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566.01blank! For it's race pound race the hosties rear all roads to ruin
–566.01+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...blank! For...} | {Png: ...blank. For...}
–566.01+blanket
–566.01+Colloquial blank: a euphemism for damn
–566.01+race: running competition (of horses, etc.); ethnic group
–566.01+upon
–566.01+Childish horsies: horses
–566.01+French hostie: Eucharist, host, consecrated bread (in the Catholic Church, which is governed from Rome)
–566.01+host: a multitude (of men, etc.); a person who receives guests
–566.01+hostler: a person who attends to horses at an inn
–566.01+rear: (of a horse) to rise on its hind legs; to construct, to raise
–566.01+proverb All roads lead to Rome: the same outcome can be reached in many different ways
–566.01+VI.B.8.118a (g): 'roads lead to ruin'
–566.01+Dutch ruin: gelding, castrated horse
566.02and layers by lifetimes laid down riches from poormen. Cried
–566.02+fried onions
–566.02+Christ, union (in medieval Catholic theology, union with Christ was physically achieved through the Eucharist)
566.03unions to chip, saltpetre to strew, gallpitch to drink, stonebread
–566.03+chop (chopping onions makes one cry)
–566.03+saltpetre: potassium nitrate (used in the production of gunpowder, fertilisers, salted meat, etc.)
–566.03+Saint Peter, Paul (Motif: Paul/Peter)
–566.03+(the drinking of Christ's blood as wine and the eating of Christ's body as bread in the Eucharist)
–566.03+God, ichor (ichor: the blood of the gods in Greek mythology)
–566.03+gall: a tumour-like growth on trees (Motif: tree/stone)
–566.03+gall-stone: a pebble-like morbid formation in the gall-bladder
–566.03+tar water: water infused with pine or fir tar (also known as pitch), foul-tasting and formerly used as a medicine (Berkeley strongly advocated its use as a cure-all and daily tonic)
–566.03+(bread as hard as stone)
–566.03+phrase break bread: to eat a meal; to partake of the Eucharist
566.04to break but it's bully to gulp good blueberry pudding. Doze
–566.04+Slang bully: excellent, first-rate
–566.04+bully: pickled or tinned beef
–566.04+VI.B.8.212e (g): 'blueberries pie'
566.05in your warmth! While the elves in the moonbeams, feeling why,
–566.05+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...warmth! While...} | {Png: ...warmth. While...}
–566.05+Motif: While... ring... for to... ling [.05-.06]
–566.05+flitting by
566.06will keep my lilygem gently gleaming.
–566.06+VI.B.8.208d (g): 'littlejim'
–566.06+little Jim (Joyce; *C*)
–566.06+Gemmingia chinensis: one of the scientific names of the flower commonly known as blackberry lily or leopard lily
–566.06+gem gleaming
–566.06+VI.B.19.020b (g): 'gently'
–566.06+Freud: Collected Papers III.170: 'Hans admitted that every night before going to sleep he amused himself with playing with his penis. 'Ah!' the family doctor will be inclined to say, 'now we have it. The child masturbated: hence its pathological anxiety.' But gently. That the child was getting pleasure for itself by masturbating does not by any means explain its anxiety'
