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Arthur Neuendorffer
Nov 1, 2016, 11:55:08 AM11/1/16
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. Nothing is truer *THAN VERE*/*THE RAVEN*
(Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" first appeared
in The New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845.)
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Francis Meres -- d. Jan. 29, 1647, Wing, Rutland
http://harlem.eb.com/shakespeare/micro/388/28.html
b. 1565, Kirton, Holland, Lincolnshire, Eng.,
English author of Palladis Tamia; Wits Treasury.
<<Meres was educated at the University of Cambridge and became rector of
Wing, Rutland, in 1602. His Palladis Tamia (1598) is most important for
its list of Shakespeare's dramatic output to 1598, but it also includes
mention of the deaths of Christopher Marlowe, George Peele, and Robert
Greene and briefly records the critical estimation of the poets of the
day. Shakespeare is called "the most excellent in both kinds [comedy &
tragedy] for the stage," and Chaucer, "the God of English poets.">>
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EIGHT days before Shakspere's death his brother-in-law William HARTTE
the HATTER ['HATTER' is an anagram of 'HARTTE'] died.
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"To match this saint there was another,
As busy and perVERsE a brother,
An HABERDASHER of SMALL WARES
In politics and state affairs." - Butler: Hudibras, iii. 2.
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The Ashbourne Portrait: Why It's Not the Earl of Oxford
by David Kathman
<<In 1940, Charles Wisner Barrell, an Oxfordian, had X-rays made of
the Ashbourne Portrait, which revealed that the painting had been
altered at some point in the past to look more like Shakespeare (in
particular, the hairline had been pushed back to make the subject
bald). Barrell claimed that the original portrait had been of the Earl
of Oxford; he claimed that a coat of arms visible in his X-ray photos
was that of the Earl's second wife, and that the subject's ring
depicted a boar, one of the Earl's symbols. He also found initials
which he interpreted as "C.K.," which he in turn interpreted as
referring to Cornelius Ketel, who painted one of the two known
portraits of Edward de Vere.
Barrell published his findings in Scientific American.
However, in 1979 the painting undewent a restoration in preparation
for a Folger exhibition. Some of the paint was removed, and it turned
out that the coat of arms in the painting was not that of Oxford's
second wife at all, but that of Sir Hugh Hamersley, a prominent member
of the HABERDASHER's Company and onetime Lord Mayor of London. Also,
the painting contains the age of the sitter (47 years old) and the
date (1611), which fits Shakespeare; however, the restoration revealed
that the last "1" in the date had been altered from a 2." Hugh
Hamersley, it turns out, was born in 1565 (one year after
Shakespeare), and thus was 47 years old in 1612. It is now universally
accepted, even by most Oxfordians (except for a few extreme militants)
that the original portrait was of Hugh Hamersley and had nothing to do
with the Earl of Oxford. Details of all this can be found in an
article by William L. Pressley in Shakespeare Quarterly, 1993, pp.
54-72, called "The Ashbourne Portrait of Shakespeare: Through the
Looking Glass.">>
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The Pin is mightier than the Sword.
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The City Livery Companies and Their Heraldry =C2=A9 L G Pierson, 1986
http://www.kwtelecom.com/heraldry/livery/pierson.html
<<The HABERDASHERS found a commercial winner in the pin.
It is said that =C2=A350,000 was paid annually to import
this little item, but by the end of the reign of Elizabeth I
the HABERDASHERs were making it themselves. Essential to the
well-dressed woman, whose husband made her suitable allowance,
the trade soon gave rise to the expression "pin money".>>
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Date "HABERDASHER" was first used: 1280
HABERDASHER, n. [Prob. fr. Icel. hapurtask trumpery, trifles,
perh. through French. It is possibly akin to E. haversack, and
to Icel. taska trunk, chest, pocket, G. tasche pocket,
and the orig. sense was perh., peddler's wares.]
1. A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread.
2. A dealer in items of men's clothing: HATS, gloves, neckties, etc.
3. A dealer in drapery goods, e.g., laces, silks, trimmings, etc.
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HABERDASHER: from hapertas, a cloth the width
of which was settled by Magna Charta.
A "hapertas-er" is the seller of hapertas-erie.
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, 1593
Dedication: T O M Y D E A R E L A D I E
AND SISTER, THE COUN-TESSE OF PEMBROKE.
... Read it then at your idle tymes, and the follyes your good
judgement wil finde in it, blame not, but laugh at. And so, looking
for no better stuffe, then, as in an HABERDASHERS shoppe, glasses,
or feathers, you will continue to love the writer, who doth
excedinglie love you ; and most most HARTE-LIE praies
you may long live, to be a principall ORNAMENT
to the familie of the Sidneis.
Your loving Brother: Philip Sidnei.
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<<Gilbert Shakspere was a HABERDASHER at St. Bride's in 1597 when
he & a local shoemaker put up =C2=A319 bail, in the court of Queen's
Bench,
for the clockmaker William SAMPSON>> -Honan's _Shakespeare a Life_
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King Henry EIGHT Act 5, Scene 4
Man: There was a HABERDASHER's WIFE of small wit near him,
that railed upon me till her PINKED PORRINGER fell off her head,
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Echoes -- Lewis Carroll (1869)
Lady Clara VERE de VERE
Was EIGHT years old, she said:
EVERy ringlet, lightly SHAKEn, ran itself in GOLDEN THREAD.
She took her little PORRINGER:
Of me SHE SHALL NOT WIN RENOWN:
For the baseness of its nature shall have strength to drag her down.
"SISTERS and BROTHERS, little Maid?
There stands the Inspector at thy door:
Like a DOG, he hunts for BOYS
who know not two and two are four."
"KIND HEARTS are more than coronets,"
She said, and wondering looked at me:
"It is the dead unhappy night, and I must hurry home to tea."
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Descendants of Mr.W.H. (and wife Joan S. HARTTE) are still alive!
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A little more than KIND, and less than KIN:
Chettle's 'KIND-HARTE's Dream':
"Shall KIN with KIN and KIND with KIND confound?"
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HARTYKYN: A term of endearment //Palsgrave's Acolastus, 1540.
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The HABERDASHER heapeth wealth by HATS. --GASCOIGNE.
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<<As has been observed, Shakespeare's eldest daughter, Susanna, was
married on June 5, 1607, to John Hall, a learned man, a distinguished
physician and a noted citizen. Scandal erupted in the Hall household
in 1613. As a consequence, on July 13, Susanna sought a writ of
slander & brought action for defamation (cf. _Measure for Measure_,
II. i.) in the Consistory (an Ecclesiastical) Court at Worcester.
Susanna's charge was against John LANE , whose uncle,
Richard Lane, Shakespeare had asked to be one of the witnesses
for the commission out of Chancery on the Lambert controversy
(through which Shakespeare lost his mother's inheritance finally
in 1599) and had been of Shakespeare's party in the suit
to Chancery on the Stratford tithes. John LANE(Jr.)
had accused Shakespeare's daughter by saying Susanna
"...had the running of the reins
and had been naught (i.e. immoral) with
Rafe (Ralph) Smith & John Palmer."
"Sassafras (believed to be a specific for syphilis)"
Rafe (Ralph) Smith was a Stratford HABERDASHER & HATTER;
his uncle was Hamlet Sadler, the close friend of Shakespeare
(for whom he named his son). The males of the 2nd generation
of close acquaintances were a threat to the reputation
of his daughters; and in the case of Judith, to come, and,
at first, Susanna, the Shakespeares struck back at the male
contemporaries of the son William no longer had. With this court case,
Susanna has become subject to precisely the slanderous accusation
of adultery as in something of a prophetic manner for Shakespeare's
biography was Hermione in The Winter's Tale, anticipated by Desdemona
in Othello. John LANE, "...a ne'er-do-well, was some years later
hailed into court for riot and libels against the vicar and aldermen,
and was then described as a drunkard." John LANE did not appear in
court to support the rumors he had spread and was excommunicated.>>
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September 9, 1566, 12 yr. old Philip Sidney visits Stratford
September 9, 1543, 9 mo. old Mary Queen of Scots crowned
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Tuesday September 9, 1943, Lorenzo's birthday.
Tuesday September 9, 1746, JOHN WARD plays Othello in Stratford.
Tuesday September 9, 1634, Lt. Hammond (Ham.Lt.) visits Stratford.
Friday September 9, 1513, Sidney's grandpere knighted at Flodden
Field
Friday September 9, 1608, Shakespeare's mother, Mary, buried
Friday September 9, 1603, George Carey dies from MERCURY POISONING!
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<<The (MAD) Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this;
but all he said was,
'Why is a RAVEN like a WRITING-DESK?'>>
[A. Poe & Dante wrote on both.]
