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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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