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    of the Wardrobe, Archdeacon of Northampton, Prebendary of Lincoln,
    Sarum, and Lichfield, Keeper of the Privy Purse, Ambassador on two
    occasions to Pope John XXII, who appointed him a chaplain of the papal
    chapel, Dean of Wells, and ultimately, at the end of the year 1333,
    Bishop of Durham; the King and Queen, the King of Scots, and all the
    magnates north of the Trent, together with a multitude of nobles and
    many others, were present at his enthronization. It is noteworthy that
    during his stay at Avignon, probably in 1330, he made the acquaintance
    of Petrarch, who has left us a brief account of their intercourse. In
    1332 Richard visited Cambridge, as one of the King's commissioners, to
    inquire into the state of the King's Scholars there, and perhaps then
    became a member of the Gild of St. Mary--one of the two gilds which
    founded Corpus Christi College.

    In 1334 he became High Chancellor of England, and Treasurer in 1336,
    resigning the former office in 1335, so that he might help the King
    in dealing with affairs abroad and in Scotland. Wasted by long
    sickness--longa infirmitate decoctus--on the 14th of April, 1345,
    Richard de Bury died at Auckland, and was buried in Durham Cathedral.

    CHAPTER I: THAT THE TREASURE OF WISDOM IS CHIEFLY CONTAINED IN BOOKS

    The desirable treasure of wisdom and science, which all men desire by an instinct of nature, infinitely surpasses all the riches of the world; in respect of which precious stones are worthless; in comparison with which
    silver is as clay and pure gold is as a little sand; at whose splendour
    the sun and moon are dark to look upon; compared with whose marvellous sweetness honey and manna are bitter to the taste. O value of wisdom
    that fadeth not away with time, virtue EVER flourishing, that cleanseth
    its possessor from all venom! O heavenly gift of the divine bounty,
    descending from the Father of lights, that thou mayest exalt the
    rational soul to the very heavens! Thou art the celestial nourishment of
    the intellect, which those who eat shall still hunger and those who
    drink shall still thirst, and the gladdening harmony of the languishing
    soul which he that hears shall nEVER be confounded. Thou art the
    moderator and rule of morals, which he who follows shall not sin. By
    thee kings reign and princes decree justice. By thee, rid of their
    native rudeness, their minds and tongues being polished, the thorns of
    vice being torn up by the roots, those men attain high places of honour,
    and become fathers of their country, and companions of princes, who
    without thee would have melted their spears into pruning-hooks and PLOUGHsHARES, or would perhaps be feeding swine with the prodigal.
    .
    Where dost thou chiefly lie hidden, O most elect treasure!
    and where shall thirsting souls discover thee? ----------------------------------------------------
    Goad, n. [AS. g[=a]d; perh. akin to AS. g[=a]r a dart, and E. gore.
    See {Gore}, v. t.] A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast.
    .
    Goad, v. t. To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward.
    .
    . That temptation that doth goad us on. --Shak.
    .
    Goad (Heb. malmad, only in Judg. 3: 31), an instrument used by PLOUGHMEN
    for guiding their OXEN. ShamGAR slew six hundred Philistines with an
    OX-goad. "The goad is a formidable weapon. It is sometimes ten feet
    long, and has a sharp point. We could now see that the feat of ShamGAR
    was not so very wonderful as some have been accustomed to think."
    In 1 Sam. 13:21, a different Hebrew word is used, _dorban_, meaning
    something pointed. The expression (Acts 9:5, omitted in the R.V.),
    "It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks", i.e., against the
    goad, was proverbial for unavailing resistance to superior power. ------------------------------------------------------------------
    Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
    . § 2. Demeter, the Pig and the Horse
    . http://www.bartleby.com/196/116.html