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_Sylvie and Bruno Concluded_ by Lewis Carroll
The Other Professor is to recite a Tale of a PIG-
-I mean a PIG-Tale," he corrected himself.
"It has Introductory VERsEs at the beginning, and at the end."
"It ca'n't have Introductory VERsEs at the end, can it?" said Sylvie.
"Wait till you hear it," said the Professor: "then you'll see.
I m not sure it hasn't some in the middle, as well." Here he rose
to his feet, and there was an instant silence through the
Banqueting-Hall: they evidently expected a speech.
Little Birds are writing
Interesting books,
To be read by cooks:
Read, I say, not roasted--
Letterpress, when toasted,
Loses its good looks.
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_Ulysses_ ends at 3:24 am June 17, 1904? (324 =3D 3 x 3 x 3 dozen)
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A HACKNEY car, number three hundred and twentyfour, driver Barton
James of number one Harmony avenue, Donnybrook, on which sat a fare, a
young gentleman, stylishly dressed in an indigoblue serge suit made by
George Robert Mesias, TAILOR and cutter, of number FIVE EDEN quay, and
WEARing a straw HAT VERy dressy, bought of John Plasto of number one
Great Brunswick street, HATTER. Eh? FLORRY What?
( A HACKNEYcar number three hundred and twentyfour,
with a gallantbuttocked mare, driven by James Barton,
Harmony Avenue, Donnybrook, trots past. ...
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http://www.kwtelecom.com/heraldry/livery/pierson.html
<<The lion in the arms of the Merchant TAYLORS is the lion
of England and may be connected with royal favours,
as the company was granted a number of royal letters patent
and included many royal personages in its list of members.
Several kings of England have been Freemen of the Company. Both
the Merchant TAYLORS & the HABERDASHERS received in charters
granted by Henry VII the distinctive epithet of "Merchant".>>
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"Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the HATTER said,
turning to Alice again.
"No, I give it up," Alice replied: "what's the answer?"
"I haven't the slightest idea," said the HATTER.
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an abstract of success
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All's Well That Ends Well Act 4, Scene 3
BERTRAM I have to-night dispatched SIXTEEN businesses, a
month's length a-piece, by an abstract of success:
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SIXTEEN pages. . .insert in't
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<<Two major objections to Oxford's authorship are based on a passage in
Palladis Tamia, a book by an obscure clergyman named Francis Meres. The
600 page book is almost entirely a collection of miscellaneous
anecdotes, similes and sayings, grouped in moral an religious sections.
The book contains nothing of significance except for SIXTEEN pages in
the middle of it [where] Meres gives literary assessments of no less
than 125 [5 x 5 x 5] English writers and artists, comparing them all
favorably to classical and Italian Renaissance writers and artists. His
comments about them are pithy and perspicacious, suggesting great
familiarity (e.g., Anthony Munday is "our best plotter," George Peele
died "by the pox," Drayton "is termed golden-mouthed for the purity of
pretiousness of his style and phrase." There is, however, no
corroborative evidence that he ever frequented literary circles in
London. Oxfordians note that Meres' comments on London writers were
totally out of character for him, based on his other writings. He was a
Protestant minister who translated religious works. In the same year as
Palladis Tamia he published translations of three religious works
written by a Spanish mystic. He never published anything else to the end
of his life, nearly half a century later. Most of his life was spent in
a rectory in northern England.>>
_Shakespeare: Who Was He?_ p.121-3 -- R.F. Whalen
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SIXTEEN lines. . .insert in't
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Act 2, Scene 2
HAMLET We'll ha't to-morrow night. You could, for a need,
study a speech of some dozen or SIXTEEN lines, which
I would set down and insert in't, could you not?
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SIXTEEN comics. . .insert in't
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Meres's Palladis Tamia; Wits Treasury,
Being the Second Part of Wits Commonwealth (1598)
[http://www.clark.net/tross/ws/rep.html]
... the best for Comedy amongst vs bee,
Edward Earle of Oxforde,
Doctor Gager of Oxforde,
Maister Rowley once a rare Scholler of learned Pembrooke Hall,
Maister Edwardes one of her Maiesties Chappell,
eloquent and wittie Iohn Lilly,
Lodge,
Gascoyne,
Greene,
Shakespeare,
Thomas Nash,
Thomas Heywood,
Anthony Mundye OUR BEST PLOTTER,
Chapman,
Porter,
WILSON,
HATHWAY,
and Henry Chettle.
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A January 17, 1579 entry in the Stratford Church Register:
marriage of
"William WILLSONNE and
Anne HATHAWAY of Shotterye."
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January 17 St. Anthony's Day.
<<On this day in the age of Queen Elizabeth,
a sick pig would be led to the dung-heap
and was not allowed to be slaughtered.>>
http://www.nortexinfo.net/McDaniel/0117.htm
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Francis Meres
And as Horace saith of his;
Exegi momumentum aere perennius;
Regalique; fitu pyramidum altius;
Quod non imber edax; Richard Barnfield's
Non Aquilo impotens possit diruere; 1598
aut innumerabilis annorum series "A Remembrance of
&c. fuga temporum : some English Poets"
so say I seuerally of in Poems in Divers Humors.
sir Philip Sidneys,
Spencers, --- Live Spenser. . .
Daniels, --- And Daniell. . .
Draytons, --- And Drayton. . .
(honey-tongued) Shakespeares, --- And Shakespeare thou,
and Warners workes; whose hony-flowing Vaine,
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Francis Meres's William Camden
Palladis Tamia: Wits Treasury Remains of a Greater Worke
1598 Sep 7 (registered) Concerning Britaine (1605)
so the English tongue is If I would come
mightily enriched, to our own time,
and gorgeouslie inuested what a world
in rare ornaments and I could present
resplendent abiliments by to you out of
sir Philip Sidney, --- Sir Philipp Sidney,
Spencer, --- Ed. Spenser,
Daniel, --- Samuel Daniel,
Drayton, Hugh Holland,
Warner, Ben. Jonson,
Shakespeare, Th. Campion,
Marlow Mich. Drayton,
and Chapman.... --- George Chapman,
John Marston,
William Shakespeare
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Bob Grumman wrote:
<<William Camden in his (1605) *Remaines of a greater Worke
concerning Britaine* said that men took their names
"from that which they commonly carried, as Palmer, that is,
Pilgrim, for that they carried palm when they returned from
Hierusalem, Long-sword, Broad-speare, Fortescu, that is,
Strong-shield, and in some such respect, Breake-speare,
Shake-speare, Shotbolt, Wagstaffe . . . ">>
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<<We like to feel, for instance, that the only English pope, Nicholas
Breakspear, was drawn by the gods into the right onomastic area for
international greatness, but that for him to be called Shake-speare
would have been going too far. Adrian IV, with his bull _Laudabiliter_
["alloilable" in Joyce - ACN] broke the spears of the Irish. His
rimesake is caught in a pose of entirely benevolent aggression. The
gods knew what they were doing.>> - Shakespeare (p.23, Anthony Burgess)
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http://www.clark.net/tross/ws/pen.html
<<In late 1601 or early 1602, Ralph Brooke, the chronically contentious
York Herald, accused some of his colleagues in the College of having
granted arms to a number of unworthy recipients -- one of them being
Shakespeare's father. The grants, including John Shakespeare's, were
defended in due course by the Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms, and
the squabble came to nothing. But it did leave behind a manuscript, now
in the Folger Library, deriving from Brooke's notes for his challenge;
on a page of that manuscript, we find a drawing of the Shakespeare coat
of arms, beneath which is written "Shakespear ye Player by Garter"
(_Shakespeare, IN FACT_ prints the document). The Folger manuscript is
in fact about a hundred years later than Brooke's challenge, but, with
some exemplary researching and cogent analysis, Matus demonstrates that
it can be nothing but a faithful rendering of the original document. . .
The Clarenceux King who collaborated on the reply to Brooke's accusation
was William Camden, not just the foremost antiquary of the time, but
also Ben Jonson's master at the Westminster School and his life-long
intimate friend. Camden was also on friendly terms with Lord Burleigh,
Elizabeth's most trusted minister, Oxford's long-suffering
father-in-law, and, it is sometimes supposed, the executive director of
the Great Concealment. Camden was, in fact, selected by Burleigh to
write the more or less official history of Elizabeth's reign, and was
given access to the government's records and correspondence to do so.
