28-04-2021, 02:17 PM
Here is my reading and interpretation of the line following the "Hotspur" line presented above.
Thus the following is the 6th line of text up from the bottom on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. :
EVA transliteration:
[ skaiin shokal chockhy qoky chcthy ykeeshy shoekar ]
Currier transliteration:
[ 2FM ZOFAE SOX9 4OF9 SQ9 9FCCZ9 ZOCFAR ]
Yorkist cipher letter values:
" ltO thOtis YOnK hOtK YmK KteethK thOetiR "
My interpretation of this line:
" al-to siteth yong, hoting acme gatteething riteth "
[2nd, 5th, and 7th words written backwards]
Modern English translation:
" He absolutely rules young, promising at maturity he stabs the gap-toothed [Bolingbroke] "
It is and was well-known that Henry IV (Bolingbroke) had a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., including a disfiguring skin disease whose precise nature is debated by historians. He repeatedly fell gravely ill during his reign, beginning at least in 1405. Indeed this is a plot line of Shakespeare's You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., as Prince Hal prepares to succeed to the throne as Henry V as his ailing father falls ill. Thus it is no surprise that this Yorkist anti-Bolingbroke text mocks their enemy's physical appearance.
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al-to (ME) - "completely, utterly, absolutely"
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siteth (ME) 3.sg. alt.sp. of sitten - "to sit; to occupy a special seat of honour, pre-eminence, etc."
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yong (ME) - "young"
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hoting (ME) - "promise; the act of commanding"
(hoting out of contre - "banishment, exile")
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hoten (ME) - "to name; to command; to promise"
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acme (E) - "highest point; mature age"
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gat-tothed (ME) - "gap-toothed, having teeth set wide apart"
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"(c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.468 : She koude muche of wandrynge by the weye; Gat tothed [vrr. gate toþede, Gaptothe] was she soothly for to seye."
"(c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.603 : Gat [vrr. Gayte, Gad, Gap, Gapt] tothed I was, and that bicam me weel; I hadde the preente of seynt Venus seel."
te:th (ME) pl. form of to:th - "teeth"
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riteth (ME) 3.sg. alt.sp. of ritten - "cut through (armor), split; stab, pierce"
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Thus the following is the 6th line of text up from the bottom on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. :
EVA transliteration:
[ skaiin shokal chockhy qoky chcthy ykeeshy shoekar ]
Currier transliteration:
[ 2FM ZOFAE SOX9 4OF9 SQ9 9FCCZ9 ZOCFAR ]
Yorkist cipher letter values:
" ltO thOtis YOnK hOtK YmK KteethK thOetiR "
My interpretation of this line:
" al-to siteth yong, hoting acme gatteething riteth "
[2nd, 5th, and 7th words written backwards]
Modern English translation:
" He absolutely rules young, promising at maturity he stabs the gap-toothed [Bolingbroke] "
It is and was well-known that Henry IV (Bolingbroke) had a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., including a disfiguring skin disease whose precise nature is debated by historians. He repeatedly fell gravely ill during his reign, beginning at least in 1405. Indeed this is a plot line of Shakespeare's You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., as Prince Hal prepares to succeed to the throne as Henry V as his ailing father falls ill. Thus it is no surprise that this Yorkist anti-Bolingbroke text mocks their enemy's physical appearance.
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al-to (ME) - "completely, utterly, absolutely"
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siteth (ME) 3.sg. alt.sp. of sitten - "to sit; to occupy a special seat of honour, pre-eminence, etc."
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yong (ME) - "young"
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hoting (ME) - "promise; the act of commanding"
(hoting out of contre - "banishment, exile")
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hoten (ME) - "to name; to command; to promise"
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acme (E) - "highest point; mature age"
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gat-tothed (ME) - "gap-toothed, having teeth set wide apart"
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"(c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.468 : She koude muche of wandrynge by the weye; Gat tothed [vrr. gate toþede, Gaptothe] was she soothly for to seye."
"(c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.603 : Gat [vrr. Gayte, Gad, Gap, Gapt] tothed I was, and that bicam me weel; I hadde the preente of seynt Venus seel."
te:th (ME) pl. form of to:th - "teeth"
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riteth (ME) 3.sg. alt.sp. of ritten - "cut through (armor), split; stab, pierce"
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Geoffrey