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By no pomp of pride or mark of mightiness is the wellbeing of a people more surely proven than by ^|1its tribute of^1| solicitude for its own continuance nor can we ever nor can we justly nor can we with justice esteem a nation, which sets small store by and where this quality either is lacking or is set small store by we cannot with justice esteem a nation so little provident, however wide ^|1be the dominion her realm^1|, be ^|1it she^1| ruled never so wisely. For what boots it to gather and to garner if none or weakling be to for none, or weaklings shall come after? Or what is that wisdom, to extol his meat above the man himself, the dead which ^|1sustains serves for^1| life above the living, which death should serve? Plainly ^|1nought and^1| no. If care for progress be absent in vain ^|1was the house raised and the hearthstone laid to cheer were the rooftree raised^|a, to shelter it^a| or threshold laid^1|.

Yet what boon of all can ^|1equal vye with^1| the bounty of increase. Where it is found the land teems ^|1with produce^1|, where not, is bare: or the barren heath and hillside, this but that the abundant wheatfield of heavy awns, the fertile loam ^|1of fallows^1|, the herds numbered and blessed. So was it ^|1said ^|apromised commanded^a|1| to ^|1Abraham the patriarch to^1| increase and multiply and it was promised ^|1him^1| his seed should not fail but be numerous: Sacred then and even the pagans saluted on meeting amid the press a matron with child for, if command and promise from ^|1above on high^1| warrant and if the wise of mankind at all times and everywhere establish it, ^|1for (and^1| even the rudest know this ^|1awe, awe),^{1| |1}sacred revered^{1| |1}above all else should be motherhood motherhood should be above all else^1| and its abode a temple ^|1inviolable inviolate^1|.

^|1This Such^1| was, ^|1by concurrent witness, witness the writers of Story,^1| the practice in our land from the earliest times where leechcraft was ever held high in honour. Not to The sick, the wayfarer, the stricken were the objects of wise care. Not to speak of their hostels, their sweating chambers ^|1& leperyards ^|aand plaguegraves^a|1|, their houses of sorrow, their greatest leeches: as the ^|1O'Shiels Shiels ^|athan whom none was wiser^a|1|, the O'Lees and the O'Hickeys with many others, record in their books the lore of herbs and ^|1maladies with their^1| cures as we may read even now with much instruction how the trembling hand was ^|1cured made whole^1| and how the withering
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the boyconnell too and the wave or loose flux. Now surely in such and so varied learning we shall not miss a tender care for birth. And in fact ^|1it is so so it was^1|. Before born the babe ^|1was blessed had bliss^1|. Within the womb he won worship. ^|1Food and couch A couch and food^1| were ^|1ready set^1| for her than should bear him and ^|1cleanness clean clothes^1| and the service of midwives and what drugs were needed or surgical tools in the high bright wellbuilt fair home of mothers when^|1, being ^|athen^a| far gone,^1| she ^|1came there drew thither^1| to lie in, ^|1far gone,^1| her ^|1time near term ^|aaccomplished come^a|1|.

Nor has this ^|1usage failed in wont stopped short of^1| our time. The ^|1Coombe hospital, the Rotunda hospitals of the Coombe, Rotunda of the National Maternity Hospitals^1|, ^|1are ^|arise stand^a|1| among us, where day ^|1after following^1| day ^|1is fostered^1| the neverfailing fount of life ^|1is fostered^{1| |1}and so so that^1| the tale of creatures ^|1does shall^1| not ^|1ever^1| lessen, for nature renews it ^|1ever from of^1| her bounty which gives giving, if but to her one gift be given, ^|1her an^1| hundredfold yield. In this greater than we and in her strength greater for the earth will suffer that chasms to rend her ^|1loins^1| and the sea to be sundered to her depths and yet show no worse, so strong ^|1is nature in them in them is nature^1|, while her chief child faints under a light load, wailing comes to birth and is ^|1borne born^1| with ^|1as a child of bondchild into^1| woe. But woe ^|1to unto^1| them that know not ^|1this such^1| woe. Sweet woe whereof joy comes. ^|1If hallowed was ^|aHallowed is If hallowed^a|1| the ground where ^|1our dead are laid lie our dead^1| thrice hallowed ^|1should that house be be that house^1| where life ^|1comes burgeons^1| to new life, love ^|1to fruition ^|aflowers ^|bhas flower and fruit bears fruit and flower^b|a|1|.

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^|1Levin lightened, sudden from south.^1| Bloom, not unmindful, lifted the k ^|1pressed the bell pushed the nightbell ^|abutton knob^a|1|. ^|1That scene was known to him To him were known those scenes^1|, who had seen many ^|1for in Holles street inasmuch as in that street Holles^1| where the doorbell rang ^|1he had dwelt in rough years with one dear in past days with ^|aone maid dear his liefest love^a| he had dwelt^1|. Nine years ^|1|acircling wheeling^a|1| since then were flown. Gently he pressed, knowing the pangs of birth, fearful to bring fear. Pity led him and led on with lust to wander though awe withheld.
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Of that house ^|1Andrew A.^1| Horne is ^|1lord master^1|. He goes ^|1And there There^1| are the white spotless couches set, ^|1seventy in all (three score and ten)^1|, with ^|1pillars posts^1| of shining gold to give rest to his seventy charges, ^|1the those^1| pregnant mothers. ^|1Betimes^1| He goes forth ^|1betimes^1| on his round bringing to life, healing, with hands of comfort and he rejoices to look upon his home where those wombs await him. ^|1Their eyes turn towards him ^|aAll their eyes turn towards him ever towards him their eyes turn^a|1| for ^|1they long^1| to be delivered and ^|1more^1| to bring forth ^|1they long^1|.

^|1Two guardians are there Watchers 2 there are^1|, nurse Callan ^|1and nurse with Hester^1| Quigley. They to see that nothing ^|1lacks and lack, ^|awhitevested,^{a|1| |1}tending hour by hour hour by hour tending^1|, ^|1whiterobed, ^|awhitevested^a|1|, ^|1two^1| soothing sisters, they watch by turns. The old they still, sustain the young, in twelve months thrice five hundred they. Vigilant ^|1ever for a at every^1| sign ^|1they move softly softly they move^1|.

Softly the ^|1halldoor opened ^|aheavy^a| portal swung open^1| of the house and to Bloom greeting whiterobed nurse Callan ^|1answered with fair words with fair words answered^1|, ^|1and She^1| bade him ^|1deprecant^1| in. ^|1To her he was known. ^|aTo her of old time To her from old time^a| unread was known.^{1| |1}She blank^1| and he precedent, ^|1stepped^1| soft ^|1twice^1| on the hall mat ^|1twice stepped^1|. She asked his news which softly he ^|1told gave^1|, hat holding in ^|1humble^1| hand, ^|1to not molest loth to irk^1|, in Horne's house. Much in nine years had come to pass. Once her in ^|1a ^|aDublin's Dublin^a|1| throng ^|1he had met met ^|ahad^a| he^1| and ^|1when she bowed to her bowing^1| had not ^|1quick^1| doffed. Now pardon ^|1of her^1| he craved, for ^|1unread good^1| pleas ^|1she kindly gave allowed by her^1| that that to him seen sudden face hers so young then ^|1had^1| seemed. Light her eyes ^|1lit swiftkindled^1|. Bloom of blushes ^|1unread brought^1| Bloom's ^|1words unread word^1|.

