In this post, I will show some additional Rosicrucian/Masonic messages, or oddities, on pages 52 and 53 of the Histories, Henry IV, Part I, in Shakespeare's First Folio (1623).
I am unsure what other significance there may be as to how the line falls across pages 52 and 53, other than the fact that it crosses the word "Rose" on page 52, and where it starts and ends.
The next hidden message I will discuss involves an interpretation of two sections of text in Henry IV, Part I, that I believe are related for the purpose of revealing a hidden message.
The first section of text is in the left-hand column on page 52 of the Histories, Henry IV, Part I. Part of the text falls within the “Rose crosse” and “shooke Spear” messages, which were shown in my last post. In the following lines, Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, begins to try to reveal a plan to Henry Percy, nicknamed “Hotspur.” However, Hotspur immediately becomes carried away with ideas and interrupts.
Now to unravel the text. Worcester begins by stating that he wants to reveal or “unclasp,” a plan that he refers to as “secret book.” He states that the plan is as “deep and dangerous” as crossing a roaring current of water on the unsteady footing of a spear. Hotspur then interrupts and says, “Send danger from the East unto the West, / So Honor crosse it from the North to South, / And let them grapple…”
In the second section of text from page 61 of Henry IV, Part I, Hotspur reveals his plan to alter the course of the River Trent, by making it run “fair and evenly,” so that he gains more land north of the river.[1]
As I have stated, I believe the two sections of text shown above are related. The River Trent is known for dramatic flooding after storms and spring snowmelt. Thus, the Trent fits the allusion to a “deep and dangerous” roaring current of water. The Trent is also the historic boundary between northern and southern England. Therefore, the Trent is a major river that flows west to east and forms a north-south border, which fits the lines “Send danger from the East vnto the West.” The lines which follow, “So Honor crosse it from the North to South, / And let them grapple…” is the key to the message.
The word “Honor,” with its capital H, is portrayed as crossing the word Trent, with its capital T. In other words, the capital T and the H are meant to cross, or "grapple" with, each another. The letters T and H are associated with Tyre and Hiram Abif, and Templum Hierosolym, and the Triple Tau. Furthermore, Alexander Waugh has shown that the Triple Tau and the number 1740 are associated with Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. If the capital R from River Trent is added to the Triple Tau, the message is --
In addition, I have no doubt that Francis Bacon was involved in all this too.
The first image shows a line drawn along the hypotenuse of the 3-4-5 right triangle that marks out the "rose crosse" message on page 53 of Henry IV, Part I. When the line is extended to page 52, it crosses the word "Rose" in at the top of the 3-4-5 right triangle that highlights the "Rose crosse" message on page 52.
I am unsure what other significance there may be as to how the line falls across pages 52 and 53, other than the fact that it crosses the word "Rose" on page 52, and where it starts and ends.
The next hidden message I will discuss involves an interpretation of two sections of text in Henry IV, Part I, that I believe are related for the purpose of revealing a hidden message.
The first section of text is in the left-hand column on page 52 of the Histories, Henry IV, Part I. Part of the text falls within the “Rose crosse” and “shooke Spear” messages, which were shown in my last post. In the following lines, Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, begins to try to reveal a plan to Henry Percy, nicknamed “Hotspur.” However, Hotspur immediately becomes carried away with ideas and interrupts.
Wor. Peace Cousin, say no more.
And now I will vnclaspe a Secret booke,
And to your quicke conceyuing Discontents,
Ile reade you Matter, deepe and dangerous,
As to o're-walke a Current, roaring loud
On the vnstedfast footing of a Speare.
Hot. If he fall in, good night, or sinke
or swimme:
Send danger from the East vnto the West,
So Honor crosse it from the North to South,
And let them grapple: The blood more stirres
To rowze a Lyon, then to start a Hare.
Nor. Imagination of some great exploit,
Driues him beyond the bounds of Patience.
Hot. By heauen, me thinkes it were an easie
leap,
To plucke bright Honor from the pale-fac'd Moone,
Or diue into the bottome of the deepe,
Where Fadome-line could neuer touch the ground,
And plucke vp drowned Honor by the Lockes:
So he that doth redeeme her thence, might weare
Without Co-riuall, all her Dignities:
But out vpon this halfe-fac'd Fellowship.
Wor. He apprehends a World of Figures here,
But not the forme of what he should attend:
Good Cousin giue me audience for a-while,
And list to me.
I believe that the following lines from the left-hand column of page 61 of the Histories, Henry IV, Part I, are related to the text shown above. These lines appear after Hotspur, Glendower, Mortimer, and Worcester have agreed to a future tripartite division of land between themselves. Hotspur’s share of the division is land north of the river Trent. In the following lines, Hotspur proposes altering the winding west to east course of the river so that he has a greater share of land.
