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AND THEN WENT DOWN TO THE SHIP,
SET KEEL TO BREAKERS, FORTH ON THE GODLY SEA, AND
WE SET UP MAST AND SAIL ON THAT SWART SHIP,
BORE SHEEP ABOARD HER, AND OUR BODIES ALSO
HEAVY WITH WEEPING, AND WINDS FROM STERNWARD
BORE US OUT ONWARD WITH BELLYING CANVAS,
CIRCE'S THIS CRAFT, THE TRIM-COIFED GODDESS.
THEN SAT WE AMIDSHIPS, WIND JAMMING THE TILLER,
THUS WITH STRETCHED SAIL, WE WENT OVER SEA TILL DAY'S END.
SUN TO HIS SLUMBER, SHADOWS O'ER ALL THE OCEAN,
CAME WE THEN TO THE BOUNDS OF DEEPEST WATER,
TO THE KIMMERIAN LANDS, AND PEOPLED CITIES
COVERED WITH CLOSE-WEBBED MIST, UNPIERCED EVER
WITH GLITTER OF SUN-RAYS
NOR WITH STARS STRETCHED, NOR LOOKING BACK FROM HEAVEN
SWARTEST NIGHT STRETCHED OVER WRETCHED MEN THERE.
THE OCEAN FLOWING BACKWARD, CAME WE THEN TO THE PLACE
AFORESAID BY CIRCE.
HERE DID THEY RITES, PERIMEDES AND EURYLOCHUS,
AND DRAWING SWORD FROM MY HIP
I DUG THE ELL-SQUARE PITKIN;
POURED WE LIBATIONS UNTO EACH THE DEAD,
FIRST MEAD AND THEN SWEET WINE, WATER MIXED WITH WHITE FLOUR.
THEN PRAYED I MANY A PRAYER TO THE SICKLY DEATH'S-HEADS;
AS SET IN ITHACA, STERILE BULLS OF THE BEST
FOR SACRIFICE, HEAPING THE PYRE WITH GOODS,
A SHEEP TO TIRESIAS ONLY, BLACK AND A BELL-SHEEP.
DARK BLOOD FLOWED IN THE FOSSE,
SOULS OUT OF EREBUS, CADAVEROUS DEAD, OF BRIDES
OF YOUTHS AND OF THE OLD WHO HAD BORNE MUCH;
SOULS STAINED WITH RECENT TEARS, GIRLS TENDER,
<F 8><D 4>MEN MANY, MAULED WITH BRONZE LANCE HEADS,
BATTLE SPOIL, BEARING YET DREORY ARMS,
THESE MANY CROWDED ABOUT ME; WITH SHOUTING,
PALLOR UPON ME, CRIED TO MY MEN FOR MORE BEASTS;
SLAUGHTERED THE HERDS, SHEEP SLAIN OF BRONZE;
POURED OINTMENT, CRIED TO THE GODS,
TO PLUTO THE STRONG, AND PRAISED PROSERPINE;
UNSHEATHED THE NARROW SWORD,
I SAT TO KEEP OFF THE IMPETUOUS IMPOTENT DEAD,
TILL I SHOULD HEAR TIRESIAS.
BUT FIRST ELPENOR CAME, OUR FRIEND ELPENOR,
UNBURIED, CAST ON THE WIDE EARTH,
LIMBS THAT WE LEFT IN THE HOUSE OF CIRCE,
UNWEPT, UNWRAPPED IN SEPULCHRE, SINCE TOILS URGED OTHER.
PITIFUL SPIRIT. AND I CRIED IN HURRIED SPEECH:
"ELPENOR, HOW ART THOU COME TO THIS DARK COAST?
"CAM'ST THOU AFOOT, OUTSTRIPPING SEAMEN?"
AND HE IN HEAVY SPEECH:
"ILL FATE AND ABUNDANT WINE. I SLEPT IN CIRCE'S INGLE.
"GOING DOWN THE LONG LADDER UNGUARDED,
"I FELL AGAINST THE BUTTRESS,
"SHATTERED THE NAPE-NERVE, THE SOUL SOUGHT AVERNUS.
"BUT THOU, O KING, I BID REMEMBER ME, UNWEPT, UNBURIED,
"HEAP UP MINE ARMS, BE TOMB BY SEA-BORD, AND INSCRIBED:
"A MAN OF NO FORTUNE, AND WITH A NAME TO COME.
"AND SET MY OAR UP, THAT I SWUNG MID FELLOWS."
AND ANTICLEA CAME, WHOM I BEAT OFF, AND THEN TIRESIAS THEBAN,
HOLDING HIS GOLDEN WAND, KNEW ME, AND SPOKE FIRST:
"A SECOND TIME? WHY? MAN OF ILL STAR,
"FACING THE SUNLESS DEAD AND THIS JOYLESS REGION?
"STAND FROM THE FOSSE, LEAVE ME MY BLOODY BEVER
"FOR SOOTHSAY."
AND I STEPPED BACK,
<F 9>AND HE STRONG WITH THE BLOOD, SAID THEN: "ODYSSEUS
<D 5>"SHALT RETURN THROUGH SPITEFUL NEPTUNE, OVER DARK SEAS,
"LOSE ALL COMPANIONS." AND THEN ANTICLEA CAME.
LIE QUIET DIVUS. I MEAN, THAT IS ANDREAS DIVUS,
IN OFFICINA WECHELI, 1538, OUT OF HOMER.
AND HE SAILED, BY SIRENS AND THENCE OUTWARD AND AWAY
AND UNTO CIRCE.
VENERANDAM,
IN THE CRETAN'S PHRASE, WITH THE GOLDEN CROWN, APHRODITE,
CYPRI MUNIMENTA SORTITA EST, MIRTHFUL, ORICALCHI, WITH GOLDEN
GIRDLES AND BREAST BANDS, THOU WITH DARK EYELIDS
BEARING THE GOLDEN BOUGH OF ARGICIDA. SO THAT:
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HANG IT ALL, ROBERT BROWNING,
THERE CAN BE BUT THE ONE "SORDELLO."
BUT SORDELLO, AND MY SORDELLO?
LO SORDELS SI FO DI MANTOVANA.
SO-SHU CHURNED IN THE SEA.
SEAL SPORTS IN THE SPRAY-WHITED CIRCLES OF CLIFF-WASH,
SLEEK HEAD, DAUGHTER OF LIR,
EYES OF PICASSO
UNDER BLACK FUR-HOOD, LITHE DAUGHTER OF OCEAN;
AND THE WAVE RUNS IN THE BEACH-GROOVE:
"ELEANOR, =HELENAUS AND =HELEPTOLIS!"
AND POOR OLD HOMER BLIND, BLIND, AS A BAT,
EAR, EAR FOR THE SEA-SURGE, MURMUR OF OLD MEN'S VOICES:
"LET HER GO BACK TO THE SHIPS,
BACK AMONG GRECIAN FACES, LEST EVIL COME ON OUR OWN,
EVIL AND FURTHER EVIL, AND A CURSE CURSED ON OUR CHILDREN,
MOVES, YES SHE MOVES LIKE A GODDESS
AND HAS THE FACE OF A GOD
AND THE VOICE OF SCHOENEY'S DAUGHTERS,
AND DOOM GOES WITH HER IN WALKING,
LET HER GO BACK TO THE SHIPS,
BACK AMONG GRECIAN VOICES."
AND BY THE BEACH-RUN, TYRO,
TWISTED ARMS OF THE SEA-GOD,
LITHE SINEWS OF WATER, GRIPPING HER, CROSS-HOLD,
AND THE BLUE-GRAY GLASS OF THE WAVE TENTS THEM,
GLARE AZURE OF WATER, COLD-WELTER, CLOSE COVER.
QUIET SUN-TAWNY SAND-STRETCH,
THE GULLS BROAD OUT THEIR WINGS,
NIPPING BETWEEN THE SPLAY FEATHERS;
<D 7>SNIPE COME FOR THEIR BATH,
BEND OUT THEIR WING-JOINTS,
<F 11>SPREAD WET WINGS TO THE SUN-FILM,
AND BY SCIOS,
TO LEFT OF THE NAXOS PASSAGE,
NAVIFORM ROCK OVERGROWN,
ALGAE CLING TO ITS EDGE,
THERE IS A WINE-RED GLOW IN THE SHALLOWS,
A TIN FLASH IN THE SUN-DAZZLE.
THE SHIP LANDED IN SCIOS,
MEN WANTING SPRING-WATER,
AND BY THE ROCK-POOL A YOUNG BOY LOGGY WITH VINE-MUST,
"TO NAXOS? YES, WE'LL TAKE YOU TO NAXOS,
CUM' ALONG LAD." "NOT THAT WAY!"
"AYE, THAT WAY IS NAXOS."
AND I SAID: "IT'S A STRAIGHT SHIP."
AND AN EX-CONVICT OUT OF ITALY
KNOCKED ME INTO THE FORE-STAYS,
(HE WAS WANTED FOR MANSLAUGHTER IN TUSCANY)
AND THE WHOLE TWENTY AGAINST ME,
MAD FOR A LITTLE SLAVE MONEY.
AND THEY TOOK HER OUT OF SCIOS
AND OFF HER COURSE...
AND THE BOY CAME TO, AGAIN, WITH THE RACKET,
AND LOOKED OUT OVER THE BOWS,
AND TO EASTWARD, AND TO THE NAXOS PASSAGE.
GOD-SLEIGHT THEN, GOD-SLEIGHT:
SHIP STOCK FAST IN SEA-SWIRL,
IVY UPON THE OARS, KING PENTHEUS,
GRAPES WITH NO SEED BUT SEA-FOAM,
IVY IN SCUPPER-HOLE.
AYE, I, ACOETES, STOOD THERE,
AND THE GOD STOOD BY ME,
WATER CUTTING UNDER THE KEEL,
<D 8>SEA-BREAK FROM STERN FORRARDS,
WAKE RUNNING OFF FROM THE BOW,
<F 12>AND WHERE WAS GUNWALE, THERE NOW WAS VINE-TRUNK,
AND TENTHRIL WHERE CORDAGE HAD BEEN,
GRAPE-LEAVES ON THE ROWLOCKS,
HEAVY VINE ON THE OARSHAFTS,
AND, OUT OF NOTHING, A BREATHING,
HOT BREATH ON MY ANKLES,
BEASTS LIKE SHADOWS IN GLASS,
A FURRED TAIL UPON NOTHINGNESS.
LYNX-PURR, AND HEATHERY SMELL OF BEASTS,
WHERE TAR SMELL HAD BEEN,
SNIFF AND PAD-FOOT OF BEASTS,
EYE-GLITTER OUT OF BLACK AIR.
THE SKY OVERSHOT, DRY, WITH NO TEMPEST,
SNIFF AND PAD-FOOT OF BEASTS,
FUR BRUSHING MY KNEE-SKIN,
RUSTLE OF AIRY SHEATHS,
DRY FORMS IN THE AETHER.
AND THE SHIP LIKE A KEEL IN SHIP-YARD,
SLUNG LIKE AN OX IN SMITH'S SLING,
RIBS STUCK FAST IN THE WAYS,
GRAPE-CLUSTER OVER PIN-RACK,
VOID AIR TAKING PELT.
LIFELESS AIR BECOME SINEWED,
FELINE LEISURE OF PANTHERS,
LEOPARDS SNIFFING THE GRAPE SHOOTS BY SCUPPER-HOLE,
CROUCHED PANTHERS BY FORE-HATCH,
AND THE SEA BLUE-DEEP ABOUT US,
GREEN-RUDDY IN SHADOWS,
AND LYAEUS: "FROM NOW, ACOETES, MY ALTARS,
FEARING NO BONDAGE,
FEARING NO CAT OF THE WOOD,
SAFE WITH MY LYNXES,
FEEDING GRAPES TO MY LEOPARDS,
<D 9>OLIBANUM IS MY INCENSE,
THE VINES GROW IN MY HOMAGE."
<F 13>THE BACK-SWELL NOW SMOOTH IN THE RUDDER-CHAINS,
BLACK SNOUT OF A PORPOISE
WHERE LYCABS HAD BEEN,
FISH SCALES ON THE OARSMEN.
AND I WORSHIP.
I HAVE SEEN WHAT I HAVE SEEN.
WHEN THEY BROUGHT THE BOY I SAID:
"HE HAS A GOD IN HIM,
THOUGH I DO NOT KNOW WHICH GOD."
AND THEY KICKED ME INTO THE FORE-STAYS.
I HAVE SEEN WHAT I HAVE SEEN:
MEDON'S FACE LIKE THE FACE OF A DORY,
ARMS SHRUNK INTO FINS. AND YOU, PENTHEUS,
HAD AS WELL LISTEN TO TIRESIAS, AND TO CADMUS,
OR YOUR LUCK WILL GO OUT OF YOU.
FISH-SCALES OVER GROIN MUSCLES,
LYNX-PURR AMID SEA...
AND OF A LATER YEAR,
PALE IN THE WINE-RED ALGAE,
IF YOU WILL LEAN OVER THE ROCK,
THE CORAL FACE UNDER WAVE-TINGE,
ROSE-PALENESS UNDER WATER-SHIFT,
ILEUTHYERIA, FAIR DAFNE OF SEA-BORDS,
THE SWIMMER'S ARMS TURNED TO BRANCHES,
WHO WILL SAY IN WHAT YEAR,
FLEEING WHAT BAND OF TRITONS,
THE SMOOTH BROWS, SEEN, AND HALF SEEN,
NOW IVORY STILLNESS.
AND SO-SHU CHURNED IN THE SEA, SO-SHU ALSO,
USING THE LONG MOON FOR A CHURN-STICK...
LITHE TURNING OF WATER,
SINEWS OF POSEIDON,
<D 10>BLACK AZURE AND HYALINE,
GLASS WAVE OVER TYRO,
<F 14>CLOSE COVER, UNSTILLNESS,
BRIGHT WELTER OF WAVE-CORDS,
THEN QUIET WATER,
QUIET IN THE BUFF SANDS,
SEA-FOWL STRETCHING WING-JOINTS,
SPLASHING IN ROCK-HOLLOWS AND SAND-HOLLOWS
IN THE WAVE-RUNS BY THE HALF-DUNE;
GLASS-GLINT OF WAVE IN THE TIDE-RIPS AGAINST SUNLIGHT,
PALLOR OF HESPERUS,
GREY PEAK OF THE WAVE,
WAVE, COLOUR OF GRAPE'S PULP,
OLIVE GREY IN THE NEAR,
FAR, SMOKE GREY OF THE ROCK-SLIDE,
SALMON-PINK WINGS OF THE FISH-HAWK
CAST GREY SHADOWS IN WATER,
THE TOWER LIKE A ONE-EYED GREAT GOOSE
CRANES UP OUT OF THE OLIVE-GROVE,
AND WE HAVE HEARD THE FAUNS CHIDING PROTEUS
IN THE SMELL OF HAY UNDER THE OLIVE-TREES.
AND THE FROGS SINGING AGAINST THE FAUNS
IN THE HALF-LIGHT.
AND...
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I SAT ON THE DOGANA'S STEPS
FOR THE GONDOLAS COST TOO MUCH, THAT YEAR,
AND THERE WERE NOT"THOSE GIRLS", THERE WAS ONE FACE,
AND THE BUCCENTORO TWENTY YARDS OFF, HOWLING "STRETTI",
AND THE LIT CROSS-BEAMS, THAT YEAR, IN THE MOROSINI,
AND PEACOCKS IN KORE'S HOUSE, OR THERE MAY HAVE BEEN.
GODS FLOAT IN THE AZURE AIR,
BRIGHT GODS AND TUSCAN, BACK BEFORE DEW WAS SHED.
LIGHT: AND THE FIRST LIGHT, BEFORE EVER DEW WAS FALLEN.