^|1As^1| Then ^|1when^1| her eyes watchful perceived his ^|1dark mien solititous she asked if feared garb dark adread feared she^1| grief for him. Glad was she ^|1now^1| if before afraid. ^|1He thereat Whereat he courteous^1| asked ^|1how Doctor O'Hare died Doctor O'Hare some tidings sent^1|. Earnest mien then her face took which ^|1late^1| awhile ^|1ere^1| had ^|1roseate shone shone roseate^1|.
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With veiled eyes ^|1looking^1| low she said poor Doctor O'Hare was in heaven, she ^|1said told^1|. ^|1Bloom was sorry Sorry was Bloom^1| to hear that. In his hat high grave ^|1deep^1| he ^|1sad ^|asadly^a|1| looked mute. Nurse Callan sighed ^|1pitying ruing^1| fate for one so good yet ^|1unwilling to question God's will God's will to question unwilling^1|. Bloom she told how ^|1this passed in Scotland this in Scotland ^|ahad^a| passed^1|, ^|1stomach cancer the cause the ^|adire^a| cause stomach cancer^1|. ^|1His Bloom's^1| mute, ^|1condolent ruminant^1| head, in held hat ^|1unread ^|adull sadlyº^a|1| staring. ^|1|xmasspriest housel sickmen's oil^x|1|

Death thus end to beginning links. On earth's face race afar race ^|1appears follows^1|: appears and dies: but the deathless urge ^|1of to^{1| |1}life ever onward ever onward life^1| drives. Burdens we bare, burdened we, which the unborn must bear, if born.

Her Bloom ^|1softspeeched soft ^|aof in^a| speech^1| of ^|1Mona Mrs^1| Purefoy ^|1human^1| asked. If all well he ^|1begged craved^1| to know. Hard her case nurse Callan said, hard the birth, if born, would be. Bloom on mat with hat hearkened. U.P. Josie ringletted hair he knew but ^|1nature's^1| law strong, stern. Rueful he heard of pangs ^|1prolonged outdrawn^1|: Woman's woe ^|1vicarious with wonder^1| feeling ^|1a misteyed. The weteyed^1| woman's tale Bloom heard. ^|1With^1| So young she was, Young she is youth he longed for ^|1prolonged outdrawn^1|. He on her ^|1looked as then as then looked^1|. Nine years ^|1gone^1|. ^|1A Virgin. ^|aAnd Virgin still. Yet ^|bvirgin blank^b| she. A maid.^a|1| Bloom ^|1pondered these things mute all weighed^1|. Bloodflow nine Nine twelve bloodflows chiding her childless.

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And ^|1as whiles^1| they spake the door of the chamber ^|1on the upon their^1| left ^|1was^1| opened and there ^|1came forth ^|awas heard nighed^a|1| a ^|1great mickle^1| noise ^|1as him thought^1| as of many that ^|1sat had assembled them^1| at meat and ^|1were made^1| merry to their ^|1much^1| desport. And there came ^|1forth against the place as they stood^1| a young scholar of medicine, hardy and noble, that men ^|1cleped clepen^1|
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Dixon ^|1junior ^|afor him thought that sir Malachi had come as said,^a|1| and he knew ^|1Bloom Master sir Leopold^1| for it was not long ^|1time gone^1| sithen they had ^|1met them had ado each with other^1| in the house of our ^|1mother lady^1| of misericord where this scholar ^|1dwelled lay^1|. And he said him that he should in with them for to make merry. ^|1But And ^|aBloom sir Leopold^a| in hope to scape free, said him that he should go other where and for^1| he was ^|1full of cautels and sutle deceits and would not a man of cautels and a subtile ^|aand the ^|bsister good nun^b| was of ^|bthat mind his avis ^|cand repreved this scholar^c|b| though she trowed ^|bnot well^b| he ^|bhad^b| said not sooth but thing that was false of his subtility.^a| and his blank would not^{1| |1}And But^1| he, this scholar, would not ^|1have him hear say nay nor do ^|aher mandement ne have him neither^a| in aught^1| contrarious to his list so ^|1he sir Leopold^1| went with him into ^|1that this^1| chamber for there many and he was ^|1nothing loth fain^1| to rest ^|1him for a space^|a, in sooth,^a|1| being ^|1weary sore^1| of limb after ^|1his so^1| many marches ^|1environing^1| and sometime venery.

In ^|1that this^1| chamber sat at board a merry fellowship of ^|1scholars the most lustiest^1| and they hailed ^|1Master Bloom sir Leopold^1|, crying ^|1lustily amain^1|, Welcome, ^|1sir pardee^1|. With right goodly cheer was that board decked of ^|1salty well salted^1| fishes ^|1withouten heads ^|aand oil of fatness of the olive and the lifegiving bread of fecund wheat^a|1| and bread and ^|1with a plenty of aleflasks aleflasks a great plenty^1|. And ^|1they the scholars ^|aall the board about^a|1| with one accord they bade him ^|1to^1| be of them and ^|1to^1| and ^|1that this^1| scholar let pour for him a draught of fellowship ^|1and ^|aa^a| halp thereto ^|athe which ^|ball^b| they drank every each^a|1| whereof ^|1he sir Leopold ^|ato pleasure him^a|1| took ^|1but little ^|aonly apertly somewhat in ^|bfriendship fellowship ^|cfor he drank never no ale^c|b|a|1| but anon full part privily ^|1he^1| voided it ^|1clean the more part^1| into his neighbour glass ^|1|afor he drank never no ale^a|1|, he nothing of that will perceiving. ^|1So Thus^1| sat ^|1he ^|aMaster Bloom sir Leopold^a|1| with those ^|1merry drunken^1| scholars. Loth to move ^|1in from^1| Horne's house.

This meanwhile this good mercy nun stood by the door and ^|1bade begged^1| them of their gentleness ^|1of ^|aby at the reverence of^a| Jesu ^|aour alther liege lord^a|1| to leave their wassailing for there was one above, a gentle dame, whose time hied fast. I marvel, said sir Leopold, it be not come or now ^|1|afor that meseems^a| it dureth overlong in the coming^1|. And ^|1|athere was^a| he was ware ^|aof & saw^a|1| a ^|1scholar franklin^{1| |1}that^1| hight Lenehan that heard him on that side the board^|1, one elder that was older^1| than any of the tother and to him sir Leopold for that he known to sir Leopold of him ^|1by cause they were ^|afellowknights fellows^a| in the one emprise^1|,.º But, said sir Leopold to him ^|1eke by cause he was elder^1|, or it be long too she will bring forth by God his
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grace and have joy for she ^|1is in marvellous pains hath waited marvellous long^1|. And the ^|1squire franklin ^|athat had drunken^a|1| said ^|1missing^1|, Expecting each moment to be her next. Also he took the cup that stood afore him for him needed ^|1never^1| none asking ^|1nor desiring him to drink^1| and ^|1now drink, said he, and^1| he ^|1drank quaffed^1| as far as he might to their both's health for he was a passing good man of his lustiness. ^|1Now drink, said he and And^1| sir that was the meekest knight that ever sat in hall, pledged him courtly in the cup. Woman's woe with wonder feeling.

Now let us speak of that fellowship that was there to the intent to be drunken, an they might. There ^|1were was a sort of scholars, that is to wit, Dixon, yclept junior, with other his fellows.^1| Dixon, ^|1yclept junior, and^1| Lynch and Madden, scholars of medicine, and the franklin ^|1that^1| hight Lenehan and one from Alba ^|1Longa^1|, ^|1one one^1| Crotthers, and the young ^|1knight^1| Stephen ^|1that had mien of a ^|afriar frere^a|1| that was at head of the board and a jester Costello, than men clepen Punch Costello ^|1|afor things all along upon a mastery^a| of him gested^1| (and of all them, ^|1young Stephen reserved reserved young Stephen^1|, he was the most drunken) and that demanded ^|1ever still^1| of more ale) and beside the meek sir Leopold but on ^|1sir young^1| Malachi they waited for that he promised to have come and such as intended to no goodness said how he had broke his advow. And sir Leopold sat with them for he ^|1had bore ^|afast^a|1| friendship to sir Simon and to this his son young Stephen ^|1and for that his languor led him there ^|awhere ^|bafter longest wanderings^b| insomuch as^a| they feasted him for that time in the honourablest manner^1|. Ruth led him, ^|1knight,^{1| |1}love^1| led on, with lust to wander, yet loth to go.

