Sonnet 37 of "Shakespeares Sonnets"

[Light-of-Truth]

http://www.light-of-truth.com/pyramid-GMT.php#Sonnet037

Yea, I know. Sonnet 36 gets all the attention. It is an important Sonnet and fairly easy to grasp for anyone peeking in the shadows. But Sonnet 37 is in my mind today.

https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/facsimile/book/UC_Q1_Son/16/?work=son&zoom=500

Sonnet 37 original text:

AS a decrepit father takes delight,
To see his actiue childe do deeds of youth,
So I , made lame by Fortunes dearest spight
Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
For whether beauty,birth,or wealth,or wit,
Or any of these all,or all,or more
Intitled in their parts,do crowned sit,
I make my loue ingrafted to this store:
So then I am not lame,poore, nor dispis'd,
Whilst that this shadow doth such substance giue,
That I in thy abundance am suffic'd,
And by a part of all thy glory liue:
   Looke what is best,that best I wish in thee,
   This wish I haue,then ten times happy me.

This Sonnet that to me was always the one that followed Sonnet 36, shares much more than 36.

This year, 2023 so far I have one new understanding about Bacon's biological father, Robert Dudley. Of course I have been familiar with the superficial ideas regarding a hotsy-totsy Elizabeth and a handsome stud Robert Dudley, but this thread reveals a lot of historical evidence and data regarding who this Elizabethan player was and what he was about. Shocking.

Sonnet 37 first 8 lines:

AS a decrepit father takes delight,
To see his actiue childe do deeds of youth,
So I , made lame by Fortunes dearest spight
Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
For whether beauty,birth,or wealth,or wit,
Or any of these all,or all,or more
Intitled in their parts,do crowned sit,
I make my loue ingrafted to this store:

Bacon knew that his father was a loser. "Decrepit" might be a perfect term.

Bacon described being made "lame" by "Fortunes dearest spight". I wonder if it was Ben Jonson that argued with Bacon as they were finishing up the Folio to NOT have them print, "Fortunes Deerest spight". LOL

Bacon had to rely on "worth" and "truth" for any comfort. I get that, what seems "fair" does not happen much, for we who pay attention to things. He was born a Prince, his mother who I do believe cared about him was an ice-cube as far as what was "Faire."

Here is a Bacon quote that is exactly as Bacon states in Sonnet 37:

“It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and see the ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth, and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.”

I get it, 100%. 🙂

For whether beauty,birth,or wealth,or wit,
Or any of these all,or all,or more

Bacon is talking with us. We know who he was and some of his life, as a few of his close friends knew 400 years ago. We hear the words of a Prince. His mother the Virgil Queen of England was possibly still alive when Bacon wrote this Sonnet. He makes an overt stab at his "decrepit" father as well.

"For whether beauty,birth,or wealth,or wit", Bacon had beauty, birth, and wit. Wealth may have eluded him.

BEAUTY BIRTH OR WEALTH OR WIT is 301 Simple cipher and 103 Short cipher using Bacon's 24 letter codes. 🙂

THREE HUNDRED ONE, as is ONE HUNDRED THREE adds up to 157 Simple and 365 Kaye cipher. 157, 287, and 365 play together. So to me 301 and 103 get my attention. Plus 103 is the Simple cipher of SHAKESPEARE.

Intitled in their parts,do crowned sit,
I make my loue ingrafted to this store:

Yes, Sir Bacon, my friend, I hear you clear as day, you are entitled to be Crowned, and I understand how you put your life into these Sonnets, "this store".

My imagination; Francis, Ben, maybe another person or two:

Ben: Hey Verlum, how about we use, "beauty,birth,or wealth,or wit" as the numbers are fun with 301 and 103. 

Francis: Love it! Plus B B O W O W is 74 Simple cipher, nails WILLIAM and TUDOR!

Ben: Just wonder if anyone will see it, Will.

Francis: We are all sworn to secrecy today, but I am thinking maybe 400 years or so from now the World may have access.

Ben: 400 years from now! Ha! Who will remember me! LOL

Francis: Benny, your name and mine may be lost in the sea one day, but Shakespeare will always be remembered.

 

 

 

 

 

[A Phoenix]

Hi Rob,

Emotional, it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.♥️♥️♥️