humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

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volker multhopp wrote HLAS:
>
> Besides the strained language, there are other oddities.
> Most striking are the weird dots between each word--
> this suggests someone is counting the words.
> Furthermore (more apparent in the original
> rather than this crude etext reproduction),
> the words are arranged in three triangles.
> Counting the lines in the triangles,
> we get a number sequence: 6, 2, 4.
> Using these number, let's now count off the words, marking
> the 6th, 2nd, and 4th words, and then repeat the process:
>
> TO THE ONLIE BEGETTOR OF
> *THESE* INSVING *SONNETS*
> Mr W H *ALL* HAPPINESSE
> AND THAT ETERNITIE
> PROMISED
> *BY*
> OVR *EVER*-LIVING POET
> WISHETH
> *THE* WELL-WISHING
> ANVENTVRER IN
> SETTING
> *FORTH*
>
> Now let's pull the marked words:
>
> *THESE SONNETS ALL BY EVER THE FORTH*
>
> Now *EVER* is a known play on *Edward de VERE*,
> the 17th earl of Oxford.
>
> What "*THE FORTH* " means is now lost to us, but perhaps because
> Oxford was "*THE FOURTH*" to use the viscount of Bulbeck's

> crest, the crest showing a lion *shaking a spear*,
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*FOURTH* =3D *ViERtE* (German)]
*FOURTH* =3D *ViERDE* (Dutch)]
*WILD BOAR* =3D *EVER* (Dutch)]
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Trap The Erymanthian *BOAR* - Hercules's *FOURTH* Labor
http://www.westnet.com/~rickd/hercules/hercules4.html
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/boar.html
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<to bring him the Erymanthian *BOAR* alive.
Now, a *BOAR* is a huge, wild pig with a bad temper,
and tusks growing out of its mouth.
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This one was called the Erymanthian *BOAR*, because it lived
on a mountain called Erymanthus. EVERy day the *BOAR*
would come crashing down from his lair on the mountain,
attacking men and animals all OVER the countryside, gouging
them with its tusks, and destroying EVERything in its path.
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It wasn't too hard for Hercules to find the *BOAR*. He could
hear the beast snorting and stomping as it rooted around
for something to eat. Hercules chased the *BOAR* round
and round the mountain, shouting as loud as he could.
The *BOAR*, frightened and out of breath, hid in a thicket.
Hercules poked his spear into the thicket and drove
the exhausted animal into a deep patch of snow.
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Then he trapped the *BOAR* in a net, and carried it all
the way to Mycenae. Eurystheus, again amazed and frightened by
the hero's powers, hid in his partly buried BRONZE JAR.>>
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SOCRATES: One, two, three; but where, my dear Timaeus,
=2E is THE *FOURTH* of those who were yesterday my guests
=2E and are to be my ENTERTAINERS today?
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Timaeus: He has been taken ill, Socrates; for he would not
=2E willingly have been absent from this gathering.
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SOCRATES: Then, if he is not coming, you
=2E and the two others must supply his place.
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William Basse (1622) _On Mr. Wm. Shakespeare,
=2E he dyed in April 1616."
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Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh
To learned Chaucer; and RARE Beaumont, lie
A little nearer Spenser; to make room
For Shakespeare in your three-fold *FOUR*-fold tomb:
To lodge all *FOUR* in one bed make a shift
Until Doomsday; for hardly will a fift,
Betwixt this day and that, by fate be slain
For whom your curtains may be drawn again.
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But if precedency in death doth bar
A *FOURTH* place in your sacred sepulchre
Under this carved marble of thine own,
Sleep, RARE tragedian, Shakspeare, sleep alone:
Thy umnolested peace, unshared CAVE,
Possess as lord, not tenant, of thy grave;
That unto us and others it may be
Honour hereafter to be laid by thee.
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http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/life.htm#Primary
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<*FOURTH* weeke" from his Epigrams in the oldest Cut, and newest
Fashion, 1599, from C. E. Hughes, The Praise of Shakespeare, 1904.
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=2E John WEEVER's _The *FOURTH* weeke_ (1599):
=2E
=2E Ad Gulielmum Shakespeare
=2E
=2E HONEY-TONGUED Shakespeare, when I saw thine issue,
=2E I swore Apollo got them and none other;
=2E Their rosy-tinted features clothed in tissue,
=2E Some heaven-born goddess said to be their mother:
=2E Rose-cheeked Adonis, with his amber tresses,
=2E Fair fire-hot Venus, charming him to love her,
=2E Chaste Lucretia, virgin-like her dresses,
=2E Proud lust-stung Tarquin, seeking still to prove her:
=2E Romeo, Richard; more whose names I know not,
=2E Their sugared tongues, and power attractive beauty
=2E Say they are saints, although that saints they show not,
