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385.01cuddling and kiddling her, after an oyster supper in Cullen's barn,
385.01+(oysters said to increase sexual potency and libido)
385.01+Boucicault: The Colleen Bawn (Anglo-Irish colleen bawn: fair-haired girl, pretty young woman, darling girl) [384.21] [.08]
385.01+Dolphin's Barn, Dublin
385.02from under her mistlethrush and kissing and listening, in the good
385.02+under the mistletoe (kissing custom)
385.02+VI.B.2.073h (g): 'good old days' ('days' replaces a cancelled 'times')
385.02+Jespersen: Language, its Nature, Development and Origin 320 (XVII.2): 'people have always had a tendency to believe in a golden age, that is, in a remote past gloriously different to the miserable present. Why not, then, have the same belief with regard to language, the more so because one cannot fail to notice things in contemporary speech which (superficially at any rate) look like corruptions of the 'good old' forms?'
385.03old bygone days of Dion Boucicault, the elder, in Arrah-na-
385.03+in Boucicault: Arrah-na-Pogue, Arrah's foster-brother had previously escaped from prison with the help of a message she had passed to him in a kiss (Anglo-Irish pogue: kiss) [384.33-385.05]
385.03+VI.B.2.148c (b): 'the elder'
385.03+Cicero: all works: Cato Maior De Senectute (Latin 'Cato the Elder on Old Age')
385.04pogue, in the otherworld of the passing of the key of Two-
385.04+underworld
385.04+Tooting Common, London
385.04+Tut-ankh-amen
385.05tongue Common, with Nush, the carrier of the word, and with
385.05+Shaun (Motif: anagram, nearly; Motif: Shem/Shaun) [.06]
385.05+carrier of letters (Shaun the Post: driver of the mail car (i.e. postman) in Boucicault: Arrah-na-Pogue; Shaun the Post) [384.33-385.05]
385.05+(Motif: pen/post) [.06]
385.06Mesh, the cutter of the reed, in one of the farback, pitchblack
385.06+Shem (Motif: anagram) [.05]
385.06+in Budge: The Book of the Dead, Thoth holds the reed pen
385.06+VI.B.1.114h (r): 'dark ages'
385.07centuries when who made the world, when they knew O'Clery,
385.07+first question of Catechism: 'Who made the world?'
385.07+O'Clery: surname of two of the major compilers of Annals of the Four Masters (*X*)
385.08the man on the door, when they were all four collegians on the
385.08+doorman
385.08+Gerald Griffin: The Collegians (the Irish novel that formed the source for Boucicault: The Colleen Bawn) [.01]
385.08+(poor students)
385.08+Colloquial on the nod: on credit
385.09nod, neer the Nodderlands Nurskery, whiteboys and oakboys,
385.09+Dutch neer: down
385.09+land of Nod
385.09+Dutch Nederlands: Dutch; Dutch language
385.09+Norwegian Norsk: Norwegian; Norwegian language
385.09+Whiteboys: 18th century Irish insurrectionists, dressed in white smocks
385.09+Oakboys: Irish insurrectionists of 1763
385.10peep of tim boys and piping tom boys, raising hell while the sin
385.10+Peep of Day Boys: Irish Protestant group, 1784-95
385.10+Motif: Tom/Tim
385.10+song Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
385.10+Peeping Tom (spied on Lady Godiva)
385.10+proverb Make hay while the sun shines: make the most of a favourable situation while it lasts
385.11was shining, with their slates and satchels, playing Florian's fables
385.11+Jean-Pierre Clovis de Florian: fabulist
385.11+VI.B.1.115g (r): 'fable'
385.12and communic suctions and vellicar frictions with mixum mem-
385.12+conic sections (mathematics)
385.12+Archaic vellicate: to tickle, irritate
385.12+vulgar fractions
385.13bers, in the Queen's Ultonian colleges, along with another fellow,
385.13+Queen's College, Belfast
385.13+Queen's Theatre, Dublin (repertoire at the turn of the century included Boucicault: Arrah-na-Pogue) [388.26]
385.13+VI.B.1.042f (r): 'Ultonian' [387.18] [390.04] [392.04]
385.13+Ultonian: of Ulster (from Latin Ultonia: Ulster)
385.13+the four's ass
385.14a prime number, Totius Quotius, and paying a pot of tribluts
385.14+Latin toties quoties: as often as the occasion arises
385.14+tributes
385.14+German Blut: blood
385.15to Boris O'Brien, the buttler of Clumpthump, two looves, two
385.15+Brian Boru, the battler of Clontarf (Brian Boru's name has been etymologised as 'Brian of the Tributes'; he defeated the Danes at the Battle of Clontarf, 1014)
385.15+butler
385.15+loaves
385.15+French livre: pound (currency)
385.16turnovers plus (one) crown, to see the mad dane ating his
385.16+Anglo-Irish turnover: a bread loaf shaped somewhat like a boot
385.16+crown: five shillings, sixty pence
385.16+mad dean (Swift)
385.16+eating his victuals
385.17vitals. Wulf! Wulf! And throwing his tongue in the snakepit. Ah
385.17+vittles
385.17+Ragnar Lodbrok, Viking, cast into snakepit, saved by thickness of his pants
385.17+American Slang snakepit: madhouse
385.17+Motif: Ah, ho!
