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552.01he was never too oft for old Sarum): terminals four my staties
–552.01+Abraham and Sarah (Genesis 11-25)
–552.01+Old Sarum: a notorious rotten borough (a parliamentary borough with a tiny number of constituents and therefore easy to bribe or influence; abolished by the 1832 Reform Bill) near Salisbury
–552.01+stations
552.02were, the Geenar, the Greasouwea, the Debwickweck, the Mif-
–552.02+railway companies servicing Dublin (Terminus; Province): Great Northern (Amiens Street; Ulster); Great Southern and Western (King's Bridge; Munster); Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford (Westland Row; Leinster); Midland Great Western (Broadstone; Connacht; Motif: 4 provinces) [203.03]
552.03greawis. And I sept up twinminsters, the pro and the con, my
–552.03+set
–552.03+VI.B.21.109h-i (b): '*F* 3 cathedrals *Y* Pat & CC & our Lady' (only first three words crayoned) [.03] [.21] [.23]
–552.03+twin minsters (i.e. two cathedrals; Dublin has two cathedrals, Christ Church and Saint Patrick's, both Church of Ireland, while the Pro-Cathedral (fully, Saint Mary's Pro-Cathedral) is the provisional or acting Catholic cathedral of Dublin)
–552.03+phrase pros and cons
552.04stavekirks wove so norcely of peeled wands and attachatouchy
–552.04+Stavekirke: wooden church in Oslo
–552.04+Norse
–552.04+nicely
–552.04+Roger de Hoveden says Henry II built outside Dublin 'a royal palace constructed with wonderful skill of peeled wands'
–552.04+Italian attaccaticcio: gluey, sticky
–552.04+Chattahoochie river
552.05floodmud, now all loosebrick and stonefest, freely masoned,
–552.05+flood, ark (Noah)
–552.05+VI.B.29.051d (o): 'ere loose brick and free stone' ('loose' and 'free' are interpolated into the entry)
–552.05+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Wellington', 513b: 'Wood was originally in favour as a building material, owing to the prevalence of earthquakes, but brick and stone subsequently took its place in the construction of the principal buildings'
–552.05+German fest: solid
–552.05+Freemasonry
552.06arked for covennanters and shinners' rifuge: descent from above
–552.06+Ark of the Covenant
–552.06+arched
–552.06+Covenanter: Scottish presbyterian
–552.06+Joyce: Ulysses.2.275: 'the planters' covenant'
–552.06+Anglo-Irish Slang Shinner: Anglo-Irish Sinn Feiner: militant Irish nationalist (not necessarily belonging to the so-named organisation; mostly derogatory; from Irish Sinn Féin: Ourselves (Irish nationalist slogan); Motif: Sinn Féin)
–552.06+prayer Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary: 'Refuge of sinners' (title of the Virgin Mary)
–552.06+Italian rifugio: refuge
552.07on us, Hagiasofia of Astralia, our orisons thy nave and absedes,
–552.07+VI.B.29.207j (o): 'Creamy Santa Sofia'
–552.07+Ferguson: The Confusion of Tongues 288: (of the Liberal Catholic Church) 'Each large division of the service makes its contribution toward the completed edifice... until we have a creamy Santa Sofia which no one can see' [536.08] [539.12] [.07] [552.35]
–552.07+Hagia Sofia: mosque, originally church, in Istanbul, originally Constantinople, Turkey (Greek 'Holy Wisdom')
–552.07+Latin astra: stars
–552.07+Australia
–552.07+VI.B.29.207k (o): '1st Canticle = pavement / Introit = walk & roof / Kyrie = Bowls & cupolas / Gloria = Central Dome'
–552.07+Ferguson: The Confusion of Tongues 289: (quoting Bishop Leadbeater of the Liberal Catholic Church) 'This gigantic thought-form is gradually built up during the earlier portion of the service... it may be said that the opening Canticle provides its pavement and the Introit the material for its walk and roof, while the Kyrie supplies the subsidiary bowls or cupolas, and the Gloria the great central dome' [536.08] [539.12] [.07] [552.35]
–552.07+Motif: alphabet sequence: ABCD
–552.07+apses
552.08our aeone tone aeones thy studvaast vault; Hams, circuitise!
