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Palladis Tamia: Wit's Treasury
Francis Meres (1598)
<<The best poets for comedy among the Greeks are these, Menander,
Aristophanes, Eupolis Atheniensis, Alexis Terius, Nicostratus,
Amipsias Atheniensis, Anaxandrides Rhodius, Aristonymus, Archippus
Atheniensis and Callias Atheniensis, and among the Latins, Plautus,
Terence, Naevius, Sext. Turpilius, Licinius Imbrex, and Virgilius
Romanus, so the best for comedy amongst us be Edward Earl of Oxford,
Doctor Gager of Oxford,
.
*Master ROWLEy* [born c.1585 ?], once a rare scholar
. of learned Pembroke Hall in Cambridge,
.
Master Edwards, one of her Majesty's Chapel, eloquent and witty John
Lyly, Lodge, Gascoigne, Greene, Shakespeare, Thomas Nash, Thomas
Heywood, Anthony Munday, our best plotter, Chapman, Porter, Wilson,
Hathway, and Henry Chettle.>>
The best Poets for Comedy among the Greeks are these, Menander,
Aristophanes, Eupolis Atheniensis, Alexis Terius, Nicostratus,
Amipsias Atheniensis, Anaxedrides, Rhodius, Aristonymus, Archippus
Atheniensis and Callias Atheniensis; and among the Latines, Plautus,
Terence, Naeuius, Sext. Turpilius, Licinius Imbrex, and Virgilius
Romanus: so the best for Comedy amongst us bee, Edward Earle of
Oxforde, Doctor Gager of Oxforde,
.
*Master ROWLEy* [born c.1585 ?] once a rare
Scholler of learned Pembrooke Hall in Cambridge,
.
Maister Edwardes one of her Majesties Chappell, eloquent and wittie
John Lilly, Lodge, Gascoyne, Greene, Shakespeare, Thomas Nash, Thomas
Heywood, Anthony Mundye our best plotter, Chapman, Porter, Wilson,
Hathway, and Henry Chettle.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rowley
<<William ROWLEy (c.1585 – February 1626) was an English Jacobean
dramatist, best known for works written in collaboration with
more successful writers. He was buried on 11 February 1626.
Rowley was an actor-playwright who specialized in playing clown
characters (that is, characters whose function is to provide low
comedy). He must also have been a large man, since his forte lay
specifically in fat-clown roles. He played the Fat Bishop in Thomas
Middleton's A Game at Chess, and Plumporridge in the same author's
Inner Temple Masque. He also wrote fat-clown parts for himself to
play: Jaques in All's Lost by Lust (a role "personated by the Poet,"
the 1633 quarto states), and Bustopha in The Maid in the Mill, his
collaboration with John Fletcher. He certainly played Simplicity in
The World Tossed at Tennis, and probably Chough in A Fair Quarrel —
and since these are Middleton/Rowley collaborations, they qualify as
two more parts that Rowley wrote for himself. (Internal evidence shows
that in collaborations, Rowley normally handled the comic subplot —
though he was not restricted solely to comic material: in The
Changeling, A Fair Quarrel, and The Maid in the Mill, he wrote
substantial portions of the main plots as well.) The part of
the otherwise-unnamed Clown in The Birth of Merlin shows
signs of being another role that Rowley the playwright
wrote with Rowley the actor in mind.
As a writer, Rowley was almost exclusively a dramatist; the pamphlet
A Search for Money (1609) is his only sustained work of non-dramatic
prose. Two plays are generally accepted as Rowley's solo works: A
Shoemaker a Gentleman (c. 1607-9) and All's Lost by Lust (1619). Three
other works that might have been Rowley solo plays have not survived:
Hymen's Holidays or Cupid's Vagaries (1612), A Knave in Print (1613),
and The Fool Without Book (also 1613).
Rowley appears to have begun his career working for Queen Anne's Men
at the Red Bull Theatre. In 1609, he was part of a group of actors who
set up a new playing company, the Duke of York's Men, which became
known as Prince Charles's Men after 1612. Most of Rowley's career was
spent writing and clowning for this company, which was based at a
series of different playhouses, including the Curtain, the Hope,
and the Red Bull. Rowley was the troupe's payee for their Court
performancess in the 1610–15 era.
In 1623, Rowley left his company and joined the highly successful
King's Men at the Globe, until his death in 1626. Though relatively
brief, his stay with the troupe was eventful: in 1624 he was embroiled
in both the Game at Chess controversy in August and the Spanish
Viceroy affair in December. The roles he took with the company likely
included Cacafogo in Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, the Cook in Rollo
Duke of Normandy, and Tony in A Wife for a Month.
Notably, Rowley did not necessarily restrict his playwriting efforts
to the company to which he was committed as an actor. In 1624 he was a
member of the King's Men, Shakespeare's famous company, and in August
of that year played in their notorious production of A Game at Chess —
yet in the same year he worked on the now-lost play Keep the Widow
Waking with Dekker, Ford, and Webster, which was intended
for the Red Bull Theatre.>>
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. The Phoenix and the Turtle.
. Propertie was thus appalled,
. That the selfe was not the same:
. Single Natures double name,
. Neithe[R] two n[O]r one [W]as ca[L]led.
. R[E]ason [I]n it selfe confounded,
. Saw Diuision grow together,
. To themselues yet either neither,
. Simple were so well compounded.
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. d e d,
[ROWLEI] 5
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[THOMAS SHELTON]’s Preface to the Reader
.
<<If of whores or courtezans, the[R]e thou hast the Bish[O]p of
Mondonnedo, who {WILL} lend thee Lamia, [L]ayda, and Flora, whos[E]
annotation {WILL} ga[I]n thee no small credit;>>
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.
. I f o f w h o r e s o r c o u r t
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. t t h e B i s h [O]p o f M o n d o
. n n e d o,w h o {W I L L}l e n d t
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. m a l l c r e d i t;
[ROWLEI] 5
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__ *(To the m)[eMOry of my beloVED]"
__ *(To them) [my OM, by fo(DEVere)ol]*
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______ *fo(DEVere)ol's ISCHIA*
______ *of HeroICAl DEVISes*
..........................................
. A Garden *of HeroICAl DEVISes*
or Henry Peacham's Minerva Britanna
.
. http://home.att.net/~tleary/minerva.htm
...................................................
What mortall man might ever comprehend,
Gods sacred essence, and his secret will,
Or his soules substance, or could but [I]ntend,
L[E]ast whi[L]e to vie[W], this gl[O]rious c[R]eature still:
Be wise in what the word doth plainely teach,
But meddle not, with thinges aboue thy reach.
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.
[ROWLEI] 7
Deus vltimum [R]efugium.
T[O] the right [W]orshipfu[L]l, Mr: D: Laif[E]ild,
somet[I]mes my Tutor in Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge.
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[ROWLEI] 9
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http://www.forumjar.com/forums/The_Travels_of_the_Three_English_Brothers
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1477-4658.2010.00644.x/a...
<<The Travels of the Three English Brothers, a collaborative play by
John Day, George Wilkins, and William Rowley first performed at the
Red Bull Theatre in 1607, stages the adventures of the three Sherley
brothers Thomas, Anthony, and Robert, focusing in particular on
Anthony's tour around Europe as the ambassador of Shah Abbas I of
Persia. Anthony was seeking to bring Christendom and Persia into an
alliance that would encircle the Ottoman Empire – a political
programme deeply controversial in a London that enjoyed strong trade
links with the Ottoman Porte.
Travels, which was commissioned by Thomas Sherley, sets out to
influence public perception of the three brothers. Its defence of the
Sherleys, this article argues, is fundamentally intertextual: the
playwrights deliberately associate their heroes with preceding stage-
heroes (often, the protagonists of plays staged at the Red Bull).
Imposing generic principles on real historical narratives, Travels'
playwrights shape the actions of the deeply individualistic Sherley
brothers so that they resemble the undertakings of the patriotic
heroes of popular dramatic romances such as Guy of Warwick and The
Four Prentices of London. Not altogether successfully, they present
the Sherleys as national heroes who deserve their countrymen's
appreciation.>>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Travels_of_the_Three_English_Brothers
<<The Travels of the Three English Brothers is an early Jacobean era
stage play, an adventure drama written in 1607 by John Day, William
Rowley, and George Wilkins. The drama was based on the true-life
experiences of the three Shirley brothers, Sir Anthony Shirley, Sir
Thomas Shirley, and Robert Shirley (later Sir Robert). The play
illustrates the trend toward extreme topicality in some works of
English Renaissance drama.