For they were ^|1right witty^1| scholars. And he heard their ^|1arguments quarrels, each gen other, ^|aas touching birth and righteousness,^a| young Madden^1| maintaining that ^|1in put^1| such case it were hard the wife to die (for it had so fallen out ^|1a matter of some years ago^1| with a woman of Dublin in ^|1that Horne's^1| house that now was trespassed out of this world) and the self night next before her death ^|1all^1| they had taken counsel) and they said farther she should live because in the beginning they said the woman should bring forth in pain and travail and wherefore they said that were of this imagination said affirmed how young Madden had said truth for he had
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conscience to let her die. And ^|1some not few^1|, and of these was Lynch, were in doubt that the world was ^|1now^1| right evil governed as it was never other, howbeit the mean people thought ^|1meant believed it^1| otherwise, but the law ^|1and nor^1| his ^|1canons judges^1| did provide no remedy. This was scant said but all cried with one voice the wife should live ^|1as well as other^1| sith she was God's creature, and the babe to be die ^|1so little and little ^|awhat with argument and what for their drinking,^a|1| they waxed hot ^|1upon that head ^|awhat with argument and what for their drinking,^a|1| but the franklin Lenehan was promt to pour them ale so that at the least way mirth ^|1should might^1| nothing fail. ^|1Then ^|aTo whom Then^a|1| the young Madden showed all the whole affair and when they had heard that case how that she was dead and her goodman ^|1husband^1| for ^|1holy^1| religion ^|1sake^1| would not let her death whereby they all were wondrous grieved. To whom the young Stephen had these words following: ^|1Sir Sirs^1|, pity is well ^|1and murmur ^|ais eke^a| oft ^|awith among^a| low folk^1| but if pity be meet here ^|1for this born child^1|, how then for them those unborn that we daily do to death. For ^|1sir sirs^1|, he said, our lust is brief but nature, giving it, had other ends. Then said Dixon junior to him that hight Punch Costello wist he what ends. But he had overmuch drunken t and the best word he could have of him was he would ever dishonest a woman, whoso she were, ^|1upon occasion ^|awere she^a| wife or maid or leman, on occasion if it so fortuned him to be delivered of his ^|alanguor lustihood^a|1|. Whereat young Stephen ^|1presently^1| poured him ale in his cup, saying it was well said if not well done. And Crotthers of Alba Longa sang praise of that beast the unicorn ^|1a licomo^1| that the which as sir ^|1Binnetto Malachi ^|aafter ^|bsir^b| Binnetto^a|1| saith ^|1how^1| once in a thousand years ^|1comes he cometh^1| by his ^|1horns horn ^|abut he ^|btook them to witness pricked forward with their jestin jibes to himward wherewith they did malice him^b| all & several would witness^a|, by saint Bastardry that for his privities he was able to do any manner of thing that lay in man to do.^1| Thereat laughed they all ^|1jocundly^1| only sir Stephen and sir Leopold ^|1that which^1| never durst laugh too open for but ^|1some a strange^1| humour ^|1which he would not bewray^1|, but he had pity for her who bare, whoso she ^|1was were^1|. Then spake young Stephen^|1, orgulous,^1| of ^|1holy mother^1| church, of law and canons, of birth ^|1wrought^1| by wind ^|1|aof seeds of brightness^a| and demons^1| as divers fable. Also th he showed how in the third month of bigness of the mother a soul ^|1rational^1| was made and how in all our
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^|1holy heavenly^1| mother foldeth ^|1ever^1| souls for God's glory ^|1what though the earthly mother die ^|ayet should she die, by canon yet should the earthly mother, bringing forth beastly, die, by canon whereas the earthly mother that was but a dam to bring forth beastly should die, by canon for so saith ^|bthe seal of he who ^|chath holdeth^c| the fisherman's seal, even he that ^|cblessed^c| Peter on which rock was holy church against for all ages builded^b|a|1|. So all they bachelors ^|1then^1| asked of sir Leopold ^|1and it he said as it was informed him what would he in like case so jeopard her person as risk life to save life^1|. A wariness of mind he would answer as fitted all and said ^|1dissembling^1| as it was informed him ^|1so and agreeing also with his experience ^|ain case of so seldomseen an accident^a| by ^|aPatrick rock saltpetre^a|1| that it was good ^|1that holy church with for that mother church belike at^1| one blow had birth and death pence. ^|1|aand in ^|band so in In^b|a| such sort deliverly he scaped their question and Dixon junior swore by the mass sir Leopold had said pregnant saying. That is truth, then said Dixon junior, and ^|aby the mass or I err^a| as pregnant word.^1| Which hearing young Stephen was a marvellous glad man and he ^|1swore averred^1| that ^|1|athey he^a| who stealeth from the poor lendeth to the Lord^1| for he was ^|1ever^1| of a wild humour when he had ^|1much unread^1| drunken^|1.

Now and^1| that he was even ^|1now^1| in that taking it appeared eftsoons.

But sir Leopold was passing grave, maugre his word, by cause he still had pity of ^|1shrillshrieking women the terrorcausing shrieking of shrill women^1| that were ^|1with child brought to bed^1| and he was minded of his good lady ^|1Marion^1| that had borne him an only manchild which in his 11th day on live had died ^|1and no man of art could save so dark is destiny^1| and she was wondrous stricken at heart for ^|1her babe so dead that evil hap^1| and h to his burial, sore weeping, did him on a fair white corselet of lamb's wool, the flower of the flock, lest he might perish utterly and lie ^|1akale blank^1| (for it was that time ^|1in about the^1| midst of the winter): and now sir Leopold that had of his body no manchild for an heir looked upon him, his friend's son ^|1and was shut up in sorrow for his forepassed happiness^1|, and as ^|1unread sad^1| as he was that him failed a son of ^|1like parts and^1| gentle courage ^|1for all accompted him of real parts^1| so grieved also he in no less measure for young Stephen for that he lived riotously and murdered his goods with whores.

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About that present time young Stephen filled full all cups that stood empty of their portion ^|1so as there remained but little mo, if some of the prudenter had not shrouded their approaches from him that still plied it very busily^1| and who, praying for the intentions of the sovereign pontiff, he gave them for a pledge the vicar of Christ ^|1that what also^1|, as he judged, was with, by all signs and tokens, vicar of Bray. Now drink we of this chalice,
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he said, and quaff ye this strong mead which is not ^|1indeed parcel of^1| my body but the bodiment of my soul. And he showed them fully proudly coins of the tribute and goldsmiths' notes ^|1to the worth of three pounds, ^|afive ten^a| shillings,^1| that he had for certain sweet songs he had writ that were printed. They all admired to see that riches and drank to his more health. ^|1And to them his words were these as followeth. For …^1| For, he said, as the ruins of time build mansions in eternity so will the thorn tree, blasted by the winds of desire, become ^|1from a bramblebush^1| to be the rose upon the rood of time. In the womb of a woman the word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes is made into the word that shall not pass away. Omnis caro ad te veniet. No question but her name is puissant, omnipotentia supplex, ^|1that is, ^|ato wit,^{a| |a}as Bernardus saith^a| an almightiness of petition,^1| whom we call mother most venerable ^|1our mighty mother, she that aventried our Agenbuyer^1|. But or she knew him and was but the creature of her creature, vergine madre, figlia di tuo figlio, or she knew him not and then stands she in the one denial or ignorance with Peter Piscator ^|1that ^|alaid carried^a| the house that Jack built,^1| and Joseph the Joiner ^|1patron of ^|athe happy death of all^a| unhappy marriages, parce que qui l'avait mise dans cette fichue position, c'était le pigéon sacré nom ^|ad'une d'un^a| pipe^1|. Entweder transsubstantiality oder consubstantiality but in no case subsubstantiality. And all cried out as one man: Out upon ^|1subject it^1| for a very ^|1varlet scurvy^1| word. A pregnancy without joy, he said, a birth without pain, a body without blemish, a belly without bigness. Let the ^|1simple lewd^1| with faith and ^|1ardour fervour^1| and veneration worship with courage. ^|1Will we withsay & withstand.^1|

