--------------------------------------------------- http://stanleypalace.com/History/history.htm

<<[W]illiam [S]tanley's Coat of Arms, bearing Three Stags Heads & the Eagle & Child, with the words "Sans Changer", 'without changing'. The story is that Sir Thomas Lathom, an ancestor of the Stanley family had a daughter but no son. Getting a son by a
lady other than his wife, he pretended to find the baby under an eagle's nest, as if fetched by the eagle for him and his wife to adopt. When the boy grew up, he lost favour with his father and Sir Thomas Lathom left most of his fortune to his daughter.>>
.............................................................. http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/derby1485.htm

Arms: Argent on a Bend Azure three Buck's Heads cabossed Or

Crest: On a Chapeau Gules turned up Ermine an Eagle with wings extended
Or preying on a Child proper swaddled Gules in a Cradle laced Or

Supporters: Dexter: a Griffin with wings elevated Or ducally collared
and line reflexed over the back Azure; Sinister: a Stag Or
also ducally collared and line reflexed over the back Azure

Motto: *Sans CHANGEr* (Without changing)

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------------------------------------------------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willobie_His_Avisa

<<Willobie His Avisa is a narrative poem that was published as a pamphlet in London after being entered in the Registers of Stationer's Hall on 3 September 1594. It purports to have been written by a person called "Henry Willobie" One of the characters, "
W.S." [William Stanley] is presented as a friend to "H.W." (Henry Wriothesley), and offers him advice on wooing Diana's maid: Avisa [Elisabeth Vere]

W.S. appears to be familiar with Avisa, for he says he knows the "face from whence these flames arise". He then offers this encouraging rhyme: “She is no saint, she is no Nonne, I think in time she may be wonne.” He then advises his friend regarding
the way to win Avisa’s favour. But the advice seems cynical and shallow, and the tone W.S. uses seems at times almost jokey. When the advice is followed, it proves disastrous. H.W. is so stricken in his failure that it is not known if he is alive or
dead. This episode is followed by a stanza that hints that there is more that could be revealed:

. But here I cease for fear of blame,
. Although there be a great deal more,
. That might be spoken of this dame
. That yet lies hid in secret store,
. If this be lik't, then can I say
. Ye may see more another day. ----------------------------------------------------
. _WILLOBIE HIS AVISA_ (1594) CANT. 49
. . . H. W. the first assault.
.
. Yo{U} are the chieftaine, {T}hat haue layd
. This h[E]auie siege to stren[G]thlesse fort,
. And fa[N]cy that (MY WILL BE)t{R|A]yd,
. Hath lent dispa{I|R]e his strongest po{R|T]:
. Your glauncing ey{E|S] as Cannon shot,
. Haue pearst my hart, and freedome got. .........................................
. . <= 17 =>
.
. Y. o {U} a r e t h e c h i e f t a i
. n. e,{T} h a t h a u e l a y d T h i
. s. h [E] a u i e s i e g e t o s t r
. e. n [G] t h l e s s e f o r t A n d
. f. a [N] c y t h a t(M Y W I L L B E)
. t {R}[A] y d H a t h l e n t d i s p
. a {I}[R] e h i s s t r o n g e s t p
. o {R}[T] Y o u r g l a u n c i n g e
. y {E}[S] a s C a n n o n s h o t
.
[STRANGE] -17
{UT} . 17
{RIRE} 17: "to laugh" (French)
................................................
[Note that _Willobie his Avisa_ itself
explicitly contains the word *STRANGE* 17 times!] -----------------------------------------------------------
. P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, (Golding/Oxford)
.
. Too the Right Honourable and his singular good Lorde
. [R]obert [E]arle of [LEYCES]ter, Baron of Denbygyh,
. Knyght of the moste noble order of the Garter etc.,
. Arthur Goldyng gent, wisheth continuance of health,
. with prosperous estate and fcelicitie. ...........................................................
. . . . Book 3 (Actaeon & Diana)
.
. The Damsels at the sight of man quite out of countnance dasht,
.(Bicause they EVERichone were BARE and naked to the quicke)
. Did beate their handes against their breasts, and cast out such a shricke,
. That all the wood did ring thereof: and clinging to their dame
. Did all they could to hide both hir and eke them[S]elves fro shame.
. But Ph[E]be was of personage so [C]omly and so tall,
. That b[Y] the middle of hir neck[E] she overpeerd them al[L].
. Such colour as appear[E]s in Heaven by Phebus b[R]oken rayes
. Directly shining on the Cloudes, or such as is alwayes
. The colour of the Morning Cloudes before the Sunne doth show,
. Such sanguine colour in the face of Phoebe gan to glowe
. There standing naked in his sight. Who though she had hir gard
. Of Nymphes about hir: yet she turnde hir bodie from him ward. .............................................
___ <= 19 =>
.
. .D. i d a l l t h e y c o u l d t o h i
. .d. e b o t h h i r a n d e k e t h e m
. [S] e l v e s f r o s h a m e B u t P h
. [E] b e w a s o f p e r s o n a g e s o
. [C] o m l y a n d s o t a l l,T h a t b
. [Y] t h e m i d d l e o f h i r n e c k
. [E] s h e o v e r p e e r d t h e m a l
. [L].S u c h c o l o u r a s a p p e a r
. [E] s i n H e a v e n b y P h e b u s b
. [R] o k e n r a y e s
.
[R.E.LEYCES.] -19 : Prob. in Metamorphoses ~ 1 in 60
(Dedicated to [R]obert [E]arle of [LEYCES]ter!) ................................................
[R.E.LEYCES.] shortest skip in KJV: 1491 --------------------------------------------------------- https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/unpacking-merry-wives/