Given Camden's interests, expertise, and connections, he would have
known the secret of the Shakespeare plays, if there was one to know. Yet
in Remaines (1605), Camden names "William Shakespeare" as one of the
poets of his time "whom succeeding ages may justly admire." . . . Camden
names ten poets and concludes with an et cetera: "and other most
pregnant wits of these our times." Shakespeare is the tenth and last
specified. Even more important, since he had, as Clarenceux King,
responded less than three years earlier to Brooke's attack on the grant
of arms to the father of "Shakespeare ye Player", the preface of
Remaines claims it was completed two years before publication -- Camden
thus was aware that the last name on his list was that of William
Shakespeare of Stratford. The Camden reference, therefore, is exactly
what the Oxfordians insist does not exist: an identification by a
knowledgeable and universally respected contemporary that "the Stratford
man" was a writer of sufficient distinction to be ranked with (if after)
Sidney, Spenser, Daniel, Holland, Jonson, Campion, Drayton, Chapman, and
Marston.>>
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Terry Ross wrote:
<<Ben Jonson supposedly went to Westminster school, though he is nowhere
to be found in the student lists which survive; our only reason for
thinking he went there is an oblique reference to "his master Camden" in
his conversations with William Drummond in 1619, combined with the fact
that William Camden was headmaster at Westminster at the time Jonson
would have been there. But even these conversations with Drummond should
be highly suspicious according to the standards Oxfordians apply to
Shakespeare, since the original manuscript has mysteriously disappeared
(except for a cover sheet) from among Drummond's papers, and all we have
is a transcript made around 1700, some 60+ years after Jonson's death.>>
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Dave Kathman wrote:
<<Francis Meres was born in 1565 in Kirton in Holland, Lincolnshire,
about 100 miles due north of London. (That is, the town was called
"Kirton in Holland" -- one of those oddly named English towns that
can cause confusion in written form if you're not familiar with it.)
One of his kinsmen, John Meres, was High Sherriff of Lincolnshire.
In 1587 he got his B.A. at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and in
1591 he got his M.A. In 1593 he got his M.A. at Oxford, making him
"Maister of Arts in both Universities", as he proclaimed himself on
the title page of his first book. At some point he moved to London,
in Botolph Lane, Eastcheap, and in 1597 he began publishing a series
of books with strong moral themes. The first of these, *God's
Arithmetic*, was published in 1597 and attempted to apply the
methods of mathematics to Sin and Salvation. That sort of thing was
actually very popular then. In August of the same year, Meres came
out with a translation of a moral work by Luis of Granada called
*The Sinners Guide: a Worke Contayning the Whole Regiment of a
Christian Life*, and in March 1598 he came out with a translation
of another work by Luis called *Granados Devotion: Exactly
Teaching How a Man May Dedicate Himselfe unto God*.
That summer, Meres compiled the work for which he is known to
posterity, *Palladis Tamia*, registered on September 7, 1598. This
work was part of a series of miscellanies engineered by John
Bodenham, Nicholas Ling, and ANTHONY MUNDAY; these included
*Politeuphuia, Wit's Commonwealth* (1597), edited and published
by Ling; *Palladis Tamia* (1598), edited by Meres; *Wit's Theater
of the Little World* (1599), edited by Robert Allott and published
by Ling; *Belvedere, the Garden of the Muses* (1600), edited by
Munday; and *England's Helicon* (1600), edited by Ling. Apparently
much of the actual compilation of extracts for these volumes was
done by Bodenham over a period of years, and the general editor
was Ling, with lots of help from Munday. Bodenham had probably met
Munday in the late 1570s when they both lived in St. Mildred in
the Poultry, where Munday was an apprentice printer under John
Allde and Bodenham had a grocer's warehouse. Bodenham was a
freeman of the Grocer's company by patrimony (he had inherited
his father's considerable business), and Munday was similarly a
freeman of the Drapers by patrimony. Most of the printers,
publishers, and editors involved in the 1597-1600 had connections
with either the Grocers or the Drapers; the many complicated
relationships are laid out by Celeste Turner Wright in "ANTHONY
MUNDAY and the Bodenham Miscellanies", Philological Quarterly
40 (1961), 449-461. It's not entirely clear how Francis Meres got
involved with this project, but it was probably through ANTHONY
MUNDAY -- the rector of ST. GEORGE's church in Botolph Lane, the
street where Meres lived, was Francis Roberts, who was "very well
and familiarly acquainted" with Anthony Munday for more than a
decade. Since Meres was soon to take holy orders, he certainly
would have known Roberts, and probably through him Munday.
The fact that MUNDAY is singled out in *Palladis Tamia* as "OUR
BEST PLOTTER" lends credence to the association. The publisher of
*Palladis Tamia*, CUTHBERT BURBY, was also a good friend of
Munday, with whom he had engaged in some shady publishing
ventures in the early 1590s. He apparently ticked off Meres, who
at the last minute inserted a Latin epistle at the beginning of his
book in which he accused Burby of being stingy with paper and
holding back some of Meres' best material. When Burby realized
what the epistle said, he tore it out of all subsequent copies,
but some had already been sold, one of which survives today.
Though he was later praised as brilliant (mainly because of his
praise of Shakespeare), Meres actually displays little learning or
originality, and he virtually copied much of the volume out of
secondary sources, many of whose errors he innocently repeats.
He took his Latin quotations from quotation books, and he lifted
his information about classical authors directly from J. Rasivius
Textor's *Officina*, a subsidiary text used in grammar schools.
Most of his discussion of poetry is virtually plagiarized from
William Webbe's *Discourse of English Poetrie* (1586) and Sir
Philip Sidney's *Apologie for Poetrie* (1595). (The paragraph in
which Meres mentions the Earl of Oxford among "the best for
comedy" is clearly based directly on a similar paragraph in Webbe.)
He probably got most of his information about contemporary
playwrights, including Shakespeare, from Munday and Henry
Chettle, as Wright argues in some detail: both Munday and
Chettle were writing for Henslowe at the time, and most of the
playwrights catalogued by Meres are Henslowe writers, plus
several items mentioned by Meres bear an uncanny similarity to
items in the known writings of MUNDAY and CHETTLE. Meres'
book was alluded to a couple of times over the next 15
years. Ben Jonson, in *The Case is Altered* (published 1609,
written c.1598) satirically refers to ANTHONY MUNDAY as "in
print for the best plotter"; Thomas Heywood, in his *Apology
for Actors* (1612, written years earlier), calls Meres an
"approved good scholar" and says his account of authors is
learnedly done. Edmund Howes unaccountably includes
"M. Francis Meers gentleman" among his list of poets in the
1615 edition of Stowe's *Annales*; he may be referring to
*Palladis Tamia*, but more likely he was thinking of the second
edition of Meres' translation *The Sinner's Guide* which
had just come out in 1614.
In 1602, Meres left London to become rector of the parish of Wing,
in Rutland. He never wrote or translated any more books, but a
second edition of *Palladis Tamia*, retitled simply *Wits
Commonweath, a treasury of similes*, was published in 1634,
and a third edition, this time called *Witts academy, a treasurie
of goulden sentences*, came out in 1636. He died in 1647 at the
age of 82 in Wing, having served there as rector for the last
45 years of his life.>>
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SHEKINAH, n. [Heb Talmud shek[=i]n[=a]h, fr. sh[=a]kan to inhabit.]
The visible majesty of the Divine Presence, especially when resting
or dwelling between the cherubim on the mercy seat, in the Tabernacle
or in the Temple of Solomon; -- a term used in the Targums and by
the later Jews, and adopted by Christians.
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"SHEK(in)AH"
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"SHAKESPEAR (TAUR)"{-us April 21}
"P(T)AH-SEKER-(AU)SA(R)"
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"David L. Webb" wrote:
> there is no reason to suspect that any "nom de plume"
> was ever used in the first place.
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<<We like to feel, for instance, that the only English pope, Nicholas
Breakspear, was drawn by the gods into the right onomastic area for
international greatness, but that for him to be called Shake-speare
would have been going too far. Adrian IV, with his bull _Laudabiliter_
["alloilable" in Joyce - ACN] broke the spears of the Irish. His
rimesake is caught in a pose of entirely benevolent aggression. The
gods knew what they were doing.>> - Shakespeare (p.23, Anthony Burgess)
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Underlined in Oxford's Geneva Bible:
2 Samuel 21:19 . . . slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite,
the STAFF of whose SPEAR was like a weaver's beam.
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Prospero: I'll BREAK my STAFF,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I'll DROWN my book.
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Katherine Hamlett - DROWNS in Avon, 1579.
William Shaxpere - DROWNS in Avon, 1579.
Arthur Brooke - DROWNS in Sea, 1563
(4 months after _Romeus and Juliet_ is published).
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STAFF, n.; [AS. st[ae]f a staff; Goth. STABS element]
1. A long piece of wood; the long handle of a weapon;
a pole or stick, used as the staff of a SPEAR.
2. A WAND borne as an ensign of authority.
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/4260/parliament.html
<<SECOND ROW : The latest thinking is that the Earl of Oxford,
as Lord Great Chamberlain, is the man with the WHITE STAFF.>>
"VARE" (Spanish VARA) means a WAND.