PANISKS, AND FROM THE OAK, DRYAS,
AND FROM THE APPLE, MAELID,
THROUGH ALL THE WOOD, AND THE LEAVES ARE FULL OF VOICES,
A-WHISPER, AND THE CLOUDS BOWE OVER THE LAKE,
AND THERE ARE GODS UPON THEM,
AND IN THE WATER, THE ALMOND-WHITE SWIMMERS,
THE SILVERY WATER GLAZES THE UPTURNED NIPPLE,
AS POGGIO HAS REMARKED.
GREEN VEINS IN THE TURQUOISE,
OR, THE GRAY STEPS LEAD UP UNDER THE CEDARS.
MY CID RODE UP TO BURGOS,
UP TO THE STUDDED GATE BETWEEN TWO TOWERS,
BEAT WITH HIS LANCE BUTT, AND THE CHILD CAME OUT,
UNA NINA DE NEUVE ANOS,
TO THE LITTLE GALLERY OVER THE GATE, BETWEEN THE TOWERS,
READING THE WRIT, VOCE TINNULA:
THAT NO MAN SPEAK TO, FEED, HELP RUY DIAZ,
ON PAIN TO HAVE HIS HEART OUT, SET ON A PIKE SPIKE
AND BOTH HIS EYES TORN OUT, AND ALL HIS GOODS SEQUESTERED,
"AND HERE, MYO CID, ARE THE SEALS,
THE BIG SEAL AND THE WRITING."
<F 16>AND HE CAME DOWN FROM BIVAR, MYO CID,
<D 12>WITH NO HAWKS LEFT THERE ON THEIR PERCHES,
AND NO CLOTHES THERE IN THE PRESSES,
AND LEFT HIS TRUNK WITH RAQUEL AND VIDAS,
THAT BIG BOX OF SAND, WITH THE PAWN-BROKERS,
TO GET PAY FOR HIS MENIE;
BREAKING HIS WAY TO VALENCIA.
IGNEZ DA CASTRO MURDERED, AND A WALL
HERE STRIPPED, HERE MADE TO STAND.
DREAR WASTE, THE PIGMENT FLAKES FROM THE STONE,
OR PLASTER FLAKES, MANTEGNA PAINTED THE WALL.
SILK TATTERS, "NEC SPE NEC METU."
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PALACE IN SMOKY LIGHT,
TROY BUT A HEAP OF SMOULDERING BOUNDARY STONES,
ANAXIFORMINGES! AURUNCULEIA!
HEAR ME. CADMUS OF GOLDEN PROWS!
THE SILVER MIRRORS CATCH THE BRIGHT STONES AND FLARE,
DAWN, TO OUR WAKING, DRIFTS IN THE GREEN COOL LIGHT;
DEW-HAZE BLURS, IN THE GRASS, PALE ANKLES MOVING.
BEAT, BEAT, WHIRR, THUD, IN THE SOFT TURF
UNDER THE APPLE TREES,
CHOROS NYMPHARUM, GOAT-FOOT, WITH THE PALE FOOT ALTERNATE;
CRESCENT OF BLUE-SHOT WATERS, GREEN-GOLD IN THE SHALLOWS,
A BLACK COCK CROWS IN THE SEA-FOAM;
AND BY THE CURVED, CARVED FOOT OF THE COUCH,
CLAW-FOOT AND LION HEAD, AN OLD MAN SEATED
SPEAKING IN THE LOW DRONE...:
ITYN!
ET TER FLEBILITER, ITYN, ITYN!
AND SHE WENT TOWARD THE WINDOW AND CAST HER DOWN,
"ALL THE WHILE, THE WHILE, SWALLOWS CRYING:
ITYN!
"IT IS CABESTAN'S HEART IN THE DISH."
"IT IS CABESTAN'S HEART IN THE DISH?
"NO OTHER TASTE SHALL CHANGE THIS."
AND SHE WENT TOWARD THE WINDOW,
THE SLIM WHITE STONE BAR
MAKING A DOUBLE ARCH;
FIRM EVEN FINGERS HELD TO THE FIRM PALE STONE;
SWUNG FOR A MOMENT,
AND THE WIND OUT OF RHODEZ
CAUGHT IN THE FULL OF HER SLEEVE.
<F 18>...THE SWALLOWS CRYING:
<D 14>'TIS. 'TIS. YTIS!
ACTAEON...
AND A VALLEY,
THE VALLEY IS THICK WITH LEAVES, WITH LEAVES, THE TREES,
THE SUNLIGHT GLITTERS, GLITTERS A-TOP,
LIKE A FISH-SCALE ROOF,
LIKE THE CHURCH ROOF IN POICTIERS
IF IT WERE GOLD.
BENEATH IT, BENEATH IT
NOT A RAY, NOT A SLIVVER, NOT A SPARE DISC OF SUNLIGHT
FLAKING THE BLACK, SOFT WATER;
BATHING THE BODY OF NYMPHS, OF NYMPHS, AND DIANA,
NYMPHS, WHITE-GATHERED ABOUT HER, AND THE AIR, AIR,
SHAKING, AIR ALIGHT WITH THE GODDESS,
FANNING THEIR HAIR IN THE DARK,
LIFTING, LIFTING AND WAFFING:
IVORY DIPPING IN SILVER,
SHADOW'D, O'ERSHADOW'D
IVORY DIPPING IN SILVER,
NOT A SPLOTCH, NOT A LOST SHATTER OF SUNLIGHT.
THEN ACTAEON: VIDAL,
VIDAL. IT IS OLD VIDAL SPEAKING,
STUMBLING ALONG IN THE WOOD,
NOT A PATCH, NOT A LOST SHIMMER OF SUNLIGHT,
THE PALE HAIR OF THE GODDESS.
THE DOGS LEAP ON ACTAEON,
"HITHER, HITHER, ACTAEON,"
SPOTTED STAG OF THE WOOD;
GOLD, GOLD, A SHEAF OF HAIR,
THICK LIKE A WHEAT SWATH,
BLAZE, BLAZE IN THE SUN,
THE DOGS LEAP ON ACTAEON.
<F 19><D 15>STUMBLING, STUMBLING ALONG IN THE WOOD,
MUTTERING, MUTTERING OVID:
"PERGUSA...POOL...POOL...GARGAPHIA,
"POOL...POOL OF SALMACIS."
THE EMPTY ARMOUR SHAKES AS THE CYGNET MOVES.
THUS THE LIGHT RAINS, THUS POURS, E LO SOLEILS PLOVIL
THE LIQUID AND RUSHING CRYSTAL
BENEATH THE KNEES OF THE GODS.
PLY OVER PLY, THIN GLITTER OF WATER;
BROOK FILM BEARING WHITE PETALS.
THE PINE AT TAKASAGO
GROWS WITH THE PINE OF ISE!
THE WATER WHIRLS UP THE BRIGHT PALE SAND IN THE SPRING'S MOUTH
"BEHOLD THE TREE OF THE VISAGES!"
FORKED BRANCH-TIPS, FLAMING AS IF WITH LOTUS.
PLY OVER PLY
THE SHALLOW EDDYING FLUID,
BENEATH THE KNEES OF THE GODS.
TORCHES MELT IN THE GLARE
SET FLAME OF THE CORNER COOK-STALL,
BLUE AGATE CASING THE SKY (AS AT GOURDON THAT TIME)
THE SPUTTER OF RESIN,
SAFFRON SANDAL SO PETALS THE NARROW FOOT: HYMENAEUS IO!
HYMEN, IO HYMENAEE! AURUNCULEIA!
ONE SCARLET FLOWER IS CAST ON THE BLANCH-WHITE STONE.
AND SO-GYOKU, SAYING:
"THIS WIND, SIRE, IS THE KING'S WIND,
THIS WIND IS WIND OF THE PALACE,
SHAKING IMPERIAL WATER-JETS."
AND HSIANG, OPENING HIS COLLAR:
"THIS WIND ROARS IN THE EARTH'S BAG,
IT LAYS THE WATER WITH RUSHES."
<D 16><F 20>NO WIND IS THE KING'S WIND.
LET EVERY COW KEEP HER CALF.
"THIS WIND IS HELD IN GAUZE CURTAINS..."
NO WIND IS THE KING'S...
THE CAMEL DRIVERS SIT IN THE TURN OF THE STAIRS,
LOOK DOWN ON ECBATAN OF PLOTTED STREETS,
"DANAE! DANAE!
WHAT WIND IS THE KING'S?"
SMOKE HANGS ON THE STREAM,
THE PEACH-TREES SHED BRIGHT LEAVES IN THE WATER,
SOUND DRIFTS IN THE EVENING HAZE,
THE BARK SCRAPES AT THE FORD,
GILT RAFTERS ABOVE BLACK WATER,
THREE STEPS IN AN OPEN FIELD,
GRAY STONE-POSTS LEADING...
PERE HENRI JACQUES WOULD SPEAK WITH THE SENNIN, ON ROKKU,
MOUNT ROKKU BETWEEN THE ROCK AND THE CEDARS,
POLHONAC,
AS GYGES ON THRACIAN PLATTER SET THE FEAST,
CABESTAN, TEREUS,
IT IS CABESTAN'S HEART IN THE DISH,
VIDAL, OR ECBATAN, UPON THE GILDED TOWER IN ECBATAN
LAY THE GOD'S BRIDE, LAY EVER, WAITING THE GOLDEN RAIN.
BY GARONNE. "SAAVE!"
THE GARONNE IS THICK LIKE PAINT,
PROCESSION,-"ET SA'AVE, SA'AVE, SA'AVE REGINA!"-
MOVES LIKE A WORM, IN THE CROWD.
ADIGE, THIN FILM OF IMAGES,
ACROSS THE ADIGE, BY STEFANO, MADONNA IN HORTULO,
AS CAVALCANTI HAD SEEN HER.
THE CENTAUR'S HEEL PLANTS IN THE EARTH LOAM.
AND WE SIT HERE...
THERE IN THE ARENA...
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GREAT BULK, HUGE MASS, THESAURUS;
ECBATAN, THE CLOCK TICKS AND FADES OUT
THE BRIDE AWAITING THE GOD'S TOUCH; ECBATAN,
CITY OF PATTERNED STREETS; AGAIN THE VISION:
DOWN IN THE VIAE STRADAE, TOGA'D THE CROWD, AND ARM'D,
RUSHING ON POPULOUS BUSINESS,
AND FROM  PARAPET LOOKED DOWN
AND NORTH WAS EGYPT,
THE CELESTIAL NILE, BLUE DEEP,
CUTTING LOW BARREN LAND,
OLD MEN AND CAMELS
WORKING THE WATER-WHEELS;
MEASURELESS SEAS AND STARS,
IAMBLICHUS' LIGHT,
THE SOULS ASCENDING,
SPARKS LIKE A PARTRIDGE COVEY,
LIKE THE "CIOCCO", BRAND STRUCK IN THE GAME.
"ET OMNIFORMIS": AIR, FIRE, THE PALE SOFT LIGHT.
TOPAZ I MANAGE, AND THREE SORTS OF BLUE;
BUT ON THE BARB OF TIME.
THE FIRE? ALWAYS, AND THE VISION ALWAYS,
EAR DULL, PERHAPS, WITH THE VISION, FLITTING
AND FADING AT WILL. WEAVING WITH POINTS OF GOLD,
GOLD-YELLOW, SAFFRON... THE ROMAN SHOE, AURUNCULEIA'S
AND COME SHUFFLING FEET, AND CRIES "DA NUCES!
"NUCES!" PRAISE, AND HYMENAEUS "BRINGS THE GIRL TO HER MAN"
OR"HERE SEXTUS HAD SEEN HER".
TITTER OF SOUND ABOUT ME, ALWAYS.
AND FROM "HESPERUS..."
HUSH OF THE OLDER SONG: "FADES LIGHT FROM SEA-CREST,
"AND IN LYDIA WALKS WITH PAIR'D WOMEN
"PEERLESS AMONG THE PAIRS, THAT ONCE IN SARDIS
<D 18>"IN SATIETIES...
<F 22>FADES THE LIGHT FROM THE SEA, AND MANY THINGS
"ARE SET ABROAD AND BROUGHT TO MIND OF THEE,"
AND THE VINESTOCKS LIE UNTENDED, NEW LEAVES COME TO THE SHOOTS,
NORTH WIND NIPS ON THE BOUGH,AND SEAS OF HEART
TOSS UP CHILL CRESTS,
AND THE VINE STOCKS LIE UNTENDED
AND MANY THINGS ARE SET ABROAD AND BROUGHT TO MIND
OF THEE, ATTHIS, UNFRUITFUL.
THE TALKS RAN LONG IN THE NIGHT.
AND FROM MAULEON, FRESH WITH A NEW EARNED GRADE,
IN MAZE OF APPROACHING RAIN-STEPS, POICEBOT -
THE AIR WAS FULL OF WOMEN,
AND SAVAIRIC MAULEON
GAVE HIM HIS LAND AND KNIGHT'S FEE, AND HE WED THE WOMAN.
CAME LUST OF TRAVEL ON HIM, OF ROMERYA;
AND OUT OF ENGLAND A KNIGHT WITH SLOW-LIFTING EYELIDS
LEI FASSA FURAR A DEL, PUT GLAMOUR UPON HER...
AND LEFT HER AN EIGHT MONTHS GONE.
"CAME LUST OF WOMEN UPON HIM,
POICEBOT, NOW ON NORTH ROAD FROM SPAIN
(SEA-CHANGE, A GREY IN THE WATER)
AND IN SMALL HOUSE BY TOWN'S EDGE
FOUND A WOMAN, CHANGED AND FAMILIAR FACE;
HARD NIGHT, AND PARTING AT MORNING.
AND PIEIRE WON THE SINGING, PIEIRE DE MAENSAC,
SONG OR LAND ON THE THROW, AND WAS DREITZ HOM
AND HAD DE TIERCI'S WIFE AND WITH THE WAR THEY MADE:
TROY IN AUVERGNAT
WHILE MENELAUS PILED UP THE CHURCH AT PORT
HE KEPT TYNDARIDA. DAUPHIN STOOD WITH DE MAENSAC.
JOHN BORGIA IS BATHED AT LAST. (CLOCK-TICK PIERCES THE VISION)
TIBER, DARK WITH THE CLOAK, WET CAT GLEAMING IN PATCHES.
<D 19>CLICK OF THE HOOVES, THROUGH GARBAGE,
<F 23>CLUTCHING THE GREASY STONE. "AND THE CLOAK FLOATED."
SLANDER IS UP BETIMES.
BUT VARCHI OF FLORENCE,
STEEPED IN A DIFFERENT YEAR, AND PONDERING BRUTUS,
THEN "=SIGA,=MAL =AUTHIS =DEUTERAN!
"DOG-EYE!!" (TO ALESSANDRO)
"WHETHER FOR LOVE OF FLORENCE," VARCHI LEAVES IT,
SAYING "I SAW THE MAN, CAME UP WITH HIM AT VENICE,
"I, ONE WANTING THE FACTS,
"AND NO MEAN LABOUR... OR FOR A PRIVY SPITE?"
OUR BENEDETTO LEAVES IT,
BUT: "I SAW THE MAN. SE PIA?
"O EMPIA? FOR LORENZACCIO HAD THOUGHT OF STROKE IN THE OPEN,
BUT UNCERTAIN (FOR THE DUKE WENT NEVER UNGUARDED)
"AND WOULD HAVE THROWN HIM FROM WALL
"YET FEARED THIS MIGHT NOT END HIM," OR LEST ALESSANDRO
KNOW NOT BY WHOM DEATH CAME, O SE CREDESSE
"IF WHEN THE FOOT SLIPPED, WHEN DEATH CAME UPON HIM,
"LEST COUSIN DUKE ALESSANDRO THINK HE HAD FALLEN ALONE,
"NO FRIEND TO AID HIM IN FALLING."
CAINA ATTENDE.
THE LAKE OF ICE THERE BELOW ME.
AND ALL OF THIS, RUNS VARCHI, DREAMED OUT BEFOREHAND
IN PERUGIA, CAUGHT IN THE STAR-MAZE BY DEL CARMINE
CAST ON A NATAL PAPER, SET WITH AN EXEGESIS, TOLD,
ALL TOLD TO ALESSANDRO, TOLD THRICE OVER,
WHO HELD HIS DEATH FOR A DOOM.