Unpacking Merry Wives of Windsor
Posted by Robert Brazil : SOF October 7, 1999 ........................................
. In Merry Wives (Folio ) Act II, scene 1, there is a reference
. from Ovid’s Metamorphoses to the mythological hunter Actaeon
. and his pack of dogs, among which is one named “Ringwood.” ..........................................................
PISTOL. He woos both high and low, both rich and poor,
. Both young and old, one with another, Ford;
. He loves the gallimaufry. Ford, perpend.
.
FORD. Love my wife!
.
PISTOL. With liver burning hot. Prevent, or go thou,
. Like Sir Actaeon he, with Ringwood at thy heels. ..........................................................
Ringwood is a name unique to the first English translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

The historical credit for the translation goes to Arthur Golding, but there is mounting evidence that the brilliant and youthfully exuberant translation was actually done by Golding’s nephew, the teenaged Edward deVere. Many Oxfordians find it unlikely
that the starchy Calvinist Golding did more than edit or guide, with possible disapproval, his nephew’s bawdy translation, one that set a new standard for bizarre extrapolation.

In myth, Actaeon traveled with a large pack of dogs, all given colorful names in the original Greek version, names that were adapted by Ovid for the Latin version. But, as Betty Sears has pointed out, the English translator took the names into a new
dimension.

The final dog is named Ringwood in the original Vere/Golding translation (not “Kingwood”, as is given in the modern reprint edited by Nims; 20). In the original the line is given:
" … the tother Chorle who ever gnoorring went,/
. And Ringwood with a shyrle loud mouth the which he freely spent,/
. with divers mo whose names to tell it were but losse of tyme.”

Ringwood is the invention of Vere/Golding; it’s not in Ovid.
Teasing out the name Ringwood from implications in the Latin and
Greek was a clever creative move on the part of the translator.

“et acutae vocis Hylactor quosque referre mora est…. ”

“et acutae vocis Hylactor” = “and shrill voiced Barker”

“quosque referre mora est” = “and others whom it were to long to name”

As Betty Sears points out in her 1997 publication Harts, “Hounds, & Hedingham,” Ringwood was the name of a forest in the environs of Castle Hedingham, ancestral home of the earls of Oxford. Sears offers a compelling study of the Vere connections with
the names of the dogs in Actaeon’s pack that were altered by the English translator for the 1567 version of The Metamorphoses (Book 3, lines 200 and forward). Andrew Hannas, a Latin scholar, has contributed the following analysis:

