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Feb 27, 2003, 11:46:59 AM2/27/03

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"I thought Oz was a great Head," said Dorothy.

"And I thought Oz was a lovely Lady," said the Scarecrow.

"And I thought Oz was a Ball of Fire," exclaimed the Lion.

"And I thought Oz was a terrible Beast," said the Tin Woodman.

"No, you are all wrong," said the little man meekly.
"I have been making
believe."

"Making believe!" cried Dorothy. "Are you not a Great WIZARD?"

"Hush, my dear," he said. "Don't speak so loud, or you will be
overheard- and I should be ruined. I'm supposed to be a Great WIZARD."
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K[CÚ]P L[CÚ]LIW ABCDEFGHIJKLM EREVIV EVIL WIZARD
P[XF]K O[XF]ORD ZYXWVUTSRQPON VIVERE VERO DRAZIW
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P[ÚC]K Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a HOUND,
A HOG, a headless bear, sometime a FIRE;
And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,
Like horse, HOUND, HOG, bear, fire, at EVERy turn.
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W. H. = [W]illiam [H]erbert / [H]enry [W]riothesley
V. G.
U. F.
T. E. = T.S. Eliot / E.T.
S. D. = [S]tephen [D]edalus
R. C. = [R]obinson [C]rusoe / Rosicrucians
Q. B.
P. A.
O. Z. = WIZARD
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'I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience.
And to forge in the smithy of my soul,
the uncreated conscience of my race.' - [S]tephen [D]edalus
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So Who Wrote Shakespeare?

*1* It would certainly be someone whose name
was stategically hidden in the works of Shake-speare:

*2* It might very well be someone whose life history
was hidden in "the facts" of Shakspere's life:

*3* It would probably be someone whose life history
was hidden in the works of Shake-speare:

Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford
is the only one for which this is all true:
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*1* Someone whose name was stategically hidden in the works:
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UNO.VERE-VIRGIL. POET.
OUR.EVER-LIVING. POET.
NIL.VERO-VERIU(S). POET.
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Shakespeare's _Poems_(1640) -- I. B.

HIS EVERLIVIN{G W}OR[kes]

{W}
VERONIH{I}LVERI(u)S
{G}

W I G , v. t. To censure or rebuke;
to hold up to reprobation; to scold.
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_The History of Troylus and Cresseida_ (1609)
"A nEVER writer, to an EVER reader."
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David Webb wrote: [CÚ] is Irish Gaelic for "HOUND"
...for my name is *WIL[ ]L* - Sonnet 136
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K[CÚ]P L[CÚ]LIW ABCDEFGHIJKLM EREVIV EVIL WIZARD
P[XF]K O[XF]ORD ZYXWVUTSRQPON VIVERE VERO DRAZIW
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P[ÚC]K Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a HOUND,
A HOG, a headless bear, sometime a FIRE;
And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,
Like horse, HOUND, HOG, bear, fire, at EVERy turn.
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VENVS AND ADONIS
Imprinted by Richard Field, and are to be fold at the
figne of the white GREYHOUND in Paules Church-yard. 1593.

<<LAELAPS was placed in the skies following Orion, where he is doomed
forever to chase LEPUS the HARE in the southern sky just out of reach
of his JAWS. From his orbiting position he could watch for the *NILE*
floodwaters started north. As soon as Canis Major showed his JAWS,
as represented by Sirius rising shortly before the sun did,
Egyptian priests would send the signal over the countryside.>>
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'LÆLAPS the HOUND' chasing 'LEPUS the HARE':

1610 Spencer's _Faerie Queene_,
1611 King James Bible,
1614 Raleigh's _History of the World_
1620 Bacon's _Novum Organum_
1623 Shakespeare _Folio_

http://www.sirbacon.org/links/abaconi1.htm
http://www.sirbacon.org/links/spenser2.html

HOUNDs like the TALBOT usually have large drooping ears.

"How would it have joyed brave TALBOT (the terror of the French)
to think that after he had lyne two hundred yeares in his TOMBE,
hee should triumphe again on the Stage, and have his bones newe
embalmed with the teares of ten thousand spectators at least;"
- Nashe's _Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Diuel_(1592)
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HOLOFERNES Ovidius Naso was the man: and why, indeed, Naso,
but for smelling out the odouriferous flowers of
fancy, the jerks of invention? Imitari is nothing:
so doth the HOUND his master, the APE his keeper,
the TIRED HORSE his rider.
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<<In a village of La MANCHA,
there lived not long since one of those gentlemen
that keep a lance in the lance-rack,
an old b[ÚC]kler, a lean hack, and a GREYHOUND for coursing.>>
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lgboyd/chapter5.htm

<<The DE VERES were an ancient dynastic family seated at their ancestral
village of VER (from which they took their name), near Bayeaux and
the River VIRE,in MANCHE on the Normandy coast of present-day northern
France. The name of the town itself came from the "VER," a Norse word
meaning *FISHDAM* that the Vikings had introduced into Normandy.>>
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<< [Shakespeare] was honest, and of an open & free nature
had an excellent Phantsie ; brave notions & gentle expressions
wherein hee *FLOW'D* with that facility,
that sometime it was necessary he should be *STOP'd* :>>
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T O T H E O [N] L i E B E G E T T E R O
F T H E S E [I] n s U I N G S O N N E T
S M *r* W h a [L] L h a] P P I [N] E S S E A
N D *t* h a t [E] T [E|r] N I T [I] E P R O M
I S *E* D B Y O U [R|e] V E R [L] I V I N G
P O *E* t W i s h [E|t] 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
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<<[SOCRATES to Hermogenes]: *ARETE* signifying in the 1st place
ease of motion, then that the STREAM of the good soul is UNIMPEDED,
and has therefore the attribute of *EVER FLOWING* without
let or hindrance, and is therefore called *ARETE*, or,
more correctly, aeireite (EVER-FLOWING)>> - CRATYLUS by Plato
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Revelation 22

1: And he shewed me *a pure river of water* of life, clear
as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

4: They shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.

[Oxford Bible:] On Kathman's list but not Stritmatter's:
http://shakespeareauthorship.com/sf/thingitself.html

"Cross" marks, e.g. Rev 22
http://shakespeareauthorship.com/sf/rev22cross.jpg

13: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end,
the first and the last.

14: Blessed are they that do his commandments,
that they may have right to the tree of life,
and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15: For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and
murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a LIE.
16: I am the root and the offspring of David,
*and the bright & morning star*
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<<MORNINGSTAR is a middling tall, leanly athletic male whose vigilante
uniform generally is stylized, red motorcycle racing leathers,
a black leather jacket, and a red Zorro-style mask. Curiously,
his outfit bears a vague resemblance to that favored by
the metahuman VAGABOND - a notorious member of The Hexagon.>>
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http://www.entrenet.com/~groedmed/lcm.html

<<In 1572 Elizabeth I's Ministers passed through Parliament the

"Act for Punishment as VAGABONDS";

this required all entertainers to obtain a NOBLE patron who would
vouch for their conduct as they travelled through the countryside.>>

'And I have only to add, sir,' said Mr. Pickwick, now thoroughly
angry, 'that I consider you a rascal, and a--a--ruffian--and--
and worse than any man I EVER saw, or heard of, except that
pious and sanctified VAGABOND in the MULBERRY LIVERY.'
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Genesis 4:12 a fugitive and a VAGABOND shalt thou be in the earth.

Genesis 4:14 from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive
and a VAGABOND in the earth; and it shall come to pass,
that EVERy one that findeth me shall SLAY me.

All's Well That Ends Well Act 2, Scene 3

LAFEU Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a
kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a VAGABOND and
no TRUE TRAVELLER: you are more saucy with lords &
honourable personages than the commission of your
birth and virtue gives you heraldry. You are not
worth another word, else I'LD CALL YOU KNAVE.

'It is my fate,' said Mr. Micawber, 'to walk the WALK as a VAGABOND.
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Q2 & Folio: "CLAMBRING TO HANG, AN ENVIOUS SLIVER BROKE"

V E R O N I L V E R I U S
A L
G E
A N
B K
O C
N N
[D] I
R
B
S
A
M
O
H
T
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<< A packed jury instructed by CECIL found that
THOMAS BRINCKNELL had caused his own death by
wilfully hurling himself on Oxford's rapier.

Condemned as a suicide, Brincknell was denied Christian burial,

and his pregnant widow AGNES & 3-year-old son QUYNTYN

were stripped of their assets & abandoned to her relatives
and the parish church.>> -- Prof. Alan Nelson
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It is *extremely* difficult to find the 28 letters of
a basic "VERONILVERIUS/THOMAS BRINCKNELL" cross:

V E R O N I L V E R I U S
L
E
N
K
C
N
I
R
B
S
A
M
O
H
T

in a string of less than 39 letters:

My 3 Million letter literary data base
contains just one 38 letter string with the
"VERONILVERIUS/THOMAS BRINCKNELL" cross:

1) "va lives that bluediorn and storridge can mak" (Finnegans Wake)
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And yet, a *single Act* of _Hamlet_ (Q2 Act 4) has not one
but TWO such strings with less than 36 letters!