    <<The Thesmophoria has its analogies in the folk-customs of
    Northern Europe which have been already described. Just as at the Thesmophoria-an autumn festival in honour of the corn-goddess-swine's
    flesh was partly eaten, partly kept in caverns till the following year,
    when it was taken up to be sown with the seed-corn in the fields for the purpose of securing a good crop; so in the neighbourhood of Grenoble the
    goat killed on the harvest-field is partly eaten at the harvest-supper,
    partly pickled and kept till the next harvest; so at Pouilly the OX
    killed on the harvest-field is partly eaten by the harvesters, partly
    pickled and kept till the first day of sowing in spring, probably to be
    then mixed with the seed, or eaten by the PLOUGHMEN, or both; so at
    Udvarhely the feathers of the cock which is killed in the last sheaf at
    harvest are kept till spring, and then sown with the seed on the field;
    so in Hesse and Meiningen the flesh of pigs is eaten on Ash Wednesday or Candlemas, and the bones are kept till sowing-time, when they are put
    into the field sown or mixed with the seed in the bag; so, lastly, the
    corn from the last sheaf is kept till Christmas, made into the Yule
    Boar, and afterwards broken and mixed with the seed-corn at sowing in
    spring. Thus, to put it generally, the corn-spirit is killed in animal
    form in autumn; part of his flesh is eaten as a sacrament by his
    worshippers; and part of it is kept till next sowing-time or
    harvest as a pledge and security for the continuance
    or renewal of the corn-spirit's energies.>> --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/ursamajor.htm
    . © Ian Ridpath. All rights reserved
    .
    <<Undoubtedly the most familiar star pattern in the entire sky is
    the seven stars that make up the shape popularly termed the PLOUGH
    or Big Dipper, part of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear.
    .
    In mythology, the Great Bear is identified with two separate
    characters: Callisto, a paramour of Zeus; and Adrasteia,
    one of the ash-tree nymphs who nursed the infant Zeus.
    .
    Callisto is said to have been the daughter of Lycaon, king of
    Arcadia in the central Peloponnese. (An alternative story says that
    she is not Lycaon's daughter but the daughter of Lycaon's son Ceteus.
    In this version, Ceteus is identified with the constellation Hercules,
    kneeling and holding up his hands in supplication to the gods
    at his daughter's transformation into a bear.)
    .
    Callisto joined the retinue of Artemis, goddess of hunting. She
    dressed in the same way as Artemis, tying her hair with a white
    ribbon and pinning together her tunic with a brooch, and she soon
    became the favourite hunting partner of Artemis, to whom she swore
    a vow of chastity. One afternoon, as Callisto laid down her bow and
    rested in a shady forest grove, Zeus caught sight of her and was
    entranced. What happened next is described fully by Ovid in Book II
    of his Metamorphoses. Cunningly assuming the appearance of Artemis,
    Zeus entered the grove to be greeted warmly by the unsuspecting
    Callisto. He lay beside her and embraced her. Before the startled
    girl could react, Zeus revealed his true self and, despite
    Callisto's struggles, had his way with her. Zeus returned to Olympus,
    leaving the shame-filled Callisto scarcely able to face Artemis.
    .
    On a hot afternoon some months later, the hunting party came to a
    cool river and decided to bathe. Artemis stripped off and led them in,
    but Callisto hung back. As she reluctantly undressed, her advancing
    pregnancy was finally revealed. Artemis, scandalized,
    banished Callisto from her sight.
    .
    Worse was to come when Callisto gave birth to a son, Arcas. Hera, the
    wife of Zeus, had not been slow to realize her husband's infidelity
    and was now determined to take revenge on her rival. Hurling insults,
    Hera grabbed Callisto by her hair and pulled her to the ground.
    As Callisto lay spreadeagled, dark hairs began to sprout from her arms
    and legs, her hands and feet turned into claws and her beautiful mouth
    which Zeus had kissed turned into gaping jaws that uttered growls.
    .
    For 15 years Callisto roamed the woods in the shape of a bear, but
    still with a human mind. Once a huntress herself, she was now pursued
    by hunters. One day she came face to face with her son Arcas. Callisto recognized Arcas and tried to approach him, but he backed off in fear.
    He would have speared the bear, not knowing it was really his mother,
    had not Zeus intervened by sending a whirlwind that carried them up
    into heaven, where Zeus transformed Callisto into the constellation
    Ursa Major and Arcas into Boötes.
    .
    Hera was now even more enraged to find her rival glorified among