The play was based on an account of the Shirleys' travels by Anthony
Nixon, published in pamphlet form and titled The Three English
Brothers. (The Shirley brothers had been the subjects of two previous
pamphlets, in 1600 and 1601; but Nixon's work is thought to have been
backed by the Shirley family.) The pamphlet was entered into the
Stationers' Register on 8 June 1607, and was published soon after. The
play was entered into the Register less than two months later, on 29
June that year. This suggests that the three playwrights may have put
the drama together in the space of about six weeks.
The play was acted by Queen Anne's Men. Its 29 July Register entry
states that the play was performed at the Curtain Theatre, though this
information is likely inaccurate; The Queen's company is thought to
have moved on to the Red Bull Theatre in 1604 or 1605. Francis
Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle, also of 1607, refers to
The Travels as a Red Bull play.
The Travels was printed in the same year it appeared onstage,
apparently to capitalize on its popularity. The text was issued in a
quarto by the bookseller John Wright. Wright published the quarto in
two states: the second added an Epistle addressed to the Shirley
family. The work's topicality may have won it quick success, though
that success was not enduring: the 1607 quarto was the only edition of
the play in the seventeenth century. (The playwrights suffered the
trap of the topical approach: their material was so current that they
did not yet have an end to their story. Their version was soon
outdated by further events and later printed accounts.)
The triple authorship of The Travels is not in doubt; the three
dramatists are credited by name on the title page, and all three
signed the prefatory Epistle to the Shirleys. And it would likely have
taken more than one or two writers to produce an actable play in a
short period of time. Scholars have made attempts to differentiate the
respective shares of the three authors. Since George Wilkins is
thought by some to have worked with Shakespeare on Pericles, Prince of
Tyre around 1607, the question of his participation in this
collaboration has drawn the attention of some Shakespeare scholars.
Wilkins probably wote about three-fifths of The Travels.
(H. Dugdale Sykes, employing a 13-scene scheme for the play, assigned
the Prologue to Day, the Epilogue to Day and Wilkins; he alloted
scenes 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, and the start of 13 to Wilkins; he gave
scene 3 to Day, and the remainder, scenes 1, 7, 9, 11, and the end of
13, to Day or Rowley. Sykes's breakdown resembles the conclusions of
other researchers.)
The Travels of the Three English Brothers belongs to a genre of
traditional, popular, and somewhat naive drama of adventure and
romance that was typified by the plays of Thomas Heywood and his many
compatriots. (Concern with accuracy and veracity was not part of the
ethos of this popular drama, and the three authors show no such
concern in The Travels.) More sophisticated writers of the early
Jacobean period looked down of this popular drama; Beaumont was
mocking The Travels when he referred to it in Knight of the Burning
Pestle, IV,i,33-5.
Beyond the sheer entertainment value of the Shirleys' story, the
dramatists were eager to draw cultural contrasts between Christian
England and Muslim Persia, the key locale of much of the Shirley saga.
Their play stresses the violence and brutality of Persian society
(especially the practice of beheading) as a blatant discriminator
between Persia and England. The English display their valor and
resourcefulness when assaulted by violence and treachery; when an
unarmed Sir Thomas Shirley is attacked by four Turks, he defends
himself with rocks. The splendid English move the Persian "Sophy" (the
play's version of the Shah) to verbal raptures — and inspire him to
grant Christians tolerance in his dominions.
In addition to other real-life figures in the cast of characters
(including the Pope), the comic Will Kempe appears in one scene.
Himself noted for his travels, Kempe is shown in Venice, where he has
a bawdy exchange with a Signor Harlakin (that is, harlequin) and his
wife. Kempe reportedly met Sir Anthony Shirley in Rome; but whether
this Venetian scene with Kempe is based on anything more substantial
that the playwrights' imaginations is uncertain.
The final scene in The Travels of the Three English Brothers contains
a noteworthy feature: the three Shirley brothers and their father,
widely separate geographically, see and speak with each other through
a magical device called a "perspective glass." This device is part of
the traditional lore of magic, and occurs in other contexts: Robert
Greene includes it in his Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. Though the
perspective glass operates thaumaturgically rather than
technologically, it nonetheless provides a striking anticipation of
modern communications.>>
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___________ Sonnet 117
ACcuse me thus, th[A]t I haue scanted all,
Wherein I should your great de[S]erts repay,
Forgot vpon your dearest love to call,
W[H]ereto al bonds do tie me day by day,
That I haue frequ[E]nt binne with vnknown mindes,
And giuen to time you[R] owne deare purchas'd right,
That *I haue HOYSTED SAI[L]E to al the windes*
Which should transport me farth[E]st from your sight.
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. ACcusemethusth [A] tIhauescantedallWhereinIsho
. uldyourgreatde [S] ertsrepayForgotvponyourdear
. estlovetocallW [H] eretoalbondsdotiemedaybyday
. ThatIhauefrequ [E] ntbinnewithvnknownmindesAnd
. giuentotimeyou [R] ownedearepurchasdrightThatI
. hauehoystedsai [L] etoalthewindesWhichshouldtr
. ansportmefarth [E] stfromyoursight
[A.SHERLE.] 42
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Shirley
<<Sir Anthony Shirley (or *SHERLEy* ) (1565–1635) was an
English traveller, whose imprisonment in 1603 by King James I
caused the English House of Commons to assert one of its
privileges—freedom of its members from arrest—in a document
known as _The Form of Apology and Satisfaction_.
He was the second son of Sir Thomas Shirley, and his brothers,
Robert Shirley and Thomas Shirley, were also much-travelled.
Educated at the University of Oxford, Anthony Shirley gained some
military experience with the English troops in the Netherlands and
also during an expedition to Normandy in 1591 under Robert Devereux,
2nd Earl of Essex, who was related to his wife, Frances Vernon;
about this time he was knighted by Henry of Navarre
(Henry IV of France), an event which brought upon him
the displeasure of his own sovereign and a short imprisonment.
In 1596, he conducted a predatory expedition along the western coast
of Africa and then across to Central America, but owing to a mutiny
he returned to London with a single ship in 1597. In 1598, he led
a few English volunteers to Italy to take part in a dispute over the
possession of Ferrara; this, however, had been accommodated when he
reached Venice, and he decided to journey to Persia with the twofold
object of promoting trade between England and Persia and of stirring
up the Persians against the Turks. He obtained money at Constantinople
and at Aleppo, and was very well received by the Shah, Abbas the
Great, who made him a Mirza, or prince, and granted certain trading
and other rights to all Christian merchants.
Then, as the Shah's representative, he returned to Europe and visited
Moscow, Prague, Rome, and other cities, but the English government
would not allow him to return to his own country. Two members of his
expedition returned to London, where they published the anonymous
pamphlet The True Report of Sir Anthony Shirley's Journey, which,
additionally spurred by the actor *Will Kempe's* meeting with
Sir Anthony in Rome, evoked two references to "the Sophy"—
the Shah— in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1601-02).
For some time he was in prison in Venice, and in 1605, he went to
Prague and was sent by Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor on a mission
to Morocco; afterwards he went to Lisbon and to Madrid, where he was
welcomed very warmly. The King of Spain appointed him the admiral
of a fleet which was to serve in the Levant, but the only result of
his extensive preparations was an unsuccessful expedition against
the island of Mitylene. After this he was deprived of his command.
Shirley, who was a count of the Holy Roman Empire,
died at Madrid some time after 1635.
Shirley wrote an account of his adventures, Sir Anthony Sherley: his
Relation of his Travels into Persia (1613), the original manuscript
of which is in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. There are in existence
five or more accounts of Shirley's adventures in Persia, and the
account of his expedition in 1596 is published in Richard Hakluyt's
Voyages and Discoveries (1809-1812). See also The Three Brothers;
Travels and Adventures of Sir Anthony, Sir Robert and Sir Thomas
Sherley in Persia, Russia, Turkey and Spain (London, 1825);
EP Shirley, The Sherley Brothers (1848), and
the same writer's Stemmata ROWana (1841, again 1873).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Shirley_%281542-1612%29
<<Sir Thomas Shirley (1542–1612), of Wiston in Sussex, was an English
Member of Parliament and government official, who is said to have
suggested the creation of the rank of baronet. Shirley was knighted in
1573, and served as High Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex in 1576. Also in
1573, he began rebuilding the family seat of Wiston House, which he
turned into a massive country house. (It is now the site of the
government's Wilton Park conference centre.)
However, soon afterwards Shirley found himself in considerable
financial difficulties which eventually swallowed the family fortune.
In 1586 Queen Elizabeth I appointed Sir Thomas Treasurer-at-War to the
English forces serving in the Netherlands during the Dutch Revolt.
This gave him the power to speculate with the funds that passed
through his hands (a normal perk of office at this period), but he
so mishandled them that he contracted massive debts to the Crown and
found himself accused of fraud. His estate, including Wiston House,
was sequestered in 1602, though he continued to live at Wiston
until his death in 1612.
