• a WILLOW grows aslant a BROOK (1/2)

    From Arthur Neuendorffer@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 1 13:25:10 2021
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    The Mysterious Sir Christopher BLOUNT was: ------------------------------------------------------------
    1) possibly the murderer of Leicester
    2) co-conspirator & step-father of Essex (i.e., Robert Devereux)
    3) step-father of Penelope (Devereux Rich) BLOUNT
    (first love of Sir Philip Sidney &
    wife of Charles BLOUNT, 8th Lord Mountjoy)
    4) brother of Edward BLOUNT - MOUNTJOY's servant
    (& F.F. publisher?)
    5) nephew of Boar's Inn owner Jane {POLEY}
    6) nephew of Stratford's John Combe III
    7) 1st cousin to Deptford co-conspirator {Robert POLEY}
    8) nephew of Anne/Agnes Wentworth
    (aunt to Oxford's brother-in-law William Wentworth) -------------------------------------------------------------------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Poley

    <<{Robert POLEY} (fl. 1568–1602) was an English double agent, government messenger and agent provocateur employed by members of the Privy Council during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; he was described as "the very genius of the Elizabethan underworld".
    Poley is particularly noted for his central role in uncovering the so-called Babington plot to assassinate the Queen in 1586, and for being a witness of, and even a possible party to, the reported killing in self-defence by Ingram Frizer of the famous
    poet/dramatist Christopher Marlowe in May 1593. After his spell at university, nothing is known of his whereabouts or occupation until the early 1580s, apparently with large sums of money at his disposal. In 1582 he married someone referred to as "Watson'
    s daughter", by whom he had a daughter, Anne, who was baptised on 21 April 1583. At around this time, he started a campaign to work for Sir Francis Walsingham as a Catholic informer, the only result of which seems to have been his imprisonment in the
    Marshalsea on Walsingham's orders until May the next year. In June 1585 he was working with Christopher Blount (a relative of Poley's?) under Leicester's aegis. He was sent as a 'special messenger' – in other words a Catholic sympathiser – to Paris
    to contact Thomas Morgan, one of the main conspirators working on behalf of Mary, Queen of Scots, and to deliver a letter from Blount. In late 1585 Poley was placed, apparently by Blount, with Sir Philip Sidney who had recently married Sir Francis
    Walsingham's daughter Frances and, as a part of the marriage settlement, was living in Sir Francis's house in Seething Lane. On 18 January 1586 Morgan wrote that Poley "is placed with the Lady Sidney, the daughter of Secretary Walsingham, & by that means
    ordinarily in his house". In January 1586 he was asked to organise the delivery of a packet of letters to Mary, Queen of Scots. Fully trusted by the Catholics, Poley was key to uncovering the Babington Plot.

    In the Summer of 1597, Poley was placed in the Marshalsea to spy on the playwright Ben Jonson whose play, The Isle of Dogs, written with Thomas Nashe had upset the authorities. Jonson attacked Poley and a second informer, named Parrot, as "damned
    villains" and later wrote a poem praising convivial company without spies, including the line "we shall have no Poley or Parrot by".>>
    -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.degolmovie.com/liveshakespeare/williamdavenantspoem.htm
    .
    <<In 1638, Sir William Davenant's Madagascar contained the following
    . poem, entitled "In Remembrance of Master William Shakespeare." ...................................................
    . Beware (delight[ED] {POETS!}) when [Y|O}u sing
    . To w[E|L}come Natu[R|E} in the earl{Y} *SPRING*; ................................................
    . . . . . <= 10 =>
    .
    . . B e w a r. e d e l i
    . g h t [E D].{P O E T S}
    . w h e n [Y].{O}u s i n
    . g T o w [E].{L}c o m e
    . N a t u [R].{E}i n t h
    . e e a r .l. {Y}S P R I
    . N G*;
    .
    {POLEY} 10 : Prob. in first couplet ~ 1 in 4300
    [E/DYER] 10 : Prob. in first couplet ~ 1 in 200 ................................................
    Your num'rous Feet not tread
    The Banks of Avon; for each Flowre
    (As it nere knew a Sunne or Showre)
    Hangs there, the pensive head.