    the stars, so she consulted her foster parents Tethys and Oceanus,
    gods of the sea, and persuaded them never to let the bear bathe
    in the northern waters. Hence, as seen from mid-northern latitudes,
    the bear never sets below the horizon.
    .
    That this is the most familiar version of the myth is due to Ovid's pre-eminence as a storyteller, but there are other versions, some
    older than Ovid. Eratosthenes, for instance, says that Callisto was
    changed into a bear not by Hera but by Artemis as a punishment for
    breaking her vow of chastity. Later, Callisto the bear and her son
    Arcas were captured in the woods by shepherds who took them as a
    gift to King Lycaon. Callisto and Arcas sought refuge in the temple
    of Zeus, unaware that Arcadian law laid down the death penalty for
    trespassers. (Yet another variant says that Arcas chased the bear
    into the temple while hunting ?) To save them,
    Zeus snatched them up and placed them in the sky.
    .
    The Greek mythographer Apollodorus says that Callisto was turned
    into a bear by Zeus to disguise her from his wife Hera. But Hera
    saw through the ruse and pointed out the bear to Artemis who shot
    her down, thinking that she was a wild animal. Zeus sorrowfully
    placed the image of the bear in the sky.
    .
    ARATUS makes a completely different identification of Ursa Major.
    He says that the bear represents one of the nymphs who raised Zeus in
    the cave of Dicte on Crete. That cave, incidentally, is a real place
    where local people still proudly point out the supposed place of Zeus's
    birth. Rhea, his mother, had smuggled Zeus to Crete to escape Cronus,
    his father. Cronus had swallowed all his previous children at birth for
    fear that one day they would overthrow him as Zeus eventually did.
    Apollodorus names the nurses of Zeus as Adrasteia and Ida, although
    other sources give different names. Ida is represented by the
    neighbouring constellation of Ursa Minor, the Little Bear.
    .
    These nymphs looked after Zeus for a year, while armed Cretan warriors
    called the Curetes guarded the cave, clashing their spears against
    their shields to drown the baby's cries from the ears of Cronus.
    Adrasteia laid the infant Zeus in a cradle of gold and made for him
    a golden ball that left a fiery trail like a meteor when thrown into
    the air. Zeus drank the milk of the she-goat Amaltheia with his
    foster-brother Pan. Zeus later placed Amaltheia in the sky as the
    star Capella, while Adrasteia became the Great Bear although
    why Zeus turned her into a bear is not explained.
    .
    ARATUS named the constellation Helice, meaning 'twister', apparently
    from its circling of the pole, and said that the ancient Greeks steered
    their ships by reference to it, whereas the Phoenicians used the Little
    Bear (Ursa Minor). ARATUS said that the bears were also called wagons
    or wains, from the fact that they wheel around the pole. The adjacent constellation Boötes is visualized as either the herdsman of the bear
    or the wagon driver. But Germanicus Caesar said that he bears were also
    called PLOUGHs because, as he wrote, 'the shape of a PLOUGH is the
    closest to the real shape formed by their stars. According to Hyginus
    the Romans referred to the Great Bear as Septentrio, meaning 'seven
    PLOUGH OXEN', although he added the information that in ancient times
    only two of the stars were considered OXEN, the other five forming a
    wagon. On a star map of 1524 the German astronomer Peter Apian showed
    Ursa Major as a team of three horses pulling a four-wheeled cart,
    which he called Plaustrum.
    .
    Two stars in Ursa Major called Dubhe and Merak are popularly termed the Pointers. Dubhe's name comes from the Arabic al-dubb, 'the bear', while
    Merak comes from the Arabic word al-maraqq meaning 'the flank' or
    'groin'. At the tip of the bear's tail lies Eta Ursae Majoris, known
    both as Alkaid, from the Arabic meaning 'the leader', or as Benetnasch,
    from the Arabic meaning 'daughters of the bier' for the Arabs
    regarded this figure not as a bear but as a bier or coffin [and]
    the tail of the bear as a line of mourners leading the coffin.
    .
    Second in line along the tail is the wide double star Zeta Ursae
    Majoris. The two members of the double, visible separately with keen
    eyesight, are called Mizar and Alcor and were depicted as a horse and
    its rider on the 1524 star chart of Peter Apian. The name Mizar is a
    corruption of the Arabic al-maraqq, the same origin as the name Merak.
    Its companion, Alcor, gets its name from a corruption of the Arabic
    al-jaun, meaning 'the black horse or bull', the same origin as
    the name Alioth which is applied to the next star along the tail,
    Epsilon Ursae Majoris. Delta Ursae Majoris is named Megrez,
