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542.01reized spudfully from the murphyplantz Hawkinsonia and berri-
–542.01+German reizen: to attract; to irritate
–542.01+raised
–542.01+Slang spud: potato
–542.01+spadefulls
–542.01+spitefully
–542.01+VI.B.29.081l (o): 'potatoeplant'
–542.01+Slang murphy: potato
–542.01+German Platz: place, square
–542.01+VI.B.29.156j (o): 'Hawkins — spud'
–542.01+Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 1565: 'John Hawkins, from Santa Fe, New Spain, introduced potatoes into Ireland'
–542.01+Italian oh che insania!: oh, what insanity!
–542.01+VI.B.29.082a (o): 'berriberries' (the entry is preceded by a cancelled 'berries berries')
–542.01+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIII, 'Rio de Janeiro', 354d: 'for the five years 1900-1905... Among the deaths... 106 from beri-beri'
542.02berries from the pletoras of the Irish shou. I heard my liberti-
–542.02+plethora
–542.02+Tory (Motif: Tory/Whig) [.03]
–542.02+Irish stew
–542.02+Chinese shou: head, chief
–542.02+French chou: cabbage
–542.02+shore
–542.02+Liberty Boys: a violent criminal gang of Protestant weavers' apprentices in 18th century Dublin (also occasionally referred to as 'Liberty Lads')
542.03lands making free through their curraghcoombs, my trueblues
–542.03+Curragh of Kildare: racecourse
–542.03+currycombs
–542.03+Catacombs, Rome
–542.03+The Coombe: street and area in the Liberties, west of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
–542.03+Colloquial phrase true blue: unwaveringly faithful (at different times applied to both Whigs and Tories) [.02]
542.04hurusalaming before Wailingtone's Wall: I richmounded the
–542.04+hooray!
–542.04+Jerusalem
–542.04+salaaming: offering an oriental salutation of ceremonial obeisance, often accompanied by a deep bow (from Arabic salaam: peace, a greeting of peace)
–542.04+Wellington
–542.04+Wailing Wall, Jerusalem
–542.04+VI.B.29.106e (k): 'water gas telegraph telephone pneu all running inside the sewers' [.04-.07]
–542.04+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 812a: 'The sewers are used as conduits for water-pipes, gas-pipes, telegraph and telephone wires and pneumatic tubes'
–542.04+Richmond Basin, southern Dublin reservoir
–542.04+Richmond Hill, Rathmines
–542.04+(accumulated)
542.05rainelag in my bathtub of roundwood and conveyed it with
–542.05+rain
–542.05+Ranelagh: district of Dublin
–542.05+Roundwood reservoir, County Wicklow, supplies Dublin with water
542.06cheers and cables, roaring mighty shouts, through my longer-
–542.06+chairs and tables
–542.06+VI.B.29.085d (o): 'rearing mighty shouts'
–542.06+Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 45: (quoting from Campion's Historie of Ireland about the crowning in 1487 of the pretender Lambert Simnel in Dublin) 'in Christchurch they crowned this Idoll, honouring him with titles imperiall, feasting and triumphing, rearing mighty shoutes and cryes'
–542.06+spouts
–542.06+longitudes
542.07tubes of elm: out of fundness for the outozone I carried them
–542.07+VI.B.29.109d (k): 'elm wood conduit pipes'
–542.07+Chart: The Story of Dublin 28: 'In 1308 Dublin obtained its first public water supply. A three-mile conduit was constructed from the Dodder... into the city, where it flowed like an ordinary brook down the main street... At first the pipes laid by the Corporation to supply the side streets were of lead, but in the seventeenth century, on the plea of economy, these were replaced by wooden ones made of elm, which existed until some eighty years ago'
–542.07+fondness
–542.07+outer (those outside central) zone
–542.07+German Auto: car
–542.07+ozone
542.08amd curried them in my Putzemdown cars to my Kommeandine
–542.08+and
–542.08+VI.B.29.067e (o): 'The Putzemdown car to the Kommeandine hotel' ('car' replaces a cancelled 'tram'; 'K' replaces a cancelled 'C'; the entry is preceded by a cancelled 'Commededdine Putz')
–542.08+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXII, 'Rangoon', 891d: 'Electric tramways run to Pazundaung in one direction and to Alôn and Kemmendine in the other'
–542.08+puts them down
–542.08+German putzen: to clean