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<<His hand a VARE of justice did uphold;
His neck was loaded with a chain of gold.>>
-- John Dryden _Absalom and Achitophel_
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Philip Sidney - born St.Andrews Day, 1554
William Shakespeare - dies St.George's Day, 1616
Miguel de Cervantes - dies St.George's Day, 1616
Jonathan Swift - born St.Andrews Day, 1667
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http://www.incompetech.com/authors/swift/
<<In the early 1700's, a man named John Partridge, a cobbler by trade,
took up printing almanacs to make some extra money. He challenged his
readers to try their hands at prophecy and see if they could beat
Partridge's own prophetic abilities. Well, Partridge had made some
attacks on the Church of England, and in 1708, Swift decided to stand
up for his employer. Using the name Isaac BickerSTAFF, he prophesied "a
trifle...[Partridge] will infallibly die upon the 29th of March next,
about eleven at Night, of a raging fever." At the proper time, using
another name, Swift announced the fulfillment of said prophecy.
Partridge, in his next almanac, protested loudly that he was
still alive, but no one believed him. The Stationer's Register
had already removed his name from their rolls,
and that was good enough for most people.>>
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Bob Grumman wrote:
<<William Camden in his (1605) *Remaines of a greater Worke
concerning Britaine* said that men took their names
"from that which they commonly carried, as Palmer, that is,
Pilgrim, for that they carried palm when they returned from
Hierusalem, Long-sword, Broad-speare, Fortescu, that is,
Strong-shield, and in some such respect, Breake-speare,
Shake-speare, Shotbolt, Wagstaffe . . . ">>
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<<Odin carved the runes upon the shaft of his spear;
By this means he obtained power over all.>>
<<The word Rune comes from the Germanic "Runa" meaning secret.>>
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The World (ASH) Tree
Yggdrasil is rendered as Ygg's (i.e., Odin's) GALLOWS. As the
discoverer of the runes, Odin was also the sorcerer of the gods.
His most famous worshipper was runemaster Egil SKAllagrimsson.>>
<<The spear was pre-eminently Odin's weapon and ash was the wood most
favoured for spear-shafts. The casket in which Idun kept the apples
which prevented the gods from ageing was made of ash-wood.>>
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I ween that I hung on a windy tree,
Hung there for nights full nine;
With the spear I was wounded, and offered I was
To Odin, myself to myself,
On the tree that none may ever know
What root beneath it runs. -Robert Graves
<<To learn the secrets of the dead Odin underwent a ritual
spiritual death, sacrificing himself to himself. He pierced
himself with his own spear then hung himself from
Yggdrasil, the World (ASH) Tree, for nine days and nights.
He used magick to free himself, an act of spiritual rebirth.
He came down from the tree with nine songs of power & eighteen runes,
a runic alphabet made of ASH twigs. Odin is all-seeing and divine
but not immortal. He is said to never eat and live on wine.
He possesses Draupnir /Draupner, a magic ring which produces
eight new rings every ninth night. It is Odin who must face
the Frost Giants at (r)AGNA(ro)K, the DOOM of the gods.>>
ANAGK(h) => DOOM
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Haman's ASH-tree'
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Robert Stonehouse wrote [on "Hamlet"]:
> According to Eilert Ekwall's Dictionary of English Place-names,
> there was an Old English name Hamela that appear in place-names like
> Hambleden ('Hamela's valley'.'Hamela pers.n. is not evidenced, but
> seems to occur in some pl. ns., as Hambleton'). Also Hamnish
> (Herefordshire) 'Apparently OE Haman-aesc, Hama's ash-tree'.
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ESTHER 5
5:14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him,Let a
GALLOWS be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou
unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go
thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. HAMAN was come
into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the
king to hang Mordecai on the GALLOWS that he had prepared for him.
But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters
that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews,
should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons
should be hanged on the GALLOWS.
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The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg
http://philologos.org/__eb-lotj/vol4/p12.htm#THE FALL OF HAMAN
<<The cross which Haman, at the advice of his wife Zeresh and of his
friends, had erected for Mordecai, was now used for himself. It was made
of wood from a thorn-bush. God called all the trees together and
inquired which one would permit the cross for Haman to be made of it.
The fig-tree said: "I am ready to serve, for I am symbolic of Israel,
and, also, my fruits were brought to the Temple as firstfruits."
The vine said: "I am ready to serve, for I am symbolic of Israel
and, also, my wine is brought to the altar."
The apple-tree said: "I am ready to serve, for I am symbolic . . ."
The nut-tree said: "I am ready to serve, for I am symbolic of Israel."
The Etrog tree said: "I should have the privilege,
for with my fruit Israel praises God on Sukkot."
The willow of the brook said: "I desire to serve, for I am symbolic..."
The cedar-tree said: "I desire to serve, for I am symbolic of Israel."
The palm-tree said: "I desire to serve, for I am symbolic of Israel."
Finally the thorn-bush came and said: "I am fitted to do this service,
for the ungodly are like pricking thorns." The offer of the thorn-bush
was accepted, after God gave a blessing to each of the other trees for
its willingness to serve. A sufficiently long beam cut from a thorn-bush
could be found only in the house of Haman, which had to be demolished in
order to obtain it. The cross was tall enough for Haman and his ten sons
to be hanged upon it. It was planted three cubits deep in the ground,
each of the victims required three cubits space in length, one cubit
space was left vacant between the feet of the one above and the head of
the one below, and the youngest son, Vaizatha, had his feet four cubits
from the ground as he hung. Haman and his ten sons remained suspended a
long time, to the vexation of those who considered it a violation of the
Biblical prohibition in Deuteronomy, not to leave a human body hanging
upon a tree overnight. Esther pointed to a precedent, the descendants of
Saul, whom the Gibeonites left hanging half a year, whereby the name of
God was sanctified, for whenever the pilgrims beheld them, they told the
heathen, that the men had been hanged because their father Saul had laid
hand on the Gibeonites. "How much more, then," continued Esther, "are we
justified in permitting Haman and his family to hang, they who desired
to destroy the house of Israel?" >>
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GALLOWS Heb. 'ets, meaning "a tree" (Esther 6:4), a post or gibbet.
T O T H E o n
{r} [H] e
{o} [E] (M)
{p} [N] (A)
{e|R|N] (R)o
[B|Y|O] l(I)
[O|E] (H)
[L|W]
[E|R]
[E|
[S|
[L|H]
[E|T]
[Y|O]
|I]
Ahasuerus divorced Vashti, & chose Esther to be his wife.
Esther was born Hadas'sah (the myrtle => Venus),
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Johnson, Samuel - Essays, Vol. 4
When a poetical grove invites us to its covert,
we know that we shall find what we have already
seen, a limpid brook murmuring over pebbles, a bank
diversified with flowers, a green arch that excludes
the sun, and a natural GROT shaded with MYRTLES;
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Metamorphosis - Ovid - tr. Sir Samuel Garth
The GROT he enter'd, pumice built the hall,
And tophi made the rustick of the wall;
A grove of fragrant MYRTLE near it grows,
Whose boughs, tho' thick, a beauteous GROT disclose;
The well-wrought fabrick, to discerning eyes,
Rather by art than Nature seems to rise.
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Dwebb wrote:
> Artemis is generally depicted with bow and quiVER
> (which should be read as "Qui? Ver?!"). The cult of Artemis
> flourished especially among the Cretans, just as the cult of Diana
> flourishes among the cretins. In Attica, Artemis was venerated
> as Artemis Tauropolos, a Bull Goddess, and you promulgate bull in
> industrial quantities yourself. Can all this be coincidence?
Don't forget Artemis' G R O T S, Dave!
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Philip/Mary Sydney's S T O R G(e) : familial love
P H E O N azure crest:
<<PHEON, n. A bearing representing the head of a dart or javelin,
with long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge.>>
http://www.renaissance.dm.net/heraldry/blazons3.html
http://www.geocities.co.jp/Milano/8947/m455a.gif
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T O T H E O N L I E B 'raw' probabilities:
E G E T T E R O F T H
E S E I N S V I N G S TIBIAL: 1 in 11,600
O N N E T S M r W{H}A EMEPH: 1 in 300
L H A P I N{E}S STORG: 1 in 199
N D T A{T}E PHEON: 1 in 127
|L] T I [P] {P}R [S|
[E|A] Y [H] V [T|E]
[N|I] [E] [O|M]
R [D|B] [O] [R|E] I
S E [V|I][N][G|P] V E
R L I [E||T||H] O E T
W I S H T H E W
E L L W I [S] H I N G A
D V E N T [U] R E R I N
S E T T I [N] G F O R T H
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Zeus, son of the SUN,
Ptolemy the EVER-LIVING, beloved of {P T E H}
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Art Neuendorffer
. Nothing is truer *THAN VERE*/*THE RAVEN*
(Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" first appeared
in The New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845.)
