Arthur Neuendorffer
2018-07-13 02:48:41 UTC
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Heere are your Sonnes againe:
William & Philip Herbert.
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. Cymbeline (First Folio) Act V, scene V
.
BELARIUS: Heere are your Sonnes againe, and I must loose
. Two of the s[W]eet'st Compan[I]ons in the Wor[L]d.
. The benedic[T]ion of these c[O]uering Heaue[N]s
. Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthie
. To in-lay Heauen with Starres.
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. <= 12 =>
.
. T w o o f t h e s [W] e e
. t's t C o m p a n [I] o n
. s i n t h e W o r [L] d.T
. h e b e n e d i c [T] i o
. n o f t h e s e c [O] u e
. r i n g H e a u e [N] s
.
[WILTON] 12
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In 1743, [WILTON] House erected a same Westminster statue but
changed the inscription. Shakespeare now points to [DYER]:
.
. LIFE’s but a walking {S} H|A [D]O{W}
____________ a poor {P} L|A [Y E R]
. That struts & frets his hour
____________ upon the STAGE
. And then is heard no more!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shepheardes_Calender
<<The Shepheardes Calender was Edmund Spenser's first major poetic work, published in 1579. In emulation of Virgil's first work, the Eclogues. The poem introduces Colin Clout, a folk character originated by John Skelton, and depicts his life as a shepherd through the twelve months of the year. The Calender encompasses considerable formal innovations, anticipating the even more virtuosic Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The "Old" Arcadia, 1580), the classic pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney, with whom Spenser was acquainted. It is also remarkable for the extensive commentary included with the work in its first publication, ascribed to an "E.K." E.K. is an intelligent, very subtle, and often deeply ironic commentator. The term sarcasm is first recorded in English in Spenser's poem.
Edmund Spenser’s involvement with the Earl of Leicester set the ground work for the influential effect that The Shepheardes Calender would have. A year after working together, the two of them, joined by Sir Philip Sidney, Edward Dryer, and Fulke Greville, created the literary group called “Areopagus”.>>
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THE Shepheardes Calender
Conteyning twelue Æglogues
proportionable to the twelve monethes.
Entitled
TO THE NOBLE AND VERTVous Gentleman
most worthy of all titles both of
learning and cheualrie M. Philip Sidney.
AT LONDON. 1579.
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TO HIS BOOKE.
. Goe little booke: thy selfe present,
. As child whose parent is vnkent:
. To him that is the president
. Of noblesse and of cheualree,
. And if that Enuie barke at thee,
. As sure it will, for succoure fle[E]
. Vnder the shadow of his wi[N]g,
. And asked, who thee forth [D]id bring,
. A shephea{R}ds swa[I]ne saye did th{E}e sing,
. All as hi[S] stra{Y}ing flocke he fedd:
. An{D} when his honor has th{E}e redde,
. Crave pardon for my hardyhedde.
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. <= 19 =>
.
. i t w i l l,f o r s u c c o u r e f l
. e[E]V n d e r t h e s h a d o w o f h
. i s w i[N]g,A n d a s k e d,w h o t h
. e e f o r t h[D]i d b r i n g,A s h e
. p h e a{R}d s s w a[I]n e s a y e d i
. d t h{E}e s i n g,A l l a[S]h i s s t
. r a{Y}i n g f l o c k e h e f e d d:A
. n{D}w h e n h i s h o n o r h a s t h
. {E}e r e d d e,C r a v e p a r d o n f
. o r m y h a r d y h e d d e.
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[SIDNE] -22 : Prob. ~ 1 in 93
{EDYER} -18 : Prob. ~ 1 in 44
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. But if that any aske thy name,
. Say thou wert base begot with blame:
. For thy thereof thou takest shame.
. And when thou art past ieopardee,
. Come tell me, what was sayd of mee:
. And I will send more after thee. - Immeritô.
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. Shepheardes Calender December
.
GLOSSE:
This is my) The thyrde {P}arte wherein is set forth his ripe
yere{S} as an vntimely haruest, that bringeth l{I}ttle fruite.
The f[r]agraunt flowres) sun{D}ry studies and laudable partes
of lear{N}ing, wherein how our Poete is seene, be th{EY}
witnesse which are priuie to his stud{Y}.
{P.SIDNEY} 33
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. *26* days
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sidney#Injury_and_death
<<[Sir Philip [SIDNEI] (30 November 1554 - 17 October 1586)]
joined Sir John Norris in the Battle of Zutphen, fighting for
the Protestant cause against the Spanish. During the battle,
he was shot in the thigh and died of gangrene *26* days later.
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______ Hamlet (Q2, 1604) II, ii
Queen: More matter with lesse art.
Polonius: Maddam, I sweare I use no art at all,
. That hee's mad *TIS TRUE*, *TIS TRUE*, tis pitty,
. And pitty tis *TIS TRUE*, a foolish figure,
. But farewell it, for I will use no art.
. Mad let us graunt him then, and now remaines
. That we find out the cause of this effect,
. Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
. For this effect defectiVe comes by cause:
. Thus it remaines, and the remainder thus Perpend,
. I haVe a daughter, haVe while she is mine,
. Who [I]n her dutie and obedience, mark[E],
. Hath giVen me this, now gather a[N]d surmise.
. To the Celestiall an[D] my soules Idoll, the most
. beau-t[I]fied Ophelia, that's an ill phra[S]e, a vile
. phrase, beautified is a vile phrase, but you shall heare:
. thus in her excellent white bosome, these &c.
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[SIDNEI] -26
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Men_%28playing_company%29
<<The earliest printed text states that Much Ado About Nothing was
"sundry times publicly acted" prior to 1600 and it is likely that the
play made its debut in the autumn or winter of 1598–1599. The earliest
recorded performances are two that were given at Court in the winter
of 1612–1613, during the festivities preceding the marriage of
Princess Elizabeth with Frederick V, Elector Palatine (14 Feb, 1613).>>
. http://tinyurl.com/hh8l3gb
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26_%28number%29
.
*26* is the gematric number, being the sum of the Hebrew characters
(Hebrew: יהוה) being the name of the god of Israel – YHWH (Yehweh).
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<<{O}r spunne out Riddles, or weav'd fifty Tomes
{O}f Logogriphes*, or curious Palindromes;
{O}r pump'd for those hard trifles, Anagrams,
{O}r Ecrosticks, or your finer flames
{O}f *EGGES* , and Halbards, Cradles, and a *HERSE*,
__ [A] paire of Sizers, and a *COMBE* in *VERSE* ;
__ [A]crosticks, and *TELLESTICKS*, or jumpe names,>> -- B. Jonson
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. Shepheardes Calender November
.
Why wayle we then? why weary we the gods with playnts,
As if some evill were to her betight?
She raignes a goddes[S]e now emong the saintes,
That wh[I]lome was the saynt of shephear[D]s light:
And is enstalled nowe i[N] heavens hight. [line *125*]
I see thee, bless[E]d soule, I see,
Walke in Elisian f[I]eldes so free.
O happy *HERSE*!
Might I one come to thee! O that I might!
O joyfull *VERSE*!
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[SIDNEI] 26
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*TELLESTICKS* found by Jones Harris & John Rollett
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The Names of the *26* Principall Actors in all these Playes.
[William Shakespeare]
Richard B(ū)rba(D)ge.
John Hemmings.
Augusti(ñ)e Phillip [S].
William Kemp [T].
Thom(ā)s Poop (e).
George Brya (N).
Henry C(O)n[D]el [L].
W(I)l(L)iam S(L) (Y|E).
{R}ichard Cowl [Y].
John Low(I)ne.
Samuell Crosse.
A(L|E]xander Co(O)k{E}.
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Samuel Gilburn{E}.
[R]obert Armi(N).
Will(I)am Ostl(E)r.
(N)athan Field.
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John Underwoo [D].
{N}icholas T(O)ole {Y}.
William Eccl[E]ston {E}.
Joseph Taylo {R}.
Robert Be[N]fiel {D}.
Robe(R)t Gough {E}.
Richar{D} Robinso {N}.
John Shancke.
John Rice.
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. <= *26* =>
.
. [W i l l i a m S h a k e s p e a r e]R i c h a r d B
. (ū) r b a(D)g e.J o h n H e m m i n g s.A u g u s t i
. (ñ) e P h i l l i p[S]W i l l i a m K e m p [T] T h o m
. (ā) s P o o p(e)G e o r g e B r y a(N)H e n r y C o n
. [D] e l l.W i l(L)i a m S l(Y|E|R}i c h a r d C o w l
. [Y] J o h n L o w(I)n e.S a m u e l l C r o s s e.A l
. [E] x a n d e r C o(O)k{E}S a m u e l G i l b u r n E
. [R] o b e r t A r m i(N)W i l l i a m O s t l E r N a
. t h a n F i e l d.J o h n U n d e r w o o [D] N i c h
. o l a s T o o l e{Y}W i l l i a m E c c l [E] s t o n
. e. J o s e p h T a y l o r.R o b e r t B e [N] f i e l d.
.
[DYER] 26
[NED] -26
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(ūnā) 26 : together, at the same place [Latin]
(uña) 26 : NAIL, claw, talon [Spanish]
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. Love's Labor's Lost (Quarto 1, 1598) Act 5, Scene 1
.