–552.08+Greek eis tous aionas ton aionon: for ever and ever (a common biblical and liturgical phrase, more common in its Latin form 'in saecula saeculorum')
–552.08+steadfast
–552.08+radio hams (amateurs)
–552.08+Ham and Shem: sons of Noah
552.09Shemites, retrace!: horns, hush! no barkeys! hereround is't
–552.09+(silence in cathedral)
–552.09+(no dogs)
–552.09+Barkey (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
552.10holied!: all truanttrulls made I comepull, all rubbeling gnomes
–552.10+German Hohelied: Song of Solomon
–552.10+French Slang truande: whore
–552.10+Archaic trull: prostitute
–552.10+trolls
–552.10+compel
–552.10+German rubbeln: to rub (vigorously)
552.11I pushed, gowgow: Cassels, Redmond, Gandon, Deane, Shep-
–552.11+go, go
–552.11+VI.B.29.158b (o): 'Cassels'
–552.11+Richard Cassels: Dublin architect (Leinster House; Cluster: Architects and Sculptors in Dublin)
–552.11+VI.B.29.159a (o): 'Redmond'
–552.11+Mary Redmond: Dublin sculptor (Father Mathew's statue; Cluster: Architects and Sculptors in Dublin)
–552.11+VI.B.29.159g (o): === VI.B.29.158c (o): 'Gandon'
–552.11+James Gandon: Dublin architect (Custom House, Four Courts and King's Inns; Cluster: Architects and Sculptors in Dublin)
–552.11+VI.B.29.158a (o): 'Deane'
–552.11+Sir Thomas Deane: Dublin architect (National Library and National Museum; Cluster: Architects and Sculptors in Dublin)
–552.11+VI.B.29.159d (o): 'Shepperd'
–552.11+Oliver Sheppard: Dublin sculptor (statue in General Post Office; Cluster: Architects and Sculptors in Dublin)
552.12perd, Smyth, Neville, Heaton, Stoney, Foley, Farrell, Vnost with
–552.12+VI.B.29.159c (o): 'Smyth'
–552.12+Edward Smyth: Dublin sculptor (sculptures on Custom House; Cluster: Architects and Sculptors in Dublin)
–552.12+Smyth (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
–552.12+VI.B.29.158e (o): 'Neville'
–552.12+Parke Neville: Dublin architect (Vartry Waterworks; Cluster: Architects and Sculptors in Dublin)
–552.12+VI.B.29.158d (o): 'Heaton'
–552.12+Thomas Heaton: Dublin architect (Findlater's Church; Cluster: Architects and Sculptors in Dublin)
–552.12+VI.B.29.158f (o): 'Stoney'
–552.12+B.B. Stoney: Dublin architect (Essex Bridge; Cluster: Architects and Sculptors in Dublin)
–552.12+VI.B.29.159b (o): 'Foley'
–552.12+John Henry Foley: Dublin sculptor (O'Connell's and Grattan's statues; Cluster: Architects and Sculptors in Dublin)
–552.12+VI.B.29.159e (o): 'Farrel'
–552.12+Sir Thomas Farrell: Dublin sculptor (William Smith O'Brien's statue; Cluster: Architects and Sculptors in Dublin)
–552.12+Farrell (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
–552.12+VI.B.29.186e (o): 'van Nost'
–552.12+John Van Nost: Dublin sculptor (statues at Dublin Castle; Cluster: Architects and Sculptors in Dublin)
552.13Thorneycroft and Hogan too: sprids serve me! gobelins guard!:
–552.13+VI.B.29.159j (o): 'Hamo Thorneycraft'
–552.13+Hamo Thorneycroft: Dublin sculptor (Plunket's statue; Cluster: Architects and Sculptors in Dublin)
–552.13+VI.B.29.159f (o): 'Hogan'
–552.13+John Hogan: Dublin sculptor (statue of O'Connell in City Hall; Cluster: Architects and Sculptors in Dublin)
–552.13+sprites, goblins (supernatural beings)
–552.13+VI.B.29.106i (k): 'Gobelins'
–552.13+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 813c: 'the famous tapestry factory and dye-works (with a tapestry museum) at the Gobelins'
552.14tect my tileries (O tribes! O gentes!), keep my keep, the peace
–552.14+Latin tectum: roof
–552.14+protect
–552.14+VI.B.29.105l (k): 'tileries My keep'
–552.14+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 808a: 'the palace of the Tuileries (so called in allusion to the tile kilns which occupied its site)'
–552.14+tilery: place where tiles are made
–552.14+Latin gentes: race
–552.14+VI.B.29.127c (o): 'peace of the four great ways'
–552.14+Hine: The History of Hitchin I.277: (of safety from highwaymen) 'there was of course 'the peace of the four great ways,' in which, standing as it did upon the Icknield Way, the township of Hitchin shared. But the peace was by no means apparent. The 'enormities' seem as frequent here as in the unprotected regions'
552.15of my four great ways: oathiose infernals to Booth Salvation,
–552.15+(four railway lines) [.02]
–552.15+Four Waves of Ireland: four points on Irish coast
–552.15+otiose: idle, sterile, useless
–552.15+(hellish roads to heaven, heavenly roads to hell)
–552.15+William Booth: founder of the Salvation Army and author of Booth: In Darkest England and the Way Out