    Each Tree, whose thick, and spreading growth hath made,
    Rather a Night beneath the *BOUGHS* , than Shade,
    (Unwilling now to grow)
    Looks like the *PLUME a Captain WEARES* ,
    Whose rifled Falls are steept i'th teares
    Which from his last rage flow.
    .
    The piteous RiVER wept it selfe away
    Long since (Alas!) to such a swift decay;
    That read the Map; and looke
    If you a RiVER there can spie;
    And for a RiVER your mock'd Eie,
    Will find a shallow BROOKE.>> ------------------------------------------------------------
    QUEEN GERTRUDE: There is a WILLOW grows aslant a BROOK,
    . That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy STREAM;
    . There with fantastic garlands did she come
    . Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
    . That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
    . But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:
    . There, on the pendent *BOUGHS* her *CORONET WEEDS*
    . CLAMBERING TO HANG, AN ENVIOUS SLIVER BROKE
    . When down her weedy trophies and herself
    . Fell in the weeping BROOK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Roper: "{SO TEST} Him, *I UOW* He Is Edward [DE] [UERE]" .....................................................................
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <= 34 =>

    . H E N . R . Y. W R . . I . O T HE. SLEYEA R . . . L E O F S O . U .T. HAMPTO. N
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    . T E R . R . A. T E .. [G] .I T,PO. PULUSM Æ . . . R E T O L Y . M .P. USHABE. T
    ................................................................................
    . S T A . Y . P. A S .. [S] .E N GE. RWHYGO E . . . S T T H O U . B {Y) SOFAST. R
    . E A D . I . F. T . (H)[O] .V C AN. STWHOM . [E] [N] V I O U S] .D {E) ATHHAT. H
    .*P L A. <S> .T* W . (I){T} <H{I}NT> HISMON . [U](M)[E] N T. *S H A (K) SPEARE* W
    . I T. <H W H> . O . (M){E} .Q{U}IC. KNATVR . [E D](I)[D] E. *W H O .S. ENAMED* O
    . T H D. <E> .C. K Y... {S} .T{O}MB. EFARMO . [R E] t (H) E . N C O .S. TSIEHA. L
    . L Y T. <H> .E. H A-.. {T} .H{W}RI. TTLEAV . [E] S L I V] . .I N G .A. RTBVTP. A
    . G E T . O. .S. E R.... V. .E H IS. WITT .......................................................................... ................. . . . . . . . . . . . "[ENVIOUS S L I V/ER] broke" .......................................................
    [DE] [UERE] 34
    {SO TEST} . 34
    {I UOW} . . 34
    <HEWS> . . -34 : https://tinyurl.com/5ryf94sf
    (KEY). . . -34
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    Feast Day of Epona: 18 December ------------------------------------------------------------
    Arthur BROOKE was admitted to Inner Temple December 18, 1561
    sponsors: Grandmaster Thomas Sackville
    & Thomas Norton, authors of *Gordobuc*(1560)
    Brooke wrote *Romeus and Juliet* in 1562
    . and then drowned in 1563
    .
    . Shoemaker William Shaxpere in the Avon, June 6, 1579.
    .
    Katherine HAMLETT drowned in the Avon December 18, 1579
    . while fetching a pail of water.
    . (during Venus/Mercury/Sun/Moon conj.) -------------------------------------------------------------------
    Arthur BROOKE drowns in GREYHOUND wreck: Sat. March 21, 1562.
    Cranmer COOKS right hand on Sat. March 21, 1556.
    Mildred COOKE marries William Cecil on Sat. March 21, 1545. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Sir {F}rancis [VERE] died on *St. AUGUSTINE(of Hippo)'s day* Aug. 28, 1609
    and was buried in the chapel of *St. JOHN* in Westminster Abbey. .........................................................
    Edward de VERE died on *St. JOHN's day* 1604 [MDCIV] and
    was buried in the church of *St. AUGUSTINE(of Canterbury)* in Hackney. ----------------------------------------------------------
    1st Archbishop of Canterbury AUGUSTINE died May 26, 604 ......................................................
    Witty SUS-ANna Shak. 'born' on May 26, 1583
    Witty SUS-ANna VERE 'born' on May 26, 1587 ------------------------------------------------------------------
    <<Sir Francis Vere (1560-1609) & his brother *HORACE* (1565-1635)
    are buried in the chapel of St John the Ev[ANGEL]ist in the Abbey.

