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504.01bark and our lecture is its leave. The cran, the cran the king of all
504.01+French lecture: reading
504.01+leaf
504.01+ivy, holly (Motif: holly, ivy, mistletoe) [.02]
504.01+Irish children used to take a wren fastened in a mass of holly and ivy from door to door collecting money on Saint Stephen's Day, chanting: 'The Wren, the Wren, The king of all birds'
504.01+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...cran, the cran...} | {Png: ...cram, the cram...}
504.01+Irish crann: tree
504.02crans. Squiremade and damesman of plantagenets, high and holy.
504.02+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...crans...} | {Png: ...crams...}
504.02+squire of dames: one who devotes himself to service of ladies
504.02+Plantagenet: English royal house (name supposedly derived from Latin planta genista: broom)
504.02+plants
504.02+holly [.01]
504.03    — Now, no hiding your wren under a bushle! What was it
504.03+Matthew 5:15: 'Nor do men light a candle and put it under a bushel'
504.03+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...bushle! What...} | {Png: ...bushle. What...}
504.04doing there, for instance?
504.04+
504.05    — Standing foreninst us.
504.05+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
504.05+Anglo-Irish forenenst: in front of, facing, opposite
504.06    — In Summerian sunshine?
504.06+summer
504.06+Sumerian
504.07    — And in Cimmerian shudders.
504.07+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
504.07+Cimmerians: race fabled to live in perpetual shadows (Odyssey XI.14)
504.07+shadows
504.08    — You saw it visibly from your hidingplace?
504.08+
504.09    — No. From my invisibly lyingplace.
504.09+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
504.10    — And you then took down in stereo what took place being
504.10+downstairs
504.11tunc committed?
504.11+Vulgate Luke 2:29: 'Nunc dimittis servum tuum' (Latin 'Now lettest thou thy servant depart')
504.11+Latin tunc: then (Motif: tunc)
504.11+Slang cunt: female genitalia (Motif: anagram; Motif: tunc) [.12]
504.12    — I then tuk my takenplace lying down, I thunk I told you.
504.12+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
504.12+Dutch Slang kut: female genitalia (Motif: anagram) [.11]
504.12+took
504.13Solve it!
504.13+Latin salvete: hail!, be well! (plural) [.16]
504.14    — Remounting aliftle towards the ouragan of spaces. Just
504.14+a little
504.14+Liffey river
504.14+French ouragan: hurricane
504.14+Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species [.28]
504.15how grand in cardinal rounders is this preeminent giant, sir
504.15+cardinal-bird (Cluster: Birds)
504.15+numbers
504.16Arber? Your bard's highview, avis on valley! I would like to hear
504.16+Latin arbor: tree
504.16+bird's-eye view: a view of a landscape from above (Cluster: Birds)
504.16+Latin avis: bird (Cluster: Birds)
504.16+Latin ave, vale: hail, farewell (Motif: ave, salve, vale) [.13]
504.17you burble to us in strict conclave, purpurando, and without
504.17+burble: speak murmurously, babble
504.17+bulbul: a type of song-bird (Cluster: Birds)
504.17+purple (the colour of cardinals)
504.17+conclave of cardinals (to elect a pope) [.15]
504.17+(cardinal: a type of bird (Cluster: Birds))
504.17+Vatican Latin Slang purpurandus: one fit to be purpled, i.e. made a cardinal [.20]
504.17+Italian mormorando: murmuring
504.18too much italiote interfairance, what you know in petto about our
504.18+Italiote: a Greek settler in ancient Italy
504.18+Italian Slang italiota: Italian idiot
504.18+Anglo-Irish Pronunciation interfairance: interference
504.18+Italian in petto: in (one's) breast
504.19sovereign beingstalk, Tonans Tomazeus. O dite!
504.19+pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk
504.19+Jupiter Tonans: Zeus as thunderer
504.19+Italian Tommaseo: Thomas
504.19+Amos [.20]
504.19+Italian O dite!: O say! [.20]
504.20    — Corcor Andy, Udi, Udite! Your Ominence, Your Immi-
504.20+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
504.20+Irish corcair: purple (related to Latin purpura: purple; Motif: P/Q)
504.20+Vatican Latin Slang purpurandus: one fit to be purpled, i.e. made a cardinal [.17]
504.20+Amos 'n' Andy: hugely popular American radio comedy series broadcast from 1928 (often featured a masonic-like fraternity called "The Mystic Knights of the Sea") [.19] [.21]
504.20+Italian udi!: hear! (singular)
504.20+Italian udite!: hear! (plural) [.19]
504.20+cardinals are addressed 'Your Eminence'
504.20+Motif: Tom/Tim
504.21nence and delicted fraternitrees! There's tuodore queensmaids
504.21+Latin delictum: offence
504.21+fraternities [.20]
504.21+(World Tree)
504.21+Tudor
504.21+Italian tuo odore: your odour
504.22and Idahore shopgirls and they woody babies growing upon her
504.22+Idaho, United States
504.22+I adore
504.22+pantomime Babes in the Wood
504.22+(tree as feminine) [.25] [.26] [505.25]
504.23and bird flamingans sweenyswinging fuglewards on the tipmast
504.23+bird (Cluster: Birds)
504.23+Bird Flannigan: Dublin wag who appeared at a party dressed as the Holy Ghost and laid an egg
504.23+Bird Flanagan: a practical joker (rode his horse in the Gresham Hotel and stole a Zulu child at 1907 Exhibition, as described by Ulik O'Connor in The Times I've Seen)
504.23+(phoenix as flaming bird; Cluster: Birds)
