FW 1.72m --others do impressions of HCE--

1.72a: Now be aisy, good Mr Finnimore, sir. And take your laysure like a god on pension...
1.72b: Meeting some sick old bankrupt or the Cottericks' donkey with his shoe hanging...
1.72c: but let your ghost have no grievance. You're better off, sir, where you are...
1.72d: and have all you want, pouch, gloves, flask, bricket, kerchief, ring and amberulla...
1.72e: And it isn't our spittle we'll stint you of, is it, druids? Not shabbty little imagettes, ...
1.72f: Poppypap's a passport out. And honey is the holiest thing ever was, hive, comb and earwax...
1.72g: Your fame is spreading like Basilico's ointment since the Fintan Lalors piped you overborder...
1.72h: And admiring to our supershillelagh where the palmsweat on high is the mark of your manument...
1.72i: and when you were undone in every point fore the laps of goddesses you showed our labourlasses...
1.72k: He's duddandgunne now and we're apter finding the sores of his sedeq but peace to his great limbs...
1.72l: No, nor a king nor an ardking, bung king, sung king or hung king. That you could fell an elmstree...
1.72m: If you was hogglebully itself and most frifty like you was taken waters still what all where was your like...
1.72n: But as Hopkins and Hopkins puts it, you were the pale eggynaggy and a kis to tilly up. We calls him...
1.72o: So may the priest of seven worms and scalding tayboil, Papa Vestray, come never anear you...
1.72p: Your heart is in the system of the Shewolf and your crested head is in the tropic of Copricapron...
1.72q: The loamsome roam to Laffayette is ended. Drop in your tracks, babe! Be not unrested!...
1.72r: For we have performed upon thee, thou abramanation, who comest ever without being invoked...


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If you was hogglebully itself and most fiefty

huckleberry
hog
haggle
bully

why ITself?

Huck Finn 5: (Huck's pap) 'was most fifty'
fief


like you was taken waters, still what all?

taking the waters


Where was your like to lay the cable

'laying cable' referred to telegraph cables, positioned on the seafloor by ships from 1850 on
(slang for fucking?)
set the table


or who was the batter could better Your Grace?

batter (cricket)

W.G. Grace: famous English cricketer pre-1900 [10min doc]

cf U114: "His grace phoned down twice this morning, Red Murray said gravely."


Mick MacMagnus MacCawley can take you off to the pure perfection

MicMacMac = stutter?

Thomas Babington Macaulay: 19thC British poet, historian and politician
1.72l above: "Maccullaghmore... MacCawley"

"take you off" do an impression of your manner


and Leatherbags Reynolds tries your shuffle and cut.

CIMGP no. 393: 'Leather bags Donnel' [sheetmusic] ♬?
71.24: "Leathertogs Donald"

song Phil the Fluter's Ball: 'the shuffle, and the cut'

shuffle and cut cards




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