Clown: And I had but one peny in the world thou shouldst
. haue it to buy Ginger bread: Holde, there is the verie
. Remuneration I had of thy Maister, thou halfepennie
. purse of wit, thou Pidgin-egge of discretion. O and the
. heauens were so pleased, that thou wart but my Ba-
. stard; What a ioyfull father wouldest thou make me?
. Go to, thou hast it ad *DUNGHIL* at the fingers ends, as they say.
.
Peda. Oh I smell false Latine, *DUNGHEL* for (unguem).
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adv. to perfection; perfectly &c. adj.; (ad) *unguem*;
. clean, - as a whistle.
.
. "O, I smell false Latin; (ad) *DUNGHILL* for
. (ad) *unguem*."
.
. (unguem) : NAIL, claw, talon [Latin]
. (uña) : NAIL, claw, talon [Spanish]
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. Ecclesiasticus [KJV 1611] Chap. 22
.
1 A slouthful man is compared to a filthy *STONE*,
. and *EVERy one Will* hisse him out to his disgrace.
.
2 A slouthfull man is compared to the filth of a *DUNGHILL*:
. *EVERY man* that takes it up, *WILL SHAKE* his hand.
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"Item juratores presentant super sacramentum suum quod Humfridius
Reynoldes xijd. Adrianus Quiney xijd. et Johannes Shakyspere xijd.
fecerunt *sterqu(I-NAR)-ium* in vico vocato Hendley Strete contra
ordinacionem curie; ideo *IPSI* in misericordia, ut patet."
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So far as I can tell NO ONE uses *sterqu(I-NAR)-ium*
OTHER than with reference to Johannes Shakyspere.
The *proper* Latin term is *sterqu(I-LIN)-ium* !!!
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. Apparently Oxford's (backwards): *NIL*
. has been replaced with Stratford's *NAR*
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*NAR* : fool, jester, coxcomb (Danish, Dutch)
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. *sterqu(I-LIN)-ium*
. *sterqu(I-NAR)-ium*
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_The MINERVA BRITANNA_ Banner Folding clearly demonstrates
how the Equidistant Linear Sequence decoding is to be performed:
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"all thinges perish and come to theyr last end, but workes
of learned WITS & monuments of Poetry abide *for EVER* ."
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_______ <= 7 =>
.
. [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]
.
{VERE} 8 : Prob. ~ 1 in 140
(I-NAR) 8
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1579: Dedication to Oxford in the only edition of
. Geoffrey Gates' The Defence of Militarie profession.
.
. TO THE RIGHT honorable, Edward de \VERE\, Earle of
. Oxenford, [VICOUNT] Bulbecke, Lod of Escales
. and Baldesmere, and Lord great Chamberlaine of England.
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*125* is the gematric number, being the sum of the English
characters for PHILIP SIDNEI = [(15+8+9+11+9+15)+(18+9+4+13+5+9)]
The "intentionally concealed message" in Sonnet 125 is
that Fulke Greville: Recorder of Stratford (1606-1628)
And [NED] [DYER] (b. October 1543 – d. May 1607)
*both* "bore the canopy" {For}[SIDNEI]:
http://tinyurl.com/ptpxsdu
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. Sonnet *125*
. WEr't ought to me I "bore the canopy",
. With my extern the outward honoring,
. Or layd great bases {For} eternity,
. Which proues more [S]hort then wast or ruining?
. Haue [I] not seene dwellers on forme an[D] fauor
. Lose all,and more by payi[N]g too much rent
. For compound sw[E]et;Forgoing simple sauor,
. Pitt[I]full thriuors in their gazing spent.
. Noe,let me be obsequious in thy heart,
. And take thou my oblacion,poore but free,
. Which is not mixt with seconds,knows no art,
. But mutuall render onely me for thee.
. Hence,thou subbornd Informer, a trew soule
. When most impeacht,stands least in thy controule.
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. <= *26* =>
.
. {F o r} e t e r n i t y,W h i c h p r o u e s m o r e
. [S] h o r t t h e n w a s t o r r u i n i n g?H a u e
. [I] n o t s e e n e d w e l l e r s o n f o r m e a n
. [D] f a u o r L o s e a l l,a n d m o r e b y p a y i
. [N] g t o o m u c h r e n t F o r c o m p o u n d s w
. [E] e t;F o r g o i n g s i m p l e s a u o r,P i t t
. [I] f u l l t h r i u o r s i n t h e i r g a z i n g
{For}[SIDNEI] *26* [starting in the middle of the 3rd line]
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Shortest {For}[SIDNEI] or [SIDNEY] in Moby Dick = 2818
Shortest ELS skip {For}[SIDNEI] or [SIDNEY] in KJV = 869
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https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Exodus-Chapter-21/
.
. Exodus
.
21:36 he shall surely pay ox {FOR} ox.......
22:8 the master of the house [S]hall be brought unto the judges...
22:15 it came for h[I]s hire.......
22:27 an[D] it shall come to pass.......
23:6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor i[N] his cause..
23:15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleaven[E]d bread.......
23:23 For m[I]ne Angel shall go before thee,.......
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"Raw" {For}[SIDNEI] probability skip less than
or equal to *26* in these ~ 1 in 108 million.
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The Encyclopædia Britannica ~ 190 million letters
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http://www.geocities.ws/garydanvers/PS-funeral.html
Sir Philip Sydney's funeral procession
When Sir Philip Sidney died of a wound received at the battle
of Zutphen (1586) his body was brought home to England for an
elaborate public funeral. The next year Thomas Lant published
a series of engravings of the funeral procession.
http://tinyurl.com/ptpxsdu
Pictures from The Procession at the Obsequies of Sir Philip Sidney,
drawn by his servant, Thomas Lant, and engraved by Theodor
Dirk de Bry, 1587 (From the series of 32 plates featuring
344 = 2x(Sonnet 125 + Sonnet 47)] engraved figures.
http://michaelharrison.ws/sidney/
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. Sonnet 47
.
. BEtwixt mine eye and heart a league is tooke,
. And each doth good turnes now vnto the other,
. When that mine eye is famisht {For} a looke,
. Or heart in loue with [S]ighes himselfe doth smother;
. W[I]th my loues picture then my eye [D]oth feast,
. And to the painted ba[N]quet bids my heart:
. An other tim[E] mine eye is my hearts guest,
. And [I]n his thoughts of loue doth share a part.
. So either by thy picture or my loue,
. Thy seife away,are present still with me,
. For thou nor farther then my thoughts canst moue,
. And I am still with them,and they with thee.
. Or if they sleepe, thy picture in my sight
. Awakes my heart,to hearts and eyes delight.
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. <= *26* =>
.
. {F o r} a l o o k e,O r h e a r t i n l o u e w i t h
. [S] i g h e s h i m s e l f e d o t h s m o t h e r;W
. [I] t h m y l o u e s p i c t u r e t h e n m y e y e
. [D] o t h f e a s t,A n d t o t h e p a i n t e d b a
. [N] q u e t b i d s m y h e a r t:A n o t h e r t i m
. [E] m i n e e y e i s m y h e a r t s g u e s t,A n d
. [I] n h i s t h o u g h t s
.
{For}[SIDNEI] *26* [starting in the middle of the 3rd line]
.
Prob. of second skip 26 {For}[SIDNEI] ~ 1 in 151,000
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. w[I(t)H *INSIDE* LIP]
. w[PHILI(p) *SIDNEI*]
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. The Winter's Tale (Folio 1, 1623) Act 1, Scene 2
.
LEONTES: Is whispering nothing?
. Is leaning Cheeke to Cheeke? is meating No{S}es?
. Kissing w[I(t)H IN-SIDE LIP]? sto{P}ping the Cariere
. Of Laughter, w{I}th a sigh? (a Note infallible
. Of b{R}eaking Honestie) horsing foot {O}n foot?
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. <= *26* =>
.
. i s m e a t i n g N o {S} e s?K i s s i n g w[I(t)H I
. N-S I D E L I P]s t o {P} p i n g t h e C a r i e r e
. O f L a u g h t e r,w {I} t h a s i g h(a N o t e i n
. f a l l i b l e O f b {R} e a k i n g H o n e s t i e)
. h o r s i n g f o o t {O} n f o o t?
.
{SPIRO} *26* : Prob at start (skip 26) ~ 1 ub 18,250
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. Skulking in corners? wishing Clocks more swift?
. Houres, Minutes? Noone, Mid-night? and all Eyes
. Blind with the Pin and Web, but theirs; theirs onely,
. That would vnseene be wicked? Is this nothing?
. Why then the World, and all that's in't, is nothing,
. The couering Skie is nothing, Bohemia nothing,
. My Wife is nothing, {N}or N{O}thi{N}g haue these No{T}hings,
. {I}f this {B}e noth{I}ng.
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{NON} 4
{TIBI} 6
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http://www.adamghooks.net/2011/04/sidneys-porcupine.html
ANCHORA Adam G. Hooks : http://tinyurl.com/zescbqg
<<The emblem in the compartment at the bottom of the title-page once caused some confusion --
Corbett provides a lengthy explanation for the emblem, which shows a boar backing away from a marjoram bush, with the motto "{SPIRO} NON TIBI" ("I breathe out [sweet scents] but not for thee"). The general meaning is a condemnation of ignorance, that something wholesome or profitable (i.e., the marjoram bush) is perceived as poisonous by those with poor judgment (i.e., the boar). The emblem was relatively common; Erasmus, in his Adagia, included several proverbs, including this one, on a similar theme: dogs flee from baths, jackdaws from lutes, pigs from both trumpets and marjoram, and asses from lyres.