    https://tinyurl.com/ycnb5eh9
    https://tinyurl.com/y7e524z9
    https://tinyurl.com/y9avjpja

    Francis has a large monument of alabaster and black marble showing
    him lying on a carved rush mattress in civilian dress under a slab
    on which is laid out his suit of armour. The slab is supported on
    the shoulders of four life-sized knights in armour who kneel at
    each corner. The monument seems to have been inspired by that of
    *Count ENGEL(bert I)I* of Nassau-Dillenburg in the church at Breda.>> ....................................................
    . This is CLEARLY the tomb of *HAM(l)ET*
    . NOT that of some *Count ENGEL-BERT* :
    .
    . http://tinyurl.com/ycraswu http://www.westminster-abbey.org/library/burial/vere.htm --------------------------------------------------
    *ENGEL* : *ANGEL* (Danish, Dutch, German) ..............................................
    . Quarto 2 (1604) Act 5, Scene 2
    .
    *HORATIO/HORACE* : Good night sweete prince:
    . And flights of *ANGELS* sing thee to thy rest!

    Now cracks a noble hart, good night sweete Prince,
    And flights of *ANGELS* sing thee to thy rest.

    W[H]y dooes the dr[U]m come hether?
    [E]nter Fortenb[R]asse, with the [E]mbassadors. ...............................................
    ____ <= 12 =>

    . W [H] y d o o e s t h e d
    . r [U] m c o m e h e t h e
    . r?[E] n t e r F o r t e n
    . b [R] a s s e,w i t h t h
    . e [E] m b a s s a d o r s.

    [H.UERE] 12
    --------------------------------------------------
    . Quarto 2 (1604) Act 5, Scene 2
    .
    *FORT(enbr)ASSE* : Let foure Cap(T)aines
    . B[E]are Hamlet like a (SO)uldie[R] to the stage,
    . For h(E) was lik[E]ly, had he beene pu(T) on,
    . To ha[V|E} prooved most royall; and [F{O}r] his passage,
    . The souldiers musicke and the right of warre
    . Speake loudly for him:
    ....................................................
    ________ <= 22 =>
    .
    . L e t f o u r e C a p (T)a i n e s B [E] a r e
    . H a m l e t l i k e a (S O)u l d i e [R] t o t
    . h e s t a g e,F o r h (E)w a s l i k [E] l y, h
    . a d h e b e e n e p u (T)o n,T o h a [V]{E} p r
    . o o v e d m o s t r o .y a l l;a n d [F {O} r] h
    . i s p a s s a g e,
    .
    [F{O}r.VERE] -22 : Prob. in quote ~ 1 in 290 -------------------------------------------------------------
    17th-century References to Shakespeare's Stratford Monument http://shakespeareauthorship.com/monrefs.html

    https://tinyurl.com/y876k4kq https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e0/80/97/e08097ed025b30d41cb3a277f730bcb5.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Weever
    .
    <<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 (F)rend for Iesus sake [F(O)r]beare
    . To digg th{e 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*. .........................................................
    In the margin opposite the heading "Stratford upon Avon",
    WeEVER wrote "Willm Shakespeare the famous poet",
    .
    and opposite the last two lines of the epitaph
    he wrote "vpo[n] the grave stone".>> ...........................................
    ____________ <= 18 =>
    .
    . G .o o .d (F) r e n d f o r I e s u s s
    . a .k e [F (O) r]b e a r e T o d i g g t
    . h {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 O N E S A
    . n .d c [U] r. s t b e e h e e t h a t m
    . o .v e [S] M. Y B O N E S

