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| 388.01 | old conk cruised now croons the yunk. Exeunc throw a darras |
|---|---|
| –388.01+ | proverb As the old cock crows, the young one learns |
| –388.01+ | Slang conk: nose, large nose [.02] |
| –388.01+ | Danish Kong: King (when used as a title before the name of a king) |
| –388.01+ | Colloquial Yank: an American [387.36] |
| –388.01+ | exeunt through |
| –388.01+ | uncle |
| –388.01+ | William Shakespeare: Hamlet III.4.29: 'HAMLET... kills Polonius by thrusting a rapier through the arras' |
| –388.01+ | Irish doras: door |
| 388.02 | Kram of Llawnroc, ye gink guy, kirked into yord. Enterest at- |
| –388.02+ | (typesetter reading text backwards; Joyce: Ulysses.7.204: 'He stayed in his walk to watch a typesetter neatly distributing type. Reads it backwards first. Quickly he does it. Must require some practice that. mangiD kcirtaP'; Motif: backwards) [387.36] [.02-.04] |
| –388.02+ | Mark of Cornwall (King Mark; Motif: backwards) |
| –388.02+ | German Kram: rubbish, stuff, business (vulgar) |
| –388.02+ | Slang cram: to have sex with (a woman) |
| –388.02+ | roc: huge mythical bird of Eastern legend |
| –388.02+ | Anglo-Irish gink: a small nose (from Irish geannc: a snub nose) [.01] |
| –388.02+ | Slang gink: fellow, chap (pejorative) |
| –388.02+ | king |
| –388.02+ | kicked into yard |
| –388.02+ | Kierkegaard |
| –388.02+ | Danish jord: earth |
| –388.02+ | enter at a window |
| 388.03 | tawonder Wehpen, luftcat revol, fairescapading in his natsirt. |
| –388.03+ | weapon |
| –388.03+ | (Tristan was technically Iseult's nephew) |
| –388.03+ | nephew, tactful lover (Motif: backwards) |
| –388.03+ | lifted revolver |
| –388.03+ | Parnell was falsely rumoured to have escaped from Captain O'Shea, his lover's husband, down a fire escape in his nightshirt |
| –388.03+ | Danish nat: night |
| –388.03+ | Tristan (Motif: backwards) |
| 388.04 | Tuesy tumbles. And mild aunt Liza is as loose as her neese. Ful- |
| –388.04+ | Yseut (Motif: backwards) |
| –388.04+ | too easy |
| –388.04+ | Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Iseult): Liebestod ('love-death' aria): 'Mild und leise wie er lächelt' |
| –388.04+ | (Iseult, as King Mark's wife, was technically Tristan's aunt) |
| –388.04+ | Motif: niece |
| –388.04+ | knees |
| 388.05 | fest withim inbrace behent. As gent would deem oncontinent. |
| –388.05+ | German fest: firmly |
| –388.05+ | fast |
| –388.05+ | within embrace |
| –388.05+ | German behend: nimble |
| –388.05+ | behind |
| –388.05+ | on continent |
| –388.05+ | incontinent |
| 388.06 | So mulct per wenche is Elsker woed. Ne hath his thrysting. Fin. |
| –388.06+ | so much per |
| –388.06+ | Dialect wench: young woman; maidservant (Slang promiscuous woman, prostitute) |
| –388.06+ | mulct: fine for offence |
| –388.06+ | (Selskar and Periwinkle) [028.26-.27] [580.17-.18] |
| –388.06+ | French pervenche: periwinkle (a bluish-violet flowering plant) |
| –388.06+ | Danish elsker: lover |
| –388.06+ | Selskar Gunn |
| –388.06+ | worth |
| –388.06+ | thrusting |
| –388.06+ | trysting: appointment, arranged meeting at a given time and place (especially between lovers) |
| –388.06+ | Tristan |
| –388.06+ | French fin: end |
| –388.06+ | (fish fin) |
| 388.07 | Like the newcasters in their old plyable of A Royenne Devours. |
| –388.07+ | newscasters |
| –388.07+ | new cast in old play (Motif: old/new) |