McKerrow and Ferguson simply cite the preface to Thomas Nashe's Lenten Stuffe, which is a helpful citation, even considering Nashe's characteristically ironic dedication to "Lustie Humfrey":
. Most courteous unlearned lo[VER O]f Poetry, and yet a
. Po[E]t thy selfe, of no lesse p[R]ice then H.S. that in
. hono[U]r {O}f Maid-marrian gives [S]w{E}ete Margera for
. his Emp{R}esse, and puttes the Sow{E} most sawcily uppon
. som{E} great personage, what e{V}er she bee, bidding her
. (as it runnes in the old song) Go from my Garden go,
. for there no flowers for thee dooth grow.>>
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. <= 20 =>
.
. M o s t c o u r t e o u s u n l e a r n
. e d l o [V E R O]f P o e t r y,a n d y e
. t a P o [E]t t h y s e l f e,o f n o l e
. s s e p [R]i c e t h e n H.S.t h a t i n
. h o n o [U]r{O}f M a i d-m a r r i a n g
. i v e s [S]w{E}e t e M a r g e r a f o r
. h i s E m p{R}e s s e,a n d p u t t e s
. t h e S o w{E}m o s t s a w c i l y u p
. p o n s o m{E}g r e a t p e r s o n a g
. e,w h a t E{V}E R s h e b e e,
.
[VERUS] 20 : Prob. ~ 1 in 750
{VEER, E.O.}
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. <= 20 =>
.
. T h i s s a y I,b e c a u s [E] I k n o w
. e t h e v e r t u e s o;a n [D] t h i s s
. a y I,b e c a u s e i t m a [Y] b e e u e
. r s o;o r t o s a y b e t t [E] r,b e c a
. u s e i t w i l l b e e u e [R] s o.
[E.DYER] 20: Prob. at end of dedication ~ 1 in 150
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Dedication: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, 1590
.
This say I, becaus[E] I knowe the VERtuE so ; an[D] this say I,
because it ma[Y] be EVER so ; or to say bett[E]r, because it
*Will be EVE[R]* so. Read it then at your *IDLE* tymes, and
the follyes your good judgement wil finde in it, blame not, but
*LAUGH* at. And so, looking for no better stuffe, then, as in
an *HABERDASHERS* shoppe, *GLASSES* , or *FEATHERS* , you will
continue to love the writer, who doth excedinglie love you;
and most most *HARTElie PRAIES* you may long live, to be
a principall *ORNAMENT* to the familie of the *SIDNEIs*.
.
Your loving Brother, Philip *SIDNEI* .
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http://www.geocities.ws/garydanvers/PS-funeral.html
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Henry Danvers, aged 13, Philip Sidney's page, seated
upon Sidney's war horse and trailing a broken lance.
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Bolbeck or Bolebeck, coat of arms:
lion brandishing a broken lance.
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a lion, *SEJANT* , supporting with dexter a broken lance.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wriothesley,_3rd_Earl_of_Southampton
<<On 4 October 1594 Southampton's friend, Henry Danvers, shot Henry Long, brother of Sir Walter Long, in the course of a local feud between the Danvers and Long families. Sir Henry and his elder brother, Sir Charles Danvers, fled to Titchfield, where Southampton sheltered them. The brothers were outlawed, and eventually escaped to the continent where they took refuge at the court of King Henri IV. [Later] Southampton remained at the French court, planning to travel to Italy with Sir Charles Danvers and Sir Henry Danvers. At that juncture the Queen decided to pardon the Danvers brothers, and they were back in England on 30 August 1598, at which time Southampton also returned in secret, and married his pregnant mistress, Elizabeth Vernon.>>
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http://oxfraud.com/100-Fdesert
<<In the days immediately after the murder of Henry Long by Charles and Henry Danvers, around the 4th/5th October 1594, they were protected at Titchfield by HW. The 6th October was HW's coming of age 21st birthday. Perhaps Charles Danvers loyalty towards HW partly derives from the protection and assistance he and his brother received in escape to France. From where they bought their way out of trouble by paying fines. The same tactic was attempted in 1601, when Charles offered £10,000 to prevent his execution. He failed. Edward de Vere then enters this episode in history. What was his role? Simply put, he became involved in the squabble over Danvers' estate. But surely there must be evidence of more than that?>>
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http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/PERSONAL/011007.html
.
Cecil Papers 88/101 (bifolium, 232mm x 170mm),
Oxford to Cecil; 7 October 1601 (W337;F593).
.
...for I am aduised, that I may passe *MY BOOKE* from her
Magestie, yf a warrant may be procured to my cosen *BACON*
and Seriant [=Sergeant] *HARRIS* to perfet [= *PERFECT* ] yt.
Whic[HE BE]inge *DOONE* , I know to whome formallye to
thanke, but reallye they shalbe, and are from me, and myne,
*to be SEALED VP* in an *AETERNALL REMEMBRANCE* to yowre selfe.
And thus *WISHINGE ALL HAPPINES* to yow, and sume fortunat
meanes to me, wherby I myght recognise soo *DIEPE* merites,
I take my leaue this 7th of October from my House at HAKNEY. 1601.
.
Yowre most assured and louinge Broother.
(signed) Edward Oxenford (ital.; 4+7)
.
Addressed (O): To the ryghte honorable & my very good Broother
Sir Robert Cecill on [=one] of her Magestyes pryvie Councel
and principall Secretarie giue thes at the Coorte. [seal]
.
Endorsed: 1601 7 October: Erle of Oxenford to my Master.
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_____ *SEALD & DOONE*
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______ Hamlet (Q2, 1604)
.
King: Follow him at foote,
. Tempt him with speede abord,
. Delay it not, Ile haue him hence
. to nig[H]t. Aw[A]y, fo[R] eue[R]y th[I]ng i[S]
. *SEALD and DONE*
. That els leanes on th'affayre, pray you make hast,
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______ Hamlet (Folio, 1623)
.
King: Follow him at foote,
. Tempt him with speed aboord:
. Delay it not, Ile haue him hence to
. nig[H]t. Aw[A]y, fo[R] eue[R]y th[I]ng i[S]
. *SEAL'D and DONE*
. That else leanes on th'Affaire, pray you make hast.
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Ile haue him hence to
.
. --- n i g
. [H]{t A w}
. [A] y f o
. [R] e u e
. [R] y t h
-. [I] n g i
. [S] *SEAL'D and DONE*
.
[HARRIS] 4 {2,300,000}
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http://www.gutenberg.us/articles/sir_charles_danvers
<<Sir Charles Danvers (c. 1568 - 1601), was an English MP and soldier who plotted against Elizabeth I of England. He was born the eldest son of Sir John Danvers of Dauntsey, Wiltshire and Elizabeth, fourth daughter and coheiress of John Neville, Baron Latimer. He travelled abroad and then studied at Oxford University and the Inner Temple.
On 4 October 1594 his younger brother, Henry Danvers, shot Henry Long, brother of Sir Walter Long, in the course of a local feud. According to their mother's version of events, her husband, Sir John Danvers, in his capacity as a justice of the peace, had learned of two robberies and a murder committed by the servants of Sir Walter Long. Sir Walter, his brothers and his followers had then turned against Danvers, and members of the Long faction had murdered one of Sir John Danvers' men and committed a number of other outrages. Letters were exchanged between members of the Danvers and Long families, and in a letter to Sir Charles Danvers, Henry Long threatened to whip him, and called him 'Asse, Puppie, ffoole & Boy'. Sir Charles and others sought out Henry Long at an inn, and cudgelled him, but found the door locked when they were ready to leave. Long drew his sword against Sir Charles, dangerously wounding him, and Sir Henry Danvers shot Long. The Danvers brothers fled to Titchfield, where their friend, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, sheltered them. They were outlawed, and eventually escaped to the continent where they took refuge at the court of King Henri IV.
The disaster which had befallen his sons may have hastened the death of Sir John Danvers, who died only two months later, on 19 December 1594. In 1598 the widowed Lady Danvers married Sir Edmund Carey (c.1557-September 12, 1637), son of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth. It was generally considered she did so in order to obtain a pardon for her sons. Other efforts were made on their behalf as well, and at the end of June 1598 Queen Elizabeth relented, and pardoned both the Danvers brothers on condition that they pay Sir Walter Long £1500 damages for the murder of his brother. On 30 August 1598 John Chamberlain noted that Sir Charles and Sir Henry Danvers had arrived in London.
Charles went to Ireland and became a friend of the Earl of Essex. In February 1601 he took part in Essex' short-lived rebellion. He offered to pay £10,000 for his life, but to no avail. He was convicted of treason, and beheaded on Tower Hill for treason on 18 March 1601.
Executed with him was his fellow conspirator, Sir Christopher Blount.>>
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"Moore C W The Freemasons Monthly Magazine Vol IV 1845"
GRAND MASTERS, OR PATRONS, OF THE FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS IN ENGLAND,
from the coming in of the Saxons to the year 1839, with brief
references to remarkable events. Compiled and condensed from
the most authoritative records, by Br. Thomas Joseph Tennison,
President of the Masonic Council of Armagh, Ireland.