*CLAMBRING TO HANG, AN ENVIOUS SLIVER BROKE* 35 letters
*BLIVION, OR SOME CRAVEN SCRUPLE OF THINK* 33 letters
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Estimated probability of finding the
"VERONILVERIUS/THOMAS BRINCKNELL" cross
in a given string of:

35 letters { *CLAMBRING TO HANG, AN ENVIOUS SLIVER BROKE* }

~ 1 / 50,000,000

33 letters { *BLIVION, OR SOM[E-CRAVEN-S]CRUPLE OF THINK* }

~ 1 / 1,000,000,000
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Estimated probability of finding two such strings
IN A SINGLE ACT of Shakespeare :

~ 1 / 3,000,000
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The Comedy of Errors Act 3, Scene 1

DROMIO OF EPHESUS: MAUD, BRIDGET, (=> BRIDGET)
MARIAN, CICEL, (=> CECIL)
Gillian, GINN! (=> "children of fire having
the power of assuming various formes")
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ARCHILOCHUS solar eclipse: April 6, 648 BC Friday

Koran descends to Earth: April 6, 610 AD Monday
Clements' St.Methodius dies: April 6, 884 Monday
Petrarch meets LAURA: April 6, 1327 Monday
LAURA dies of plague: April 6, 1348 Sunday
RAPHAEL born: April 6, 1483 Sunday
RAPHAEL dies: April 6, 1520 Good Friday

{LUCIO: Does BRIDGET PAINT still, Pompey, ha? [MfM Act 3, Sc. 2]}

DURER dies: April 6, 1528 Monday
Kent EARTHQUAKE: April 6, 1580 Wednesday
BRIDGET Vere's birth: April 6, 1584 Monday
Thomas Hobbes' birth: April 5, 1588 Good Friday
Sir Francis Walsingham dies: April 6, 1590 Monday
Historian John Stow dies: April 6, 1605 Sat/Wed.
"native of Crete" EL GRECO dies: April 7, 1614 Monday
Start of _The SOUND & the FURY_: April 6, 1928 Good Friday
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<< Upon the sixth of April, Alexander the Great was born.

Upon the same day he conquered Darius,
won a great victory at sea, & died the same day.

Neither was this day less fortunate to his father Philip;
for on the same day he took Potidea; >> - JOHN AUBREY, F.R.S.
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<<Suddenly, in Babylon, Alexander the Great was taken sick after
a splendid entertainment. There he drank much unmixed wine,
& finally, filling a huge beaker, downed it at a gulp.>>

<<Shakespeare, Drayton, & Ben Jonson,
had a merie meeting, and itt seems drank too hard,
for Shakespear died of a feavour there contracted.>>
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Ham. To what base vses we may returne Horatio.
Why may not Imagination trace the Noble dust of A-
lexander, till he find it stopping a bunghole.

Hor. 'Twere to consider: to curiously to consider so.

Ham. No faith, not a iot. But to follow him thether
with modestie enough, & likeliehood to lead it; as thus.
Alexander died: Alexander was buried: Alexander re-
turneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make
Lome, and why of that Lome (whereto he was conuer-
ted) might they not stopp a Beere-barrell?
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*2* Someone whose life history
was hidden in "the facts" of Shakspere's life:
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F. Beaumont married heiress: ur[SUL(a)IS]ley of [SUN]dridge

[ http://www.athenapub.com/britbath.htm ]

<<BATH, England: In the late 1st century AD the Romans built
Aquae SULIS: a bath complex around the sacred spring.
A temple to SULIS Celtic goddess of healing
merged with the Roman goddess of wisdom, MINERVA.>>
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Whenever the Romans occupied a new colony they were careful to
propitiate the GENIUS of the land. BRITANNIA was the personified
GENIA of Britain & was first depicted on a coin of Antoninus Pius
(d. AD 161). BRITANNIA, with the attributes & weapons of MINERVA,
appeared on coins during the reign of Charles II in 1665,
and became the symbol of the British Empire.>>
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_MINERVA BRITANNA_ Banner Folding:

(V I\V\ I T U R
I N G \E\ N I O
|C||E||T| E \R\ A M
|O||R||T| I S \E\ R
|U||N||T|

http://f01.middlebury.edu/FS010A/students/Minerva/title.jpg
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[CU]ckold, n. [OE. coc-{COU}, F. {COU}-{COU}, cf. L. CU-CU-lus.]
refering to the habit of the female CU-ckoo to lay her eggs
in the nests of other birds, to be hatched by them.

The Rape of Lucrece [Stanza 122]

'Why should the WORM intrude the maiden BUD?
Or hateful *CUCKOOS* hatch in SPARROWS' nests?

<<I am mad to think how minute a cause has prevented me hitherto from
reading Shakspeare. But until now, every copy that was come-atable
to me, happened to be in a VILE small print unendurable to my eyes
which are tender as *YOUNG SPARROWS* . But chancing to fall in
with this glorious edition, I now exult in it, PAGE after PAGE.>>
-- Melville Letter to Evert Duyckinck, February 24 1849

[T]o fill with WORM-holes stately monuments,
[T]o feed oblivion with decay of things,
[T]o BLOT old books and alter their contents,
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JOHN AUBREY, F.R.S.: [Shakspeare] was a handsome,
well-shaped man, VERiE good companie,
and of a VERiE ready, pleasant, and smooth wit.
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<<I have heard that Mr. Shakspeare supplied the stage with 2 plays
EVER year, and for itt had an allowance so large, that hee spent att
the rate of £1,000 a-year.>> - *REVEREND WARD* , Diary 1661-63
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*REVEREND WARD*

E D W A R D V E R E
R
N

E R N : a *PLEDGE* ; akin to Gael. EARLAS,

PLEDGING 2 plays a-year [for 18 years]
EDWARD VERE earned £1,000 a-year: [June 26, 1586 - June 24, 1604]
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``I see,'' said Wamba, after a short pause, ``that
the fool must be still the fool, and put his neck
in the venture which wise men shrink from. You
must know, my dear cousins and countrymen, that
I more russet before I wore motley, and was bred
to be a friar, until a BRAIN-fEVER came upon me
and left me just wit enough to be a fool.''
-- _Ivanhoe_ by Sir Walter Scott
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_Heart of Mid-Lothian_ by Sir Walter Scott

Interrogated, declares, that among the ill-language the
woman gave her, she did say sure enough that the declarant
had hurt the BAIRN when she was in the BRAIN fEVER;
but that the declarant does not believe that she said
this from any other cause than to frighten her,
and make her be silent

BAIRN, n. [Scot. bairn, AS. bearn, fr. beran to bear; akin
to Icel., OS., &Goth. barn.] A child. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

"Has he not well provided for the BAIRN!" --Beau. & Fl.
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John (7th) Earl of Oxford at Battle of Crécy on AUGUST 26, 1346
genius Archbishop Thomas of BRAD(ward)INE dies on AUGUST 26, 1349
BRAIN:ED(ward) +5×53
B. [ARDEN (ward)] I. ----------------
Mary ARDEN's sister, MARgerY Webbe, was buried on AUGUST 26, 1614
BUTCHER son-in-law Lope de Vega dies in Madrid on AUGUST 26, 1635
BUTCHER son-in-law John Hall dies 3 mo. later on Lope's birthday.
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[Patron Saint of BU'CHERS] St. Adrian : SEPT.8 & AUGUST 26
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JOHN AUBREY, F.R.S.: DAY FATALITY OF ROME,

<<In the year of Christ 410, in the month of August,
Rome was trampled under foot, and her heathen inhabitants
were miserably slaughtered by the victorious army of Alaric, a
Christian King of the Goths. Kedrenus saith it was AUGUST 26th.>>

AUGUST 26, 410 + [5×5×5×5] => AUGUST 26, 1635 Lopé de Vega dies.
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HENRY JAMES letter [AUGUST 26, 1903] to Violet Hunt

<<I am "a sort of" haunted by the conviction that the divine William is
the biggest and most successful fraud ever practised on a patient world.
The more I turn him round and round the more he so affects me.>>
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<<[Shakespeare] gorged on farming terms [like] MEERS>> -p.35, Honan

MEER/MERE, n. A boundary. --Bacon.:

BAILIFF: Mining Officer who directs & lays out the MERES
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BAILIFF ______________________
GLOVEmaker- / \
BUTCHER John --------- MARY MARgerY Webbe
[could write | [could write [d. St.Adrian's Day]
his 'marke'] | her 'marke']
[bur. St.Adrian's Day] | [d. St.Adrian's Day]
___|___________
/ \ [illiterate]
MARgerY Shakspere ------------ Anne
[BROOK House] |[b. 1556]
[Shaxpere's Boys] |
[Shakspere GLOVES] |
[Golding's 'OVID'] |
[Stratford upon Avon] |
[God's 'I am that I am'] |
[1586 DEER Park poacher] |
[£1,000/year for 18 years] |
[MERES' Top 10 in comedy (1598)] |
[1608 Lessor of BLACKFRIARS Th.] |
|
Hall M.D. -------- SUSANna
[d. on Lope's 73rd birthday [b. May 26]
3 mo. after de Vega dies] [could write name]
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<<Ops (Opis) The Roman goddess of the earth as a source of fertility,
and a goddess of abundance and wealth in general (her name means
"PLENTY"). As goddess of harvest she is closely associated
with the god Consus. She is the sister and wife of Saturn.