IN ABULEIA. BUT DON LORENZINO
WHETHER FOR LOVE OF FLORENCE... BUT
"O SE MORISSE, CREDESSE CADUTO DA SE"
=SIGA, =SIGA.
SCHIAVONI, CAUGHT ON THE WOOD-BARGE,
GIVES OUT THE AFTERBIRTH, GIOVANNI BORGIA,
TRAILS OUT NO MORE AT NIGHTS, WHERE BARABELLO
<F 24><D 20>PRODS THE POPE'S ELEPHANT, AND GETS NO CROWN, WHERE MOZARELLO
TAKES THE CALABRIAN ROADWAY, AND FOR ENDING
IS SMOTHERED BENEATH A MULE,
A POET'S ENDING,
DOWN A STALE WELL-HOLE, OH A POET'S ENDING. "SANAZARRO
"ALONE OUT OF ALL THE COURT WAS FAITHFUL TO HIM"
FOR THE GOSSIP OF NAPLES' TROUBLE DRIFTS TO NORTH,
FRANCASTOR (LIGHTNING WAS MIDWIFE) COTTA, AND SER D'ALVIANO,
LIGHTNING SERVED AS HIS TWEEZERS,
AL POCO GIORNO ED AL GRAN CERCHIO D'OMBRA,
TALK THE TALKS OUT WITH NAVIGHERO,
BURNER OF YEARLY MARTIALS,
(THE SLAVELET IS MOURNED IN VAIN)
AND THE NEXT COMER SAYS "WERE NINE WOUNDS,
"FOUR MEN, WHITE HORSE. HELD ON THE SADDLE BEFORE HIM..."
HOOVES CLINK AND SLICK ON THE COBBLES.
SCHIAVONI...CLOAK..."SINK THE DAMN THING!"
SPLASH WAKES THAT CHAP ON THE WOOD-BARGE.
TIBER CATCHING THE NAP, THE MOONLIT VELVET,
A WET CAT GLEAMING IN PATCHES.
"SE PIA," VARCHI,
"O EMPIA, MA RISOLUTO
"E TERRIBILE DELIBERAZIONE."
BOTH SAYINGS RUN IN THE WIND,
MA SE MORISSE!
<C 6>
<F 25><D 21>
WHAT YOU HAVE DONE, ODYSSEUS,
WE KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE DONE...
AND THAT GUILLAUME SOLD OUT HIS GROUND RENTS
(SEVENTH OF POITIERS, NINTH OF AQUITAIN).
"TANT LAS FOTEI COM AUZIRETS
"CEN E QUARTRE VINGT ET VEIT VETZ..."
THE STONE IS ALIVE IN MY HAND, THE CROPS
WILL BE THICK IN MY DEATH-YEAR...
TILL LOUIS IS WED WITH ELEANOR
AND HAD (HE, GUILLAUME) A SON THAT HAD TO WIFE
THE DUCHESS OF NORMANDIA WHOSE DAUGHTER
WAS WIFE TO KING HENRY E MAIRE DEL REI JOVE...
WENT OVER SEA TILL DAY'S END (HE, LOUIS, WITH ELEANOR)
COMING AT LAST TO ACRE.
"ONGLA, ONCLE" SAITH ARNAUT
HER UNCLE COMMANDED IN ACRE,
THAT HAD KNOWN HER IN GIRLHOOD
(THESEUS, SON OF AEGEUS)
AND HE, LOUIS, WAS NOT AT EASE IN THAT TOWN,
AND WAS NOT AT EASE BY JORDAN
AS SHE RODE OUT TO THE PALM-GROVE
HER SCARF IN SALADIN'S CIMIER.
DIVORCED HER IN THAT YEAR, HE LOUIS,
DIVORCING THUS AQUITAINE.
AND THAT YEAR PLANTAGENET MARRIED HER
(THAT HAD DODGED PAST 17 SUITORS)
ET QUAND LO REIS LOIS LO ENTENDIT
MOUT ER FASCHE.
NAUPHAL, VEXIS, HARRY JOVEN
IN PLEDGE FOR ALL HIS LIFE AND LIFE OF ALL HIS HEIRS
SHALL HAVE GISORS, AND VEXIS, NEUFCHASTEL
<F 26>BUT IF NO ISSUE GISORS SHALL REVERT...
<D 22>"NEED NOT WED ALIX... IN THE NAME
TRINITY HOLY INDIVISIBLE... RICHARD OUR BROTHER
NEED NOT WED ALIX ONCE HIS FATHER'S WARD AND...
BUT WHOMSO HE CHOOSE...FOR ALIX, ETC...
ELEANOR, D.OMNA JAUZIONDA, MOTHER OF RICHARD,
TURNING ON THIRTY YEARS (WD HAVE BEEN YEARS BEFORE THIS)
BY RIVER-MARSH, BY GALLERIED CHURCH-PORCH,
MALEMORTE, CORREZE, TO WHOM:
"MY LADY OF VENTADOUR
"IS SHUT BY EBLIS IN
"AND WILL NOT HAWK NOR HUNT
NOR GET HER FREE IN THE AIR
"NOR WATCH FISH RISE TO BAIT
"NOR THE GLARE-WING'D FLIES ALIGHT IN THE CREEK'S EDGE
"SAVE IN MY ABSENCE, MADAME.
'QUE LA LAUZETA MOVER'
"SEND WORD I ASK YOU TO EBLIS
YOU HAVE SEEN THAT MAKER
"AND FINDER OF SONGS SO FAR AFIELD AS THIS
"THAT HE MAY FREE HER,
WHO SHEDS SUCH LIGHT IN THE AIR."
E LO SORDELS SI FO DI MANTOVANA,
SON OF A POOR KNIGHT, SIER ESCORT,
AND HE DELIGHTED HIMSELF IN CHANCONS
AND MIXED WITH THE MEN OF THE COURT
AND WENT TO THE COURT OF RICHARD SAINT BONIFACE
AND WAS THERE TAKEN WITH LOVE FOR HIS WIFE
CUNIZZA, DA ROMANO,
THAT FREED HER SLAVES ON A WEDNESDAY
MASNATAS ET SERVOS, WITNESS
PICUS DE FARINATIS
<F 27>AND DON ELINUS AND DON LIPUS
SONS OF FARINATO DE'FARINATI
<D 23>"FREE OF PERSON, FREE OF WILL
"FREE TO BUY, WITNESS, SELL, TESTATE."
A MARITO SUBTRAXIT IPSAM...
DICTUM SORDELLUM CONCUBUISSE:
"WINTER AND SUMMER I SING OF HER GRACE,
AS THE ROSE IS FAIR, SO FAIR IS HER FACE,
BOTH SUMMER AND WINTER I SING OF HER,
THE SNOW MAKYTH ME TO REMEMBER HER."
AND CAIRELS WAS OF SARLAT...
THESEUS FROM TROEZENE
AND THEY WD. HAVE GIVEN HIM POISON
BUT FOR THE SHAPE OF HIS SWORD-HILT.
<C 7>
<F 28><D 24>
ELEANOR (SHE SPOILED IN A BRITISH CLIMATE)
=HELANDROS AND =HELEPTOLIS, AND
POOR OLD HOMER BLIND,
BLIND AS A BAT,
EAR, EAR FOR THE SEA-SURGE;
RATTLE OF OLD MEN'S VOICES.
AND THEN THE PHANTOM OF ROME,
MARBLE NARROW FOR SEATS
"SI PULVIS NULLUS" SAID OVID,
"ERIT, NULLUM TAMEN EXCUTE."
THEN FILE AND CANDLES, E LI MESTIERS ECOUTES;
SCENE FOR THE BATTLE ONLY, BUT STILL SCENE,
PENNONS AND STANDARDS Y CAVALS ARMATZ
NOT MERE SUCCESSION OF STROKES, SIGHTLESS NARRATION,
AND DANTE'S "CIOCCO," BRAND STRUCK IN THE GAME.
UN PEU MOISI, PLANCHER PLUS BAS QUE LE JARDIN.
"CONTRE LE LAMBRIS, FAUTEUIL DE PAILLE,
"UN VIEUX PIANO, ET SOUS LE BAROMETRE..."
THE OLD MEN'S VOICES, BENEATH THE COLUMNS OF FALSE MARBLE,
THE MODISH AND DARKISH WALLS,
DISCREETER GILDING, AND THE PANELLED WOOD
SUGGESTED, FOR THE LEASEHOLD IS
TOUCHED WITH AN IMPRECISION... ABOUT THREE SQUARES;
THE HOUSE TOO THICK, THE PAINTINGS
A SHADE TOO OILED.
AND THE GREAT DOMED HEAD, CON GLI OCCHI ONESTI E TARDI
MOVES BEFORE ME, PHANTOM WITH WEIGHTED MOTION,
GRAVE INCESSU, DRINKING THE TONE OF THINGS,
AND THE OLD VOICE LIFTS ITSELF
WEAVING AN ENDLESS SENTENCE.
<F 29><D 25>WE ALSO MADE GHOSTLY VISITS, AND THE STAIR
THAT KNEW US, FOUND US AGAIN ON THE TURN OF IT,
KNOCKING AT EMPTY ROOMS, SEEKING FOR BURIED BEAUTY;
BUT THE SUN-TANNED, GRACIOUS AND WELL-FORMED FINGERS
LIFT NO LATCH OF BENT BRONZE, NO EMPIRE HANDLE
TWISTS FOR THE KNOCKER'S FALL; NO VOICE TO ANSWER.
A STRANGE CONCIERGE, IN PLACE OF THE GOUTY-FOOTED.
SCEPTIC AGAINST ALL THIS ONE SEEKS THE LIVING,
STUBBORN AGAINST THE FACT. THE WILTED FLOWERS
BRUSHED OUT A SEVEN YEAR SINCE, OF NO EFFECT.
DAMN THE PARTITION! PAPER, DARK BROWN AND STRETCHED,
FLIMSY AND DAMNED PARTITION.
IONE, DEAD THE LONG YEAR
MY LINTEL, AND LIU CH'E'S.
TIME BLACKED OUT WITH THE RUBBER.
THE ELYSEE CARRIES A NAME ON
AND THE BUS BEHIND ME GIVES ME A DATE FOR PEG;
LOW CEILING AND THE ERARD AND THE SILVER,
THESE ARE IN "TIME." FOUR CHAIRS, THE BOW-FRONT DRESSER,
THE PANIER OF THE DESK, CLOTH TOP SUNK IN.
"BEER-BOTTLE ON THE STATUE'S PEDIMENT!
"THAT, FRITZ, IS THE ERA, TO-DAY AGAINST THE PAST,
"CONTEMPORARY." AND THE PASSION ENDURES.
AGAINST THEIR ACTION, AROMAS. ROOMS, AGAINST CHRONICLES.
SMARAGDOS, CHRYSOLITHOS; DE GAMA WORE STRIPED PANTS IN AFRICA
AND "MOUNTAINS OF THE SEA GAVE BIRTH TO TROOPS";
LE VIEUX COMMODE EN ACAJOU:
BEER-BOTTLES OF VARIOUS STRATA,
BUT IS SHE DEAD AS TYRO? IN SEVEN YEARS?
=HELENAUS, =HELANDROS, =HELEPTOLIS
THE SEA RUNS IN THE BEACH-GROOVE, SHAKING THE FLOATED PEBBLES,
ELEANOR!
THE SCARLET CURTAIN THROWS A LESS SCARLET SHADOW;
<F 30><D 26>LAMPLIGHT AT BUOVILLA, E QUEL REMIR,
AND ALL THAT DAY
NICEA MOVED BEFORE ME
AND THE COLD GREY AIR TROUBLED HER NOT
FOR ALL HER NAKED BEAUTY, BIT NOT THE TROPIC SKIN,
AND THE LONG SLENDER FEET LIT ON THE CURB'S MARGE
AND HER MOVING HEIGHT WENT BEFORE ME,
WE ALONE HAVING BEING.
AND ALL THAT DAY, ANOTHER DAY:
THIN HUSKS I HAD KNOWN AS MEN,
DRY CASQUES OF DEPARTED LOCUSTS
SPEAKING A SHELL OF SPEECH...
PROPPED BETWEEN CHAIRS AND TABLE...
WORDS LIKE THE LOCUST-SHELLS, MOVED BY NO INNER BEING;
A DRYNESS CALLING FOR DEATH;
ANOTHER DAY, BETWEEN WALLS OF A SHAM MYCENIAN,
"TOC" SPHINXES, SHAM-MEMPHIS COLUMNS,
AND BENEATH THE JAZZ A CORTEX, A STIFFNESS OR STILLNESS,
SHELL OF THE OLDER HOUSE.
BROWN-YELLOW WOOD, AND THE NO COLOUR PLASTER,
DRY PROFESSORIAL TALK...
NOW STILLING THE ILL BEAT MUSIC,
HOUSE EXPULSED BY THIS HOUSE.
SQUARE EVEN SHOULDERS AND THE SATIN SKIN,
GONE CHEEKS OF THE DANCING WOMAN,
STILL THE OLD DRY TALK, GASSED OUT-
IT IS TEN YEARS GONE, MAKES STIFF ABOUT HER A GLASS,
A PETREFACTION OF AIR.
THE OLD ROOM OF THE TAWDRY CLASS ASSERTS ITSELF;
THE YOUNG MEN, NEVER!
ONLY THE HUSK OF TALK.
<F 31>A VOI CHE SIETE IN PICCIOLETTA BARCA,
DIDO CHOKED UP WITH SOBS, FOR HER SICHEUS
<D 27>LIES HEAVY IN MY ARMS, DEAD WEIGHT
DROWNING, WITH TEARS, NEW EROS,
AND THE LIFE GOES ON, MOONING UPON BARE HILLS;
FLAME LEAPS FROM THE HAND, THE RAIN IS LISTLESS,
YET DRINKS THE THIRST FROM OUR LIPS,
SOLID AS ECHO,
PASSION TO BREED A FORM IN SHIMMER OF RAIN-BLUR;
BUT EROS DROWNED, DROWNED, HEAVY, HALF DEAD WITH TEARS
FOR DEAD SICHEUS.
LIFE TO MAKE MOCK OF MOTION:
FOR THE HUSKS, BEFORE ME, MOVE,
THE WORDS RATTLE: SHELLS GIVEN OUT BY SHELLS.
THE LIVE MAN, OUT OF LANDS AND PRISONS,
SHAKES THE DRY PODS,
PROBES FOR OLD WILLS AND FRIENDSHIPS, AND THE BIG LOCUST-CASQUES
BEND TO THE TAWDRY TABLE,
LIFT UP THEIR SPOONS TO MOUTHS, PUT FORKS IN CUTLETS,
AND MAKE SOUND LIKE THE SOUND OF VOICES.
LORENZACCIO
BEING MORE LIVE THAN THEY, MORE FULL OF FLAMES AND VOICES.
MA SE MORISSE!
CREDESSE CADUTO DA SE, MA SE MORISSE.
AND THE TALL INDIFFERENCE MOVES,
A MORE LIVING SHELL,
DRIFT IN THE AIR OF FATE, DRY PHANTOM, BUT INTACT.
O ALESSANDRO, CHIEF AND THRICE WARNED, WATCHER,
ETERNAL WATCHER OF THINGS,
OF THINGS, OF MEN, OF PASSIONS.
EYES FLOATING IN DRY, DARK AIR,
E BIONDO, WITH GLASS-GREY IRIS, WITH AN EVEN SIDE-FALL OF HAIR
THE STIFF, STILL FEATURES.
<C 8>
<F 32><D 28>
THESE FRAGMENTS YOU HAVE SHELVED (SHORED).
"SLUT!" "BITCH!" TRUTH AND CALLIOPE
SLANGING EACH OTHER SOUS LES LAURIERS:
THAT ALESSANDRO WAS NEGROID. AND MALATESTA
SIGISMUND:
FRATER TAMQUAM
ET COMPATER CARISSIME: TERGO
...HANNI DE
..DICIS
...ENTIA
EQUIVALENT TO:
GIOHANNI OF THE MEDICI,
FLORENCE.
