BEN JONSON (1572 – 1637)

Inquiry:  Did Ben Jonson insert CODES within any of his plaintexts?:

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Intelligent Design, or Random Occurrence?:

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   Is the “NOS” (“SON”) a direct statement that Jonson is saying that he and John BENSON are one and the same?

Or this:  

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Or this:

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Is this a reference to Henry (Wriothesley) and/or Edward de Vere?  (Fig. 5 below):

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Another version of “On my First Sonne”, with the following word-changes:

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Fig. 7:      Remarkable resiliency . . . 

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   Two versions of the same Epigram, yet the letter-strings survive.  Is this coincidence, or is someone (or another/others) manipulating the plaintexts so that the ciphertexts remain relatively intact with regard to coded content?  In short, is this random occurrence, or is it the result of intelligent manipulation?

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