–542.08+Italian puzze: stenches
–542.08+come and dine
542.09hotels: I made sprouts fontaneously from Philuppe Sobriety in
–542.09+Italian fontane: fountains
–542.09+spontaneously
–542.09+VI.B.29.105m (k): 'philippe sobriety'
–542.09+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 808c: 'The Palais Royal, built by Richelieu in 1630 and afterwards inhabited by Anne of Austria, the regent Philip II. of Orleans and Philippe Égalité'
–542.09+phrase to appeal from Philip Drunk to Philip Sober: to ask for reconsideration in an impulsively-decided matter (Joyce: Ulysses.15.2512: 'The Siamese twins, Philip Drunk and Philip Sober')
–542.09+Colloquial phrase in one's cups: while drinking; drunk [.12]
542.10the coupe that's cheyned for noon inebriates: when they weaned
–542.10+VI.B.29.105a (k): 'coupe'
–542.10+Sir Philip Crampton Monument had drinking fountains with chained cups
–542.10+William Cowper: The Task, book IV: (of tea) 'the cups That cheer but not inebriate' (probably influenced by Berkeley: Siris, par. 217: (of tar water) 'to cheer but not inebriate')
–542.10+VI.B.29.020b (o): 'When I waxed awary of the wine I made infusion more infused'
–542.10+(wax and wane)
542.11weary of that bibbing I made infusion more infused: sowerpacers
–542.11+Archaic bibbing: drinking to excess, tippling
–542.11+(drinking water)
–542.11+(tea infusion)
–542.11+confusion
–542.11+VI.B.29.021a (o): 'sowerpacers of the vinejaard'
–542.11+sour grapes
542.12of the vinegarth, obtemperate unto me! When you think me in
–542.12+vinegar
–542.12+vineyard
–542.12+VI.B.29.ffva ( ): 'obtemperate'
–542.12+VI.B.29.020c (o): 'obtemperate unto me,'
–542.12+obtemperate: to obey, to submit
–542.12+temperance (no alcohol)
–542.12+VI.B.29.019a (o): 'When you think me in my coppeecuffs be aware how you mecckamockame' (the last 'you' is overwritten by 'use')
–542.12+Colloquial phrase in his cups: while drinking; drunk [.09]
542.13my coppeecuffs look in ware would you meckamockame, as you
–542.13+VI.B.29.ffrd (o): 'coppee cuffs' (one of three entries inspired by Přikopy) [538.15] [554.03]
–542.13+coffee cups
–542.13+Coffey (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
–542.13+James Ware: 17th century Irish historian
–542.13+beware would you make a mock of me
–542.13+VI.B.29.ffre (o): 'meckamockame'
–542.13+Mecca
–542.13+Mocha coffee
–542.13+VI.B.29.019b (o): 'While you pay in my caaba(man) schelters'
542.14pay in caabman's sheltar tot the ites like you corss the tees.
–542.14+VI.B.29.ffrf (o): 'Kaabmans shelter' ('r' uncertain)
–542.14+Joyce: Ulysses.16.320: 'Mr Bloom and Stephen entered the cabman's shelter... Now touching a cup of coffee, Mr Bloom ventured to plausibly suggest' [.13]
–542.14+Ka'aba: sacred edifice at Mecca
–542.14+Shelta: secret language of Irish tinkers
–542.14+VI.B.29.020a (o): 'tot the ites lik you corss the tees'
–542.14+phrase dot the i's and cross the t's: be thorough, be meticulous
–542.14+curse the teas
542.15Wherefore watch ye well! For, while I oplooked the first of
–542.15+up, first, down, last (Motif: up/down)
–542.15+looked and saw
–542.15+VI.B.29.024f (o): '6de of July' ('July' is followed by an illegible word)
–542.15+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. IV, 'Buenos Aires', 753a: 'Among the city's many plazas, or squares... 6 de Junio... There are also... elaborately laid out alamedas... the Paseo de Julio'
542.16Janus's straight, I downsaw the last of Christmas steps: syndic
–542.16+Janus: Roman god of the doorway
–542.16+January
–542.16+James Street, Dublin
–542.16+Christmas Steps, Bristol
–542.16+syndic: civil magistrate
542.17podestril and on the rates, I for indigent and intendente: in
–542.17+Italian podestà: head of medieval free city
–542.17+VI.B.29.026b (o): 'rates'
–542.17+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. IV, 'Buenos Aires', 753c: 'Every ratepayer, whether foreigner or native, has the right to vote in municipal elections and to serve in the municipal council'
–542.17+Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers' Society, Dublin
–542.17+VI.B.29.026a (o): 'Intendente'