The festival OPALIA, was observed on DECEMBER 19.

The major temple was of Ops Capitolina, on Capitoline Hill,
where Caesar located the TREASURY.>>
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Sonnet 136: WILL will fulfil the TREASURE of thy love,
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Edward de Vere marries daughter of TREASURER William Cecil:

OPALIA = OP-HEL-IA = Anne Cecil [age 15] on DECEMBER 19, 1571
(during Venus/Uranus/Sun conj.)
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Katherine HAMLETT drowns in the Avon DECEMBER 18, 1579
(Venus 8 year{-2 day} cycle: during Venus/Mercury/Sun/Moon conj.)
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John ----------- MARgerY
|
______|____
/ \ m. OPALIA(1571) [Sonneteer]
MARY Oxford --------------- Anne
[BROOKE House] | [b. 1556]
[Oxford's Boys] |
[Oxford GLOVES] |
[Golding's 'OVID'] |
[Stratford atte Bowe] |
[God's 'I am that I am'] |
[1604 DEER Park warden] |
[£1,000/year for 18 years] |
[MERES' Top 10 in comedy (1598)] |
[1583 Lessor of BLACKFRIARS Th.] |
|
Herbert (Philip) ----- SUSAN
[b. St. LONGINUS day] [b. May 26]
[Folio dedicatee] [Jaggard dedicatee]
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#1 sister: SUSAN Vere Herbert dies February 1, 1629
+222
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Frankenstein's Mary S-HEL-ley dies February 1, 1851
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St. Brigit is honored on Imbolg: February 1st

http://www.angelfire.com/de/poetry/Whoswho/Brigit.html

<<BRIGIT is an Irish Goddess with two sisters also named BRIGIT.

These 3 SISTERS were often amalgamated into one entity.

#1) a goddess of poetry, handicrafts, & learning;
#2) a goddess of smiths & metalworking;
#3) a goddess of healing & fertility.
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The Comedy of Errors Act 3, Scene 1

DROMIO OF EPHESUS: MAUD, BRIDGET, (=> BRIDGET) #2 sister
MARIAN, CICEL, (=> CECIL)
Gillian, GINN! (=> "children of fire having
the power of assuming various formes")
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<<The Stentoften runestone (ca. 620 C.E.) reads:
"I, master of the runes, bury here GINN-runes (runes of power).">>

http://zurix.apana.org.au/asatru/Webpage2/Ftpstone.htm
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#3 sister) Elizabeth Vere: [July 2, 1575 - (G)March 20, 1626]
Thomas Cranmer: [July 2, 1489 - (J)March 21, 1556]
{3 blind mice}
Latimer & Ridley burned at stake: Oct. 16, 1555
+29
Susan Vere's husband: -----------------
Philip Herbert born St. LONGINUS day Oct. 16, 1584
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Filid--Hecht: Disting/Imbolg: time of swearing of *OATHS*
HUGUENOT means: "OATH fellows"
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<<LONGINUS: centurion at the Crucifixion who acknowledged Christ
as "the son of God" (Matt. 27:54; Mark 15:39; Luke 23:47).
This centurion is also identified as the soldier who pierced
"His side with a LANCE" (John 19:34), because the name
is derived from the Greek word LONGCHE, meaning a LANCE.>>
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http://www.angelfire.com/de/poetry/Whoswho/Brigit.html

<<St. Brigit/Brigid (the saint and the goddess) is associated with
the coming of spring (VER). A folk-story tells how she played the
FOOL by lighting a crown of candles and wearing it on her head
to distract Herod's soldiers from the Holy Infant.

The ancient Filid or BARDS were under her direct inspiration for
the creation of filidhecht (poetry), and she was also important to
the Druids as a goddess of divination. In Romano-Celtic temples
she was frequently amalgamated with the goddess MINERVA.

Like the Norse goddess *HEL* the one side of her face was ugly,
but the other side was VERy comely.>>
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"MINERVA strengthens thy right hand, BELLONA reigns
in thy body, within thee burns the fire of MARS.
Thine eyes flash fire, thy WILL SHAKES A SPEAR;"

-- Gabriel Harvey on Edward de Vere
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February 2, 1529,(The Courtier) BALTHASAR Castiglione dies in Toledo
February 2, 1585, Shakespeare twins, Hamnet & Judith baptized.

February 2, 1650, Charles II's mistress NELL GWIN born
February 2, 1685, Charles II: "Let not poor Nellie starve" & died.

BRITANNIA, with the attributes & weapons of MINERVA,
appeared on coins during the reign of Charles II in 1665,
and became the symbol of the British Empire.

February 2, 1882, James Joyce, born [Thurs.]
February 2, 1922, Ulysses published [Thurs.]

February 2, 1709, British sailor Alexander Selkirk rescued [Wedn.]
February 2, 1785, Haydn's Freemasonry letter [Wedn.]

February 2, 1862, SAMU(el) CLEMENS 1st uses pseudonym: Mark Twain
February 2, 1870, CLEMENS marries Olivia Langdon in Elmira [Wedn.]
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THE 4TH POPE: CLEMENS roMAnUS (St. CLEMENT)
Patron saint of THE *GUILD* Died c. 100.
http://users.erols.com/saintpat/ss/1123.htm#clem

"O God, make us children of quietness, and HEIRS of peace"
--Saint CLEMENT.

<<[St. CLEMENT] left one writing- *a letter* to the Church of Corinth:

"The strong must make sure that they care for the weak. The rich must
be certain to give enough to supply all the needs of the poor. The poor
must thank God for supplying their needs . . . We all need each other:
the great need the small, the small need the great. In our body, the
head is useless without the feet and the feet without the head. The
tiniest limbs of our body are useful and necessary to the whole">>
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William Cecil of St Clement Danes forced his ward Edward de Vere
to underline Bible passages which discuss caring for the poor.
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St Clement{em} Danes
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Brincknell Inquest 1567
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/DOCS/brinck.html

<<Et quidam Ed{ward}us Baynam de Ciuitate p{re}d{i}c{t}a
Taylor fuer{unt} insimul in quodam loco voc{at}o le Backe
yarde infra do{m}um Mans{i}onal{em} Will{elm}i Cecyll
Milit{is} apud St Clement{em} Danes . . . Et sic Iur{atores}
p{re}d{i}c{t}i dicunt sup{er} sacr{u}m suu{m} q{uo}d
p{re}d{i}c{t}us Thomas Brinckenell apud St Clement{em} Danes>>
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4th Pope St. Clement drowned with an ANCHOR tied round his neck.
http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/1123.htm
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Xrob wrote:

> Looking at the V&A title page ornament, I see
> what appears to be the words 'AN CHORA SPEI'.
> Does anyone know what it means?

John W. Kennedy wrote:

> My guess is ANCHORA SPEI: "[the] ANCHOR of HOPE".
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<<HOPE, in heavenly blue, carries a small ANCHOR that recalls the
biblical mention of HOPE "as an ANCHOR of the soul.">> - Spenser

"I wish [it] may always answer your own wish and
the world's HOPEful expectation."

Your honour's in all duty, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

Even as the SUN with purple-colour'd face
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"BARON MUNCHAUSEN"

ANCHORSUNBEAM
U
N
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Cymbeline Act 5 v

Soothsayer From south to west on wing soaring aloft,
Lessen'd herself, and in the BEAMS o' the SUN
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_Thomas Shelton and Hamet Benengeli_
by Francis Carr
http://www.sirbacon.org/links/carrq.html
http://ww2.netnitco.net/users/legend01/falcon.htm

THE FIRST EDITION OF "DON QUIXOTE." 1605

<<We see a hooded falcon resting on the gloved hand of a man hidden
from view. Swirling shapes, possibly mist, on one side only,
stress the fact that the falconer is hidden, just out of sight.
Around the arm and the bird is the inscription:

POST TENEBRAS SPERO LUCEM
after darkness I hope for light.