Sir Thomas was elected to Parliament as MP for Sussex in 1584,
representing the county for many years, and then Steyning, in 1601
and 1604, which was controlled by Shirley as a pocket borough; he was
apparently not distinguished as a member, but tried to draw upon an
MP's privilege of immunity from arrest in 1604 when his debts grew
too pressing to meet. Despite his protests that he had parliamentary
privilege, he was arrested at the instigation of a goldsmith to whom
he owed money, and placed in the Fleet Prison. The House of Commons
of England made a number of attempts to order his release by issuing
writs of Habeas Corpus, but the Warden of the Fleet Prison would not
free him, unless he received assurance that he would not himself be
held liable for Shirley's debts, or blamed for what might technically
be seen as allowing an 'escape'. The Commons had the Warden placed in
the Tower of London and sent the sergeant-at-arms of the Commons,
who was carrying the mace, to the Fleet Prison to set Shirley free.
However, the Warden's wife proved equally obdurate, and the sergeant-
at-arms had to report that his mission had been a failure. The Warden
had originally been able to move around within the Tower, but now the
Commons made sure that he was placed in an unpleasant dungeon, called
the Little Ease, four feet square, within the Tower. This persuaded
the Warden to release Shirley, and he also had to apologise on his
knees to the House of Commons. Shirley then resumed his seat as an MP.
Parliament subsequently passed a general act (The Privilege of
Parliament Act), which confirmed the privilege of freedom from arrest
for Members, but also gave creditors an opportunity to recover what
they were owed when the debtor ceased being an MP. This case is
generally regarded as having finally settled the question of privilege
from arrest in the Commons’ favour, and was cited as Sir Thomas
Shirley's Case for centuries afterwards.
His sons Thomas, Anthony and Robert were all noted adventurers.>>
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___________ Sonnet 1
From fairest creature[S] we desire increase,
That thereby beauties Rose mig[H]t neuer die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
H[I]s tender heire might beare his memory:
But thou cont[R]acted to thine owne bright eyes,
Feed'st thy lights f[L]ame with selfe substantiall fewell,
Making a famin[E] where aboundance lies,
Thy selfe thy foe,to thy sweet selfe too cruell:
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. erebybeautiesRosemi g[H]t n e u erdieButastheripe
. rshouldbytimedeceas e H[I]s t e nderheiremightbea
. rehismemoryButthouc o n t[R]a c tedtothineownebri
. ghteyesFeedstthylig h t s f[L]a mewithselfesubsta
. ntiallfewellMakinga f a m i n[E]whereaboundanceli
. esThyselfethyfoetot h y s w e e[T]selfetoocruell
[SHIRLE.,T.] 43
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17th-century References to Shakespeare's Stratford Monument
http://shakespeareauthorship.com/monrefs.html
by David Kathman
.
<<In 1631, a year before his death, John Weever published
the massive Ancient Funerall Monuments, which recorded many
inscriptions from monuments around England, particularly in
Canterbury, Rochester, London, and Norwich. Shakespeare's
monument does not appear in the published book, but two of
Weever's notebooks, containing his drafts for most of the
book as well as many unpublished notes, survive as Society
of Antiquaries MSS. 127 and 128. In one of these notebooks,
under the heading "Stratford upon Avon," Weever recorded
the poems from Shakespeare's monument and his gravestone,
as follows:
Good frend for Iesus sake forbeare
[T]o digg th[E] dust enc[L]osed hea[R]e
Blest b[E]e ye man t[H]at spare[S] these stones
And curst bee hee that moves my bones.
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. [E] d u s t e n c
. [L] o s e d h e a
. [R] e B l e s t b
. [E] e y e m a n t
. [H] a t s p a r e
. [S] t h e s e s t
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[SHERLE.,T.] -8
Probability for [SHERLE.,T.] or
[SHIRLE.,T.] with skip < 9 ~ 1 in 29,000
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. GOOD {F}rend for Iesus sake [F|O}rbeare
. To digg the d[U|S}t enclosed heare
. Bl[E|S}t bee ye man that spa[R|E}s these stones
. And c[U]rst bee hee that move[S] my bones.>>
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{FOSSE} *18* : A grave (Old French)
Prob. of *F. UERUS* ~ 1 in 6,700 (any skip)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Shirley
<<Sir Thomas Shirley (1564 – c. 1634) was an English soldier,
adventurer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various
times between 1584 and 1622. His financial difficulties drove him into
privateering which culminated in his capture by the Turks and later
imprisonment in the Tower of London.
Shirley was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Shirley of Wiston, Sussex,
and his wife Anne Kempe, daughter of Sir Thomas Kempe of Ollantighe in
Wye, Kent. He matriculated at Hart Hall, Oxford in 1579, but left the
university without taking a degree. In 1584 he was elected Member of
Parliament for Steyning. He went on military service with his father
and brother in the Low Countries in 1585, and later saw some in
Ireland. He was knighted at Kilkenny in Ireland by the lord deputy,
Sir William Fitz-William, on 26 October 1589. Shirley later came to
the court. In the summer of 1591 he made a secret marriage to one of
Queen Elizabeth's maids of honour and when the queen heard of it, she
promptly committed him to the Marshalsea Prison. He remained in prison
till the spring of 1592. In 1593 he was elected MP for Steyning again.
In the same year he saw service with the rank of captain in the Low
Countries again.
Privateering
Shirley was beginning to suffer from hopeless embarrassment because of
his father's increasing financial difficulties. In order to secure a
livelihood, he decided to fit out a privateering expedition to attack
Spanish merchandise. He handed over his company at Flushing to Sir
Thomas Vavasour, a relation of his wife, and in the summer of 1598
sailed into the English Channel, and seized four ‘hulks’ of Lübeck
which were reputed to be carrying Spanish goods. He may have made some
of his attacks with the Queen’s ship Foresight, which he commanded in
1599. The costs and returns were high. A ship that Shirley captured
while returning from San Domingo laden with sugar, was valued at
£4,700. In April 1600, Shirley offered the Earl of Nottingham £600 for
his tenth share in two ships which he brought into Plymouth and said
he had already paid £2,000 for ‘the company’s thirds’. In October 1600
Shirley was brought before the Admiralty court for seizing a ship from
Hamburg which had a cargo belonging to some Dutch merchants and Lord
Cobham had to intervene on his behalf. He was also coming under attack
from his creditors for in July 1600 some supporters of Sir Richard
Weston broke into his father's house at Blackfriars and threatened the
Shirleys, father and son, demanding payment. In 1601 his father
required the borough seat of Steyning. Shirley was elected MP for both
Bramber and Hastings and chose to sit for Hastings. In 1602 he renewed
his privateering adventures, and pillaged ‘two poor hamlets of two
dozen houses in Portugal.’
At the end of 1602 Shirley equipped two ships for a more ambitious
adventure in the Levant where he aimed to strike a blow against the
Turks. He was given encouragement by the Duke of Tuscany at Florence.
However, he made an imprudent descent on the island of Kea on 15 Jan.
1603 and was captured by the Turks. He was transferred to Negropont on
20 March, and on 25 July 1603 he was carried a close prisoner to
Constantinople. When news of his misfortunes reached England, James I
appealed to the government of the sultan to release him. The English
ambassador to the Porte, Henry Lello, used every effort on his behalf,
and finally he was released on 6 December 1605, after eleven hundred
dollars had been paid to his gaolers. He immediately went to Naples,
where he was described by Toby Mathew, on 8 August 1606, as living
there ‘like a gallant.’ At the end of 1606 he returned to England.
Shirley was imprisoned in the Tower of London in September 1607 on a
charge of illegal interference with the operations of the Levant
Company. It was said that he had "overbusied himself with the traffic
of Constantinople, to have brought it to Venice and to the Florentine
territories." In August 1611 he was confined in the king's bench as an
insolvent debtor. The death of his father next year, and his second
marriage greatly increased his difficulties. Wiston, which had fallen
into ruins, was sold, but he was elected MP for Steyning in 1614,
and 1621.
Shirley is said to have retired subsequently to the Isle of Wight,
and to have died there about 1630.
Shirley married firstly Frances Vavasour, daughter of Henry Vavasour
of Copmanthorpe, and had three sons and four daughters. Henry the
second son, was the dramatist who was murdered in London on October
31, 1627. The only surviving son Thomas was baptised at West Clandon,
Surrey, on 30 June 1597, was knighted in 1645 by Charles I at Oxford,
was alive in 1664, and was father of Thomas Sherley [q. v.], the
physician. Shirley married secondly at Deptford on 2 December 1617, a
widow, Judith Taylor, daughter of William Bennet of London, by whom he
had five sons and six daughters. Sir Anthony Shirley, and Sir Robert
were his younger brothers.>>
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And it drove t[H]e poor Bellman half-mad--
He could only bake Br[I]decake--for which, I may state,
No materials we[R]e to be had.