=2E For thousands vow to them subjective duty :
=2E They burn in love, thy children, *Shakespeare HET them* ,
=2E Go, woo thy Muse, more Nymphish brood beget them.
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=2E Epigrammes in the oldest Cut, and newest Fashion.
=2E John WEEVER. 1599. *FOURTH* Weeke, Epig. 22.>>
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[ *HET* ], v. t. & i. To *PROMISE*. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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___ /T/ OT __ [H] EONLIEBEGE TTEROFTHESEINSVINGS
__- /O/ NN _ [E T] SMRWHALLH APPINESSEANDTHATETE
__ /R/ NI___ [T(I)E] *PROMISED*BYOVREVERLIVINGPOET
_ /W/ IS___ [H E T H] THEWELL WISHINGADVENTVRERIN
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___*FOURTH* =3D *ViERDE* (Dutch)]
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___*WORTH* : *VERDI* (Norwegian)
___*WORTH* : *V=C4RDI* (Swedish)
___*WORTH* : *V=C6RDI* (Danish)
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Epistle To The Great Variety of Readers from the First Folio, 1623
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And though you be a Magistrate of wit,
and sit on the Stage at Black-Friers, or the Cock-pit,
to arraigne Playes dailie, know, these Playes
have had their triall alreadie, and stood out all Appeales ;
and do now come *FORTH* quitted rather by a Decree of Court,
then any purchas'd Letters of commendation.
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It had bene a thing, we confesse, *WORTHIE* to have bene wished,
that the Author himselfe had liv'd to have set *FORTH*,
and OVERseen his owne writings ; - John Heminge. Henrie Condell.
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<> -- I.M.
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Wee thought thee dead, but this thy printed *WORTH* ,
Tels thy Spectators, that thou went'st but *FORTH*
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___*BOS* : *OX* (Latin)
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___*WORTH* : *VERDI* (Norwegian)
___*WORTH* : *V=C4RDI* (Swedish)
___*WORTH* : *V=C6RDI* (Danish)
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*the Battle of BOS-WORTH*
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http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/john_de_vere.htm
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<Haven and made their way toward their fateful encounter with Richard
III. There is dispute about exactly where *the Battle of BOSWORTH*
took
place, but wherever it occurred, Oxford led the vanguard of Richard
III's troops. His former friend John Howard, now the Duke of Norfolk,
led Richard III's vanguard. As reported by Polydor Vergil:
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In the meane tyme therle of *OXFOORD*, fearing lest hys men in
fyghting might be envyronyd of the multitude, commandyd in every rang
that no soldiers should go above tenfoote from the standerds; which
charge being knowen, whan all men had throng thik togethers, and stayd
a whyle from fighting, thadversaryes wer therwith aferd, supposing
soome fraude, and so they all forbore the fight a certane space,
and that veryly dyd many with right goodwill, who rather covetyd
the king dead than alyve, and therfor fowght fayntly.
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Than *therle of OXFORTH* in one part,
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and others in an other part, with the bandes of men
closse one to an other, gave freshe charge uppon thenemy, and in
array tryangle vehemently renewyd the conflict. Whyle the battayll
contynewyd thus hote on both sydes betwixt the vanwardes, king Richard
understood, first by espyalls wher erle Henry was a farre of with
smaule force of soldiers abowt him; than after drawing nerer he knew
yt perfytely by evydent signes and tokens that yt was Henry; wherfor,
all inflamyd with ire, he strick his horse with the spurres, and
runneth owt of thone syde withowt the vanwardes agaynst him. Henry
perceavyd king Richerd coome uppon him, and because all his hope was
than in valyancy of armes, he receavyd him with great corage. King
Richerd at the first brunt killyd certane, overthrew Henryes standerd,
toygther with William Brandon the standerd bearer, and matchyd also
with John Cheney a man of muche fortytude, far exceeding the common
sort, who encountered with him as he cam, but the king with great
force drove him to the ground, making way with weapon on every syde.
But yeat Henry abode the brunt longer than ever his owne soldiers wold
have wenyd, who wer now almost owt of hope of victory, whan as loe
William Stanley with thre thowsand men came to the reskew: than trewly
in a very moment the resydew all fled, and king Richerd alone was
killyd fyghting manfully in the thickkest presse of his enemyes.
In the mean time also the erle of *OXFOORD* after a lyttle
bickering put to flight them that fowght in the forward,
wherof a great company wer killed in the chase.>>
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http://www.sirbacon.org/oxfordallswell.htm
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Young Talbot, writing to his parents, says :