–552.15+boost
–552.15+salivation [.16]
552.16arcane celestials to Sweatenburgs Welhell! My seven wynds I
–552.16+Emmanuel Swedenborg: Arcana Coelestia [.15]
–552.16+sweating [.15]
–552.16+Valhalla: in Norse mythology, the magnificent hall in which chosen slain heroes spend their glorious afterlife (reached by a rainbow bridge)
–552.16+nursery rhyme As I Was Going to Saint Ives: 'As I was going to Saint Ives, I met a man with seven wives, and every wife had seven sacks' [215.15]
–552.16+Dialect wynd: narrow lane between houses
–552.16+winds: air currents; windings
552.17trailed to maze her and ever a wynd had saving closes and all these
–552.17+(in Greek mythology, Theseus used Ariadne's thread to find his way out of the Labyrinth of King Minos, built by Daedalus)
–552.17+amaze
–552.17+saving clauses
–552.17+clothes
–552.17+close: passage to house
552.18closes flagged with the gust, hoops for her, hatsoff for him and
–552.18+(effects of gusts)
552.19ruffles through Neeblow's garding: and that was why Blabus was
–552.19+Niblo's Garden: New York City music hall
–552.19+Balbus: a Roman said to have built a wall in Gaul [004.30]
552.20razing his wall and eltering the suzannes of his nighboors: and
–552.20+raising, razing
–552.20+Norwegian elte: knead
–552.20+German Eltern: parents
–552.20+altering
–552.20+Susanna and the Elders: an apocryphal bible story (appended to Daniel in Catholic texts) about a young virtuous Susanna who, while bathing, is spied upon by two lecherous elders, who then attempt to blackmail her into having sex with them (also, the subject of numerous paintings)
552.21thirdly, for ewigs, I did reform and restore for my smuggy
–552.21+thirdly [.10-.11]
–552.21+(third Dublin cathedral) [.03]
–552.21+Colloquial phrase for Heaven's sake! (exclamation of alarm, anger, exasperation, etc.)
–552.21+German ewig: ever, eternal
–552.21+Danish smukke piger: beautiful girls
552.22piggiesknees, my sweet coolocked, my auburn coyquailing one,
–552.22+Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Tale, 82: 'She was a prymerole, a pigges-nye' (i.e. flower)
–552.22+pig, paddy (Motif: Pat Pig) [.23]
–552.22+Oliver Goldsmith: The Deserted Village 1: 'Sweet Auburn!'
–552.22+VI.B.29.135c (k): 'Coolock'
–552.22+Coolock: northeastern Dublin suburb
–552.22+Quaill (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
552.23her paddypalace on the crossknoll with massgo bell, sixton
–552.23+Colloquial paddy: Irishman
–552.23+Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, restored by Benjamin Lee Guinness [.03]
–552.23+Petit Palais, Paris
–552.23+VI.B.16.004j (r): 'crossknolls'
–552.23+Walsh: Scandinavian Relations with Ireland during the Viking Period 48: 'Olaf's wife, Authr, daughter of Ketill, was one of the most zealous of these early Norse converts: "She used to pray at Crossknolls, where she had crosses erected, because she was baptized, and was a good Christian"'
–552.23+(go to Mass)
–552.23+Moscow
–552.23+Bell (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
–552.23+Sexton (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
–552.23+(bell chiming six)
552.24clashcloshant, duominous and muezzatinties to commind the fit-
–552.24+French cloche: bell
–552.24+Irish cloisint: hearing
–552.24+Italian duomo: cathedral
–552.24+muezzin
–552.24+Italian mezzatinta: half-tint
–552.24+comminate: to threaten (especially with divine punishment)
–552.24+commend
–552.24+remind
–552.24+Commander of the Faithful: an epithet applied to a caliph (a political-religious Muslim leader, considered a successor of the prophet Mohammed)
552.25ful: doom adimdim adoom adimadim: and the oragel of the lauds
–552.25+oracle
–552.25+French orage: storm
–552.25+German Orgel: organ
–552.25+(organ of the Lord)
–552.25+Archaic orgulous: proud
–552.25+rage (of Lord, in form of thunderstorm)
–552.25+Luke 2:9: (of the shepherds at the time of the birth of Jesus) 'And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid'
–552.25+Archaic phrase laud and glory: high praise
–552.25+loud
552.26to tellforth's glory: and added thereunto a shallow laver to slub
–552.26+Telford and Telford: organ builders (109 Saint Stephen's Green West, Dublin), made organ in Saint Patrick's Cathedral
–552.26+Thomas Telford: British bridge builder
–552.26+Haydn: hymn The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God (from the oratorio The Creation; based on Psalms 19:1)