The last of the crew needs especia[L] remark,
Though he looked an incredible dunc[E]:
He had just one idea--but, that one being "Snark,"
[T]he good Bellman engaged him at once.
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CYNTHIA'S REVELS: OR, THE FOUNTAIN OF SELF-LOVE
TO THE SPECIAL FOUNTAIN OF MANNERS
. Act V. Scene VII. The First Masque.
[To them.
Cupid, like Anteros.
For she, their SoVEREign, not finding where to dwell
among Men, before her return to Heaven, advised them whol-
ly to consecrate themselves to th[Y] Celestial Service,
as in whose clear Spirit (th[E] proper Element and Sphere
of VER(tu)E) they shou[L]d behold not her alone, (their
EVER-honour'd Mist[R]iss) but themselves (more *TRULY*
themselves) to l[I]ve inthroniz'd. Her self would have
commended t[H]em unto thy Favour more particularly,
but that [S]he knows no Commendation is more
available with [Th]ee, than that of proper VER(tu)E.
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[THE DANCERS UNMASK.]
How! let me view you. Ha! are we contemn'd?
Is there so little awe of our disdain,
That any (under trust of their disguise)
Should m[I]x th[E]mse[L]ves [W]ith [O]the[R]s of the court,
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Shirley
<<James Shirley (or Sherley) (September 1596 – October 1666) was an
English dramatist. He belonged to the great period of English dramatic
literature, but, in Lamb's words, he "claims a place among the
worthies of this period, not so much for any transcendent genius in
himself, as that he was the last of a great race, all of whom spoke
nearly the same language and had a set of moral feelings and notions
in common." His career of play writing extended from 1625 to the
suppression of stage plays by Parliament in 1642.
Shirley was born in London. He was educated at Merchant Taylors'
School, London, St John's College, Oxford, and St Catharine's College,
Cambridge,[1] where he took his B.A. degree in or before 1618.
His first poem, Echo, or the Unfortunate Lovers (of which no copy is
known, but which is probably the same as Narcissus of 1646), was
published in 1618. After earning his M.A., he was, Wood says, "a
minister of God's word in or near St Albans." Apparently in
consequence of his conversion to the Roman Catholic faith, he left his
living, and was master of St Albans School from 1623–25. His first
play, Love Tricks, seems to have been written while he was teaching at
St Albans. He removed in 1625 to London, where he lived in Gray's Inn,
and for eighteen years from that time he was a prolific writer for the
stage, producing more than thirty regular plays, tragedies, comedies,
and tragicomedies, and showing no sign of exhaustion when a stop was
put to his occupation by the Puritan edict of 1642. Most of his plays
were performed by Queen Henrietta's Men, the playing company for which
Shirley served as house dramatist, much as Shakespeare, Fletcher, and
Massinger had done for the King's Men.
Shirley's sympathies were with the King in his disputes with
Parliament and he received marks of special favor from the Queen. He
made a bitter attack on William Prynne, who had attacked the stage in
Histriomastix, and, when in 1634 a special masque was presented at
Whitehall by the gentlemen of the Inns of Court as a practical reply
to Prynne, Shirley supplied the text—The Triumph of Peace. Between
1636 and 1640 Shirley went to Ireland, under the patronage apparently
of the Earl of Kildare. Three or four of his plays were produced by
his friend John Ogilby in Dublin in the Werburgh Street Theatre, the
first ever built in Ireland and at the time of Shirley's visit only
one year old. During his Dublin stay, Shirley wrote The Doubtful Heir,
The Royal Master, The Constant Maid, and St. Patrick for Ireland.[2]
In his absence from London, Queen Henrietta's Men sold off a dozen of
his plays to the stationers, who published them in the late 1630s.
Shirley, when he returned to London in 1640, would no longer work for
the Queen Henrietta's company as a result; his final plays of his
London career were acted by the King's Men.
On the outbreak of the English Civil War he seems to have served with
the Earl of Newcastle, but when the King's fortunes began to decline
he returned to London. He owed something to the kindness of Thomas
Stanley, but supported himself chiefly by teaching, publishing some
educational works under the Commonwealth. Besides these he published
during the period of dramatic eclipse four small volumes of poems and
plays, in 1646, 1653, 1655, and 1659. He "was a drudge" for John
Ogilby in his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and survived
into the reign of Charles II, but, though some of his comedies were
revived, he did not again attempt to write for the stage. Wood says
that he and his second wife died of fright and exposure after the
Great Fire of London, and were buried at St Giles in the Fields on 29
October 1666.
Shirley was born to great dramatic wealth, and he handled it freely.
He constructed his own plots out of the abundance of materials that
had been accumulated during thirty years of unexampled dramatic
activity. He did not strain after novelty of situation or character,
but worked with confident ease and buoyant copiousness on the familiar
lines, contriving situations and exhibiting characters after types
whose effectiveness on the stage had been proved by ample experience.
He spoke the same language with the great dramatists, it is true, but
this grand style is sometimes employed for the artificial elevation of
commonplace thought. "Clear as day" becomes in this manner "day is not
more conspicuous than this cunning"; while the proverb "Still waters
run deep" is ennobled into — "The shallow rivers glide away with noise
— The deep are silent." The violence and exaggeration of many of his
contemporaries left him untouched. His scenes are ingeniously
conceived, his characters boldly and clearly drawn; and he never falls
beneath a high level of stage effect.>>
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Art Neuendorffer
http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?textsid=32924
Palladis Tamia: Wit's Treasury
Francis Meres (1598)
<<The best poets for comedy among the Greeks are these, Menander,
Aristophanes, Eupolis Atheniensis, Alexis Terius, Nicostratus,
Amipsias Atheniensis, Anaxandrides Rhodius, Aristonymus, Archippus
Atheniensis and Callias Atheniensis, and among the Latins, Plautus,
Terence, Naevius, Sext. Turpilius, Licinius Imbrex, and Virgilius
Romanus, so the best for comedy amongst us be Edward Earl of Oxford,
Doctor Gager of Oxford,
.
*Master ROWLEy* [born c.1585 ?], once a rare scholar
. of learned Pembroke Hall in Cambridge,
.
Master Edwards, one of her Majesty's Chapel, eloquent and witty John
Lyly, Lodge, Gascoigne, Greene, Shakespeare, Thomas Nash, Thomas
Heywood, Anthony Munday, our best plotter, Chapman, Porter, Wilson,
Hathway, and Henry Chettle.>>
The best Poets for Comedy among the Greeks are these, Menander,
Aristophanes, Eupolis Atheniensis, Alexis Terius, Nicostratus,
Amipsias Atheniensis, Anaxedrides, Rhodius, Aristonymus, Archippus
Atheniensis and Callias Atheniensis; and among the Latines, Plautus,
Terence, Naeuius, Sext. Turpilius, Licinius Imbrex, and Virgilius
Romanus: so the best for Comedy amongst us bee, Edward Earle of
Oxforde, Doctor Gager of Oxforde,
.
*Master ROWLEy* [born c.1585 ?] once a rare
Scholler of learned Pembrooke Hall in Cambridge,
.
Maister Edwardes one of her Majesties Chappell, eloquent and wittie
John Lilly, Lodge, Gascoyne, Greene, Shakespeare, Thomas Nash, Thomas
Heywood, Anthony Mundye our best plotter, Chapman, Porter, Wilson,
Hathway, and Henry Chettle.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rowley
<<William ROWLEy (c.1585 – February 1626) was an English Jacobean
dramatist, best known for works written in collaboration with
more successful writers. He was buried on 11 February 1626.
Rowley was an actor-playwright who specialized in playing clown
characters (that is, characters whose function is to provide low
comedy). He must also have been a large man, since his forte lay
specifically in fat-clown roles. He played the Fat Bishop in Thomas
Middleton's A Game at Chess, and Plumporridge in the same author's
Inner Temple Masque. He also wrote fat-clown parts for himself to
play: Jaques in All's Lost by Lust (a role "personated by the Poet,"
the 1633 quarto states), and Bustopha in The Maid in the Mill, his
collaboration with John Fletcher. He certainly played Simplicity in
The World Tossed at Tennis, and probably Chough in A Fair Quarrel —
and since these are Middleton/Rowley collaborations, they qualify as
two more parts that Rowley wrote for himself. (Internal evidence shows
that in collaborations, Rowley normally handled the comic subplot —
though he was not restricted solely to comic material: in The
Changeling, A Fair Quarrel, and The Maid in the Mill, he wrote
substantial portions of the main plots as well.) The part of
the otherwise-unnamed Clown in The Birth of Merlin shows
signs of being another role that Rowley the playwright
wrote with Rowley the actor in mind.