“Actually, there is an etymological suggestion, though probably not accurate, of ‘wood’ in “Hylactor” [from Greek ‘hylakteo—‘bark, howl,’ etc.], as “hyle” in Greek means “wood[s], forest” (LiddellScott). “Ringwood” could be
a colorful if somewhat fanciful attempt to give “barker” by its “etymology”–a dog that “howls in the wood”–as opposed to merely rendering the name by that of a familiar forest.>>
---------------------------------------------------------- http://hollowaypages.com/jonson1692cynthia.htm
.
. Cynthia's REVEls. OR, The Fountain of Self-Love.
. A COMICAL SATYR. First Acted in the Year 1600.
. By the then CHILDREN of QUEEN ELIZABETH's CHAPPEL.
. With the Allowance of the Master of REVEls.
.
. The Author B. J.
. Nasutum volo, nolo polyposum. Mart.
.
. TO THE SPECIAL *FOUNTAIN of MANNERS* , ........................................................
AMORPH(o)US, a. [Gr. ; priv. + form.]
. Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless. ........................................................
AMORPHUS: ...infinite more of
*inferiour Persons, as COUNTS* and others: it was my
chance (the Emperor detain'd by some exorbitant Af-
fair) to wait him the fifth part of an Hour, or much
near it. In which time (retiring my self into a Bay-
window) the beauteous Lady Annabel, Niece to the
Empress, and Sister to the King of Arragon, who having
nEVER before eyed me, (but only heard the common re-
port of my VERtuE, Learning, and Travel) fell into that
extremity of Passion, for my love, that she there imme-
diately swooned: Physicians were sent for, she had
to her Chamber, so to her Bed; where (languishing
some few Days) after many times calling upon me,

*with my Name in her LIPS* , she expir'd.

As that (I must mourningly say)
is the only Fault of my Fortune, that, as it
hath *EVER* been my hap to be sued to, {B}y all
La[D]ies, and Be{A}uties, w(H|E]re I have {C}ome;
so, I n(E|V]er yet s{O}journ'd, or (R|E]sted i{N}
that place, (O|R] part of the World, wh[E]re some
high-born, admirable, fair Feature died not for my Love. ....................................................
_______ <= 16 =>
.
. {B}y_a_l_l L a[D]i e S A n d B e
. {A}u_t_i e s w(H|E]r E I h a v e
. {C O M E S}o I n(E|V]E R y e t s
. {O}j_o u r n d o r(R|E]s t e d i
. {N}t_h a t p L a c e(O|R]p a r t
. {O}f_t h e W O r l d w h[E]r e s
. -o-m e

high-born, admirable, fair Feature died not for my Love.

{BACONO} 16 {1,900,000} = from BACON ("F.B.")
[DEVERE] 17. {640,000}
(HERO) 17 in ~100,000 letters ....................................................
CUPID: So Hercules might challenge priority of us both, because he
can throw [T]he bar farther, or [L]ift more join'd st[O]ols at the
arm's en[D], than we. If this mi[G]ht carry it, then w[E], who have
made the whole body of divinity tremble at the twang of our bow,
and enforc'd Saturnius himself to lay by his curled front,
thunder, and three-fork'd fires, and put on a masking suit,
too light for a reveller of eighteen to be seen in -- ....................................
______ <= 15 =>
.
. [T] h e b a r f a r t h e r,o r
. [L] i f t m o r e j o i n'd s t
. [O] o l s a t t h e a r m's e n
. [D],t h a n w e.I f t h i s m i
. [G] h t c a r r y i t,t h e n w
. [E],w h o h a v e m a d e t h e
. .w. h o l e b o d y

[TLODGE] 15 {1,060,000} in ~100,000 letters ..................................................................
<<The last literary reference to [T]homas [LODGE] was made by
Ben Jonson in Cynthia's REVEls wherein he satirizes Lodge in
the person of *ASOTUS*, the prodigal.>> -Sister Grace Maria

<<In 1891, E G. Fleay suggested that Thomas Nashe had [T]homas [LODGE]
in mind in the section of Pierce Penilesse (1592) that describes "The
prodigall yoong Master" (margin) and begins "A yoong Heyre or Cockney,
that is his Mothers Darling, if hee haue playde the waste-good at the
Innes of the Court or about London....">> ------------------------------------------------------
Mere's Palladis Tamia (1598): . . . "these are the most passionate
among us to bewail & bemoan the perplexities of Love, Henrie
Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyat the elder, Sir Francis
Brian, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir *EDWARD DYER*
, Spencer, Daniel, Drayton, Shakespeare, Whetstone, etc." .................................................
____ Palladis Tamia. (continued)
.
As Actaeon was wooried of his owne hounds:
so is *Tom NASH* of his Ile of Dogs.
Dogges were the death of Euripedes, but bee not disconsolate
gallant young Juvenall, Linus, the sonne of Apollo died the same
death. Yet God forbid that so brave a witte should so basely
perish, thine are but paper dogges, neither is thy banishm-
[E]nt like Ovi[D]s, eternall[Y] to convers[E] with the ba[R]barous
Getes. Therefore comfort thyselfe sweete Tom. with Ciceros
glorious return to Rome, and with the counsel Aeneas
gives to his seabeaten soldiors. Lib. I. Aeneid. ................................
_______ <= 10 =>
.
. .T. h y b a n i s h m
. [E] n t l i k e O v i
. [D] s,e t e r n a l l
. [Y] t o c o n v e r s
. [E] w i t h t h e b a
. [R] b a r o u s G e t