    [F(O)r. UERUS] 18 : Prob. ~ 1 in 40,000
    (FOSSE) 18 : A grave (Old French) -----------------------------------------------------------
    [Only *THESE STONES*/*MY BONES* rhyme in Shakespeare!]: ..........................................................
    . The life and death of King Iohn. (Folio 1, 1623)
    . Act IV, scene iii
    .
    . Enter Arthur on the walles.
    .
    Arthur: The Wall is high, and yet will I leape downe.
    . Good ground be pittifull, and hurt me not:
    . There's few or none do know me, if they did,
    . This *SHIP-BOYES* semb{LANCE} hath *(D)I[S]GUIS'D M(E)* q[U]ite.
    . I am (A)f[R]aide, an(D) y[E]t Ile vent[U]re it.
    . If I g[E]t downe, and do not breake my limbes,
    . Ile finde a thousand shifts to get away;
    . As good to dye, and go; as dye, and stay.
    . Oh me, my Unckles spirit is in *THESE STONES*,
    . Heauen take my soule, and England keep *MY BONES*. ......................................................
    . . . . <= 9 =>
    .
    . . . . . . . T h i s
    . *S H I P- B O Y E S*
    . .s e m b {L A N C E}
    . .h a t h*(D) I [S] G U
    . .I S'D M (E)*q [U] i t
    . .e I a m (A) f [R] a i
    . .d e,a n (D) y [E] t I
    . .l e v e .n. t [U] r e
    . .i t.I f .I. g [E] t d
    . .o w n e,
    .
    (DEAD) 9
    [E.UERUS] -9 : Prob. in speech ~ 1 in 6,360 --------------------------------------------------------------------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Brooke_(poet)

    <<Arthur *BROOKE* (died 19 March 1563) was an English poet who wrote and created various works including The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1562), considered to be William Shakespeare's chief source for his tragedy Romeo and Juliet (1597). Brooke
    was admitted to the Inner Temple, at the request of Gorboduc's authors, Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville. He may have written the masque that accompanied the play.

    On 19 March 1563, [*SHIP-BOY*] Brooke died in the *SHIPWRECK* that also killed Sir Thomas Finch, bound for Le Havre, besieged in the French Wars of Religion. In 1567 George Turberville published a collection of poetry entitled, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs
    and Sonnets; it included An Epitaph on the Death of Master Arthur Brooke Drownde in Passing to New Haven.>>
    --------------------------------------------------- https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A03435.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext

    THE TRAGICALL HIStorye of Romeus and Iuliet,
    writ∣ten first in Italian by Bandell,
    and nowe in Englishe by Ar. Br. (1562)