As a writer, Rowley was almost exclusively a dramatist; the pamphlet
A Search for Money (1609) is his only sustained work of non-dramatic
prose. Two plays are generally accepted as Rowley's solo works: A
Shoemaker a Gentleman (c. 1607-9) and All's Lost by Lust (1619). Three
other works that might have been Rowley solo plays have not survived:
Hymen's Holidays or Cupid's Vagaries (1612), A Knave in Print (1613),
and The Fool Without Book (also 1613).
Rowley appears to have begun his career working for Queen Anne's Men
at the Red Bull Theatre. In 1609, he was part of a group of actors who
set up a new playing company, the Duke of York's Men, which became
known as Prince Charles's Men after 1612. Most of Rowley's career was
spent writing and clowning for this company, which was based at a
series of different playhouses, including the Curtain, the Hope,
and the Red Bull. Rowley was the troupe's payee for their Court
performancess in the 1610–15 era.
In 1623, Rowley left his company and joined the highly successful
King's Men at the Globe, until his death in 1626. Though relatively
brief, his stay with the troupe was eventful: in 1624 he was embroiled
in both the Game at Chess controversy in August and the Spanish
Viceroy affair in December. The roles he took with the company likely
included Cacafogo in Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, the Cook in Rollo
Duke of Normandy, and Tony in A Wife for a Month.
Notably, Rowley did not necessarily restrict his playwriting efforts
to the company to which he was committed as an actor. In 1624 he was a
member of the King's Men, Shakespeare's famous company, and in August
of that year played in their notorious production of A Game at Chess —
yet in the same year he worked on the now-lost play Keep the Widow
Waking with Dekker, Ford, and Webster, which was intended
for the Red Bull Theatre.>>
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. The Phoenix and the Turtle.
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. That the selfe was not the same:
. Single Natures double name,
. Neithe[R] two n[O]r one [W]as ca[L]led.
. R[E]ason [I]n it selfe confounded,
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. To themselues yet either neither,
. Simple were so well compounded.
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[THOMAS SHELTON]’s Preface to the Reader
.
<<If of whores or courtezans, the[R]e thou hast the Bish[O]p of
Mondonnedo, who {WILL} lend thee Lamia, [L]ayda, and Flora, whos[E]
annotation {WILL} ga[I]n thee no small credit;>>
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__ *(To the m)[eMOry of my beloVED]"
__ *(To them) [my OM, by fo(DEVere)ol]*
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______ *fo(DEVere)ol's ISCHIA*
______ *of HeroICAl DEVISes*
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. A Garden *of HeroICAl DEVISes*
or Henry Peacham's Minerva Britanna
.
. http://home.att.net/~tleary/minerva.htm
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What mortall man might ever comprehend,
Gods sacred essence, and his secret will,
Or his soules substance, or could but [I]ntend,
L[E]ast whi[L]e to vie[W], this gl[O]rious c[R]eature still:
Be wise in what the word doth plainely teach,
But meddle not, with thinges aboue thy reach.
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[ROWLEI] 7
Deus vltimum [R]efugium.
T[O] the right [W]orshipfu[L]l, Mr: D: Laif[E]ild,
somet[I]mes my Tutor in Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge.
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http://www.forumjar.com/forums/The_Travels_of_the_Three_English_Brothers
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1477-4658.2010.00644.x/a...
<<The Travels of the Three English Brothers, a collaborative play by
John Day, George Wilkins, and William Rowley first performed at the
Red Bull Theatre in 1607, stages the adventures of the three Sherley
brothers Thomas, Anthony, and Robert, focusing in particular on
Anthony's tour around Europe as the ambassador of Shah Abbas I of
Persia. Anthony was seeking to bring Christendom and Persia into an
alliance that would encircle the Ottoman Empire – a political
programme deeply controversial in a London that enjoyed strong trade
links with the Ottoman Porte.
Travels, which was commissioned by Thomas Sherley, sets out to
influence public perception of the three brothers. Its defence of the
Sherleys, this article argues, is fundamentally intertextual: the
playwrights deliberately associate their heroes with preceding stage-
heroes (often, the protagonists of plays staged at the Red Bull).
Imposing generic principles on real historical narratives, Travels'
playwrights shape the actions of the deeply individualistic Sherley
brothers so that they resemble the undertakings of the patriotic
heroes of popular dramatic romances such as Guy of Warwick and The
Four Prentices of London. Not altogether successfully, they present
the Sherleys as national heroes who deserve their countrymen's
appreciation.>>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Travels_of_the_Three_English_Brothers
<<The Travels of the Three English Brothers is an early Jacobean era
stage play, an adventure drama written in 1607 by John Day, William
Rowley, and George Wilkins. The drama was based on the true-life
experiences of the three Shirley brothers, Sir Anthony Shirley, Sir
Thomas Shirley, and Robert Shirley (later Sir Robert). The play
illustrates the trend toward extreme topicality in some works of
English Renaissance drama.
The play was based on an account of the Shirleys' travels by Anthony
Nixon, published in pamphlet form and titled The Three English
Brothers. (The Shirley brothers had been the subjects of two previous
pamphlets, in 1600 and 1601; but Nixon's work is thought to have been
backed by the Shirley family.) The pamphlet was entered into the
Stationers' Register on 8 June 1607, and was published soon after. The
play was entered into the Register less than two months later, on 29
June that year. This suggests that the three playwrights may have put
the drama together in the space of about six weeks.
The play was acted by Queen Anne's Men. Its 29 July Register entry
states that the play was performed at the Curtain Theatre, though this
information is likely inaccurate; The Queen's company is thought to
have moved on to the Red Bull Theatre in 1604 or 1605. Francis
Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle, also of 1607, refers to
The Travels as a Red Bull play.
The Travels was printed in the same year it appeared onstage,
apparently to capitalize on its popularity. The text was issued in a
quarto by the bookseller John Wright. Wright published the quarto in
two states: the second added an Epistle addressed to the Shirley
family. The work's topicality may have won it quick success, though
that success was not enduring: the 1607 quarto was the only edition of
the play in the seventeenth century. (The playwrights suffered the
trap of the topical approach: their material was so current that they
did not yet have an end to their story. Their version was soon
outdated by further events and later printed accounts.)
The triple authorship of The Travels is not in doubt; the three
dramatists are credited by name on the title page, and all three
signed the prefatory Epistle to the Shirleys. And it would likely have
taken more than one or two writers to produce an actable play in a
short period of time. Scholars have made attempts to differentiate the
respective shares of the three authors. Since George Wilkins is
thought by some to have worked with Shakespeare on Pericles, Prince of
Tyre around 1607, the question of his participation in this
collaboration has drawn the attention of some Shakespeare scholars.
Wilkins probably wote about three-fifths of The Travels.
(H. Dugdale Sykes, employing a 13-scene scheme for the play, assigned
the Prologue to Day, the Epilogue to Day and Wilkins; he alloted
scenes 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, and the start of 13 to Wilkins; he gave
scene 3 to Day, and the remainder, scenes 1, 7, 9, 11, and the end of
13, to Day or Rowley. Sykes's breakdown resembles the conclusions of
other researchers.)
The Travels of the Three English Brothers belongs to a genre of
traditional, popular, and somewhat naive drama of adventure and
romance that was typified by the plays of Thomas Heywood and his many
compatriots. (Concern with accuracy and veracity was not part of the
ethos of this popular drama, and the three authors show no such
concern in The Travels.) More sophisticated writers of the early
Jacobean period looked down of this popular drama; Beaumont was
mocking The Travels when he referred to it in Knight of the Burning
Pestle, IV,i,33-5.
Beyond the sheer entertainment value of the Shirleys' story, the
dramatists were eager to draw cultural contrasts between Christian
England and Muslim Persia, the key locale of much of the Shirley saga.
Their play stresses the violence and brutality of Persian society
(especially the practice of beheading) as a blatant discriminator
between Persia and England. The English display their valor and
resourcefulness when assaulted by violence and treachery; when an
unarmed Sir Thomas Shirley is attacked by four Turks, he defends
himself with rocks. The splendid English move the Persian "Sophy" (the
play's version of the Shah) to verbal raptures — and inspire him to
grant Christians tolerance in his dominions.
In addition to other real-life figures in the cast of characters
(including the Pope), the comic Will Kempe appears in one scene.
Himself noted for his travels, Kempe is shown in Venice, where he has
a bawdy exchange with a Signor Harlakin (that is, harlequin) and his
wife. Kempe reportedly met Sir Anthony Shirley in Rome; but whether
this Venetian scene with Kempe is based on anything more substantial
that the playwrights' imaginations is uncertain.