[EDYER] 10
-------------------------------------------------------------- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia%27s_Revels

<<Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love is a late
Elizabethan stage play, a satire written by Ben Jonson.

Editor A. C. Judson argued that Jonson modeled this play
(for him, an atypically unrealistic work) on the plays
of John Lyly, specifically Lyly's Galathea, Midas, Sapho & Phao,
and Endymion. Among many resemblances & relationships, Jonson's
*PAGES* in Cynthia, "Cupid, *MORUS* , and the rest, are repetitions
of Samias, Dares, & Epiton" in Endymion. Though Jonson refers to
Lyly's plays as umbrae, plays long dead, Judson disputes the view
of other critics that Jonson was satirizing or ridiculing Lyly.

The play begins with three *PAGES* disputing over the black *CLOAK*
usually worn by the actor who delivers the prologue. They draw lots
for the *CLOAK*, and one of the losers, Anaides, starts telling
the audience what happens in the play to come; the others try to
suppress him, interrupting him and putting their hands over his
mouth. Soon they are fighting over the *CLOAK* and criticizing
the author and the spectators as well.

In the play proper, the goddess Diana, or Cynthia, has ordained
a "solemn revels" in the valley of Gargaphie in Greece. The gods
Cupid & Mercury appear, and they too start to argue. Mercury has
awakened *ECHO* , who weeps for Narcissus, and states that a drink
from Narcissus's spring causes the drinkers to "Grow dotingly
enamored of themselves." The courtiers and ladies assembled
for the Cynthia's revels all drink from the spring.

*ASOTUS*, a foolish spendthrift who longs to become a courtier and a
master of fashion and manners, also drinks from the spring; emboldened
by vanity and self-love, he challenges all comers to a competition of
"court compliment." The competition is held, in four phases, and the
courtiers are beaten. Two symbolic masques are performed within the
play for the assembled revelers. At their conclusion, Cynthia
(representing Queen Elizabeth) has the dancers unmask and
shows that vices have masqueraded as virtues. She sentences
them to make reparation and to purify themselves
by bathing in the spring at Mount *HELICON* .

The figure of Actaeon in the play may represent Robert Devereux,
2nd Earl of Essex, while Cynthia's lady in waiting *ARETE*
may be Lucy, Countess of Bedford, one of Elizabeth's
ladies in waiting as well as Jonson's patroness.>>

"And then there's a retired scholar there, you would not wish
a thing to be better contemn'd of a society of gallants, than
it is; and he applies his service, good gentleman, to the Lady
Arete, or Virtue, a poor nymph of Cynthia's train, that's scarce
able to buy herself a gown; you shall see her play in a black
robe anon: a creature, that, I assure you, is no less scorn'd
than himself. Where am I now? at a stand!" -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.nexusmagazine.com/ringlords2.html

<<In the 12th-century, MELUSINE's descendant, Robert de Vere,
3rd Earl of Oxford & pretender to the Earldom of Huntingdon, was
appointed as King Richard I's Steward of the forest lands of Fitzooth.
As Lord of the Greenwood & titular HERNE of the Wild Hunt, he was a
popular people's champion of the Sidhé heritage - as a result of which
he was outlawed for taking up arms against King John. It was he who, subsequently styled Robin Fitzooth, became the prototype for Robin
Hood.

Of all the monarchs who ever sat upon the throne of England, the Tudor
Queen, Elizabeth I, was by far the most in tune with ancient cultures
and wood lore. She was even called the Faerie Queene and, before being
formally crowned, she was installed by the people as their Queen
of the Greenwood. This was an ancient ritual of the Shining Ones
- the Elven Race of the Albi-gens. The ceremony was conducted
in the mist of early dawn in the depths of Windsor Forest and,
to facilitate the installation, the customary Robin Hood
legacy of the House of Vere was brought into play.