    THere is beyonde the Alps, a towne of auncient same,
    Whose bright renoune yet shineth cleare, VEROna men it NAME.
    Bylt in an happy time, bylt on a fertile soyle:
    Maynteined by the hea[V]enly *FATES*, and by th[E] townish toyle.
    The f[R]uitfull hilles abo[V]e, the pleasant vale[S] belowe,
    The *silVER streame* with chanell depe, that through the towne doth flow:
    The store of *SPRINGES that sERVE* for vse, and eke for ease:
    And other moe commodities which profite may and please. .........................................
    . . . . . . <= 17 =>
    .
    . M .a. y n t e i n e d b y t h e h e
    . a [V] e n l y*F A T E S*a n d b y t
    . h [E] t o w n i s h t o y l e.T h e
    . f [R] u i t f u l l h i l l e s a b
    . o [V] e,t h e p l e a s a n t v a l
    . e [S] b e l o w e,T h e*s i l V E R
    . s t r e a m e*w i t h c h a n e l
    .
    [VERVS] 17 : Prob. at start ~ 1 in 425 ................................................................... ...................................................................
    But she that from her youth was fost[R]ed eu[E]rmor[E]
    With [V]ertu[E]s foo[DE], and taught in schole of wisdomes skilfull lore:
    By aunswere did cutte of thaffections of his love,
    That he no more occasion had so vayne a sute to move.
    .
    [DE VEER] -5 ................................................................... ...................................................................
    That now his wekened hart, weakened with tormentes past,
    Vnable to abyde this pang, the sharpest and the last:
    Remayn[E]d quit[E] depri[V]ed, of s[E]nse an[D] kindly strength,
    And so the long imprisond soule, hath freedome wonne at length.
    .
    [DE VEER] -6 ................................................................... ...................................................................
    The nurce that knew no cause, why she absented her,
    Did doute lest that some so[D]ain gre[E]fe too m[U]ch torm[E]nted her.
    Eche wh[E]re but where she was the carefull Beldam sought,
    Last, of the chamber where she lay, she haply her bethought.
    .
    [DE UERE] 7 : Prob. of 3[DE UERE]s in poem ~ 1 in 82 --------------------------------------------------------
    . Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses Book 8 (ed Arthur Golding)
    .
    And there the nerenesse of the Sunne which burnd more hote aloft,
    Did make the Wax (with which his wings were glewed) lithe and soft.
    As soone as that the Wax was molt, his naked armes he *SHAKES*,
    And wanting wherewithall to wave no helpe of Aire he takes.
    But calling on his father loud he drowned in the wave:
    .
    And by this chaunce of his those Seas his name for [EVER] have.
    His wre{T}ched Father (but as then {N}o father) cride in feare:
    {O} Icarus, O Icarus, where a{R}t thou? tell me where
    Tha{T} I may finde thee, Icarus. {H}e saw the fethers swim
    U(P)on the waves, and curst h(I)s Art that so had spight(E)d him.
    At last he tooke hi(S) bodie up and laid it in a grave,
    And to the Ile the name of him then buried in it gave. .........................................................
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . <= 20 =>
    .
    . A n d b y t h i s c. h a u n .c. e o .f h i
    . s t h o s e S e a s *H I S N .A. M E* f o r
    .[E V E R]h a v e.H i. s w r e {T} c h .e d F
    . a t h e r(b u t a s. t h e n {N} o f .a t h
    . e r)c r i d e i n f. e a r e:{O} I c .a r u
    . s O I c a r u s,w h. e r e a {R} t t .h o u?
    . t e l l m e w h e r. e T h a {T} I m .a y f
    . i n d e t h e e,I c. a r u s.{H} e s .a w t
    . h e f e t h e r s s. w i m U (P) o n .t h e
    . w a v e s,a n d c u. r s t h (I) s A .r t t
    . h a t s o h a d s p. i g h t (E) d h .i m.A
    . t l a s t h e t o o. k e h i (S) b o .d i e
    . u p a n d l a i d i. t i n a .g. r a .v e,A
    . n d t o t h e I l e. t h e n .a. m e .o f h
    . i m t h e n b u r i. e d i n .i. t g .a v e.
    .
    {T.NORTH (PIES)} 20
    .........................................................
    And as he of his wretched sonne the corse in ground did hide,
    The cackling *PARTRICH* from a thicke and leavie thorne him spide,
    And clapping with his wings for joy aloud to call began.
    There was of that same kinde of Birde no mo but he as than
    In times forepast had none bene seeneIt was but late anew
    Since he was made a bird: and that thou, Daedalus, mayst rew:
    For whyle the world doth last thy SHAME shall thereupon ensew.
    For why thy sister, *IGNORANT* of that which after hapt,
    Did put him to thee to be taught full twelve yeares old and apt
    To take instructionHe did marke the middle bone that goes
    Through fishes, and according to the paterne tane of those
    He *FILED* teeth upon a piece of yron one by one
    And so devised first the SAW where erst was nEVER none.
    Moreover he two yron shankes so joynde in one round head,
    That opening an indifferent space, the one point downe shall tread,
    And tother draw a circle round The finding of these things,
    The spightfull HEART of DaEDALUS with such a malice stings,
    That headlong from the holy towre of *PALLAS* downe he thrue
    His Nephew, feyning him to fall by chaunce, which was *NOT TRUE* .
    But PALLAS (WHO DOTH FAVOUR WITS) did stay him in his fall
    And *CHAUNGING* him into a Bird did clad him over all
    With FETHERS soft amid the Aire The QUICKnesse of his WIT
    (Which erst was *SWift*) did shed it selfe among his wings and feete.
    And a[S] he *PARTRICH* hight before, so hights he *PARTRICH* still.
    Yet mo[U]nteth not this Bird aloft ne seemes to have a will
    To build hi[R] nest in tops of trees among the boughes on hie
    But flecketh n[E]re the ground and layes hir egges in HEDGES drie.
    And forbica[U]se hir former fall she ay in minde doth beare,
    She EVER since all lofty things doth warely shun for *FEARE*.

