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545.01 | storied semidetached but rarely pay tradesmen, went security |
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–545.01+ | VI.B.29.165e (o): 'security for friend who absconded' |
–545.01+ | Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 268: 'Mr. V. became security for a sum of money for a friend of his who afterwards absconded and left Mr. V. to meet the payment' |
545.02 | for friend who absconded, shares same closet with fourteen simi- |
–545.02+ | Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 34: 'This tenement shares... one closet with fourteen other tenements' |
545.03 | lar cottages and an illfamed lodginghouse, more respectable than |
–545.03+ | VI.B.29.140b (o): 'probably of ill fame' |
–545.03+ | Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 17: 'House very dirty, probably used as a house of ill-fame' |
–545.03+ | Motif: some/more |
–545.03+ | Cluster: Respectable |
–545.03+ | Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 17: 'House cleaner than some' |
545.04 | some, teawidow pension but held to purchase, inherited silk hat |
–545.04+ | VI.B.29.166a (o): 'teawidow pension but must continue to buy' |
–545.04+ | Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 269: 'a "Tea Pension." (A Tea Company started a scheme under which a regular purchaser of a ¼ pound of their tea per week on being left a widow is entitled to a pension of 5s. per week during her widowhood, — the only apparent condition for the continuation of this pension being that she continues to buy the regular quantity of tea each week)' |
545.05 | from father-in-law, head of domestic economy never mentioned, |
–545.05+ | |
545.06 | queery how they live, reputed to procure, last four occupants |
–545.06+ | VI.B.29.140l (o): 'queery — how they live' |
–545.06+ | Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 23: 'Nine young children. Had parish relief stopped... Query — How they live?' |
–545.06+ | VI.B.29.146k (o): 'last seven occupants "carried out"' |
–545.06+ | Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 53: 'The last three tenants have been "carried out" (i.e. died)' |
545.07 | carried out, mental companionship with mates only, respecta- |
–545.07+ | VI.B.29.147h (o): 'mental companionship with mates' |
–545.07+ | Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 77: 'The husband commonly finds his chief interests among his "mates," and seldom rises even to the idea of mental companionship with his wife' |
–545.07+ | Cluster: Respectable |
545.08 | bility unsuccessfully aimed at, copious holes emitting mice, de- |
–545.08+ | CHE (Motif: HCE) |
–545.08+ | VI.B.29.151a (o): 'holes emitting mice' |
–545.08+ | Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 156: 'Wooden floor of upper room has large holes admitting numbers of mice' |
545.09 | coration from Uganda chief in locked ivory casket, grandmother |
–545.09+ | |
545.10 | has advanced alcoholic amblyopia, the terror of Goodmen's |
–545.10+ | amblyopia: defective sensitivity of retina |
–545.10+ | VI.B.29.152a (o): 'Goodman's Field' |
–545.10+ | Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 168: 'the density of population per acre for certain of the most overcrowded districts of London... Whitechapel (Goodman's Fields)... 160' |
545.11 | Field, and respected and respectable, as respectable as respec- |
–545.11+ | VI.B.29.144d ( ): 'and respected and respectable' (Cluster: Respectable) |
–545.11+ | VI.B.29.143j (o): 'as respectable as respectable can be' (Cluster: Respectable) |
545.12 | table can respectably be, though their orable amission were the |
–545.12+ | horrible admission |
–545.12+ | amission: loss |
545.13 | herrors I could have expected, all, let them all come, they are my |
–545.13+ | HCE (Motif: HCE) |
–545.13+ | horrors |
–545.13+ | VI.B.17.048a (b): 'You are my villain for I have tallaged you' |
–545.13+ | Frazer: Folk-Lore in the Old Testament 176: (quoting a letter about ultimogeniture and merchet from Prof. Maitland, who is in turn quoting from an unidentified pronouncement of a medieval lord to his tenant) 'You are my villains, for I have talliged you, you paid fine for your daughter's marriage, you were your father's youngest son and succeeded to his tenement' |
545.14 | villeins, with chartularies I have talledged them. Wherfor I will and |
–545.14+ | VI.C.3.189g (b): 'Chartulary' |
–545.14+ | Haliday: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin 217: 'the chartulary of St. Thomas's Abbey, known as Coppinger's Register' |
–545.14+ | chartulary: a collection or register of charters, often in the form of a large volume (or volumes) containing duplicates of all charters belonging to a monastery, corporation, etc. |
–545.14+ | D.A. Chart: Dublin historian, author of Chart: The Story of Dublin |
–545.14+ | tallage: tax levied upon feudal dependants by their superiors |
