to Janus, in this aspect. In the Aridian Tradition,
DIANA & Dianus would be two parts of the Divine One Great Spirit.
Usually, Dianus is visualized as a stag god, or a man with antlers.
He can also be associated with the forest god, known as KERN.>>
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*ROBLES* : *OAKS*
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Don Quixote by Cervantes - Translated by John Ormsby Introduction
II: ABOUT CERVANTES AND DON QUIXOTE
There is a tradition that Cervantes read some portions of his work
to a select audience at the Duke of Bejar's, which may have helped
to make the book known; but the obvious conclusion is that the
First Part of "Don Quixote" lay on his hands some time before
he could find a publisher bold enough to undertake a venture
of so novel a character; and so little faith in it had
*Francisco Robles of Madrid,*
to whom at last he sold it, that he did not care to incur
the expense of securing the copyright for Aragon or Portugal,
contenting himself with that for Castile.
The printing was finished in December,
and the book came out with the new year, 1605.
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At the beginning of 1605,
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha,
dedicated to the Duke of Béjar,
is published in Madrid by Juan de la Cuesta,
under the editorial supervision of *Francisco de ROBLES*
It is an immediate and resounding success. Bootleg
editions are issued in Lisbon, Valencia, and Zaragoza.
Three months later Cuesta starts working on the 2nd edition.
Numerous orders are shipped to America. But celebration
is short-lived. At the end of June, Gaspar de Ezpeleta
is mortally wounded in front of Cervantes's house,
and he is, along with part of his family, jailed again,
this time by order of the mayor, Villarroel.
*Francisco de ROBLES*
*FRANCIS/FREE of OAKS*
The name *DRUID* means: "SEER of the OAKS"
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[*EYCK* means *OAK* (EYCK painted with Oil on *OAK*)]
JAN Van Eyck was born in the province of Limberg, in the region
between the Netherlands and what is now called Belgium.
Justine Henin-Hardenne: a *Flemish* neighbor of Kim Clijsters
Gerard JANssen: a *Flemish* neighbor of JAN Van Eyck
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http://mh.cla.umn.edu/ShakTrin.jpg
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/eyck/rolin.jpg
Check out:
1) The two tone Red & Blue/Green tasselled cushion
(reversed for Shakespere) for holding "the word".
2) The Black Corinthian columns supporting an arch.
3) Shakespere's nose, mouth, eyes, curly hair,
thick neck & sour apple expression as
an amalgam of that of Rolin & the christ child
(and possibly the madonna as well).
4) The breast shaped disks over Shakespere's head representing
the breast shaped disks in the windows that frame the painting.
5) Shakspere's right middle & forefinger extended in writing
as Jesus's right middle & forefinger extended in blessing.
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"Elizabeth Weir" <elizabeth_w...@mail.com> wrote
> I'm reading Paul McLane's _Spenser's Shepheardes Calender:
> A Study in Elizabethan Allegory_ for McLane's insights into
> the religious conflicts of the 1580s but McLane's rendering
> of the Oak and Briar is riveting, supported by his
> solid research on Leicester and Oxford.
> McLane writes of
> Leicester the Oak's destruction
> by Oxford the "Dainty Briar:"
> In brief, there is the basic plot: the bragging and
> spiteful Briar complains of the aged Oak to the
> husbandman; [note: Elizabeth is the "husbandman" in
> a number of English literary works] the latter, in anger,
> cuts down the Oak; the winter storms then destroy the
> Briar, which now lacks the protection of the Oak . . .
> through misunderstanding, spite, and false complaints
> the Briar is the upstart and younger courtier who brought
> about the elder statesman's downfall. And the husbandman
> is Queen Elizabeth, who listened to the unjust complaints
> and in anger proceeded to cut down her erstwhile favorite,
> the mighty "tree of state."
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TIMON. Your greatest *WANT* is, you *WANT* much of meat.
Why should you *WANT* ? Behold, the earth hath roots;
Within this mile break forth a hundred SPRINGS;
*The OAKS bear MAST* , the briars scarlet hips;
The bounteous housewife Nature on each bush
Lays her full mess before you. *WANT* ! Why *WANT* ?