Hotsp. Me thinks my Moity, North from Burton here,
In quantitie equals not one of yours:
See, how this Riuer comes me cranking in,
And cuts me from the best of all my Land,
A huge halfe Moone, a monstrous Cantle
out.
Ile haue the Currant in this place damn'd
vp,
And here the smug and Siluer Trent shall
runne,
In a new Channell, faire and euenly:
It shall not winde with such a deepe indent,
To rob me of so rich a Bottome here.
Glend. Not winde? it shall, it must,
you see it doth.
Mort. Yea, but marke how he beares his course,
And runnes me vp, with like aduantage on the
other side,
Gelding the opposed Continent as much,
As on the other side it takes from you.
Worc. Yea, but a little Charge will trench him
here,
And on this North side winne this
Cape of Land,
And then he runnes straight and euen.
Hotsp. Ile haue it so, a little Charge will
doe it.
Glend. Ile not haue it alter'd.
Hotsp. Will not you?
Glend. No,
nor you shall not.
Hotsp. Who shall say me nay?
Glend. Why, that will I.
Hotsp. Let me not vnderstand you then, speake
it in
Welsh.
Glend. I
can speake English, Lord, as well as you:
For I was trayn'd vp in the English Court;
Where, being but young, I framed to the Harpe
Many an English Dittie, louely well,
And gaue the Tongue a helpefull Ornament;
A Vertue that was neuer seene in you.
Hotsp. Marry, and I am glad of it with all my
heart,
I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew,
Then one of these same Meeter
Ballad-mongers:
I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd,
Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree,
And that would set my teeth nothing an
edge,
Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie;
'Tis like the forc't gate of a shuffling
Nagge.
Glend. Come, you shall haue Trent turn'd.
Hotsp. I
doe not care: Ile giue thrice so much Land
To any well-deseruing friend;
But in the way of Bargaine, marke ye me,
Ile cauill on the ninth part of a hayre.
Are the Indentures drawne? shall we be
gone?
In each excerpt shown above, words common to both are shown highlighted in red. In addition, two words – hare and hair (hayre) – that are homophones are shown. It is quite commonplace for words and images to be repeatedly used to form themes.Now to unravel the text. Worcester begins by stating that he wants to reveal or “unclasp,” a plan that he refers to as “secret book.” He states that the plan is as “deep and dangerous” as crossing a roaring current of water on the unsteady footing of a spear. Hotspur then interrupts and says, “Send danger from the East unto the West, / So Honor crosse it from the North to South, / And let them grapple…”
In the second section of text from page 61 of Henry IV, Part I, Hotspur reveals his plan to alter the course of the River Trent, by making it run “fair and evenly,” so that he gains more land north of the river.[1]
As I have stated, I believe the two sections of text shown above are related. The River Trent is known for dramatic flooding after storms and spring snowmelt. Thus, the Trent fits the allusion to a “deep and dangerous” roaring current of water. The Trent is also the historic boundary between northern and southern England. Therefore, the Trent is a major river that flows west to east and forms a north-south border, which fits the lines “Send danger from the East vnto the West.” The lines which follow, “So Honor crosse it from the North to South, / And let them grapple…” is the key to the message.
The word “Honor,” with its capital H, is portrayed as crossing the word Trent, with its capital T. In other words, the capital T and the H are meant to cross, or "grapple" with, each another. The letters T and H are associated with Tyre and Hiram Abif, and Templum Hierosolym, and the Triple Tau. Furthermore, Alexander Waugh has shown that the Triple Tau and the number 1740 are associated with Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. If the capital R from River Trent is added to the Triple Tau, the message is --
In addition, I have no doubt that Francis Bacon was involved in all this too.
[1] This section of the play
is believed to refer to a quarrel that took place in 1592 between Sir Thomas Stanhope
and Gilbert Talbot, 17th Earl of Shrewsbury, over the course of the two Trent River channels at Shelford
(in the Burton Joyce and Shelford part of the river). In the 1590’s the Trent ran in two channels at
Shelford and Stanhope had erected a weir in the northern channel to create a dam
to provide power for his corn mills. The
locks created on the river are apparently the oldest known on the Trent. Shrewsbury won the dispute and decided to “finish
off Stanhope and his weir in a carefully planned commando operation just before
Easter 1593”--
“Twelve of Shrewsbury’s henchmen erected on his own ground at one end of
the weir a prefabricated ‘timber house in manner of a fort’, which they manned
and equipped with armour and weapons so as to cover the building of a trench 60
yards long to divert the Trent and render the weir useless.”
https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/stanhope-sir-thomas-1540-96;
see also http://www.bobrobertsonline.co.uk/the-ultimate-trent-guide/