–545.14+ | VI.B.29.075a (o): 'Wherfore I will and firmly command that they do inhabit it and hold it for me and my heirs firmly and quietly, amply and honestly, and with all the liberties and free customs which the men of Bristol have at Bristol, and through whole my land.' [.14-.22] |
–545.14+ | Charter of Henry II granting Dublin to the citizens of Bristol, 1172: 'Wherefore I will and firmly command that they do inhabit it, and hold it for me and of my heirs, well and in peace, freely and quietly, fully and amply and honourably, with all the liberties and free customs which the men of Bristol have at Bristol, and through my whole land' [.14-.23] |
545.15 | firmly command, as I willed and firmly commanded, upon my |
–545.15+ | VI.B.29.161h (o): 'upon our Royal Word' |
545.16 | royal word and cause the great seal now to be affixed, that from |
–545.16+ | VI.B.29.161g (o): 'caused the Great Seal to be affixed' |
–545.16+ | Great Seal: seal on documents in sovereign's name |
–545.16+ | VI.B.29.181i (o): 'from the farthest of the farther of their father to their childrens' childrens' children' |
545.17 | the farthest of the farther of their fathers to their children's chil- |
–545.17+ | VI.B.29.181d (o): 'childrens' childrens' children' |
–545.17+ | Booth: In Darkest England and the Way Out 43: 'The renovation of our Social System is a work so vast that no one of us, nor all of us put together, can define all the measures that will have to be taken before we attain even the Cab-Horse Ideal of existence for our children and children's children' |
–545.17+ | 'children... children's children' is a common collocation of the Old Testament (e.g. Genesis 45:10: 'thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children') |
545.18 | dren's children they do inhabit it and hold it for me unencum- |
–545.18+ | VI.B.29.186d (o): 'unencumbered' |
–545.18+ | Washington Irving: A History of New York, book II, ch. III: 'one Oloffe Van Kortlandt, who had originally been one of a set of peripatetic philosophers who passed much of their time sunning themselves on the side of the great canal of Amsterdam in Holland; enjoying, like Diogenes, a free and unencumbered estate in sunshine' |
545.19 | bered and my heirs, firmly and quietly, amply and honestly, |
–545.19+ | |
545.20 | and with all the liberties and free customs which the men of Tol- |
–545.20+ | Bristol (Motif: anagram) |
545.21 | bris, a city of Tolbris, have at Tolbris, in the county of their city |
–545.21+ | VI.B.29.123c (o): 'county of my city' |
–545.21+ | The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. IV, 'Bristol', 579b: 'Bristol, a city, county of a city, municipal, county and parliamentary borough, and seaport of England' |
545.22 | and through whole my land. Hereto my vouchers, knive and |
–545.22+ | VI.B.29.062d (o): 'voucher' |
–545.22+ | Peter: Dublin Fragments, Social and Historic 29: 'We give facsimiles of two particularly interesting vouchers for public balls' |
–545.22+ | (witnesses) |
–545.22+ | VI.B.29.191e (o): 'jackknife & snuff as warrant' |
–545.22+ | Washington Irving: A History of New York, book III, ch. I: (of Governor Van Twiller presiding as a magistrate) 'he called unto his constable, and pulling out of his breeches proper a huge jack-knife, dispatched it after the defendant as a summons, accompanied by his tobacco box as a warrant' |
545.23 | snuffbuchs. Fee for farm. Enwreak us wrecks. |
–545.23+ | German Buch: book |
–545.23+ | German Büchse: box |
–545.23+ | VI.B.29.080d (o): 'fees for farm' |
–545.23+ | The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 622b: 'In 1217 the fee farm of the city was granted to the citizens at a rent of 200 marks per annum' |
–545.23+ | Motif: Fee faw fum |
–545.23+ | Henricus Rex (signature on Henry II's charter) [.14] |
545.24 | Struggling forlongs I have livramentoed, milles on milles of |
–545.24+ | [[Speaker: Yawn as *E*]] |
–545.24+ | furlongs, miles (units of length) |
–545.24+ | VI.B.29.081h (o): 'Livramento' |
–545.24+ | The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIII, 'Rio de Janeiro', 354a: 'The oldest part of the city... lies between... Sāo Bento, Conceicāo and Livramento hills on the N.' |
–545.24+ | Portuguese livramento: liberation |
–545.24+ | Italian libramento: balancing |
–545.24+ | phrase miles and miles: a considerable extent |
–545.24+ | French mille: thousand |
545.25 | mancipelles. Lo, I have looked upon my pumpadears in their |
–545.25+ | Italian mancipio: slave |
–545.25+ | manciple: steward |
–545.25+ | Slang pumpship: urinate |
–545.25+ | (*IJ* and *VYC*) |
–545.25+ | Madame de Pompadour: mistress of Louis XV of France |
545.26 | easancies and my drummers have tattled tall tales of me in the land: |
–545.26+ | French lieu d'aisances: public convenience |
–545.26+ | VI.B.19.046d-f (g): (r): 'drummer salesman commercial' (first word crayoned in green, last in red) |
–545.26+ | drummer: travelling salesman |
545.27 | in morgenattics litt I hope, in seralcellars louched I bleakmealers: |
–545.27+ | German Morgen: morning |
