Whats your explanation?
2 authors, George Wither and John Taylor, in the same year 1621, with the same title cover, with the same but complementary subtitle, care about the same topic ,
their name and reputation.
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1621, 2 years prior to the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio , two very similar book-titles, bestseller "Wither's Motto" and "Taylor's Motto" appeared, with
Two identical but complementary latin subtitles:
George Wither: Nec habeo, nec Careo, nec Curo ( "I have not, I want not, I care not") and
John Taylor : Et habeo, Et Careo, Et Cureo ("I have, I want, I care)
Both (putative) authors, Wither and Taylor (the waterpoet) did not mention the vivid delineations and pure confessions of his opponent author with a single word .
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Wither openly confessed :
(»when this Motto first, I did make,…that it might expresse me as I am«,
Taylor confessed ,
that he is the greatest murder alive
that doth a man of his good name deprive
To blast a good mans name with scandals breath,
makes his dishonor long survive his death
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excerpt from Taylor's Motto (1621)
»My intent was to draw the true Picture of mine own heart, …who knew me outwardly, have some representation of my inside also...«
»Heare, what I have not… I have not of my selfe, the powre or grace,
To be, or not to be; one minute-space.)
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Some additional Excerpts
»As when I dye, one promist me a Grave«. »A Grave; that quiet closet of Content«. »And I have built my selfe a Monument«), »But (as I live) excepting only this; Which of my wealth the Inventory, is«
»I care not so I still my selfe may be«), what others are, or who takes place of me«
»As when I dye, one promist me a Grave«. »A Grave; that quiet closet of Content«. »And I have built my selfe a Monument«), »But (as I live) excepting only this; Which of my wealth the Inventory, is«
(»I do not for these ayrie Titles care«), (which fooles, and knaves, as well as I may weare) or that my Name (when e're it shall be writ) should be obscur'd with twenty after it.)«
Excerpt of Taylors Motto
Taylor confessed ,
that he is the greatest murder alive
that doth a man of his good name deprive
To blast a good mans name with scandals breath,
makes his dishonor long survive his death
Be fully aware: These statements are only suitable for Marlowe!
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| The Praise of Hamp-seed 1620 |
excerpt from Taylor's Motto (1621)
Astonishingly John Taylor confessed in his book
"The Praise of Hemp-seed:(first print 1620)
"Such a Divine and Poet each state admires him,
whom they cannot imitate"
in Paper many poets now survives
or else their Lines had perished with their lives
...and Shakespeare did in art excell,
...Greene ...Silvester Beaumont, John Harrington forgetfulnesse their works would overrun
Taylor (Dec.1623) knows about deceased authors (such as Shakespeare [did in art excell], Sylvester, Beaumont, John Harrington) and about living authors ("there are living at this day"..."which do in paper their true worth Display", such as »Davies, Drayton, and the learned Dun, Jonson, and Chapman, Marston, Middleton, Rowlye [Rowley], Fletcher, Wither, Massinger, Heywood and all the rest where e'er they are«):, "...must say their lines, but for the paper sheete..", ... "had scarcley ground, wheron to set their feete.").
In plain language: almost all of the yet living authors, did not really exist but only could be read on a paper sheet (of a book), as pseudonyms.-
Both authors, Wither and Taylor, in the same year 1621, with almost the same title cover, with the same but complementary subtitle, care about the same topic , their name and reputation.-
Are we really to believe Shakespeare experts that Georg Wither and John Taylor have nothing to do with each other, both in 1621 as „complementary entities„ dealing with their losses of Reputation, Name and Identity?
"The Praise of Hemp-seed:(first print 1620)
"Such a Divine and Poet each state admires him,
whom they cannot imitate"
in Paper many poets now survives
or else their Lines had perished with their lives
...and Shakespeare did in art excell,
...Greene ...Silvester Beaumont, John Harrington forgetfulnesse their works would overrun
Taylor (Dec.1623) knows about deceased authors (such as Shakespeare [did in art excell], Sylvester, Beaumont, John Harrington) and about living authors ("there are living at this day"..."which do in paper their true worth Display", such as »Davies, Drayton, and the learned Dun, Jonson, and Chapman, Marston, Middleton, Rowlye [Rowley], Fletcher, Wither, Massinger, Heywood and all the rest where e'er they are«):, "...must say their lines, but for the paper sheete..", ... "had scarcley ground, wheron to set their feete.").
In plain language: almost all of the yet living authors, did not really exist but only could be read on a paper sheet (of a book), as pseudonyms.-
Both authors, Wither and Taylor, in the same year 1621, with almost the same title cover, with the same but complementary subtitle, care about the same topic , their name and reputation.-
Are we really to believe Shakespeare experts that Georg Wither and John Taylor have nothing to do with each other, both in 1621 as „complementary entities„ dealing with their losses of Reputation, Name and Identity?
Why no reasonable or plausible theories (such as the Marlowe-Shakespeare theory) have ever been developed for these astonishing observations?