LETTER RECEIVED, AND IN THE MATTER OF OUR MESSIRE GIANOZIO,
ONE FROM HIM ALSO, SENT ON IN FORM AND WITH ALL DUE DISPATCH,
HAVING ADDED YOUR WISHES AND MEMORANDA.
AS TO ARRANGING PEACE BETWEEN YOU AND THE KING OF RAGONA,
SO FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, IT WD.
GIVE ME THE GREATEST POSSIBLE PLEASURE,
AT ANY RATE NOTHING WD. GIVE ME MORE PLEASURE
OR BE MORE ACCEPTABLE TO ME,
AND I SHD. LIKE TO BE PARTY TO IT, AS WAS PROMISED ME,
EITHER AS PARTICIPANT OR ADHERENT.
AS FOR MY SERVICE MONEY,
PERHAPS YOU AND YOUR FATHER WD. DRAW IT
AND SEND IT ON TO ME AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
AND TELL THE MAESTRO DI PENTORE
THAT THERE CAN BE NO QUESTION OF
HIS PAINTING THE WALLS FOR THE MOMENT,
AS THE MORTAR IS NOT YET DRY
AND IT WD. BE MERELY WORK CHUCKED AWAY
(BUTTATO VIA)
<F 33><D 29>BUT I WANT IT TO BE QUITE CLEAR, THAT UNTIL THE CHAPELS ARE READY
I WILL ARRANGE FOR HIM TO PAINT SOMETHING ELSE
SO THAT BOTH HE AND I SHALL
GET AS MUCH ENJOYMENT AS POSSIBLE FROM IT,
AND IN ORDER THAT HE MAY ENTER MY SERVICE
AND ALSO BECAUSE YOU WRITE ME THAT HE NEEDS CASH,
I WANT TO ARRANGE WITH HIM TO GIVE HIM SO MUCH PER YEAR
AND TO ASSURE HIM THAT HE WILL GET THE SUM AGREED ON.
YOU MAY SAY THAT I WILL DEPOSIT SECURITY
FOR HIM WHEREVER HE LIKES.
AND LET ME HAVE A CLEAR ANSWER,
FOR I MEAN TO GIVE HIM GOOD TREATMENT
SO THAT HE MAY COME TO LIVE THE REST
OF HIS LIFE IN MY LANDS -
UNLESS YOU PUT HIM OFF IT -
AND FOR THIS I MEAN TO MAKE DUE PROVISION,
SO THAT HE CAN WORK AS HE LIKES,
OR WASTE HIS TIME AS HE LIKES
(AFFATIGANDOSE PER SUO PIACERE O NO
NON GLI MANCHERA LA PROVIXIONE MAI)
NEVER LACKING PROVISION.
SIGISMUNDUS PANDOLPHUS DE MALATESTIS
IN CAMPO ILLUS. DOMINI VENETORUM DIE 7
APRILIS 1449 CONTRA CREMONAM
.....AND BECAUSE THE AFORESAID MOST ILLUSTRIOUS
DUKE OF MILAN
IS CONTENT AND WILLS THAT THE AFORESAID LORD SIGISMUNDO
GO INTO THE SERVICE OF THE MOST MAGNIFICENT COMMUNE
OF THE FLORENTINES
FOR ALLIANCE DEFENSIVE OF THE TWO STATES,
THEREFORE BETWEEN THE AFORESAID ILLUSTRIOUS SIGISMUND
AND THE RESPECTABLE MAN AGNOLO DELLA STUFA,
AMBASSADOR, SINDIC AND PROCURATOR
<F 34>APPOINTED BY THE TEN OF THE BAILEY, ETC., THE HALF
<D 30>OF THESE 50,000 FLORINS, FREE OF ATTAINDER,
FOR 1400 CAVALRY AND FOUR HUNDRED FOOT
TO COME INTO THE TERRENE OF THE COMMUNE
OR ELSEWHERE IN TUSCANY
AS PLEASE THE TEN OF THE BAILY,
AND TO BE HIMSELF THERE WITH THEM IN THE SERVICE
OF THE COMMUNE
WITH HIS HORSEMEN AND HIS FOOTMEN
(GENTE DI CAVALLO E DA PIE) ETC.
AUG. 5 1452, REGISTER OF THE TEN OF THE BAILY.
FROM THE FORKED ROCKS OF PENNA AND BILLI, ON CARPEGNA
WITH THE ROAD LEADING UNDER THE CLIFF,
IN THE WIND-SHELTER INTO TUSCANY,
AND THE NORTH ROAD, TOWARD THE MARECCHIA
THE MUD-STRETCH FULL OF COBBLES.
LYRA:
"YE SPIRITS WHO OF OLDE WERE IN THIS LAND
EACH UNDER LOVE, AND SHAKEN.
GO WITH YOUR LUTES, AWAKEN
THE SUMMER WITHIN HER MIND,
WHO HATH NOT HELEN FOR PEER
YSEUT NOR BATSABE."
WITH THE INTERRUPTION:
MAGNIFICO, COMPATER ET CARISSIME
(JOHANNI DI COSIMO)
VENICE HAS TAKEN ME ON AGAIN
AT 7,000 A MONTH, FIORINI DI CAMERA.
FOR 2,000 HORSE AND FOUR HUNDRED FOOTMEN,
AND IT RAINS HERE BY THE GALLON,
WE HAVE HAD TO DIG A NEW DITCH.
IN THREE OR FOUR DAYS
I SHALL TRY TO SET UP THE BOMBARDS.
<F 35>UNDER THE PLUMES, WITH THE FLAKES AND SMALL WADS OF COLOUR
SHOWERING FROM THE BALCONIES
<D 31>WITH THE SHEETS SPREAD FROM WINDOWS,
WITH LEAVES AND SMALL BRANCHES PINNED ON THEM,
ARRAS HUNG FROM THE RAILINGS; OUT OF THE DUST,
WITH PHEASANT TAILS UPRIGHT ON THEIR FORELOCKS,
THE SMALL WHITE HORSES, THE
TWELVE GIRLS RIDING IN ORDER, GREEN SATIN IN PANNIER'D HABITS;
UNDER THE BALDACHINO, SILVER'D WITH HEAVY STITCHES,
BIANCA VISCONTI, WITH SFORZA,
THE PEASANT'S SON AND THE DUCHESS,
TO RIMINI, AND TO THE WARS SOUTHWARD,
BOATS DRAWN ON THE SAND, RED-ORANGE SAILS IN THE CREEK'S MOUTH,
FOR TWO DAYS' PLEASURE, MOSTLY "LA PESCA," FISHING,
DI CUI IN THE WHICH HE, FRANCESCO, GODEVA MOLTO.
TO THE WAR SOUTHWARD
IN WHICH HE, AT THAT TIME, RECEIVED AN EXCELLENT HIDING.
AND THE GREEK EMPEROR WAS IN FLORENCE
(FERRARA HAVING THE PEST)
AND WITH HIM GEMISTHUS PLETHON
TALKING OF THE WAR ABOUT THE TEMPLE AT DELPHOS,
AND OF POSEIDON, CONCRET ALLGEMEINE,
AND TELLING OF HOW PLATO WENT TO DIONYSIUS OF SYRACUSE
BECAUSE HE HAD OBSERVED THAT TYRANTS
WERE MOST EFFICIENT IN ALL THAT THEY SET THEIR HANDS TO,
BUT HE WAS UNABLE TO PERSUADE DIONYSIUS
TO ANY AMELIORATION.
AND IN THE GATE AT ANCONA, BETWEEN THE FOREGATE
AND THE MAIN-GATES
SIGISMUNDO, ALLY, COME THROUGH AN ENEMY FORCE,
TO PATCH UP SOME SORT OF TREATY, PASSES ONE GATE
AND THEY SHUT IT BEFORE THEY OPEN THE NEXT GATE, AND HE SAYS:
"NOW YOU HAVE ME,
CAUGHT LIKE A HEN IN A COOP."
<F 36>AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH SAYS: "YES MESSIRE SIGISMUNDO,
BUT WE WANT THIS TOWN FOR OUSELVES."
<D 32>WITH THE CHURCH AGAINST HIM,
WITH THE MEDICI BANK FOR ITSELF,
WITH WATTLE SFORZA AGAINST HIM
SFORZA FRANCESCO, WATTLE-NOSE,
WHO MARRIED HIM (SIGISMUNDO) HIS (FRANCESCO'S)
DAUGHTER IN SEPTEMBER,
WHO STOLE PESARO IN OCTOBER (AS BROGLIO SAYS "BESTIALMENTE"),
WHO STOOD WITH THE VENETIANS IN NOVEMBER,
WITH THE MILANESE IN DECEMBER,
SOLD MILAN IN NOVEMBER, STOLE MILAN IN DECEMBER
OR SOMETHING OF THAT SORT,
COMMANDED THE MILANESE IN THE SPRING,
THE VENETIANS AT MIDSUMMER,
THE MILANESE IN THE AUTUMN,
AND WAS NAPLES' ALLY IN OCTOBER,
HE, SIGISMUNDO, TEMPLUM AEDIFICAVIT
IN ROMAGNA, TEEMING WITH CATTLE THIEVES,
WITH THE GAME LOST IN MID-CHANNEL,
AND NEVER QUITE LOST TILL '50,
AND NEVER QUITE LOST TILL THE END, IN ROMAGNA,
SO THAT GALEAZ SOLD PESARO "TO GET PAY FOR HIS CATTLE".
AND POICTIERS, YOU KNOW, GUILLAME POICTIERS,
HAD BROUGHT THE SONG UP OUT OF SPAIN
WITH THE SINGERS AND VIELS. BUT HERE THEY WANTED A SETTING,
BY MARECCHIA, WHERE THE WATER COMES DOWN OVER THE COBBLES
AND MASTIN HAD COME TO VERUCCHIO,
AND THE SWORD, PAOLO IL BELLO'S,
CAUGHT IN THE ARRAS
AND, IN ESTE'S HOUSE, PARISINA
PAID
FOR THIS TRIBE PAID ALWAYS, AND THE HOUSE
<F 37>CALLED ALSO ATREIDES',
AND THE WIND IS STILL FOR A LITTLE
<D 33>AND THE DUSK ROLLED
TO ONE SIDE A LITTLE
AND HE WAS TWELVE AT THE TIME, SIGISMUNDO,
AND NO DUES HAD BEEN PAID FOR THREE YEARS,
AND HIS ELDER BROTHER GONE PIOUS;
AND THAT YEAR THEY FOUGHT IN THE STREETS,
AND THAT YEAR HE GOT OUT TO CESENA
AND BROUGHT BACK THE LEVIES,
AND THAT YEAR HE CROSSED BY NIGHT OVER FOGLIA, AND...
<C 9>
<F 38><D 34>
ONE YEAR FLOODS ROSE,
ONE YEAR THEY FOUGHT IN THE SNOWS,
ONE YEAR HAIL FELL, BREAKING THE TREES AND WALLS.
DOWN HERE IN THE MARSH THEY TRAPPED HIM
IN ONE YEAR,
AND HE STOOD IN THE WATER UP TO HIS NECK
TO KEEP THE HOUNDS OFF HIM,
AND HE FLOUNDERED ABOUT IN THE MARSH
AND CAME IN AFTER THREE DAYS,
THAT WAS ASTORRE MANFREDI OF FAENZA
WHO WORKED THE AMBUSH
AND SET THE DOGS OFF TO FIND HIM,
IN THE MARSH, DOWN HERE UNDER MANTUA,
AND HE FOUGHT IN FANO, IN A STREET FIGHT,
AND THAT WAS NEARLY THE END OF HIM;
AND THE EMPEROR CAME DOWN AND KNIGHTED US,
AND THEY HAD A WOODEN CASTLE SET UP FOR FIESTA,
AND ONE YEAR BASINIO WENT OUT INTO THE COURTYARD
WHERE THE LISTS WERE, AND THE PALISADES
HAD BEEN SET FOR THE TOURNEYS,
AND HE TALKED DOWN THE ANTI-HELLENE,
AND THERE WAS AN HEIR MALE TO THE SEIGNOR,
AND MADAME GENEVRA DIED.
AND HE, SIGISMUNDO, WAS CAPITAN FOR THE VENETIANS.
AND HE HAD SOLD OFF SMALL CASTLES
AND BUILT THE GREAT ROCCA TO HIS PLAN,
AND HE FOUGHT LIKE TEN DEVILS AT MONTELURO
AND GOT NOTHING BUT THE VICTORY
AND OLD SFORZA BITCHED US AT PESARO;
(SIC) MARCH THE 16TH:
"THAT MESSIRE ALESSANDRO SFORZA
IS BECOME LORD OF PESARO
<F 39><D 35>THROUGH THE WANGLE OF THE ILLUS. SGR. MR. FEDRICHO D'ORBINO
WHO WORKED THE WANGLE WITH GALEAZ
THROUGH THE WIGGLING OF MESSER FRANCESCO,
WHO WAGGLED IT SO THAT GALEAZ SHOULD SELL PESARO
TO ALEX AND FOSSEMBRONE TO FEDDY;
AND HE HADN'T THE RIGHT TO SELL.
AND THIS HE DID BESTIALMENTE; THAT IS SFORZA DID BESTIALMENTE
AS HE HAD PROMISED HIM, SIGISMUNDO, PER CAPITOLI
TO SEE THAT HE, MALATESTA, SHOULD HAVE PESARO"
AND THIS CUT US OFF FROM OUR SOUTH HALF
AND FINISHED OUR GAME, THUS, IN THE BEGINNING,
AND HE, SIGISMUNDO, SPOKE HIS MIND TO FRANCESCO
AND WE DROVE THEM OUT OF THE MARCHES.
AND THE KING O' RAGONA, ALPHONSE LE ROY D'ARAGON,
WAS THE NEXT NAIL IN OUR COFFIN,
AND ALL YOU CAN SAY IS, ANYWAY,
THAT HE SIGISMUNDO CALLED A TOWN COUNCIL
AND VALTURIO SAID "AS WELL FOR A SHEEP AS A LAMB"
AND THIS CHANGE-OVER (HAEC TRADITIO)
AS OLD BLADDER SAID "REM EORUM SALUAVIT"
SAVED THE FLORENTINE STATE; AND THAT, MAYBE, WAS SOMETHING.
AND "FLORENCE OUR NATURAL ALLY" AS THEY SAID IN THE MEETING
FOR WHATEVER THAT WAS WORTH AFTERWARD.
AND HE BEGAN BUILDING THE TEMPIO,
AND POLIXENA, HIS SECOND WIFE, DIED.
AND THE VENETIANS SENT DOWN AN AMBASSADOR
AND SAID "SPEAK HUMANELY,
BUT TELL HIM IT'S NO TIME FOR RAISING HIS PAY."
AND THE VENETIANS SENT DOWN AN AMBASSADOR
WITH THREE PAGES OF SECRET INSTRUCTIONS
TO THE EFFECT: DID HE THINK THE CAMPAIGN WAS A JOY-RIDE?
AND OLD WATTLE-WATTLE SLIPPED INTO MILAN
BUT HE COULDN'T STAND SIDG BEING SO HIGH WITH THE VENETIANS
<F 40>AND HE TALKED IT OVER WITH FEDDY; AND FEDDY SAID "PESARO"
<D 36>AND OLD FOSCARI WROTE "CARO MIO
"IF WE SPLIT WITH FRANCESCO YOU CAN HAVE IT
"AND WE'LL HELP YOU IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE."
BUT FEDDY OFFERED IT SOONER.
AND SIGISMUNDO GOT UP A FEW ARCHES,
AND STOLE THAT MARBLE IN CLASSE, "STOLE" THAT IS,
CASUS EST TALIS:
FOSCARI DOGE, TO THE PREFECT OF RAVENNA
"WHY, WHAT, WHICH, THUNDER, DAMNATION????"