–545.27+ | morganatic marriage: one between man of exalted rank and woman of lower rank, where neither wife nor children share dignities |
–545.27+ | attics, cellars |
–545.27+ | French lit: bed |
–545.27+ | Norwegian litt: a little |
–545.27+ | Italian serale: of evening |
–545.27+ | French louche: squint |
–545.27+ | lodged |
–545.27+ | blackmailers |
545.28 | on my siege of my mighty I was parciful of my subject but in street |
–545.28+ | French siège: seat, chair |
–545.28+ | Luke 1:52: 'He hath put down the mighty from their seats' |
–545.28+ | Parsifal: one of King Arthur's knights |
–545.28+ | Virgil: Aeneid VI.853: 'Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos' (Latin 'generosity to the conquered and firmness against aggressors' (or 'to spare the defeated and subdue the proud')) |
–545.28+ | VI.B.7.063e (b): 'my experiences of Dublin street' ('my' uncertain) |
545.29 | wauks that are darkest I debelledem superb: I deemed the drugtails |
–545.29+ | walks |
–545.29+ | VI.B.7.063d (b): 'scenes that are darkest' |
–545.29+ | Obsolete debelled: vanquished, subdued, expelled |
–545.29+ | them |
–545.29+ | draggletail |
545.30 | in my pettycourts and domstered dustyfeets in my husinclose: at |
–545.30+ | VI.B.29.043c (o): 'Petty courts Pentarch' (last word not crayoned) |
–545.30+ | Haliday: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin li: 'the five great roads, leading from different provinces, or petty kingdoms, to the seat of supreme royalty at Tara' |
–545.30+ | petticoats |
–545.30+ | Court of Piepowders: a judicial court formerly held at fairs to administer justice among itinerant dealers (from French pied poudreux: vagrant, travelling merchant (literally 'dusty foot')) |
–545.30+ | VI.B.29.050c (o): 'doomster' |
–545.30+ | Haliday: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin 156: 'The Isle of Man retains many relics of the Northmen. We find the Thingwall mount with its "doomsters," or "lagmen"' |
–545.30+ | Archaic doomster: judge |
545.31 | Guy's they were swathed, at Foulke's slashed, the game for a |
–545.31+ | Guy's Hospital, Dublin |
–545.31+ | Guy Fawkes |
–545.31+ | Gui Foulques became Pope Clement IV |
–545.31+ | Matthew 5:38: 'Ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth' (referring to Exodus 21:24: 'Eye for eye, tooth for tooth') |
545.32 | Gomez, the loy for a lynch: if I was magmonimoss as staidy lavgiver |
–545.32+ | Lynch, mayor of Galway, hanged his own son for murdering a Spaniard, Gomez |
–545.32+ | Fernando Gomez: a famous matador (Joyce: Ulysses.18.626: 'the bullfight at La Linea when that matador Gomez was given the bulls ear') |
–545.32+ | Anglo-Irish loy: turf-spade, a spade with a heavily-tipped blade used for cultivating potatoes (especially in Connacht; attempted murder weapon in Synge's The Playboy of the Western World; from Irish láighe) |
–545.32+ | French loi: law |
–545.32+ | magnanimous |
–545.32+ | Irish Mag Mell: Plain of Joy (the Celtic Otherworld, land of the gods and the afterlife) |
–545.32+ | Mosse built Rotunda Hospital |
–545.32+ | Irish lamh: hand |
–545.32+ | lawgiver |
545.33 | I revolucanized by my eructions: the hye and bye wayseeds I |
–545.33+ | revolutionised |
–545.33+ | volcano eruptions |
–545.33+ | Lucan |
–545.33+ | erections |
–545.33+ | phrase highways and byways: all the roads, both major and minor |
–545.33+ | waysides |
–545.33+ | W.C.s: water-closets |
545.34 | scattered em, in my graben fields sew sowage I gathered em: in |
–545.34+ | VI.B.24.225j (r): 'GRABEN' |
–545.34+ | The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Vienna', 51b: 'the Graben, one of the busiest thoroughfares, containing the most fashionable shops in Vienna' |
–545.34+ | German Graben: trench |
–545.34+ | German Grab: grave |
–545.34+ | proverb As you sow, so shall you reap: your actions dictate your consequences [.35] |
545.35 | Sheridan's Circle my wits repose, in black pitts of the pestered |
–545.35+ | VI.B.29.052c (o): 'Sheridan Circle' |
–545.35+ | The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 349a: 'Among the principal residence streets are Massachusetts, especially between Dupont and Sheridan circles' |
–545.35+ | reap [.34] |
–545.35+ | Black Pitts: street, Dublin |
545.36 | Lenfant he is dummed. (Hearts of Oak, may ye root to piece! |
–545.36+ | VI.B.29.052e (o): 'Lenfant' (replaces a cancelled 'l'Enfant') |
–545.36+ | The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 349a: 'The original plan of the city, which was prepared by Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1755-1825)' |
–545.36+ | VI.B.29.169c (o): 'Hearts of Oak' |
–545.36+ | Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 358: 'Registered Friendly Societies... Hearts of Oak' [546.01] |
–545.36+ | Hearts of Oak: a prominent British friendly society (a mutual association for the purposes of cooperative life insurance, pensions and banking) |
–545.36+ | prayer Prayer for the Dead: 'Rest in peace' |
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