–542.17+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. IV, 'Buenos Aires', 753c: 'The government is vested in an intendente municipal (mayor)... and a concejo deliberante (legislative council)'
–542.17+Italian intendente: manageress
542.18Forum Foster I demosthrenated my folksfiendship, enmy pupuls
–542.18+Foster Place, Dublin, site of political rallies
–542.18+Demosthenes (allegedly guilty of unnatural vice)
–542.18+demonstrated
–542.18+Ibsen: all plays: En Folkefiende (An Enemy of the People)
–542.18+friendship
–542.18+and my pupils
542.19felt my burk was no worse than their brite: Sapphrageta and
–542.19+Burke
–542.19+phrase one's bark is worse than one's bite: one appears more intimidating than one really is
–542.19+John Bright: English politician, opposed home rule
–542.19+suffragettes
542.20Consciencia were undecidedly attached to me but the maugher
–542.20+conscientious objectors
–542.20+Meagher (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
–542.20+song Mother Machree
542.21machrees and the auntieparthenopes my schwalby words with
–542.21+Anglo-Irish machree: my heart
–542.21+in 1890, the Irish Parliamentary Party split into two factions over Parnell's leadership, the so-called Parnellites and anti-Parnellites
–542.21+Parthenope: old name of Naples
–542.21+Greek Parthenôpeia: 'maidenly aspect'
–542.21+German Schwalbe: swallow (bird)
–542.21+German Schwall: flood, flood of words
–542.21+Italian scialbi: dull, colourless (masculine plural)
–542.21+Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 5: (of the sacking of Dublin by Viking invaders in 836) 'In the fanciful account of the historian Olaus Magnus, the city is said to have been taken by the unlikely stratagem of snaring a number of swallows and releasing them, each with a lighted sponge fastened under its wings, which speedily ignited the thatched roofs of the Irish town, and presently reduced it to ashes'
542.22litted spongelets set their soakye pokeys and botchbons afume:
–542.22+French sauve-qui-peut: save himself who can, every man for himself
–542.22+soaked
–542.22+song Hokey Pokey
–542.22+French bonbon: a sweet
–542.22+Italian a fiumi: in floods
–542.22+afire
–542.22+fumes
542.23Fletcher-Flemmings, elisaboth, how interquackeringly they ro-
–542.23+VI.B.29.154a (o): 'Fletcher-Flemings, elizaboths, mishe mishe, how inter quakeringly they rogated me, I, unhesitant, their golden one stuff stuff, made replique' === VI.B.29.126b (o): 'Elizabeth Fletcher and Elizabeth Smith first quakers' (first 'stuff' uncertain)
–542.23+Elizabeth Fletcher and Elizabeth Smith: 17th century early Quaker missionaries in Dublin, imprisoned in Newgate for publishing their beliefs
–542.23+Fleming (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
–542.23+both
–542.23+interrogated
–542.23+quaker
–542.23+rogation: solemn supplication, especially during the three days before Ascension Thursday
542.24gated me, their golden one, I inhesitant made replique: Mesde-
–542.24+Parnell: hesitency
–542.24+French réplique: reply, answer
–542.24+French mesdames: ladies (literally 'my dames')
542.25memdes to leursieuresponsor: and who in hillsaide, don't you
–542.25+Japanese to: and
–542.25+French leur: their
–542.25+French messieurs: gentlemen (literally 'my sirs')
–542.25+VI.B.29.154b-.155a (o): 'and who the hillsaide, don't let flyfire till you see their whites of the bunkers' eyes. Mr Answers: Bringem young, bringem young, — —' (dashes ditto 'bringem young')
–542.25+who in hell said
–542.25+hillside
–542.25+phrase don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes (popularly attributed to several different commanders at the Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775 (part of the American Revolution), although it may well have been said before that)
542.26let flyfire till you see their whites of the bunkers' eyes! Mr An-
–542.26+firefly
–542.26+Slang buggers: fellows, chaps (from bugger: sodomite)
–542.26+VI.B.29.123j (o): 'Sleuth Mr Answers the golden one nuggets' ('eu' uncertain)
542.27swers: Brimgem young, bringem young, bringem young!: in
–542.27+Brigham Young: Mormon leader, founded Salt Lake City
542.28my bethel of Solyman's I accouched their rotundaties and I turn-