| –388.07+ | (cast net to catch fish) |
| –388.07+ | playbill |
| –388.07+ | Elba |
| –388.07+ | W.G. Wills: A Royal Divorce [.08] |
| 388.08 | Jazzaphoney and Mirillovis and Nippy she nets best. Fing. Ay, |
| –388.08+ | Josephine and Marie Louise and Napoleon: Napoleon and his two wives, the major characters of W.G. Wills: A Royal Divorce [.07] |
| –388.08+ | jazzaphone: a type of saxophone specifically adapted for playing jazz |
| –388.08+ | American phoney: fake, false, insincere |
| –388.08+ | Slang nippy: penis |
| –388.08+ | Slang nippy: a Lyons' tea-shop girl |
| –388.08+ | R. Ord and W. Gayer-Mackay: Paddy-the-Next-Best-Thing (play, 1920) |
| –388.08+ | (fishing nets) |
| –388.08+ | knows |
| –388.08+ | German fing: caught |
| –388.08+ | (fish caught) |
| –388.08+ | Motif: Ay, ay! |
| 388.09 | ay! Sobbos. And so he was. Sabbus. |
| –388.09+ | Motif: A/O |
| –388.09+ | (Motif: So be it) |
| –388.09+ | save us |
| 388.10 | Marcus. And after that, not forgetting, there was the Flemish |
| –388.10+ | {{Synopsis: II.4.1+2.D: [388.10-390.33]: the story associated with Marcus Lyons — rambling reminiscences}} |
| –388.10+ | Cluster: Forget and Remember |
| –388.10+ | Annals of the Four Masters II.1171-3: (of Diarmaid MacMurrough) 'The Age of Christ, 1169... The fleet of the Flemings came from England in the army of Mac Murchadha, i.e. Diarmaid, to contest the kingdom of Leinster for him' (actually the Anglo-Norman landing near Bannow, County Wexford, in May 1169, under Robert FitzStephen, which marked the beginning of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland) [389.13] [391.02] |
| 388.11 | armada, all scattered, and all officially drowned, there and then, on |
| –388.11+ | scattering of Spanish Armada by a storm off West Ireland |
| –388.11+ | VI.B.1.118j (r): 'official' [387.22] [387.28] |
| –388.11+ | VI.B.2.075a (b): 'drown at 7.30' |
| –388.11+ | Pascal: La Démence Précoce 86: (of the mentally ill) 'Une de nos malades décrit le suicide de son frère avec une très grande précision, mais aucun détail n'éveille en elle la moindre émotion' (French 'One of our patients describes the suicide of her brother with very great precision, but no detail arouses the slightest emotion in her') |
| 388.12 | a lovely morning, after the universal flood, at about aleven thirty- |
| –388.12+ | VI.B.1.098b (r): 'universal' [.28] |
| –388.12+ | alevin: a young fish or fry (especially salmon) |
| –388.12+ | 11:32 (Motif: 1132) |
| 388.13 | two was it? off the coast of Cominghome and Saint Patrick, the |
| –388.13+ | Cunningham |
| 388.14 | anabaptist, and Saint Kevin, the lacustrian, with toomuch of tolls |
| –388.14+ | Anabaptists: sect which arose in Germany, 1521 (believed in adult baptism only) |
| –388.14+ | lacustrian: an inhabitant of a lake (Saint Kevin lived as a hermit and established a monastic settlement by one of the lakes at Glendalough) |
| –388.14+ | Saint Laurence O'Toole, patron saint of Dublin, and Saint Thomas à Becket were contemporaries (Motif: O'Toole/Becket) |
| 388.15 | and lottance of beggars, after converting Porterscout and Dona, |
| –388.15+ | Powerscourt [386.18] |
| –388.15+ | Italian donna: lady |
| –388.15+ | Dana [386.22] |
| 388.16 | our first marents, and Lapoleon, the equestrian, on his whuite |
| –388.16+ | phrase our first parents: Adam and Eve |
| –388.16+ | VI.B.3.130c (b): 'marents' ('m' replaces a cancelled 'p') |