CASUS EST TALIS:
FILIPPO, COMMENDATARY OF THE ABBAZIA
OF SANT APOLLINAIRE, CLASSE, CARDINAL OF BOLOGNA
THAT HE DID ONE NIGHT (QUADAM NOCTE) SELL TO THE
ILLMO DO, DO SIGISMUND MALATESTA
LORD OF ARIMINIUM, MARBLE, PORPHYRY, SERPENTINE,
WHOSE MEN, SIGISMUNDO'S, CAME WITH MORE THAN AN HUNDRED
TWO WHEELED OX CARTS AND DEPORTED, FOR THE BEAUTIFYING
OF THE TEMPIO WHERE WAS SANTA MARIA IN TRIVIO
WHERE THE SAME ARE NOW ON THE WALLS. FOUR HUNDRED
DUCATS TO BE PAID BACK TO THE ABBAZIA BY THE SAID SWINDLING
CARDINAL OR HIS HEIRS.
GRNNH! RRNNH, PTHG.
WHEELS, PLAUSTRA, OXEN UNDER NIGHT-SHIELD,
AND ON THE 13TH OF AUGUST: ALOYSIUS PURTHEO,
THE NEXT ABBOT, TO SIGISMUNDO, RECEIPT FOR 200 DUCATS
CORN-SALVE FOR THE DAMAGE DONE IN THAT SCURRY.
AND THERE WAS THE ROW ABOUT THAT GERMAN-BURGUNDIAN FEMALE
AND IT WAS HIS MESSIANIC YEAR, =*POLIORCETES,
BUT HE WAS BEING A BIT TOO =*POLUMETIS
AND THE VENETIANS WOULDN'T GIVE HIM SIX MONTHS VACATION.
AND HE WENT DOWN TO THE OLD BRICK HEAP OF PESARO
AND WAITED FOR FEDDY
<F 41><D 37>AND FEDDY FINALLY SAID "I AM COMING!...
...TO HELP ALESSANDRO."
AND HE SAID: "THIS TIME MISTER FEDDY HAS DONE IT."
HE SAID: "BROGLIO, I'M THE GOAT. THIS TIME
MR. FEDDY HAS DONE IT (M'L'A CALATA)."
AND HE'D LOST HIS JOB WITH THE VENETIANS,
AND THE STONE DIDN'T COME IN FROM ISTRIA:
AND WE SENT MEN TO THE SILK WAR;
AND WATTLE NEVER PAID UP ON THE NAIL
THOUGH WE SIGNED ON WITH MILAN AND FLORENCE;
AND HE SET UP THE BOMBARDS IN MUCK DOWN BY VADA
WHERE NOBODY ELSE COULD HAVE SET' EM
AND HE TOOK THE WOOD OUT OF THE BOMBS
AND MADE 'EM OF TWO SCOOPS OF METAL
AND THE JOBS GETTING SMALLER AND SMALLER,
UNTIL HE SIGNED ON WITH SIENA;
AND THAT TIME THEY GRABBED HIS POST-BAG.
AND WHAT WAS IT, ANYHOW?
PITIGLIANO, A MAN WITH A TEN ACRE LOT,
TWO LUMPS OF TUFA,
AND THEY'D TAKEN HIS PASTURE LAND FROM HIM,
AND SIDG HAD GOT BACK THEIR HORSES,
AND HE HAD TWO BIG LUMPS OF TUFA
WITH SIX HUNDRED PIGS IN THE BASEMENTS.
AND THE POOR DEVILS WERE DYING OF COLD.
AND THIS IS WHAT THEY FOUND IN THE POST-BAG:
EX ARIMINO DIE XII DECEMBRIS
"MAGNIFICE AC POTENS DOMINE, MI SINGULARISSIME
"I ADVISE YR. LORDSHIP HOW
"I HAVE BEEN WITH MASTER ALWIDGE WHO
"HAS SHOWN ME THE DESIGN OF THE NAVE THAT GOES IN THE MIDDLE,
"OF THE CHURCH AND THE DESIGN FOR THE ROOF AND..."
"JHESUS,
"MAGNIFICO EXSO. SIGNOR MIO
<F 42>"SENCE TO-DAY I AM RECOMMANDED THAT I HAVE TO TEL YOU MY
<D 38>"FATHER'S OPINIUM THAT HE HAS SHODE TO MR. GENARE ABOUT THE VALTS
"OF THE CHERCH...ETC...
"GIOVANE OF MASTER ALWISE P.S. I THINK IT ADVISABL THAT I SHUD GO
"TO ROME TO TALK TO MISTER ALBERT SO AS I CAN NO WHAT HE THINKS
"ABOUT IT RITE.
"SAGRAMORO..."
"ILLUSTRE SIGNOR MIO, MESSIRE BATTISTA..."
"FIRST: TEN SLABS BEST RED, SEVEN BY 15, BY ONE THIRD,
"EIGHT DITTO, GOOD RED, 15 BY THREE BY ONE,
"SIX OF SAME, 15 BY ONE BY ONE.
"EIGHT COLUMNS 15 BY THREE AND ONE THIRD
ETC...WITH CARRIAGE, DANARS 151
"MONSEIGNEUR:
"MADAME ISOTTA HAS HAD ME WRITE TODAY ABOUT SR. GALEAZZO'S
"DAUGHTER. THE MAN WHO SAID YOUNG PULLETS MAKE THIN SOUP, KNEW
"WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT. WE WENT TO SEE THE GIRL THE OTHER DAY,
"FOR ALL THE GOOD THAT DID, AND SHE DENIED THE WHOLE MATTER AND
"KEPT HER END UP WITHOUT LOSING HER TEMPER. I THINK MADAME IXOTTA
"VERY NEARLY EXHAUSTED THE MATTER. MI PARE CHE AVEA DECTO HOGNI
"CHOSSIA. ALL THE CHILDREN ARE WELL. WHERE YOU ARE EVERYONE IS
"PLEASED AND HAPPY BECAUSE OF YOUR TAKING THE CHATEAU HERE WE
"ARE THE REVERSE AS YOU MIGHT SAY DRIFTING WITHOUT A RUDDER.
"MADAME LUCREZIA HAS PROBABLY, OR SHOULD HAVE, WRITTEN TO YOU,
"I SUPPOSE YOU HAVE THE LETTER BY NOW. EVERYONE WANTS TO BE
"REMEMBERED TO YOU. 21 DEC. D. DE M."
"...SAGRAMORO TO PUT UP THE DERRICKS. THERE IS A SUPPLY OF BEAMS
"AT..."
"MAGNIFICENT LORD WITH DUE REVERENCE:
"MESSIRE MALATESTA IS WELL AND ASKS FOR YOU EVERY DAY. HE IS SO
"MUCH PLEASED WITH HIS PONY, IT WD. TAKE A MONTH TO WRITE YOU
<F 43>"ALL THE FUN HE GETS OUT OF THAT PONY. I WANT TO AGAIN REMIND YOU
"TO WRITE TO GEORGIO RAMBOTTOM OR TO HIS BOSS TO FIX UP THAT WALL
<D 39>"TO THE LITTLE GARDEN THAT MADAME ISOTTA USES, FOR IT IS ALL FLAT ON
"THE GROUND NOW AS I HAVE ALREADY TOLD HIM A LOT OF TIMES, FOR ALL
"THE GOOD THAT DOES, SO I AM WRITING TO YOUR LORDSHIP IN THE MATTER
"I HAVE DONE ALL THAT I CAN, FOR ALL THE GOOD THAT DOES AS NOBODDY
"HEAR CAN DO ANYTHING WITHOUT YOU.
"YOUR FAITHFUL
LUNARDA DA PALLA.
20 DEC.1454."
"...GONE OVER IT WITH ALL THE FOREMEN AND ENGINEERS. AND ABOUT THE
"SILVER FOR THE SMALL MEDAL..."
"MAGNIFICE AC POTENS...
"BECAUSE THE WALLS OF..."
"MALATESTA DE MALATESTIS AD MAGNIFICUM DOMINUM PATREMQUE SUUM.
"EXSO DNO ET DNO SIN DNO SIGISMUNDUM PANDOLFI FILIUM
"MALATESTIS CAPITAN GENERAL
"MAGNIFICENT AND EXALTED LORD AND FATHER IN ESPECIAL MY LORD
"WITH DUE RECOMMENDATION: YOUR LETTER HAS BEEN PRESENTED TO ME
"BY GENTILINO DA GRADARA AND WITH IT THE BAY PONY (RONZINO
"BAIECTINO) THE WHICH YOU HAVE SENT ME, AND WHICH APPEARS IN MY
"EYES A FINE CAPARISON'D CHARGER, UPON WHICH I INTEND TO LEARN ALL
"THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT RIDING, IN CONSIDERATION OF YR. PATERNAL
"AFFECTION FOR WHICH I THANK YOUR EXCELLENCY THUS BRIEFLY AND PRAY
"YOU CONTINUE TO HOLD ME IN THIS ESTEEM NOTIFYING YOU BY THE
"BEARER OF THIS THAT WE ARE ALL IN GOOD HEALTH, AS I HOPE AND DESIRE
"YOUR EXCT LORDSHIP IS ALSO: WITH CONTINUED REMEMBRANCE I REMAIN
"YOUR SON AND SERVANT
MALATESTA DE MALATESTIS.
GIVEN IN RIMINI, THIS THE 22ND DAY OF DECEMBER
ANNO DOMINI 1454"
(IN THE SIXTH YEAR OF HIS AGE)
<F 44><D 40>"ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE:
"UNFITTING AS IT IS THAT I SHOULD OFFER COUNSELS TO HANNIBAL..."
"MAGNIFICE AC POTENS DOMINE, DOMINE MI SINGULARISSIME,
"HUMILI RECOMENDATIONE PERMISSA ETC. THIS TO ADVISE YOUR MGT
"LDSHP HOW THE SECOND LOAD OF VERONESE MARBLE HAS FINALLY GOT
"HERE, AFTER BEING HELD UP AT FERRARA WITH NO END OF FUSS AND
"BOTHERATION, THE WHOLE OF IT HAVING BEEN THERE UNLOADED.
"I LEARNED HOW IT HAPPENED, AND IT HAS COST A FEW FLORINS TO GET
"BACK THE SAID LOAD WHICH HAD BEEN SEIZED FOR THE SKIPPER'S DEBT
"AND DEFALCATION; HE HAVING FLED WHEN THE LIGHTER WAS SEIZED. BUT
"THAT YR MGT LDSHP MAY NOT LOSE THE MONEYS PAID OUT ON HIS
"ACCOUNT I HAVE HAD THE LIGHTER BROUGHT HERE AND AM HOLDING IT,
"AGAINST HIS ARRIVAL. IF NOT WE STILL HAVE THE LIGHTER.
"AS SOON AS THE XMAS FETES ARE OVER I WILL HAVE THE STONE FLOOR
"LAID IN THE SACRESTY, FOR WHICH THE STONE IS ALREADY CUT. THE WALL
"OF THE BUILDING IS FINISHED AND I SHALL NOW GET THE ROOF ON.
"WE HAVE NOT BEGUN PUTTING NEW STONE INTO THE MARTYR CHAPEL;
"FIRST BECAUSE THE HEAVY FROSTS WD. CERTAINLY SPOIL THE JOB; SECONDLY
"BECAUSE THE ALIOFANTS AREN'T YET HERE AND ONE CAN'T GET THE
"MEASUREMENTS FOR THE CORNICE TO THE COLUMNS THAT ARE TO REST ON
"THE ALIOFANTS.
"THEY ARE DOING THE STAIRS TO YOUR ROOM IN THE CASTLE...I HAVE
"HAD MESSIRE ANTONIO DEGLI ATTI'S COURT PAVED AND THE STONE
"BENCHES PUT IN IT.
"OTTAVIAN IS ILLUMINATING THE BULL. I MEAN THE BULL FOR THE
"CHAPEL. ALL THE STONE-CUTTERS ARE WAITING FOR SPRING WEATHER TO
"START WORK AGAIN.
"THE TOMB IS ALL DONE EXCEPT PART OF THE LID, AND AS SOON AS
"MESSIRE AGOSTINO GETS BACK FROM CESENA I WILL SEE THAT HE FINISHES
"IT, EVER RECOMMENDING ME TO YR MGT LDSHP
"BELIEVE ME YR FAITHFUL
PETRUS GENARIIS,"
<F 45><D 41>THAT'S WHAT THEY FOUND IN THE POST-BAG
AND SOME MORE OF IT TO THE EFFECT THAT
HE "LIVED AND RULED"
"ET AMAVA PERDUTAMENTE IXOTTA DEGLI ATTI"
E "NE FU DEGNA"
"CONSTANS IN PROPOSITO
"PLACUIT OCULIS PRINCIPIS
"PULCHRA ASPECTU"
"POPULO GRATA (ITALIAEQUE DECUS)
"AND BUILT A TEMPLE SO FULL OF PAGAN WORKS"
I.E. SIGISMUND
AND IN THE STYLE "PAST RUIN'D LATIUM"
THE FILIGREE HIDING THE GOTHIC,
WITH A TOUCH OF RHETORIC IN THE WHOLE
AND THE OLD SARCOPHAGI,
SUCH AS LIE, SMOTHERED IN GRASS, BY SAN VITALE.
<C 10>
<F 46><D 42>
AND THE POOR DEVILS DYING OF COLD, OUTSIDE SORANO,
AND FROM THE OTHER SIDE, FROM INSIDE THE CHATEAU,
ORSINI, COUNT PITIGLIANO, ON THE 17TH OF NOVEMBER:
"SIGGY, DARLINT, WD. YOU NOT STOP MAKING WAR ON INSENSIBLE
"OBJECTS, SUCH AS TREES AND DOMESTIC VINES, THAT HAVE NO MEANS TO
"HIT BACK...BUT IF YOU WILL HIRE YOURSELF OUT TO A COMMUNE (SIENA)
"WHICH YOU OUGHT RATHER TO RULE THAN SERVE..."
WHICH WITH TRACHULO'S DAMN'D EPISTLE...
AND WHAT OF IT ANYHOW? A MAN WITH A TEN ACRE LOT,
PITIGLIANO...A LUMP OF TUFA,
AND S. HAD GOT BACK THEIR HORSES
AND THE POOR DEVILS DYING OF COLD...
(AND THERE WAS ANOTHER TIME, YOU KNOW,
HE SIGNED ON WITH THE FANESI,
AND JUST COULDN'T BE BOTHERED...)
AND THERE WERE THREE MEN ON A ONE MAN JOB
AND CAREGGI WANTING THE BATON,
AND NOT GETTING IT JUST THEN IN ANY CASE.
AND HE, SIGISMUNDO, REFUSED AN INVITATION TO LUNCH
IN COMMEMORATION OF CARMAGNOLA
(VIDE VENICE, BETWEEN THE TWO COLUMNS
WHERE CARMAGNOLA WAS EXECUTED.)
ET
"ANNO MESSO A SACCHO EL SIGNOR SIGISMUNDO"
AS FILIPPO STROZZI WROTE TO ZAN LOTTIERI, THEN IN NAPLES,
"I THINK THEY'LL LET HIM THROUGH AT CAMPIGLIA"
FLORENCE, ARCHIVIO STORICO, 4TH SERIES T.III, E
" LA GUERRA DEI SENESI COL CONTE DI PITIGLIANO."
AND HE FOUND CARLO GONZAGA SITTING LIKE A MUD-FROG
IN ORBETELLO
<F 47><D 43>AND HE SAID:
"CARO MIO, I CAN NOT RECEIVE YOU
IT REALLY IS NOT THE MOMENT."
AND BROGLIO SAYS HE OUGHT TO HAVE TIPPED GORRO LOLLI.
BUT HE GOT BACK HOME HERE SOMEHOW,
AND PICCININO WAS OUT OF A JOB,
AND THE OLD ROW WITH NAPLES CONTINUED.