    from the Arabic meaning 'root of the tail'. Gamma Ursae Majoris
    is called Phad or Phecda, from the Arabic word meaning 'the thigh'.>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
    . Plutarch's Lives: ARATUS vs. ARTAXERXES ------------------------------------------------------------------
    . Sir Thomas Browne (1646; 6th ed., 1672)
    . PseudodOXia Epidemica I:vi (pp. 20-25)
    .
    . Of Adherence unto Antiquity.
    .
    To omit how much of the wittiest piece of Ovid is beholden unto
    Parthenius Chius; even the magnified Virgil hath borrowed, almost
    in all his Works; his Eclogues from Theocritus, his Georgicks
    from Hesiod and ARATUS, his Aeneads from Homer, the second Book
    whereof containing the exploits of Sinon and the Trojan Horse
    (as Macrobius observeth) he hath verbatim derived from Pisander. ------------------------------------------------------------------
    LVSC. God be with you, sir, I'le leaue you to your poeticall fancies,
    . and furies. I'le not be guiltie, I.
    .
    OVID. Be not, good ignorance : I'm glad th'ART gone :
    . For thus alone, our eare shall better judge
    . The hastie errours of our morning muse.
    .
    E Nuie, why tWITSt thou me, my time's spent ill ?
    And call'st my verse, fruits of an idle quill ?
    Or that (vnlike the line from whence I sprung)
    .
    Wars dustic honours I pursue not young ?
    Or that I studie not the tedious lawes ;
    And prostitute my voyce in euerie cause ?
    Thy scope is mortall ; mine eternall fame :
    Which through the world shall euer chaunt my name.
    HOMER will liue, whil'st TENEDOS stands, and IDE,
    Or, to the sea, fleed SIMOIS doth slide :
    And so shall HESIOD too, while vines doe beare,
    Or crooked sickles crop the ripened eare.
    CALLIMACHVS, though in inuention lowe,
    Shall still be sung : since he in art doth flowe.
    No losse shall come to SOPHOCLES proud vaine.
    With sunne, and moone, ARATVS shall remaine.
    Whil'st slaues be false, fathers hard, and bawdes be whorish,
    Whil'st harlots flatter, shall MENANDER flourish.
    ENNIVS, though rude, and ACCIVS high-reard straine,
    A fresh applause in euerie age shall gaine.
    Of VARRO'S name, what eare shall not be told ?
    Of IASONS ARGO ? and the fleece of gold ?
    Then shall LVCRETIVS loftie numbers die,
    When earth, and seas in fire and flames shall frie.
    TYTIRVS, Tillage, ÆNEE shall be read,
    Whil'st ROME of all the conquer'd world is head.
    Till CVPIDS fires be out, and his bowe broken,
    Thy verses (neate TIBVLLVS) shall be spoken.
    Our GALLVS shall be knowne from east to west :
    So shall LYCORIS, whom he now loues best.
    The suffering PLOUGH-share, or the flint may weare :
    But heauenly poesie no death can feare.
    Kings shall giue place to it, and kingly showes,
    The bankes ore which gold-bearing Tagus flowes.
    Kneele hindes to trash : me let bright PHOEBVS swell,
    With cups full flowing from the MVSES well.
    Frost-fearing myrtie shall impale my head,
    And of sad louers Ile be often read.
    " Enuie, the liuing, not the dead, doth bite :
    " For after death all men receiue their right.
    Then, when this bodie fals in funerall fire, ----------------------------------------------
    . Moby-Dick (1851)
    . http://www.melville.org/hmmoby.htm
    .
    <<First British edition (entitled The Whale), expurgated to avoid
    offending delicate political and moral sensibilities, published in three volumes on October 18, 1851 by Richard Bentley, London. First American
    edition published November 14, 1851 by Harper & Brothers, New York.
    .
    As letters to Richard Henry Dana and Richard Bentley attest, Melville
    was far along on a new book by May 1850. This latest work was apparently another relatively simple adventure narrative in the manner of Typee or Redburn, "a romance of adventure, founded upon certain wild legends of
    the Southern Sperm Whale Fisheries, and illustrated by the author's own personal experience, of two years & more, as a harpooneer...."
    .
    Melville had promised Bentley that the book would be ready that
    autumn, in expectation of which he was sent an advance of £150.
    His financial situation was poor, nevertheless, he abandoned
    the nearly-finished romance to spend an entire year rewriting
    .
    . under a spell of intense intellectual ferment
    . further heightened by the study of SHAKESPEARE
    . and a developing friendship with NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
    .
    The resulting work was finally shipped to Bentley on September 10, 1851: although it received many positive reviews, it sold poorly and
    accelerated the decline of Melville's literary reputation.>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.batcave.net/business/web/elements/runic.html http://zurix.apana.org.au/asatru/Webpage2/Ftpstone.htm

