What means my NIECE Lavinia by these signs?
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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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Yorick => 1604 = 1581 + 23 yeeres. => Edmund CAMPION
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<<RICHARD STONLEY, ca.1520-1600. [Diary, 1581-1582] was a Teller of the
Exchequer living in London. Folios 30v, 31r, and 33v contain reports of
Edmund CAMPION (1540-1581), the Jesuit poet, his trial & execution.
Twelfth Night Act 4, Scene 2
Clown Bonos dies, Sir Toby: for, as the old hermit of
PRAGUE, that NEVER SAW PEN AND INK, very wittily
said to a niece of King Gorboduc, 'That that is is;'
NEVER SAW PEN AND INK: refers to an episode which occurred
in the conference" of September 24, 1581,
in which CAMPION was opposed by one Master FULKE:
"If you dare, let me show you Augustine and Chrysostom,"
he [CAMPION] cried at one moment, "if you dare."
Fulke: "Whatever you can bring, I have answered already in writing
against others of your side. And yet if you think you can add
anything, put it in writing and I will answer it."
CAMPION: "Provide me with ink and paper and I will write."
Fulke: "I am not to provide you ink and paper."
In this exchange, we see that CAMPION, having been deprived of the means
of preparing a defense, such as access to books containing the teachings
of St. Augustine and St. John Chrysostom, seizes upon Fulke's apparent
offer of writing materials. Fulke immediately realizes that the has made
a tactical error, for the government's plan in no way involves providing
CAMPION with the means to write, since much of CAMPION's success lay in
his writings.>> - http://www.folger.edu/institute/sacred/manuscript.html
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<<The early Elizabethan drama owed much stimulus to the performance by
barristers of plays in their halls at festive seasons. It was in the
Hall of the Inner Temple on Twelfth Night, 1561, that the first English
tragedy, Gorboduc, which was written by two members of the Inn,
was first acted. Again, the first regular English comedy,
_Supposes_, was first acted in Gray's Inn Hall, five years later,
the authors, George Gascoigne & Francis Kilwelmershe, being
both students of the Society. It was for a Christmas revel at
the Middle Temple that Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night; and
The Comedy of Errors certainly played in Gray's Inn Hall in 1594
in the intervals of 'dancing and revelry with gentlewomen'.>>
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<<_A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in
Morel's Skin for her Good Behavior_ (c. 1560). The sub-plot of
romantic wooing bears a resemblance to Ariosto's _I Suppositi_
translated by George [G]asco[i]gne as _I Supposes_ (1566).>>
A performance of [G]asco[i]gne's _I Supposes_
took place 5 weeks before de Vere entered [G]ray's [i]nn.
(Gray's Inn was only ½ mile from his home at Cecil House.)
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[G]ray's [i]nn [shReW]
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The Names of the Principall Actors in all these Playes.
<= [4 x 4 x 4 - 3 x 3 x 3] =>
333 Letters [= 9 x 37 (plays)]
WilliamShakespeareRichardBurbadgeJ o hn
HemmingsAugustinePhillipsWilliamKe m pt
ThomasPoopeGeorgeBryanHenryCondell W il
liamSlyeRichardCowlyJohnLowineSamu e ll
CrosseAlexanderCookeSamuelGilburne R ob
ertArminWilliamOstlerNathanFieldJo h nU
nderwoodNicholasTooleyWilliamEccle s to
neJosephTaylorRobertBenfieldRobert G ou
gheRichardRobinsonJohnShanckeJohnR i ce
8 W**** 's
37 e 's
26 R 's
18 h 's
17 s 's
raw probability of "shReW" in 9 x 37 array ~ 1 / 5,000
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Niece, n. [OE. nece, F. ni[`e]ce, LL. neptia,
for L. neptis a granddaughter, niece, akin to nepos.]
1. A relative, in general; especially, a descendant, male or female;
a granddaughter or a grandson. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. Wyclif. Shak.
2. A daughter of one's brother or sister,
or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law.
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MARCUS ANDRONICUS
What means my NIECE Lavinia by these signs?
MARCUS ANDRONICUS Sit down, sweet NIECE:
[He writes his name with his staff,
and guides it with feet and mouth]
Cursed be that heart that forced us to this shift!
Write thou good NIECE; and here display, at last,
What God will have discover'd for revenge;
Heaven guide thy pen to print thy sorrows plain,
That we may know the traitors and the truth!
SIR TOBY BELCH With drinking healths to my NIECE:
I'll drink to her as long as there is a passage in my throat
and drink in Illyria: he's a coward and a coystrill
that will not drink to my NIECE till his brains turn
o' the toe like a parish-top.
