(397) The multiple pen names of the "true" Shakespeare (H.W: Henry Willobie Part 6)

The metaphor of the slain deer in 

"WILLOBIE HIS AVISA" 

as well as in other literary examples (under different pseudonym "Shake-speare"1594?, "Peacham" 1612, "Wither 1635") clearly stands for the killed "majestic" genius Christopher Marlowe.

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Marlowe and the metaphor of the slain deer

          Cantus LXXXVIII (68)      Prose      +      Part2
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Henry Peachams Minerva Brittana 1612

George Withers Embl IV/ 6   1634

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In the tragic last poems (from Cantus LXVIII) of AVISA the author reveals 
in desperate frankness his fate. The poems 68-73 can only be understood
 as shocking metaphors for Marlowe's downfall.

Cantus 68 describes "metaphorically" the moment of Marlowe's life

 turning point ("the wounded deer,...deadly wounded, by fatal Hand

 & ,..but he has to "find the way to waile while life doth last."(S.Faksimile)

Cantus 69 brings it to the point: "and mark it well what they [the lines] 

shall say", [If ".... then read them all , they do but show their maisters fall").

In "The Autors Conclusion" it once again becomes evident, 

that AVISA is the authors own self: his Muse

Then blame me not, if I protest my sillie Muse shall still commend

This constant A [visa] , above the rest

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In Shakespeare's early play "→Love's Labour's Lost[LLL]"(ActIV/2-1594/95?) 

Holofernes extemporizes "an Epitaph on the death of a deer, to humour

 the ignorant(...) called the deer, the princess killed, a pricket",

(click  →Faksimile LLL, Epitaph, First Folio)

Repeatedly the concealed author has taken up the idea

 of the wounded deer under other pseudonyms such as

 Henry Peacham (1612) or George Wither (1634).

 See Faksimiles

There can be little doubt that the metaphor of the slain deer in "WILLOBIE HIS AVISA" as well as in other literary examples (under different pseudonyms "Shake-speare"1594?, "Peacham" 1612, "Wither 1635") stands for the killed "majestic" Marlowe, taking into consideration in each case the surrounding literary context.