–566.06+dreaming
566.07     In the sleepingchambers. The court to go into half morning.
–566.07+{{Synopsis: III.4.4H.A: [566.07-566.25]: an account of all the participants, in a sovereign court setting — each with its own role to perform}}
–566.07+(PARAGRAPH: the infinitive form of the verb is used throughout)
–566.07+VI.B.13.003b ( ): 'the court to go out of mng'
–566.07+phrase the court to go (into, into full, into half, out of) mourning: a formal order announcing the mourning status of a sovereign court and the proper mourning dress to wear [.25]
–566.07+VI.B.25.162i (r): 'in ½ mourning'
–566.07+Evening Standard 10 Aug 1923, 16/4: (of changes affecting the Cowes Regatta on the Isle of Wight following the recent death of the president of the United States, Harding) 'Cowes in Half Mourning'
–566.07+half mourning: the second stage of mourning, following full mourning; the clothing worn during this period, when black is no longer obligatory and is replaced or augmented by other colours [.25]
566.08The four seneschals with their palfrey to be there now, all
–566.08+*X* + the four's ass = Motif: four fifths
–566.08+VI.B.13.046e (g): 'seneschal'
–566.08+seneschal: a senior administrative position at a sovereign court
–566.08+Archaic palfrey: a horse for everyday riding, with a smooth ambling gait (considered especially suited for ladies)
–566.08+pale grey (the four's ass is coloured gray or grey)
566.09balaaming in their sellaboutes and sharping up their penisills. The
–566.09+VI.B.9.108b (g): 'balaaming *X*'
–566.09+Balaam's ass: a biblical ass, famous for being granted the power of speech and arguing with its owner, Balaam, a diviner and prophet (Numbers 22:28-30; the four's ass)
–566.09+salaaming: offering an oriental salutation of ceremonial obeisance, often accompanied by a deep bow (from Arabic salaam: peace, a greeting of peace)
–566.09+Archaic celibate: celibacy, abstinence from marriage and sex
–566.09+French selle: saddle
–566.09+VI.B.13.046f (g): 'a sharping up'
–566.09+Obsolete sharping up: admonishing sharply [.11]
–566.09+sharpening their pencils
–566.09+penis ills (i.e. venereal diseases)
–566.09+*S* [.09-.10]
566.10boufeither Soakersoon at holdup tent sticker. The swabsister
–566.10+VI.B.13.046h (g): 'boufeither'
–566.10+beefeater: a popular name for a member of the Yeomen of the Guard (bodyguards of the British monarch) or of the Yeomen Warders (ceremonial guards of the Tower of London)
–566.10+bull-fighter (Motif: bear/bull)
–566.10+French bouffe: comic, amusing
–566.10+either
–566.10+Constable Sackerson (Sackerson: a captive bear kept near the Globe Theatre in Shakespeare's time)
–566.10+soaker: drunkard
–566.10+soon
–566.10+Sanskrit atho va: or also, either, or
–566.10+to hold up
–566.10+Danish tændstikker: matches
–566.10+*K* [.10-.12]
–566.10+VI.B.13.212j (g): 'sobsister'
–566.10+Slang sob sister: a female journalist replying to female readers' inquiries through an advice column (or writing similar highly emotional content); an actress who plays sentimental roles
–566.10+swab: a mop or rag for cleaning wet surfaces or soaking up spilled liquids (Slang an unpleasant or ill-mannered person)
566.11Katya to have duntalking and to keep shakenin dowan her drogh-
–566.11+Katya: eastern European female given name, diminutive of Katherine (equivalent to Kate)
–566.11+Sanskrit katyayana: a middle-aged widow [079.27]
–566.11+done talking
–566.11+Dundalk, Drogheda: the two largest towns in County Louth
–566.11+shaking down [.09]
–566.11+VI.B.13.131b (g): '*K**S* her droghedrars droghedars'
–566.11+drawers
–566.11+Polish drogie: dears, dear ones (feminine)
566.12edars. Those twelve chief barons to stand by duedesmally with
–566.12+dears
–566.12+*O* [.12-.16]
–566.12+VI.B.13.047h (g): 'chief baron'
–566.12+Chief Baron: the title of the chief judge of the Court of Exchequer (a court dealing with matters of equity and revenue; England and Ireland had separate such courts, both abolished in the late 19th century)