........................................................................
1422. Henry Chichely , Archbishop of Canterbury, was Grand Master Mason
under Henry V., the *RENOWNED* conqueror of France. By the King’s direction
he rebuilt the Palace and Abbey of Sheen, now called Richmond-on-Thames.
William Wanefleet , Bishop of Winchester, Grand Master, built Eton College,
and King’s College, also founded Christ’s and Queen’s Colleges, Cambridge,
at the command of Henry VI., whilst Brother Wanefleet, at his own cost,
built Magdalen Hall, Oxford. In the third year of Henry’s reign, an ignorant
and illiterate Parliament passed an act "forbidding Freemasons to confederate
in chapters or congregations ; those so offending to be judged felons;
visiting Brethren to be punished by fine or imprisonment.” But this grossly
tyrannical piece of legislative humbug was never enforced, and is fully
explained in the learned Coke’s Institutes, Part. III. fol. 19.
1471. Richard Beachamp y Bishop of Sarum, Grand Master. He repaired the Royal
Castles, after the depopulating wars between the houses of York & Lancaster.
1485. The Grand Master of the Knights of Malta.
1493. John Islip , Bishop of Winchester.
1500. Henry VII, having been chosen Protector by the Grand Master and
Fellows of the Order of St. John at Rhodes, (afterwards Malta} he selected
as his Wardens, John Islip, Abbot of Westminster, and Sir Reginald Bray,
Knight of the Garter, and by them summoned a Lodge of Master Masons in the
Palace, with whom he marched in procession to the East-end of Westminster
Abbey, and with his own hand levelled the footstone of his celebrated
chapel, June 24, (St. John’s day,) 1502.
Deputy Grand Master, Sir Reginald Bray, Knight.
Cardinal Wolsey was, in the following reign, chosen Grand Master. He built
Hampton Court, Whitehall, College of Christ, Oxford, and several splendid
edifices, which, when he was hurled from “The full meridian of his glory,”
to merited degradation, were forfeited to his false and fickle monarch,
the subtle and truculent Henry VIII.
Thomas Cromwell Earl of Essex, was the next Grand Master.
He built St. James’s Palace, Christ’s Hospital, Greenwich Castle.
On Cromwell’s fall & decollation, John Touchet Lord Audley, became Grand Master.
1552. At the death of Henry, Protector Somerset was Grand Master,
and built Somerset House, which was forfeited to the Crown.
When the duke was beheaded, John Peynet, Bishop of Winchester,
was Grand Patron of Freemasons until the demise of Edward VI.
1561. Sir Thomas Sackville succeeded, and continued Grand Master, until the
accession of Elizabeth, who “ finding that Freemasons had certain secrets
which could not be revealed to her,” she sent an armed force to break up
their annual Grand Lodge at York, on St John’s day, the 27th of December;
but some of the commanding officers having been initiated, returned, and
made so favorable a report to her Majesty, that she ever afterwards
patronized and protected them.
1567. When Sir Thomas Sackville demitted, the Earl of Bedford
was chosen in the North ; and, in the South.
1570. Sir Thomas Gresham, who built the Exchange, and which was burned in 1838.
1588 to 1603. George Hastings , Earl of Huntingdon.
1602. Charles Howard , Lord of Effingham, (who, when Lord Admiral, took
or destroyed the celebrated Spanish Armada,) was Grand Master in the
South till 1558, and the Earl of Huntingdon till the Queen died. Sir
Walter Raleigh (who, without any government assistance, had colonised
New England), the Earl of Essex, the generous and affable Norfolk, and
indeed most of the great men of this interesting period, were all Freemasons.
1607. James I., a Brother Mason, Grand Patron by Prerogative, appointed the
celebrated Inigo Jones, Grand Master of all England, in which capacity
he served for eleven years. His Wardens were the Earl of Pembroke, and
*NICHOLAS STONE*, Esq., who, attended by many Brothers attired in Craft
clothing, walked to White Hall, and laid the first stone of the
Banquetting Hall, with knocks, huzzas, and sound of trumpets,
throwing a purse of gold upon the stone for the operatives
to drink “To the King and Craft!"
1618. William Herbert , Earl of Pembroke, was chosen Grand Master.
He appointed Inigo Jones his Deputy.
Charles I., a Royal Mason and Grand Patron by Prerogative ;
under him the Earl of Darnley, Grand Master, who erected
the beautiful gate of the Physick Gardens, at Oxford.
1630-1-2. Henry Danvers , Earl of Danby.
1634. Thomas Howard , Earl of Arundel, was Grand Master.
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<<Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby, KG (28 June 1573 – 20 January 1643) was an English soldier. Outlawed after a killing, he regained favour and became a Knight of the Garter.
Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby in a portrait of the 1630s by Anthony van Dyck.
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He was the second son of Sir John Danvers, Knt., of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, by his wife Elizabeth Nevill, the youngest daughter and coheiress of John Nevill, 4th Baron Latymer. He was born at Dauntsey on 28 June 1573, and at an early age became a page to Sir Philip Sidney, whom he accompanied to the Low Countries, and was probably present at the battle of Zutphen in 1586. After his master's death he served as a volunteer under Maurice, Count of Nassau, who appointed him at the age of eighteen to the command of a company of infantry. Danvers took part in the siege of Rouen in 1591, and was there knighted for his services in the field by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, in command of the expedition.
His father died on 19 December 1593, and on 4 October 1594 Henry Long, son of Robert Long, and brother of Sir Walter Long was killed. A feud had existed between the Long and Danvers families for some time past. According to one account, Henry Long was dining in the middle of the day with a party of friends in Corsham, when Danvers, followed by his brother Charles and a number of retainers, burst into the room, and shot Long dead on the spot. The brothers then fled on horseback to Whitley Lodge, near Titchfield, the seat of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. With Southampton's assistance they succeeded after some days in making their way out of the country. A coroner's inquisition was held, and the brothers were outlawed. Another version of the story asserted that Henry Long was killed by Sir Henry Danvers in defending his brother Sir Charles against Long and his company.
The brothers joined the French army, and became known to Henry IV of France for their conspicuous bravery. In 1597, Henry Danvers served under Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, apparently as a captain of a man-of-war in the expedition of that year to the coast of Spain.
Arms of Sir Henry D'Anvers, 1st Earl of Danby, KG
After Henry IV had interceded with Elizabeth I, and Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury with Sir Robert Cecil, the brothers were pardoned on 30 June 1598, and they returned to England in the following August; but it was not until 1604 that the coroner's indictment was found bad on a technical ground and the outlawry reversed. Henry was, soon after his return, employed in Ireland under the Earl of Essex, and Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy, successive lords-lieutenant of Ireland. In September 1599 he was appointed lieutenant-general of the horse, in July 1601 governor of Armagh, and in July 1602 sergeant-major-general of the army in Ireland. By James I he was created Baron Danvers of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, in 1603 for service during the victory at Kinsale in Ireland, and two years afterwards was restored in blood as heir to his father, notwithstanding the attainder of his elder brother Charles, who had been beheaded in 1601 for his share in Essex's insurrection.
On 14 November 1607, Danvers was appointed lord president of Munster, a post which he retained until 1615, when he sold it to Donogh O'Brien, 4th Earl of Thomond. On 15 June 1613 he obtained the grant in reversion of the office of keeper of St. James's Palace, and on 23 March 1621 he was made governor of the isle of Guernsey for life.
By Charles I he was created Earl of Danby on 5 February 1626, and on 20 July 1628 was sworn a member of the privy council. In 1630, Danby succeeded to the estates of his mother, who after her first husband's death had married Sir Edmund Cary. He was made a councillor of Wales on 12 May 1633, and was installed a knight of the Garter on 7 November in the same year. He was included in a number of commissions by Charles I, formed one of the council of war appointed on 17 June 1637, and acted as commissioner of the regency from 9 August to 25 November 1641. He never married, and upon his death the barony of Danvers and the earldom of Danby became extinct. Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, best known to history as the Earl of Danby, was his great-nephew.
Towards the close of his life he suffered from bad health and lived principally in the country. He died at his house in Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, on 20 January 1644, and was buried in Dauntsey Church, where there is a monument of white marble to his memory. On the east side of the monument are lines ostensibly written by his kinsman, George Herbert, who paid a long visit at Dauntsey in 1629. If they are genuinely by him the epitaph must have been written many years before Danby's death, as Herbert died in 1633. Herbert's biographer, John Drury, has however, questioned the accuracy of the attribution.
On 12 March 1622 Danvers conveyed to the university of Oxford five acres of land, opposite Magdalen College, which had formerly served as a Jewish cemetery, for the encouragement of the study of physic and botany. He had the ground raised and enclosed within a high wall. The gateway of the Oxford Botanic Garden, designed by Nicholas Stone, a master mason who frequently worked with Inigo Jones, still bears the following inscription, 'Gloriae Dei Opt. Max. Honori Caroli Regis, in usum Acad. et Reipub. Henricus comes Danby DD. MDCXXXII.' By his will he left the rectory of Kirkdale in Yorkshire towards the maintenance of the gardens.