AND WHAT HE SAID WAS ALL RIGHT IN MANTUA;
AND BORSO HAD THE PAIR OF THEM UP TO BEL FIORE,
THE PAIR OF THEM, SIGISMUNDO AND FEDERICO URBINO,
OR PERHAPS IN THE PALACE, FERRARA, SIGISMUND UPSTAIRS
AND URBINO'S GANG IN THE BASEMENT,
AND A REGIMENT OF GUARDS IN, TO KEEP ORDER,
FOR ALL THE GOOD THAT DID:
"TI CAVERO LA BUDELLA DEL CORPO!"
EL CONTE LEVATOSI:
"IO TI CAVERO LA CORATA A TE!"
AND THAT DAY COSIMO SMILED,
THAT IS, THE DAY THEY SAID:
"DRUSIANA IS TO MARRY COUNT GIACOMO..."
(PICCININO) UN SORRISO MALIZIOSO.
DRUSIANA, ANOTHER OF FRANCO SFORZA'S;
IT WOULD AT LEAST KEEP THE ROW OUT OF TUSCANY.
AND HE FELL OUT OF A WINDOW, COUNT GIACOMO,
THREE DAYS AFTER HIS DEATH, THAT WAS YEARS LATER IN NAPLES,
FOR TRUSTING FERDINANDO OF NAPLES,
AND OLD WATTLE COULD DO NOTHING ABOUT IT.
ET:
INTEREA PRO GRADIBUS BASILICAE S. PIETRI EX ARIDA MATERIA
INGENS PYRA EXTRUITUR IN CUJUS SUMMITATE IMAGO SIGIS-
MUNDI COLLOCATUR HOMINIS LINEAMENTA, ET VESTIMENTI
MODUM ADEO PROPRIE REDDENS, UT VERA MAGIS PERSONA,
<F 48>QUAM IMAGO VIDERETUR; NE QUEM TAMEN IMAGO FALLERET,
<D 44>ET SCRIPTURA EX ORE PRODIIT, QUAE DICERET:
SIGISMUNDUS HIC EGO SUM
MALATESTA, FILIUS PANDULPHI, REX PRODITORUM,
DEO ATQUE HOMINIBUS INFESTUS,
SACRI CENSURA SENATUS IGNI DAMNATUS;
SCRIPTURUM. MULTI LEGERUNT. DEINDE ASTANTE POPULO, IGNI
IMMISSO, ET PYRA SIMULACRUM REPENTE FLAGRAVIT.
COM. PIO II, LIV. VII, P. 85.
YRIARTE, P. 288.
SO THAT IN THE END THAT POT-SCRAPING LITTLE RUNT ANDREAS
BENZI, DA SIENA
GOT UP TO SPOUT OUT THE BUNKUM
THAT THAT MONSTROUS SWOLLEN, SWELLING S.O.B.
PAPA PIO SECUNDO
AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI
DA SIENA
HAD TOLD HIM TO SPOUT, IN THEIR BEST BEAR'S-GREASED LATINITY;
STUPRO, COEDE, ADULTER,
HOMOCIDIA, PARRICIDIA AC PERIURUS,
PRESBITERICIDIA, AUDAX, LIBIDINOSUS,
WIVES, JEW-GIRLS, NUNS, NECROPHILIAST, FORNICARIUM AC SICARIUM,
PRODITOR, RAPTOR, INCESTUOSUS, INCENDIARIUS, AC
CONCUBINARIUS,
AND THAT HE REJECTED THE WHOLE SYMBOL OF THE APOSTLES,
AND THAT HE SAID THE MONKS OUGHT NOT TO OWN PROPERTY
AND THAT HE DISBELIEVED IN THE TEMPORAL POWER,
NEITHER CHRISTIAN, JEW, GENTILE,
NOR ANY SECT PAGAN, NISI FORSITAN EPICUREAE.
AND THAT HE DID AMONG OTHER THINGS
EMPTY THE FONTS OF THE CHIEXA OF HOLY WATER
<F 49>AND FILL UP THE SAME FULL WITH INK
<D 45>THAT HE MIGHT IN GOD'S DISHONOUR
STAND BEFORE THE DOORS OF THE SAID CHIEXA
MAKING MOCK OF THE INKY FAITHFUL, THEY
ISSUING THENCE BY THE DOORS IN THE PALE LIGHT OF THE SUNRISE
WHICH MIGHT BE CONSIDERED YOUTHFUL LEVITY
BUT WAS REALLY A PROFOUND INDICATION;
"WHENCE THAT HIS, SIGISMUNDO'S, FOETOR FILLED THE EARTH
AND STANK UP THROUGH THE AIR AND STARS TO HEAVEN
WHERE - SAVE THEY WERE IMMUNE FROM SUFFERINGS -
IT HAD MADE THE EMPARADISED SPIRITS PEWK"
FROM THEIR JEWELED TERRACE.
"LUSSURIOSO INCESTUOSO, PERFIDE, SOZZURE AC CRAPULONE,
ASSASSINO, INGORDO, AVARO, SUPERBO, INFIDELE
FATTORE DI MONETE FALSE, SODOMITICO, UXORICIDO"
AND THE WHOLE LUMP LOT
GIVEN OVER TO...
I MEAN AFTER PIO HAD SAID, OR AT LEAST PIO SAYS THAT HE
SAID THAT THIS WAS ELEGANT ORATORY "ORATIONEM
ELEGANTISSIMAM ET ORNATISSIMAM
AUDIVIMUS VENERABILIS IN XTI FRATRES AC DILECTISSIMI
FILII...(STONE IN HIS BLADDER
TESTIBUS IDONEIS)
THE LUMP LOT GIVEN OVER
TO THAT KID-SLAPPING FANATIC IL CARDINALE DI SAN PIETRO IN VINCOLI
TO FIND HIM GUILTY, OF THE LUMP LOT
AS HE DULY DID, CALLING RUMOUR, AND MESSIRE FEDERICO D'URBINO
AND OTHER EQUALLY UNIMPEACHABLE WITNESSES.
SO THEY BURNT OUR BROTHER IN EFFIGY
A RARE MAGNIFICENT EFFIGY COSTING 8 FLORINS 48 BOL
<F 50>(I.E. FOR THE PAIR, AS THE FIRST ONE WASN'T A GOOD ENOUGH LIKENESS)
AND BORSO SAID THE TIME WAS ILL-SUITED
TO TANTA NOVITA, SUCH DOINGS OR INNOVATIONS,
<D 46>GOD'S ENEMY AND MAN'S ENEMY, STUPRUM, RAPTUM
I.N.R.I. SIGISMUND IMPERATOR, REX PRODITORUM.
AND OLD PILLS WHO TRIED TO GET HIM INTO A FRONT RANK ACTION
IN ORDER TO DRIVE THE REAR GUARD AT HIS BUTTOCKS,
OLD PILLS LISTED AMONG THE MURDERED, ALTHOUGH HE
CAME OUT OF JAIL LIVING LATER.
ET LES ANGLOYS NE POVANS DESRACINER...VENIN DE HAYNE
HAD GOT BACK GISORS FROM THE ANGEVINS,
AND THE ANGEVINS WERE GUNNING AFTER NAPLES
AND WE DRAGGED IN THE ANGEVINS,
AND WE DRAGGED IN LOUIS ELEVENTH,
AND THE TIERS CALIXTE WAS DEAD, AND ALFONSO, ALFONSE LE ROI,ETC.
AND AGAINST US WE HAD "THIS AENEAS" AND YOUNG FERDINANDO
THAT WE HAD SMASHED AT PIOMBINO AND DRIVEN OUT OF THE
TERRENE OF THE FLORENTINES;
AND PICCININO, OUT OF A JOB;
AND HE, SIDG, HAD HAD THREE CHANCES OF
MAKING IT UP WITH ALFONSO, AND AN OFFER OF
MARRIAGE ALLIANCE;
AND WHAT HE SAID WAS ALL RIGHT THERE IN MANTUA;
BUT PIO, SOMETIME OR OTHER, PIO LOST HIS PUSTULOUS TEMPER.
AND THEY STRUCK ALUM AT TOLFA, IN THE POPE'S LAND,
TO PAY FOR THEIR DEVILMENT.
AND FRANCESCO SAID:
I ALSO HAVE SUFFERED.
WHEN YOU TAKE IT, GIVE ME A SLICE.
AND THEY NEARLY JAILED A CHAP FOR SAYING
<F 51>THE JOB WAS MAL HECHO; AND THEY CAUGHT POOR OLD PASTI
IN VENICE, AND WERE LIKE TO PULL ALL HIS TEETH OUT;
AND THEY HAD A BOW-SHOT AT BORSO
AS HE WAS GOING DOWN THE GRAND CANAL IN HIS GONDOLA
(THE NICE KIND WITH 26 BARBS ON IT)
<D 47>AND THEY SAID: NOVVY'LL SELL ANY MAN
FOR THE SAKE OF COUNT GIACOMO.
(PICCININO, THE ONE THAT FELL OUT OF THE WINDOW.)
AND THEY CAME AT US WITH THEIR ECCLESIASTICAL LEGATES
UNTIL THE EAGLE LIT ON HIS TENT POLE.
AND HE SAID: THE ROMANS WOULD HAVE CALLED THAT AN AUGURY
E GRADMENT LI ANTICHI CAVALER ROMANJ
DAVANO FED A QUISTI ANNUTII,
ALL I WANT YOU TO DO IS TO FOLLOW THE ORDERS,
THEY'VE GOT A BIGGER ARMY,
BUT THERE ARE MORE MEN IN THIS CAMP.
<C 11>
<F 52><D 48>
EGRADMENT LI ANTICHI CAVALER ROMANJ
DAVANO FED A QUISTI ANNUTII
AND HE PUT US UNDER THE CHIEFS,
AND THE CHIEFS WENT BACK TO THEIR SQUADRONS:
BERNARDO REGGIO, NIC BENZO, GIOVAN NESTORNO,
PAULO VITERBO, BUARDINO OF BRESCIA,
CETHO BRANDOLINO,
AND SIMONE MALESPINA, PETRACCO SAINT ARCHANGELO,
RIOBERTO DA CANOSSA,
AND FOR THE TENTH AGNIOLO DA ROMA
AND THAT GAY BIRD PIERO DELLA BELLA,
AND TO THE ELEVENTH ROBERTO,
AND THE PAPISHES WERE THREE THOUSAND ON HORSES,
DILLY CAVALLI TRE MILIA,
AND A THOUSAND ON FOOT,
AND THE LORD SIGISMUNDO HAD BUT MILLE TRE CENTO CAVALLI
AND HARDLY 500 FANTI (AND ONE SPINGARD),
AND WE BEAT THE PAPISHES AND FOUGHT
THEM BACK THROUGH THE TENTS
AND HE CAME UP TO THE DYKE AGAIN
AND FOUGHT THROUGH THE DYKE-GATE
AND IT WENT ON FROM DAWN TO SUNSET
AND WE BROKE THEM AND TOOK THEIR BAGGAGE
AND MILLE CINQUECENTO CAVALLI
E LI HOMINI DI MESSIRE SIGISMUNDO
NON FURONO CHE MILLE TRECENTO
AND THE VENETIANS SENT IN THEIR COMPLIMENTS
AND VARIOUS AND SUNDRY SENT IN THEIR COMPLIMENTS;
BUT WE GOT IT NEXT AUGUST;
AND ROBERTO GOT BEATEN AT FANO,
<F 53>AND HE WENT BY SHIP TO TARENTUM,
<D 49>I MEAN SIDG WENT TO TARENTUM
AND HE FOUND 'EM, THE ANTI-ARAGONS,
BUSTED AND WEEPING INTO THEIR BEARDS.
AND THEY, THE PAPISHES, CAME UP TO THE WALLS,
AND THAT NICK-NOSED S.O.B. FEDDY URBINO
SAID: "PAR CHE E FUOR DI QUESTO...SIGIS...MUNDO."
"THEY SAY HE DODDERS ABOUT THE STREETS
"AND CAN PUT HIS HAND TO NEITHER ONE THING NOR THE OTHER,"
AND HE WAS IN THE SICK WARDS, AND ON THE HIGH TOWER
AND EVERWHERE, KEEPING US AT IT.
AND, THANK GOD, THEY GOT THE SICKNESS OUTSIDE
AS WE HAD THE SICKNESS INSIDE,
AND THEY HAD NEITHER TOWN NOR CASTELLO
BUT DEY GOT DE MOS' BLOODY ROTTENES' PEACE ON US -
QUALI LOCHI SONO QUESTI:
SOGLIANO,
TORRANO AND LA SERRA, SBRIGARA, SAN MARTINO,
CIOLA, PONDO, SPINELLO, CIGNA AND BUCHIO,
PRATALINE, MONTE COGRUZZO,
AND THE VILLA AT RUFIANO
RIGHT UP TO THE DOOR-YARD
AND ANYTHING ELSE THE REVMO MONSIGNORE COULD REMEMBER.
AND THE WATER-RIGHTS ON THE SAVIO.
(AND THE SALT HEAPS WITH THE REED MATS ON THEM
GONE LONG AGO TO THE VENETIANS)
AND WHEN LAME NOVVY DIED, THEY GOT EVEN CESENA.
AND HE WROTE TO YOUNG PIERO:
SEND ME A COUPLE OF HUNTIN' DOGS,
THEY MAY TAKE MY MIND OFF IT.
AND ONE DAY HE WAS SITTING IN THE CHIEXA,
ON A BIT OF CORNICE, A BIT OF STONE GROOVED FOR A CORNICE,
TOO NARROW TO FIT HIS BIG BEAM,
HUNCHED UP AND NOTING WHAT WAS DONE WRONG,
<F 54><D 50>AND AN OLD WOMAN CAME IN AND GIGGLED TO SEE HIM
SITTING THERE IN THE DARK
SHE NEARLY FELL OVER HIM,
AND HE THOUGHT:
OLD ZULIANO IS FINISHED,
IF HE'S LEFT ANYTHING WE MUST SEE THE KIDS GET IT,
WRITE THAT TO ROBERT.
AND VANNI MUST GIVE THAT PEASANT A DECENT PRICE FOR HIS HORSES,
SAY THAT I WILL REFUND.
AND THE WRITS RUN IN FANO,
FOR THE LONG ROOM OVER THE ARCHES
SUB ANNULO PISCATORIS, PALATIUM SEU CURIAM OLIM DE MALATESTIS.
GONE, AND CESENA, ZEZENA D'''E B'''E COLONNE,
AND THE BIG DIAMOND PAWNED IN VENICE,
AND HE GONE INTO MOREA,
WHERE THEY SENT HIM TO DO IN THE MO'AMMEDS,
WITH 5,000 AGAINST 25,000,
AND HE NEARLY DIED OUT IN SPARTA,
MOREA, LAKEDAEMON,
AND CAME BACK WITH NO PEP IN HIM
AND WE SIT HERE. I HAVE SAT HERE
FOR FORTY THOUSAND YEARS,
AND THEY TRAPPED HIM DOWN HERE IN THE MARSH LAND,
IN '46 THAT WAS;
AND THE POOR DEVILS DYING OF COLD, THAT WAS ROCCA SORANO;
AND HE SAID IN HIS YOUNG YOUTH:
VOGLIAMO,
CHE LE DONNE, WE WILL THAT THEY, LE DONNE, GO ORNATE,
AS BE THEIR PLEASURE, FOR THE CITY'S GLORY THEREBY.
AND PLATINA SAID AFTERWARD,
WHEN THEY JAILED HIM
AND THE ACCADEMIA ROMANA,
<F 55>FOR SINGING TO ZEUS IN THE CATACOMBS,
<D 51>YES, I SAW HIM WHEN HE WAS DOWN HERE
READY TO MURDER FATTY BARBO, "FORMOSUS,"
AND THEY WANT TO KNOW WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT?
"DE LITTERIS ET DE ARMIS, PRAESTANTIBUSQUE INGENIIS,
BOTH OF ANCIENT TIMES AND OUR OWN; BOOKS, ARMS,
AND OF MEN OF UNUSUAL GENIUS,
BOTH OF ANCIENT TIMES AND OUR OWN, IN SHORT THE USUAL SUBJECTS
OF CONVERSATION BETWEEN INTELLIGENT MEN".