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(Prospero's surrender of his art, TEMPEST 5.1.33-44):
PROSPERO: Have I given fire and rifted *JOVE's stout OAK*
With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory
Have I made SHAKE and by the spurs
PLUCK'd UP THE PINE and CEDAR:
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[Cell of the *OAK* ] CILL-DARA : KILDARE
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<<Brigid is the patron saint of Ireland, POETS, CATTLE & fugitives.>>
<<About the year 470 A.D., Bridget founded a monastery & convent
at Cill-Dara [translated Kildare] and was abbess of the convent,
the 1st of its kind in Ireland. She built her room, called a cell,
under a large OAK tree, and thus derives the name of
her convent: Cill-Dara [cell of the OAK].>>
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February 2 ritual at the great Goddess Brighid/St. Brigit's Well
<<As patroness of poetry and crops, Brigit is most clearly equated
with Freya whose animal is the DEER, and whose bird is the SWAN.>>
February 2, 1529, (The Courtier) BALTHASAR Castiglione dies in Toledo
February 2, 1585, Shakespeare's twins, Hamnet & Judith baptized.
February 2, 1602, John Donne wrote his father-in-law George More
concerning his unapproved marriage to Anne More. When Donne was
put under virtual house arrest for marrying the girl, he used a
diamond to write on a windowpane, "John Donne, Anne Donne, undone."
<<St. Brigit/Brigantia/BRITANNIA was the personified genia
of Britain and was first depicted on a coin of Antoninus Pius
(d. AD 161). Latterly, Britannia, with the attributes & weapons of
MINERVA, appeared on coins during the reign of Charles II in 1665.>>
February 2, 1650, Charles II's mistress NELL Gwin born
February 2, 1685, Charles II said "Let not poor Nellie starve" & died.
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Life Story of St. Bridget
(also spelled as Brigid) 450 - 525 A.D.
http://www.marshallco.net/axtell/stbridget/bridget-life.htm
<<St. Bridget was probably born in a small Irish village named Faughart
about the year 450 A.D. According to legend, Bridget's father was
an Irish chieftain of Leinster, named Dubhthach, and her mother, Brocca,
was a slave at his court. She settled with seven other nuns at the
foot of the Croghan Hill, and then about the year 468 A.D.,
followed St. Mel to the city of Meath. About the year 470 A.D.,
Bridget founded both a monastery and convent at Cill-Dara
[translated Kildare] and was abbess of the convent, the first
of its kind in Ireland. She built her room, called a cell, under a large
*OAK TREE* , and thus derives the name of her convent: Cill-Dara
[cell of the *OAK* ]. The convent developed into a center of learning
& spirituality, while around the convent developed the cathedral city of
Kildare. Bridget founded a school of art at Kildare and its illuminated
manuscripts became famous, notably the "Book of Kildare." This
book, which was praised as one of the finest of all illuminated Irish
manuscripts, disappeared three centuries ago, when England
invaded Ireland and killed thousands of Irish Catholics
and destroyed many Irish treasures and buildings.>>
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Brigid of Kildare V (Feast day February 1)
(also known as Bride, Bridget, Brigit, Ffraid)
http://users.erols.com/saintpat/ss/0201.htm
Born at Faughart? (near Dundalk) or Uinmeras (near Kildare),
Louth, Ireland, c.450; died at Kildare, Ireland, c. 525;
feast of her translation is June 10.
<<So great was her cultus throughout Europe that the Medieval knights,
seeking a womanly model of perfection, chose Brigid as the example.
This theory maintains that such was the image of Brigid as the feminine
ideal that the word "bride" passed into the English language. (This is
unlikely, however. The word probably derives from the Old German
"bryd," meaning bride.) Historical facts about Saint Brigid's life are few
because the numerous accounts about it after her death (beginning in the
7th century) consist mainly of miracles & anecdotes, some of which are
deeply rooted in pagan Irish folklore. Nevertheless, they give us a
strong impression of her character. Some say her parents were of
humble origin; others that they were Dubhthach, an Irish chieftain
of Leinster, and Brocca, a slave at his court. All stories relate
that they were both baptized by Saint Patrick.
There is little reliable information
about the convent she founded around 470 at Kildare (originally
Cill-Daire or 'church of the oak'), the first convent in Ireland, and
the rule that was followed there. This is one of the ways Brigid
sanctified the pagan with the Christian: The oak was sacred to the
druids, and in the inner sanctuary of the Church was a perpetual flame,
another religious symbol of the druid faith, as well as the Christian.
Gerald of Wales (13th century) noted that the fire was perpetually
maintained by 20 nuns of her community. This continued until the
dissolution of the monasteries during the Reformation. Gerald noted that
the fire was surrounded by a circle of bushes, which no man was allowed
to enter. Some have speculated that Brigid was a high priestess of a
community of druid women, who led the entire community into the
Christian faith, which would have been truly miraculous. Others have
tried to claim that she was an Irish goddess, noting that the name
Brig, meaning 'valor' or 'might,' was personified as a goddess,
whose fire-cult took place on February 1. >>
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Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
The ivy and the MOSS crept in thick clusters over the old trees,
and the *SOFT GREEN TURF* OVERspread the ground like a silken mat.
