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277.01King.1 His sevencoloured's soot (Ochone!
–277.01+[085.23]
–277.01+suit [276.27]
–277.01+Anglo-Irish ochone: Irish ochón: alas
277.02Ochonal!)2 and his imponence one heap lump-
–277.02+Daniel O'Connell
–277.02+imponent: that imposes
–277.02+impotence
–277.02+lampblack: a black pigment or ink made from burnt soot [114.10-.11]
–277.02+humpback
277.03block (Mogoul!). And rivers burst out like
–277.03+MacCool: Finn's patronymic
–277.03+VI.B.14.176b (o): 'rivers break forth for joy, at funeral'
–277.03+O'Grady: Selected Essays and Passages 65: 'The more common mode of representing the breaking forth of rivers and lakes is, that at the burial of him or her whose name it happened to bear, the water burst forth... The hero, or heroine, so connected with the lake or river, became its genius or water-sprite... Sometimes lakes and rivers are represented as having burst forth for joy'
277.04weeming racesround joydrinks for the fewnral-
–277.04+Colloquial wee: to urinate
–277.04+women
–277.04+Latin mingere: to urinate
–277.04+funeral
–277.04+rally
277.05ly,3 where every feaster's a foster's other, fian-
–277.05+foster-brother
–277.05+Fianna: Finn's warrior band
277.06nians all.4 The wellingbreast, he willing giant,
–277.06+welling breast
–277.06+Wellington
–277.06+(her) [.07]
277.07the mountain mourning his duggedy dew. To
–277.07+Mourne Mountains, County Down
–277.07+(river flows from mountain)
–277.07+morning dew
277.08obedient of civicity in urbanious at felicity
–277.08+Latin Obedientia Civium Urbis Felicitas: Citizens' Obedience is City's Happiness (Motif: Dublin motto)
277.09what'll yet meek Mike5 our diputy mimber when
–277.09+meet
–277.09+make
–277.09+deputy member
–277.09+member: a euphemism for penis
–277.09+Document No. 1: the 1922 Anglo-Irish Treaty (a term used by De Valera's followers, as opposed to his proposed alternative, Document No. 2)
277.10he's head on poll and Peter's burgess and Miss
–277.10+ahead on the poll: leading in the counting of election votes
–277.10+Archaic poll: the nape of the neck (Dialect head)
–277.10+Slang pole: penis
–277.10+Motif: Paul/Peter
–277.10+Motif: mishemishe/tauftauf
277.11Mishy Mushy is tiptupt by Toft Taft. Boblesse
–277.11+Colloquial tip-top: excellent
–277.11+tipped up
–277.11+French phrase noblesse oblige: high status comes with social and moral responsibilities, especially towards those less fortunate (literally 'nobility requires')
277.12gobleege. For as Anna was at the beginning
–277.12+hymn Glory Be: 'As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be' (Genesis 1:1, John 1:1: 'In the beginning')
–277.12+was, lives yet, will return (Motif: tenses)
277.13lives yet and will return after great deap sleap
–277.13+deep sleep
–277.13+leap
277.14rerising and a white night high with a cows of
–277.14+high white night [501.28]
–277.14+French nuit blanche: sleepless night (literally 'white night')
–277.14+The White Knight: character in Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass
277.15Drommhiem as shower as there's a wet en-
–277.15+Danish drømme: dream
–277.15+Irish druimin: a white-backed crow
–277.15+Danish hjem: home
–277.15+sure
–277.15+included
277.16clouded in Westwicklow or a little black rose a
–277.16+Liffey flows from West Wicklow
–277.16+J.C. Mangan: song Dark Rosaleen (adapted from the 16th century Irish song Róisín Dubh (literally 'Little Black Rose'); Anglo-Irish Dark Rosaleen: Ireland (poetic))
277.17truant in a thorntree. We drames our dreams
–277.17+Motif: Teems of times and happy returns, the seim anew, ordovico or viricordo [.17-.20]
–277.17+dream our dreams
–277.17+French drames: plays
277.18tell Bappy returns. And Sein annews. We will
–277.18+till
–277.18+Childish pappy: father
–277.18+Hindustani bap: father
–277.18+German Sein: being
–277.18+Czech sen: Polish sen: dream
–277.18+Motif: new/same
–277.18+Malory: 'Some men say yet that King Arthur is not dead... I will not say it shall not be so' (King Arthur)
277.19not say it shall not be, this passing of order and
–277.19+Latin alter... alter: the one... the other
–277.19+passing of Arthur and Arthur's coming (King Arthur) [361.03] [594.02]
277.20order's coming, but in the herbest country and
–277.20+Layamon: Brut: 'ever yet the Britons look for Arthur's coming' (King Arthur) [.22]
–277.20+German herb: austere
–277.20+German Herbst: autumn, harvest
277.21in the country around Blath as in that city self
–277.21+King Arthur's last battle against the Saxons took place 'in the country around Bath'
–277.21+Irish blath: flower
–277.21+Irish Baile Átha Cliath: Town of the Ford of the Hurdles (the Irish name of Dublin)
–277.21+Castra Legionum: Roman fortress at Caerleon-upon-Usk (Latin City of the Legions; site of King Arthur's court)
277.22of legionds they look for its being ever yet. So
–277.22+Layamon: Brut: 'ever yet the Britons look for Arthur's coming' (King Arthur) [.20]
277.23shuttle the pipers done.6 Eric aboy!7 And it's
–277.23+down
–277.23+eric: blood fine for the murder of an Irishman
–277.23+Anglo-Irish Erin: Ireland
–277.23+Irish Éire abú: Ireland to victory! (slogan)
277.24time that all paid tribute to this massive mor-
–277.24+(rhythm of song Phil the Fluter's Ball: 'Then all joined in wid the greatest joviality, Covering the buckle, and the shuffle and the cut, Jigs were danced, of the very finest quality, But the widda' bet the company at "handling the fut"') [277.24-278.03]
277.25tiality, the pink of punk perfection as photo-
–277.25+Motif: alliteration (p)
–277.25+Colloquial the pink: the most perfect degree, the acme (of something)
–277.25+(photography and mud) [111.34-.35]
277.26graphy in mud. Some may seek to dodge the
–277.26+VI.B.3.048b (o): 'Ruminants dodge gobbet R & L'
–277.26+phrase dodge the column: evade one's responsibilities
277.F01     1 I wonder if I put the old buzzerd one night to suckle in Millickmaam's
–277.F01+buzzer (bee)
–277.F01+Exodus 3:8: (of the promised land) 'a land flowing with milk and honey' (a common biblical phrase)
–277.F01+[085.23]
277.F02honey like they use to emballem some of the special popes with a book in his
–277.F02+VI.B.14.150l (o): 'embalmed in honey'
–277.F02+French emballer: to pack up
277.F03hand and his mouth open.
