humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

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All righty, now we're getting into the good
parts of Nashe's Dedication to Greene's
Menaphon, one of the most

IMPORTANT PIECES OF EVIDENCE

in the Shakespeare Authorship Dispute.

Nashe wrote:

It is a common practise now a dales, amongst
a sort of shifting companions, THAT RUNNE
THROUGH EUERY ART and thriue by none.

Nashe could nevvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvver
express that

His Lordshippe The Earl of Oxenforde

had 'runne through every art and thrived by
none.'

Every Word To Or About Oxford Had To Express
His Lordshippe's Highest Perfection Or It Couldn't
Be Said At All.

That was the law.

This is the problem with Looney. He just didn't
know anything about England's transition from
feudalism to modernism except what he learned
from Sir Walter Scott, that is to say

nothin'.

For Nashe to aver (better look that word up) or
report and maintain not to speak of to affirm
and declare solemnly as true, that Oxford was
one of a group of

SHIFTY COMPANIONS

would be grounds for persecution under the
Scandalum Magnatorum.

By 'art' Nashe is not talking about l'art pour l'art,
he's referring to the components of an Arts degree
which Nashe Had and Our Poet Had Not.

This also excludes Oxford from Shakespeare
authorship as Oxford had two M.A.s which
Oxfordians wrongly claim are 'earned'. Both
of Oxford's degrees were handed out along
with a sucker when as a child he passed by
Oxford and Cambridge.


Jonson echoes Nashe in his slam on 'Shake-
speare' in which he puts 'Shakespeare' on
his lathe and turns him with it, and has 'Shake=
speare' file his own lines (the trope is arts =
artisan in Jonson's insecure world).

When could Jonson write such low class gibber
about his Highest Lordshippe In England?

Never, he'd be sitting in the ante room of the Star
Chamber listening to Nashe scream whilst awaiting
his turn with the surgeon. This was Feudal England,
they were still cutting off poet's' body parts.

So Nashe, one of our two Primary Witnesses,
is telling us that we have a 'Shakespeare' who
'ran through every art' that is the triviums and
quadrifum and still did not 'thrive.'

Again, of the authorship disputants, that can
only describe Bacon who 'ran through every art'
at Cambridge but dropped out in his third year
and thereby 'thrived by none.'

Why did Bacon not 'thrive?'

Because his Latine was small and his Greek even
lesse.

I think Bacon left because he knew he wasn't
going to be able to pass final exams. Greek was
a requirement, the Greek classes were taught in
Latin, ouch.

In M.E. usually with sense of "skill in scholarship
and learning" (c.1305), especially in the seven
sciences, or liberal arts (divided into the trivium:
grammar, logic, rhetoric -- and the quadrivium --
arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy). This
sense remains in Bachelor of Arts, etc.

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