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Art Neuendorffer
Heere are your Sonnes againe:
William & Philip Herbert.
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. Cymbeline (First Folio) Act V, scene V
.
BELARIUS: Heere are your Sonnes againe, and I must loose
. Two of the s[W]eet'st Compan[I]ons in the Wor[L]d.
. The benedic[T]ion of these c[O]uering Heaue[N]s
. Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthie
. To in-lay Heauen with Starres.
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. <= 12 =>
.
. T w o o f t h e s [W] e e
. t's t C o m p a n [I] o n
. s i n t h e W o r [L] d.T
. h e b e n e d i c [T] i o
. n o f t h e s e c [O] u e
. r i n g H e a u e [N] s
.
[WILTON] 12
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In 1743, [WILTON] House erected a same Westminster statue but
changed the inscription. Shakespeare now points to [DYER]:
.
. LIFE’s but a walking {S} H|A [D]O{W}
____________ a poor {P} L|A [Y E R]
. That struts & frets his hour
____________ upon the STAGE
. And then is heard no more!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shepheardes_Calender
<<The Shepheardes Calender was Edmund Spenser's first major poetic work, published in 1579. In emulation of Virgil's first work, the Eclogues. The poem introduces Colin Clout, a folk character originated by John Skelton, and depicts his life as a shepherd through the twelve months of the year. The Calender encompasses considerable formal innovations, anticipating the even more virtuosic Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The "Old" Arcadia, 1580), the classic pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney, with whom Spenser was acquainted. It is also remarkable for the extensive commentary included with the work in its first publication, ascribed to an "E.K." E.K. is an intelligent, very subtle, and often deeply ironic commentator. The term sarcasm is first recorded in English in Spenser's poem.
Edmund Spenser’s involvement with the Earl of Leicester set the ground work for the influential effect that The Shepheardes Calender would have. A year after working together, the two of them, joined by Sir Philip Sidney, Edward Dryer, and Fulke Greville, created the literary group called “Areopagus”.>>
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THE Shepheardes Calender
Conteyning twelue Æglogues
proportionable to the twelve monethes.
Entitled
TO THE NOBLE AND VERTVous Gentleman
most worthy of all titles both of
learning and cheualrie M. Philip Sidney.
AT LONDON. 1579.
...................................
TO HIS BOOKE.
. Goe little booke: thy selfe present,
. As child whose parent is vnkent:
. To him that is the president
. Of noblesse and of cheualree,
. And if that Enuie barke at thee,
. As sure it will, for succoure fle[E]
. Vnder the shadow of his wi[N]g,
. And asked, who thee forth [D]id bring,
. A shephea{R}ds swa[I]ne saye did th{E}e sing,
. All as hi[S] stra{Y}ing flocke he fedd:
. An{D} when his honor has th{E}e redde,
. Crave pardon for my hardyhedde.
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. <= 19 =>
.
. i t w i l l,f o r s u c c o u r e f l
. e[E]V n d e r t h e s h a d o w o f h
. i s w i[N]g,A n d a s k e d,w h o t h
. e e f o r t h[D]i d b r i n g,A s h e
. p h e a{R}d s s w a[I]n e s a y e d i
. d t h{E}e s i n g,A l l a[S]h i s s t
. r a{Y}i n g f l o c k e h e f e d d:A
. n{D}w h e n h i s h o n o r h a s t h
. {E}e r e d d e,C r a v e p a r d o n f
. o r m y h a r d y h e d d e.
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[SIDNE] -22 : Prob. ~ 1 in 93
{EDYER} -18 : Prob. ~ 1 in 44
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. But if that any aske thy name,
. Say thou wert base begot with blame:
. For thy thereof thou takest shame.
. And when thou art past ieopardee,
. Come tell me, what was sayd of mee:
. And I will send more after thee. - Immeritô.
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. Shepheardes Calender December
.
GLOSSE:
This is my) The thyrde {P}arte wherein is set forth his ripe
yere{S} as an vntimely haruest, that bringeth l{I}ttle fruite.
The f[r]agraunt flowres) sun{D}ry studies and laudable partes
of lear{N}ing, wherein how our Poete is seene, be th{EY}
witnesse which are priuie to his stud{Y}.
{P.SIDNEY} 33
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. *26* days
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sidney#Injury_and_death
<<[Sir Philip [SIDNEI] (30 November 1554 - 17 October 1586)]
joined Sir John Norris in the Battle of Zutphen, fighting for
the Protestant cause against the Spanish. During the battle,
he was shot in the thigh and died of gangrene *26* days later.
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______ Hamlet (Q2, 1604) II, ii
Queen: More matter with lesse art.
Polonius: Maddam, I sweare I use no art at all,
. That hee's mad *TIS TRUE*, *TIS TRUE*, tis pitty,
. And pitty tis *TIS TRUE*, a foolish figure,
. But farewell it, for I will use no art.
. Mad let us graunt him then, and now remaines
. That we find out the cause of this effect,
. Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
. For this effect defectiVe comes by cause:
. Thus it remaines, and the remainder thus Perpend,
. I haVe a daughter, haVe while she is mine,
. Who [I]n her dutie and obedience, mark[E],
. Hath giVen me this, now gather a[N]d surmise.
. To the Celestiall an[D] my soules Idoll, the most
. beau-t[I]fied Ophelia, that's an ill phra[S]e, a vile
. phrase, beautified is a vile phrase, but you shall heare:
. thus in her excellent white bosome, these &c.
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[SIDNEI] -26
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Men_%28playing_company%29
<<The earliest printed text states that Much Ado About Nothing was
"sundry times publicly acted" prior to 1600 and it is likely that the
play made its debut in the autumn or winter of 1598–1599. The earliest
recorded performances are two that were given at Court in the winter
of 1612–1613, during the festivities preceding the marriage of
Princess Elizabeth with Frederick V, Elector Palatine (14 Feb, 1613).>>
. http://tinyurl.com/hh8l3gb
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26_%28number%29
.
*26* is the gematric number, being the sum of the Hebrew characters
(Hebrew: יהוה) being the name of the god of Israel – YHWH (Yehweh).
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<<{O}r spunne out Riddles, or weav'd fifty Tomes
{O}f Logogriphes*, or curious Palindromes;
{O}r pump'd for those hard trifles, Anagrams,
{O}r Ecrosticks, or your finer flames
{O}f *EGGES* , and Halbards, Cradles, and a *HERSE*,
__ [A] paire of Sizers, and a *COMBE* in *VERSE* ;
__ [A]crosticks, and *TELLESTICKS*, or jumpe names,>> -- B. Jonson
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. Shepheardes Calender November
.
Why wayle we then? why weary we the gods with playnts,
As if some evill were to her betight?
She raignes a goddes[S]e now emong the saintes,
That wh[I]lome was the saynt of shephear[D]s light:
And is enstalled nowe i[N] heavens hight. [line *125*]
I see thee, bless[E]d soule, I see,
Walke in Elisian f[I]eldes so free.
O happy *HERSE*!
Might I one come to thee! O that I might!
O joyfull *VERSE*!
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[SIDNEI] 26
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*TELLESTICKS* found by Jones Harris & John Rollett
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The Names of the *26* Principall Actors in all these Playes.
[William Shakespeare]
Richard B(ū)rba(D)ge.
John Hemmings.
Augusti(ñ)e Phillip [S].
William Kemp [T].
Thom(ā)s Poop (e).
George Brya (N).
Henry C(O)n[D]el [L].
W(I)l(L)iam S(L) (Y|E).
{R}ichard Cowl [Y].
John Low(I)ne.
Samuell Crosse.
A(L|E]xander Co(O)k{E}.
.........................
Samuel Gilburn{E}.
[R]obert Armi(N).
Will(I)am Ostl(E)r.
(N)athan Field.
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John Underwoo [D].
{N}icholas T(O)ole {Y}.
William Eccl[E]ston {E}.
Joseph Taylo {R}.
Robert Be[N]fiel {D}.
Robe(R)t Gough {E}.
Richar{D} Robinso {N}.
John Shancke.
John Rice.
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. <= *26* =>
.
. [W i l l i a m S h a k e s p e a r e]R i c h a r d B
. (ū) r b a(D)g e.J o h n H e m m i n g s.A u g u s t i
. (ñ) e P h i l l i p[S]W i l l i a m K e m p [T] T h o m
. (ā) s P o o p(e)G e o r g e B r y a(N)H e n r y C o n
. [D] e l l.W i l(L)i a m S l(Y|E|R}i c h a r d C o w l
. [Y] J o h n L o w(I)n e.S a m u e l l C r o s s e.A l
. [E] x a n d e r C o(O)k{E}S a m u e l G i l b u r n E
. [R] o b e r t A r m i(N)W i l l i a m O s t l E r N a
. t h a n F i e l d.J o h n U n d e r w o o [D] N i c h
. o l a s T o o l e{Y}W i l l i a m E c c l [E] s t o n
. e. J o s e p h T a y l o r.R o b e r t B e [N] f i e l d.
.
[DYER] 26
[NED] -26
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(ūnā) 26 : together, at the same place [Latin]
(uña) 26 : NAIL, claw, talon [Spanish]
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. Love's Labor's Lost (Quarto 1, 1598) Act 5, Scene 1
.