    <<One of the best-known [memorial runestone] is the Kylver stone
    (Gotland, ca. 400-450 C.E., thought to be part of a grave chamber),

    GIVES US THE WHOLE FUTHARK for the first time,

    together with the palindrome "SUEUS",

    a word "generally (being) interpreted as

    a palindrome for Gotlandic EUS: 'horse'">> ------------------------------------------------------------------ BOUSTROPHEDONIC
    http://www.quinion.com/words/weirdwords/ww-bou1.htm

    <<Of or relating to text written from left to right
    and right to left in alternate lines.

    Mainly of interest to palaeographers, this is a form of writing

    which occurs principally in very ancient or rare texts.

    Examples are the RONGO-RONGO script of EASTER ISLAND, some of

    those in the Etruscan language, a few early Latin inscriptions
    and some ancient Greek texts created in a transitional period
    at about 500BC before which writing ran from right to left
    but afterwards from left to right. The word is itself
    from the Greek meaning "as the OX ploughs".>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
    furrowards, bagawards, like yOXEN at the turnpaht ------------------------------------------------------------------ boustrophedontic cryptogram: "MAMRAI" -------------------------------------------------------------------
    QUEEQUEG: (it will do; it is easy) "RARMAI" -------------------------------------------------------------------
    The RONGO-RONGO of EASTER Island The MAMRAI Tablet

    "Here say figurines billycoose arming and mounting.
    Mounting and arming bellicose figurines see here."

    <<The MAMRAI Tablet is the only rongorongo text the meaning of part of
    which is known: a LUNAR CALENDAR identified as such by Thomas Barthelin
    1958. Jacques Guy (1991) has argued that, rather than a lunar calendar
    proper, those signs constitute in fact an astronomical canon for
    predicting in advance when intercalary nights should be inserted in
    the calendar to keep with the moon phases.>>

    http://www.rongorongo.org/
    http://www.rongorongo.org/corpus/mamari.html ------------------------------------------------------------------
    RONGO-RONGO <=> ROKOVOKO -----------------------------------------------------------------
    Moby-Dick (1851)
    CHAPTER 12 Biographical

    QUEEQUEG was a native of ROKOVOKO, an island far away to the West
    and South. It is not down on any map; true places never are.
    When a new-HATCHed savage running wild about his native woodlands in
    a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green
    sapling; even then, in QUEEQUEG's ambitious soul, lurked a strong
    desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler
    or two. His father was a High Chief, a King; his uncle a High
    Priest; and on the maternal side he boasted aunts who were the wives
    of unconquerable warriors. There was excellent blood in his veins-
    royal stuff; though sadly vitiated, I fear, by the cannibal propensity
    he nourished IN HIS UNTUTORED YOUTH. ------------------------------------------------------------------
    April 6
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
    648 -BC- Earliest total solar eclipse; chronicled by Greeks
    6 -BC- Historical birth of Jesus Christ?
    610 night the Koran descended to Earth [Monday before Palm S.]
    1199 Richard I, the Lion-hearted, King of England (1189-99), dies
    1327 Petrarch first sets eyes on Laura [Monday after Palm S.]
    1348 Italian poet Petrarch's Laura, dies of plague
    1483 Italian Raphael, [Raffaello Sanzio], born/christened?
    1520 Italian Raphael, dies on his 37th birthday [Good Friday]
    1528 German painter Albrecht Durer dies [Monday after Palm S.]
    1580 6+ Kent earthquake badly damaged St Paul's in London

    "to cassay the earthcrust at all of hours"

    1584 Bridget de Vere's born. [Monday before Palm S.]
    1590 Francis Walsingham, English secretary of state, dies
    1614 El Greco (Domeniko Theotokopoulos) dies
    1722 Adm. Roggeveen discovers EASTER ISLAND on day before EASTER
    1789 GEORGE WASHINGTON elected President [Monday after Palm S.]
    1830 Mormons Founders Day
    1843 Wordsworth as Poet Laureate
    1874 Harry Houdini born [Monday after EASTER] ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    EASTER Island spotted by English?: Captain Davis 1688
    EASTER Island discovered by Dutch: Adm. Roggeveen April 6, 1722
    EASTER Island rediscovered? Spain's Felipe Gonzalas 1770
    EASTER Island visited by Capt. Cook 1774
    EASTER Island hieroglyphs FINALLY found!!! 1864 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.rongorongo.org/early.html http://www.rongorongo.org/theories/origin.html

    <<Brother Eugène Eyraud was the first to mention the existence of wooden tablets and staffs covered in hieroglyphs, in a letter dated December
    1864 to the vice-provincial of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of
    Jesus and Mary, in Valparaiso, Chile.