SIR TOBY BELCH Will you encounter the house?
my NIECE is desirous you should enter, if your trade be to her.
SIR ANDREW Marry, I saw your NIECE do more favours
to the count's serving-man than ever she bestowed upon me;
I saw't i' the orchard.
SIR TOBY BELCH
Why, then, build me thy fortunes upon the basis
of valour. Challenge me the count's youth
to fight with him; hurt him in eleven places:
my NIECE shall take note of it;
Clown Bonos dies, Sir Toby: for, as the old hermit
of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily
said to a NIECE of King Gorboduc, 'That that is is;'
so I, being Master Parson, am Master Parson; for,
what is 'that' but 'that,' and 'is' but 'is'?
DON PEDRO And so will he do; for the man doth fear God,
howsoever it seems not in him by some large jests
he will make. Well I am sorry for your NIECE.
DUKE FREDERICK You, NIECE, provide yourself:
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to my said niece [Elizabeth] Hall
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for default of such [131] issue, the said premises to be and remain
to my said NIECE Hall,
and the heirs males of her body lawfully issuing; and for default
of such issue, to my daughter Judith, and the heirs males of her
body lawfully issuing; and for default of such issue, to the right
heirs of me the said William Shakespeare for EVER.
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PART II CHAPTER LXXIV
OF HOW DON QUIXOTE FELL SICK, AND OF THE WILL HE MADE, AND HOW HE DIED
"VERy TRUE," said Samson, "and good Sancho Panza's view
of these cases is quite right."
"Sirs, not so fast," said Don Quixote, "'in last year's nests there are
no birds this year.' I was mad, now I am in my senses; I was Don Quixote
of La Mancha, I am now, as I said, ALONSO Quixano the Good; and may my
repentance and sincerity restore me to the esteem you used to have for
me; and now let Master Notary proceed.
"Item, I leave all my property absolutely to ANTONIA Quixana my NIECE,
here present, after all has been deducted from the most available
portion of it that may be required to satisfy the bequests I have made.
And the first disbursement I desire to be made is the payment of the
wages I owe for the time my housekeeper has served me, with twenty
ducats, over and above, for a gown. The curate and the bachelor
Samson Carrasco, now present, I appoint my executors.
"Item, it is my wish that if ANTONIA Quixana, my NIECE, desires
to marry, she shall marry a man of whom it shall be first of all
ascertained by information taken that he does not know what books
of chivalry are; and if it should be proved that he does, and if,
in spite of this, my NIECE insists upon marrying him, and does marry
him, then that she shall forfeit the whole of what I have left her,
which my executors shall devote to works of charity as they please.
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ALONSO Quixano the Good
ANTONIA Quixana NIECE
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THE TEMPEST_ DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ALONSO King of Naples.
SEBASTIAN his brother.
PROSPERO the right Duke of Milan.
ANTONIO his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan.
FERDINAND son to the King of Naples.
GONZALO an honest old Counsellor.
ADRIAN Lord
FRANCISCO Lord
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_Catherine de Medici_, by Honore de Balzac
<<Duke Alessandro presented the officers of Catherine's household to the
Pope, with whom he had a secret conference, in which, it would appear,
he presented to his Holiness Count Sebastiano Montecuculi, who had
just left, somewhat abruptly, the service of Charles V. and that
of his two generals, ANTONIO di Leyva & FERDINANDO di GONZAGO.>>
<<The Pope left Sebastiano Montecuculi to present himself to the
court of France, to which the count offered his services, complaining
of his treatment by ANTONIO di Leyva and FERDINANDO di GONZAGO,
for which reason his services were accepted.>>
<<The count, after heroically enduring the first tortures
without confessing anything, finally made admissions by
which he implicated Charles V. and his two generals,
ANTONIO di Leyva & FERDINANDO di GONZAGO.>>
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Miranda, Chevron, & Alonso
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020216.html
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King Henry VI, Part iii Act 3, Scene 3
WARWICK Did I let pass the abuse done to my NIECE?
King Richard III Act 4, Scene 1
DUCHESS OF YORK Who meets us here? my NIECE Plantagenet
King John Act 2, Scene 1
CHATILLON With him along is come the mother-queen,
An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife;
With her her NIECE, the Lady Blanch of Spain;
[Drum beats]
The interruption of their churlish drums
Cuts off more circumstance: they are at hand,
To parley or to fight; therefore prepare.
First Citizen That daughter there of Spain, the Lady Blanch,
Is NIECE to England: look upon the years
Of Lewis the Dauphin and that lovely maid:
If lusty love should go in quest of beauty,
Where should he find it fairer than in Blanch?