    [UERUS] -50
    ---------------------------------------------------
    . Metamorphoses, by Ovid, tr John Dryden, [1717]
    .
    *A PARTRIDGE* , from a neighb'ring stump, beheld
    The sire his monumental marble build;
    Who, with peculiar call, and flutt'ring wing,
    Chirpt joyful, and malicious seem'd to sing:
    The only bird of all its kind, and late
    *TRANSFORM'd in pity to a FEATHER'd state* :
    From whence, O Daedalus, thy guilt we date.
    His sister's son, when now twelve years were past,
    Was, with his uncle, as a scholar plac'd;
    The unsuspecting mother saw his parts,
    And genius fitted for the finest arts.
    This soon appear'd; for when the spiny bone
    In fishes' backs was by the stripling known,
    A rare *INVENTION* thence he learnt to draw,
    *FIL'D TEETH* in ir'n, and made the grating SAW.
    He was the first, that from a knob of brass
    Made two strait arms with widening stretch to pass;
    That, while one stood upon the center's place,
    The other round it drew a circling space.
    *Daedalus *ENVY'd this* , and from the top
    Of fair MINERVA's TEMPLE let him drop;
    Feigning, that, as he lean'd upon the tow'r,
    Careless he stoop'd too much, and tumbled o'er.
    The Goddess, who th' ingenious still befriends,
    On this occasion her asssistance lends;
    His arms with FEATHERs, as he fell, she *VEILS* ,
    And in the air a new made bird he sails.
    The QUICKness of his GENIUS, once so fleet,
    Still in his wings remains, and in his feet:
    Still, tho' *TRANSFORM'd* , his ancient name he keeps,
    And with low flight the new-shorn stubble sweeps,
    Declines the lofty trees, and thinks it best
    To brood in HEDGE-rows o'er its humble nest;
    And, in remembrance of the former ill,
    Avoids the heights, and precipices still. ------------------------------------------------------------
    *VERANDEREN* : *TO CHANGE* , *TO ALTER*, *TO TRANSFORM* (Dutch)
    *VERANDERDE* : *CHANGED* , *ALTERED*, *TRANSFORMED* (Dutch) -------------------------------------------------------- http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/life.htm

    <<Dr Schoenbaum, in his famous Shakespeare's Lives, described
    the section of his book devoted to anti-Stratfordian authorship
    ("Part VI: Deviations") as " ...the cruelest *ENDEAVOR* I have
    *EVER CONFRONTED* ....The voluminousness of output is matched
    only by the intrinsic insubstantiality of most of it,
    two characteristics which together produce an
    *OVERPOWERING* effect." (Oxford UPress, 1991, p449).>>
    .
    ___ *ENDEAVOR*
    ___ *ON A DE VER*
    .
    ___ *EVER CONFRONTED*
    ___ *CONFRONT DE VERE*