P
B o
PoeTaster <=> TeneBras
n t

The inscription takes us to Chapter 68 of the 2nd Part of Don Quixote,
in which the knight tells Sancho Panza that he too hopes for light:

O hard heart! oh ungodly Squire! oh ill given bread, and favours ill
placed which I bestowed, and thought to have more and more conferred
upon thee . . . for I post tenebras spero lucem. I understand not
that, said Sancho, only I know that whilest I am sleeping, I
neither feare nor hope, have neither paine nor pleasure.

In Cervantes' text, Quixote follows the words in Latin with a
translation into the vernacular: "after darkness I expect light".
Sancho, however, still says "I don't understand that".

Shelton's version makes sense. It seems that Cervantes' explanation has
been added to help the reader, but it is a mistake, as it makes Sancho's
reply incomprehensible. Was Cervantes' text a translation of Shelton?>>
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St Clement's Day
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November 23, 1558 Elizabeth begins royal progress towards London.
+3×3×3
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November 23, 1585 Composer Thomas Tallis [T.T.], dies at 80.

November 23, 1590 Marriage of James VI & Anne of Denmark

November 23, 1616 sHAKespeaRe qUInCY, of Thomas & Judith, baptized.
November 23, 1616 RIChard HAK(l)UY(t) dies
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GONERIL As you are old and REVEREND, you should be wise.
Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires;
Men so disorder'd, so DEBOSH'd and bold,
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"he was not a company keeper lived in ShoreDITCH, wouldn't
be DEBAUCHED, & if invited to writ: he was in paine."
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DEBAUCH, v. t. & i. [F. D['E]BAUCHER,
OF. BAUCHE, bauge, hut,
cf. F. bauge LAIR OF A WILD BOAR]
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_DiscoVERiEs_ by Ben Jonson (1640)
De Shakespeare *NoStrat*
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<<I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour
to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned)
he nEVER BLOTTED out line.
My answer hath been, would he had BLOTTED a thousand.>>
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<<wee have scarse received from him a BLOT in his papers.>>
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<<They awarded BELOTT 20 nobles. . .later noting:

*'tous pere & gendre DESBAUCHEZ'*

both [HUGUENOT] father & son-in-law are low-lifes]>>- E.K.Chambers
http://www.usm.maine.edu/~rabrams/belott.html
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COLOSSIANS 2:13 He QUICKened together with him; BLOTTING OUT
the HANDWRITING of ordinances that was against us, which was
contrary to us and took it out of the way, NAILING it to his cross;
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*E.O* NLIE BEGET[T]E ROFTHESEI
/N/*S* UING SONNE[T]S M RWHALLH
/A/p[P*I* NES [S]EAND[T]HA\T\ ETERN
/I/Ti[Ep *R* OM [I]SED BYOUR\E\ VER
/L/IVi[N]gp *O.E*[T]WI(S)HETHTH\E\ W
/E/LLWi[S]hing [A]DV(E)NTURERI\N\
/S/ET TIn GFORT HT(T)
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(1584) Foure Epytaphes, made by the [ANNIe] Countes of Oxenford,
after the death of her young Sonne, the Lord Bulbecke, &c.

[I]dall, for Adon, nev'r shed so many teares:
[N]or Thet', for Pelid: nor Phoebus, for Hyacinthus
[N]or for *A T I S* , the mother of Prophetesses
[A]t the brute of it, the Aphroditan Queene,
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<<Several years after [the 9th Earl of Oxford was] killed
*by a BOAR during a hunt* in *Brabant* in 1392, Holinshed tells
us that "King Richard caused his corpse, being embalmed, to be
conveyed into England, and so to the priory of Colnie in Essex,
appointing him to be laid in a coffin of CYPRESS,>>
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<<At 16 Oxford was writing polished poetry, & Edwards was
collecting it (7 pieces were in his personal collection,
later published as Paradise of DAINTY Devices)>>

The Taming of the Shrew

GREMIO BASINS and EWERS to lave her DAINTY hands;
My hangings all of Tyrian tapestry;
In ivory coffers I have stuff'd my crowns;
In CYPRESS chests my arras counterpoints,
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"His dayes are done, that made the DAINTY Playes,
Which made the Globe of heav'n and earth to ring."
-- Hugh Holland
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Act 5, Scene 1

First Clown What is he that builds stronger than either
the MASON, the shipwright, or the CARPENTER?
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ISAIAH 44:13 The CARPENTER stretcheth out his RULE; he marketh
it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it
out with the COMPASS, and maketh it after the figure of a man,
according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the CYPRESS and the oak,
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"The village CARPENTER . . . lays out his work by
EMPIRICAL rules learnt in his apprenticeship." --H. SPENCER.
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<<Aubrey de Vere (c.1340- *APRIL 23, 1400*) 10th E. of Oxford;

erroneously named as *beheaded* [February 1400]
('Oxford, Salisbury,', etc.),
in Q1,2,3,4 of Rich. II, v, 6, . . . corrected in FfQ5
to 'Salisbury, *SPENCER* ,' etc.; as in Hol.iii,516.>>
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<<John Chamberlain says in a letter of January 17, 1599:
" *SPENCER* our principall poet coming out of Ireland
died at Westminster on Satterday last.">> -- Terry Ross
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Stratford Church Register marriage entries:

January 17, 1579 "William WILLSONNE and Anne HATHAWAY of Shotterye."

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

November 28, 1582 William Shagspere & Anne Hathwey of Stratford
[November 28, 1660 founding of the Royal Society]
November 27, 1582 Wm Shaxpere & Anna Whateley of Temple Grafton
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November 27.5 <=> May 26
[St.John's day - 1 lunar month]

Witty Susanna Shak. was 'born' on St. AUGUSTINE's day May 26, 1583
SUSAN Vere born on St. AUGUSTINE's day May 26, 1587
HENRY PORTER disappears on St. AUGUSTINE's day May 26, 1599

Freemason Alexander Pushkin born St. AUGUSTINE's day May 26, 1799
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HUGUENOT Abraham de Moivre born St. AUGUSTINE's day May 26, 1667
+ 7/8ths of a century
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HUGUENOT Abraham de Moivre dies (as predicted) November 27, 1754
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<<Hire only. HUGUENOT. ( He twitches .) It is a funny sound.>>

Ulysses by James Joyce [HUGUENOT: "OATH fellows"]
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Stratford Publisher Richard Field had a HUGUENOT boss & wife.

VENVS AND ADONIS
Imprinted by Richard Field, and are to be fold at the
figne of the white GREYHOUND in Paules Church-yard. 1593.

"LUCRECE. London.
Printed by Richard Field, and are to be sold at the signe of
the white GREYHOUND in Paules Church-yard, 1594" 4to.
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*3* Someone whose life history was hidden in the works:
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http://sterling.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/projects/anglia/mbse19.htm

<<St. Mary, Bury St. Edmunds, Tomb of Sir William (1501) and Lady
Margaret (1525) Carew, north side of chancel. Margaret is richly
dressed with feet resting on two dogs, a TALBOT & GREYHOUND.>>
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William Shakspere's son-in-law John Hall died at New Place on
25 November 1635 and was interred in the chancel. His arms
(three TALBOT heads erased), are impaled with Shakespeare's.>>
_Shakespeare a Life_,p. 398, Park Honan.
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John Hall's son-in-law Thomas Nash died in 1647 and was buried
in the 'Tombe' to the immediate right of W.Shakspere.

His namesake Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) wrote:

GREYHOUND: A public-house sign, in honour of Henry VII.
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A Bacon _Henry VII_ essay but NO Shake-speare _Henry VII_!
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As told by the Duchess of Cleveland:

Henry VII: These handsome gentlemen & yeomen which I see
on both sides of me, are surely your menial servants?

John de Vere [15th] Earle of Oxford: They are not for mine ease;
they are most of them my retainers.

Henry VII: I may not endure to have my laws broken in my sight;
my attorney must speak with you.

