t lines to the three opening couplets. They are both an order and a challenge to everyone that reads them. They pretty much mean Stop! Do not hurry by. If you can, read who has been placed in this Shakespeare Monument. Since the Monument is too small to contain a body, it must be just the name of a person that has been enclosed, and of them we are asked to read. The first clue to that identity begins with the switching of a noun and its adjective. This is common in Latin, but not in English, for it changes This Shakespeare Monument to This Monument Shakespeare. This could be thought to mean the monument of someone named Shakespeare, as opposed to the monument for Shakespeare.The second clue is derived directly from what follows: With Whome, for it is Quick Nature that follows, and this can be read in Latin as: Summa Velocium Rerum. Since we are told that Quick Nature has Died and that Envious Death has placed in the Monument what we are challenged to seek, a solution to the puzzle may be sought after.One particular strategy for solving certain types of word puzzles is to construct a message that uses only the first syllable from each word in a given phrase. These, when placed together, reveal the hidden message. If we use Summa Velocium Rerum this way, we are left with Sum Ve Re, or Sum Vere, which quite literally translates to I Am Vere. Edward de Vere is a more likely candidate for the position of great author over Shakespeare in many ways. DeVere is known to have had the education, possessed the ability and experienced the same life traumas as those found in Shakespeare's plays. He also had reasons to conceal his authorship. Among many discerning scholars, he is already seen as a possible candidate for having been Shakespeare.The memorial concludes by saying: Living Art... has left A Page This subtly implies reference to the author of the inscription (the page), the person who constructed the elaborate riddle. This leads the reader ...