| –388.16+ | Marengo: Napoleon's horse |
| –388.16+ | VI.B.3.106e (b): 'Lapoleon' |
| –388.16+ | Napoleon [389.29] |
| –388.16+ | a white horse is an emblem of the House of Hanover (Motif: white horse) |
| –388.16+ | a white horse is a symbol associated in Ireland with William III of Orange and his victory at the Battle of the Boyne (his equestrian statue in Dublin faced Dame Street; Motif: white horse) [.20] |
| 388.17 | hourse of Hunover, rising Clunkthurf over Cabinhogan and all |
| –388.17+ | Colloquial Hun: German (pejorative, especially during World War I) |
| –388.17+ | Clontarf |
| –388.17+ | Motif: Copenhagen (the capital of Denmark, from where Vikings came to Ireland, and the name of Wellington's horse) |
| 388.18 | they remembored and then there was the Frankish floot of Noahs- |
| –388.18+ | Cluster: Forget and Remember |
| –388.18+ | bore |
| –388.18+ | German Flut: flood, flood-tide |
| –388.18+ | Dutch vloot: fleet, navy |
| –388.18+ | Downing: Digger Dialects 35: 'NOAH'S DOVES — Reinforcements who were at sea and on their way towards a war zone at the time when the Armistice was signed' (World War I Slang) |
| 388.19 | dobahs, from Hedalgoland, round about the freebutter year of |
| –388.19+ | Sea Battle of Helgoland, 1914 |
| –388.19+ | hidalgo: one of lower Spanish nobility |
| –388.19+ | freebooter |
| 388.20 | Notre Dame 1132 P.P.O. or so, disumbunking from under |
| –388.20+ | Motif: 1132 |
| –388.20+ | disembarking |
| 388.21 | Motham General Bonaboche, (noo poopery!) in his half a grey |
| –388.21+ | madam |
| –388.21+ | Bonaparte |
| –388.21+ | boche: pejorative for German |
| –388.21+ | Ulster Pronunciation Noo Poopery!: No Popery! (Ulster slogan) |
| –388.21+ | poop: aftermost part of a ship, stern |
| 388.22 | traditional hat, alevoila come alevilla, and after that there he was, |
| –388.22+ | VI.B.1.115i (r): 'traditions' |
| –388.22+ | French et le voilà: and here he is |
| –388.22+ | VI.C.15.164m (g): 'moth alevilla' |
| 388.23 | so terrestrial, like a Nailscissor, poghuing her scandalous and very |
| –388.23+ | Downing: Digger Dialects 35: 'NAIL-SCISSORS — The crossed sword and baton worn as a badge of rank by a General' (World War I Slang) |
| –388.23+ | Hail Caesar! |
| –388.23+ | Anglo-Irish pogue: kiss |
| –388.23+ | poking |
| –388.23+ | VI.B.2.161h (r): 'scandalous' [385.31] |
| –388.23+ | 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.' |
| 388.24 | wrong, the maid, in single combat, under the sycamores, amid |
| –388.24+ | VI.B.1.028h (r): 'in single combat' |
| –388.24+ | Metchnikoff: La Civilisation et les Grands Fleuves Historiques 1: 'Le dévouement, la vertu même... dans les annales du genre humain, y revêtent des formes absurdes... ou révoltantes — Manlius décapitant son fils qui, sans autorisation préalable, vient de renverser un ennemi en combat singulier' (French 'Devotion, even virtue... in the annals of mankind, take on forms that are absurd... or repulsive — Manlius decapitating his son who, without prior authorisation, has defeated an enemy in single combat') |
| 388.25 | the bludderings from the boom and all the gallowsbirds in Arrah- |
| –388.25+ | Dutch bladeren: leaves |
| –388.25+ | Dutch boom: tree |
| –388.25+ | VI.B.1.106h (r): 'Gallowglasses —sbirds foreign soldiers' (dash dittos 'Gallow'; a line joins first word and last two words) [387.06] |
| –388.25+ | Slang gallows-bird: a person who deserves hanging |