AND HE WITH HIS LUCK GONE OUT OF HIM
64 LANCES IN HIS COMPANY, AND HIS PAY 8,000 A YEAR,
64 AND NO MORE, AND HE NOT TO TRY TO GET ANY MORE
AND ALL OF IT DOWN ON PAPER
SEXAGINTA QUATUOR NEC TENTATUR HABERE PLURES
BUT LEAVE TO KEEP 'EM IN RIMINI
I.E. TO WATCH THE VENETIANS.
DAMN PITY HE DIDN'T
(I.E. GET THE KNIFE INTO HIM)
LITTLE FAT SQUAB "FORMOSUS"
BARBO SAID "CALL ME FORMOSUS"
BUT THE CONCLAVE WOULDN'T HAVE IT
AND THEY CALLED HIM PAOLO SECONDO.
AND HE LEFT THREE HORSES AT ONE GATE
AND THREE HORSES AT THE OTHER,
AND FATTY RECEIVED HIM
WITH A GUARD OF SEVEN CARDINALS "WHOM HE COULD TRUST."
AND THE CASTELAN OF MONTEFIORE WROTE DOWN,
"YOU'D BETTER KEEP HIM OUT OF THE DISTRICT.
"WHEN HE GOT BACK HERE FROM SPARTA, THE PEOPLE
"LIT FIRES, AND TURNED OUT YELLING: 'PANDOLFO'!"
IN THE GLOOM, THE GOLD GATHERS THE LIGHT AGAINST IT.
<F 56><D 52>AND ONE DAY HE SAID: HENRY, YOU CAN HAVE IT,
ON CONDITION, YOU CAN HAVE IT: FOR FOUR MONTHS
YOU'LL STAND ANY REASONABLE JOKE THAT I PLAY ON YOU,
AND YOU CAN JOKE BACK
PROVIDED YOU DON'T GET TOO ORNRY.
AND THEY PUT IT ALL DOWN IN WRITING:
FOR A GREEN CLOAK WITH SILVER BROCADE
ACTUM IN CASTRO SIGISMUNDO, PRESENTE ROBERTO DE VALTURIBUS
..SPONTE ET EX CERTA SCIENTA...TO ENRICHO DE AQUABELLO.
<C 12>
<F 57><D 53>
AND WE SIT HERE
UNDER THE WALL,
ARENA ROMANA, DIOCLETIAN'S, LES GRADINS
QUARANTE-TROIS RANGEES EN CALCAIRE.
BALDY BACON
BOUGHT ALL THE LITTLE COPPER PENNIES IN CUBA:
UN CENTAVO, DOS CENTAVOS,
TOLD HIS PEONS TO "BRING 'EM IN."
"BRING 'EM TO THE MAIN SHACK,"SAID BALDY,
AND THE PEONS BROUGHT 'EM;
"TO THE MAIN SHACK BROUGHT 'EM,"
AS HENRY WOULD HAVE SAID.
NICHOLAS CASTANO IN HABANA,
HE ALSO HAD A FEW CENTAVOS, BUT THE OTHERS
HAD TO PAY A PERCENTAGE.
PERCENTAGE WHEN THEY WANTED CENTAVOS,
PUBLIC CENTAVOS.
BALDY'S INTEREST
WAS IN MONEY BUSINESS.
"NO INTEREST IN ANY OTHER KIND UV BISNIS,"
SAID BALDY.
SLEEPING WITH TWO BUCK NIGGERS CHAINED TO HIM,
GUARDIA REGIA, CHAINED TO HIS WAIST
TO KEEP 'EM FROM SLIPPING OFF IN THE NIGHT;
BEING BY NOW UNPOPULAR WITH THE CUBANS;
BY FEVER REDUCED TO LBS. 108.
RETURNED TO MANHATTAN, ULTIMATELY TO MANHATTAN.
24 E. 47TH, WHEN I MET HIM,
DOING JOB PRINTING, I.E. AGENT,
GOING TO HIS OLD ACQUAINTANCES,
<F 58>HIS OFFICE IN NASSAU ST, DISTRIBUTING JOBS TO THE PRINTERS,
<D 54>COMMERCIAL STATIONERY,
AND LATER, INSURANCE,
EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY,
ODD SORTS OF INSURANCE,
FIRE ON BROTHELS, ETC., COMMISSION,
RISING FROM 15 DOLLARS A WEEK,
POLLON D'ANTHROPON IDEN,
KNEW WHICH SHIPPING COMPANIES WERE MOST CARELESS;
WHERE A MAN WAS MOST LIKELY
TO LOSE A LEG IN BAD HOISTING MACHINERY;
ALSO FIRE, AS WHEN PASSING A WHORE-HOUSE,
ARRIVED, MIRACULOUS HERMES, BY ACCIDENT,
TWO MINUTES AFTER THE PROPRIETOR'S ANGELOS
HAD BEEN SENT FOR HIM.
SAVED HIS PEOPLE 11,000 IN FOUR MONTHS
ON THAT CUBA JOB,
BUT THEY BUSTED,
ALSO RAN UP TO 40,000 BONES ON HIS OWN,
ONCE, BUT WANTED TO "EAT UP THE WHOLE'R WALL ST."
AND DROPPED IT ALL THREE WEEKS LATER.
HABITAT CUM QUADE, DAMN GOOD FELLOW,
MONS QUADE WHO WORE A MONOCLE ON A WIDE SABLE RIBBON
(ELSEWHERE RECORDED.)
DOS SANTOS, JOSE MARIA DOS SANTOS,
HEARING THAT A GRAIN SHIP
WAS WRECKED IN THE ESTUARY OF THE TAGUS,
BOUGHT IT AT AUCTION, NEMO OBSTABAT,
NO ONE ELSE BIDDING. "DAMN FOOL!" "MAIZE
SPOILED WITH SALT WATER,
NO USE, CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITH IT." DOS SANTOS.
ALL THE STUFF ROTTED WITH SEA WATER.
DOS SANTOS PORTUGUESE LUNATIC BOUGHT IT,
MORTGAGED THEN ALL HIS PATRIMONY,
E TOT LO SIEU AVER,
AND BOUGHT SUCKING PIGS, PIGS, SMALL PIGS,
<F 59><D 55>PORKERS, THROUGHOUT ALL PORTUGAL,
FED ON THE CARGO,
FIRST LOT MORTGAGED TO BUY THE SECOND LOT, UNDSOWEITER,
PORKERS OF PORTUGAL,
FATTENING WITH THE FULNESS OF TIME,
AND DOS SANTOS FATTENED, A GREAT LANDLORD OF PORTUGAL
NOW GATHERED TO HIS FATHERS.
DID IT ON WATER-SOAKED CORN.
(WATER PROBABLY FRESH IN THAT ESTUARY)
GO TO HELL APOVITCH, CHICAGO AINT THE WHOLE PUNKIN.
((D: JIM X...))JOHN QUINN
IN A BANKERS' MEETING,
BORED WITH THEIR HARD LUCK STORIES,
BORED WITH THEIR BLOOMIN' PRIMNESS
AND THE LITTLE WHITE RIMS
THEY WORE AROUND INSIDE THE EDGE OF THEIR VESTS
TO MAKE 'EM LOOK AS IF THEY HAD ON TWO WAISTCOATS,
TOLD 'EM THE TALE OF THE HONEST SAILOR.
BORED WITH THEIR PROPRIETIES,
AS THEY SAT, THE RANKED PRESBYTERIANS,
DIRECTORS, DEALERS THROUGH HOLDING COMPANIES,
DEACONS IN CHURCHES, OWNING SLUM PROPERTIES,
ALIAS USURERS IN EXCELSIS,
THE QUINTESSENTIAL ESSENCE OF USURERS,
THE PURVEYORS OF EMPLOYMENT, WHINING OVER THEIR 20 P.C.
AND THE HARD TIMES,
AND THE BUST-UP OF BRAZILIAN SECURITIES
(S.A. SECURITIES),
AND THE GENERAL UNCERTAINTY OF ALL INVESTMENT
SAVE INVESTMENT IN NEW BANK BUILDINGS,
PRODUCTIVE OF BANK BUILDINGS,
AND NOT LIKELY TO EASE DISTRIBUTION,
BORED WITH THE WAY THEIR MOUTHS TWITCHED
OVER THEIR CIGAR-ENDS,
<F 60><D 56>SAID JOHN QUINN:
THERE ONCE WAS A PORE HONEST SAILOR, A HEAVY DRINKER,
A HELL OF A CUSS, A ROWSTER, A BOOZER, AND
THE DRINK FINALLY SENT HIM TO HOSPITAL,
AND THEY OPERATED, AND THERE WAS A POOR WHORE IN
THE WOMAN'S WARD HAD A KID, WHILE
THEY WERE FIXING THE SAILOR, AND THEY BROUGHT HIM THE KID
WHEN HE CAME TO, AND SAID:
"HERE! THIS IS WHAT WE TOOK OUT OF YOU."
AN' HE LOOKED AT IT, AN HE GOT BETTER,
AND WHEN HE LEFT THE HOSPITAL, QUIT THE DRINK,
AND WHEN HE WAS WELL ENOUGH
SIGNED ON WITH ANOTHER SHIP
AND SAVED UP HIS PAY MONEY,
AND KEPT ON SAVIN' HIS PAY MONEY,
AND BOUGHT A SHARE IN THE SHIP,
AND FINALLY HAD HALF SHARES,
THEN A SHIP
AND IN TIME A WHOLE LINE OF STEAMERS;
AND EDUCATED THE KID,
AND WHEN THE KID WAS IN COLLEGE,
THE OLE SAILOR WAS AGAIN TAKEN BAD
AND THE DOCTORS SAID HE WAS DYING,
AND THE BOY CAME TO THE BEDSIDE,
AND THE OLD SAILOR SAID:
"BOY, I'M SORRY I CAN'T HANG ON A BIT LONGER,
"YOU'RE YOUNG YET.
I LEAVE YOU RE-SPONSA-BILITIES.
"WISH I COULD HA' WAITED TILL YOU WERE OLDER,
"MORE FIT TO TAKE OVER THE BISNESS..."
"BUT, FATHER,
"DON'T, TALK ABOUT ME, I'M ALL RIGHT,
<F 61>"IT'S YOU, FATHER."
"THAT'S IT, BOY, YOU SAID IT.
<D 57>"YOU CALLED ME YOUR FATHER, AND I AIN'T.
"I AIN'T YOUR DAD, NO,
"I AM NOT YOUR FADER BUT YOUR MODER," QUOD HE,
"YOUR FADER WAS A RICH MERCHANT IN STAMBOULI."
<F 62><D 58><C 13>
**KUNG WALKED
BY THE DYNASTIC TEMPLE
AND INTO THE CEDAR GROVE,
AND THEN OUT BY THE LOWER RIVER,
AND WITH HIM **KHIEU **TCHI
AND **TIAN THE LOW SPEAKING
AND "WE ARE UNKNOWN," SAID **KUNG,
"YOU WILL TAKE UP CHARIOTEERING?
"THEN YOU WILL BECOME KNOWN,
"OR PERHAPS I SHOULD TAKE UP CHARIOTEERING, OR ARCHERY?
"OR THE PRACTICE OF PUBLIC SPEAKING?"
AND **TSEU-LOU SAID, "I WOULD PUT THE DEFENCES IN ORDER,"
AND **KHIEU SAID, "IF I WERE LORD OF A PROVINCE
I WOULD PUT IT IN BETTER ORDER THAN THIS IS."
AND **TCHI SAID, "I SHOULD PREFER A SMALL MOUNTAIN TEMPLE,
"WITH ORDER IN THE OBSERVANCES,
WITH A SUITABLE PERFORMANCE OF THE RITUAL,"
AND **TIAN SAID, WITH HIS HAND ON THE STRINGS OF HIS LUTE
THE LOW SOUNDS CONTINUING
AFTER HIS HAND LEFT THE STRINGS,
AND THE SOUND WENT UP LIKE SMOKE, UNDER THE LEAVES,
AND HE LOOKED AFTER THE SOUND:
"THE OLD SWIMMING HOLE,
"AND THE BOYS FLOPPING OFF THE PLANKS,
"OR SITTING IN THE UNDERBRUSH PLAYING MANDOLINS."
AND **KUNG SMILED UPON ALL OF THEM EQUALLY.
AND **THSENG-SIE DESIRED TO KNOW:
"WHICH HAD ANSWERED CORRECTLY?"
AND **KUNG SAID, "THEY HAVE ALL ANSWERED CORRECTLY,
"THAT IS TO SAY, EACH IN HIS NATURE."
AND **KUNG RAISED HIS CANE AGAINST **YUAN **JANG,
<F 63>**YUAN **JANG BEING HIS ELDER,
<D 59>FOR **YUAN **JANG SAT BY THE ROADSIDE PRETENDING TO
BE RECEIVING WISDOM.
AND **KUNG SAID
" YOU OLD FOOL, COME OUT OF IT,
"GET UP AND DO SOMETHING USEFUL."
AND **KUNG SAID
"RESPECT A CHILD'S FACULTIES
"FROM THE MOMENT IT INHALES THE CLEAR AIR,
"BUT A MAN OF FIFTY WHO KNOWS NOTHING
"IS WORTHY OF NO RESPECT."
AND "WHEN THE PRINCE HAS GATHERED ABOUT HIM
"ALL THE SAVANTS AND ARTISTS, HIS RICHES WILL BE FULLY EMPLOYED."
AND **KUNG SAID, AND WROTE ON THE BO LEAVES:
"IF A MAN HAVE NOT ORDER WITHIN HIM
"HE CAN NOT SPREAD ORDER ABOUT HIM;
"AND IF A MAN HAVE NOT ORDER WITHIN HIM
"HIS FAMILY WILL NOT ACT WITH DUE ORDER;
"AND IF THE PRINCE HAVE NOT ORDER WITHIN HIM
"HE CAN NOT PUT ORDER IN HIS DOMINIONS."
AND **KUNG GAVE THE WORDS "ORDER"
AND "BROTHERLY DEFERENCE"
AND SAID NOTHING OF THE "LIFE AFTER DEATH".
AND HE SAID
"ANYONE CAN RUN TO EXCESSES,
"IT IS EASY TO SHOOT PAST THE MARK,
"IT IS HARD TO STAND FIRM IN THE MIDDLE."
AND THEY SAID: "IF A MAN COMMIT MURDER
"SHOULD HIS FATHER PROTECT HIM, AND HIDE HIM?"
AND **KUNG SAID:
"HE SHOULD HIDE HIM."
AND **KUNG GAVE HIS DAUGHTER TO **KONG-TCHANG
ALTHOUGH **KONG-TCHANG WAS IN PRISON.
<F 64>AND HE GAVE HIS NIECE TO **NAN-YOUNG
ALTHOUGH **NAN-YOUNG WAS OUT OF OFFICE.
<D 60>AND **KUNG SAID "**WAN RULED WITH MODERATION,
"IN HIS DAY THE STATE WAS WELL KEPT,
"AND EVEN I CAN REMEMBER
"A DAY WHEN THE HISTORIANS LEFT BLANKS IN THEIR WRITINGS,
"I MEAN FOR THINGS THEY DIDN'T KNOW,
"BUT THAT TIME SEEMS TO BE PASSING."
AND **KUNG SAID, "WITHOUT CHARACTER YOU WILL
BE UNABLE TO PLAY ON THAT INSTRUMENT
"OR TO EXECUTE THE MUSIC FIT FOR THE ODES.
"THE BLOSSOMS OF THE APRICOT
BLOW FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST,
"AND I HAVE TRIED TO KEEP THEM FROM FALLING."