At that time, the Queen's Lord Chamberlain was Edward de Vere of Loxley,
17th Earl of Oxford, and it was his office to invest Elizabeth by first deposing the Caille Daouine. This was the traditional King of the Forest
(whose name had given rise to Scotland's Pictish realm of Caledonia)

- the mighty Stag of the Seven Tines,

upon whose back Lord Vere rode into the ceremonial clearing.>> -------------------------------------------------------------
The Story of Circe and Odysseus -- Homer http://homepage.smc.edu/cramer_timothy/story_of_circe_and_odysseus.htm

"Thence we sailed sadly on, glad to have escaped death, though we had
lost our comrades, and came to the Aeaean island, where Circe lives a
great and cunning goddess who is own sister to the magician Aeetes-
for they are both children of the sun by Perse, who is daughter to
Oceanus. We brought our ship into a safe harbour without a word, for
some god guided us thither, and having landed we there for two days
and two nights, worn out in body and mind. When the morning of the
third day came I took my spear and my sword, and went away from the
ship to reconnoitre, and see if I could discover signs of human
handiwork, or hear the sound of voices. Climbing to the top of a high
look-out I espied the smoke of Circe's house rising upwards amid a
dense forest of trees, and when I saw this I doubted whether, having
seen the smoke, I would not go on at once and find out more, but in
the end I deemed it best to go back to the ship, give the men their
dinners, and send some of them instead of going myself.

"When I had nearly got back to the ship some god took pity upon my
solitude, and sent a fine antlered stag right into the middle of my
path. He was coming down his pasture in the forest to drink of the
river, for the heat of the sun drove him, and as he passed I struck
him in the middle of the back; the bronze point of the spear went
clean through him, and he lay groaning in the dust until the life went
out of him. Then I set my foot upon him, drew my spear from the wound,
and laid it down; I also gathered rough grass and rushes and twisted
them into a fathom or so of good stout rope, with which I bound the
four feet of the noble creature together; having so done I hung him
round my neck and walked back to the ship leaning upon my spear, for
the stag was much too big for me to be able to carry him on my
shoulder, steadying him with one hand. As I threw him down in front of
the ship, I called the men and spoke cheeringly man by man to each of
them. 'Look here my friends,' said I, 'we are not going to die so much
before our time after all, and at any rate we will not starve so long
as we have got something to eat and drink on board.' On this they
uncovered their heads upon the sea shore and admired the stag, for he
was indeed a splendid fellow. Then, when they had feasted their eyes
upon him sufficiently, they washed their hands and began to cook him
for dinner.

"Thus through the livelong day to the going down of the sun we stayed
there eating and drinking our fill, but when the sun went down and it
came on dark, we camped upon the sea shore. When the child of morning,
fingered Dawn, appeared, I called a council and said, 'My friends, we
are in very great difficulties; listen therefore to me. We have no
idea where the sun either sets or rises, so that we do not even know
East from West. I see no way out of it; nevertheless, we must try and
find one. We are certainly on an island, for I went as high as I could
this morning, and saw the sea reaching all round it to the horizon; it
lies low, but towards the middle I saw smoke rising from out of a
thick forest of trees.'
-------------------------------------------
Michael Groden - Notes on James Joyce's Ulysses
Circe: Homeric Parallel
http://publish.uwo.ca/~mgroden/notes/homer15.html