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_The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon_ by Washington Irving
http://www.online-literature.com/irving/geoffrey_crayon/26/
STRATFORD-ON-AVON.
Thou soft-flowing Avon, by thy silver stream
Of things more than mortal sweet Shakespeare would dream
The fairies by moonlight dance round his GREEN bed,
For hallow'd *THE TURF* is which pillow'd his head.
The most favorite object of curiosity, however, is Shakespeare's chair.
It stands in a chimney-nook of a small gloomy chamber just behind what
was his father's shop. Here he may many a time have sat when a boy,
watching the slowly revolving spit with all the longing of an urchin, or
of an evening listening to the cronies and gossips of Stratford dealing
forth churchyard tales and legendary anecdotes of the troublesome times
of England. In this chair it is the custom of every one that visits the
house to sit: whether this be done with the hope of imbibing any of the
inspiration of the bard I am at a loss to say; I merely mention the
fact, and mine hostess privately assured me that, though built of solid
oak, such was the fervent zeal of devotees the chair had to be new
bottomed at least once in three years. It is worthy of notice also, in
the history of this extraordinary chair, that it partakes something of
the volatile nature of the Santa Casa of Loretto, or the flying chair of
the Arabian enchanter; for, though sold some few years since to a
northern princess, yet, strange to tell, it has found its way
back again to the old chimney-corner. >>
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MAR-LOWE : MAR-GRAVE
__ MAR-LOW : HI-RAM : prince of TYRE
____ MAR-LO : MAR Lord Oxford.
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"CHRISTOPHER"
____ {anagram}
"THOR'S CIPHER"
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BloomsDay of James Joyce's _Ulysses_:
THURSday June 16, 1904 exactly 301 (52 week "years")
after Oxford's death THURSday June 24, 1604
Queen Elizabeth on THURSday, March 24.
Queen Mary __ THURSday, November 17.
King Edward VI. THURSday, July 6
Henry VIII _____ THURSday, Jan. 28.
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MAR-LOW was stabbed in the brain by 3 assailants.
HI-RAM was stabbed in the brain by 3 assailants.
In both cases: a morality lesson
about keeping (Middle) Temple secrets.
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RADIO (RUNE)
http://www.angelfire.com/bc2/bluephoenixrunes/RUNES/RADIO.html
<<Journey, cartwheel, ride, long journey on HORSEback, cart or chariot.
Served as a journey charm to protect the living and the dead and a
reason for ascribing it to THOR. The Old Norse word 'REID' could
mean a wheeled chariot or THUNDER. THUNDER was caused by THOR's
wheeled chariot, drawn by two he - goats- rattling across the sky.
Those associated with the *OAK* , the tree more frequently struck by
lightening than any other. THOR being the God of THUNDER. In Anglo -
Saxon rune poem, *OAK* has it's own rune saying that the wood was used
for shipbuilding. The wood for the Yule log. Appropriate for wood burned
on THOR's principal festival to come from his sacred tree. *OAK* pillars
are associated with THOR in Iceland. As in Eybygga Saga where Thorolf
*MOSTUR* - beard throws his high seat pillars, made of *OAK* ,
overboard to establish where they should settle, the decision
being taken for him by the place in which they drift to land.>>
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www.blackwellpublishing.com/content/BPL_Images/
Content_store/Sample_chapter/0631226354/001.pdf
<<The first book in which any of Shakespeare's sonnets
appeared in print [was] The Passionate Pilgrim,
published by William Jaggard in either 1598 or 1599.
versions of two sonnets (3 & 5) that incorporated
into the dialogue of Love's Labour's Lost
Love's Labour's Lost Act 4, Scene 2
If love make me forsworn, how shall I sWEAR to love?
Ah, nEVER faith could hold, if not to beauty vow'd!
Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll faithful PROVE:
* Those thoughts to me were OAKS ,
_________ to thee like OSIERS bow'd*
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_------- WillS hake spea [r] eAvgP
__------ hilip sHen Cond [e] lWill
----- SlyWi llKe mpeR [i] cBvrb
_----- adgeI ohHe ming [s] ThoPo
peChr *BEES* tonI [o] hDvke
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THESPRIO: You shall know; two lictors two OSIER bundles of twigs.
