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GOOD FREND FOR [IE]{SVS}' SAKE FOR[BE]ARE,
TO DIGG THE DV[ST] ENCLOASED [HE]ARE:
BLESTE BE Ye MAN Yt SPA[RE]S THES STONES,
AND CVRST *BE HE* Yt MO[VE]S *MY BONES* .
*ST-IE* :: *VE-RE* :: *HE-BE*
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- WASHINGTON IRVING, 1819
Stratford-On-Avon, Sketch Book.
<<A flat stone marks the spot where the bard is buried. There
are four lines inscribed on it, said to have been written by
himself, and which have in them something extremely AWFUL.
A few years since also, as some laborers were
DIGGing to make an adjoining vault, the earth caved in,
so as to leave a vacant space almost like an ARCH,
through which one might have reached into his grave.
No one, however, presumed to meddle with his remains
so awfully guarded by a malediction; and lest any of
the idle or the curious or any collector of relics should be
tempted to commit depredations, the *OLD SEXTON* kept
watch over the place for two days, until the vault was finished
and the aperture closed again. He told me that he had made
bold to look in at the hole, but could see neither coffin nor
BONES-- *NOTHING but DUST* . It was something,
I thought, to have seen the *DUST of Shakespeare*.>>
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*DUST* : *POL-VERE* (Italian)
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. *
HE-BE* , Cup-bearer of the Gods:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/hebe.html
.
<< *
HEBE* was worshipped as a goddess of *
PARDONs* or forgiveness; freed
prisoners would *HANG their CHAINS* in the sacred grove of her sanctuary at Phlius.>>
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"[Shakespeare] redeemed his vices with his virtues. There
was *EVER* more in him to be praised than to be *PARDONed* ."
- _On Shakespeare_ (_De Shakespeare Nostrat_) by Ben Johnson
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. *
ST-IE* has two different definitions:
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1) *
ST-IE* : To ascend ("
to heuene?"):
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"With bolder wing shall DARE aloft to *STIE* ,
To the last praises of this Faery Queene." -- Edmund Spenser.
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"Seie thou not in thin herte, Who schal *STIE* in to heuene?"
- Romans Chapter 10, Verse 6 (1395) Wyclif:
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1) or *ST-IE* : a *PIG PEN* ..... [*PIG* : *SVS* (Latin)]:
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- - Hamlet (Quarto 2, 1604-5) Act 3, Scene 4
Hamlet: Nay but to liue In the ranck sweat of an inseemed bed
. Stewed in corruption, honying, and making loue
. *OUER the nasty STIE* .
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- - Richard the Third (Quarto 1, 1597) Act 4, Scene 5
Darbie: Sir Christapher, tell Richmond this from me,
. That in the *STIE of this most bloudie BORE*
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Horace:
"We are but *DUST and SHADOW*."
.
Benjamin Franklin:
"Write injuries in *DUST* , benefits in marble."
.
Sir Thomas Browne:
"Time which antiquates antiquities,
. and hath an Art to make *DUST* of all things."
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This most bloudie
BORE: Art Neuendorffer