    [It was later supposed that:]

    The EASTER Islanders got the idea of writing from the Spaniards in 1770,
    when they annexed the island and had local chiefs "sign" the treaty of annexation. None of those who hold this view (Emory, Bellwood, Fischer
    to name a few) ever contemplated an alternative source, such as that the
    EASTER Islanders may have got the idea of writing from other visitors, Roggeveen for instance.>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
    QUEEQUEG was GEORGE WASHINGTON cannibalistically developed. -------------------------------------------------------------------
    CHAPTER 10 A Bosom Friend

    Returning to the Spouter-Inn from the Chapel, I found QUEEQUEG there
    quite alone; he having left the Chapel before the benediction some
    time. He was sitting on a bench before the fire, with his feet on
    the stove hearth, and in one hand was holding close up to his face
    that little negro idol of his; peering hard into its face, and with
    a jack-knife gently whittling away at its nose, meanwhile humming to
    himself in his heathenish way.
    But being now interrupted, he put up the image; and pretty soon,
    going to the table, took up a large book there, and placing it on
    his lap began counting the pages with deliberate regularity; at
    every fiftieth page- as I fancied- stopping for a moment, looking
    vacantly around him, and giving utterance to a long-drawn gurgling
    whistle of astonishment. He would then begin again at the next
    fifty; seeming to commence at number one each time, as though he could
    not count more than fifty, and it was only by such a large number of
    fifties being found together, that his astonishment at the multitude
    of pages was excited.
    With much interest I sat watching him. Savage though he was, and
    hideously marred about the face- at least to my taste- his countenance
    yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You
    cannot hide the soul. Through all his unearthly tattooings, I
    thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large,
    deep eyes, fiery black and bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit
    that would dare a thousand devils. And besides all this, there was a
    certain lofty bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness
    could not altogether maim. He looked like a man who had never
    cringed and never had had a creditor. Whether it was, too, that his
    head being shaved, his forehead was drawn out in freer and brighter
    relief, and looked more expansive than it otherwise would, this I will
    not venture to decide; but certain it was his head was phrenologically
    an excellent one. It may seem ridiculous, but it reminded me of
    General WASHINGTON's head, as seen in the popular busts of him. It
    had the same long regularly graded retreating slope from above the
    brows, which were likewise very projecting, like two long
    promontories thickly wooded on top.

    QUEEQUEG was GEORGE WASHINGTON cannibalistically developed.

    Whilst I was thus closely scanning him, half-pretending meanwhile to
    be looking out at the storm from the casement, he never heeded my
    presence, never troubled himself with so much as a single glance;
    but appeared wholly occupied with counting the pages of the marvellous
    book. Considering how sociably we had been sleeping together the night previous, and especially considering the affectionate arm I had
    found thrown over me upon waking in the morning, I thought this
    indifference of his very strange. But savages are strange beings; at
    times you do not know exactly how to take them. At first they are
    overawing; their calm self-collectedness of simplicity seems as
    Socratic wisdom. I had noticed also that QUEEQUEG never consorted at
    all, or but very little, with the other seamen in the inn. He made
    no advances whatever; appeared to have no desire to enlarge the circle
    of his acquaintances. All this struck me as mighty singular; yet, upon
    second thoughts, there was something almost sublime in it. Here was
    a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn,
    that is- which was the only way he could get there- thrown among
    people as strange to him as though he were in THE PLANET JUPITER; -------------------------------------------------------------------
    Thomas Thorpe's dedication to the translation of Lucan?