–566.12+the Magna Carta was reluctantly signed by King John when faced with the demands of his rebellious barons [.15]
–566.12+Obsolete by due: by right
–566.12+VI.C.5.216h (o): === VI.B.17.062k ( ): 'duodecimal'
–566.12+Bugge: Contributions to the History of the Norsemen in Ireland II.10: 'The duodecimal system was characteristic of all Norsemen, gods as well as human beings, not only in Norway and Iceland, but also — as we may see — in their settlements in Ireland'
–566.12+duodecimally: in a manner pertaining to twelve
–566.12+dismally
566.13their folded arums and put down all excursions and false alarums
–566.13+Latin -arum (plural genitive; the Magna Carta was written in Latin and thus contains this suffix several times, as well as numerous -rum and -um) [.13-.16]
–566.13+arum: a genus of plants with large phallic-shaped flowers
–566.13+arms
–566.13+false alarms
566.14and after that to go back now to their runameat farums and re-
–566.14+the Magna Carta was signed at Runnymede [.15]
–566.14+meat farms
566.15compile their magnum chartarums with the width of the road
–566.15+Magna Carta: a charter of rights granted by King John to his barons in 1215, often seen as a founding constitutional document of individual freedom and protection from absolute authority [.12-.14]
–566.15+Latin magnum chartarium: large archive
–566.15+Latin chartarum: of maps, of charts, of papers
566.16between them and all harrums. The maidbrides all, in favours
–566.16+harms
–566.16+Colloquial harum-scarums: reckless people, reckless actions
–566.16+*Q* [.16-.18]
–566.16+Gerald Griffin: The Bridal of Malahide: 'The joy-bells are ringing In gay Malahide... The maids are assembling with garlands of flowers... A wife and a widow, a maid and a bride!' (a poem about a young bride whose husband is killed in battle immediately after their wedding) [.16-.18] [583.21]
–566.16+bridesmaids
–566.16+Archaic phrase favours gay: bright colourful ribbons or similar decorations worn for a wedding or other such celebration
566.17gay, to strew sleety cinders on their falling hair and for wouldbe
–566.17+in biblical times, throwing ashes over one's head was a custom of extreme grief or mourning
566.18joybells to ring sadly ringless hands. The dame dowager to stay
–566.18+joy, sad (opposites)
–566.18+song She Was Poor but She Was Honest: 'He has made a stylish marriage While she wrings her ringless hands' (about a young poor woman seduced and abandoned by a wealthy older man, leading to her downfall and suicide)
–566.18+*A* [.18-.19]
–566.18+VI.B.13.047g (g): 'dame' [.21]
–566.18+Archaic dame: the wife of a knight or minor nobleman, a woman of rank below a lady
–566.18+dowager: a widow holding a title or property inherited from her late husband
566.19kneeled how she is, as first mutherer with cord in coil. The two
–566.19+according to the Bible, Eve was the first mother (and initially naked; Genesis 2-4) [.24]
–566.19+VI.B.13.048c (g): 'mutherer'
–566.19+(tampon thread)
–566.19+*V* and *C* [.19-.21]
–566.19+The Two Princes in the Tower: a popular name for the two sons of King Edward IV and thus the heirs to the English throne, who shortly after their father's death were lodged in the Tower of London by their uncle and England's regent, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, only to then disappear, presumably murdered, with their uncle ascending to the throne instead as King Richard III
566.20princes of the tower royal, daulphin and deevlin, to lie how they
–566.20+Tower Royal: a small royal palace that stood in London from roughly the 12th to the 16th century, then the name of a small street at the same location (near modern-day Cloak Lane)
–566.20+Motif: alliteration (d) [.20-.21]
–566.20+VI.B.13.047a-b (g): 'daulphin devlin'
–566.20+VI.B.19.189g (g): '*C* dauphin'
–566.20+VI.B.5.125b (g): 'dauphin 68th King of F—' (only first word crayoned)