Clown: And I had but one peny in the world thou shouldst
. haue it to buy Ginger bread: Holde, there is the verie
. Remuneration I had of thy Maister, thou halfepennie
. purse of wit, thou Pidgin-egge of discretion. O and the
. heauens were so pleased, that thou wart but my Ba-
. stard; What a ioyfull father wouldest thou make me?
. Go to, thou hast it ad *DUNGHIL* at the fingers ends, as they say.
.
Peda. Oh I smell false Latine, *DUNGHEL* for (unguem).
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adv. to perfection; perfectly &c. adj.; (ad) *unguem*;
. clean, - as a whistle.
.
. "O, I smell false Latin; (ad) *DUNGHILL* for
. (ad) *unguem*."
.
. (unguem) : NAIL, claw, talon [Latin]
. (uña) : NAIL, claw, talon [Spanish]
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. Ecclesiasticus [KJV 1611] Chap. 22
.
1 A slouthful man is compared to a filthy *STONE*,
. and *EVERy one Will* hisse him out to his disgrace.
.
2 A slouthfull man is compared to the filth of a *DUNGHILL*:
. *EVERY man* that takes it up, *WILL SHAKE* his hand.
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"Item juratores presentant super sacramentum suum quod Humfridius
Reynoldes xijd. Adrianus Quiney xijd. et Johannes Shakyspere xijd.
fecerunt *sterqu(I-NAR)-ium* in vico vocato Hendley Strete contra
ordinacionem curie; ideo *IPSI* in misericordia, ut patet."
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So far as I can tell NO ONE uses *sterqu(I-NAR)-ium*
OTHER than with reference to Johannes Shakyspere.
The *proper* Latin term is *sterqu(I-LIN)-ium* !!!
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. Apparently Oxford's (backwards): *NIL*
. has been replaced with Stratford's *NAR*
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*NAR* : fool, jester, coxcomb (Danish, Dutch)
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. *sterqu(I-LIN)-ium*
. *sterqu(I-NAR)-ium*
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_The MINERVA BRITANNA_ Banner Folding clearly demonstrates
how the Equidistant Linear Sequence decoding is to be performed:
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"all thinges perish and come to theyr last end, but workes
of learned WITS & monuments of Poetry abide *for EVER* ."
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_______ <= 7 =>
.
. [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]
.
{VERE} 8 : Prob. ~ 1 in 140
(I-NAR) 8
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1579: Dedication to Oxford in the only edition of
. Geoffrey Gates' The Defence of Militarie profession.
.
. TO THE RIGHT honorable, Edward de \VERE\, Earle of
. Oxenford, [VICOUNT] Bulbecke, Lod of Escales
. and Baldesmere, and Lord great Chamberlaine of England.
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*125* is the gematric number, being the sum of the English
characters for PHILIP SIDNEI = [(15+8+9+11+9+15)+(18+9+4+13+5+9)]
The "intentionally concealed message" in Sonnet 125 is
that Fulke Greville: Recorder of Stratford (1606-1628)
And [NED] [DYER] (b. October 1543 – d. May 1607)
*both* "bore the canopy" {For}[SIDNEI]:
http://tinyurl.com/ptpxsdu
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. Sonnet *125*
. WEr't ought to me I "bore the canopy",
. With my extern the outward honoring,
. Or layd great bases {For} eternity,
. Which proues more [S]hort then wast or ruining?
. Haue [I] not seene dwellers on forme an[D] fauor
. Lose all,and more by payi[N]g too much rent
. For compound sw[E]et;Forgoing simple sauor,
. Pitt[I]full thriuors in their gazing spent.
. Noe,let me be obsequious in thy heart,
. And take thou my oblacion,poore but free,
. Which is not mixt with seconds,knows no art,
. But mutuall render onely me for thee.
. Hence,thou subbornd Informer, a trew soule
. When most impeacht,stands least in thy controule.
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. <= *26* =>
.
. {F o r} e t e r n i t y,W h i c h p r o u e s m o r e
. [S] h o r t t h e n w a s t o r r u i n i n g?H a u e
. [I] n o t s e e n e d w e l l e r s o n f o r m e a n
. [D] f a u o r L o s e a l l,a n d m o r e b y p a y i
. [N] g t o o m u c h r e n t F o r c o m p o u n d s w
. [E] e t;F o r g o i n g s i m p l e s a u o r,P i t t
. [I] f u l l t h r i u o r s i n t h e i r g a z i n g
{For}[SIDNEI] *26* [starting in the middle of the 3rd line]
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Shortest {For}[SIDNEI] or [SIDNEY] in Moby Dick = 2818
Shortest ELS skip {For}[SIDNEI] or [SIDNEY] in KJV = 869
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https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Exodus-Chapter-21/
.
. Exodus
.
21:36 he shall surely pay ox {FOR} ox.......
22:8 the master of the house [S]hall be brought unto the judges...
22:15 it came for h[I]s hire.......
22:27 an[D] it shall come to pass.......
23:6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor i[N] his cause..
23:15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleaven[E]d bread.......
23:23 For m[I]ne Angel shall go before thee,.......
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"Raw" {For}[SIDNEI] probability skip less than
or equal to *26* in these ~ 1 in 108 million.
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The Encyclopædia Britannica ~ 190 million letters
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http://www.geocities.ws/garydanvers/PS-funeral.html
Sir Philip Sydney's funeral procession
When Sir Philip Sidney died of a wound received at the battle
of Zutphen (1586) his body was brought home to England for an
elaborate public funeral. The next year Thomas Lant published
a series of engravings of the funeral procession.
http://tinyurl.com/ptpxsdu
Pictures from The Procession at the Obsequies of Sir Philip Sidney,
drawn by his servant, Thomas Lant, and engraved by Theodor
Dirk de Bry, 1587 (From the series of 32 plates featuring
344 = 2x(Sonnet 125 + Sonnet 47)] engraved figures.
http://michaelharrison.ws/sidney/
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. Sonnet 47
.
. BEtwixt mine eye and heart a league is tooke,
. And each doth good turnes now vnto the other,
. When that mine eye is famisht {For} a looke,
. Or heart in loue with [S]ighes himselfe doth smother;
. W[I]th my loues picture then my eye [D]oth feast,
. And to the painted ba[N]quet bids my heart:
. An other tim[E] mine eye is my hearts guest,
. And [I]n his thoughts of loue doth share a part.
. So either by thy picture or my loue,
. Thy seife away,are present still with me,
. For thou nor farther then my thoughts canst moue,
. And I am still with them,and they with thee.
. Or if they sleepe, thy picture in my sight
. Awakes my heart,to hearts and eyes delight.
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. <= *26* =>
.
. {F o r} a l o o k e,O r h e a r t i n l o u e w i t h
. [S] i g h e s h i m s e l f e d o t h s m o t h e r;W
. [I] t h m y l o u e s p i c t u r e t h e n m y e y e
. [D] o t h f e a s t,A n d t o t h e p a i n t e d b a
. [N] q u e t b i d s m y h e a r t:A n o t h e r t i m
. [E] m i n e e y e i s m y h e a r t s g u e s t,A n d
. [I] n h i s t h o u g h t s
.
{For}[SIDNEI] *26* [starting in the middle of the 3rd line]
.
Prob. of second skip 26 {For}[SIDNEI] ~ 1 in 151,000
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. w[I(t)H *INSIDE* LIP]
. w[PHILI(p) *SIDNEI*]
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. The Winter's Tale (Folio 1, 1623) Act 1, Scene 2
.
LEONTES: Is whispering nothing?
. Is leaning Cheeke to Cheeke? is meating No{S}es?
. Kissing w[I(t)H IN-SIDE LIP]? sto{P}ping the Cariere
. Of Laughter, w{I}th a sigh? (a Note infallible
. Of b{R}eaking Honestie) horsing foot {O}n foot?
.......................................................
. <= *26* =>
.
. i s m e a t i n g N o {S} e s?K i s s i n g w[I(t)H I
. N-S I D E L I P]s t o {P} p i n g t h e C a r i e r e
. O f L a u g h t e r,w {I} t h a s i g h(a N o t e i n
. f a l l i b l e O f b {R} e a k i n g H o n e s t i e)
. h o r s i n g f o o t {O} n f o o t?
.
{SPIRO} *26* : Prob at start (skip 26) ~ 1 ub 18,250
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. Skulking in corners? wishing Clocks more swift?
. Houres, Minutes? Noone, Mid-night? and all Eyes
. Blind with the Pin and Web, but theirs; theirs onely,
. That would vnseene be wicked? Is this nothing?
. Why then the World, and all that's in't, is nothing,
. The couering Skie is nothing, Bohemia nothing,
. My Wife is nothing, {N}or N{O}thi{N}g haue these No{T}hings,
. {I}f this {B}e noth{I}ng.
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{NON} 4
{TIBI} 6
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http://www.adamghooks.net/2011/04/sidneys-porcupine.html
ANCHORA Adam G. Hooks : http://tinyurl.com/zescbqg
<<The emblem in the compartment at the bottom of the title-page once caused some confusion --
Corbett provides a lengthy explanation for the emblem, which shows a boar backing away from a marjoram bush, with the motto "{SPIRO} NON TIBI" ("I breathe out [sweet scents] but not for thee"). The general meaning is a condemnation of ignorance, that something wholesome or profitable (i.e., the marjoram bush) is perceived as poisonous by those with poor judgment (i.e., the boar). The emblem was relatively common; Erasmus, in his Adagia, included several proverbs, including this one, on a similar theme: dogs flee from baths, jackdaws from lutes, pigs from both trumpets and marjoram, and asses from lyres.
