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168.01of word's law, who never with humself was fed and leaves
168.01+Scott: The Patriot's Song: 'Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land! — Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand?'
168.01+Ham (Motif: Shem, Ham and Japhet) [.06] [.14]
168.02his soil to lave his head, when his hope's in his highlows from
168.02+leave
168.02+save
168.02+song My Heart's in the Highlands
168.02+phrase have one's heart in one's boots: be depressed, be disheartened, be fearful
168.02+highlows: laced boots reaching over ankles
168.03whisking his woe, if he came to my preach, a proud pursebroken
168.03+beach
168.03+song The Exile of Erin: 'Sad is my fate, said the heartbroken stranger'
168.04ranger, when the heavens were welling the spite of their spout,
168.04+Haydn: hymn The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God (from the oratorio The Creation; based on Psalms 19:1)
168.05to beg for a bite in our bark Noisdanger, would meself and Mac
168.05+phrase one's bark is worse than one's bite: one appears more intimidating than one really is
168.05+barque: a small sailing vessel (also spelled 'bark')
168.05+Noah's Ark
168.06Jeffet, four-in-hand, foot him out? — ay! — were he my own
168.06+Japhet (*Y*) [.01]
168.06+Four-In-Hand Club: a British membership club founded in 1856 (by the Duke of Beaufort) to promote the recreational driving and racing of four-in-hands (coaches drawn by four horses driven by one person)
168.07breastbrother, my doubled withd love and my singlebiassed hate,
168.07+double-breasted: of an upper-body garment, furnished with two sets of buttons and button-holes, so as to button on either side
168.07+width [.08]
168.07+biassed: of fabric, with its threads inclined to its length
168.08were we bread by the same fire and signed with the same salt,
168.08+breadth [.07]
168.08+bred
168.08+(sign, salt) [393.02]
168.08+Johann Rudolph Glauber: De signatura salium... (17th century alchemical treatise on a salt used as a universal solvent)
168.08+sired
168.09had we tapped from the same master and robbed the same till,
168.09+
168.10were we tucked in the one bed and bit by the one flea, homo-
168.10+Donne: The Flea: 'in this flea, our two bloods mingled be'
168.10+Italian galantuomo: gentleman
168.11gallant and hemycapnoise, bum and dingo, jack by churl, though
168.11+Greek hêmikapnousi: of the same family, kind or tribe
168.11+Greek kapnos: smoke
168.11+(smoking together)
168.11+American Slang bum: beggar, tramp, loafer
168.11+Australian Slang dingo: cheat, scoundrel
168.11+Obsolete jack: low bred person
168.11+nursery rhyme Jack and Jill
168.11+phrase cheek by jowl: side by side, close together
168.11+churl: rude low-bred person
168.12it broke my heart to pray it, still I'd fear I'd hate to say!
168.12+have
168.13     12. Sacer esto?
168.13+{{Synopsis: I.6.4.J: [168.13-168.14]: question and answer #12 (*C*) — his curse}}
168.13+Law of the Twelve Tables VIII.21: 'Patronus si clienti fraudem fecerit, sacer esto' (Latin 'If the patron abuses the client, let him be accursed'; originally a penalty of human sacrifice, 'sacer' came to mean a man disgraced, outlawed and deprived of goods)
168.13+Latin sacer: sacred; damned
168.14     Answer: Semus sumus!
168.14+French Sem: Shem [.01]
168.14+Latin se mussumus: we brood over ourselves, we mutter to ourselves
168.14+Latin semusti: half-burned
168.14+Latin semis: half
168.14+same (i.e. we are the same)
168.14+Latin sumus: we are


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