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Francis Meres -- d. Jan. 29, 1647, Wing, Rutland
http://harlem.eb.com/shakespeare/micro/388/28.html
b. 1565, Kirton, Holland, Lincolnshire, Eng.,
English author of Palladis Tamia; Wits Treasury.
<<Meres was educated at the University of Cambridge and became rector of
Wing, Rutland, in 1602. His Palladis Tamia (1598) is most important for
its list of Shakespeare's dramatic output to 1598, but it also includes
mention of the deaths of Christopher Marlowe, George Peele, and Robert
Greene and briefly records the critical estimation of the poets of the
day. Shakespeare is called "the most excellent in both kinds [comedy &
tragedy] for the stage," and Chaucer, "the God of English poets.">>
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EIGHT days before Shakspere's death his brother-in-law William HARTTE
the HATTER ['HATTER' is an anagram of 'HARTTE'] died.
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"To match this saint there was another,
As busy and perVERsE a brother,
An HABERDASHER of SMALL WARES
In politics and state affairs." - Butler: Hudibras, iii. 2.
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The Ashbourne Portrait: Why It's Not the Earl of Oxford
by David Kathman
<<In 1940, Charles Wisner Barrell, an Oxfordian, had X-rays made of
the Ashbourne Portrait, which revealed that the painting had been
altered at some point in the past to look more like Shakespeare (in
particular, the hairline had been pushed back to make the subject
bald). Barrell claimed that the original portrait had been of the Earl
of Oxford; he claimed that a coat of arms visible in his X-ray photos
was that of the Earl's second wife, and that the subject's ring
depicted a boar, one of the Earl's symbols. He also found initials
which he interpreted as "C.K.," which he in turn interpreted as
referring to Cornelius Ketel, who painted one of the two known
portraits of Edward de Vere.
Barrell published his findings in Scientific American.
However, in 1979 the painting undewent a restoration in preparation
for a Folger exhibition. Some of the paint was removed, and it turned
out that the coat of arms in the painting was not that of Oxford's
second wife at all, but that of Sir Hugh Hamersley, a prominent member
of the HABERDASHER's Company and onetime Lord Mayor of London. Also,
the painting contains the age of the sitter (47 years old) and the
date (1611), which fits Shakespeare; however, the restoration revealed
that the last "1" in the date had been altered from a 2." Hugh
Hamersley, it turns out, was born in 1565 (one year after
Shakespeare), and thus was 47 years old in 1612. It is now universally
accepted, even by most Oxfordians (except for a few extreme militants)
that the original portrait was of Hugh Hamersley and had nothing to do
with the Earl of Oxford. Details of all this can be found in an
article by William L. Pressley in Shakespeare Quarterly, 1993, pp.
54-72, called "The Ashbourne Portrait of Shakespeare: Through the
Looking Glass.">>
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The Pin is mightier than the Sword.
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The City Livery Companies and Their Heraldry =C2=A9 L G Pierson, 1986
http://www.kwtelecom.com/heraldry/livery/pierson.html
<<The HABERDASHERS found a commercial winner in the pin.
It is said that =C2=A350,000 was paid annually to import
this little item, but by the end of the reign of Elizabeth I
the HABERDASHERs were making it themselves. Essential to the
well-dressed woman, whose husband made her suitable allowance,
the trade soon gave rise to the expression "pin money".>>
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Date "HABERDASHER" was first used: 1280
HABERDASHER, n. [Prob. fr. Icel. hapurtask trumpery, trifles,
perh. through French. It is possibly akin to E. haversack, and
to Icel. taska trunk, chest, pocket, G. tasche pocket,
and the orig. sense was perh., peddler's wares.]
1. A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread.
2. A dealer in items of men's clothing: HATS, gloves, neckties, etc.
3. A dealer in drapery goods, e.g., laces, silks, trimmings, etc.
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HABERDASHER: from hapertas, a cloth the width
of which was settled by Magna Charta.
A "hapertas-er" is the seller of hapertas-erie.
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, 1593
Dedication: T O M Y D E A R E L A D I E
AND SISTER, THE COUN-TESSE OF PEMBROKE.
... Read it then at your idle tymes, and the follyes your good
judgement wil finde in it, blame not, but laugh at. And so, looking
for no better stuffe, then, as in an HABERDASHERS shoppe, glasses,
or feathers, you will continue to love the writer, who doth
excedinglie love you ; and most most HARTE-LIE praies
you may long live, to be a principall ORNAMENT
to the familie of the Sidneis.
Your loving Brother: Philip Sidnei.
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<<Gilbert Shakspere was a HABERDASHER at St. Bride's in 1597 when
he & a local shoemaker put up =C2=A319 bail, in the court of Queen's
Bench,
for the clockmaker William SAMPSON>> -Honan's _Shakespeare a Life_
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King Henry EIGHT Act 5, Scene 4
Man: There was a HABERDASHER's WIFE of small wit near him,
that railed upon me till her PINKED PORRINGER fell off her head,
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Echoes -- Lewis Carroll (1869)
Lady Clara VERE de VERE
Was EIGHT years old, she said:
EVERy ringlet, lightly SHAKEn, ran itself in GOLDEN THREAD.
She took her little PORRINGER:
Of me SHE SHALL NOT WIN RENOWN:
For the baseness of its nature shall have strength to drag her down.
"SISTERS and BROTHERS, little Maid?
There stands the Inspector at thy door:
Like a DOG, he hunts for BOYS
who know not two and two are four."
"KIND HEARTS are more than coronets,"
She said, and wondering looked at me:
"It is the dead unhappy night, and I must hurry home to tea."
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Descendants of Mr.W.H. (and wife Joan S. HARTTE) are still alive!
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A little more than KIND, and less than KIN:
Chettle's 'KIND-HARTE's Dream':
"Shall KIN with KIN and KIND with KIND confound?"
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HARTYKYN: A term of endearment //Palsgrave's Acolastus, 1540.
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The HABERDASHER heapeth wealth by HATS. --GASCOIGNE.
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<<As has been observed, Shakespeare's eldest daughter, Susanna, was
married on June 5, 1607, to John Hall, a learned man, a distinguished
physician and a noted citizen. Scandal erupted in the Hall household
in 1613. As a consequence, on July 13, Susanna sought a writ of
slander & brought action for defamation (cf. _Measure for Measure_,
II. i.) in the Consistory (an Ecclesiastical) Court at Worcester.
Susanna's charge was against John LANE , whose uncle,
Richard Lane, Shakespeare had asked to be one of the witnesses
for the commission out of Chancery on the Lambert controversy
(through which Shakespeare lost his mother's inheritance finally
in 1599) and had been of Shakespeare's party in the suit
to Chancery on the Stratford tithes. John LANE(Jr.)
had accused Shakespeare's daughter by saying Susanna
"...had the running of the reins
and had been naught (i.e. immoral) with
Rafe (Ralph) Smith & John Palmer."
"Sassafras (believed to be a specific for syphilis)"
Rafe (Ralph) Smith was a Stratford HABERDASHER & HATTER;
his uncle was Hamlet Sadler, the close friend of Shakespeare
(for whom he named his son). The males of the 2nd generation
of close acquaintances were a threat to the reputation
of his daughters; and in the case of Judith, to come, and,
at first, Susanna, the Shakespeares struck back at the male
contemporaries of the son William no longer had. With this court case,
Susanna has become subject to precisely the slanderous accusation
of adultery as in something of a prophetic manner for Shakespeare's
biography was Hermione in The Winter's Tale, anticipated by Desdemona
in Othello. John LANE, "...a ne'er-do-well, was some years later
hailed into court for riot and libels against the vicar and aldermen,
and was then described as a drunkard." John LANE did not appear in
court to support the rumors he had spread and was excommunicated.>>
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September 9, 1566, 12 yr. old Philip Sidney visits Stratford
September 9, 1543, 9 mo. old Mary Queen of Scots crowned
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Tuesday September 9, 1943, Lorenzo's birthday.
Tuesday September 9, 1746, JOHN WARD plays Othello in Stratford.
Tuesday September 9, 1634, Lt. Hammond (Ham.Lt.) visits Stratford.
Friday September 9, 1513, Sidney's grandpere knighted at Flodden
Field
Friday September 9, 1608, Shakespeare's mother, Mary, buried
Friday September 9, 1603, George Carey dies from MERCURY POISONING!
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<<The (MAD) Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this;
but all he said was,
'Why is a RAVEN like a WRITING-DESK?'>>
[A. Poe & Dante wrote on both.]