McKerrow and Ferguson simply cite the preface to Thomas Nashe's Lenten Stuffe, which is a helpful citation, even considering Nashe's characteristically ironic dedication to "Lustie Humfrey":
. Most courteous unlearned lo[VER O]f Poetry, and yet a
. Po[E]t thy selfe, of no lesse p[R]ice then H.S. that in
. hono[U]r {O}f Maid-marrian gives [S]w{E}ete Margera for
. his Emp{R}esse, and puttes the Sow{E} most sawcily uppon
. som{E} great personage, what e{V}er she bee, bidding her
. (as it runnes in the old song) Go from my Garden go,
. for there no flowers for thee dooth grow.>>
...................................................
. <= 20 =>
.
. M o s t c o u r t e o u s u n l e a r n
. e d l o [V E R O]f P o e t r y,a n d y e
. t a P o [E]t t h y s e l f e,o f n o l e
. s s e p [R]i c e t h e n H.S.t h a t i n
. h o n o [U]r{O}f M a i d-m a r r i a n g
. i v e s [S]w{E}e t e M a r g e r a f o r
. h i s E m p{R}e s s e,a n d p u t t e s
. t h e S o w{E}m o s t s a w c i l y u p
. p o n s o m{E}g r e a t p e r s o n a g
. e,w h a t E{V}E R s h e b e e,
.
[VERUS] 20 : Prob. ~ 1 in 750
{VEER, E.O.}
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. <= 20 =>
.
. T h i s s a y I,b e c a u s [E] I k n o w
. e t h e v e r t u e s o;a n [D] t h i s s
. a y I,b e c a u s e i t m a [Y] b e e u e
. r s o;o r t o s a y b e t t [E] r,b e c a
. u s e i t w i l l b e e u e [R] s o.
[E.DYER] 20: Prob. at end of dedication ~ 1 in 150
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Dedication: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, 1590
.
This say I, becaus[E] I knowe the VERtuE so ; an[D] this say I,
because it ma[Y] be EVER so ; or to say bett[E]r, because it
*Will be EVE[R]* so. Read it then at your *IDLE* tymes, and
the follyes your good judgement wil finde in it, blame not, but
*LAUGH* at. And so, looking for no better stuffe, then, as in
an *HABERDASHERS* shoppe, *GLASSES* , or *FEATHERS* , you will
continue to love the writer, who doth excedinglie love you;
and most most *HARTElie PRAIES* you may long live, to be
a principall *ORNAMENT* to the familie of the *SIDNEIs*.
.
Your loving Brother, Philip *SIDNEI* .
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http://www.geocities.ws/garydanvers/PS-funeral.html
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Henry Danvers, aged 13, Philip Sidney's page, seated
upon Sidney's war horse and trailing a broken lance.
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Bolbeck or Bolebeck, coat of arms:
lion brandishing a broken lance.
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a lion, *SEJANT* , supporting with dexter a broken lance.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wriothesley,_3rd_Earl_of_Southampton
<<On 4 October 1594 Southampton's friend, Henry Danvers, shot Henry Long, brother of Sir Walter Long, in the course of a local feud between the Danvers and Long families. Sir Henry and his elder brother, Sir Charles Danvers, fled to Titchfield, where Southampton sheltered them. The brothers were outlawed, and eventually escaped to the continent where they took refuge at the court of King Henri IV. [Later] Southampton remained at the French court, planning to travel to Italy with Sir Charles Danvers and Sir Henry Danvers. At that juncture the Queen decided to pardon the Danvers brothers, and they were back in England on 30 August 1598, at which time Southampton also returned in secret, and married his pregnant mistress, Elizabeth Vernon.>>
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http://oxfraud.com/100-Fdesert
<<In the days immediately after the murder of Henry Long by Charles and Henry Danvers, around the 4th/5th October 1594, they were protected at Titchfield by HW. The 6th October was HW's coming of age 21st birthday. Perhaps Charles Danvers loyalty towards HW partly derives from the protection and assistance he and his brother received in escape to France. From where they bought their way out of trouble by paying fines. The same tactic was attempted in 1601, when Charles offered £10,000 to prevent his execution. He failed. Edward de Vere then enters this episode in history. What was his role? Simply put, he became involved in the squabble over Danvers' estate. But surely there must be evidence of more than that?>>
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http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/PERSONAL/011007.html
.
Cecil Papers 88/101 (bifolium, 232mm x 170mm),
Oxford to Cecil; 7 October 1601 (W337;F593).
.
...for I am aduised, that I may passe *MY BOOKE* from her
Magestie, yf a warrant may be procured to my cosen *BACON*
and Seriant [=Sergeant] *HARRIS* to perfet [= *PERFECT* ] yt.
Whic[HE BE]inge *DOONE* , I know to whome formallye to
thanke, but reallye they shalbe, and are from me, and myne,
*to be SEALED VP* in an *AETERNALL REMEMBRANCE* to yowre selfe.
And thus *WISHINGE ALL HAPPINES* to yow, and sume fortunat
meanes to me, wherby I myght recognise soo *DIEPE* merites,
I take my leaue this 7th of October from my House at HAKNEY. 1601.
.
Yowre most assured and louinge Broother.
(signed) Edward Oxenford (ital.; 4+7)
.
Addressed (O): To the ryghte honorable & my very good Broother
Sir Robert Cecill on [=one] of her Magestyes pryvie Councel
and principall Secretarie giue thes at the Coorte. [seal]
.
Endorsed: 1601 7 October: Erle of Oxenford to my Master.
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_____ *SEALD & DOONE*
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______ Hamlet (Q2, 1604)
.
King: Follow him at foote,
. Tempt him with speede abord,
. Delay it not, Ile haue him hence
. to nig[H]t. Aw[A]y, fo[R] eue[R]y th[I]ng i[S]
. *SEALD and DONE*
. That els leanes on th'affayre, pray you make hast,
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______ Hamlet (Folio, 1623)
.
King: Follow him at foote,
. Tempt him with speed aboord:
. Delay it not, Ile haue him hence to
. nig[H]t. Aw[A]y, fo[R] eue[R]y th[I]ng i[S]
. *SEAL'D and DONE*
. That else leanes on th'Affaire, pray you make hast.
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Ile haue him hence to
.
. --- n i g
. [H]{t A w}
. [A] y f o
. [R] e u e
. [R] y t h
-. [I] n g i
. [S] *SEAL'D and DONE*
.
[HARRIS] 4 {2,300,000}
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http://www.gutenberg.us/articles/sir_charles_danvers
<<Sir Charles Danvers (c. 1568 - 1601), was an English MP and soldier who plotted against Elizabeth I of England. He was born the eldest son of Sir John Danvers of Dauntsey, Wiltshire and Elizabeth, fourth daughter and coheiress of John Neville, Baron Latimer. He travelled abroad and then studied at Oxford University and the Inner Temple.
On 4 October 1594 his younger brother, Henry Danvers, shot Henry Long, brother of Sir Walter Long, in the course of a local feud. According to their mother's version of events, her husband, Sir John Danvers, in his capacity as a justice of the peace, had learned of two robberies and a murder committed by the servants of Sir Walter Long. Sir Walter, his brothers and his followers had then turned against Danvers, and members of the Long faction had murdered one of Sir John Danvers' men and committed a number of other outrages. Letters were exchanged between members of the Danvers and Long families, and in a letter to Sir Charles Danvers, Henry Long threatened to whip him, and called him 'Asse, Puppie, ffoole & Boy'. Sir Charles and others sought out Henry Long at an inn, and cudgelled him, but found the door locked when they were ready to leave. Long drew his sword against Sir Charles, dangerously wounding him, and Sir Henry Danvers shot Long. The Danvers brothers fled to Titchfield, where their friend, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, sheltered them. They were outlawed, and eventually escaped to the continent where they took refuge at the court of King Henri IV.
The disaster which had befallen his sons may have hastened the death of Sir John Danvers, who died only two months later, on 19 December 1594. In 1598 the widowed Lady Danvers married Sir Edmund Carey (c.1557-September 12, 1637), son of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth. It was generally considered she did so in order to obtain a pardon for her sons. Other efforts were made on their behalf as well, and at the end of June 1598 Queen Elizabeth relented, and pardoned both the Danvers brothers on condition that they pay Sir Walter Long £1500 damages for the murder of his brother. On 30 August 1598 John Chamberlain noted that Sir Charles and Sir Henry Danvers had arrived in London.
Charles went to Ireland and became a friend of the Earl of Essex. In February 1601 he took part in Essex' short-lived rebellion. He offered to pay £10,000 for his life, but to no avail. He was convicted of treason, and beheaded on Tower Hill for treason on 18 March 1601.
Executed with him was his fellow conspirator, Sir Christopher Blount.>>
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"Moore C W The Freemasons Monthly Magazine Vol IV 1845"
GRAND MASTERS, OR PATRONS, OF THE FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS IN ENGLAND,
from the coming in of the Saxons to the year 1839, with brief
references to remarkable events. Compiled and condensed from
the most authoritative records, by Br. Thomas Joseph Tennison,
President of the Masonic Council of Armagh, Ireland.