The final scene in The Travels of the Three English Brothers contains
a noteworthy feature: the three Shirley brothers and their father,
widely separate geographically, see and speak with each other through
a magical device called a "perspective glass." This device is part of
the traditional lore of magic, and occurs in other contexts: Robert
Greene includes it in his Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. Though the
perspective glass operates thaumaturgically rather than
technologically, it nonetheless provides a striking anticipation of
modern communications.>>
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___________ Sonnet 117
ACcuse me thus, th[A]t I haue scanted all,
Wherein I should your great de[S]erts repay,
Forgot vpon your dearest love to call,
W[H]ereto al bonds do tie me day by day,
That I haue frequ[E]nt binne with vnknown mindes,
And giuen to time you[R] owne deare purchas'd right,
That *I haue HOYSTED SAI[L]E to al the windes*
Which should transport me farth[E]st from your sight.
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. uldyourgreatde [S] ertsrepayForgotvponyourdear
. estlovetocallW [H] eretoalbondsdotiemedaybyday
. ThatIhauefrequ [E] ntbinnewithvnknownmindesAnd
. giuentotimeyou [R] ownedearepurchasdrightThatI
. hauehoystedsai [L] etoalthewindesWhichshouldtr
. ansportmefarth [E] stfromyoursight
[A.SHERLE.] 42
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Shirley
<<Sir Anthony Shirley (or *SHERLEy* ) (1565–1635) was an
English traveller, whose imprisonment in 1603 by King James I
caused the English House of Commons to assert one of its
privileges—freedom of its members from arrest—in a document
known as _The Form of Apology and Satisfaction_.
He was the second son of Sir Thomas Shirley, and his brothers,
Robert Shirley and Thomas Shirley, were also much-travelled.
Educated at the University of Oxford, Anthony Shirley gained some
military experience with the English troops in the Netherlands and
also during an expedition to Normandy in 1591 under Robert Devereux,
2nd Earl of Essex, who was related to his wife, Frances Vernon;
about this time he was knighted by Henry of Navarre
(Henry IV of France), an event which brought upon him
the displeasure of his own sovereign and a short imprisonment.
In 1596, he conducted a predatory expedition along the western coast
of Africa and then across to Central America, but owing to a mutiny
he returned to London with a single ship in 1597. In 1598, he led
a few English volunteers to Italy to take part in a dispute over the
possession of Ferrara; this, however, had been accommodated when he
reached Venice, and he decided to journey to Persia with the twofold
object of promoting trade between England and Persia and of stirring
up the Persians against the Turks. He obtained money at Constantinople
and at Aleppo, and was very well received by the Shah, Abbas the
Great, who made him a Mirza, or prince, and granted certain trading
and other rights to all Christian merchants.
Then, as the Shah's representative, he returned to Europe and visited
Moscow, Prague, Rome, and other cities, but the English government
would not allow him to return to his own country. Two members of his
expedition returned to London, where they published the anonymous
pamphlet The True Report of Sir Anthony Shirley's Journey, which,
additionally spurred by the actor *Will Kempe's* meeting with
Sir Anthony in Rome, evoked two references to "the Sophy"—
the Shah— in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1601-02).
For some time he was in prison in Venice, and in 1605, he went to
Prague and was sent by Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor on a mission
to Morocco; afterwards he went to Lisbon and to Madrid, where he was
welcomed very warmly. The King of Spain appointed him the admiral
of a fleet which was to serve in the Levant, but the only result of
his extensive preparations was an unsuccessful expedition against
the island of Mitylene. After this he was deprived of his command.
Shirley, who was a count of the Holy Roman Empire,
died at Madrid some time after 1635.
Shirley wrote an account of his adventures, Sir Anthony Sherley: his
Relation of his Travels into Persia (1613), the original manuscript
of which is in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. There are in existence
five or more accounts of Shirley's adventures in Persia, and the
account of his expedition in 1596 is published in Richard Hakluyt's
Voyages and Discoveries (1809-1812). See also The Three Brothers;
Travels and Adventures of Sir Anthony, Sir Robert and Sir Thomas
Sherley in Persia, Russia, Turkey and Spain (London, 1825);
EP Shirley, The Sherley Brothers (1848), and
the same writer's Stemmata ROWana (1841, again 1873).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Shirley_%281542-1612%29
<<Sir Thomas Shirley (1542–1612), of Wiston in Sussex, was an English
Member of Parliament and government official, who is said to have
suggested the creation of the rank of baronet. Shirley was knighted in
1573, and served as High Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex in 1576. Also in
1573, he began rebuilding the family seat of Wiston House, which he
turned into a massive country house. (It is now the site of the
government's Wilton Park conference centre.)
However, soon afterwards Shirley found himself in considerable
financial difficulties which eventually swallowed the family fortune.
In 1586 Queen Elizabeth I appointed Sir Thomas Treasurer-at-War to the
English forces serving in the Netherlands during the Dutch Revolt.
This gave him the power to speculate with the funds that passed
through his hands (a normal perk of office at this period), but he
so mishandled them that he contracted massive debts to the Crown and
found himself accused of fraud. His estate, including Wiston House,
was sequestered in 1602, though he continued to live at Wiston
until his death in 1612.
Sir Thomas was elected to Parliament as MP for Sussex in 1584,
representing the county for many years, and then Steyning, in 1601
and 1604, which was controlled by Shirley as a pocket borough; he was
apparently not distinguished as a member, but tried to draw upon an
MP's privilege of immunity from arrest in 1604 when his debts grew
too pressing to meet. Despite his protests that he had parliamentary
privilege, he was arrested at the instigation of a goldsmith to whom
he owed money, and placed in the Fleet Prison. The House of Commons
of England made a number of attempts to order his release by issuing
writs of Habeas Corpus, but the Warden of the Fleet Prison would not
free him, unless he received assurance that he would not himself be
held liable for Shirley's debts, or blamed for what might technically
be seen as allowing an 'escape'. The Commons had the Warden placed in
the Tower of London and sent the sergeant-at-arms of the Commons,
who was carrying the mace, to the Fleet Prison to set Shirley free.
However, the Warden's wife proved equally obdurate, and the sergeant-
at-arms had to report that his mission had been a failure. The Warden
had originally been able to move around within the Tower, but now the
Commons made sure that he was placed in an unpleasant dungeon, called
the Little Ease, four feet square, within the Tower. This persuaded
the Warden to release Shirley, and he also had to apologise on his
knees to the House of Commons. Shirley then resumed his seat as an MP.
Parliament subsequently passed a general act (The Privilege of
Parliament Act), which confirmed the privilege of freedom from arrest
for Members, but also gave creditors an opportunity to recover what
they were owed when the debtor ceased being an MP. This case is
generally regarded as having finally settled the question of privilege
from arrest in the Commons’ favour, and was cited as Sir Thomas
Shirley's Case for centuries afterwards.
His sons Thomas, Anthony and Robert were all noted adventurers.>>
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___________ Sonnet 1
From fairest creature[S] we desire increase,
That thereby beauties Rose mig[H]t neuer die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
H[I]s tender heire might beare his memory:
But thou cont[R]acted to thine owne bright eyes,
Feed'st thy lights f[L]ame with selfe substantiall fewell,
Making a famin[E] where aboundance lies,
Thy selfe thy foe,to thy sweet selfe too cruell:
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[SHIRLE.,T.] 43
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17th-century References to Shakespeare's Stratford Monument
http://shakespeareauthorship.com/monrefs.html
by David Kathman
.
<<In 1631, a year before his death, John Weever published
the massive Ancient Funerall Monuments, which recorded many
inscriptions from monuments around England, particularly in
Canterbury, Rochester, London, and Norwich. Shakespeare's
monument does not appear in the published book, but two of
Weever's notebooks, containing his drafts for most of the
book as well as many unpublished notes, survive as Society
of Antiquaries MSS. 127 and 128. In one of these notebooks,
under the heading "Stratford upon Avon," Weever recorded
the poems from Shakespeare's monument and his gravestone,
as follows:
Good frend for Iesus sake forbeare
[T]o digg th[E] dust enc[L]osed hea[R]e
Blest b[E]e ye man t[H]at spare[S] these stones
And curst bee hee that moves my bones.
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[SHIRLE.,T.] with skip < 9 ~ 1 in 29,000
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. To digg the d[U|S}t enclosed heare
. Bl[E|S}t bee ye man that spa[R|E}s these stones
. And c[U]rst bee hee that move[S] my bones.>>
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Prob. of *F. UERUS* ~ 1 in 6,700 (any skip)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Shirley
<<Sir Thomas Shirley (1564 – c. 1634) was an English soldier,
adventurer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various
times between 1584 and 1622. His financial difficulties drove him into
privateering which culminated in his capture by the Turks and later
imprisonment in the Tower of London.