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_Sylvie and Bruno Concluded_ by Lewis Carroll
The Other Professor is to recite a Tale of a PIG-
-I mean a PIG-Tale," he corrected himself.
"It has Introductory VERsEs at the beginning, and at the end."
"It ca'n't have Introductory VERsEs at the end, can it?" said Sylvie.
"Wait till you hear it," said the Professor: "then you'll see.
I m not sure it hasn't some in the middle, as well." Here he rose
to his feet, and there was an instant silence through the
Banqueting-Hall: they evidently expected a speech.
Little Birds are writing
Interesting books,
To be read by cooks:
Read, I say, not roasted--
Letterpress, when toasted,
Loses its good looks.
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_Ulysses_ ends at 3:24 am June 17, 1904? (324 =3D 3 x 3 x 3 dozen)
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A HACKNEY car, number three hundred and twentyfour, driver Barton
James of number one Harmony avenue, Donnybrook, on which sat a fare, a
young gentleman, stylishly dressed in an indigoblue serge suit made by
George Robert Mesias, TAILOR and cutter, of number FIVE EDEN quay, and
WEARing a straw HAT VERy dressy, bought of John Plasto of number one
Great Brunswick street, HATTER. Eh? FLORRY What?
( A HACKNEYcar number three hundred and twentyfour,
with a gallantbuttocked mare, driven by James Barton,
Harmony Avenue, Donnybrook, trots past. ...
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http://www.kwtelecom.com/heraldry/livery/pierson.html
<<The lion in the arms of the Merchant TAYLORS is the lion
of England and may be connected with royal favours,
as the company was granted a number of royal letters patent
and included many royal personages in its list of members.
Several kings of England have been Freemen of the Company. Both
the Merchant TAYLORS & the HABERDASHERS received in charters
granted by Henry VII the distinctive epithet of "Merchant".>>
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"Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the HATTER said,
turning to Alice again.
"No, I give it up," Alice replied: "what's the answer?"
"I haven't the slightest idea," said the HATTER.
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an abstract of success
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All's Well That Ends Well Act 4, Scene 3
BERTRAM I have to-night dispatched SIXTEEN businesses, a
month's length a-piece, by an abstract of success:
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<<Two major objections to Oxford's authorship are based on a passage in
Palladis Tamia, a book by an obscure clergyman named Francis Meres. The
600 page book is almost entirely a collection of miscellaneous
anecdotes, similes and sayings, grouped in moral an religious sections.
The book contains nothing of significance except for SIXTEEN pages in
the middle of it [where] Meres gives literary assessments of no less
than 125 [5 x 5 x 5] English writers and artists, comparing them all
favorably to classical and Italian Renaissance writers and artists. His
comments about them are pithy and perspicacious, suggesting great
familiarity (e.g., Anthony Munday is "our best plotter," George Peele
died "by the pox," Drayton "is termed golden-mouthed for the purity of
pretiousness of his style and phrase." There is, however, no
corroborative evidence that he ever frequented literary circles in
London. Oxfordians note that Meres' comments on London writers were
totally out of character for him, based on his other writings. He was a
Protestant minister who translated religious works. In the same year as
Palladis Tamia he published translations of three religious works
written by a Spanish mystic. He never published anything else to the end
of his life, nearly half a century later. Most of his life was spent in
a rectory in northern England.>>
_Shakespeare: Who Was He?_ p.121-3 -- R.F. Whalen
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SIXTEEN lines. . .insert in't
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Act 2, Scene 2
HAMLET We'll ha't to-morrow night. You could, for a need,
study a speech of some dozen or SIXTEEN lines, which
I would set down and insert in't, could you not?
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Meres's Palladis Tamia; Wits Treasury,
Being the Second Part of Wits Commonwealth (1598)
[http://www.clark.net/tross/ws/rep.html]
... the best for Comedy amongst vs bee,
Edward Earle of Oxforde,
Doctor Gager of Oxforde,
Maister Rowley once a rare Scholler of learned Pembrooke Hall,
Maister Edwardes one of her Maiesties Chappell,
eloquent and wittie Iohn Lilly,
Lodge,
Gascoyne,
Greene,
Shakespeare,
Thomas Nash,
Thomas Heywood,
Anthony Mundye OUR BEST PLOTTER,
Chapman,
Porter,
WILSON,
HATHWAY,
and Henry Chettle.
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A January 17, 1579 entry in the Stratford Church Register:
marriage of
"William WILLSONNE and
Anne HATHAWAY of Shotterye."
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January 17 St. Anthony's Day.
<<On this day in the age of Queen Elizabeth,
a sick pig would be led to the dung-heap
and was not allowed to be slaughtered.>>
http://www.nortexinfo.net/McDaniel/0117.htm
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Francis Meres
And as Horace saith of his;
Exegi momumentum aere perennius;
Regalique; fitu pyramidum altius;
Quod non imber edax; Richard Barnfield's
Non Aquilo impotens possit diruere; 1598
aut innumerabilis annorum series "A Remembrance of
&c. fuga temporum : some English Poets"
so say I seuerally of in Poems in Divers Humors.
sir Philip Sidneys,
Spencers, --- Live Spenser. . .
Daniels, --- And Daniell. . .
Draytons, --- And Drayton. . .
(honey-tongued) Shakespeares, --- And Shakespeare thou,
and Warners workes; whose hony-flowing Vaine,
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Francis Meres's William Camden
Palladis Tamia: Wits Treasury Remains of a Greater Worke
1598 Sep 7 (registered) Concerning Britaine (1605)
so the English tongue is If I would come
mightily enriched, to our own time,
and gorgeouslie inuested what a world
in rare ornaments and I could present
resplendent abiliments by to you out of
sir Philip Sidney, --- Sir Philipp Sidney,
Spencer, --- Ed. Spenser,
Daniel, --- Samuel Daniel,
Drayton, Hugh Holland,
Warner, Ben. Jonson,
Shakespeare, Th. Campion,
Marlow Mich. Drayton,
and Chapman.... --- George Chapman,
John Marston,
William Shakespeare
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Bob Grumman wrote:
<<William Camden in his (1605) *Remaines of a greater Worke
concerning Britaine* said that men took their names
"from that which they commonly carried, as Palmer, that is,
Pilgrim, for that they carried palm when they returned from
Hierusalem, Long-sword, Broad-speare, Fortescu, that is,
Strong-shield, and in some such respect, Breake-speare,
Shake-speare, Shotbolt, Wagstaffe . . . ">>
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<<We like to feel, for instance, that the only English pope, Nicholas
Breakspear, was drawn by the gods into the right onomastic area for
international greatness, but that for him to be called Shake-speare
would have been going too far. Adrian IV, with his bull _Laudabiliter_
["alloilable" in Joyce - ACN] broke the spears of the Irish. His
rimesake is caught in a pose of entirely benevolent aggression. The
gods knew what they were doing.>> - Shakespeare (p.23, Anthony Burgess)
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http://www.clark.net/tross/ws/pen.html
<<In late 1601 or early 1602, Ralph Brooke, the chronically contentious
York Herald, accused some of his colleagues in the College of having
granted arms to a number of unworthy recipients -- one of them being
Shakespeare's father. The grants, including John Shakespeare's, were
defended in due course by the Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms, and
the squabble came to nothing. But it did leave behind a manuscript, now
in the Folger Library, deriving from Brooke's notes for his challenge;
on a page of that manuscript, we find a drawing of the Shakespeare coat
of arms, beneath which is written "Shakespear ye Player by Garter"
(_Shakespeare, IN FACT_ prints the document). The Folger manuscript is
in fact about a hundred years later than Brooke's challenge, but, with
some exemplary researching and cogent analysis, Matus demonstrates that
it can be nothing but a faithful rendering of the original document. . .
The Clarenceux King who collaborated on the reply to Brooke's accusation
was William Camden, not just the foremost antiquary of the time, but
also Ben Jonson's master at the Westminster School and his life-long
intimate friend. Camden was also on friendly terms with Lord Burleigh,
Elizabeth's most trusted minister, Oxford's long-suffering
father-in-law, and, it is sometimes supposed, the executive director of
the Great Concealment. Camden was, in fact, selected by Burleigh to
write the more or less official history of Elizabeth's reign, and was
given access to the government's records and correspondence to do so.
