Have you ever wondered what Hamlet, the analogue of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was reading when he entered the scene in Act 2, Scene 2, “reading on a
Booke”? And, what book was he reading?
Well, the answer is...
He was reading the same book and page in the book you are looking at in Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623, and he is reading about Edward de Vere’s real father -- Thomas Seymour.
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The second image (shown below) adds another circle from a line in the play on page 260 that mentions reading. The line is--
As herein are set downe.
King. It likes vs well:
And at our more consider'd time wee'l read,
Answer, and thinke vpon this Businesse.
Meane time we thanke you, for your well-tooke Labour.
The center of this new circle is centered on the word "more." Note where this new circle intersects the other circles. Also note the highlighted text at the center of the circle and indicated by the arrows pointing to locations along the circumference of the circle.
Also, a message can be read, by reading upward (i.e., backwards), on page 261. The message reads:
[“What is the matter [of this] mute and dumb...book (i.e., the First Folio)? Your Queen...told me, [so] I must tell you. This...I would faine prove so, as of a man (L. "vir", homonym of Vere) faithful and Honourable. (Edward de Vere's motto: "Vero nihil verius" ("nothing truer than truth") What do you think of me? But...All given to mine eare...As they fell out by Time, by Meanes, and Place.”]
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