Re: I WON'T MISS NITS HERE
art
.http://shakespeareauthorship.com/wds1.html
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. Some interesting 5-letter Rollett strings
. "found in arrays based on the first 144 letters
. of the dedication to Shakespeare's Sonnets.":
.
. *PHEON* : 1106d (Sidney *PHEON* crest)
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http://www.heraldica.org/topics/famous/pics/sidney.jpg
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. T O T H E [O.] N L I E B. . probabilities:
. E G E T T [E.] R O F T H
_ E S E I N [S.] V I N G S __ TIBIAL: 1 in 11,600
. O N N E T [S.] M r W H A __ EMEPH: 1 in 300
__ L H A P ___ I N E S ___ GROTS: 1 in 199
__ |L] N D T [P] A T E [S| ___ PHEON: 1 in 127
___- [E|A] T I [H] P R [T|E]
. R___[N|I] Y [E] V [O|M] I
. S E__ [D|B] [O] [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] F O R - [T]
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http://shakespeareauthorship.com/array2.html
0501d: TOBT *TIN* NRLIEHEIMBEIPIHESATITO
1005d: ETENLSTORG *TIN* T
1006d: O *TIN* LEEMEPHSTT
1211u: *TIN* TGOIDHNEB
1709d: IIH *TIN* ER
2110u: *TIN* PNNE
2807d: NN *TIN*
3108d: LS *TIN*
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*TIN*
*NIT* , noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression hnitu;
. akin to Dutch *NEET* , Welsh *NEDDEN* ].
. The egg of a *LOUSE* or other small insect.
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*Hop* , and Mop, and Drap so clear,
Pip, and Trip, and Skip, that were
To Mab their soVEREign dear-
Her special maids of honor.
Fib, and *TIB* , and Pinek, and *Pin* ,
Tick, and *Quick* , and Jil, and Jin,
*TIT*, and *NIT* , and Wap, and *Win* -
The train that wait upon her.
- Drayton, NYymphidia (1563-1631).
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. The Taming of the Shrew > Act IV, scene III
PETRUCHIO: Oh monstrous arrogance:
. Thou lyest, thou thred, thou thimble,
. Thou yard three quarters, halfe yard, quarter, *NAILE* ,
. Thou Flea, thou *NIT* , thou winter cricket thou:
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. Love's Labour's Lost > Act IV, scene I
COSTARD: By my soul, a swain! a most simple clown!
. Lord, Lord, how the ladies and I have put him down!
. O' my troth, most sweet jests! most incony
. vulgar wit!
. When it comes so smoothly off, so obscenely, as it
. were, so fit.
. Armado o' th' one side,--O, a most dainty man!
. To see him walk before a lady and to bear her fan!
. To see him kiss his hand! and how most sweetly a'
. will swear!
. And his page o' t' other side, that handful of wit!
. Ah, heavens, it is a most pathetical *NIT* !
. Sola, sola!
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bookburn <bookb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
<<[Sonnet 26] is a funny one, IMO, because the poet
plays with surface vs. figurative meanings in a way
that leaves in doubt the sincerity of the message.
Commentators indicate no. 26-32 demonstrate
a change in attitude toward the Young Man.
. Sonnet XXVI.
LORD of my love, to whom in vassalage
Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit,
To thee I send this written ambassage,
To witness duty, not to show my wit:
I notice "knit" in the above use as a likely clue to underlying
meaning. While "knit" is in the cannon most frequently as a tying
together, as in a bond, often between parties forming a "knot," there
are instances in the canon where "knit" as "nit" or *LOUSE* egg,
combined with "wit" clearly echo "nit-wit" [see also, prob. fr. G.
dial.'nit' not + E 'wit': a scatter-brained or stupid person],
suggesting a play of mocking humor that appear in the sonnet.
This strain is shown in the following instances from
the canon where KNIT and WIT appear together.
The Taming of the Shrew Act 4, Scene 3
PETRUCHIO: O monstrous arrogance!
. Thou liest, thou THREAD, thou THIMBLE,
. Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, NAIL!
. Thou flea, thou NIT, thou winter-cricket thou!
. Braved in mine own house with *A SKEIN OF THREAD* ?
. . . . .
Here it is obvious that NIT, as a flea or *LOUSE*,
is comically entrained with a knitting metaphor.