Hereupon Punch Costello ^|1beating with his fist the board^1| would sing ^|1Staboo Stabella^1| a bawdy ^|1ballad catch ^|aof a ^|bmaid wench ^|cthat was put^c|b| in pod of a soldier ^|bin Almain^b|a|1| which ^|1he did now begin now begin he did^1|

The first 3 months she was not well, Staboo
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when nurse Quigley ^|1came blank^1| to the door and bade them hist, ye should shame you, ^|1nor was it not meet as she remembered them,^1| being her mind was to have all orderly against lord ^|1Horne Andrew^1| came ^|1so that as she was jealous^1| no turmoil might shorten the honour of her guard. ^|1It was an ancient and a sad matron.^1| Nor did her ^|1word hortative^1| want his effect ^|1and for straightways^1| Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed him with civil rudeness ^|1to countervail the same^1| and with menace of blandishments ^|1|xothers^{x|1| |1|a}A murrain sieze him^a| What a devil he ^|aunread would be at^a|1| to shut up his drunken drool out of that ^|1like a ^|agood blessed^a| ape, ^|athe good^a| sir Leopold ^|aknowing that had ^|bthe flower of quiet for his cognisance for his cognisance the flower of quiet^b|, ^|bmargerain gentle,^b| advising^a| the time's ^|ahaste occasion^a|1|. In Horne's house rest should reign.

This passage was scarely by when ^|1Dixon junior Master Dixon^1| asked of Stephen when he purposed to take ^|1orders the vows^1| and he said obedience in the ^|1cradle womb^1|, ^|1chastity and in the tomb but^1| involuntary poverty all his days. Master Lenehan at this said he had heard of those nefarious designs and how ^|1as he heard counted,^1| he had besmirched the lily virtue of a confiding female which was corruption for minors and, making merry, they asked if he were now a happy father. But he said he was the eternal son and ^|1a very virgin lecher the very virgin of lechers^1|. Thereat they waxed merry and remembered him of his ^|1bridaltory bridal^1| rite for the ^|1disrobing and^1| deflowering of the spouse, she ^|1to be^1| in white and saffron, in saffron and scarlet ^|1he her groom^1|, with burning of nard tapers and much else till she was unmaided and ^|1made got^1| to engender. And he gave them the an excellent ^|1hymen^1| song out of the Maid's Tragedy by ^|1those delicate poets^1| Master ^|1John^1| Fletcher and Master ^|1Francis^1| Beaumont that was writ for the twining of lovers: To bed, to bed was the burden ^|1that is played sweetly on the virginals^1|. And well met they were, said ^|1Master^1| Dixon, but^|1, by my troth,^1| better were they named Beau mount and Lecher for ofº
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suchº a mingling much might come. And Master Stephen said indeed ^|1to his best remembrance^1| they had ^|1but the^1| one wench between them ^|1& she of the stews ^|ato make shift with in delights noble ^|bwhich was the custom of the country^b|a|1| for life ran very high in those days. And greater love than this, said he, no man hath that he lay down his wife for his friend. Go thou and do likewise for thus ^|1or words to that effect^1| spake Zarathustra, ^|1sometime^1| regius professor of French letters in the university of Oxtail on the Char nor breathed there ever that sage to whom mankind was more beholden. ^|1Orate pro me.^1| Seek unto him, he said, and I will bring you ^|1into a unto the^1| land ^|1of behest^1|, he said, ^|1even from Horeb and from Pisgah and ^|afrom Sinai and from^a| the horns of Hatten unto a land^1| flowing with milk and money. ^|1|aFor As^a|, he said, the ends and finalities of all things accord in some mean and measure with their inception and their originals, the same ^|amanifold^a| concordance which has led for the growth from birth accomplishing by retrogressive metamorphosis that lessening towards the final most consonant with its the nature of that which suffers, so is it with us from cradle to the grave. Over our birth the aged sisters bend: we wail, ^|aseek batten^a|, live, ^|afuck clasp & sunder^a|: above us dead they bend. Among the bulrushes ^|asaved from water^a| of old Nile ^|aa on^a| wattled bed: on Pisgah of Bajan the bed a jackal's cave. And as no-one knows what the ubicity of his ^|agrave tumulus^a| nor to what ^|aineluctable^a| processes we shall thereby be ushered so nor whether to Tophet or a land of promise in the like way is all hidden when we would backward see from what region of remoteness ^|aour the^a| whatness ^|aof our whoness^a| has fetched his whenceness.^1| Thereto Master Costello cried ^|1to him^1| lustily: Dedalus, song. And Master Stephen he, loudly, bade them lo ^|1wisdom had built herself a house^1|.

Behold the mansion reared by dedal Jack
See the malt stored in many a ^|1fluent refluent^1| sack
In the proud cirque of Ivan's bivouac.

And more would he have rehearsed but a noise ^|1without^1| gave him sudden pause. ^|1Loud^1| On left looming Thor thundered. ^|1The god in anger^1| awful ^|1hammerwight a hammerhurler^1|. And master Lynch bade young Stephen have a care to witwanton for the god was angered for his hellprate ^|1and paganry^1|. And young Stephen ^|1that had erst challenged to be so doughty^1| waxed pale ^|1and shrank together^1| as he ^|1heard as tasted that storm and^1| they could all mark and his heart shook within ^|1his the cage of his^1| breast. Then some mocked and ^|1Punch Costello fell hard to drinking which Lenehan vowed he would do after and he was but a word and a blow^1| one or two cried ^|1braggartly^1| for drink and in his fright he swore he wo if the ^|1fellow Nobodaddy^1| above was in his cups he would ^|1follow not lag behind^1| his lead but this
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only to ^|1drown his great fear dye his desperation^1| as cowed he crouched in Horne's house. He drank indeed and all at one draught to pluck up ^|1a face of any^1| heart for it thundered long ^|1rumbling^1| over the heavens ^|1so that young Madden ^|awho was goodly being goodly certain whiles^a| not ^|athe unread of the unread unread unread his boom^a| perceive^1| and Master Bloom ^|1at his side^1| spoke to him calming words ^|1to slumber his great fear^{1| |1}that it was but advertising how it was no other thing but a hubbub^1| noise ^|1that he heard^1|, the discharge ^|1of fluid^|a, look you,^a|1| having taken place and ^|1all^1| of the order of a natural phenomen ^|1of science^1|.

{Section IV: MS V.A.12: U84 14.429-473}
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But was young braggart's fear vanquished by calmer's words? No, for he knew his own wretchedness which could not ^|1be done away with by words by words be done away with^1|. And was he then neither calm like the one nor godly like the other? He was neither as much as he would have liked to be either. But could he not have endeavoured to have found again ^|1that ^|aas in his youth^a| the^1| natural piety that then he lived withal? No Indeed no for grace was not there to give it to him. ^|1Would Heard^1| he then in that thunder a voice of the god ^|1Bring Forth^1| or, what calmer said, a natural phenomenon? Heard? Why he could not forebear hearing both of those things unless peradventure he had ^|1him^1| up ^|1his^1| understanding (which he had not done). For understanding told him that he was in the kingdom of phenomenon where he must certainly one day die as he was too a phen a passing show like the rest. And ^|1he would would he^1| not so die like the rest and pass away? He would
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not though he must nor would he make more shows ^|1as according as ^|amen do with wives^a|1| phenomenon bade him by the law of his kingdom. Then wotted he not of that other kingdom which is the true land of is called ^|1promises Believe on Me and that is ^|athe true^a| land of behest which is delightful and shall be for ever without alteration where there is also no death ^|aneither wiving nor mothering^a| and no birth at which all shall come as many as believe on it^1|? Yes: pious had told him of that kingdom and chaste had pointed out to him the way thither but the reason was that ^|1on the way^1| he fell in with a ^|1certain^1| whore ^|1of an eyepleasing exterior^1| whose name ^|1was, she said, is^1| Bird in the Hand ^|1of an eyepleasing exterior^1| and she beguiled him ^|1wrongways^1| from the true way ^|1and told him he was a very pretty man^1| and ^|1so^1| had him in her grot which is named Two in the Bush or, by some learned men ^|1also^1|, Carnal Concupiscence.