QUEEN ELINOR Give with our NIECE a dowry large enough:
For by this knot thou shalt so surely tie
Thy now unsured assurance to the crown,
That yon green boy shall have no sun to ripe
The bloom that promiseth a mighty fruit.
KING JOHN What say you my NIECE?
Much Ado About Nothing Act 1, Scene 1
LEONATO What is he that you ask for, NIECE?
LEONATO Faith, NIECE, you tax Signior Benedick too much;
but he'll be meet with you, I doubt it not.
LEONATO You must not, sir, mistake my NIECE. There is a
kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her:
they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit
between them.
LEONATO You will never run mad, NIECE.
Act 1, Scene 2
ANTONIO the prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my
NIECE your daughter and meant to acknowledge it
this night in a dance:
Act 2, Scene 1
LEONATO By my troth, NIECE, thou wilt never get thee
a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.
ANTONIO [To HERO] Well, NIECE,
I trust you will be ruled by your father.
LEONATO Well, NIECE, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.
LEONATO NIECE, will you look to those things I told you of?
Act 2, Scene 3
DON PEDRO What was it you told me of to-day,
that your NIECE Beatrice was in love with Signior Benedick?
DON PEDRO And so will he do; for the man doth fear God,
howsoever it seems not in him by some large jests
he will make. Well I am sorry for your NIECE.
Act 5, Scene 1
ANTONIO God knows I loved my NIECE;
And she is dead, slander'd to death by villains,
That dare as well answer a man indeed
As I dare take a serpent by the tongue:
Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!
Act 5, Scene 4
BENEDICK To bind me, or undo me; one of them.
Signior Leonato, truth it is, good signior,
Your NIECE regards me with an eye of favour.
As You Like It Act 1, Scene 2
LE BEAU I can tell you that of late this duke
Hath ta'en displeasure 'gainst his gentle NIECE,
Grounded upon no other argument
But that the people praise her for her virtues
And pity her for her good father's sake;
Act 1, Scene 3
DUKE FREDERICK You, NIECE, provide yourself:
If you outstay the time, upon mine honour,
And in the greatness of my word, you die.
Act 5, Scene 4
DUKE SENIOR O my dear NIECE, welcome thou art to me!
Even daughter, welcome, in no less degree.
Twelfth Night Act 1, Scene 3
SIR TOBY BELCH What a plague means my NIECE,
to take the death of her brother thus?
SIR TOBY BELCH With drinking healths to my NIECE:
I'll drink to her as long as there is a passage in my throat
and drink in Illyria: he's a coward and a coystrill
that will not drink to my NIECE till his brains turn
o' the toe like a parish-top.
SIR ANDREW Faith, I'll home to-morrow, Sir Toby:
your NIECE will not be seen; or if she be, it's four to one
she'll none of me: the count himself here hard by woos her.
Act 2, Scene 3
MARIA I will drop in his way some obscure epistles
of love; wherein, by the colour of his beard, the shape
of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure
of his eye, forehead, and complexion, he shall find
himself most feelingly personated. I can write very
like my lady your NIECE: on a forgotten matter we
can hardly make distinction of our hands.
SIR TOBY BELCH
He shall think, by the letters that thou wilt drop,
that they come from my NIECE, and that she's in
love with him.
SIR ANDREW
If I cannot recover your NIECE, I am a foul way out.
Act 2, Scene 5
MALVOLIO Saying, 'Cousin Toby, my fortunes having cast me
on your NIECE give me this prerogative of speech,'--
Act 3, Scene 1
SIR TOBY BELCH Will you encounter the house?
my NIECE is desirous you should enter, if your trade be to her.
VIOLA I am bound to your NIECE, sir; I mean,
she is the list of my voyage.
Act 3, Scene 2
SIR ANDREW Marry, I saw your NIECE do more favours
to the count's serving-man than ever she bestowed upon me;
I saw't i' the orchard.
SIR TOBY BELCH Why, then, build me thy fortunes
upon the basis of valour. Challenge me the count's youth
to fight with him; hurt him in eleven places: my NIECE
shall take note of it; and assure thyself, there is no
love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's
commendation with woman than report of valour.
Act 3, Scene 4
SIR TOBY BELCH
Come, we'll have him in a dark room and bound.
My NIECE is already in the belief that he's mad: we
may carry it thus, for our pleasure and his penance,
till our very pastime, tired out of breath, prompt
us to have mercy on him: at which time we will
bring the device to the bar and crown thee for a
finder of madmen. But see, but see.