[DE VERE was fined £10,000 for having exceeded
the number of retainers prescribed to him.]
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GONERIL As you are old and REVEREND, you should be wise.
Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires;
Men so disorder'd, so DEBOSH'd and bold,
That this our court, infected with their manners,
Shows like a riotous inn: epicurism and lust
Make it more like a tavern or a brothel
Than a graced palace.
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Lord Burghley received a letter complaining of Oxford's compatriots
committing robbery "upon Gadshill in Kent" in May, 1573
the FOURTEENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF Elizabeth Regina.
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Clerk. Why then, [CUt]bert [CUt]ter, I indict thee by the
name of [CUt]bert [CUt]ter, for robbing a poor carrier
the 20 day of May last past, in the FOURTEEN YEAR OF
THE REIGN of our sovereign Lord King Henry the fourth,
for setting upon a poor Carrier upon Gadshill in Kent,
and having beaten and wounded the said Carrier, and
taken his goods from him. - _The Famous Victories_
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<<The historic role of the 11th Earl of Oxford at Agincourt was
elaborated in _The Famous Victories of Henry the fifth_(1598)

Oxford is the only English nobleman in the play!>> - Ogburn

Richard de Vere held the hereditary distinction of Lord DRACONIS
Edmund: My father compounded with my mother under the DRAGON'S TAIL
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NO mention of Richard Véer [11th] earle of Oxenford in _Henry V_
nor of Robert Véer [9th] earle of Oxenford in _Richard II_
nor of John Véer [7th] earle of Oxenford in _Edward III_
nor of Robert Véer [3rd] earle of Oxenford in _John_
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Venus & Adonis

He tells her, no; to-morrow he intends
To hunt the BOAR with certain of his friends.
'The BOAR!' quoth she; whereat a sudden pale,
Like lawn being spread upon the blushing rose,
Usurps her cheek; she trembles at his tale,
And ON HIS NECK HER YOKING ARMS she throws:

'But this foul, grim, and urchin-snouted BOAR,
Whose downward eye still looketh for a grave,
NE'ER SAW the beauteous LIVERY that he wore;
WITNESS THE ENTERTAINMENT that he gave:
If he did see his face, why then I know
He thought to kiss him, and hath kill'd him so.
''Tis TRUE, 'tis TRUE; thus was Adonis slain:
He ran upon the BOAR with his sharp SPEAR,
Who did not WHET HIS TEETH at him again,
But by a kiss thought to persuade him there;
And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine
Sheathed unaware the tusk IN HIS SOFT GROIN.
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<<The 16th Earl, weary of the toil, alights from his horse
& walks alone on foot; when suddenly down the path came
the enraged beast with his mouth all foamy, HIS TEETH WHETTED,
his bristles up, & all the signs of fury and anger.
But the Earl alters not his pace, draws out his rapier
and at the first encounter slew the BOAR.>> -Ogburn (p.430)
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<< A packed jury instructed by CECIL found that
THOMAS BRINCKNELL had caused his own death by
wilfully hurling himself on Oxford's rapier.>> - Alan Nelson
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http://f01.middlebury.edu/FS010A/students/Minerva/title.jpg

"MENTE VIDEBOR"
"DE VERE IN TOMB"

*QUICK* Nature dy'd whose name doth deck his *TOMBe*
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Dedication to Oxford in Fairie Queene (1590)
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(W)hich so to doe may thee right well befit,
(S)ith th'antique glory of thine auncestry

*Vnder a shady VELE is therein writ* ,
[VELLE = L., to WILL]
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*W I L L* will fulfill the TREASURE of thy loue,
I fill it full with wils,and my WILL one,
Make but my name thy loue,and loue that still,
And then thou louest me for my name is *W I L L*
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[CU]ckold, n. [OE. coc-COU, F. COU-COU, cf. L. CU-CU-lus.]
refering to the habit of the female CU-ckoo to lay her eggs
in the nests of other birds, to be hatched by them.
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LEVITICUS 21:10 => "the anointing of a cowan"
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LEVITICUS 21:10 And he that is *the high priest* among his brethren,
upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is
consecrated to put on the garments, shall not *UNCOVER his head*,
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Miguel Cervantes Saavedra "died" in poverty in Madrid April 23, 1616.
Cervantes was borne from his house "with his face UNCOVERED."
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1 COR 11:4 EVERY MAN praying or prophesying,
having his head COVERED, dishonoureth his head.
1 COR 11:7 For a man indeed ought not to COVER his head,
forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God:
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WIL[]L. And good eu'n to you Sir.
to[UC]h. Good eu'n gentle friend. COUER THY HEAD,
COUER THY HEAD: Nay prethee bee couer'd.

CU-CU-llus, n. [L., a hood.] 1. Roman hood or COWL.
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L[CU]LIW ABCDEFGHIJKLM EREVIV WIZARD EVIL
O[XF]ORD ZYXWVUTSRQPON VIVERE DRAZIW VERO
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As You Like It Act 5, Scene 1 The forest.

to[UC]h. How olde are you Friend?
WIL[]L. Fiue and twentie Sir.
to[UC]h. A ripe age: Is thy name William?

WIL[]L. William, sir.
to[UC]h. A faire name. Was't borne i'th Forrest heere?

WIL[]L. I sir, I thanke God.
to[UC]h. Thanke God: A good answer: Art rich?

WIL[]L. 'Faith sir, so, so.
to[UC]h. So, so, is good, VERY good, VERY excellent good:
and yet it is not, it is but so, so: Art thou wise?

WIL[]L. I sir, I haue a prettie wit.
to[UC]h. Why, thou saist well. I do now remember a say-
ing: The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman
knowes himselfe to be a Foole. The Heathen Philoso-
pher, when he had a desire to eate a Grape, would open
his lips when he put it into his mouth, meaning there-
by, that Grapes were made to eate, and lippes to open.
You do loue this maid?

WIL[]L. I do sir.
to[UC]h. Giue me your hand: Art thou Learned?

WIL[]L. No sir.
to[UC]h. Then learne this of me, To haue, is to haue.
For it is a figure in Rhetoricke, that drink being powr'd out
of a cup into a glasse, by filling the one, doth empty the
other. For all your Writers do consent, that ipse is hee:
now you are not ipse, for I am he.

WIL[]L. Which he sir?
to[UC]h. He sir, that must marrie this woman: Therefore
you Clowne, abandon: which is in the vulgar, leaue the
societie: which in the boorish, is companie, of this fe-
male: which in the common, is woman: which toge-
ther, is, abandon the society of this Female, or Clowne
thou perishest: or to thy better vnderstanding, dyest; or
(to wit) I kill thee, make thee away, translate thy life in-
to death, thy libertie into bondage: I will deale in poy-
son with thee, or in bastinado, or in steele: I will bandy
with thee in faction, I will ore-run thee with policie: I
will kill thee a hundred and fifty wayes, therefore trem-
ble and depart.
. . . .

MISTRESS PAGE He is a better scholar than I thought he was.

SIR HUGH EVANS He is a good SPRAG MEMORY.
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SPRAG, a. [Cf. Icel. spr[ae]kr sprightly, dial.]
QUICK; lively; alert. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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QUICK, a. [As. CUCU; L. viVERE to LIVE]
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MINERVA BRITANNA Banner Folding

(V I\V\ I T U R
I N G \E\ N I O
|C||E||T| E \R\ A M
|O||R||T| I S \E\ R
|U||N||T|

http://f01.middlebury.edu/FS010A/students/Minerva/title.jpg
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Whenever the Romans occupied a new colony they were careful to
propitiate the GENIUS of the land. BRITANNIA was the personified
GENIA of Britain & was first depicted on a coin of Antoninus Pius
(d. AD 161). BRITANNIA, with the attributes & weapons of MINERVA,
appeared on coins during the reign of Charles II in 1665,
and became the symbol of the British Empire.>>

GENIO SOCRATEM

Compare the posture of the Vesalius'
"VIVITUR IN GENIO" skeleton:
http://mesl.itd.umich.edu/w/wantz/images/vesdi02.jpg

with the posture of the 1740 Westminster Shakespeare statue:
http://www.sirbacon.org/gallery/west.htm

Westminster: "And like the baseless FNBRICK of a Vision"
Vesalius: "De humani corporis FABRICA"
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1640 *Wit's Recreation*:
To Master William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, we must be silent in thy praise,
'Cause our encomiums will but blast thy bays,
Which *ENVY* could not, that thou didst so well
*Let thine own HISTORIES prove thy chronicle*
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"The Lord Robert Véer [9th] earle of Oxenforde, whom the king
in the last parliament had made marquesse of Dublin, was now,
in this parliament created Duke of Ireland: the other lords
sore *ENVYing* so high preferment in a man that
so little *DESERVED*, as they took it." - Holinshed
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MATTHEW 27:18 . . . for *ENVY* they had DEliVEREd him.

PEACHam: <<*Edward, Earl of Oxford* , the Lord Buckhurst,
Henry Lord Paget; our Phoenix, the noble Sir Philip Sidney,
M. Edward Dyer, M. Edmund *Spencer* , M. Samuel Daniel,
with sundry others; whom, not out of *ENVY* >>

Jonson: <<To draw no *ENVY* (Shakespeare) on thy name,
Am I thus ample to thy Booke, and Fame>>
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Dedication to Oxford in Fairie Queene (1590)
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To the right Honourable the Earle of Oxenford,
Lord high Chamberlayne of England. &c.

REceiue most Noble Lord in gentle gree,
The vnripe fruit of an vnready WIT:
Which by thy countenaunce doth craue to bee

Defended from foule *ENUIES* poisnous bit.