This was that it what all that company ^|1that sat ^|athere at commons^a|1| in ^|1motherly mansion Manse of Mothers^1| the most lusted after, and if they met with ^|1that this^1| whore Bird in the Hand ^|1which was all ^|aplague,^a| foul ^|amonsters^a| within ^|aand a horde of devils^a|1| they would ^|1make at her and^1| strain hard but they would know her for regarding ^|1chaste believe on me^1| they said it was naught else but notion ^|1and they could conceive no thought of it^1| for, first, unread two in the bush whither she ticed them was the ^|1very^1| goodliest grot ^|1|afor and it had three doors which were^a| dalliance and loth to brood and chamber ^|alove delights^a|1| and, second, for the ^|1foulness foul monsters^1| they cared not for ^|1it them^1| for preservative had given them a stout shield ^|1of ^|aoxgut oxengut^a|1| and, third, ^|1that they might take neither^1| no hurt ^|1might come^1|
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^|1to them either^1| from offspring, that was a harmful ^|1dwarf devil^1|, by reason of this same shield which was named Killchild. So were they all in their blind fancy, Mr Godly, and Mr Cavil, and Mr Ape ^|1Franklin Swillale^1|, and Mr Dainty Dixon ^|1Mr False Franklin^1| and Young Braggart and Mr Cautious Calmer. Wherein, O wretched company, were ye all deceived for that was the voice of the god that was in a most grievous rage because that he would presently spill their souls for ^|1these their^1| abuses ^|1which they did against him and their spillings^1| done by them contrariwise to his word ^|1which all forth to bring biddeth which forth to bring brenningly biddeth^1|.

{Section V: V.A.12: U84 14.474-528}
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So Thursday sixteenth June after much drought, please God, rained. ^|1Some countrymen A bargeman^1| coming in ^|1by water with some turf^1| saying ^|1no seed would sprout^1|, the fields looked athirst, very sadcoloured and stunk mightily ^|1the quags too^1|. No use the watering them and on the hills nought but dry flag that would catch at first fire and, for aught they knew, the big wind of last February that did havoc the land ^|1so pitifully^1| was a small thing beside this barrenness. But ^|1by and by^1| as said that evening ^|1about ^|aafter sundown ^|bbig{sup>{small>|c, the wind sitting in the west,^c| biggish swollen^b| clouds to be seen and some lightnings at first and after^a| past^1| ten of the clock one great
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stroke with a long thunder and all running pellmell within doors for the ^|1rain smoking shower^1| the men making shift ^|1shield cover^1| for their straw hats with a ^|1clout or^1| kerchief, the women all ^|1ahaste ahurry^1| with kirtles up ^|1soon as the pour came^1|. In Ely Place, Baggot Street, ^|1thence through^1| Merrion Green up to Holles Street a lot of water running that was before bone dry but no stroke after that first. Over against Duke's Lawn Mal. Mulligan met Seymour ^|1of Trinity College ^|athat was ^|beven returned new got to town^b| from Mullingar with the coach^a|1| he bound home and he to ^|1Andrew^1| Horne's ^|1but^{1| |1}would tell him of a ^|apretty ^|bfair ^|ccomely skittish^c|b|a| wench ^|ahe ^|bknew fancied^b|a|1| and so then both on ^|1to Horne's^1| together. There Bloom ^|1sitting snug^1| with ^|1some a party^1| wags^|1, likely fellows among them Dixon jun., and Ja. Lynch and doc Ja. Lynch, Doc. Madden and young Stephen D.^1| for a languor he had before but was now better, he having dreamed tonight a strange ^|1dream fancy^1| and mistress Purefoy there to be delivered, and poor body, two days past her time and the midwives sore put to it, God send her ^|1quick^1| issue. In sum, a ^|1marvellous infinite^1| great fall of rain that will much increase the harvest ^|1but yet^1| some believe after wind and water fire shall come ^|1for a ^|aphecy ^|bprophecy prognostication^b|a| of Malachi^1| to have three things in all but this ^|1a mere fetch^1| for wives women ^|1bairns^1| and such cattle yet sometimes they are found ^|1right in the right guess^1| there was no knowing how.

{Section VI: V.A.12: U84 14.529-650}
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With this ^|1came^1| up Lenehan ^|1comes^1| to ^|1Stephen the hither end of the table^1| to say how the letter was in that night's gazette and he made a show as if he could find
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it about him (for he swore ^|1with several oaths^1| he had been at pains about it) but on the persuasion of Stephen he gave over to search and ^|1sat by was bidden to sit near by which he did mighty brisk^1|. He was a kind of sport gentleman that ^|1many took went^1| for a merryandrew or honest pickle and what belonged of women, horseflesh or scandal in the town he knew it pat. To tell the truth he was mean in his fortunes and for the most part hankered about the stews ^|1|aand low taverns ^|bat nights till broad day^b|a| with crimps and ostlers ^|aand other gentlemen of the game^a| of whom he picked up loose gossip^{1| |1}and. He took his ordinary at^1| the boiling cook's but if he had ^|1gotten^1| but a mess of broken victuals into him or a bare tester in his pocket in a company he could always bring himself off with his tongue, some pretty story he had from a punk or whatnot that every mother's son of them would burst their sides. The other, Costello that is, on hearing of this asked was it some poetry or a tale. Faith no, ^|1he says,^1| Will, ^|1he said,^1| (that was his name), 'tis all about ^|1horned cattle Kerry cows^1| that are to be all ^|1killed butchered^1| presently along of the ^|1pest plague^1|. But they can go hang, says he, for me with their ^|1meat bully beef^1|, pox on it. There's as good fish in this tin as ever came out of it and very friendly he offered to take of some salty sprats ^|1which he had been looking wishly on^1| that stood by for this was indeed the chief design of his embassy. ^|1What Mort aux vaches^1|, says Mr ^|1Frank Will^1| that ^|1was had been unread^1| articled to a merchant in Bordeaux and he spoke French like a gentleman ^|1too ^|a|bfor he was wisful from a child and from a child he had been a donothing ^|cdonaught donought^c| and then would study to be a divine but that the wenches misled him.^b|a|1| What? says Mr Leopold that was earnest to know the ^|1matter drift^1| of it, will they slaughter all. I
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^|1protest I^1| saw them but this morning going to the ^|1English^1| boats, says he. I can scarce believe 'tis so bad as is ^|1put about blank^1|. ^|1'Tis perhaps You are misinformed He said it was very likely^1| the hoose or the timber tongue ^|1for he had experience of the like, ^|aviz^{a| |a}greasy^a| hoggets and springers and^{1| |1|x}of Gavin Low's brood cattle, meadow auctions, having been at one time ^|aof his life^a| an actuary for Mr Joseph Cuffe's, a ^|aworthy^a| salesmaster ^|athat drove his trade^a| in Prussia street^x|1| But Mr Stephen a little moved but very handsomely told him no such matter that he had a letter from the emperor's chamberlain that was sending two of the ^|1respectablest horseleeches bestquoted horseleech^1| in ^|1his kingdom all Muscovy ^|awith a bolus or two of physic^a|1| to take the bull by the horns. ^|1Ay Come come unread plain dealing^1|, says Mr Lynch and if he'll find himself on the horns of a dilemma, says he, if the bull's Irish. Irish she is ^|1|aor I'll swing for it^a|1|, says Mr Stephen, ^|1sending and he sent^1| the ale ^|1purling^1| about ^|1|ato all who had lust for it^a|1|. An Irish bull in an English chinashop. I conceive you, says Mr Dixon, and that same bull was sent ^|1here to the our island^1| by the bravest cattlebreeder of them all that was the jolly fat farmer ^|1Mr a certain^1| Nicholas Breakspeare with an emerald ring in his nose. ^|1That's true True^1| for you, says Mr Lynch ^|1cross the table^1|, and a bullseye too into the bargain ^|1and a properer A sleeker^1| and a ^|1handsomer plumper^1| bull never shit on a buttercup ^|1on clover on shamrock^1|. He had a pair of golden horns on him and a coat of cloth of gold and ^|1a^1| sweet smoky breath so that all the women of ^|1Ireland the country ^|a|bleft leaving^b| their pots and rolling pins^a|1| followed after him, hanging daisychains on his horns. ^|1To be sure he was gelded by farmer Breakspeare that ^|aTo be sure he was gelded in good order by four doctors at the command of farmer Breakspeare that Before he came Farmer Nicholas, that was a eunuch, had him properly gelded by seven ^|bdoctors ^|ccowdoctors cowcatchers^c|b| that were no better off than himself ^|xBe off now, says he, with a farmer's blessing and withº he slapped his posteriors very soundly. ^|aBut the slap and the gelding stood him friend^{a|x| |x}by our Virgin Mother^x| but ^|bfor all to make up for^b| that he^a|1| taught him ^|1his trade but a trick worth two of the other so that^1| maid, wife and widow to this day ^|1all^1| affirm they would rather
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any day ^|1of the month^1| whisper in his ear ^|1in ^|aa dark the dark of a^a| cowhouse^1| or get a lick or two on the neck from his ^|1ticklish^1| tongue than lie with ^|1any pretty fellow the finest strapping young ravisher^1| between in the four fields of ^|1all^1| Ireland. Another then put in his word: and they dressed him up, says he, in a shift and petticoat with a tippet round his neck and built a barn for him with a fine manger in it full of the best grass for by this time our bull was grown so he fat and heavy that he could scarce walk to pasture. To remedy which they brought him his good feed of fodder in their apronlaps, and, as soon as his belly was full, he used to rear up on his hind quarters to show them a mystery and ^|1bellow and roar roar and bellow^1| to that extent they were struck with wonder. Ay, says a third, but worse than that he grew so pampered he would have nought in the land but green grass growing for himself and the ^|1native^1| herd ^|1(for green was the only colour that was to his mind)^1| and if ever he got scent of a husbandman that was sowing as much as a handful of mustard or a bag of rapeseed he'd run amok over half the countryside rooting up with his horns whatsoever was planted. To cut it short all the men of the island seeing no help was ^|1for it toward^1|, as their ^|1ungrate^1| women, old and young, were all of the one mind, made a raft of timbers and loading themselves and their chattels aboard ^|1they set all masts erect, spread 3 sheets on the wind, ran up the Jolly Roger and^1| pushed off from the land in quest of
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better ^|1beyond the main of America^1| which was the occasion of the composing of that spirited song