Given Camden's interests, expertise, and connections, he would have
known the secret of the Shakespeare plays, if there was one to know. Yet
in Remaines (1605), Camden names "William Shakespeare" as one of the
poets of his time "whom succeeding ages may justly admire." . . . Camden
names ten poets and concludes with an et cetera: "and other most
pregnant wits of these our times." Shakespeare is the tenth and last
specified. Even more important, since he had, as Clarenceux King,
responded less than three years earlier to Brooke's attack on the grant
of arms to the father of "Shakespeare ye Player", the preface of
Remaines claims it was completed two years before publication -- Camden
thus was aware that the last name on his list was that of William
Shakespeare of Stratford. The Camden reference, therefore, is exactly
what the Oxfordians insist does not exist: an identification by a
knowledgeable and universally respected contemporary that "the Stratford
man" was a writer of sufficient distinction to be ranked with (if after)
Sidney, Spenser, Daniel, Holland, Jonson, Campion, Drayton, Chapman, and
Marston.>>
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Terry Ross wrote:
<<Ben Jonson supposedly went to Westminster school, though he is nowhere
to be found in the student lists which survive; our only reason for
thinking he went there is an oblique reference to "his master Camden" in
his conversations with William Drummond in 1619, combined with the fact
that William Camden was headmaster at Westminster at the time Jonson
would have been there. But even these conversations with Drummond should
be highly suspicious according to the standards Oxfordians apply to
Shakespeare, since the original manuscript has mysteriously disappeared
(except for a cover sheet) from among Drummond's papers, and all we have
is a transcript made around 1700, some 60+ years after Jonson's death.>>
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Dave Kathman wrote:
<<Francis Meres was born in 1565 in Kirton in Holland, Lincolnshire,
about 100 miles due north of London. (That is, the town was called
"Kirton in Holland" -- one of those oddly named English towns that
can cause confusion in written form if you're not familiar with it.)
One of his kinsmen, John Meres, was High Sherriff of Lincolnshire.
In 1587 he got his B.A. at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and in
1591 he got his M.A. In 1593 he got his M.A. at Oxford, making him
"Maister of Arts in both Universities", as he proclaimed himself on
the title page of his first book. At some point he moved to London,
in Botolph Lane, Eastcheap, and in 1597 he began publishing a series
of books with strong moral themes. The first of these, *God's
Arithmetic*, was published in 1597 and attempted to apply the
methods of mathematics to Sin and Salvation. That sort of thing was
actually very popular then. In August of the same year, Meres came
out with a translation of a moral work by Luis of Granada called
*The Sinners Guide: a Worke Contayning the Whole Regiment of a
Christian Life*, and in March 1598 he came out with a translation
of another work by Luis called *Granados Devotion: Exactly
Teaching How a Man May Dedicate Himselfe unto God*.
That summer, Meres compiled the work for which he is known to
posterity, *Palladis Tamia*, registered on September 7, 1598. This
work was part of a series of miscellanies engineered by John
Bodenham, Nicholas Ling, and ANTHONY MUNDAY; these included
*Politeuphuia, Wit's Commonwealth* (1597), edited and published
by Ling; *Palladis Tamia* (1598), edited by Meres; *Wit's Theater
of the Little World* (1599), edited by Robert Allott and published
by Ling; *Belvedere, the Garden of the Muses* (1600), edited by
Munday; and *England's Helicon* (1600), edited by Ling. Apparently
much of the actual compilation of extracts for these volumes was
done by Bodenham over a period of years, and the general editor
was Ling, with lots of help from Munday. Bodenham had probably met
Munday in the late 1570s when they both lived in St. Mildred in
the Poultry, where Munday was an apprentice printer under John
Allde and Bodenham had a grocer's warehouse. Bodenham was a
freeman of the Grocer's company by patrimony (he had inherited
his father's considerable business), and Munday was similarly a
freeman of the Drapers by patrimony. Most of the printers,
publishers, and editors involved in the 1597-1600 had connections
with either the Grocers or the Drapers; the many complicated
relationships are laid out by Celeste Turner Wright in "ANTHONY
MUNDAY and the Bodenham Miscellanies", Philological Quarterly
40 (1961), 449-461. It's not entirely clear how Francis Meres got
involved with this project, but it was probably through ANTHONY
MUNDAY -- the rector of ST. GEORGE's church in Botolph Lane, the
street where Meres lived, was Francis Roberts, who was "very well
and familiarly acquainted" with Anthony Munday for more than a
decade. Since Meres was soon to take holy orders, he certainly
would have known Roberts, and probably through him Munday.
The fact that MUNDAY is singled out in *Palladis Tamia* as "OUR
BEST PLOTTER" lends credence to the association. The publisher of
*Palladis Tamia*, CUTHBERT BURBY, was also a good friend of
Munday, with whom he had engaged in some shady publishing
ventures in the early 1590s. He apparently ticked off Meres, who
at the last minute inserted a Latin epistle at the beginning of his
book in which he accused Burby of being stingy with paper and
holding back some of Meres' best material. When Burby realized
what the epistle said, he tore it out of all subsequent copies,
but some had already been sold, one of which survives today.
Though he was later praised as brilliant (mainly because of his
praise of Shakespeare), Meres actually displays little learning or
originality, and he virtually copied much of the volume out of
secondary sources, many of whose errors he innocently repeats.
He took his Latin quotations from quotation books, and he lifted
his information about classical authors directly from J. Rasivius
Textor's *Officina*, a subsidiary text used in grammar schools.
Most of his discussion of poetry is virtually plagiarized from
William Webbe's *Discourse of English Poetrie* (1586) and Sir
Philip Sidney's *Apologie for Poetrie* (1595). (The paragraph in
which Meres mentions the Earl of Oxford among "the best for
comedy" is clearly based directly on a similar paragraph in Webbe.)
He probably got most of his information about contemporary
playwrights, including Shakespeare, from Munday and Henry
Chettle, as Wright argues in some detail: both Munday and
Chettle were writing for Henslowe at the time, and most of the
playwrights catalogued by Meres are Henslowe writers, plus
several items mentioned by Meres bear an uncanny similarity to
items in the known writings of MUNDAY and CHETTLE. Meres'
book was alluded to a couple of times over the next 15
years. Ben Jonson, in *The Case is Altered* (published 1609,
written c.1598) satirically refers to ANTHONY MUNDAY as "in
print for the best plotter"; Thomas Heywood, in his *Apology
for Actors* (1612, written years earlier), calls Meres an
"approved good scholar" and says his account of authors is
learnedly done. Edmund Howes unaccountably includes
"M. Francis Meers gentleman" among his list of poets in the
1615 edition of Stowe's *Annales*; he may be referring to
*Palladis Tamia*, but more likely he was thinking of the second
edition of Meres' translation *The Sinner's Guide* which
had just come out in 1614.
In 1602, Meres left London to become rector of the parish of Wing,
in Rutland. He never wrote or translated any more books, but a
second edition of *Palladis Tamia*, retitled simply *Wits
Commonweath, a treasury of similes*, was published in 1634,
and a third edition, this time called *Witts academy, a treasurie
of goulden sentences*, came out in 1636. He died in 1647 at the
age of 82 in Wing, having served there as rector for the last
45 years of his life.>>
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SHEKINAH, n. [Heb Talmud shek[=i]n[=a]h, fr. sh[=a]kan to inhabit.]
The visible majesty of the Divine Presence, especially when resting
or dwelling between the cherubim on the mercy seat, in the Tabernacle
or in the Temple of Solomon; -- a term used in the Targums and by
the later Jews, and adopted by Christians.
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"SHEK(in)AH"
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"SHAKESPEAR (TAUR)"{-us April 21}
"P(T)AH-SEKER-(AU)SA(R)"
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"David L. Webb" wrote:
> there is no reason to suspect that any "nom de plume"
> was ever used in the first place.
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<<We like to feel, for instance, that the only English pope, Nicholas
Breakspear, was drawn by the gods into the right onomastic area for
international greatness, but that for him to be called Shake-speare
would have been going too far. Adrian IV, with his bull _Laudabiliter_
["alloilable" in Joyce - ACN] broke the spears of the Irish. His
rimesake is caught in a pose of entirely benevolent aggression. The
gods knew what they were doing.>> - Shakespeare (p.23, Anthony Burgess)
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Underlined in Oxford's Geneva Bible:
2 Samuel 21:19 . . . slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite,
the STAFF of whose SPEAR was like a weaver's beam.
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Prospero: I'll BREAK my STAFF,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I'll DROWN my book.
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Katherine Hamlett - DROWNS in Avon, 1579.
William Shaxpere - DROWNS in Avon, 1579.
Arthur Brooke - DROWNS in Sea, 1563
(4 months after _Romeus and Juliet_ is published).
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STAFF, n.; [AS. st[ae]f a staff; Goth. STABS element]
1. A long piece of wood; the long handle of a weapon;
a pole or stick, used as the staff of a SPEAR.
2. A WAND borne as an ensign of authority.
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/4260/parliament.html
<<SECOND ROW : The latest thinking is that the Earl of Oxford,
as Lord Great Chamberlain, is the man with the WHITE STAFF.>>
"VARE" (Spanish VARA) means a WAND.
