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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Moreau
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<Symbolist painter. He was born and died in Paris.

*MOREAU's* main focus was the illustration of biblical and
mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas rather than
visual images, he appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist
writers and artists, who saw him as a precursor to their movement.

His father, Louis Jean Marie *MOREAU*, was an architect, who
recognized his talent. His mother was Adele Pauline des Moutiers.
*MOREAU* studied under Fran=E7ois-=C9douard Picot and Th=E9odore Chass=E9ria=
u,
with whom he may have become lovers[citation needed]; *MOREAU* also
carried on a deeply personal 25-year relationship, possibly romantic,
with Adelaide-Alexandrine Dureux, a woman whom he drew several times.
[1] His first painting was a Piet=E0 which is now located in the
cathedral at Angoul=EAme. He showed A Scene from the Song of Songs and
The Death of Darius in the Salon of 1853. In 1853 he contributed
Athenians with the Minotaur and Moses Putting Off his Sandals within
Sight of the Promised Land to the Great Exhibition.

Oedipus and the Sphinx, one of his first symbolist paintings, was
exhibited at the Salon of 1864. Over his lifetime, he produced over
8,000 paintings, watercolors and drawings, many of which are on
display in Paris' Mus=E9e national Gustave *MOREAU* at 14, rue de la
Rochefoucauld (IXe arrondissement). The museum is in his former
workshop, and was opened to the public in 1903.

He had become a professor at Paris' =C9cole des Beaux-Arts in 1891 and
had counted among his many students the fauvist painters, Henri
Matisse and Georges Rouault.

*MOREAU* is buried in Paris' Cimeti=E8re de Montmartre.

In Alan Moore's graphic novel, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,
it is implied that he was a nephew of Doctor *MOREAU*, and he based a
few of his paintings on the Doctor's creations.>>
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___ *MOREAU* : *BLACK HORSE* (French)
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REVElation 6:5 And when he had opened the third seal,
I heard the third beast say, Come and see.
And I beheld, and lo a *BLACK HORSE* ;
and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
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Edward de Vere: born on 12 Apr, 1550, at Castle Hedingham in Essex.
Son of John
De Vere, 16=BA Earl of Oxford, and his second wife, Margery Golding.
Margery,
Oxford's mother, remarried to Charles *TYRRELL* by 1566. Oxford was on
friendly
terms with *TYRRELL* , as revealed by Tyrrell's will. Oxford had
given him a
*BLACK HORSE* , and in his will *TYRRELL* granted him the return of
his horse.>>

http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/EdwardDeVere(17EOxford).htm
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=2E *REID* Rune number: 5 Colour: *BLACK* Sound: R
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<< *REID* is a symbol of a journey on *HORSEBACK* which in turn is
an image for a ride into the underworld. It is a universal technique
for shamans entering to world of the dead to ride on an animal.
Odin rode Sleipnir, his eight-legged HORSE - which can be likened
to *FOUR men carrying a coffin* . The rune is used in invoking the
dead and is also linked with the CHARIOT god, Thor. The rune is
a symbol of change in the self, new ideas, new ways of life.
In all religions death is a symbol of coming renewal.>>
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=2E Sleipnir: *FOUR men carrying a coffin*
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=2E Fortinbras: *Let foure Captaines*
=2E *Beare Hamlet like a souldier to the stage*
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Which reminds me, Peter, that you have never visited
Hamlet/Oxford/Shakespeare's tomb in Westminster for me:
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http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/Images/vere01.JPG
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/search/12203?query=3Dvere&x=3D10&y=3D14
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Sir *FRANCIS* Vere (1560-1609)
& his brother *HORACE* (1565-1635) are buried
in the chapel of *St John the Evangelist* in the Abbey.
Francis has a large monument of alabaster and black marble
showing him lying on a carved rush mattress in civilian
dress under a slab on which is laid out his suit of armour.
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The slab [i.e., *DECK* ]is supported on the shoulders of
four life-sized knights in armour who kneel at each corner.
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=2E Hamlet (Quarto 2, 1604-5) Act 1 Scene 1
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*FRANCISCO* : stand ho, who is there?
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*HORATIO* : Friends to this ground.
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Richard the Third (Quarto 1, 1597) Act 4, Scene 2
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/R3/Q1/Scene/4.3
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Enter *SIR FRANCIS TIRRELL*
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Tyr. : The tyrranous and bloudie deed is done,
The most arch-act of pitteous massacre,
That euer yet this land was guiltie of,
Dighton and Forrest whom I did suborne,
To do this ruthles peece of butcherie,
Although they were flesht villains, bloudie dogs,
Melting with tendernes and kind compassion,
Wept like two children in their deaths sad stories:
Lo thus quoth Dighton laie those tender babes,
Thus thus quoth Forrest girdling on another,
Within their innocent alablaster armes,
Their lips were foure red Roses on a stalke,
Which in their summer beautie kist each other,
A booke of praiers on their pillow laie,
Which once quoth Forrest almost changd my mind,
But ^o the Diuell their the villaine stopt,
Whilst Dighton thus told on we smothered
The most replenished sweet worke of nature,
That from the prime creation euer he framed,
Thus both are gone with conscience and remorse,
They could not speake and so I left them both,
To bring this tidings to the bloudie king.
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Enter Ki. Richard.
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And HERE HE COMES, all haile my soueraigne leige.
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King. : Kind Tirrell am I happie in thy newes.
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Tyr. : If to haue done the thing you giue in charge,
Beget your happinesse, be happie then
For it is done my Lord.
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King. : But didst thou see them dead?
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Tir. : I did my Lord.
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King. : And buried gentle Tirrell?
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Tir.: The Chaplaine of the tower hath buried them,
But how or in what place I do not know.
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Tir. : Come to me Tirrel soone at after supper,
And thou shalt tell the processe of their death,
Meane time but thinke how I may do thee good.
And be inheritor of thy desire,
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Exit Tirrel.
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Art Neuendorffer