........................................................................
1422. Henry Chichely , Archbishop of Canterbury, was Grand Master Mason
under Henry V., the *RENOWNED* conqueror of France. By the King’s direction
he rebuilt the Palace and Abbey of Sheen, now called Richmond-on-Thames.
William Wanefleet , Bishop of Winchester, Grand Master, built Eton College,
and King’s College, also founded Christ’s and Queen’s Colleges, Cambridge,
at the command of Henry VI., whilst Brother Wanefleet, at his own cost,
built Magdalen Hall, Oxford. In the third year of Henry’s reign, an ignorant
and illiterate Parliament passed an act "forbidding Freemasons to confederate
in chapters or congregations ; those so offending to be judged felons;
visiting Brethren to be punished by fine or imprisonment.” But this grossly
tyrannical piece of legislative humbug was never enforced, and is fully
explained in the learned Coke’s Institutes, Part. III. fol. 19.
1471. Richard Beachamp y Bishop of Sarum, Grand Master. He repaired the Royal
Castles, after the depopulating wars between the houses of York & Lancaster.
1485. The Grand Master of the Knights of Malta.
1493. John Islip , Bishop of Winchester.
1500. Henry VII, having been chosen Protector by the Grand Master and
Fellows of the Order of St. John at Rhodes, (afterwards Malta} he selected
as his Wardens, John Islip, Abbot of Westminster, and Sir Reginald Bray,
Knight of the Garter, and by them summoned a Lodge of Master Masons in the
Palace, with whom he marched in procession to the East-end of Westminster
Abbey, and with his own hand levelled the footstone of his celebrated
chapel, June 24, (St. John’s day,) 1502.
Deputy Grand Master, Sir Reginald Bray, Knight.
Cardinal Wolsey was, in the following reign, chosen Grand Master. He built
Hampton Court, Whitehall, College of Christ, Oxford, and several splendid
edifices, which, when he was hurled from “The full meridian of his glory,”
to merited degradation, were forfeited to his false and fickle monarch,
the subtle and truculent Henry VIII.
Thomas Cromwell Earl of Essex, was the next Grand Master.
He built St. James’s Palace, Christ’s Hospital, Greenwich Castle.
On Cromwell’s fall & decollation, John Touchet Lord Audley, became Grand Master.
1552. At the death of Henry, Protector Somerset was Grand Master,
and built Somerset House, which was forfeited to the Crown.
When the duke was beheaded, John Peynet, Bishop of Winchester,
was Grand Patron of Freemasons until the demise of Edward VI.
1561. Sir Thomas Sackville succeeded, and continued Grand Master, until the
accession of Elizabeth, who “ finding that Freemasons had certain secrets
which could not be revealed to her,” she sent an armed force to break up
their annual Grand Lodge at York, on St John’s day, the 27th of December;
but some of the commanding officers having been initiated, returned, and
made so favorable a report to her Majesty, that she ever afterwards
patronized and protected them.
1567. When Sir Thomas Sackville demitted, the Earl of Bedford
was chosen in the North ; and, in the South.
1570. Sir Thomas Gresham, who built the Exchange, and which was burned in 1838.
1588 to 1603. George Hastings , Earl of Huntingdon.
1602. Charles Howard , Lord of Effingham, (who, when Lord Admiral, took
or destroyed the celebrated Spanish Armada,) was Grand Master in the
South till 1558, and the Earl of Huntingdon till the Queen died. Sir
Walter Raleigh (who, without any government assistance, had colonised
New England), the Earl of Essex, the generous and affable Norfolk, and
indeed most of the great men of this interesting period, were all Freemasons.
1607. James I., a Brother Mason, Grand Patron by Prerogative, appointed the
celebrated Inigo Jones, Grand Master of all England, in which capacity
he served for eleven years. His Wardens were the Earl of Pembroke, and
*NICHOLAS STONE*, Esq., who, attended by many Brothers attired in Craft
clothing, walked to White Hall, and laid the first stone of the
Banquetting Hall, with knocks, huzzas, and sound of trumpets,
throwing a purse of gold upon the stone for the operatives
to drink “To the King and Craft!"
1618. William Herbert , Earl of Pembroke, was chosen Grand Master.
He appointed Inigo Jones his Deputy.
Charles I., a Royal Mason and Grand Patron by Prerogative ;
under him the Earl of Darnley, Grand Master, who erected
the beautiful gate of the Physick Gardens, at Oxford.
1630-1-2. Henry Danvers , Earl of Danby.
1634. Thomas Howard , Earl of Arundel, was Grand Master.
-----------------------------------------------------------------https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Danvers,_1st_Earl_of_Danby
<<Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby, KG (28 June 1573 – 20 January 1643) was an English soldier. Outlawed after a killing, he regained favour and became a Knight of the Garter.
Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby in a portrait of the 1630s by Anthony van Dyck.
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He was the second son of Sir John Danvers, Knt., of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, by his wife Elizabeth Nevill, the youngest daughter and coheiress of John Nevill, 4th Baron Latymer. He was born at Dauntsey on 28 June 1573, and at an early age became a page to Sir Philip Sidney, whom he accompanied to the Low Countries, and was probably present at the battle of Zutphen in 1586. After his master's death he served as a volunteer under Maurice, Count of Nassau, who appointed him at the age of eighteen to the command of a company of infantry. Danvers took part in the siege of Rouen in 1591, and was there knighted for his services in the field by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, in command of the expedition.
His father died on 19 December 1593, and on 4 October 1594 Henry Long, son of Robert Long, and brother of Sir Walter Long was killed. A feud had existed between the Long and Danvers families for some time past. According to one account, Henry Long was dining in the middle of the day with a party of friends in Corsham, when Danvers, followed by his brother Charles and a number of retainers, burst into the room, and shot Long dead on the spot. The brothers then fled on horseback to Whitley Lodge, near Titchfield, the seat of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. With Southampton's assistance they succeeded after some days in making their way out of the country. A coroner's inquisition was held, and the brothers were outlawed. Another version of the story asserted that Henry Long was killed by Sir Henry Danvers in defending his brother Sir Charles against Long and his company.
The brothers joined the French army, and became known to Henry IV of France for their conspicuous bravery. In 1597, Henry Danvers served under Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, apparently as a captain of a man-of-war in the expedition of that year to the coast of Spain.
Arms of Sir Henry D'Anvers, 1st Earl of Danby, KG
After Henry IV had interceded with Elizabeth I, and Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury with Sir Robert Cecil, the brothers were pardoned on 30 June 1598, and they returned to England in the following August; but it was not until 1604 that the coroner's indictment was found bad on a technical ground and the outlawry reversed. Henry was, soon after his return, employed in Ireland under the Earl of Essex, and Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy, successive lords-lieutenant of Ireland. In September 1599 he was appointed lieutenant-general of the horse, in July 1601 governor of Armagh, and in July 1602 sergeant-major-general of the army in Ireland. By James I he was created Baron Danvers of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, in 1603 for service during the victory at Kinsale in Ireland, and two years afterwards was restored in blood as heir to his father, notwithstanding the attainder of his elder brother Charles, who had been beheaded in 1601 for his share in Essex's insurrection.
On 14 November 1607, Danvers was appointed lord president of Munster, a post which he retained until 1615, when he sold it to Donogh O'Brien, 4th Earl of Thomond. On 15 June 1613 he obtained the grant in reversion of the office of keeper of St. James's Palace, and on 23 March 1621 he was made governor of the isle of Guernsey for life.
By Charles I he was created Earl of Danby on 5 February 1626, and on 20 July 1628 was sworn a member of the privy council. In 1630, Danby succeeded to the estates of his mother, who after her first husband's death had married Sir Edmund Cary. He was made a councillor of Wales on 12 May 1633, and was installed a knight of the Garter on 7 November in the same year. He was included in a number of commissions by Charles I, formed one of the council of war appointed on 17 June 1637, and acted as commissioner of the regency from 9 August to 25 November 1641. He never married, and upon his death the barony of Danvers and the earldom of Danby became extinct. Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, best known to history as the Earl of Danby, was his great-nephew.
Towards the close of his life he suffered from bad health and lived principally in the country. He died at his house in Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, on 20 January 1644, and was buried in Dauntsey Church, where there is a monument of white marble to his memory. On the east side of the monument are lines ostensibly written by his kinsman, George Herbert, who paid a long visit at Dauntsey in 1629. If they are genuinely by him the epitaph must have been written many years before Danby's death, as Herbert died in 1633. Herbert's biographer, John Drury, has however, questioned the accuracy of the attribution.
On 12 March 1622 Danvers conveyed to the university of Oxford five acres of land, opposite Magdalen College, which had formerly served as a Jewish cemetery, for the encouragement of the study of physic and botany. He had the ground raised and enclosed within a high wall. The gateway of the Oxford Botanic Garden, designed by Nicholas Stone, a master mason who frequently worked with Inigo Jones, still bears the following inscription, 'Gloriae Dei Opt. Max. Honori Caroli Regis, in usum Acad. et Reipub. Henricus comes Danby DD. MDCXXXII.' By his will he left the rectory of Kirkdale in Yorkshire towards the maintenance of the gardens.
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