–566.20+Chateaubriand: Œuvres Choisies Illustrées III.170, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe: (of Chateaubriand's meeting with Charles X, exiled in Prague) 'en regardant dans la demeure des empereurs d'Autriche le soixante-huitième roi de France... je me dis porteur d'une lettre... à madame la Dauphine' (French 'watching at the home of the emperors of Austria the sixty-eighth king of France... I said I was the bearer of a letter... to the dauphin's wife')
–566.20+Archaic French daulphin: French dauphin: the title of the eldest son of the king of France (*V*) [.23]
–566.20+Dolph (*C* in II.2) [286.25]
–566.20+Develin Tower: the easternmost tower of the Tower of London
–566.20+devil
566.21are without to see. The dame dowager's duffgerent to present
–566.21+(without seeing their father's nakedness; Genesis 9:22: (of the sons of the drunken Noah) 'And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness') [.22] [.26]
–566.21+without: and not, so as not; outside [.22]
–566.21+*E* [.21-.23]
–566.21+VI.B.13.047f-g (g): 'duff dame' [.18] [.24]
–566.21+Anglo-Irish duff: black
–566.21+Slang duff: worthless, inferior, fake
–566.21+Lord Dufferin: prominent 19th century British public servant of Anglo-Irish origin, serving, among other positions, as Governor-General of Canada and Viceroy of India
–566.21+Archaic gerent: manager, ruler
–566.21+VI.B.19.214d (g): 'present arms'
–566.21+Military present arms: to salute a person of superior rank with one's weapon (e.g. during parades)
566.22wappon, blade drawn to the full and about wheel without to be
–566.22+Slang weapon: penis
–566.22+German Wappen: coat of arms
–566.22+Slang wapping: having sex with
–566.22+Colloquial wapping: whopping, unusually large
–566.22+VI.C.6.001a (b): 'blade draw to full' === VI.B.12.006g ( ): 'blade drawn to full' [.24]
–566.22+(fully erect penis)
–566.22+phrase to the full: completely, fully
–566.22+Military about-turn: to turn so as to face backwards, to rotate oneself 180 degrees (e.g. during parades)
–566.22+(turn backwards so that his nakedness will not be seen by his sons) [.21] [.26]
–566.22+without: and not, so as not; outside [.21]
566.23seen of them. The infant Isabella from her coign to do obeisance
–566.23+*I* [.23-.24]
–566.23+VI.B.19.189h (g): '*L* infanta' [556.01]
–566.23+infanta: the title of a daughter of the king of Spain or Portugal (similar to princess) [.20] [556.01]
–566.23+Archaic coign: corner (especially in phrase coign of vantage: a corner or position allowing for good observation or action)
–566.23+Archaic do obeisance: perform a gesture of respect, such as a bow or curtsy
566.24toward the duffgerent, as first futherer with drawn brand. Then
–566.24+VI.B.13.047f (g): 'duff' [.21]
–566.24+according to the Bible, Adam was the first father (and initially naked; Genesis 2-4) [.19]
–566.24+VI.B.13.048d (g): 'futherer'
–566.24+VI.B.13.047d (g): '*E* drawn sword' [.22]
–566.24+Archaic brand: sword, blade
–566.24+(erect penis)
566.25the court to come in to full morning. Herein see ye fail not!
–566.25+to come into full mourning [.07]
–566.25+herein: in this matter
–566.25+Archaic phrase see ye fail not!: make sure you do not fail! (plural)
566.26    — Vidu, porkego! Ili vi rigardas. Returnu, porkego! Maldeli-
–566.26+{{Synopsis: III.4.4H.B: [566.26-570.13]: the four are lost in the park — chatting about the king's upcoming hunting visit and his meeting with the mayor}}
–566.26+[[Speaker: *A*]]
–566.26+(as the children can see their father's nakedness, she tells him to turn backwards) [.21-.22]
–566.26+Esperanto Vidu, porkego! Ili vin rigardas. Returnu, porkego! Maldelikata!: See, big pig! They are looking at you. Turn back, big pig! Vulgar!
–566.26+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...porkego! Maldelikato!} | {Png: ...porkego. Maldelikato!} | {JJA 60:288: ...porkego maldelikata!} (conceivably corrupted at JJA 60:347 with the 'm' becoming capitalised, likely leading to a confused series of future edits)
–566.26+Variants: elucidations for variant: Esperanto porkego maldelikata: vulgar big pig
566.27kato!
