Post 7 on The Murder of the Poet Christopher Marlowe; The Martin Mar-Prelate Tracts

In this post, I will continue showing evidence of hidden messages in the play As You Like It about the murder of the poet Christopher Marlowe.  In this post I am working with page 198 (of the Comedies) of the play As You Like It (the end of Act III, scene ii, and Act III, scene iii).  In the images below, I show how circles drawn with a compass indicate certain parts of the page as being important.

I used the compass setting I call the "mark upon him, two courses off" setting and the words "me" and "you" to draw the circles.  I discovered the "mark upon him, two courses off" compass setting in my work with messages on the first page of The Tempest and page 125 of Love's Labor's Lost (see chapter 8 of my book posted elsewhere on this blog).  With this compass setting I usually use the words "upon" or "him" as the pivot point of the compass.  In this case, I used the words "me" and "you" as the pivot point.  I did this because the first lines of script on the page indicate that these words are important. Here are the lines:

Orlan. Now by the faith of my loue, I will ; Tel me

where it is.

Ros. Go with me to it, and Ile shew it you: and by

the way, you shal tell me, where in the Forrest you liue:

Wil you go?

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/AYL/F1/scene/3.2  (underlining added.)

Frequently, in my word on other puzzles, I have also found that the word "me" is important.  For example, on the first page of The Tempest, I found a puzzle where the "me" in the word "roome" is used as the pivot point of a series of circles that reveal a message.  (Coincidentally [or prehaps not], the word "roome" is an anagram for "Romeo.")  As it turns out, the word "roome" appears in the puzzle on page 198 of the play As You Like It that we are working with here.

The compass settings lead, at first, to these lines of the script:

Clo. When a mans verses cannot be vnderstood, nor
a mans good wit seconded with the forward childe, vn-

derstanding: it strikes a man more dead then a great rec-
koning in a little roome: truly, I would the Gods hadde
made thee poeticall.

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/AYL/F1/scene/3.3

These lines are very famous and are generally accepted to be an allusion to the killing of the poet Christopher Marlowe in the room at Dame Eleanor Bull's victualing house during an argument over the bill (not famously known as the "Reckoning").  As I noted above, the word "roome" falls on one of the arcs drawn by the compass.

Switching the pivot point of the compass to the word "me" in "roome," and other instances of "me," the compass indicates the part of the script where Oliver Mar-text is mentioned.  Here is the text:

Clo. Well, praised be the Gods, for thy foulnesse; slut-

tishnesse may come heereafter. But be it, as it may bee,

I wil marrie thee: and to that end, I haue bin with Sir

Oliuer Mar-text, the Vicar of the next village, who hath

promis'd to meete me in this place of the Forrest, and to

couple vs.

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/AYL/F1/scene/3.3

This text is also indicated:

Enter Sir Oliuer Mar-text.

Heere comes Sir Oliuer: Sir Oliuer Mar-text you are

wel met. Will you dispatch vs heere vnder this tree, or

shal we go with you to your Chappell?

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/AYL/F1/scene/3.3

The two parts of the text about Oliver Mar-text, and other part of the text, can be used as clues for an overlay of the page.  (Also, note that the meeting with Sir Oliuer Mar-text takes place under a tree.) The following messages can be found:

MARTIN MAR-VICAR TEXT (i.e., MARTIN MAR-PRELATE TEXT)

and

MARLOWE MAR-TEXT, 

or, using some interpretative license, 

MARLOWE MAR-PRELATE TEXT

 Once the messages appear, the text takes on possible new meanings.  I believe there is still much more to be found, but this will do for now.