| –388.25+ | Boucicault: Arrah-na-Pogue |
| 388.26 | na-Poghue, so silvestrious, neer the Queen's Colleges, in 1132 |
| –388.26+ | Latin silvestris: wooded |
| –388.26+ | German Silvester: New Year's Eve |
| –388.26+ | Dutch neer: down |
| –388.26+ | Queen's Colleges: Belfast, Galway and Cork |
| –388.26+ | Queen's Theatre, Dublin (repertoire at the turn of the century included Boucicault: Arrah-na-Pogue) [385.13] |
| –388.26+ | Motif: 1132 |
| 388.27 | Brian or Bride street, behind the century man on the door. And |
| –388.27+ | Motif: Bride of the brine |
| –388.27+ | Bride Street, Dublin |
| –388.27+ | sentryman |
| –388.27+ | (Hundred of Manhood) |
| 388.28 | then again they used to give the grandest gloriaspanquost univer- |
| –388.28+ | Sylvia Pankhurst: suffragette leader |
| –388.28+ | Armenian p'ark': glory |
| –388.28+ | [.12] |
| 388.29 | sal howldmoutherhibbert lectures on anarxaquy out of doxarch- |
| –388.29+ | nursery rhyme Old Mother Hubbard |
| –388.29+ | H.G. Hibbert: A Playgoer's Memories (discusses many stage topics) |
| –388.29+ | Hibbert lectureship (endowed by Robert Hibbert, a 19th century radical) |
| –388.29+ | anarchy |
| –388.29+ | Armenian nakhakah: chairman, president |
| –388.29+ | exequy: funeral rite |
| –388.29+ | Greek doxa: opinion |
| –388.29+ | doxology: hymn or formula ascribing glory or praise to God |
| –388.29+ | Greek arkos: guide, leader |
| 388.30 | ology (hello, Hibernia!) from sea to sea (Matt speaking!) accord- |
| –388.30+ | VI.B.1.036h (r): 'Hello America!' |
| –388.30+ | phrase Hello America (made famous by the wireless, as mentioned in Irish Times 12 Feb 1924) |
| –388.30+ | (Anglo-Irish Pronunciation say: sea) |
| 388.31 | ing to the pictures postcard, with sexon grimmacticals, in the |
| –388.31+ | Saxo Grammaticus: Danish historian |
| –388.31+ | Grimm brothers |
| 388.32 | Latimer Roman history, of Latimer repeating himself, from the |
| –388.32+ | VI.B.1.045f (r): 'Latimer' |
| –388.32+ | Hugh Latimer: 16th century English church reformer, burned at the stake |
| –388.32+ | Middle English latimer: an interpreter |
| –388.32+ | [389.15] |
| –388.32+ | Cluster: Repeat Oneself |
| 388.33 | vicerine of Lord Hugh, the Lacytynant, till Bockleyshuts the rah- |
| –388.33+ | vicereine |
| –388.33+ | Hugh de Lacy: governor of Dublin for Henry II, first Earl of Ulster, earliest Anglo-Norman peer of Ireland |
| –388.33+ | Lord-Lieutenant |
| –388.33+ | Motif: How Buckley shot the Russian General |
| –388.33+ | Rajah |
| 388.34 | jahn gerachknell and regnumrockery roundup, (Marcus Lyons |
| –388.34+ | German Krach: crash, argument |
| –388.34+ | Latin Regnum: Chichester [390.18] |
| –388.34+ | Ragnarok: in Norse mythology, a future cataclysmic series of events, including a great battle in which many gods will die (e.g. Odin, Thor, Loki), after which the world will begin anew (literally 'Fate of the Gods' or 'Twilight of the Gods' in Old Norse) |
| 388.35 | speaking!) to the oceanfuls of collegians green and high classes |
| –388.35+ | Gerald Griffin: The Collegians (the Irish novel that formed the source for Boucicault: The Colleen Bawn) |
| –388.35+ | College Green, Dublin |
| –388.35+ | VI.B.1.174b (r): 'classes' |
| 388.36 | and the poor scholars and all the old trinitarian senate and saints and |
| –388.36+ | Trinity College Dublin |
| –388.36+ | Motif: Island of Saints and Sages |
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