CHAPTER XII. SHAKSPERE CARRIED TO PRISON. Away with him to prison. Measure for Measure, v, 1. Εν VERY Cipher word in this chapter grows out of the root-number 505-167=338. At first it was thought that Shakspere was killed outright. We read: 505-167-338-30-308-50 (76:1)-258-193-65. 65 505-167-338-50 (76:1)=288. 447-288—159+i 50 75.1 that Observe how cunningly the length of column 1 of page 74 is adjusted to the word ball so that the root-number 505-167-338 brings it out the first time going down the column and again going up the column. Observe, also, the matchless ingenuity of the work. We have seen worm-eaten-hole furnish the world eaten, as descriptive of the half-consumed deer; now we find it giving us the word hole; and anon we shall see it used as a wholeworm-eaten-hole-to describe the prison to which Shakspere was taken. In the above example it is difficult to express in figures the way in which we get the word hole, but if the reader will count down the column (74:1), counting in the bracketed and hyphenated words, he will find that the 259th word is, as I state, the word hole. The same is true of the word fore, the first part of fore-head; it is the 258th word by actual count up 75:1 counting in the bracketed words, although it is difficult to express the formula in figures. And how marvelous is it that we not only find the word forehead, (which only occurs once in these two plays), as given in the last chapter, cohering with 338, but here we have again the elements to constitute the word, and each of the two words is again the 338th word. And if fore-tells had not been separated, in the Folio, into two words a very unusual course-by a hyphen, this result would have been impossible; as well as that curious combination found-out, and half the cipher work given in the preceding pages. The reader will thus perceive the small details upon which the whole matter turns; and how impossible it is that 148 bracketed and hyphenated words could be scattered through these three pages, by accident, in such positions as to bring out this wonderful story. Such a thing can only be believed by those who think that man is the result of a fortuitous conglomeration of atoms, and that all the thousand delicate adjustments revealed in his frame came there by chance. Observe, also, that in the foregoing examples the count for the words, fell upon the earth; they thought at first from, originates in each instance from the fragment of scene 2, on 76:1; and the words are all found on 74:1; and that every word of the whole long sentence of thirty-six words, with two exceptions, originated in the same fragment of a scene, the 49 or 50 words at the bottom of 76:1; and that out of the thirty-six words thirty-one are found on 74:1 or 75:1. 505-167-338-49 (76:1)-289-218 (74:2)—71—9 b & h=62 Here, again, every word is 505-167-338, minus 30 or 50; every one begins on 76:1, and all but one of the last seven are found on 76:1. We have the whole story of the fight told with the utmost detail. I am not giving it in any chronological order. Shakspere, before Sir Thomas shot him, had not been idle. Sir Walter Scott was right when he supposed, in Kenilworth, that William was a good hand at singlestick. We read: It was then that Sir Thomas put spurs to his horse and charged on Shakspere, as narrated in the last chapter, and shot him. One of the men looked at Shakspere and said: 505-167-338-50-288-198-90. 447-90-357+1=358 505-167-338-50-288-198-90-22 b68. 447 -68-379+1-380+3 b=383. 383 75:1 dead. 505-167-338-30-308-49-259-79-180-50 (76:1) 130. 508-130-378+1=379+4 h col.= 383 505-167-338-30-308-50-258—90 (73:1)=168 -49-119. 603-119-484+1-485+3 b col.= 505-167-338-50-288-193-95-15 b & h—80—49 488 505-167-338-50-288-193-95-15 b & h−80– -49 (76:1)-31. 420 505-167-338-30-308-49 (76:1)259—90 (73·1)= 169 505-167-338-30-308-49 (76:1)-259-90-169. 169 74:1 down 505-167-338-30-308-49-259-143 (73:1)=116. 116 |