SIR TOBY BELCH
Now will not I deliver his letter: for the behavior
of the young gentleman gives him out to be of good
capacity and breeding; his employment between his
lord and my NIECE confirms no less: therefore this
letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no
terror in the youth: he will find it comes from a
clodpole. But, sir, I will deliver his challenge by
word of mouth;
FABIAN Here he comes with your NIECE:
Act 4, Scene 2
Clown Bonos dies, Sir Toby: for, as the old hermit
of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily
said to a NIECE of King Gorboduc, 'That that is is;'
so I, being Master Parson, am Master Parson; for,
what is 'that' but 'that,' and 'is' but 'is'?
SIR TOBY BELCH If he may be conveniently delivered,
I would he were, for I am now so far in offence with
my NIECE that I cannot pursue with any safety this
sport to the upshot.
Troilus and Cressida Act 1, Scene 2
PANDARUS You have no judgment, NIECE
PANDARUS good NIECE, do, sweet NIECE Cressida.
PANDARUS That's Hector, that, that, look you, that; there's
a fellow! Go thy way, Hector! There's a brave man, NIECE.
PANDARUS Look ye yonder, NIECE; is't not a gallant man too,
PANDARUS 'Tis Troilus! there's a man, NIECE!
PANDARUS Look well upon him, NIECE:
PANDARUS Fare ye well, good NIECE.
PANDARUS I'll be with you, NIECE, by and by.
Act 3, Scene 1
PANDARUS My NIECE is horribly in love
with a thing you have, sweet queen.
HELEN Commend me to your NIECE.
Pericles Prince of Tyre Act 3, Scene 4
CERIMON if you please, a NIECE of mine
Shall there attend you.
Titus Andronicus Act 2, Scene 4
MARCUS Who is this? my NIECE, that flies away so fast!
Cousin, a word; where is your husband?
If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me!
If I do wake, some planet strike me down,
That I may slumber in eternal sleep!
Speak, gentle NIECE, what stern ungentle hands
Have lopp'd and hew'd and made thy body bare
Of her two branches, those sweet ornaments,
Whose circling shadows kings have sought to sleep in,
And might not gain so great a happiness
As have thy love? Why dost not speak to me?
Alas, a crimson river of warm blood,
Like to a bubbling fountain stirr'd with wind,
Doth rise and fall between thy rosed lips,
Coming and going with thy honey breath.
But, sure, some Tereus hath deflowered thee,
And, lest thou shouldst detect him, cut thy tongue.
Ah, now thou turn'st away thy face for shame!
And, notwithstanding all this loss of blood,
As from a conduit with three issuing spouts,
Yet do thy cheeks look red as Titan's face
Blushing to be encountered with a cloud.
Shall I speak for thee? shall I say 'tis so?
O, that I knew thy heart; and knew the beast,
That I might rail at him, to ease my mind!
Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd,
Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.
Fair Philomela, she but lost her tongue,
And in a tedious sampler sew'd her mind:
But, lovely NIECE, that mean is cut from thee;
A craftier Tereus, cousin, hast thou met,
And he hath cut those pretty fingers off,
That could have better sew'd than Philomel.
O, had the monster seen those lily hands
Act 3, Scene 1
MARCUS ANDRONICUS Patience, dear NIECE.
Act 3, Scene 2
TITUS ANDRONICUS
So, so; now sit: and look you eat no more
Than will preserve just so much strength in us
As will revenge these bitter woes of ours.
Marcus, unknit that sorrow-wreathen knot:
Thy NIECE and I, poor creatures, want our hands,
And cannot passionate our tenfold grief
With folded arms.
Act 4, Scene 1
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
What means my NIECE Lavinia by these signs?
MARCUS ANDRONICUS Sit down, sweet NIECE:
[He writes his name with his staff, and guides it
with feet and mouth]
Cursed be that heart that forced us to this shift!
Write thou good NIECE; and here display, at last,
What God will have discover'd for revenge;
Heaven guide thy pen to print thy sorrows plain,
That we may know the traitors and the truth!
Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 2
ROMEO Stay, fellow; I can read.
[Reads]
Signior Placentio and his lovely NIECEs;
Mercutio and his brother Valentine; mine uncle
Capulet, his wife and daughters; my fair NIECE
Rosaline; Livia; Signior Valentio and his cousin
Tybalt, Lucio and the lively Helena.' A fair
assembly: whither should they come?
Othello, The Moor of Venice Act 5, Scene 2
OTHELLO [Rising] O, she was foul!
I scarce did know you, uncle: there lies your NIECE,
Whose breath, indeed, these hands have newly stopp'd:
I know this act shows horrible and grim.
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Art Neuendorffer