Shirley was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Shirley of Wiston, Sussex,
and his wife Anne Kempe, daughter of Sir Thomas Kempe of Ollantighe in
Wye, Kent. He matriculated at Hart Hall, Oxford in 1579, but left the
university without taking a degree. In 1584 he was elected Member of
Parliament for Steyning. He went on military service with his father
and brother in the Low Countries in 1585, and later saw some in
Ireland. He was knighted at Kilkenny in Ireland by the lord deputy,
Sir William Fitz-William, on 26 October 1589. Shirley later came to
the court. In the summer of 1591 he made a secret marriage to one of
Queen Elizabeth's maids of honour and when the queen heard of it, she
promptly committed him to the Marshalsea Prison. He remained in prison
till the spring of 1592. In 1593 he was elected MP for Steyning again.
In the same year he saw service with the rank of captain in the Low
Countries again.
Privateering
Shirley was beginning to suffer from hopeless embarrassment because of
his father's increasing financial difficulties. In order to secure a
livelihood, he decided to fit out a privateering expedition to attack
Spanish merchandise. He handed over his company at Flushing to Sir
Thomas Vavasour, a relation of his wife, and in the summer of 1598
sailed into the English Channel, and seized four ‘hulks’ of Lübeck
which were reputed to be carrying Spanish goods. He may have made some
of his attacks with the Queen’s ship Foresight, which he commanded in
1599. The costs and returns were high. A ship that Shirley captured
while returning from San Domingo laden with sugar, was valued at
£4,700. In April 1600, Shirley offered the Earl of Nottingham £600 for
his tenth share in two ships which he brought into Plymouth and said
he had already paid £2,000 for ‘the company’s thirds’. In October 1600
Shirley was brought before the Admiralty court for seizing a ship from
Hamburg which had a cargo belonging to some Dutch merchants and Lord
Cobham had to intervene on his behalf. He was also coming under attack
from his creditors for in July 1600 some supporters of Sir Richard
Weston broke into his father's house at Blackfriars and threatened the
Shirleys, father and son, demanding payment. In 1601 his father
required the borough seat of Steyning. Shirley was elected MP for both
Bramber and Hastings and chose to sit for Hastings. In 1602 he renewed
his privateering adventures, and pillaged ‘two poor hamlets of two
dozen houses in Portugal.’
At the end of 1602 Shirley equipped two ships for a more ambitious
adventure in the Levant where he aimed to strike a blow against the
Turks. He was given encouragement by the Duke of Tuscany at Florence.
However, he made an imprudent descent on the island of Kea on 15 Jan.
1603 and was captured by the Turks. He was transferred to Negropont on
20 March, and on 25 July 1603 he was carried a close prisoner to
Constantinople. When news of his misfortunes reached England, James I
appealed to the government of the sultan to release him. The English
ambassador to the Porte, Henry Lello, used every effort on his behalf,
and finally he was released on 6 December 1605, after eleven hundred
dollars had been paid to his gaolers. He immediately went to Naples,
where he was described by Toby Mathew, on 8 August 1606, as living
there ‘like a gallant.’ At the end of 1606 he returned to England.
Shirley was imprisoned in the Tower of London in September 1607 on a
charge of illegal interference with the operations of the Levant
Company. It was said that he had "overbusied himself with the traffic
of Constantinople, to have brought it to Venice and to the Florentine
territories." In August 1611 he was confined in the king's bench as an
insolvent debtor. The death of his father next year, and his second
marriage greatly increased his difficulties. Wiston, which had fallen
into ruins, was sold, but he was elected MP for Steyning in 1614,
and 1621.
Shirley is said to have retired subsequently to the Isle of Wight,
and to have died there about 1630.
Shirley married firstly Frances Vavasour, daughter of Henry Vavasour
of Copmanthorpe, and had three sons and four daughters. Henry the
second son, was the dramatist who was murdered in London on October
31, 1627. The only surviving son Thomas was baptised at West Clandon,
Surrey, on 30 June 1597, was knighted in 1645 by Charles I at Oxford,
was alive in 1664, and was father of Thomas Sherley [q. v.], the
physician. Shirley married secondly at Deptford on 2 December 1617, a
widow, Judith Taylor, daughter of William Bennet of London, by whom he
had five sons and six daughters. Sir Anthony Shirley, and Sir Robert
were his younger brothers.>>
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He came a[S] a Baker: but owned, when too late--
And it drove t[H]e poor Bellman half-mad--
He could only bake Br[I]decake--for which, I may state,
No materials we[R]e to be had.
The last of the crew needs especia[L] remark,
Though he looked an incredible dunc[E]:
He had just one idea--but, that one being "Snark,"
[T]he good Bellman engaged him at once.
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. tdrovet [H] epoorBellmanhalfmadHecouldonl
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[SHIRLE,T.] 37
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CYNTHIA'S REVELS: OR, THE FOUNTAIN OF SELF-LOVE
TO THE SPECIAL FOUNTAIN OF MANNERS
. Act V. Scene VII. The First Masque.
[To them.
Cupid, like Anteros.
For she, their SoVEREign, not finding where to dwell
among Men, before her return to Heaven, advised them whol-
ly to consecrate themselves to th[Y] Celestial Service,
as in whose clear Spirit (th[E] proper Element and Sphere
of VER(tu)E) they shou[L]d behold not her alone, (their
EVER-honour'd Mist[R]iss) but themselves (more *TRULY*
themselves) to l[I]ve inthroniz'd. Her self would have
commended t[H]em unto thy Favour more particularly,
but that [S]he knows no Commendation is more
available with [Th]ee, than that of proper VER(tu)E.
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[Th.SHIRLEY's] -37
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[THE DANCERS UNMASK.]
How! let me view you. Ha! are we contemn'd?
Is there so little awe of our disdain,
That any (under trust of their disguise)
Should m[I]x th[E]mse[L]ves [W]ith [O]the[R]s of the court,
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Shirley
<<James Shirley (or Sherley) (September 1596 – October 1666) was an
English dramatist. He belonged to the great period of English dramatic
literature, but, in Lamb's words, he "claims a place among the
worthies of this period, not so much for any transcendent genius in
himself, as that he was the last of a great race, all of whom spoke
nearly the same language and had a set of moral feelings and notions
in common." His career of play writing extended from 1625 to the
suppression of stage plays by Parliament in 1642.
Shirley was born in London. He was educated at Merchant Taylors'
School, London, St John's College, Oxford, and St Catharine's College,
Cambridge,[1] where he took his B.A. degree in or before 1618.
His first poem, Echo, or the Unfortunate Lovers (of which no copy is
known, but which is probably the same as Narcissus of 1646), was
published in 1618. After earning his M.A., he was, Wood says, "a
minister of God's word in or near St Albans." Apparently in
consequence of his conversion to the Roman Catholic faith, he left his
living, and was master of St Albans School from 1623–25. His first
play, Love Tricks, seems to have been written while he was teaching at
St Albans. He removed in 1625 to London, where he lived in Gray's Inn,
and for eighteen years from that time he was a prolific writer for the
stage, producing more than thirty regular plays, tragedies, comedies,
and tragicomedies, and showing no sign of exhaustion when a stop was
put to his occupation by the Puritan edict of 1642. Most of his plays
were performed by Queen Henrietta's Men, the playing company for which
Shirley served as house dramatist, much as Shakespeare, Fletcher, and
Massinger had done for the King's Men.
Shirley's sympathies were with the King in his disputes with
Parliament and he received marks of special favor from the Queen. He
made a bitter attack on William Prynne, who had attacked the stage in
Histriomastix, and, when in 1634 a special masque was presented at
Whitehall by the gentlemen of the Inns of Court as a practical reply
to Prynne, Shirley supplied the text—The Triumph of Peace. Between
1636 and 1640 Shirley went to Ireland, under the patronage apparently
of the Earl of Kildare. Three or four of his plays were produced by
his friend John Ogilby in Dublin in the Werburgh Street Theatre, the
first ever built in Ireland and at the time of Shirley's visit only
one year old. During his Dublin stay, Shirley wrote The Doubtful Heir,
The Royal Master, The Constant Maid, and St. Patrick for Ireland.[2]
In his absence from London, Queen Henrietta's Men sold off a dozen of
his plays to the stationers, who published them in the late 1630s.
Shirley, when he returned to London in 1640, would no longer work for
the Queen Henrietta's company as a result; his final plays of his
London career were acted by the King's Men.
On the outbreak of the English Civil War he seems to have served with
the Earl of Newcastle, but when the King's fortunes began to decline
he returned to London. He owed something to the kindness of Thomas
Stanley, but supported himself chiefly by teaching, publishing some
educational works under the Commonwealth. Besides these he published
during the period of dramatic eclipse four small volumes of poems and
plays, in 1646, 1653, 1655, and 1659. He "was a drudge" for John
Ogilby in his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and survived
into the reign of Charles II, but, though some of his comedies were
revived, he did not again attempt to write for the stage. Wood says
that he and his second wife died of fright and exposure after the
Great Fire of London, and were buried at St Giles in the Fields on 29
October 1666.