^|1Pope Peter's but a pissabed.
A man's a man for a' that.^1|

{Section VII: V.A.12: U84 14.651-844}
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Our worthy ^|1friend acquaintance^1| Mr Malachi Mulligan ^|1with a friend of his who had lately come to town, it being his intention to take the King's commission^1| now appeared in the doorway just as the as student was concluding his apologue ^|1|aaccompanied^a| with a friend of his ^|aa young gentleman,^{a| |a}Mr Seymour his name Mr Seymour^a| who had lately come ^|aup^a| to town, it being his intention to take a cornetcy ^|aand so to the wars^a|1|. He relished it was kind enough to express ^|1his some^1| relish of it and all the more as it jumped with a project of his own for the very evil which had been touched ^|1upon on^1|. ^|1Whereupon Whereat ^|a(having before ^|bMr Mulligan now After this homily he^b|a| removed from his hat a handkerchief with which he had sheltered it ^|afrom the rain, they. They^a| both had been surprised by the ^|awater rain ^|bit seems,^b|a| and for all their mending their pace had been taken water as might be seen by large spots of moisture on mr Mr Mulligan's suit, a ^|alight hodden^a| grey ^|aworsted^a| which was now somewhat piebald —^1| he handed round to the company a set of ^|1pasteboard^1| cards which he had had printed at Thom's on which ^|1were to be read in flowing italics these words was this legend printed in flowing italics^1|: Malachi Mulligan, Fertiliser. His project, as he went on to expound, was to withdraw from the round of idle pleasures such as form the chief business of ^|1our men sir ^|afopp fopling^{a|1| |1}about in^1| town and to devote himself to the noblest task for which the bodily organism is destined. ^|1He had been led into this thought by a consideration of the causes of sterility ^|awhether caused by a volition inhibitions or volition caused both by inhibition and prohibition^a|, whether the inhibition in its turn was due to conjugal vexations or to motives of ^|aeconomy thrift^a|, whether the prohibition proceeded from defects congenital or from ^|ablank propensities^a| acquired. It grieved him, he said, sorely to see the nuptial couch ^|adeprived defrauded^a| of its dearest pledges and to reflect upon so many ^|abeauteous maidens ^|bagreeable^b| females ^|bwith rich jointures^b|a| who lose their bloom in cloisters when they might multiply the inlets to happiness, sacrificing the inestimable jewel of their sex when a hundred pretty fellows were at hand to caress had been to him a thorn in the flesh^{1| |1}To this end To end this inconvenience ^|ahe had having^a| advised with certain good heads he concluded it to be due to a suppression of latent heat^1| he had resolved to purchase the freehold of Lambay island from count Considine, a gentleman of note much in favour with
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our high church party, are there to set up a national fertilising farm ^|1to be named the Ladies' Friend^1| he offering his dutiful services to any female ^|1who should direct to him^1|, no matter what her grade in life, who felt the need of fulfilling the function of her nature. ^|1This His^1| project was very favourably entertained by his audience ^|1and^1| Mr Mulligan ^|1drove home his contention for ^|ain suffrage of his contention ^|bin support of his intention while ^|che made court to while he drove home his point with^c|b|a|1| the scholarly by an apt verse from the classics^|1, which as it dwelt upon his memory was a ^|a— conclusive^a| confirmation of his contention, ^|aTalis ac tanta ^|bdepravatio seculi nostri pravatio hujus seculi^b|, O quirites, ut matronae ^|aromanae nostrae ^|blascivas^b| semiviri cuiuslibet^a| spadonis Libici titillationes ^|atesticules pregravibus erectioni_unread sublimis testibus ponderosis ^|bet atque^b|a| erectionibus excelsis^a| centurion. centurionum Romanorum ^|a|bproviter^b|a| magnopere anteponunt.^1| and for those of ruder wit by analogies of the animal kingdom ^|1more suitable to their relishes,^1| the doe of the forest and her buck, ^|1the Stoat,^1| the drake of the farmyard and ^|1her the^1| duck.

Valuing himself not a little upon his elegance he now applied himself to his person with animadversions of some spleen upon the sudden shower while the company lavished their encomiums upon the project he had advanced. The young gentleman, his friend, bore him out and was full of a passage that had lately befallen him^|1, and overjoyed as he was,^1| which he could not forbear to tell his nearest neighbour. Mr Mulligan now, perceiving the table, asked for whom were the loaves and fishes and then, seeing Mr Bloom, he made him a civil bow and ^|1asked if he were said, Pray, Sir, were you^1| in need of
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any professional assistance ^|1that we can give^1|? ^|1Mr Bloom Who, upon his offer,^1| thanked him very heartily ^|1though preserving his proper distance,^1| and made return that he was come there to about a ^|1lady blank of Horne's house^1| that was in an interesting condition ^|1from woman's woe, poor body, ^|aand he here fetched a deep sigh^a|1| to know if her happiness had ^|1yet^1| taken place. One of the company there ^|1rallied him upon his plan,^1| asking Mr Mulligan ^|1would he give also a guarantee by asking, when was it known blank^1| he smote himself ^|1at the middle below the diaphragm^1|, saying ^|1with an admirable imitation of ^|amistress unread Mother Grogan^a| (^|aan a most^a| excellent woman of her sex though 'tis pity she's a trollop ^|atoo^a|)^1|, There's a belly that never bore a bastard. This was so happy a conceit that it renewed the storm of mirth and threw the whole room into the most violent agitations of delight. He had run on in the same vein but that his ^|1mimicry mimicking^1| was arrested by a larum in the antechamber.