    ___ *OVERPOWERING*
    ___ *VERE : POOR WING* -------------------------------------------------------------
    POvidius Naso, Metamorphoses Book 8 (edArthur Golding)
    .
    The finding of these things,
    The spightfull HEART of DaEDALUS with such a malice stings,
    That headlong from the holy towre of *PALLAS* downe he thrue
    His Nephew, feyning him to fall by chaunce, which was *NOT TRUE* .
    But PALLAS (WHO DOTH FAVOUR WITS) did stay him in his fall
    And *CHAUNGING* him into a Bird did clad him over all
    With *FETHERS soft amid the Aire* The QUICKnesse of his WIT
    (Which erst was SWift) did shed it selfe among his wings and feete. ......................................................
    *FLEDGE* , afurnished with FEATHERS or wings; able to fly. --------------------------------------------------------------
    . TOTH [E] O [N] LIEB[E]GETTEROFTHESEIN
    . SVIN [G] S [O] NNET[ß]MRWHALLHAPPINES
    . SEAN [D] T [H] ATET[E]RNITIEPROMISEDB
    . YOVR [E] V [E] RLIV(I)NGPOETWISHETHTH
    . EWEL [L] W (I) SHIN[G]ADVENTURERINSET
    . TING [F] O [R] TH
    .
    probability of *FLEDGE* : 1 / 25,500 http://www.stromsborg.com/swanmyths/greeks.htm ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.webcom.com/shownet/medea/bulfinch/bull20.html
    .
    <<DaEDALUS was so proud of his achievements that he could not bear
    the idea of a rival. His sister had placed her son *TALOS* under
    his charge to be taught the mechanical arts*TALOS* was an apt
    scholar & gave striking evidences of ingenuity WALKING ON
    THE SEASHORE he picked up the spine of a fishImitating it,
    he took a piece of iron and notched it on the edge,
    and thus invented the *HANDSAW*
    .
    He, put two pieces of IRON together, connecting them at
    one end with a rivet, and sharpening the other ends, and made
    a pair of *COMPASSES* DaEDALUS was so ENVIOUS of his nephew's
    performances that he took an opportunity, when they were
    together one day on the top of a high tower to push him off.
    But *MINERVA* , who favours ingenuity, saw him falling, and
    arrested his FATE by changing him into a bird called after
    his name, the *PARTRIDGE* This bird does not build
    his nest in the trees, nor take lofty flights,
    but nestles in the HEDGES, and avoids high places.>> ------------------------------------------------------------
    probability of *TALOS* (Greek: *SUFFERER* ) acrostic~ 1/1,235 ..........................................
    [T]o draw no *ENVY* (Shakespeare) on thy name,
    [A]m I thus ample to thy Booke, and Fame;
    [W]hile I confesse thy writings to be such,
    [A]s neither Man, nor Muse, can PRAISE too much.
    [T]is *TRUE* , and all men's *SUFFRAGE* But these wayes
    . Were not the paths I meant unto thy PRAISE;
    . For SEEliest *IGNORANCE* on these may light,
    . Which, when it sounds at best, but *ECCHO's right* ;
    .........
    [T]o life againe, to heare thy Buskin tread,
    [A]nd SHAKE a stage : Or, when thy sockes were on,
    [L]eave thee alone, for the comparison
    [O]f all, that insolent GREECE, or haughtie Rome
    [S]ent FORTH, or since did from their ASHES come.
    .........
    And such wert thouLooke how the fathers face
    Lives in his issue, even so, the race
    Of Shakespeares minde, and manners brightly shines
    In his well toned, and *TRUE-filed lines*:
    In each of which, he seemes to *SHAKE a LANCE* ,
    As brandish't at the eyes of *IGNORANCE* -- Ben Jonson ---------------------------------------------------------
    HAMLET: I know a HAWK from a HANDSAW.
    ______ *HANDSAW* = *TRUE-filed Lance* --------------------------------------------------------------
    Telling a HAWK ("DaEDALUS/Arthur Golding's" Ovid translation)
    from a HANDSAW (nephew TALOS/Vere 's Ovid translation) -----------------------------------------------------------
    . Francis Meres *Palladis Tamia* (1598).
    . http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/meres.htm
    .
    "so the sweet wittie soule of *OVID* lives
    in MELLIFLUOUS & honytongued Shakespeare,
    witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece,
    his sugred Sonnets among his private frinds, &c.
    .
    I say that the Muses would speak with Shakespeares
    *FINE FILED phrase* , if they would speake English." ...........................................................
    POvidius Naso, Metamorphoses Book 8
    edArthur Golding (i.e., nephew Edward de Vere)
    .
    Did put [ *TALOS* ] to thee to be taught full twelve yeares old
    and apt To take instructionHe did marke the middle bone that
    goes Through fishes, and according to the paterne tane of
    those He *FILED teeth* upon a piece of yron one by one
    And so devised first the SAW where erst was nEVER none. ---------------------------------------------------------- http://home.att.net/~tleary/GIFS/MINERVA.GIF

    _The MINERVA BRITANNA_ Banner Folding clearly demonstrates
    how the Equidistant Linear Sequence decoding is to be performed: ............................................................ http://f01.middlebury.edu/FS010A/students/Minerva/title.jpg
    .
    . [V] I . .\V\ I T U R
    . [I] N G . \E\ N I O
    . [C] Æ|T| E \R\ A M
    . [O] R|T| I S\E\ R
    . [U N T]
    .
    "all thinges perish and come to theyr last end, but workes
    of learned WITS and monuments of Poetry abide *for EUER* ." ...................................................................
    1577 Dedication in John *BROOKE's _The Staff of Christian Faith_*

    . To the Right honourable and his singular good Lorde
    . and maister Edwarde de \VERE\, Lorde d'Escales, and
    . Badlesinere, [VICOUNT] Bulbecke, Earle of Oxenforde,
    . and Lorde great Chamberlayne of Englande,
    . Iohn Brooke wisheth long lyfe,
    . with the increase of honor.&c.