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(T) HESEINSUINGSONNETSM [r] WHALL
_--- HAPPINESSEANDTHATET [E] RNITI
__ EPROMISEDBYOUREVERL [I] VINGP
__- OETWISHETHTHEWELLWI [S] hINGA
____- DVENTURERINSETTINGF [O] rtHTT
____________ [23]-------------------[5]
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http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/metis.htm
<<ARCADIA, the place in Greece thought to be the home of the oldest
antideluvian races, was also associated in medieval iconography and
symbolism with the "underground stream" Alphaeus, which was said
to flow all the way to Sicily. According to the "prieure documents,"
the Benjaminites, who were ancestors of the Merovingians, fled to the
ARCADIA region of Greece, and later migrated to Europe, becoming one
of the ancestral origins of the Salian Franks. Rene D'Anjou did a
great deal to promote the romantic idea of ARCADIA and it turns
up in much of his work, as well as Renaissance poems & songs.
The original name of Nova Scotia was ARCADIA, but the r was dropped
to shorten it to "Acadie". It is from Acadie that the "Cajuns" of
Louisiana are from, who sing the old folk song "Good King Dagobert".
Some authors claim that Prince Henry Sinclair sailed to A(r)cadia
in the 14th century, and may have even brought the Grail with him,
leaving it in *OAK Island* . The blue lotus or waterlily, the stargate
of the Egyptians, also grows in ARCADIA National Forest.>>
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Shakespeare! -- To such NAME's SOUNDING, what succeeds
Fitly as silence? Falter FORTH the spell,
Act follows word, the speaker knows full well,
Nor tampers with its magic more than needs.
Two NAMEs there are: That which the HEBREW reads
With his soul only: if from LIPS it fell,
ECHO, back thundered by earth, heaven and hell,
Would own "Thou didst create us!" Naught impedes
We voice the other NAME, man's most of might,
[A]wesomely, lovingly: let awe and love
[M]utely await their working, leave to sight
[A]ll of the issue as -- below -- above --
[S]hakespeare's creation *RISES*: one remove,
[T]hough dread this finite from that infinite.
-- BROWNING, ROBERT, 1884, The Names.
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<<[A MAST] is a phallic symbol (from the Anglo-Saxon
"maest" = the stem of a [Golden?] bough.>>
http://www.backyardnature.net/n/04/040125.htm
MAST, n. [AS. maest, fem.; akin to G. MAST, & E. meat.]
The fruit of the oak & beech, or other forest trees;
nuts; acorns.
Oak MAST, and beech, . . . they eat. --Chapman.
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As You Like It Act 4, Scene 3
OLIVER: When last the young Orlando parted from you
He left *A PROMISE* to return again
Within an hour, and pacing through the forest,
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy,
LO, what befell! he threw his eye aside,
And mark what object did present itself:
*Under an oak, whose boughs were MOSS'd with age*
And high top BALD with dry antiquity,
A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair,
Lay sleeping on his back
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Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
The ivy and the MOSS crept in thick clusters over the old trees,
and the *SOFT GREEN TURF* OVERspread the ground like a silken mat.
They emerged upon an open park, with an ancient hall, displaying
the QUAINT and picturesque architecture of Elizabeth's time.
*Long vistas of stately OAKS and elm trees appeared on EVERy side*;
large herds of deer were cropping the fresh grass;
and occasionally a startled hare scoured along the ground,
with the speed of the shadows thrown by the light clouds which
swept across a sunny landscape like a passing breath of summer.
'If this,' said Mr. Pickwick, looking about him--'if this were the place
to which all who are troubled with our friend's complaint came,
I fancy their old attachment to this world would VERy soon return.'
'I think so too,' said Mr. Winkle.
'Seated on an upright tombstone, close to him, was a strange, unearthly
figure, whom Gabriel felt at once, was no being of this world. His long,
fantastic legs which might have reached the ground, were cocked up, and
crossed after a QUAINT, fantastic fashion; his sinewy arms were bare;
and his hands rested on his knees. On his short, round body, he wore a
close covering, ornamented with small slashes; a short cloak dangled at
his back; the collar was cut into CURIOUS peaks, which served the goblin
in lieu of ruff or neckerchief; and his shoes curled up at his toes into
long points. On his head, he wore a broad-brimmed sugar-loaf hat,
garnished with a single feather. The hat was covered with the white
frost; and the goblin looked as if he had sat on the same tombstone very
comfortably, for two or three hundred years. He was sitting perfectly
still; his tongue was put out, as if in derision; and he was grinning at
Gabriel Grub with such a grin as only a goblin could call up >>
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With a long, weary hoist the jaw is dragged on board, as if it were an
anchor; and when the proper time comes--some few days after the other
work--Queequeg, Daggoo, and Tashtego, being all accomplished dentists,
are set to drawing teeth. With a keen cutting-spade, Queequeg lances the
gums; then the jaw is lashed down to ringbolts, and a tackle being
rigged from aloft, they drag out these teeth,
as Michigan oxen drag *stumps of old oaks* out of wild woodlands.