    TO HIS KIND AND TRUE FRIEND, EDWARD BLOUNT

    <<Blount:
    I purpose to be BLUNT with you, and out of my dullness
    to encounter you with a dedication in the memory
    of that pure elemental wit Chr. Marlowe,
    whose GHOST or genius is to be SEEN WALK THE CHURCHYARD>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
    if he do undertake to go a journey BACKWARD -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://hiwaay.net/~paul/bacon/devices/gestaintro.html

    <<No Knight [of the Helmet] shall put out any money upon STRANGE returns
    or performances to be made by his own person; as to hop up the stairs
    to the top of ST. PAUL's without intermission; or any other such
    -like agilities or endurances; except it may appear that the same
    performances or practices do enable him to some service or employment;
    as if he do undertake to go a journey BACKWARD, the same shall
    be thought to enable him to be an ambassador into TURKEY.>>

    <<The apparition walked BACKWARD from him; and at every step it took,
    the window raised itself a little, so that when the spectre reached it,
    it was wide open. It beckoned Scrooge to approach, which he did. When
    they were within two paces of each other, Marley's Ghost held up its
    hand, warning him to come no nearer.>>

    <<Do you know whether they've sold the prize TURKEY that was hanging up
    there -- Not the little prize TURKEY: the big one.' `What, the one as
    big as me.' returned the boy.>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
    Ghosts of PAULES CHURCHYARD ------------------------------------------------------------
    VENVS AND ADONIS
    Imprinted by Richard Field, and are to be fold at the
    figne of the white Greyhound in PAULES CHURCHYARD. 1593.

    "LUCRECE. London.
    Printed by Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison,
    and are to be sold at the signe of
    the white Greyhound in PAULES CHURCHYARD, 1594" 4to. ------------------------------------------------------------
    <<If we were not perfectly convinced that
    Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there
    would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a
    stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts,
    than there would be in any other middle-aged
    gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy
    spot -- say SAINT PAUL'S CHURCHYARD for instance --
    literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
    Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name.
    There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse
    door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as
    Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the
    business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley,
    but he answered to both names. It was all the
    same to him.>>
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
    Like Greene, Marlowe & Shakspeare Laurence STERNE (1713-1768)
    "author" of _TristRAM Shandy_ & _The Sermons of Mr. Yorick_
    died quite suddenly after a big meal.

    "In the end, he put up his hand, AS IF TO STOP A BLOW,
    and died in a minute."

    (one yeastyday he STERNELY STRUXK his tete in a tub
    for to watsch the future of his fates
    but ere he SWIFTLY stook it out again,. . .
    _Finnegans Wake_
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    STERNELY STRUCK-home the peremptory stroke. ------------------------------------------------------------
    HARVEY, GABRIEL THE WRITERS POSTSCRIPT:
    OR A FRENDLY CAUEAT TO THE SECOND SHAKERLEY OF POWLES.

    15 Is it a Dreame? or is the Highest minde,
    16 That euer haunted POWLES, or hunted winde,
    17 Bereaft of that same sky-surmounting breath,
    18 That breath, that taught the Timpany to swell?

    19 He, and the Plague contended for the game:
    20 The hawty man extolles his hideous thoughtes,
    21 And gloriously insultes vpon poore soules,
    22 That plague themselues: for faint harts plague themselues.
    23 The tyrant Sicknesse of base-minded slaues
    24 Oh how it dominer's in Coward Lane?
    25 So Surquidry rang-out his larum bell,
    26 When he had girn'd at many a dolefull knell.

    27 The graund Dissease disdain'd his toade Conceit,
    28 And smiling at his tamberlaine contempt,
    29 STERNELY STRUCK-home the peremptory stroke.
    30 He that nor feared God, nor dreaded Diu'll,
    31 Nor ought admired, but his wondrous selfe:
    32 Like Iunos gawdy Bird, that prowdly stares
    33 On glittring fan of his triumphant taile:
    34 Or like the ugly Bugg, that scorn'd to dy,
    35 And mountes of Glory rear'd in towring witt:
    36 Alas: but Babell Pride must kisse the pitt.
    37 POWLES steeple, and a hugyer thing is downe:
    38 Beware the next BULL-BEGGAR of the towne. ---------------------------------------------------------------
    <<SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP: his epitaph may be read in Stow's London
    (ed. Strype, 1720, bk. iii., p. 161). The tomb shared
    between him & [his father-in-law] Sir Francis Walsingham
    was considered unworthy of their renown.

    "Philip and Francis have no Tomb,
    For great Christopher takes all the Room."

    the tomb of Sir Christopher Hatton(1540-91) in ST. PAUL's.
    IT WAS ONE OF THE FINEST MONUMENTS THERE.>>

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