"My *Lo. of OXFORTH* is lately growne into great credite; for the
Q. Matie delitithe more in his parsonage, and his daunsigne, and
valientnes, then any other: I think Sussex dothe back him all he can;
if it were not for his fyckle hed he would passe any of them shortly.
My lady Burghley unwisely hathe declared herselfe, as it were,
gelious, which is come to the Quene's eare; whereat she hathe bene
not a litell offended with hir,but now she is reconsiled agayne.
At all theise love matters my Lo. Treasurer winketh,
and will not meddle anyway."
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To the memory of my beloved, - BEN: JONSON.
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And though thou hadst small Latine, and lesse Greeke,
=46rom thence to honour thee,
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*I would not seeke For names* ;
but call *FORTH* thund'ring =C6schilus,
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Euripides, and Sophocles to us,
Paccuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead,
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[T]o life againe, to heare thy Buskin tread,
[A]nd shake a stage : Or, when thy sockes were on,
[L]eave thee alone, for the comparison
[O]f all, that insolent Greece, or haughtie Rome
[S]ent *FORTH*, or since did from their ashes come.
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Triumph, my Britaine, thou hast one to showe,
[T]o whom all scenes of Europe homage owe.
[H]e was not of an age, but for all time !
[A]nd all the Muses still were in their prime,
[W]hen like Apollo he came *FORTH* to warme
Our eares, or like a Mercury to charme !
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Shine *FORTH*, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage,
Or influence, chide, or cheere the drooping Stage;
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http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/LIBELS/libel7.html
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Testimony of Roger Townsend, following an incident of Monday
18 June 1582. Previously printed by Pollen (1919), pp. 34-6.
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According to your Honors comaundementes, I have sett downe my
knowledge, & remembraunces of my speches concerning cawsis of
my Lord of *OXFORTHS* & Mr Knevetes which is as followith /
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Vppon the xviijth of Iune I was intreated by one Ihones [=3DJones] to
dyne that daye at his howse, which house before Mistris Arrunndell(24)
did kepe hir Table in, Theare to accompany sondry noblemen &
gentlemen that meant to further, & gyve Credytt & cowntenaunce
vnto his newe erected Table /