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<<His hand a VARE of justice did uphold;
His neck was loaded with a chain of gold.>>
-- John Dryden _Absalom and Achitophel_
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Philip Sidney - born St.Andrews Day, 1554
William Shakespeare - dies St.George's Day, 1616
Miguel de Cervantes - dies St.George's Day, 1616
Jonathan Swift - born St.Andrews Day, 1667
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http://www.incompetech.com/authors/swift/
<<In the early 1700's, a man named John Partridge, a cobbler by trade,
took up printing almanacs to make some extra money. He challenged his
readers to try their hands at prophecy and see if they could beat
Partridge's own prophetic abilities. Well, Partridge had made some
attacks on the Church of England, and in 1708, Swift decided to stand
up for his employer. Using the name Isaac BickerSTAFF, he prophesied "a
trifle...[Partridge] will infallibly die upon the 29th of March next,
about eleven at Night, of a raging fever." At the proper time, using
another name, Swift announced the fulfillment of said prophecy.
Partridge, in his next almanac, protested loudly that he was
still alive, but no one believed him. The Stationer's Register
had already removed his name from their rolls,
and that was good enough for most people.>>
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Bob Grumman wrote:
<<William Camden in his (1605) *Remaines of a greater Worke
concerning Britaine* said that men took their names
"from that which they commonly carried, as Palmer, that is,
Pilgrim, for that they carried palm when they returned from
Hierusalem, Long-sword, Broad-speare, Fortescu, that is,
Strong-shield, and in some such respect, Breake-speare,
Shake-speare, Shotbolt, Wagstaffe . . . ">>
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<<Odin carved the runes upon the shaft of his spear;
By this means he obtained power over all.>>
<<The word Rune comes from the Germanic "Runa" meaning secret.>>
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The World (ASH) Tree
Yggdrasil is rendered as Ygg's (i.e., Odin's) GALLOWS. As the
discoverer of the runes, Odin was also the sorcerer of the gods.
His most famous worshipper was runemaster Egil SKAllagrimsson.>>
<<The spear was pre-eminently Odin's weapon and ash was the wood most
favoured for spear-shafts. The casket in which Idun kept the apples
which prevented the gods from ageing was made of ash-wood.>>
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I ween that I hung on a windy tree,
Hung there for nights full nine;
With the spear I was wounded, and offered I was
To Odin, myself to myself,
On the tree that none may ever know
What root beneath it runs. -Robert Graves
<<To learn the secrets of the dead Odin underwent a ritual
spiritual death, sacrificing himself to himself. He pierced
himself with his own spear then hung himself from
Yggdrasil, the World (ASH) Tree, for nine days and nights.
He used magick to free himself, an act of spiritual rebirth.
He came down from the tree with nine songs of power & eighteen runes,
a runic alphabet made of ASH twigs. Odin is all-seeing and divine
but not immortal. He is said to never eat and live on wine.
He possesses Draupnir /Draupner, a magic ring which produces
eight new rings every ninth night. It is Odin who must face
the Frost Giants at (r)AGNA(ro)K, the DOOM of the gods.>>
ANAGK(h) => DOOM
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Haman's ASH-tree'
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Robert Stonehouse wrote [on "Hamlet"]:
> According to Eilert Ekwall's Dictionary of English Place-names,
> there was an Old English name Hamela that appear in place-names like
> Hambleden ('Hamela's valley'.'Hamela pers.n. is not evidenced, but
> seems to occur in some pl. ns., as Hambleton'). Also Hamnish
> (Herefordshire) 'Apparently OE Haman-aesc, Hama's ash-tree'.
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ESTHER 5
5:14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him,Let a
GALLOWS be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou
unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go
thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. HAMAN was come
into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the
king to hang Mordecai on the GALLOWS that he had prepared for him.
But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters
that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews,
should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons
should be hanged on the GALLOWS.
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The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg
http://philologos.org/__eb-lotj/vol4/p12.htm#THE FALL OF HAMAN
<<The cross which Haman, at the advice of his wife Zeresh and of his
friends, had erected for Mordecai, was now used for himself. It was made
of wood from a thorn-bush. God called all the trees together and
inquired which one would permit the cross for Haman to be made of it.
The fig-tree said: "I am ready to serve, for I am symbolic of Israel,
and, also, my fruits were brought to the Temple as firstfruits."
The vine said: "I am ready to serve, for I am symbolic of Israel
and, also, my wine is brought to the altar."
The apple-tree said: "I am ready to serve, for I am symbolic . . ."
The nut-tree said: "I am ready to serve, for I am symbolic of Israel."
The Etrog tree said: "I should have the privilege,
for with my fruit Israel praises God on Sukkot."
The willow of the brook said: "I desire to serve, for I am symbolic..."
The cedar-tree said: "I desire to serve, for I am symbolic of Israel."
The palm-tree said: "I desire to serve, for I am symbolic of Israel."
Finally the thorn-bush came and said: "I am fitted to do this service,
for the ungodly are like pricking thorns." The offer of the thorn-bush
was accepted, after God gave a blessing to each of the other trees for
its willingness to serve. A sufficiently long beam cut from a thorn-bush
could be found only in the house of Haman, which had to be demolished in
order to obtain it. The cross was tall enough for Haman and his ten sons
to be hanged upon it. It was planted three cubits deep in the ground,
each of the victims required three cubits space in length, one cubit
space was left vacant between the feet of the one above and the head of
the one below, and the youngest son, Vaizatha, had his feet four cubits
from the ground as he hung. Haman and his ten sons remained suspended a
long time, to the vexation of those who considered it a violation of the
Biblical prohibition in Deuteronomy, not to leave a human body hanging
upon a tree overnight. Esther pointed to a precedent, the descendants of
Saul, whom the Gibeonites left hanging half a year, whereby the name of
God was sanctified, for whenever the pilgrims beheld them, they told the
heathen, that the men had been hanged because their father Saul had laid
hand on the Gibeonites. "How much more, then," continued Esther, "are we
justified in permitting Haman and his family to hang, they who desired
to destroy the house of Israel?" >>
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GALLOWS Heb. 'ets, meaning "a tree" (Esther 6:4), a post or gibbet.
T O T H E o n
{r} [H] e
{o} [E] (M)
{p} [N] (A)
{e|R|N] (R)o
[B|Y|O] l(I)
[O|E] (H)
[L|W]
[E|R]
[E|
[S|
[L|H]
[E|T]
[Y|O]
|I]
Ahasuerus divorced Vashti, & chose Esther to be his wife.
Esther was born Hadas'sah (the myrtle => Venus),
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Johnson, Samuel - Essays, Vol. 4
When a poetical grove invites us to its covert,
we know that we shall find what we have already
seen, a limpid brook murmuring over pebbles, a bank
diversified with flowers, a green arch that excludes
the sun, and a natural GROT shaded with MYRTLES;
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Metamorphosis - Ovid - tr. Sir Samuel Garth
The GROT he enter'd, pumice built the hall,
And tophi made the rustick of the wall;
A grove of fragrant MYRTLE near it grows,
Whose boughs, tho' thick, a beauteous GROT disclose;
The well-wrought fabrick, to discerning eyes,
Rather by art than Nature seems to rise.
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Dwebb wrote:
> Artemis is generally depicted with bow and quiVER
> (which should be read as "Qui? Ver?!"). The cult of Artemis
> flourished especially among the Cretans, just as the cult of Diana
> flourishes among the cretins. In Attica, Artemis was venerated
> as Artemis Tauropolos, a Bull Goddess, and you promulgate bull in
> industrial quantities yourself. Can all this be coincidence?
Don't forget Artemis' G R O T S, Dave!
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Philip/Mary Sydney's S T O R G(e) : familial love
P H E O N azure crest:
<<PHEON, n. A bearing representing the head of a dart or javelin,
with long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge.>>
http://www.renaissance.dm.net/heraldry/blazons3.html
http://www.geocities.co.jp/Milano/8947/m455a.gif
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T O T H E O N L I E B 'raw' probabilities:
E G E T T E R O F T H
E S E I N S V I N G S TIBIAL: 1 in 11,600
O N N E T S M r W{H}A EMEPH: 1 in 300
L H A P I N{E}S STORG: 1 in 199
N D T A{T}E PHEON: 1 in 127
|L] T I [P] {P}R [S|
[E|A] Y [H] V [T|E]
[N|I] [E] [O|M]
R [D|B] [O] [R|E] I
S E [V|I][N][G|P] V E
R L I [E||T||H] O E T
W I S H T H E W
E L L W I [S] H I N G A
D V E N T [U] R E R I N
S E T T I [N] G F O R T H
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Zeus, son of the SUN,
Ptolemy the EVER-LIVING, beloved of {P T E H}
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Art Neuendorffer
ArtNea...@germanymail.com
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