    ALTHOUGH VER(tu)E the roote of well doing (Right honorable Lorde) hath
    of it selfe, sufficient force to withstande, repell, and ouerthrowe,
    both the open m{ALICE}, and secrete slaunders of euill tongues, yet notwithstanding considering howe dangerous, yea howe vnpossible a
    thing it is to escape that poysoned sting of Zoilus, and also that
    nothing hath eue[R] ben s[O] well [D]one, b[U]t tha[T] this Scorpion
    hath eyther openly or priuily stong, I nede not to doubt, nay I may
    be right sure, that these my labors shal come into the hands of some,
    more curious than *WYSE* , more ready to nippe and tant
    (yea euen withoute fault) then frendly to admonsihe or amende.

    {ALICE} 1
    [TUDOR] -5
    --------------------------------------------------- https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A03435.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext

    THE TRAGICALL HIStorye of Romeus and Iuliet,
    writ∣ten first in Italian by Bandell,
    and nowe in Englishe by Ar. Br. (1562) ................................................................... ...................................................................
    So forced I was at length to yelde vp witles will,
    And promist to be orderd by the friers praysed skill,
    Wherfore, albeit I had rashely long before,
    The bed and rytes of mariage, f{O}r many yeres fo{R|S]swore,
    Yet moth{E}r now behold, yo{U}r daughter at your will,
    Ready ({I}f you commaunde her ought) you{R} pleasure to fulfill.
    Wherfor{E} in humble wise. dere madam I yo{U} pray
    To goe vnto my lord and syre, withouten (L)ong delay,
    Of h(I)m fyrst pardo(N) craue of faultes already past,
    And shew him (if it pleaseth you) his child is now at last
    Obedient to his iust and to his skilfull hest. ..............................................
    . . . . . <= 12 =>
    .
    . f {O} r. m. a .n .y .y. e .r e s
    . f .o {R}[S] w .o .r .e, Y .e t m
    . o .t .h {E} r .n .o .w. b .e h o
    . l .d, y .o {U} r .d .a. u .g h t
    . e .r .a .t .y .o .u .r. w .i l l,
    . R .e .a .d .y [I] f .y. o .u c o
    . m .m .a .u .n .d .e .h. e .r o u
    . g .h .t) y .o .u [R] p. l .e a s
    . u .r .e .t .o .f .u .l. f .i l l.
    . W .h .e .r .f .o .r [E] i .n h u
    . m .b .l .e .w .i .s .e. d .e r e
    . m .a .d .a .m .I .y .o [U] p r a
    . y .T .o .g .o .e .v .n .t .o m y
    . l .o .r .d .a .n .d .s .y .r e,w
    . i .t .h .o .u .t .e .n (L) o n g
    . d .e .l .a .y, O .f .h (I) m f y
    . r .s .t .p .a .r .d .o (N) ...................................................................
    . . . . . . . . . <= 25 =>
    .
    . f{O} r m a n y y e r e s f o{R}[S] w o r e,Y e t m o
    . t h {E}r n o w b e h o l d,y o {U} r d a u g h t e r
    . a t .y o u r w i l l,R e a d y [I] f y o u c o m m a
    . u n .d e h e r o u g h t)y o u [R] p l e a s u r e t
    . o f .u l f i l l.W h e r f o r [E] i n h u m b l e w
    . i s .e.d e r e m a d a m I y o [U] p r a y T o g o e
    . v n .t o m y l o r d a n d s y .r. e,w i t h o u t e
    . n(L) o n g d e l a y,O f h(I)m .f. y r s t p a r d o(N)
    .
    [UERIUS] -25
    {UERO} . -13
    (NIL). . -12
    ---------------------------------------------------
    Dr. Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University ..................................................
    THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF ROMEUS AND JULIET

    <<This narrative poem, first published in 1562 and the key "source" for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, can be found complete as:

    https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A03435.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext

    The original publication title page reads only The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Iuliet, written first in Italian by Bandell, and nowe in Englishe by Ar. Br. Very little is known about Arthur Brooke, who is later credited with the work: although see
    Nina Green, "Who Was Arthur Brooke?" The Oxfordian 3 (2000): 51-70. An Arthur Brooke existed, born about 1544 and drowned early in 1564 on his way to help Protestant forces in France, but many Oxfordians consider this poem a youthful composition by de
    Vere, who later expanded and revised the story for the stage. See Paul H. Altrocchi, MD, "Shakespeare, Not Arthur Brooke, Wrote Tragicall Historye of Romeus & Juliet." Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter 43.1 (Winter 2007): 22-26.


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