In Book 10 of The Odyssey, Odysseus recounts his adventures with
Aeolus and with the Lestrygonians and then describes his landing on
Circe's island. Odysseus and his men are in a state of profound
depression, "sick at heart, tasting our grief" (10:143; Fitzgerald, p.
181), as a result of the tantalizing view of Ithaca achieved with
Aeolus's help and of the disastrous encounter with the Lestrygonians.
They rest "cloaked in desolation / upon the waste sea beach" (10:179; Fitzgerald, p. 182), and Odysseus kills "a stag with noble
antlers" (10:158; ; Fitzgerald, p. 182) on which they feast.
Eventually Odysseus divides his crew into two platoons, one under his leadership, one led by Eurylochus. The leaders draw lots and the fate
of exploring the island falls to Eurylochus. Eurylochus and his men
discover Circe's hall, where all save Eurylochus are transformed into
hogs by Circe's "foul magic" (10:247; Fitzgerald, p. 184). Eurylochus
escapes to warn Odysseus, who then approaches Circe's hall alone. He
is met by Hermes and accepts a magic herb, moly, to protect him from
Circe's magic; Hermes also tells Odysseus that he must make Circe
swear to release his men and to perform "no witches' tricks" (10:300; Fitzgerald, p. 186) lest he, too, be "unmanned" by her. Odysseus
confronts Circe, whose magic fails, no match for his moly. Odysseus
threatens her, and she swears that she will not harm him and that she
will release his men. Not only does she keep her oath, but she also
royally entertains Odysseus and his crew "until a year grew
fat" (10:467; Fitzgerald, p. 191). Finally Odysseus's men urge him to
"shake off this trance" (10:472; Fitzgerald, p. 191). He does, and
Circe advises him to visit the underworld (Hades) to consult Tiresias.
When Odysseus returns with Tiresias's prophecy, Circe helps him
further with advice about the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis.

(from Don Gifford with Robert J. Seidman, "Ulysses" Annotated: Notes
for James Joyce's "Ulysses" [Berkeley: University of California Press,
1988], p. 452. The first numbers following quotes from The Odyssey
[for example, 1:115] refer to book and line numbers in the Greek text;
English translations, unless otherwise noted, are from The Odyssey,
translated by Robert Fitzgerald [New York: Doubleday, 1961]) -------------------------------------------------------------
. The Stag of Windsor
http://www.dragoncourt.org/ringasset/ch1_04.asp
.
<<Before Elizabeth was crowned by Bishops, she underwent coronation by
the people. Attending the ceremony were a host of "Wild Forest Dwellers"
who'd come to bless the new Queen. Later in her reign she attended a
curious ceremony in the Forest of Windsor Great Park. Seated before a
pavilion in a clearing one Spring morning Queen Elizabeth, with her
complicity & consent presided over one of the most ancient druidic &
shamanic ceremonies in Eurasian culture. A ceremony that harkened back
to the time when much of Britain and the continent was covered by
massive forests, namely the trial and accession of the King of the
Caille Daouine, the Lord of the Forest.
.
The King of the Forest is the Stag of 9 Tines. In the lays of Robin
Hood Robin himself is revealed as the Green Stag and the Totem is
repreatedly interwoven into the fabric of ancient northern Kingship.
In pre-christian & non-christian Europe, to claim the Kingship of
the vast greenwood, the pretender was obliged to ride and kill whilst
mounted, the great Stag of 9 Tines. This task was possibly one of the
most dangerous stunts anyone could pull. During the Spring Rut the Stag
is vicious, belligerent and half mad with lust and territorial rage.
Getting anywhere near him was a feat of courage in 'itself. However,
to be rightly invested with the true kingship of the Forest Peoples,
it was necessary first to depose the reigning monarch, the Great Stag.
.
On the spring Morning in question one of Elizabeth's favourites, the
Queen's Chamberlain Edward de Vere charged into the self same clearing
mounted upon the great Stag of Windsor Forest. Its throat had been cut
by the rider and he and the Stag came to an abrupt halt at the Queen's
feet. Edward de Vere was the premier Count of England and the senior
Peer of the Realm. His lineage was far superior to that of Elizabeth,
he descended from the the House of Anjou, from MELUSINE & the ancient
Pictish & Danann druid Kings of Gaul, Albany & Eire. A necromancer, anti-christian & libertine, Edward had contempt for the Tudors. He was
student of Dr John Dee and it is still insisted that Edward was the true William Shakespeare, whose work is teaming with stories of Elphame and
Magic. Shakespeares Oberon is Alberic whose name literally means Elf
King, whilst his Titania is Diana, whose Druidic, woad coloured Boar
wears her crescent Moon upon its flank in the crest of the ancient
family of Vere. Three of Edward's recent ancestors had borne the name
Alberic and the first of them in England had adopted also the falling
star of LUCIFER as a badge to denote, as Verily Anderson expresses it,
the Vere's "near divinity" as descendants of the line of priest
kingship that originated with the first Elf King - Samael or LUCIFER.>> -------------------------------------------------------------
. MMW Act 5, Scene 5
.
FALSTAFF: Divide me like a bribe buck, each a haunch: I will
. keep my sides to myself, my shoulders for the fellow
. of this walk, and my horns I bequeath your husbands.
. Am I a woodman, ha? Speak I like HERNE the hunter?

. Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience; he makes
. restitution. As I am a TRUE spirit, welcome!
.
MISTRESS QUICKLY About, about;
. Search Windsor Castle, elves, within and out:
. Strew good luck, ouphes, on EVERy sacred room:
. That it may stand till the perpetual DOOM,
. In state as wholesome as in state 'tis fit,
. *WORTHY* the owner, and the owner it.
. The sEVERal chairs of order look you scour
. With juice of balm and EVERy precious flower:
. Each fair instalment, coat, and SEVERal crest,
. With loyal blazon, EVERmore be blest!
. And nightly, meadow-fairies, look you sing,
. Like to the Garter's compass, in a ring:
. The expressure that it bears, green let it be,
. More fertile-fresh than all the field to see;
. And 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' write
. In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white;
. Let sapphire, pearl and rich embroidery,
. Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee:
. Fairies use flowers for their charactery.
. Away; disperse: but till 'tis one o'clock,
. Our dance of custom round about the oak
. Of HERNE the hunter, let us not forget. --------------------------------------------------
Stanley crest: argent, on a bend azure
THREE STAGS HEADS cabossed or,
. a crescent for difference.

http://www.renaissance.dm.net/heraldry/blazons2.html -------------------------------------------------------------
. St. HUBERT of ARDENNE (d. May 30, 727) http://users.erols.com/saintpat/ss/1103.htm#hube ------------------------------------------------------------------
Died at terVuEREn (near Brussels), Belgium, May 30, 727

<<In medieval times many saints derived both the pleasure of sport and
some of their food from hunting. According to legend both Saint Eustace
and Saint Hubert came upon a stag with a crucifix between its antlers.
The stag's warning to Hubert was sterner than that to Saint Eustace,
since Hubert had been hunting on Good Friday. Stopped in his tracks by
the sight of the stag and crucifix, Hubert heard a voice warning him
that unless he turned to Christ he was destined for hell.

This was in the forest of ARDENNE. Hubert had been a COURTIER whose
wife died giving birth to their son in the year 685. He retired from
the service of Pepin of Heristal and became a priestly servant of Bishop Lambert. For 10 years Saint Lambert taught the future Saint Hubert self-discipline by making him live alone as a hermit in the forest.

Around 705 Lambert publicly criticized King Pepin for his adultery with
the sister of his wife. The woman called on her brother and some other
men to murder Lambert in the tiny village of Liège. Hubert was elected Lambert's successor.

Hubert courageously cherished the memory of Saint Lambert. Since the
saint had been MURDERED at Liège, Hubert decided that his bones should
not lie in the cathedral at Maestricht. He transferred them to Liège
and also made that village the seat of his diocese. In consequence Liège
grew to be a great city. There today Saint Lambert is regarded as patron
of the diocese and Saint Hubert as patron and founder of the city.

In the 8th century, the forest of ARDENNE was filled with men and
women to whom the Gospel had never been preached. They worshipped idols.
The saint assiduously worked to convert these people and destroy their
pagan gods. He loved to go in procession through the fields, chanting
Christian prayers and blessing the crops.

In 726, while fishing from a boat in the Meuse, he met with an accident
that caused him much suffering, and he died fifteen months later,
murmuring the Lord's Prayer on May 30, 727, while on a trip to
consecrate a new church. His son succeeded him as bishop of Liège.

In art Hubert is represented as a huntsman adoring a stag with a
crucifix in its horns. Variously, he may be shown:

(1) as a knight with a banner showing the stag's head and crucifix;
(2) as a young courtier with two hounds;
(3) kneeling in prayer, a hound before him;
(4) kneeling before a stag as an angel brings him his stole;
(5) as a bishop holding a stag with the crucifix on his book;
(6) as a bishop with a hound, hunting horn, and stag with a crucifix
(not to be confused with Germanus of Auxerre);
(7) celebrating Mass as an angel brings him a scroll (very similar to
the Mass of Saint Giles).

Hubert is the patron of hunters and trappers, METAL-WORKERS, and MATHEMATICIANS. It is believed that the 15th century legend of his
conversion developed because he was regarded as a patron of hunters
in Ardenne.
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Art Neuendorffer

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