The young gentleman ^|1having treated himself and his next listener, who was none other than the Glasgow student, to some cordial waters^1| had just reached the salient point of his narration was still narrating to his neighbour.

At this point the listener who was none other than the student from Aberdeen congratulated in the liveliest fashion with the young gentleman and, interrupting the narrative at a salient point, ^|1desiring desired^1| his vis a vis ^|1|aby with^a| a polite beck^1| to be so kind as to ^|1have the obligingness to^1| pass him a flagon of cordial waters, by a questioning poise of his head (a whole century of polite breeding had not achieved so nice a gesture!) to which was united an equivalent but contrary balance of the bottle asked him as plainly as was ever asked in words
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if he might treat him with a cup of it. ^|1|aMais,^a| Bien sûr,^1| That you may, said the young gentleman, ^|1cheerily and^1| very opportunely. There wanted nothing but this cup to crown my felicity. But was I left with ^|1a bare only a^1| crust in my wallet and ^|1a draught some pure water^1| from the well ^|1My God,^1| I could ^|1not^1| find it in my heart ^|1to blame kneel down upon the ground and thank heaven for^1| my lot. With these words he took a complacent draught of the cordial, slicked his hair and popping his hand into his bosom drew forth a ^|1|apicture^a|1| locket that hung from a silk ribbon, ^|1the very same that very^1| picture which he had cherished ever since her fair hand had wrote on it upon it therein. Gazing upon the picture with a world of tenderness, Ah, sir, he said, ^|1to see her was to adore her Had you but seen her ^|athen ^|bat that moment ^|cthat evening by the dim lake at that affecting instant in such an artless disorder, ^|dof so melting an expression, believe me,^d| you too, ^|dsir Monsieur^d|, had been impelled either to deliver yourself into the hands of so fair an enemy or to quit the field^{c|b|a|1| |1}I declare,^1| I was never so touched in all my life. How happy will that man be ^|1to whom she will concede the last ^|ato whom she will bless with her whom that tender creature will bless with her^a|1| favours! A sigh of affection gave eloquence to his words and, ^|1replacing having replaced^1| the locket, he wiped his eyes and sighed again. ^|1Just powers above, Beneficent distributor of blessings to all ^|asublunary thy^a| creatures,^1| how great ^|1& universal^1| must be that sweetest of ^|1thy^1| tyrannies which holds ^|1subject in thrall^1| the ^|1poet unlettered swain of the glebe^1| and the ^|1polished^1| coxcomb ^|1of the road^1|, the free and the bond, the reckless youth ^|1in the heyday of passion^1| and the citizen of maturer years! Yet how mingled and imperfect are all our human joys. Would to God, he cried, that prudence had but ^|1whispered reminded^1| me to take my cloak along. Then had neither we though it rained four showers we were neither of us a penny the worse. But, beshrew me, cried he, clapping hand to his brow, tomorrow's
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a new day and it will go hard I ^|1saw as pretty a row of cloaths not long since in Monsieur Poyntz's ^|aknow a shop where I can have for a livre^a| as pretty a cloak^1| as ever ^|1sheltered kept^1| a lady from wetting. Tut, cried Monsieur le fêcondateur, tripping in, my friend Monsieur Moore, ^|1that a^1| most accomplished traveller with whom I have just cracked a bottle, ^|1tells me is my authority^1| that in Cape Horn they have a ^|1violent^1| rain that will wet through any^|1, even the stoutest,^1| cloak. ^|1|xa drenching of that violence, he tells me, that it has sent more than one luckless fellow posthaste to another world^x|1| A livre, cries out Monsieur Lynch. ^|1They The clumsy things^1| are dear at a sou. ^|1No woman of any wit would wear them. My dear Kitty told me she would dance in a deluge before ever she would starve herself in such an ark of salvation for as she said (and this she whispered in my ear)^1| Dame Nature has implanted ^|1it^1| in our hearts, ^|1|aSo that that it has become a household word^a|1| that ^|1|xIl y a deux choses^x|1| there are two ^|1things actions^1| for which nudity, in other ^|1actions circumstances^1| a breach of decorum, is the fittest and indeed the only garment. (and unread the first and the second ^|1a bath^1| — But at this point a bell in the hall, ringing loudly, cut short ^|1most untimely^1| a
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discourse which has had set out promised for the enrichment of our ^|1store of^1| knowledge.

While all were taken up with vacant hilarity ^|1of all^1| the bell rung and, the good Miss Callan, while all were ^|1speculating conjecturing^1| as to the cause, came in and, having spoken ^|1a few words^1| to the young ^|1Doctor Surgeon^1| Mr Dixon, retired with a low bow to the company. The presence for the moment among a party of debauchees of a woman endued with every quality of modesty and not less severe than beautiful refrained even the humour of the most ribald but her departure was the signal for an outbreak. Strike me silly, Dixon, said Mr Costello, I believe she has rendezvoused you. What, you dog? ^|1'Tis because he has the bedside manner, You succeed with them? Immensely so,^1| said Mr Lynch. A bedside manner it is that they use in the Mater. Have I not seen Sir Mickey O' chuck the nuns ^|1there^1| under the chin? ^|1Bless me, Lawksamercy!^1| r cried the gentleman in ^|1black the primrose ^|astomacher vest^a|1|, ^|1No such things happen? feigning a most ladylike voice & ^|awith^a| unbecoming squirmings^{1| |1}You make me feel ^|aBless me,^a| I'm^1| all of a ^|1pickle wibblywobbly^1|, doctor. ^|1Why you're as bad as Father Brady, ^|athat you are^a|.^1| My Kitty can tell you, said Mr Lynch, ^|1that's that has been^1| wardmaid there ^|1any time^1| these seven months.

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Toº revert to Mr Bloom who, after his first coming into the room had been conscious of some impudent mocks from them, but but had borne with them, as the product of ^|1overheated imagination an age ^|aupon which it is commonly charged^a| that ^|acommonly^a| has more money than forecast^1| the word of Mr Costello was a strange language to him for in truth he nauseated the man that seemed to him a misshapen creature got in some uncouth way & ^|1prematurely^1| born untim ^|1before his time^1|. They were full of extravagancies^|1, like overgrown children^1| it was true and ^|1their words words of their tumultuary discussions were difficulty understood^1| were not often nice: their testiness and outrageous fire were such that his nature resiled from: nor were they scrupulously tender of the proprieties though their fund of ^|1strong^1| animal spirits spoke in their behalf ^|1as such as put him in thought of^1| that that ^|1desiderated missing^1| link in the chain of beings desiderated by the late ingenious Doctor Darwin. It was now more than the middle span of our existence that he had passed through the thousand vicissitudes of life and being,º of a wary stock and self a man of rare forecast, he had enjoined himself to repress all motions of rising choler and, by intercepting them with the readiest precaution, foster within himself that ^|1mood of patience fullness of sufferance^1| which base minds jest at, the hasty scorn and ^|1all^1| find tolerable and but tolerable. To those who create themselves wits at the cost of feminine delicacy to them he would concede neither to bear the name nor to inherit the spirit of good breeding: and it had revolted him and for such as having lost all forbearance ^|1have no more to lose can lose no more^1| there remained the sharp antidote of ^|1rebuke experience to cause their insolency to beat a retreat^1|. Not but what he could feel with mettlesome youth which is ever for eating ^|1the tribute^1| of the fruit of the tree forbid it ^|1caring nought for the megrims of ^|adotards the severe^a| and the ^|ainspirations gruntlings^a| of ^|adotards^a|1| yet no so far forth as to forget humanity upon any condition soever towards a gentlewoman when she was about her lawful occasions.
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Toº conclude while, from the sister's words, when questioned, he had reckoned upon a speedy delivery he was, however, it must be owned, not a little alleviated by the intelligence that the ^|1event issue^1|, so auspicated after a trial of such duress, now testified once more to the mercy as much as to the bounty of the Supreme Being. ^|1Accordingly he broke his mind to his neighbour saying that^1| To express my notion of the thing, ^|1said he to his neighbour,^{1| |1}my his^1| opinion (who ought not perhaps to express one) is that one must needs have a cold constitution and a cold genius not to be rejoiced by this freshest news ^|1of the conclusion fruition of her confinement^1| since she had been in such pain through no fault of hers. The elegant young spark said it was the husband's fault ^|1that put her in pod^1|, or ^|1at least^1| it ought to be ^|1unless she be another Ephesian matron^1|. I must acquaint you, said Mr Crotthers, ^|1clapping a hand on the table so as to produce a resonant comment of hilariousness^{1| |1}he holy ^|aJoseph Joe^a|1| was here today, a short meagre man with Dundreary whiskers preferring a request to ^|1see have news of^1| Wilhelmina, his life, for so he calls her. I bade him hold himself in readiness for the event for that it would burst anon. Though somewhat stricken in years for my part I ^|1admire cannot but extol the virile potency of one^1| the old bucko ^|1that who^1| could ^|1still^1| knock another child out of her. All then fell to praising of it, each in his way though the same young spark held with his former opinion that another was the man in the gap. Singular, muttered Mr Bloom to himself, the wonderfully unequal ^|1temper faculty^1| of their time modification possessed by them, ^|1that the puerperal chamber and the dissecting theatre should be the seminary of such unseemly mirth and^1| that the mere acquisition of academic honours should suffice to transform ^|1in a pinch of time^1| these votaries of levity into the exemplary practitioners of that art which most men anywise eminent esteem the noblest. But, her he further added, perhaps it is but done to relieve their pentup feelings of awe for I have more than once observed that birds of a feather laugh together.