Perhaps nits were commonly discovered in knit materials?
Love's Labour's Lost Act 4, Scene 1
COSTARD By my soul, a swain! a most simple clown!
. Lord, Lord, how the ladies and I have put him down!
. O' my troth, most sweet jests! most incony
. vulgar wit!
. When it comes so smoothly off, so obscenely, as it
. were, so fit.
. Armado o' th' one side,--O, a most dainty man!
. To see him walk before a lady and to bear her fan!
. To see him kiss his hand! and how most sweetly a'
. will swear!
. And his page o' t' other side, that handful of WIT!
. Ah, heavens, it is a most pathetical NIT!
. Sola, sola!
Here, a "swain," no less, in a caricature is compared to a
"simple clown" who "obscenely" appears with his page, and
called "that handful of WIT!/ . . . a most pathetical NIT!"
So I say that "knit" and "wit" as used in the sonnet is in the
same ball park as "nit-wit" used elsewhere in the canon; the
poet consciously sounding a bass chord of sardonic humor
underlying sincere sounding, but facetious, pretenses.>>
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TOTH_ E ON L- I_E BEGE -T TEROF_ T HESEINSVIN
GSON- N ET- S M R WHAL L HAPPI_- N ESSEANDTHA
TETE_ R NI_ T_-I-E PROM _I SEDBY_ O VREVERLIVI
NGPO E TW- I_ S H ETHT -H EWELL- W ISHINGADVE
NTVR- E RI_-N- S E TTIN- G FORTH <= 31 =>
*I WON'T MISS NITS HERE*
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. King Lear Act 3, Scene 2
.
Fool: He that has a house to put's HEAD IN
. has a good HEAD-PIECE.
. The cod-piece that will house
. Before the head has any,
. The head and he shall *LOUSE* ;
. So beggars marry many.
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<<HED-INGHAM was one of the properties that by Oxford's reckoning
was to produce the £500 to 600 for his [THREE] DAUGHTERS' upkeep.
In December 1591 the Earl made it over to Burghley in trust for
his daughters. At the same time he authorized the dismantling
of part of the castle and many outbuildings.>> - Ogburn p.721
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. King Lear Act 1, Scene 5
.
Fool: I can tell why a SNAIL has a house.
.
KING LEAR: Why?
.
Fool: Why, to put his HEAD-IN; not to give it away to
. his DAUGHTERS, and leave his horns without a case.
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To an ass, were nothing; he is both ass and ox:
To an ox, were nothing; he is both ox and ass.
To be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a
LIZARD, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe,
I would not care;
But to be Menelaus, I would conspire against destiny.
Ask me not, what I would be, if I were not Thersites;
for I care not to be the *LOUSE* of a lazar,
so I were not Menelaus!
Hey-day! Spirits and fires!"
--Thersites, T&C V,i
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THE *LOWSE*
http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/falclewis.html
<<In Scottish operative lodges in olden times, if an apprentice
serving his indentureship failed to complete his practical training
and could not pass his tests, then he could not be recorded in the
books as an Entered Apprentice. Accordingly he was release from his
bond and thereafter was described in the old Scots tongue as a
*LOWSANCE* , which sometimes was spelled incorrectly as
*LOUSANCE* . The Scots word signified freedom from bondage,
that is liberty, being derived from the verb *LOWSE* , which
has a pronunciation midway between the words loose & louse
in English. *LOWSE* means to loose, to unyoke or to redeem.
In common usage it was customary to use the verb *LOWSE* instead of
the longer noun *LOWSANCE* . A *LOWSANCE* was not precluded from all
stonework but, like the cowan or dry-stone diker in Scotland, he was
not allowed to be engaged on any tasks requiring special skills, nor
was he allowed to participate in any ceremonial work restricted to
those having the Mason Word. A curious clerical error that purports to
describe a *LEWIS* appears in the Harris MS No 1 that dates from the
second half of the 17th century in which the rehearsal of the charges
to a Free Mason says:
"You shall not make any Mold, Square or Rule for any that is but a
*LEWIS*; a *LEWIS* is such a one as hath served an Apprenticeship to a
Mason but is not admitted afterwards according to this manner and
Custom of making Masons."