–566.27+
566.28     Gauze off heaven! Vision. Then. O, pluxty suddly, the sight
–566.28+[[Speaker: *X*]]
–566.28+(PARAGRAPH: contains allusions to King George IV's visit to Ireland, in 1821, the first such peaceful state visit by an English monarch) [.36] [567.11-.18] [567.25-.27] [568.01] [568.15-.26] [568.30] [569.02]
–566.28+phrase God in heaven! (exclamation of astonishment or alarm) [.29]
–566.28+Fay: A Short Glossary of Theatrical Terms 15: 'Gauzes. — Cloths made of thin net, battened top and bottom, used to get effects of fog or dimness. All lighting must be done from behind them'
–566.28+VI.B.44.183i (b): 'heaven things'
–566.28+Fay: A Short Glossary of Theatrical Terms 17: 'Heaven. — A built plaster alcove placed at the back of most modern stages to be used in place of backcloths, and to do away with the necessity of using borders. It should be built right up to the grid'
–566.28+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...heaven! Vision...} | {Png: ...heaven. Vision...}
–566.28+VI.B.44.184a (b): 'vision'
–566.28+Fay: A Short Glossary of Theatrical Terms 31: 'Vision. — To cut out a portion of a cloth and cover it with gauze, and to make a character visible to the audience through it by illuminating the back of it, giving the effect of a vision'
–566.28+Variants: {FnF, Png: ...Then. O...} | {Vkg: ...Then, O...}
–566.28+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song Oh, the Sight Entrancing [air: Planxty Sudley]
–566.28+suddenly
566.29entrancing! Hummels! That crag! Those hullocks! O Sire! So be
–566.29+EHC (Motif: HCE)
–566.29+German Himmel!: heaven! (exclamation of astonishment or alarm) [.28]
–566.29+Dialect hummel: hornless stag (Motif: mixed gender)
–566.29+Daniel Hummel: a friend of Joyce in Zurich and Paris (Ellmann: James Joyce 438: (of Joyce) 'Once he said to Daniel Hummel... 'Human beings sometimes appear to me to take the shape of animals... I've always thought of you as a calf'')
–566.29+(that penis, those testicles)
–566.29+crag: a steep rugged rocky cliff, a projecting piece of rock
–566.29+VI.B.13.022b (g): 'hullocks'
–566.29+hillock: little hill
–566.29+bullock: castrated bull (Archaic young bull, male calf; Motif: mixed gender)
–566.29+Slang ballocks: testicles
–566.29+VI.B.4.166e (b): 'O'Sire'
–566.29+Osiris: an Egyptian god associated with death and resurrection (Budge: The Book of the Dead, introduction, p. xxvii: 'the god-man and king Osiris' and throughout) [.35-.36] [567.05-.06] [567.09-.10]
–566.29+sire: the male parent of a horse or other quadruped (Archaic sir, master; father, ancestor)
566.30accident occur is not going to commence! What have you there-
–566.30+VI.C.5.144b (o): === VI.B.10.081c ( ): 'an accident occur is going to commence'
–566.30+there, four (*X*)
566.31fore? Fear you the donkers? Of roovers? I fear lest we have lost
–566.31+German vier: four (pronounced 'fear'; *X*) + donkey (the four's ass) = Motif: four fifths
–566.31+German fahren: to drive
–566.31+VI.B.26.026h+.027h (b): 'il fait noir = donker' (only last word crayoned; French il fait noir: it is dark)
–566.31+Dutch donker: darkness, dark [.32]
–566.31+VI.B.26.026m+.027m (b): 'par des bandits = door roovers' (only last word crayoned; French par des bandits: by bandits; Dutch door: by)
–566.31+Dutch Archaic roovers: robbers (now spelled 'rovers')
566.32ours (non grant it!) respecting these wildy parts. How is hit finis-
–566.32+(our way; our view; our virility)
–566.32+phrase God grant it! (expressing a wish)
–566.32+Latin non grata: unwelcome
–566.32+phrase these parts: this geographic region
–566.32+Wilde, park (Oscar Wilde, hence via sodomy, buttocks, hence Phoenix Park) [564.01]
–566.32+(how sinister it is; how will it finish?)