–542.28+Hebrew beth El: house of God
–542.28+Dr Bethel Solomon: gynaecologist and president of the Rotunda Maternity Hospital, Dublin
–542.28+brothel
–542.28+temple of Solomon
–542.28+Solyman's Coffee House, Dublin (1691)
–542.28+Suleiman I: 16th century Sultan of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire
–542.28+accouche: to act as a midwife
–542.28+rotundity: roundness or plumpness (e.g. that of a pregnant woman)
–542.28+turnkey: jailor
–542.28+Sultan of Turkey
542.29keyed most insultantly over raped lutetias in the lock: I gave bax
–542.29+insistently
–542.29+overripe
–542.29+William Shakespeare: other works: The Rape of Lucrece (Lucretia)
–542.29+Alexander Pope: Rape of the Lock
–542.29+VI.B.29.106l (k): 'Lutetia'
–542.29+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 814a: 'The capital did not at once take the name of the Parisii, whose centre it was, but long kept that of Lucetia, Lucotetia or Lutetia'
–542.29+Lock Hospital, Dublin (for venereal diseases)
–542.29+box of biscuits
–542.29+Latin pax vobiscum: peace be with you
542.30of biscums to the jacobeaters and pottage bakes to the esausted;
–542.30+Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a pottage of lentils (Genesis 25:29-34; Motif: Jacob/Esau)
–542.30+Jacob's Biscuits, Dublin
–542.30+Jacobites
–542.30+cottage cake: a type of simple cake (made with eggs, flour, sugar, milk and butter)
–542.30+exhausted
542.31I dehlivered them with freakandesias by the constant droppings
–542.31+VI.B.29.065b (o): 'I delivered them with frekandesias by the constant droppings from my smalls instalmonths while I titfortotalled up their farinadays for them on my slatoper's slate, with my chandner's chauk' ('titfortotalled' replaces a cancelled 'totfortotlled')
–542.31+Delhi, India
–542.31+freak
–542.31+free and easy
–542.31+fricandeau: a fricassee of veal, a slice of veal stewed in gravy
–542.31+French friandises: titbits
542.32from my smalls instalmonths while I titfortotalled up their
–542.32+Colloquial smalls: underclothes
–542.32+installments
–542.32+phrase tit for tat: retaliation of a commensurate nature
542.33farinadays for them on my slataper's slate with my chandner's
–542.33+Italian farina: flour
–542.33+Scipio Slataper: Italian writer and patriot, born in Trieste
–542.33+VI.B.29.014b (o): 'Chandni Chauk'
–542.33+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VII, 'Delhi', 955b: 'The Chandni Chauk ("silver street"), the principal street of Delhi, which was once supposed to be the richest street in the world, has falled from its high estate'
542.34chauk: I jaunted on my jingelbrett rapt in neckloth and sashes,
–542.34+gingerbread
–542.34+German Brett: board
–542.34+wrapped
–542.34+phrase sackcloth and ashes
542.35and I beggered about the amnibushes like belly in a bowle. In
–542.35+Beggars Bush: a locality in Dublin (supposedly so named after its numerous mendicants in earlier centuries, begging from travellers by day and ambushing them as highwaymen by night)
–542.35+ambushes
–542.35+omnibuses
–542.35+VI.B.29.070f (o): 'Billy in the Bowl'
–542.35+Collins: Life in Old Dublin 77: (of a legless beggar in old Dublin who strangled passers-by) 'He was nicknamed "Billy in the Bowl," having been introduced into the world with only a head, body and arms' [135.13] [542.35-543.03]
–542.35+VI.B.29.070a (o): 'in the humanity of my heart'
–542.35+Collins: Life in Old Dublin 78: (of two ladies' encounter with Billy in the Bowl) 'The unsuspecting ladies were by no means displeased at the rencontre... resolving in the humanity of their hearts to give him something' [542.35-543.03]
542.36the humanity of my heart I sent out heyweywomen to refresh
–542.36+VI.B.29.071a-b (o): 'Whey women highwey " to refresh the ballwearied' (double inverted commas ditto 'women'; first two words not crayoned)
–542.36+Collins: Life in Old Dublin 90: '"curds and whey women," who stood with snow-white pails and cloths at the corners of the streets to refresh the ball-wearied, or tavern penitents, on their return to their homes when day began to peep'
–542.36+highwaymen


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