17 Oct 2016

(474) George Wither [apart from Shakespeare]:The single most significant pseudonym of Christopher Marlowe (4)

George Wither was a penname [pseudonym] of Marlowe/alias Shakespeare

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Roundtext: Dum nutrio consumor
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Last 6 lines of a poem of 30 lines corresponding to this Emblem
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Roundtext: Qui me alit me extinguit.
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Last 6 lines of a Poem of 30 lines corresponding to this Emblem.
Bild Section (upper left corner) of Christopher Marlowe's Portrait

Christopher Marlowe's life Motto written on his portrait at the age of 21.

"QUOD ME NUTRIT ME DESTRUIT"

describes his dualistic Monism, how seemingly opposite or contrary opinions ("Contrarities") may actually be complentary: 
       All depends on your perspective.

In George Wither's "Emblem-Poem"-Book   Marlowe' s Motto appears almost word by word twice (Book 1 -15 and Book 2 -6 s.Faksismile)

These observations together with abundant significant contextual informations
 strongly supports the idea of a penname of George Wither  

"quite vanishing out of seeing even 
though he also enjoyed his concealed-being"...