With what fitness, let it be asked, has this alien ^|1whom the concession of a gracious prince has admitted to civic rights, of a tenancy at will^1| arrog constituted himself ^|1a the^1| lord paramount of ^|1morals our politics^1|? ^|1Where is now that gratitude which every loyal impulse should have inspired. During the recent war ^|awas he not an eager applauder of the victories of our foes whenever the enemy had the advantage did he seize the occasion to discharge his piece against the imperial forces^a| while w in the same breath he trembled for the security of his four per cents?^1| Not to adduce Has he quite forgotten his own shortcomings? Or is it from being a deluder of others he has become in the end his own ^|1victim dupe ^|aas he is also his own enjoyer^a|1|? ^|1Far be it from candour to ^|adrag into the public papers violate the bedchamber of^a| a respectable lady, the daughter of a gallant major, or to cast the most distant reflection upon her virtue but (as it was indeed highly his interest not to have not to have done if he challenged the attention of the public papers of the public papers) then be it so. ^|aThat unhappy Unhappy^a| woman, she has been too long & too persistently denied her legitimate prerogative to be subjected now to the comments of the public papers to be in need of any to hear his objurgation with any other feeling than the contempt it deserves. He says this, a censor of morals, who was not did not scruple beneath his own roof and oblivious of the ties of nature to enter into illicit relations with a domestic servant, drawn from the lowest strata of society.^{1| |1|x}In the question of the grazing lands^{x| |x}and Mr Cuffe^{x| |x}was present when ^|ahe received at the hand of^a| an eminent cattlebreeder publicly a rebuke couched in terms ^|aof as^a| homely ^|abut as they were^a| straightforward. It ill becomes him to raise that point. Has he himself not a seedfield nearer home which has been lying fallow for the want of a ploughshare?^x|1| A habit which is
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reprehensibleº at puberty is an opprobrium to middle life. If ^|1he aims at restoring this be his balm of Gilead to restore^1| to health a generation of ^|1sinners unfledged profligates^1| let his practice consist better with ^|1his the^1| doctrines ^|1that now engross his attention^1|. His marital breast is the repository of many secrets which common ^|1decency decorum^1| is ^|1unwilling reluctant^1| to adduce. The lewdness of some faded beauty may ^|1console him supply a wise substitute^1| for that other's hardihood who debauched his wife but this exponent of morality natural philosophy is at best a tree which has lost much of its virtue in transplantation ^|1whose balm^1| tree which ^|1if it was when rooted^1| in Gilead is drooping abundant ^|1in of^1| its balm, transplanted ^|1has lost its its roots have their^1| vigour while the stuff that comes away from it is stagnant and inoperative.

Theº ^|1joyful event of the birth of the heir tidings^1| was ^|1announced by imparted with^1| the customary ^|1whisper imparted circumspection^1| by the second ^|1female^1| attendant to the junior resident physician who at once announced to the ^|1delegates delegation^1| that an heir had been born. When he had retired ^|1with her^1| to the women's apartments to assist at the afterbirth the delegates, chafing under the solemnity ^|1and length of the vigil^{1| |1}imposed^1| upon them and hoping to have in the ^|1joyful^1| event a palliation for license, which the absence of abigail and medical officer rendered the easier, broke out ^|1at once^1| into a strife of tongues. In vain the voice of Mr Canvasser Bloom was heard endeavouring to urge, to mollify, to refrain: the moment was too propitious for the display of that discursiveness which seemed the sole bond of union among tempers so varied and divergent. Every aspect of the situation was in turn eviscerated: ^|1the prenascence the prenatal struggle^1| of uterine brothers, the Caesarean operation, the ^|1rights of^1| primogeniture ^|1& queen's bounty^1| of twins, the trigeminal birth and triplets, ^|1miscarriage & infanticide,^1| the recorded instances of multigeminal ^|1and monstrous^1| births and ^|1these the^1| gravest problems of obstetrics and ^|1jurisprudence forensic medicine^1| were discussed ^|1by some^1| with ^|1as with^1| much animation ^|1awhile while^1| as the most popular beliefs and paranoia on the subject of
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pregnancyº such as the relief that injunction to a pregnant woman not to step over a countrystile lest the navelcord, in consequence of her movement, should strangle ^|1her the^1| foetus and the injunction to her in the case of a ^|1desire yearning^1|, ardently ^|1& ineffectually^1| entertained ^|1and incapable of satisfaction^1|, to touch lay her hand against that ^|1region part^1| of her person which ^|1has been long usage has^1| consecrated ^|1by long usage^1| as the seat of castigation. The instances of harelip and strawberry stain were adduced by ^|1one^1| — as a prima facie and natural explanation of the swineheaded ^|1and or^1| doghaired infants occasionally born in opposition to the Caledonian envoy, whose su theory ^|1of the plasmic memory^1|, worthy of the ^|1metaphysical traditions of^1| the land of his he stood for, was saw in these cases an arrest of embryonic development at a stage antehuman. ^|1Against both these views was that of a ^|aA Against both a^a|1| foreign delegate of a somewhat bestial cast of countenance sustained with such ^|1personal fervour heat^1| as almost carried conviction the frequen ^|1frequent cases^1| of copulation between women and the males of brutes ^|1not so much by reference to such stories as that of the Minotaur which the elegant Roman poet has transmitted as rather by his authority being his own avouchment in support of fables such as that of the Minotaur which the elegant Roman poet has presented for us. The impression which his words made on a mobile assembly was immediate but shortlived. It was easily effaced as easily as it had been evoked^1| but his view was the impression made on the mobile assembly was easily effaced by an allocution from Mr Candidate Mulligan ^|1in which he postulated in that vein of pleasantry which ^|anone more than^a| he ^|aaffected knew how to affect^a|, postulating^1| as the extremest objects of desire a lawn mower or a wellconducted elderly gentleman of cleanly habits. Contemporaneously with this jest an argument having arisen between Mr Delegate Madden and Mr Candidate Lynch respecting the juridical and theological dilemma in the case of one Siamese twin predeceasing its yokefellow the question was referred by mutual consent to Mr Deacon Dedalus ^|1who, hitherto. Hitherto^1| silent, ^|1whether in obe of the because the better to show that curial authority in whose garb he was vested or in obedience to an inward ^|asuggestion voice^a|1| delivered briefly and, as some thought, perfunctorily the ^|1ecclesiastical^1| sentence forbidding man to put asunder what God had joined.
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