There are generally *Forty-two teeth in all* ;
in old whales, much worn down, but undecayed; nor filled
after our artificial fashion. The jaw is afterwards sawn into slabs,
and piled away like joists for building houses.
[Melville Herman, Moby Dick, Chapter 74.]
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Troilus and Cressida Act 1, Scene 3
NESTOR: The herd hath more ANNOYANCE by the BREEZE
Than by the tiger; but when the splitting wind
Makes flexible *the knees of knotted oaks* ,
And FLIES fled under shade, why, then the thing of courage
As roused with rage with rage doth sympathize,
And with an accent tuned in selfsame key
Retorts to chiding fortune.
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Zeus formed the gadFLY, BRIZE, and sent it to sting PEGASUS
BRIZE - Hera's gadFLY, large as a sparrow with a sting the size of
a dagger; she was sent by Hera to torment Io (transformed into a COW
by Zeus, her lover, so that Hera couldn't find her, but to no avail).
When Hermes rescued Io he killed BRIZE, too.
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Shakespeare p. 18 by Michael Wood.
<<Shakespeare would use 'BREEZE' in a memorable
image when describing the Egyptian queen's flight
from the battle of Actium in Antony & Cleopatra
The BREEZE upon her like a COW in Iune,
Hoists Sail, and FLIES.
'BREEZE' here is an Anglo-Saxon word
that was still used in Midlands dialect in Tudor times.
It refers to the gadFLIES that, in summer, trouble COWs.
That's the kind of knowledge you don't get
at Oxbridge, or in a rich man's house.>>
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Michelangelo's LAST JUDGEMENT contains his own face
on St. BARTHOLOMEW's flayed skin AS A SIGNATURE.
St. BARTHOLOMEW: patron of
BOOKBINDERS, BUTCHERS, DYERS, GLOVERS, leather-workers,
PLASTERERS, SHOEMAKERS, TAILORS, & TANNERS.
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Ben Jonson on Virgil in Poetaster (1601)
His learning labours not the schoole-like glosse,
[T]hat most consists in ecchoing words, and termes,
[A]nd soonest wins a man an empty name:
[N]or any long, or far-fetcht circumstance,
[W]rapt in the curious generalties of artes.
[B]ut a direct, and analyticke summe
[O]f all the worth and first effects of artes.
[A]nd for his poesie, 'tis so ramm'd with life,
[T]hat it shall gather strength of life, with being,
[A]nd live hereafter, more admir'd, then now,
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The Tempest Act 1, Scene 2
PROSPERO: In few, they hurried us aboard a bark,
Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared
A rotten carcass of *A BOAT* , not rigg'd,
Nor tackle, sail, nor *MAST*; the VERy rats
Instinctively had quit it:
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http://www.castletown.com/brendan.htm
<<In 1976, Tim SEVERin embarked from Brandon Creek
on the Dingle peninsula in a carrach that he constructed using
the details described by Brendan. They TANNED OX-hides
with *OAK BARK* , stretched them across the wood frame,
sewed them with leather thread and smeared the hides
with animal fat which would impart water resistance.>>
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1603 = 1595 + EIGHT yeere
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[Hamlet 1603 (Quarto 1) 5.1]
Ham. How long will a man lie in the ground before hee rots?
Clowne I faith sir, if hee be not rotten before
He be laide in, as we haue many pocky corses,
He will last you, EIGHT yeares, a TANNER
Will last you EIGHT yeares full out, or NINE.
Ham. And why a TANNER?
Clowne Why his hide is so TANNED with his trade,
That it will holde out water, that's a parlous
Deuourer of your dead body, a great soaker.
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1604 = 1595 + NINE yeere
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[Hamlet 1604 (Quarto 2) 5.1]
Ham. How long will a man lie i'th earth ere he rot?
Clow. Fayth if a be not rotten before a die, as we haue many poc-
kie corses, that will scarce hold the laying in, a will last you som
eyght yeere, or NINE yeere. A TANNER WILL last you NINE yeere.
Ham. Why he more then another?
Clow. Why sir, his hide is so TAND with his trade, that a WILL keepe
out water a great while; & your water is a sore decayer of your whor-
son dead body, heer's a scull now hath lyen you i'th earth 23. yeeres.
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Art Neuendorffer