Clearly the *LEWIS* that is recorded in this manuscript was intended
to be read as a *LOWSE*, but had been confused by the draftsman
who probably was not aware that in Scotland the verb *LOWSE*
was commonly used in place of the noun *LOWSANCE* ...>>
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Euans. The dozen *white LOWSES* doe become
. an old Coat well: it agrees well passant:
. It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies Loue.
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. Lucy, *LOWSE* , *LOWSEY*
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http://nauvoo.byu.edu/TheArts/Theater/studypackets/lesson07/main.html
<<The most persistent legend concerning Shakespeare, the celebrated
DEER-poaching incident, explains why he abandoned his family for
London. One year after his marriage, Shakespeare, consorting with some
low companions, was caught poaching DEER on Sir Thomas Lucy's estate,
Charlecote Park. After being prosecuted by Lucy, Shakespeare
retaliated by writing an insulting ballad about the Lucy family
in which he puns upon Lucy, *LOWSE* , *LOWSEY*
similar-sounding words in the Stratfordian dialect.
It was this bit of doggerel (Shakespeare's first attempt at poetry,
according to the legend) that forced him out of Stratford and
on to London and fame. During the early years of Shakespeare
scholarship, the DEER-poaching legend regularly turned up,
each time with an individual twist. In one version Shakespeare is
found poaching rabbits; in another, he boldly nails the ballad to the
gates of the Lucy estate. Similarly, the ballad changes with each
chronicler....>> (The Friendly Shakespeare)
. http://www.sirbacon.org/reedchapter4.htm
<<[Francis] Bacon was connected by marriage
. with Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote>>.
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. http://home.att.net/~tleary/johnson.htm
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<<The Stratfordians say that the reference in "The Merry Wives of
Windsor" to the "dozen *white LUCES* " on Justice Shallow's coat
identifies this character with Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote Park near
Stratford-on-Avon, whose coat of arms had three luces on it. If this
is so, how do the Stratfordians account for the fact that this
reference to the luces first appeared in the First Folio of the Plays
published in 1623, seven years after Shakesper's death and is not
found in the Quarto of the Play published in 1602?>>
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. [The Merry Wives of Windsor (Folio) 1.1]
. Actus primus, Scena prima.
Enter Iustice Shallow, Slender, Sir Hugh Euans, Master
Page, Falstoffe, Bardolph, Nym, Pistoll, Anne Page,
Mistresse Ford, Mistresse Page, Simple.
. Shallow.
SIr Hugh, perswade me not: I will make a
. Star-Chamber matter of it, if hee were twenty
. Sir Iohn Falstoffs, he shall not abuse
. Robert Shallow Esquire. ((Coram.
Slen. In the County of Glocester, Iustice of Peace and
Shal. I (Cosen Slender) and Cust-alorum.
Slen. I, and Ratolorum too; and a Gentleman borne
. (Master Parson) who writes himselfe Armigero, in any
. Bill, Warrant, Quittance, or Obligation, Armigero.
Shal. I that I doe, and haue done any time these three
. hundred yeeres.
Slen. All his successors (gone before him) hath don't:
. and all his Ancestors (that come after him) may: they
. may giue the dozen white Luces in their Coate.
Shal. It is an olde Coate.
Euans. The dozen white *LOWSEs* doe become
. an old Coat well: it agrees well passant:
It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies Loue.
Shal. The Luse is the fresh-fish, the salt-fish, is an old Coate.
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<<Or spunne out Riddles, or weav'd fifty Tomes
. Of Logographes, or curious Palindromes;
. Or pump'd for those hard trifles, Anagrams,
. Or Ecrosticks, or your finer flames
. Of *Egges* , and Halbards, Cradles, and a Herse,
. A paire of Sizers, and a Combe in verse;
. Acrosticks, and Tellesticks, or jumpe names,>>
. . . . -- Ben Jonson
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"The marke of William Slye": (p. 80 Playhouse Wills 1558-1642,
edited by E. A. J. Honigmann and Susan Brock)
{anagram}
"W. CHRISTOPHER SLYE"
_____ [C]
. H. W R I [O] T H E S L E Y
_____ [R]
_____ [P]
_____ [S]
. *CORPS* , n. [F., fr. L. corpus body.]
. The human body, whether living or dead.
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"By what CRAFT in my *CORPS* , it cometh and where."
--Piers Plowman.
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Art Neuendorffer