(W)hich so to doe may thee right well befit,
(S)ith th'antique glory of thine auncestry

*Vnder a shady VELE is therein writ* ,
[VELLE = L., to WILL]

And eke thine owne long *liuing MEMORY* ,
Succeeding them in TRUE nobility:

And also for the loue, which thou doest beare
To th'HELICONian ymps, and they to thee,
They vnto thee, and thou to them most deare:
Deare as thou art unto thy selfe, so loue
That loues & honours thee, as doth behoue. -- E.S.
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The Merry Wives of Windsor Act 1, Scene 3

PISTOL: Shall DUNGHILL curs confront the HELICONS?
And shall good news be baffled?

While tending his flock on Mt. HELICON, the Muses appeared
to Hesiod in a mist and impelled him to epic poetry.

The king gave the crown to Hesiod, declaring that
it was right that he who called upon men to follow
peace & husbandry should have the prize rather than one
who dwelt on WAR & slaughter. In this way, we are told,
Hesiod gained the victory & received a brazen tripod:

`Hesiod dedicated this tripod to the Muses of HELICON after
he had conquered divine Homer at Chalcis in a contest of song'
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http://www.unipissing.ca/department/history/2425/l-42me.htm

<<[Richard II] responded to his uncles' neglect by assembling a court
party around himself. These men were later reviled by their opponents
as "UPSTARTS," but they were scarcely obscure men. The real issues
were not obscurity of birth, but greed & military failure. It was
said that the WAR was going badly because the king, who was not
particularly warlike himself, had surrounded himself by:

"knights of Venus instead of BELLONA (the WAR goddess),"

& that rich gifts to these idle men was impoverishing the crown and
necessitating high taxation. . .[Parliament was] especially aggravated
by the recent elevation of [Robert] de Vere (9th Earl of Oxford), one
of the least popular courtiers, to the rank of Duke of Ireland (1385).>>
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*HEL* gives Odin 2 RAVENS: HuGINN & MuNINN (Thought & MEMORY):
messengers opening pathways to death's realm.

[T]o pluck the quills from ancient RAVENS' wings,
[T]o dry the old oak's sap and cherish springs,
[T]o spoil antiquities of hammer'd steel,

The Rape of Lucrece Stanza 122

'Why should the WORM intrude the maiden BUD?
Or hateful CUCKOOS hatch in sparrows' nests?

MONTAGUE As is the BUD bit with an ENVIOUS WORM,
Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,
Or dedicate his beauty to the *SUN*
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http://mywebpages.comcast.net/runewolf/norse/norsesoul.htm

HUGR: "Mind/thought" is made up of three faculties: (1) volition,
(2) perception, & (3) cognition. This "seat of the will" is often
used in Old Norse literature. It takes over the personalities of
advanced runesingers because their evolution comes more and more
under conscious control.

MINNI: "MEMORY" storehouse of all mysteries, the great rune-hoard.

These two psychic aspects represented by Ódhinn's RAVENS:
HuGINN & MuNINN (Mind & Memory) in the "Grkmnismil":

The whole earth over, every day hover HuGINN & MuNINN;
I dread lest HuGINN droop in his flight,
yet I fear me still more for MuNINN.
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<<"Sit you down and hear the news. Here's Cap'n FLINT-
-I calls my parrot Cap'n FLINT, after the famous
buccaneer. "Now, that bird," he would say, "is, maybe,
two hundred years old, Hawkins--they live forever mostly;
and if anybody's seen more wickedness, it must be the
devil himself. She's sailed with England>>
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<<The Muses: These Greek deities of art and inspiration are among
the most familiar of the ancient divinities. Originally there
were only 3, at Mount HELICON: Melete, M N E M E , and Aoide.
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Dear son of *MEMORY*, great HEIR of FAME,

TOT HEONL IEBE
GET TEROF THES
EIN SVING [S] ONN
ETS [M] R WHA [L] LHA
PPI [N] E SS E [A] NDT
HAT [E] T ER N [I] TIE
PRO [M] I SE D [B] YOV
REV [E] R LI V [I] NGP
OET WISH E [T] HTH

EWE LLWI [S.] [H.] ING
ADV ENTV [R.] [E.] RIN
SET TING [F.] [O.] RTH
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F.R.S.: [F]ellowship of the [R]oyal [S]ociety.
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1742 Alexander Pope: THE DUNCIAD: BOOK IV

"Who study *Shakespeare* at the Inns of Court,
Impale a glow-WORM, or VERts profess,
SHINE in the dignity of *F.R.S.* ,
[S]ome, *DEEP Free-Masons*, join the silent race,
[W]orthy to fill PYTHAGORAS's place"
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<<The earthly murderers would his MEMORY on earth BLOT out, but the
lofty Avenger hath his MEMORY in the heavens and on earth wide-spread.
They who would not erewhile to his living body bow down, they now
humbly on knees bend to his dead bones.>> - Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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Dear son of MEMORY, great HEIR of FAME,
What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?
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a n(EVER) writer to an EVER reader NEWES:
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[King Richard the Second (Quarto) 5.6]`

North. First to thy sacred state WISH I ALL HAPPINESSE,
The next NEWES is, I haue to London sent
The heades of OXFORD, Salisbury, Blunt and Kent,
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[9th Earl of] OXFORD's head was replaced
by SPENCER's head in the Richard II Folio:
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[King Richard the Second (Folio) 5.6]

Nor. First to thy Sacred State, WISH I ALL HAPPINESSE:
The next NEWES is, I haue to London sent
The heads of Salsbury, SPENCER, Blunt, and Kent:

[King Richard the Second (Folio) 4.1]

KING RICHARD II Mark'd with a Blot, damn'd in the Booke of Heauen.
Nay, all of you, that stand and looke vpon me,
Whil'st that my wretchednesse doth bait my selfe,
Though some of you, with PILATE, WASH your hands,
Shewing an outward pittie: yet you PILATES
Haue here DEliUER'd me to my sowre Crosse,
And Water cannot wash away your sinne.

North. My Lord dispatch, reade o're these Articles.

Rich. Mine Eyes are full of Teares, I cannot see:
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1579 "October" -- _The Shepheardes Calender_ by Edmund *SPENSER*

How I could reare the Muse on stately stage,
And teache her tread aloft in buskin fine,
With QUEINT BELLONA in her equipage.
But ah my corage cooles ere it be warme,

The mysterious E.K. gives this gloss:

<<QUEINT) strange BELLONA; the goddese of battaile, that is Pallas,
which may therefore wel be called queint for that (as Lucian saith) when
Iupiter hir father was in traueile of her, he caused his sonne VULCANE
with his axe to hew his head. Out which leaped forth lustely a valiant
damsell armed at all poyntes, whom seeing VULCANE so faire & comely,
lightly leaping to her, proffered her some cortesie, which the
Lady disdeigning, *SHAKED her SPEAR at him*, and threatned his
saucinesse. Therefore such [straungenesse] is well applyed to her.>>
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PROSPERO Fine apparition! My QUAINT Ariel,
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Gabriel Harvey on Edward de Vere:

"MINERVA strengthens thy right hand, BELLONA reigns
in thy body, within thee burns the fire of MARS.
Thine eyes flash fire, thy WILL SHAKES A SPEAR;"
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*England's HEL-ICON* (1600)
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<<The subject of the medal, Cardinal Pietro Bembo.

http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg23/gg23-41365.0.html

The reverse shows the fabulous winged horse Pegasus striking the earth
on Mount HELICON with his hoof; the fountain Hippocrene gushes forth.
The spring associated with poetry & literature was appropriate
for writer & humanist Bembo.>>
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"The Lord Robert Véer [9th] : the other lords
sore *ENVYing* so high preferment in a man that
so little *DESERVED*, as they took it." - Holinshed
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William Webbe,_A Discourse on English Poetry_ (1586):

"I may not omit the *DESERVED* commendations of many honourable
& noble Lords & Gentlemen in Her Majesty's Court, which, in the
rare devices of poetry, have been and yet are most skilful;
among whom the right honourable Earl of Oxford may challenge
to himself the title of most excellent among the rest."
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GLORY to the *DESERVED* author in these his poems.
Shakespeare's _Poems_(1640) -- I. B.
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*October 25, 1415* [St.Crispin's day] Agincourt
*October 25, 1400* [St.Crispin's day] Chaucer died?
+ 6×33)
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*October 25, 1598* Letter from Richard Quiney asking for
a £30 loan. This is the only letter that has ever
been found addressed to William Shakspere of Stratford.