504.23+flamingoes (Cluster: Birds)
504.23+German Gans: goose (Cluster: Birds)
504.23+Irish myth of mad King Sweeny who nested in treetops with birds (Cluster: Birds)
504.23+Danish fugle: birds (Cluster: Birds)
504.23+top mast
504.24and Orania epples playing hopptociel bommptaterre and Ty-
504.24+orange
504.24+Urania: muse of astronomy
504.24+Old Irish Emain Ablach: Emania of the Apples (in Irish mythology, a legendary island to which Manannán, the Celtic god of the sea, retreated in the face of encroaching Christianity)
504.24+apples (Newton)
504.24+hop to
504.24+Swift: Ppt
504.24+Motif: A/O
504.24+French ciel: sky
504.24+Dutch boom: tree
504.24+bump to
504.24+French pomme de terre: potato
504.24+French terre: earth
504.24+VI.B.10.021f (r): 'Tyburn tree'
504.24+Monahan: Adventures in Life and Letters 89: (od an adventure book about highwaymen) 'the quaint old novel with its pictured legends, appropriate foliage of Tyburn Tree'
504.24+Colloquial Tyburn tree: a nickname for the gallows (from Tyburn: a famous place of public executions in the London area until the 18th century)
504.25burn fenians snoring in his quickenbole and crossbones strewing
504.25+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
504.25+(tree as masculine) [.22] [.26] [505.25]
504.25+quicken: a type of tree, rowan, mountain-ash
504.25+VI.B.14.227g (r): 'bole'
504.26its holy floor and culprines of Erasmus Smith's burstall boys
504.26+(tree as neuter) [.22] [.25] [505.25]
504.26+culprits
504.26+Erasmus Smith set up grammar schools in 17th century Ireland
504.26+Erasmus Smith: patron of Trinity College Dublin
504.26+Erasmus Darwin: English physician and poet, grandfather to Charles Darwin
504.26+Adam Smith: economist
504.26+borstal: a rehabilitation institution for juvenile delinquents (named after the one in the village of Borstal in Kent; there was only one borstal in Ireland, in Clonmel, County Tipperary, established in 1906)
504.27with their underhand leadpencils climbing to her crotch for the
504.27+Slang pencil: penis (often that of a young boy; Slang phrase lead in one's pencil: male sexual vigour)
504.28origin of spices and charlotte darlings with silk blue askmes
504.28+Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species
504.28+Slang spice: sexual titillation (in jokes, anecdotes, newspaper articles, etc.)
504.28+Charles Darwin [.14] [.28-.29] [.33]
504.28+song Charley Is My Darling
504.28+(monkeys with blue arses)
504.29chattering in dissent to them, gibbonses and gobbenses, guelfing
504.29+Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man [.28]
504.29+gibbon apes
504.29+Guelphs and Ghibellines: rival factions in medieval Italy, supporting the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor, respectively (Dante aligned himself with the Guelphs)
504.30and ghiberring proferring praydews to their anatolies and blight-
504.30+gibbering
504.30+Archaic proffer: to offer for acceptance, to propose to give
504.30+French prie-Dieu: praying-stool, praying-desk
504.30+Greek anatolios: East; sunrise
504.30+(cursing)
504.31ing findblasts on their catastripes and the killmaimthem pen-
504.31+fiend
504.31+catastrophes
504.31+Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, for old soldiers
504.31+VI.B.14.143g (g): 'Old Men pensioners of State'
504.31+Riguet: Saint Patrice 6: (of the customs of the Celts) 'les vieillards étaient protégés, honorés... le vieillard pauvre était nourri par la tribu' (French 'the aged were protected and honoured... the poor old man was provided for by the tribe')
504.32sioners chucking overthrown milestones up to her to fall her
504.32+overgrown milestone: an old nickname for the Wellington Monument, Phoenix Park
504.32+VI.B.14.131k (g): '*V* milestone'
504.32+stone (Motif: tree/stone) [.33]
504.32+(knock down)
504.33cranberries and her pommes annettes for their unnatural refection
504.33+Irish crann: tree [.32]
504.33+French pommes Anna: a baked dish made of sliced potatoes and butter
504.33+phrase natural selection (a term coined by Charles Darwin to describe the evolutionary process whereby traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage tend to pass on to following generations and thus become more frequent than those which do not) [.28]
504.34and handpainted hoydens plucking husbands of him and cock
504.34+hoyden: ill-bred girl
504.34+plucking (Cluster: Birds)
504.34+nursery rhyme Who Killed Cock Robin? (Cluster: Birds)
504.35robins muchmore hatching most out of his missado eggdrazzles
504.35+German vielmehr: moreover, rather (literally 'much-more')
504.35+hatching eggs (Cluster: Birds)
504.35+mistletoe, holly, ivy (Motif: holly, ivy, mistletoe) [505.03]
504.35+mikado
504.35+Yggdrasil: the world tree in Norse myth (meaning 'Ygg's (i.e. Odin's) steed') [503.07] [503.30] [505.04] [505.07] [505.17]
504.35+drizzle
504.36for him, the sun and moon pegging honeysuckle and white
504.36+VI.B.3.164d (r): 'wedding favors white heather & myrtle' ('wedding' and 'myrtle' uncertain)
504.36+the wedding veil of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later to be known as the Queen Consort and the Queen Mother), when she married Prince Albert (later to become King George VI) on 26 April 1923, was decorated with myrtle leaves, white roses and white heather


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