385.18ho! The ladies have mercias! It brought the dear prehistoric
385.18+phrase Lord have mercy! (exclamation of frustration; from prayer Lord, have mercy (Greek Kyrie eleison))
385.18+Italian merciaio: haberdasher, draper
385.18+VI.B.1.107h (r): 'prehistoric'
385.19scenes all back again, as fresh as of yore, Matt and Marcus, natu-
385.19+VI.B.1.135d (r): 'cold back again'
385.20ral born lovers of nature, in all her moves and senses, and after
385.20+VI.B.3.124d (r): '(Is) love of nature'
385.20+Mordell: The Erotic Motive in Literature 164: 'Critics have refused to see the exact meaning of the expression "love of nature." The poets themselves have told us that they saw in nature lessons of moral improvement and inspirations for humanitarianism'
385.20+moods and tenses (grammar)
385.21that now there he was, that mouth of mandibles, vowed to pure
385.21+mandible: jaw
385.22beauty, and his Arrah-na-poghue, when she murmurously, after
385.22+in Boucicault: Arrah-na-Pogue, Arrah commands her newlywed husband, Shaun the Post, to sing a song after the wedding (he sings, by public demand, the then-illegal 'The Wearing of the Green') [.22-.25]
385.23she let a cough, gave her firm order, if he wouldn't please mind,
385.23+
385.24for a sings to one hope a dozen of the best favourite lyrical
385.24+to sing
385.24+phrase six of one to half a dozen of the other
385.24+VI.B.3.075c (r): 'lyrical blooms'
385.24+Schuré: Woman the Inspirer 22: (of Wagner's possible reaction to a poem by Mathilda Wesendonck) 'A strange, intoxicating kind of frenzy must have come over the composer at the sight of these delightful, lyrical blooms'
385.25national blooms in Luvillicit, though not too much, reflecting on
385.25+Lucan, Chapelizod (two villages on the Liffey west of Dublin)
385.25+love illicit
385.26the situation, drinking in draughts of purest air serene and re-
385.26+Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: 'Full many a gem of purest ray serene... flower is born to bloom unseen'
385.26+VI.B.3.124c (r): 'reveled in the beauty of'
385.27velling in the great outdoors, before the four of them, in the fair
385.27+Motif: The four of them [.31]
385.28fine night, whilst the stars shine bright, by she light of he moon,
385.28+song 'By the light Of the silvery moon, We loved to spoon, To my honey I'll croon love's tune, Honeymoon'
385.29we longed to be spoon, before her honeyoldloom, the plaint effect
385.29+
385.30being in point of fact there being in the whole, a seatuition so
385.30+phrase in point of fact: in truth (in contrast to an earlier observation)
385.30+situation
385.31shocking and scandalous and now, thank God, there were no more
385.31+VI.B.2.161h (r): 'scandalous' [388.23]
385.31+Foote & Wheeler: The Jewish Life of Christ iv: (quoting Martin Luther about Sepher Toldoth Jeshu) 'The haughty evil spirit jests in the book... he mocks his own Jews by giving them such a scandalous, foolish, doltish thing about brazen dogs and cabbage-stalks, etc.'
385.31+song One More Drink for the Four of Us: 'glory be to God that there are no more of us' (but Joyce regularly has 'thank God'; Motif: The four of them) [.27]
385.32of them and he poghuing and poghuing like the Moreigner
385.32+Anglo-Irish pogue: kiss
385.32+mariner
385.32+foreigner
385.33bowed his crusted hoed and Tilly the Tailor's Tugged a Tar in the
385.33+Mrs Felicia Dorothea Hemans: 'Bernado del Carpo' 1: 'The warrior bowed his crested head and tamed his heart of fire' (appears in Bell's Elocutionist) [397.31]
385.33+Dutch hoed: hat
385.33+Motif: head/foot (head, tail)
385.33+Tillie the Toiler: American comic-strip about a fashionable flapper who has dalliances with many young men (debuted 1921)
385.33+German Tochter: daughter
385.34Arctic Newses Dagsdogs number and there they were, like a
385.34+(daily newspaper)
385.34+Danish dagbog: diary (literally 'day book')
385.35foremasters in the rolls, listening, to Rolando's deepen darblun
385.35+Annals of the Four Masters (*X*)
385.35+fourmaster (ship)
385.35+four-poster (bed)
385.35+Master of the Rolls: a judge at Court of Appeal; Keeper of the Records, at the Public Record Office
385.35+Roland, Charlemagne's paladin, hero of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso
385.35+Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage IV.clxxix: 'Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll!'
385.35+Macpherson: The Poems of Ossian II.285: Temora VII: 'Ossian, amidst his dark-brown years' (Ossian)
385.36Ossian roll, (Lady, it was just too gorgeous, that expense of a
385.36+


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