FW 1.15f, 1.16-17 --epigram on Dublin--

1.15a: Then as she is on her behaviourite job of quainance bandy, fruting for firstlings and taking her tithe...
1.15b: like so many heegills and collines, sitton aroont, scentbreeched and somepotreek, in their swishawish...
1.15c: We may see and hear nothing if we choose of the shortlegged bergins off Corkhill or the bergamoors...
1.15d: though every crowd has its several tones and every trade has its clever mechanics and each harmonical...
1.15e: But all they are all there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve and salve life's robulous...
1.15f: Behove this sound of Irish sense. Really? Here English might be seen. Royally? One sovereign punned...


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synopsis: an overview of the city and its hills — so this is Dublin


FDV: "Pardon. Behold this sound of Irish sense. Really? Here English might be seen. Royally? [...]{A sovereign} punned to paltry pence. Regally? A silence makes a scene. Behold! Hush! Caution! Echoland!"

Swift: Epigram on the Magazine (in Phoenix Park): [cite]

'Behold! a proof of Irish sense!
Here Irish wit is seen!
When nothing's left, that's worth defence,
We build a magazine.'


Behove this sound of Irish sense. Really?


Here English might be seen. Royally?


One sovereign punned to petery pence. Regally?

sovereign = king or queen

sovereign pound

FDV: paltry
Peter's Pence: donation to the Roman Catholic Church


The silence speaks the scene. Fake!

Irish feach!: look!
FDV: Behold!


So This Is Dyoublong?

M.J. MacManus: So This Is Dublin (1927) tour guide derided Joyce [info]

do you belong?


Hush! Caution! Echoland!

HCE

cf Bloom on whispering galleries and confession boxes



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