1556: Chaucer's tomb erected in Westminster Abbey,
the first poet of "the Poets' Corner,"
The date on the tombstone is *October 25, 1400*
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ROBERT DE VERE 3rd Earl of Oxford, died *October 25, 1221*

<<On payment of *a thousand marks* he obtained LIVEry of his lands.
His brother had been reckoned among the *EVIL counsellors*
of King John, but he took the side of the barons,
became one of the twenty-five executors of Magna Charta,
forfeited his estates, and was excommunicated by the pope.
The third earl's widow gave a site in the city of Oxford
to (the *BLACKFRIARS* ) who had just come into England.>>
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1583 Lessor of *BLACKFRIARS* Theatre: Edward de Vere
1596 Lessor of *BLACKFRIARS* Theatre: CUTHBERT BURBage

[CUt]HE-BIRTH is a shibboleth for FREEMASON!
BUR-BAGE means BOAR-BADGE! (Oxford / Bacon)

1608 Lessor of *BLACKFRIARS* Theatre: Shakspere
1620 Lessor of *BLACKFRIARS* Theatre: Milton Sr.
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John, 7th Earl (1313-1360), a distinguished soldier, fighting
at Crecy & 'Poitiers and in all Edward III.'s wars in his time.
____|_____________________________
| |
| Thomas 8th Earl of Ox
| (1336-1371; a1360)
*Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford* |
(1339-23 APR 1400; a1392) |
| Robert 9th Earl of Ox
| (1362-1392; a1371)
Richard de Vere 11th Earl of Oxford
Lord Draconis (1385-1417; a1400)
held a command at Agincourt
_____|_________________________________
| |
*John 12 Earl of Oxford* |
(1408-1461; a1417) |
___________|______________ Sir Robert de Vere
| | | |
| *Awbreie Véer* | |
| | |
*John 13 Earl of Oxford* Sir George de Vere John de Vere
(1442-1513; a1462) | |
John 14 Earl of Ox |
(1499-1526; a1513) John 15th Earl of Ox
(d.1539; a1526)
______________________________________|
| |
Sir Geoffrey Vere John 16th Earl of Ox
_________|________ (c.1516-1562; a1540)
| | |
Francis Vere *HORATIO* Vere Edward 17 Earl of Ox
(1560--1609) (1565--1635) (1550-1604; a1562)
|
[4 gen.] |
| George Vertue patron
Countess of Oxford --- Edward Harley
2nd Earl of Oxford
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HAMLET O good HORATIO, what a wounded name,
Things standing thus unKNOWn, shall live behind me!
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The Merry Wives of Windsor Act 1, Scene 3

PISTOL: Then did the *SUN* on DUNGHILL SHINE.
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http://www.everreader.com/knighsun.htm

<<In Alan Young's Tudor and Jacobean Tournaments . . . recounts
Oxford's participation in one of his last tournaments at Whitehall
(prior to imprisonment in the Tower) on 22 January 1581.

"the Earl of Oxford appeared in the Whitehall tiltyard
as the Knight of the TREE OF THE *SUN* ">>
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"I overtook, coming from Italy a great & famous Earl.
Valiant and learn'd, and liberal as the *SUN*,
Spoke and writ sweetly, or of learned subjects,
Or of the discipline of public weals;
And 'twas the Earl of Oxford." -- George Chapman (1613)
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"Pro Vere Autumni Lachryme," George Chapman (1622)
to the memory of Sir HORATIO VERE.
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HORATIO Vere, Baron Vere of Tilbury

Born: 1565 Acceded: 24 JUL 1625
Interred: 8 MAY 1635, Westminster Abbey, London, England
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Was Oxford's Portrait Shakespeare's? by Richard Whalen
http://www.everreader.com/manindep.htm

<<In 1737 Edward Harley took the engraver George Vertue with him to
see Stratford and the monument in Trinity Church. Vertue sketched
the monument [with] Harley as a lone spectator [standing on the
wife's grave]. As it happens, Harley was the 2nd earl of Oxford,
while his wife was the great-great-granddaughter of Oxford's
favorite cousin, the famous HORACE VERE. Also, she had inherited
the Welbeck portrait of the 17th Earl of Oxford,>>
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King Henry VI, Part iii Act 3, Scene 3

13th Earl of OXFORD: My elder Brother, the Lord Aubrey Vere
Was done to death?
and more then so, my Father [the 12th Earl],
Euen in the downe-fall of his mellow'd yeeres,
When Nature brought him to the doore of Death?
No Warwicke, no: while Life vpholds this Arme,
*This Arme vpholds the House of Lancaster*
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3 Henry VI Act V SCENE 5

KING EDWARD IV Awaie with OXFORD to HAM(es cas)TELL straight,
For Summerset *off with his guiltie head* .
Awaie I will not heare them speake.

[13th Earl of OXFORD]: Ile not trouble thee with *words*
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[13th Earl]: EVERy man's conscience is a thousand *swords*
To fight against that bloody homicide.>>

Terry Ross wrote: Oxford's entire part in *Richard III* !!
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John (de Vere), 13th Earl of Oxford.
In command at the battle of Bosworth in support of Henry VII,
and later against *UNDERCOOK* LAMbErT SIMNEL's rebellion.
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October 31, 1620, John Evelyn [founder of Royal Society] born
October 31, 1632, Jan Vermeer born
October 31, 1795, John Keats born at the Swan & Hoop.
October 31, 1820, Haydn's corpse found BEHEADED

<<St. Quentin BEHEADED & DROWNED IN THE RIVER SOMME.
QUYNTYN is the patron saint of PORTERS & TAILORS>>
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<<On 23 July 1567,
while practicing fencing with Edward Baynam, a TAILOR,
in the backyard of Cecil's house in the Strand, the
17-year-old Oxford killed an unarmed UNDERCOOK named
THOMAS BRINCKNELL with a thrust to the thigh.

Condemned as a suicide, Brincknell was denied Christian burial,

and his pregnant widow AGNES & 3-year-old son QUYNTYN

were stripped of their assets & abandoned to her relatives
and the parish church.>> -- Prof. Alan Nelson
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<<On 23 July 1567,
at Lochleven, Mary Queen of Scots was forced to sign
an act of withdrawal in favor of her 1-year-old son,
who was crowned as James VI five days afterward at Scone.>>
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Richard II's GREYHOUND (named MATHE) deserted the king
& attached itself to Bolingbroke (Henry IV)
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KING RICHARD II At Coventry, upon Saint LAM(b)E(r)T's day:
There shall your swords and lances arbitrate
The swelling difference of your settled hate:
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<<The name AMLETH derives frome the Old Norse for an idiot,
or for a tricky *Fool* who feigns idiocy.>>

<< *Epona* : from Celtic Gaul, was especially worshipped as a
protectress of *horses* and a giver of well being to *fools*.>>
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Katherine HAMLETT drowned in the Avon December 18, 1579
while fetching a pail of water.
(during Venus/Mercury/Sun/Moon conj.) - 18
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Arthur Brooke admitted to Inner Temple December 18, 1561
sponsors: Grandmaster Thomas Sackville
& Tom Norton, authors of *Gordobuc*(1560) Feast Day of *Epona*
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HAMLET why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?
Where be his quiddities now, his (cas es) ?
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John de Vere [13th Earl] released from HAM(es cas)TELL in 1484
HAM-NET was born in 1584
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Shakspere & Cervantes die on *April 23, 1616*
Exactly 18 dozen (6x6x6) years after 10th Earl of Oxford
(The *only* direct lineal ancestor of the 17th Earl in Shaksp.):
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<<Aubrey de Vere (c.1340- *APRIL 23, 1400*) 10th E. of Oxford;

erroneously named as *beheaded* [February 1400]
('Oxford, Salisbury,', etc.),
in Q1,2,3,4 of Rich. II, v, 6, . . . corrected in FfQ5
to 'Salisbury, *Spencer* ,' etc.; as in Hol.iii,516.>>
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Renowned *Spenser* , lie a thought more nigh
To learned Chaucer; and rare Beaumont, lie
A little nearer *Spenser* ; to make room
For Shakespeare in your three-fold four-fold tomb

William Basse (1622) _On Mr. Wm. Shakespeare,
he dyed in April 1616."
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My Shakespeare, *R I S E*! I will not LODGE thee by
Chaucer or *S P E N Ser*, or bid Beaumont LIE
A LITTLE FURTHER, to make thee a room. - Ben Jonson (1623)
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*E.O* NLIE BEGET[T]E ROFTHESEI
/N/*S* UING SONNE[T]S M RWHALLH
/A/p[P*I* NES [S]EAND[T]HA\T\ ETERN
/I/Ti[Ep *R* OM [I]SED BYOUR\E\ VER
/L/IVi[N]gp *O.E*[T]WI(S)HETHTH\E\ W
/E/LLWi[S]hing [A]DV(E)NTURERI\N\
/S/ET TIn GFORT HT(T)
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[I]dall, for Adon, nev'r shed so many teares:
[N]or Thet', for Pelid: nor Phoebus, for Hyacinthus
[N]or for *A T I S*, the mother of Prophetesses
[A]t the brute of it, the Aphroditan Queene,