In the morning I went to my Lord of Arrundell,(25) And after I had
dispatcht my busines with hym, he asked me wheare I dyned, I answered
him, at the place above recyted / Then he tolde me that hymself was
thither bidden / Thervppon I sayd vnto hym that I wolde goe to
Westminster hall, & come backe ageyne and attende on hym to the place
wheare he dyned, which I did, And at my commyng to Arrundell house(26)
there was no bodye with hym (to my remembraunce) but his owne men /
And being readye to goe foorth, My Lord Thomas Howard and Mr Knevett
came in, and vnderstoode whither my Lord went, and did accompany hym
to the place wheare we dyned / Wheare we mett my Lord of Ormonde, &
other noblemen & gentlemen / Presentlye after dynner one of my men
came vnto me & tolde me that he heard some speech, that my Lord of
*OXFORTHS* company meant to sett vppon Mr Knevet in the Company of
whomesoever theye mett hym, or in the company of my Lord of Arrundell
& my Lord Thomas / This in effect, but the veary direct woordes I
cannot perfectly remember / I asked my man wheare he heard yt, & what
proofe he had of yt / He answeared me, He heard yt at my Lord
Willoughbies house, wheare my Lord of *OXFORTH* & my Lord Willoughbie
weare, And that some of the company had borrowed a swoorde or swoordes
of my men & a buckler, I thinkinge yt was but some rashe suspicion or
speech of some yll disposed person, willed hym to repaire thither
ageyne to bring me certen knowledge therof, And so accordinglye he
retorned to my Lord Wylloughbies house, and there stayed some while
and inquired further of the matter / In the meanetyme, being desysrous
to prevent the woorst, [+I] willed my man not to speake to any bodye
of yt, And I made choyse of my Lord of Ormonde to make hym pryvie to
the speeche I heard, hoping of his good advice and ayde to prevent
this myscheif yf there weare any intendid He answered me, He thought
the reporte was not true, But notwithstanding wished me to send one of
my men to vnderstande further of the cause / I tolde hym that I had so
done alreadye, And further I tolde hym that {I} my Lord of Arrundell
was determyned to goe presentlye to Haward House, which I did very
mych myslyke till I had heard some certeyntie, howe the company before
spoken of weare determynd, Thervppon there was some perswacion for my
Lord of Arrundell to goe to playe, who wolde not playe hym self, but
willed me to playe his mony, I answered I wolde not playe vnlesse his
Lordship stoode by / He answered me, he wolde not goe awaye vntill
such tyme as we had made an end of our playe, Our playe contynued very
litle while, and then my Lord of Arrundell sayed he wolde goe to
Haward house, for he had appoynted his officers to meete with hym
there concerning his owne busynes, I answered hym that yt weare very
good for his Lordship this after noone to talke with his Cownsell, He
answered me that he had taken order with Mr Buxton & Mr Dyx so to doe,
and wolde goe to dispatche some other busynes, I sayed to hym ageyne
that yf his Lordship wolde goe hym self to his Cownsell, His presence
wolde doe more good with them then a wikes [=3Dweek's] attendaunce of
his officers, Then he desired me to will one of his men, to cause Mr
Buxton & Mr Dix to come to hym to Arrundell house, And thervppon we
went presentlye downe the stayres to goe to the blacke ffryers, And
even at the dore my man came to me, and tolde me that he had bene at
my Lord Willoughbies, wheare my Lord of *OXFORTH* & my Lord
Willoughbie both weare, and that he did perceive there was no such
intent as was before spoken of / And so we went to the blacke ffryers,
wheare Mr Knevet (going before vs) was sett vppon / But who they were
that did it I knowe not, for I was so farre behynde as I colde not
discearne what they weare / And so I tooke boate with my Lord of
Arrundell & went to Arrundell house / Being in the boate with hym, he
asked me why I did not tell hym of that I had tolde my Lord of
Ormonde, I answered hym ageyne, I was very vnwilling to tell any body
of yt / But that I was desirous of all the quiet that might be aslonge
as he & thers weare in the company, And therfore I made choice of my
Lord of Ormonde, as a man best experienced to advise in the cause, yf
there had bene any such accon [=3Daction] in hand / He answered me
ageyne, you might very well haue made me privie, for you maye be sure,
I wolde not Ioyne with any man willingly to be partye in any
quarrell /

In the evening, fynding my Lord Wylloughbie walking in his garden, I
desired to speake with hym, So going talking with hym, I told hym,
that I thought my Lord of *OXFORTH* & he, wolde not thincke me so
Idely occupied, as that I wold Ioyne in any quarrell ageynst them /
Then he sayed to me that he did perceive there had flying tales commen
[=3Dcome] to vs, aswell as to them, for saieth he, yt was told my Lord
of *OXFORTH*, that mr Knevett with others came braving hard by the
dore here / Thervppon my Lord of *OXFORTH* hym self (and also his men)
was somwhat greived at yt, I answered my Lord I thought that was very
vntrue, for Mr Knevet was not out of my company, all the afternoone, &
before dynner, we came altogither, & went no farther then Aldersgate /
And that truly I did thincke in my conscience there was no such intent
for there was none in the company prepared to any such purpose, Truly
Cosyn Townishend (sayd my Lord Willoughbie) yf the matter had growen
to any further extremytie, I wolde have sent both to the Mayor,
& to the recorder, But whither he sayd he did send or no,
I doe not very well remember.