–566.32+Norwegian hit: to here
–566.32+Latin finis terrae: land's end (Cape Finisterre is the northwesternmost tip of Spain; Finistère is the northwesternmost tip of France)
–566.32+German finster: dark [.31]
566.33ter! How shagsome all and beastful! What do you show on? I
–566.33+all, beast (a false etymology of the word 'panther' is that it derives from Greek pan-: all- + Greek ther: beast, animal; Motif: panther) [565.19]
–566.33+German schaust an: (you) look at, behold
566.34show because I must see before my misfortune so a stark pointing
–566.34+German schaue: (I) look
–566.34+phrase to my misfortune: unfortunately
–566.34+stark: rigid; barren; naked
–566.34+finger-post: a road-sign composed of a pole or post mounted with one or more arms pointing to different destinations, each identified by name and distance (ubiquitous in Britain and Ireland) [.36]
–566.34+Slang pointer: Slang pole: penis
566.35pole. Lord of ladders, what for lungitube! Can you read the verst
–566.35+VI.B.13.118f (g): 'pole'
–566.35+(Tet: a pillar-like ancient Egyptian symbol of stability, the symbolic backbone of Osiris) [.29] [567.09]
–566.35+VI.B.4.173g (b): 'lord of ladder'
–566.35+Budge: The Book of the Dead, introduction, p. lxxiv: (of Horus, the son of Osiris, and a mythical ladder joining heaven and earth) 'Horus... the god who is the lord of the ladder' [.29]
–566.35+Slang ladder: female genitalia
–566.35+far
–566.35+longitude
–566.35+Italian lungi: far (adverb)
–566.35+lunge: to drive, to thrust
–566.35+Slang tube: penis
–566.35+read [567.05-.06]
–566.35+VI.B.13.118g (g): 'verst'
–566.35+verst: a Russian unit of distance (slightly more than one kilometre)
–566.35+Obsolete verst: first
–566.35+Dutch verst: farthest
–566.35+Norwegian verst: worst
–566.35+versed
566.36legend hereon? I am hather of the missed. Areed! To the dun-
–566.36+legend: inscription; myth
–566.36+Archaic hereon; on this place
–566.36+VI.B.4.173f (b): 'Hathor'
–566.36+Hathor: an Egyptian goddess (the consort of Horus) associated, secondary to Osiris, with death and resurrection (Budge: The Book of the Dead, introduction, p. lxxi: 'my lady, the goddess Hathor' and throughout) [.29]
–566.36+rather
–566.36+hater
–566.36+(the dead)
–566.36+mist
–566.36+Latin missaticum: message
–566.36+a reed (Budge: The Book of the Dead, ch. CLXXXIII, p. 629: 'HYMN TO OSIRIS... I am the writing reed of the god Neb-er-tcher... who giveth forth the word of wisdom and understanding') [.29]
–566.36+Archaic areed: to interpret or divine (a dream, an obscure message, a riddle, etc.)
–566.36+agreed!
–566.36+read! [567.05-.06]
–566.36+(five locations pointed to by the finger-post: four arms (from most to least distant), plus pointing downwards to itself; Motif: four fifths) [566.36-567.04] [.34]
–566.36+(the assumption is that the finger-post is located near the entrance to Phoenix Park, which is also where George IV's royal procession through Dublin began) [.28]
–566.36+the Dún Laoghaire (pronounced and often spelled 'Dunleary') Obelisk commemorates the departure of George IV following his 1821 visit to Ireland, at which point the town was renamed Kingstown (until 1920) [.28]


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