–552.26+laver: large vessel for ritual washing
–552.26+French lavabo: washbasin, sink
–552.26+layer
–552.26+Dialect slub: to cover with mud
–552.26+(put out)
552.27out her hellfire and posied windows for her oriel house: gospelly
–552.27+Hellfire Club: the popular name of a ruined building on the peak of Montpelier Hill, County Dublin (from its being a meeting place for a Hellfire Club, an exclusive club for high-society rakes, one of several in 18th century Britain and Ireland, said to engage in debauchery and occult practices)
–552.27+Persse O'Reilly
–552.27+rose window: a circular window divided into segments by bars of tracery radiating from its centre
–552.27+oriel window: a window in an oriel (a polygonal recess projecting out of a building); also, a stained glass window
–552.27+Oriel: English name of Airgíalla, a confederation of kingdoms in medieval Ireland (around modern County Armagh)
–552.27+Russian Gospodi pomiluy, Khristos pomiluy: Greek Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison: Lord, have mercy, Christ, have mercy (prayer) [.30]
–552.27+Obsolete gospelly: truthfully, in accordance with the gospel
552.28pewmillieu, christous pewmillieu: zackbutts babazounded, ollguns
–552.28+Christ's house (i.e. church)
–552.28+pew (in church)
–552.28+French milieu: middle
–552.28+sackbut: a trombone-like musical instrument of the Renaissance (also, erroneously, a biblical stringed instrument)
–552.28+Isaac Butt: 19th century Irish nationalist politician, ousted by Parnell from the leadership of the Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain (the British sister organisation of the Home Rule League) in 1877
–552.28+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. I, 'Algiers', 653d: 'The principal streets of the city meet in the place du Gouvernement: the rue Bab Azoun (Gate of Grief) which runs parallel to the boulevard de la Republique'
–552.28+French Slang baba: astounded
–552.28+bassoon
–552.28+Archaic zounds!: God's wounds! (mild oath)
–552.28+sounded
–552.28+old guns
–552.28+phrase all guns blazing: with all of one's energy
–552.28+organs [.25]
552.29tararulled: and she sass her nach, chillybombom and forty bon-
–552.29+Tara: ancient capital of Ireland
–552.29+(Home Rule)
–552.29+rolled
–552.29+VI.B.6.162h (r): 'wife sat on altar Clonmacnois'
–552.29+Lawless: The Story of Ireland 55: (the wife of Thorgist or Turgesius, a Viking invader of Ireland) 'took possession of the High Altar at Clonmacnois, and used it as a throne from which to give audience, or to utter prophecies and incantations' [.29-.30]
–552.29+German saß: sat
–552.29+German saß nach: was in detention (in school)
–552.29+Italian sasso: stone, rock
–552.29+Irish Sasanach: Englishman, English
–552.29+German hernach: afterwards
–552.29+German nach: after (German After: anus)
–552.29+song I love my Chilibombom
–552.29+chilly
–552.29+Slang bum: Colloquial bottom: buttocks
–552.29+pantomime Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
–552.29+'Forty Bonnets': nickname of Mrs Tommy Healy of Galway
552.30nets, upon the altarstane. May all have mossyhonours!
–552.30+stain
–552.30+prayer Lord, have mercy on us (Greek Kyrie eleison) [.27]
552.31    — Hoke!
–552.31+[[Speaker: Matthew]]
–552.31+German Hoch!: Hail!
552.32    — Hoke!
–552.32+[[Speaker: Mark]]
552.33    — Hoke!
–552.33+[[Speaker: Luke]]
552.34    — Hoke!
–552.34+[[Speaker: John]]
552.35    — And wholehail, snaeffell, dreardrizzle or sleetshowers of bless-
–552.35+{{Synopsis: III.3.3B.H: [552.35-554.10]: more feats he did for her — all for her pleasure}}
–552.35+[[Speaker: Yawn as *E*]]
–552.35+all hail!
–552.35+hail, snow, drizzle, sleet
–552.35+VI.B.29.125g ( ): 'Snaefell'
–552.35+Snaefell: the highest mountain on the Isle of Man
–552.35+snowfall
–552.35+VI.B.29.207h (o): 'showers of blessing'
–552.35+Ferguson: The Confusion of Tongues 288: (of the Liberal Catholic Church) 'ritual is carefully designed with a view to perfecting the spiritual machinery through which showers of blessings, to use the Methodist phrase, are drawn upon the waiting communicants' [536.08] [539.12] [552.07]
–552.35+song Showers of Blessings
552.36ing, where it froze in chalix eller swum in the vestry, with fairskin
–552.36+chalice: the cup in which the wine (Christ's blood) is administered in the celebration of the Eucharist [553.07-.08]
–552.36+Danish eller: or
–552.36+foreskin
–552.36+Fagrskinna: compendium of lives of Norse kings


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