(1584) Foure Epytaphes, made by the [ANNIe] Countes of Oxenford,
after the death of her young Sonne, the Lord Bulbecke, &c.
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B[U'C]HER son-in-law John Hall dies Wed. 25 November 1635
WIL[ ]L of Elizabeth, Countess of Oxford, Wed. 25 November 1612
B[U'C]HER son-in-law Lope de Vega born Wed. 25 November 1562
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/DOCS/elizwill.html

<<I the lady Elizabeth Vere Countesse Dowager of Oxenford late wife
of Edward de Vere late Earle of Oxenford doe make & ordayne
this my last will. . . Item I give vnto my worthie good friend
S{i}r Edward Mooreknight my longe SILVER BASON wth the eWER to it.>>
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<<Let one attend him vvith a SILUER BASON
Full of Rose-water, and bestrew'd with Flowers,
Another beare the EWER: the third a Diaper,
And say wilt please your Lordship coole your hands.>>

Introduction to _Taming of the ShREW_

<<Enter aloft the drunkard with attendants, some with apparel,
BASON and EWER, & other appurtenances, & Lord.]>>

Second Servant:

<<WILL't please your mightiness to wash your hands?
O[xford?], how we joy to see your wit restored!
O[xford?], that once more you knew but what you are!
These fifteen years you have been in a dream;
Or when you WAKED, so WAKED as if you SLePT.>>
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http://shakespeareauthorship.com/sf/thingitself.html

[Oxford Bible] Verses on Kathman's list but not Stritmatter's:
http://shakespeareauthorship.com/sf/1sam2611-12.gif

1 SAMUEL 26:12 So David took the SPEAR & the CRUSE of WATER
from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it,
nor knew it, neither AWAKED: for they were all ASLEEP;
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[_A 1001 Nights_] THE SLEEPER AND THE WAKER
{source for Taming of the Shrew prologue}

<<There was once at Baghdad, a merchant who died leaving
great store of wealth to his HEIR, Abu al-Hasan al-Khali.

As soon as the Caliph was seated, the host brought him
somewhat to eat. So he ate, and Abu al-Hasan ate with him.

They gave not over eating till they were filled,
when Abu al-Hasan brought BASIN & EWER & POTASH
and they washed their hands.

The Caliph robed him in a rich robe & gave him a THOUSAND DINARS.

The chief eunuch came in and said, "O Prince of TRUE BeliEVERs,
the CHAMBERLAIN is at the door craving permission to enter.">>
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LORD (high) CHAMBERLAIN Edward de VERE was the courtier
in charge of the royal handwashing ceremony (Miller).

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/4260/ewer.html

<<The Office of EWERy had been in the Vere family for generations,
with the special privilege of bearing water to the King or Queen
on Coronation day. It is not known conclusively if Oxford
performed this function at King James' Coronation in 1603, but
he did petition to be paid for such service, as was the custom.>>
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SPENSE: Italian EXTINGUISHED, QUENCHed

*A BALL OF FIRE* at Kenilworth Castle in August of 1572
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<<The main event during the Queen's stay:

Two forts had been built of "slender TIMBER covered with canvas."
Of one "was governor the Earl of Oxford, a lusty gentleman, with
a lusty band of gentlemen." Artillery pieces brought by the Earl
of Warwick from the Tower of London were fired by powder trains

"and so mad a great noise, as though it had been a sore assault. . .
the Earl of Oxford and his soldiers, to the number of two hundred, with
CALIVERS and arquebusses, likewise gave DIVERS assaults; they in the
fort shooting again, and casting out DIVERS fires, terrible to those
that have not been in like experiences. The wild fire falling into the
River Avon would for a time like still, and then rise and fly abroad,
casting forth many flashes and flames, whereat the Queen's Majesty
took great pleasure. . ."

Realism got somewhat out of hand. Fireballs sailed over the Castle and
fell in the town, so that four houses were burning at one time. In a
house at the end of the bridge over the Avon on which *A BALL OF FIRE*
fell, a man and his wife were asleep. Only with difficulty were they
rescued by Oxford and Fulke Greville, who appears to have been his
opponent in the mock battle. Ward ways it is comforting to read that
a purse was made up by the Queen and her courtiers to recompense
the householders.>> -- _The Mysterious William Shakespeare_ p.505
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_Charles Arundel contra Oxford: formal statement and three libels_
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/LIBELS/libel4.html#N_117_

I have gone in and fownd the beast in the same plight,
but to make it more apparant, my Lord harrye sawe more,
and the boye confest it vnto southewell, and him selfe confirmid
it to Mr William Cornewallis,(117) thus muche for profe of his
Sodomye who is a best [=beast] stayned with all impudicitie.
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"I thought Oz was a great Head," said Dorothy.

"And I thought Oz was a Ball of Fire," exclaimed the Lion.

"And I thought Oz was a terrible Beast," said the Tin Woodman.

"No, you are all wrong," said the little man meekly.
"I have been making believe."

"Making believe!" cried Dorothy. "Are you not a Great WIZARD?"

"Hush, my dear," he said. "Don't speak so loud, or you will be
overheard- and I should be ruined. I'm supposed to be a Great WIZARD."
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K[CÚ]P L[CÚ]LIW ABCDEFGHIJKLM EREVIV EVIL WIZARD
P[XF]K O[XF]ORD ZYXWVUTSRQPON VIVERE VERO DRAZIW
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P[ÚC]K Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a HOUND,
A HOG, a headless bear, sometime a FIRE;
And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,
Like horse, HOUND, HOG, bear, fire, at EVERy turn.
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W. H. = [W]illiam [H]erbert / [H]enry [W]riothesley
V. G.
U. F.
T. E. = T.S. Eliot / E.T.
S. D. = [S]tephen [D]edalus
R. C. = [R]obinson [C]rusoe / Rosicrucians
Q. B.
P. A.
O. Z. = WIZARD
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'I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience.
And to forge in the smithy of my soul,
the uncreated conscience of my race.' - [S]tephen [D]edalus
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Art Neuendorffer

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"Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<UaWdnVlj9-3...@comcast.com>...

> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> "I thought Oz was a great Head," said Dorothy.
>
> "And I thought Oz was a lovely Lady," said the Scarecrow.
>
> "And I thought Oz was a Ball of Fire," exclaimed the Lion.
>
> "And I thought Oz was a terrible Beast," said the Tin Woodman.
>
> "No, you are all wrong," said the little man meekly.
> "I have been making
> believe."
>
> "Making believe!" cried Dorothy. "Are you not a Great WIZARD?"
>

> "Cross" marks, e.g. Rev 22
> http://shakespeareauthorship.com/sf/rev22cross.jpg
>
> 13: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end,
> the first and the last.
>
> 14: Blessed are they that do his commandments,
> that they may have right to the tree of life,
> and may enter in through the gates into the city.
> 15: For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and
> murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a LIE.

> 16: I am the root and the offspring of David,
> *and the bright & morning star*
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> <<MORNINGSTAR is a middling tall, leanly athletic male whose vigilante
> uniform generally is stylized, red motorcycle racing leathers,
> a black leather jacket, and a red Zorro-style mask. Curiously,
> his outfit bears a vague resemblance to that favored by
> the metahuman VAGABOND - a notorious member of The Hexagon.>>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------

It reminds me of the Swinburne poem about Marlowe,
(he also wrote one about Shakespeare)...
I've just found *two* Marlowe poems,
here are excerpts...

XVII

97 Then in her green south fields, a poor man's child,
98 Thou hadst thy short sweet fill of half-blown joy,
99 That ripens all of us for time to cloy
100 With full-blown pain and passion; ere the wild
101 World caught thee by the fiery heart, and smiled
102 To make so swift end of the godlike boy.

XVIII

103 For thou, if ever godlike foot there trod
104 These fields of ours, wert surely like a god.
105 Who knows what splendour of strange dreams was shed
106 With sacred shadow and glimmer of gold and red
107 From hallowed windows, over stone and sod,
108 On thine unbowed bright insubmissive head?

XIX

109 The shadow stayed not, but the splendour stays,
110 Our brother, till the last of English days.
111 No day nor night on English earth shall be
112 For ever, spring nor summer, Junes nor Mays,
113 But somewhat as a sound or gleam of thee
114 Shall come on us like morning from the sea.

(from "In the Bay" by A.C. Swinburne)

Christopher Marlowe

Crowned, girdled, garbed and shod with light and fire,
Son first-born of the morning, sovereign star!
Soul nearest ours of all, that wert most far,
Most far off in the abysm of time, thy lyre
Hung highest above the dawn-enkindled quire
Where all ye sang together, all that are,
And all the starry songs behind thy car
Rang sequence, all our souls acclaim thee sire.
"If all the pens that ever poets held
Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts,"
And as with rush of hurtling chariots
The flight of all their spirits were impelled
Toward one great end, thy glory--nay, not then,
Not yet might'st thou be praised enough of men.

(by A.C. Swinburne)

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