Endorsed: Mr Townesend declaration towching the brute geuen owt
yat ye Earl of Oxford shoold haue attempted somewhat ageinst
Mr Thomas Knyvet.
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THE CANTERBURY INTERLUDE
AND MERCHANT'S TALE OF BERYN
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/TEAMS/beryntxt.htm

The Clerk that was of *OXENFORTH* onto the Sompnore seyd,
"Me semeth of grete clerge that thow art a mayde,
For thow puttest on the Frere in maner of repreff
That he knoweth falshede, vice, and eke a theff.
And I it hold vertuouse and right commendabill,
To have verry knowlech of thinges reprovabill.
For whoso hath may eschew it and let it pas by.
And els he myghte fall thereon, unware and sodenly.
And thoughe the Frere told a tale of a sompnour,
Thowe oughtest for to take it for no dishonour,
For of all crafftes and of eche degr=E9
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pairplace2/chapter1...
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John Wycliffe
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=2E Capgrave's Chronicle (p231) for the year 1376 stated:
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In this tyme on Jon Wiclef, Maystir of *OXENFORTH* , held many
straunge opiniones:--That the Cherch of Rome is not hed of alle
Cherchis. That Petir had no more auctorite thanne the othir
Aposteles; ne the Pope no more power than anothir prest. And
that temporal lordes may take awey the godes fro the Cherch,
whan the persones trespasin.
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And that no reules mad be Augustin, Benet, and Fraunceys,
adde no more perfeccion over the Gospel
*than doth lymwhiting onto a wal* .
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And that bischoppis schuld have no prisones; and many othir thingis.
Upon these materes the Pope sent a bulle to the arbischop of
Cauntirbury and of London, that thei schuld areste the same Wiclef,
and make him to abjure these seid opiniones. And so he ded,
in the presens of the duk of Lancastir: but aftirward he erred
in these, and in mo. The same tyme thei of London wold
a killid the forseid duk, had thei not be lettid be her bischop.
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[Translation: In this time one John Wycliffe, Master of Oxford, held
many strange opinions: That the Church of Rome is not head of all
Churches. That Peter had no more authority than the other Apostles;
nor the Pope no more power than another priest. And that temporal
lords may take away the goods from the Church,
when the persons trespass.
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And that no rules made by Augustine, Benet, and Francis,
add no more perfection over the Gospel
*than does whitewashing on a wall* .
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And that bishops should have no prisons; and many other things.
Upon these matters the Pope sent an order to the archbishop of
Canterbury and of London, that they should arrest the same
Wycliffe, and make him recant these said opinions. And so he did,
in the presence of the duke of Lancaster; but afterward he erred in
these, and in more. At the same time, they of London would have
killed the foresaid duke had they not been prevented by their bishop.]
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Genesis Chapter 32, Verse 22

405 Vulgate: Cumque mature surrexisset tulit duas uxores suas et
totidem famulas cum undecim filiis et transivit vadum Iaboc

1395 Wyclif: And whanne sobirly he was arysun, he toke his two wyues,
and as feel seruauntis with elleuen sones, and he ouerpasside the
*FOoRTH* of Jaboth.
Renaissance English

1526 Tyndale: Ad rose vp the same nyghte ad toke his .ij. wyves and
his .ij. maydens and his .xi. sonnes and went ouer the *FOORDE* Iabok.

1611 King James: And he rose up that night, and took his two wives,
and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the
*FORD* Jabbok.
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<east of Jordan, into which it falls about midway between the Sea of
Galilee and the Dead Sea, or about 45 miles below the Sea of Galilee.
It rises on the eastern side of the mountains of Gilead, and runs a
course of about 65 miles in a wild and deep ravine. It was the
boundary between the territory of the Ammonites and that of Og, king
of Bashan (Josh. 12:1-5; Num. 21:24); also between the tribe of Reuben
and the half tribe of Manasseh (21:24; Deut. 3:16). In its course
westward across the plains it passes more than once underground. "The
scenery along its banks is probably the most picturesque in Palestine;
and the ruins of town and village and fortress which stud the
surrounding mountain-side render the country as interesting as it is
beautiful." This river is now called the Zerka, or blue river>>
Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
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Art Neuendorffer