Shirley was born to great dramatic wealth, and he handled it freely.
He constructed his own plots out of the abundance of materials that
had been accumulated during thirty years of unexampled dramatic
activity. He did not strain after novelty of situation or character,
but worked with confident ease and buoyant copiousness on the familiar
lines, contriving situations and exhibiting characters after types
whose effectiveness on the stage had been proved by ample experience.
He spoke the same language with the great dramatists, it is true, but
this grand style is sometimes employed for the artificial elevation of
commonplace thought. "Clear as day" becomes in this manner "day is not
more conspicuous than this cunning"; while the proverb "Still waters
run deep" is ennobled into — "The shallow rivers glide away with noise
— The deep are silent." The violence and exaggeration of many of his
contemporaries left him untouched. His scenes are ingeniously
conceived, his characters boldly and clearly drawn; and he never falls
beneath a high level of stage effect.>>
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# finds in skips from ±2 to ±1001
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String NT OT M.D. (4,150,000,000)
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TOMSWIFT .09 .16 .08 (1 in 12,600,000,000)
TSHIRLEY .25 .55 .2 (1 in 1,200,000,000)
O(ROGER)M .45 1.4 1.6 (1 in 1,200,000,000)
ROSENKR 1.3 3.7 1.9 (1 in 600,000,000)
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CHURCH 4 14 8 (1 in 160,000,000)
SPENSER 4 13 10 (1 in 154,000,000)
LDERBY 5 17 6 (1 in 148,000,000)
STRANGE 7 17 9 (1 in 126,000,000)
NEU/VILLE 8 20 11 (1 in 106,500,000)
OXFOR 6 19 15 (1 in 104,000,000)
AREVERE 10 22 8 (1 in 104,000,000)
PERCY,H 8 24 12 (1 in 95,000,000)
SDANIEL 7 27 12 (1 in 90,000,000)
AMAFFR 9 33 8 (1 in 83,000,000)
EDEVERE 13 34 8 (1 in 75,500,000)
PSYDNE 12 31 16 (1 in 70,300,000)
FICINO 14 41 21 (1 in 54,600,000)
ROGERM 15 56 20 (1 in 45,600,000)
WRAWLE 16 45 24 (1 in 43,700,000)
EREUERE 18 58 22 (1 in 42,000,000)
EREVEER 11 29 10 (1 in 41,000,000)
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EVERUS 24 63 28 (1 in 36,000,000)
BACONO/I 25 73 44 (1 in 29,000,000)
AMAFRA 31 107 30 (1 in 25,000,000)
U/VERULA 31 97 49 (1 in 23,400,000)
GPEELE 25 95 67 (1 in 22,200,000)
STANLEE 28 110 42 (1 in 23,000,000)
ROWLIE 38 117 67 (1 in 18,700,000)
NEVILE 38 128 51 (1 in 19,100,000)
ISCHIA 48 115 72 (1 in 17,700,000)
WSTANL 44 124 67 (1 in 17,700,000)
SIDNEY 57 131 50 (1 in 17,400,000)
WRALEI 39 133 71 (1 in 17,100,000)
FEEBLE 38 178 56 (1 in 17,000,000)
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TLODGE 42 163 56 (1 in 15,900,000)
PERCY 49 131 95 (1 in 15,100,000)
MASONS 60 174 85 (1 in 13,000,000)
PARVO 53 214 51 (1 in 13,000,000)
A)SH(e/i)
- RLE(T 58 246 82 (1 in 10,750,000)
EOXEN 64 181 152 (1 in 10,450,000)
HENRYN 76 262 63 (1 in 10,350,000)
DEVERE 81 259 65 (1 in 10,250,000)
DEVEER 76 252 62
EDEVER 79 245 78
ETUDOR 88 302 87 (1 in 8,700,000)
ESPENS 83 241 160 (1 in 8,600,000)
ERUTLA 78 297 113 (1 in 8,500,000)
TOWERS 103 265 130 (1 in 8,300,000)
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HARRIS 95 365 145 (1 in 6,900,000)
EVEREO 121 372 125 (1 in 6,700,000)
EVEREH 150 437 130 (1 in 5,800,000)
ALISLE 70 338 164 (1 in 5,700,000)
DERBY 130 439 159 (1 in 5,700,000)
HAMLET 113 476 129 (1 in 5,700,000)
SHREWE 141 417 159 (1 in 5,700,000)
DANIEL 115 461 166 (1 in 5,600,000)
SIDNEI 138 445 199 (1 in 5,300,000)
VERUS 175 473 220 (1 in 4,800,000)
CECIL 145 410 390 (1 in 4,400,000)
PARUO 165 575 307 (1 in 4,000,000)
MARYS 208 583 260 (1 in 4,000,000)
BACON 183 579 294 (1 in 3,900,000)
GREENE 190 626 281 (1 in 3,800,000)
DEUEER 210 662 228
DEUERE 219 679 223
ARAISE 229 823 420
OXIN 238 678 706 (1 in 2,600,000)
OXON 268 858 724 (1 in 2,240,000)
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SWEETE 483 1112 507
ISHERE 391 1305 470 (1 in 1,920,000)
UERUS 475 1235 648
HENRIE 455 1541 477 (1 in 1,680,000)
MARLO 393 1638 644 (1 in 1,550,000)
LODGE 420 1627 677 (1 in 1,550,000)
TNASHE 521 1941 528 (1 in 1,400,000)
SHAKE 455 1950 692 (1 in 1,340,000)
OXEN 506 1430 1258 (1 in 1,300,000)
SPENS 617 1901 1276 (1 in 1,090,000)
TUDOR 705 2395 765 (1 in 1,074,000)
ROGER 673 2250 1061 (1 in 1,040,000)
SPEAR 635 2210 1250 (1 in 1,000,000)
TALUS 704 2530 1172 (1 in 942,000)
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HIRAM 833 2881 898 (1 in 900,000)
MARIH 833 2881 898 (1 in 900,000)
TKYD 805 2923 1027 (1 in 873,000)
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SEVEN 1030 3002 1164 (1 in 800,000)
SCANT 933 2733 1545 (1 in 796,000)
VEREH 1033 3439 921 (1 in 770,000)
MASON 955 3193 1270 (1 in 766,000)
ESLEY 984 3469 1444
HENRY 1160 3598 1007 (1 in 720,000)
SHREW 1211 3238 1299
EDYER 1185 3610 1091 (1 in 705,000)
PHEON 1086 3780 1386 (1 in 664,000)
LISLE 914 3846 2129 (1 in 600,000)
FOSSE 1234 4225 1659 (1 in 580,000)
RU/VNES 1442 4633 2150 (1 in 505,000)
TOWER 1781 4674 1941 (1 in 495,000)
EVERE 1697 4951 1773 (1 in 493,000)
EVEER 1697 4951 1773 (1 in 493,000)
GREEN 1453 4903 2307 (1 in 480,000)
PEELE 1483 5685 2762 (1 in 418,000)
RALEI 1682 7061 3143 (1 in 350,000)
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STEAM 2361 7502 2819 (1 in 327,000)
TALOS 1842 7763 3117 (1 in 326,000)
NAILE 2319 9169 3990
ATOME 2846 9640 3083 (1 in 267,000)
OSIER 2716 8638 4192
WILL 2875 9881 6005
HENRI 3490 12107 3891 (1 in 213,000)
EUERE 4438 13711 5236 (1 in 177,000)
HASTA 4870 18820 5045 (1 in 144,000)
YARD 5564 19425 5868 (1 in 135,000)
NASHE 5544 19600 9610 (1 in 119,000)
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IOTHE 7291 24236 6915 (1 in 108,000)
SING 7077 19743 13041 (1 in 104,000)
DYER 8908 28748 8808 (1 in 89,000)
SLEY 8033 27050 12240 (1 in 88,000)
EDENE 10225 34912 9551 (1 in 76,000)
ROPE 9393 33352 16214
VERE 12696 39502 13996 (1 in 63,000)
ISAM 11803 36950 17292 (1 in 63,000)
MOAI 14308 46266 18452 (1 in 52,500)
SHENE 17400 57040 17220
HEWS 24146 61081 23593
UERO 20058 63511 25241
IDLE 19024 74864 28064
HEBE 31570 106235 32757
UERE 34713 107114 42928 (1 in 22,500)
STAR 35382 128800 51500 (1 in 19,200)
HEIR 50855 175350 56576 (1 in 14,700)
TEST 109930 354217 131111 (1 in 7,000)
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Art Neuendorffer
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