–277.F03+
277.F04     2 And a ripping rude rape in his lucreasious togery.
–277.F04+William Shakespeare: other works: The Rape of Lucrece
–277.F04+Lucretius: 1st century BC Roman poet and philosopher
–277.F04+toga
–277.F04+Slang toggery: clothes
277.F05     3 Will ye nought would wet your weapons, warriors bard?
–277.F05+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song The Minstrel Boy: 'warrior-bard'
–277.F05+bold
277.F06     4 Roe, Williams, Bewey, Greene, Gorham, McEndicoth and Vyler, the
–277.F06+Motif: 7 colours of rainbow
–277.F06+Anglo-Irish roe: red
–277.F06+William III of Orange (orange)
–277.F06+Irish buidhe: yellow
–277.F06+green
–277.F06+Irish gorm: blue
–277.F06+indigo
–277.F06+violet
277.F07lays of ancient homes.
–277.F07+Macaulay: Lays of Ancient Rome
277.F08     5 The stanidsglass effect, you could sugerly swear buttermilt would not
–277.F08+Stanislaus Joyce
–277.F08+[463.14]
–277.F08+VI.B.14.216j (o): 'Stained glass effect *V*'
–277.F08+surely
–277.F08+VI.B.14.220a (o): 'butter won't melt in's breeches'
–277.F08+phrase butter wouldn't melt in his mouth: appearing to be innocent and sincere (implying the opposite)
–277.F08+buttermilk
–277.F08+milt: fish semen
277.F09melt down his dripping ducks.
–277.F09+duck trousers
–277.F09+Motif: mixed gender (his dripping dugs)
–277.F09+dugs: udders, teats (Slang breasts, nipples)
277.F10     6 Thickathigh and Thinathews with sant their dam.
–277.F10+thick of thigh and thin of thews
–277.F10+phrase through thick and thin: in both good and bad times, under all circumstances
–277.F10+Irish tuigeann tú?: do you understand? [129.33-.34]
–277.F10+thews: muscular features, might, vigour, muscles
–277.F10+Italian sant: saint
–277.F10+VI.B.14.150h (r): '*A* dams'
277.F11     7 Oh, could we do with this waddled of ours like that redbanked profanian
–277.F11+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song Oh, Could We Do with This World of Ours [air: Basket of Oysters]
–277.F11+Red Bank oyster restaurant, Dublin
–277.F11+Fenians: a term applied to Irish revolutionary brotherhoods of the 19th and 20th centuries (in Ireland, United States, and elsewhere), but also sometimes erroneously applied to the Fianna, Finn's warrior band
277.F12with his bakset of yosters.
–277.F12+oysters
277.L01Why so mucky
–277.L01+Dialect muckle: great, large; much
277.L02spick bridges
–277.L02+phrase spick and span: very neat
277.L03span our Flumi-
–277.L03+Latin flumen: river
–277.L03+Flaminian Way leads north from Rome
277.L04nian road.
–277.L04+
277.L05P.C. Helmut's in
–277.L05+(helmet resembles mountain) [.06]
277.L06the cottonwood,
–277.L06+Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn 12: 'cottonwood'
277.L07listnin.
–277.L07+
277.L08The throne is an
–277.L08+(pretentions to importance)
277.L09umbrella strande
–277.L09+stand
277.L10and a sceptre's a
–277.L10+
277.L11stick.
–277.L11+
277.L12Jady jewel, our
–277.L12+Hindustani jaj: judge
–277.L12+lady
277.L13daktar deer.
–277.L13+Hindustani daktar: doctor
–277.L13+daughter dear
277.L14Gautamed bud-
–277.L14+Gautama Buddha
–277.L14+goddamned butter
–277.L14+tamed
277.L15ders deossiphys-
–277.L15+deossifying
–277.L15+theosophy: mystical doctrine in vogue in the late 19th century
277.L16ing our Theas.
–277.L16+Greek thea: goddess
–277.L16+tea
–277.L16+cheese [161.12]
277.L17By lineal in pon-
–277.L17+Latin pondus: weight
277.L18dus overthepoise.
–277.L18+avoirdupois: the standard pre-metric British system of weights (pounds, ounces, etc.)


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