<F 65><D 61><C 14>
IO VENNI IN LUOGO D'OGNI LUCE MUTO;
THE STENCH OF WET COAL, POLITICIANS
[.........E AND [.....N, THEIR WRISTS BOUND TO
THEIR ANKLES,
STANDING BARE BUM,
FACES SMEARED ON THEIR RUMPS,
WIDE EYE ON FLAT BUTTOCK,
BUSH HANGING FOR BEARD,
ADDRESSING CROWDS THROUGH THEIR ARSE-HOLES,
ADDRESSING THE MULTITUDES IN THE OOZE,
NEWTS, WATER-SLUGS, WATER-MAGGOTS,
AND WITH THEM [......R,
A SCRUPULOUSLY CLEAN TABLE-NAPKIN
TUCKED UNDER HIS PENIS,
AND [...........M
WHO DISLIKED COLLOQUIAL LANGUAGE,
STIFF-STARCHED, BUT SOILED, COLLARS
CIRCUMSCRIBING HIS LEGS,
THE PIMPLY AND HAIRY SKIN
PUSHING OVER THE COLLAR'S EDGE,
PROFITEERS DRINKING BLOOD SWEETENED WITH SHIT,
AND BEHIND THEM [.......F AND THE FINANCIERS
LASHING THEM WITH STEEL WIRES.
AND THE BETRAYERS OF LANGUAGE
[.........N AND THE PRESS GANG
AND THOSE WHO HAD LIED FOR HIRE;
THE PERVERTS, THE PERVERTERS OF LANGUAGE,
THE PERVERTS, WHO HAVE SET MONEY-LUST
BEFORE THE PLEASURES OF THE SENSES;
<F 66>HOWLING, AS OF A HEN-YARD IN A PRINTING-HOUSE,
THE CLATTER OF PRESSES,
<D 62>THE BLOWING OF DRY DUST AND STRAY PAPER,
FOETOR, SWEAT, THE STENCH OF STALE ORANGES,
DUNG, LAST CESS-POOL OF THE UNIVERSE,
MYSTERIUM, ACID OF SULPHUR,
THE PUSILLANIMOUS, RAGING;
PLUNGING JEWELS IN MUD,
AND HOWLING TO FIND THEM UNSTAINED;
SADIC MOTHERS DRIVING THEIR DAUGHTERS TO BED WITH DECREPITUDE,
SOWS EATING THEIR LITTERS,
AND HERE THE PLACARD =EIKON =GES,
AND HERE: THE PERSONNEL CHANGES,
MELTING LIKE DIRTY WAX,
DECAYED CANDLES, THE BUMS SINKING LOWER,
FACES SUBMERGED UNDER HAMS,
AND IN THE OOZE UNDER THEM,
REVERSED, FOOT-PALM TO FOOT-PALM,
HAND-PALM TO HAND-PALM, THE AGENTS PROVOCATEURS
THE MURDERERS OF [P..... AND [MAC D...... ,
CAPTAIN H. THE CHIEF TORTURER;
THE PETRIFIED TERD THAT WAS VERRES,
BIGOTS, CALVIN AND ST CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA!
BLACK-BEETLES, BURROWING INTO THE SHIT,
THE SOIL A DECREPITUDE,THE OOZE FULL OF MORSELS,
LOST CONTOURS, EROSIONS.
ABOVE THE HELL-ROT
THE GREAT ARSE-HOLE,
BROKEN WITH PILES,
HANGING STALACTITES,
GREASY AS SKY OVER WESTMINSTER,
<F 67>THE INVISIBLE, MANY ENGLISH,
THE PLACE LACKING IN INTEREST,
LAST SQUALOR, UTTER DECREPITUDE,
<D 63>THE VICE-CRUSADERS, FAHRTING THROUGH SILK,
WAVING THE CHRISTIAN SYMBOLS,
[........ FRIGGING A TIN PENNY WHISTLE,
FLIES CARRYING NEWS, HARPIES DRIPPING SHIT THROUGH THE AIR,
THE SLOUGH OF UNAMIABLE LIARS,
BOG OF STUPIDITIES,
MALEVOLENT STUPIDITIES, AND STUPIDITIES,
THE SOIL LIVING PUS, FULL OF VERMIN,
DEAD MAGGOTS BEGETTING LIVE MAGGOTS,
SLUM OWNERS,
USURERS SQUEEZING CRAB-LICE, PANDARS TO AUTHORITY,
PETS-DE-LOUP, SITTING ON PILES OF STONE BOOKS,
OBSCURING THE TEXTS WITH PHILOLOGY,
HIDING THEM UNDER THEIR PERSONS,
THE AIR WITHOUT REFUGE OF SILENCE,
THE DRIFT OF LICE, TEETHING,
AND ABOVE IT THE MOUTHING OF ORATORS,
THE ARSE-BELCHING OF PREACHERS.
AND INVIDIA,
THE CORRUPTIO, FOETOR, FUNGUS,
LIQUID ANIMALS, MELTED OSSIFICATIONS,
SLOW ROT, FOETID COMBUSTION,
CHEWED CIGAR-BUTTS, WITHOUT DIGNITY, WITHOUT TRAGEDY,
[.....M EPISCOPUS, WAVING A CONDOM FULL OF BLACK-BEETLES,
MONOPOLISTS, OBSTRUCTORS OF KNOWLEDGE.
OBSTRUCTORS OF DISTRIBUTION.
<F 68><D 64><C 15>
THE SACCHARESCENT, LYING IN GLUCOSE,
THE POMPOUS IN COTTON WOOL
WITH A STENCH LIKE THE FATS AT GRASSE,
THE GREAT SCABROUS ARSE-HOLE, SHITTING FLIES,
RUMBLING WITH IMPERIALISM,
ULTIMATE URINAL, MIDDAN, PISSWALLOW WITHOUT A CLOACA,
[......R LESS ROWDY, [...... EPISCOPUS
[........SIS,
HEAD DOWN, SCREWED INTO THE SWILL,
HIS LEGS WAVING AND PUSTULAR,
A CLERICAL JOCK STRAP HANGING BACK OVER THE NAVAL
HIS CONDOM FULL OF BLACK BEETLES,
TATTOO MARKS ROUND THE ANUS,
AND A CIRCLE OF LADY GOLFERS ABOUT HIM.
THE COURAGEOUS VIOLENT
SLASHING THEMSELVES WITH KNIVES,
THE COWARDLY INCITERS TO VIOLENCE
[.....N AND [........H EATEN BY WEEVILS,
[.......LL LIKE A SWOLLEN FOETUS,
THE BEAST WITH A HUNDRED LEGS, USURA
AND THE SWILL FULL OF RESPECTERS,
BOWING TO THE LORDS OF THE PLACE,
EXPLAINING ITS ADVANTAGES,
AND THE LAUDATORES TEMPORIS ACTI
CLAIMING THAT THE SHIT USED TO BE BLACKER AND RICHER
AND THE FABIANS CRYING FOR THE PETRIFICATION OF PUTREFACTION,
FOR A NEW DUNG-FLOW CUT IN LOZENGES,
THE CONSERVATIVES CHATTING,
DISTINGUISHED BY GAITERS OF SLUM-FLESH,
<F 69>AND THE BACK-SCRATCHERS IN A GREAT CIRCLE,
COMPLAINING OF INSUFFICIENT ATTENTION,
<D 65>THE SEARCH WITHOUT END, COUNTERCLAIM FOR THE MISSING SCRATCH
THE LITIGIOUS,
A GREEN BILE-SWEAT, THE NEWS OWNERS, [....S
THE ANONYMOUS
[..........E, BROKEN
HIS HEAD SHOT LIKE A CANNON-BALL TOWARD THE GLASS GATE,
PEERING THROUGH IT AN INSTANT,
FALLING BACK TO THE TRUNK, EPILEPTIC,
ET NULLA FIDENTIA INTER EOS,
ALL WITH THEIR TWITCHING BACKS,
WITH DAGGERS, AND BOTTLE ENDS, WAITING AN
UNGUARDED MOMENT;
A STENCH, STUCK IN THE NOSTRILS;
BENEATH ONE
NOTHING THAT MIGHT NOT MOVE,
MOBILE EARTH, A DUNG HATCHING OBSCENITIES,
INCHOATE ERROR,
BOREDOM BORN OUT OF BOREDOM,
BRITISH WEEKLIES, COPIES OF THE [..........C,
A MULTIPLE [......NN,
AND I SAID, "HOW IS IT DONE?"
AND MY GUIDE:
THIS SORT BREEDS BY SCISSION,
THIS IS THE FOURMILLIONTH TUMOUR.
IN THIS BOLGE BORES ARE GATHERED,
INFINITE PUS FLAKES, SCABS OF A LASTING POX.
SKIN-FLAKES, REPETITIONS, EROSIONS,
ENDLESS RAIN FROM THE ARSE-HAIRS,
AS THE EARTH MOVES, THE CENTRE
<F 70>PASSES OVER ALL PARTS IN SUCCESSION,
A CONTINUAL BUM-BELCH
DISTRIBUTING ITS PRODUCTIONS.
<D 66>ANDIAMO!
ONE'S FEET SUNK,
THE WELSH OF MUD GRIPPED ONE, NO HAND-RAIL,
THE BOG-SUCK LIKE A WHIRL-POOL,
AND HE SAID:
CLOSE THE PORES OF YOUR FEET!
AND MY EYES CLUNG TO THE HORIZON,
OIL MIXING WITH SOOT;
AND AGAIN PLOTINUS:
TO THE DOOR,
KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE MIRROR!
PRAYED WE TO THE MEDUSA,
PETRIFYING THE SOIL BY THE SHIELD,
HOLDING IT DOWNWARD
HE HARDENED THE TRACK
INCH BEFORE US, BY INCH,
THE MATTER RESISTING,
THE HEADS ROSE FROM THE SHIELD,
HISSING, HELD DOWNWARDS.
DEVOURING MAGGOTS,
THE FACE ONLY HALF POTENT,
THE SERPENTS' TONGUES
GRAZING THE SWILL TOP,
HAMMERING THE SOUSE INTO HARDNESS,
THE NARROW RAST,
HALF THE WIDTH OF A SWORD'S EDGE.
BY THIS THROUGH THE DERN EVIL,
NOW SINKING, NOW CLINGING,
HOLDING THE UNSINKABLE SHIELD.
OBLIVION,
FORGET HOW LONG,
SLEEP, FAINTING NAUSEA.
<F 71>"WHETHER IN NAISHAPUR OR BABYLON"
I HEARD IN THE DREAM.
PLOTINUS GONE,
<D 67>AND THE SHIELD TIED UNDER ME, WOKE;
THE GATE SWUNG ON ITS HINGES;
PANTING LIKE A SICK DOG, STAGGERED,
BATHED IN ALKALI, AND IN ACID.
=HELION =T' =HELION
BLIND WITH THE SUNLIGHT,
SWOLLEN-EYED, RESTED,
LIDS SINKING, DARKNESS UNCONSCIOUS.
<F 72><D 68><C 16>
AND BEFORE HELL MOUTH; DRY PLAIN
AND TWO MOUNTAINS;
ON THE ONE MOUNTAIN, A RUNNING FORM,
AND ANOTHER
IN THE TURN OF THE HILL; IN HARD STEEL
THE ROAD LIKE A SLOW SCREW'S THREAD,
THE ANGLE ALMOST IMPERCEPTIBLE,
SO THAT THE CIRCUIT SEEMED HARDLY TO RISE;
AND THE RUNNING FORM, NAKED, BLAKE,
SHOUTING, WHIRLING HIS ARMS, THE SWIFT LIMBS,
HOWLING AGAINST THE EVIL,
HIS EYES ROLLING,
WHIRLING LIKE FLAMING CART-WHEELS,
AND HIS HEAD HELD BACKWARD TO GAZE ON THE EVIL
AS HE RAN FROM IT,
TO BE HID BY THE STEEL MOUNTAIN,
AND WHEN HE SHOWED AGAIN FROM THE NORTH SIDE;
HIS EYES BLAZING TOWARD HELL MOUTH,
HIS NECK FORWARD,
AND LIKE HIM PEIRE CARDINAL.
AND IN THE WEST MOUNTAIN, IL FIORENTINO,
SEEING HELL IN HIS MIRROR,
AND LO SORDELS
LOOKING ON IT IN HIS SHIELD;
AND AUGUSTINE, GAZING TOWARD THE INVISIBLE.
AND PAST THEM, THE CRIMINAL
LYING IN BLUE LAKES OF ACID,
THE ROAD BETWEEN THE TWO HILLS, UPWARD
SLOWLY,
THE FLAMES PATTERNED IN LACQUER, CRIMEN EST ACTIO,
<F 73>THE LIMBO OF CHOPPED ICE AND SAW-DUST,
<D 69>AND I BATHED MYSELF WITH THE ACID TO FREE MYSELF
OF THE HELL TICKS,
SCALES, FALLEN LOUSE EGGS.
PALUX LAERNA,
THE LAKE OF BODIES, AQUA MORTA,
OF LIMBS FLUID, AND MINGLED, LIKE FISH HEAPED IN A BIN,
AND HERE AN ARM UPWARD, CLUTCHING A FRAGMENT OF MARBLE,
AND THE EMBRYOS, IN FLUX,
NEW INFLOW, SUBMERGING,
HERE AN ARM UPWARD, TROUT, SUBMERGED BY THE EELS;
AND FROM THE BANK, THE STIFF HERBAGE
THE DRY NOBBLED PATH, SAW MANY KNOWN, AND UNKNOWN,
FOR AN INSTANT;
SUBMERGING,
THE FACE GONE, GENERATION.
THEN LIGHT AIR, UNDER SAPLINGS,
THE BLUE BANDED LAKE UNDER AETHER,
AN OASIS, THE STONES, THE CALM FIELD,
THE GRASS QUIET,
AND PASSING THE TREE OF THE BOUGH
THE GREY STONE POSTS,
AND THE STAIR OF GRAY STONE,
THE PASSAGE CLEAN-SQUARED IN GRANITE:
DESCENDING,
AND I THROUGH THIS, AND INTO THE EARTH,
PATET TERRA,
ENTERED THE QUIET AIR
THE NEW SKY,
THE LIGHT AS AFTER A SUN-SET,
AND BY THEIR FOUNTAINS, THE HEROES,
SIGISMUNDO, AND MALATESTA NOVELLO,
AND FOUNDERS, GAZING AT THE MOUNTS OF THEIR CITIES.
<F 74>THE PLAIN, DISTANCE, AND IN FOUNT-POOLS
THE NYMPHS OF THAT WATER
<D 70>RISING, SPREADING THEIR GARLANDS,
WEAVING THEIR WATER REEDS WITH THE BOUGHS,
IN THE QUIET,
AND NOW ONE MAN ROSE FROM HIS FOUNTAIN
AND WENT OFF INTO THE PLAIN.
PRONE IN THAT GRASS, IN SLEEP;
ET J'ENTENDIS DES VOIX:...
WALL...STRASBOURG
[PLARRIS NARRATIONS][*PLARR'S NARRATION]GALLIFET LED THAT TRIPLE CHARGE...PRUSSIANS
AND HE SAID
IT WAS FOR THE HONOUR OF THE ARMY.
AND THEY CALLED HIM A SWASHBUCKLER.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS
BUT I THOUGHT: THIS IS PRETTY BLOODY DAMN FINE.
AND MY OLD NURSE, HE WAS A MAN NURSE, AND
HE KILLED A PRUSSIAN AND HE LAY IN THE STREET
THERE IN FRONT OF OUR HOUSE FOR THREE DAYS
AND HE STANK.......
BROTHER PERCY,
AND OUR BROTHER PERCY...
OLD ADMIRAL
HE WAS A MIDDY IN THOSE DAYS,
AND THEY CAME IN RAGUSA
......PLACE THOSE MEN WENT FOR THE SILK WAR.....
AND THEY SAW A PROCESSION COMING DOWN THROUGH
A CUT IN THE HILLS, CARRYING SOMETHING
THE SIX CHAPS IN FRONT CARRYING A LONG THING
ON THEIR SHOULDERS,
AND THEY THOUGHT IT WAS A FUNERAL,
BUT THE THING WAS WRAPPED UP IN SCARLET,
AND HE PUT OFF IN THE CUTTER,
HE WAS A MIDDY IN THOSE DAYS,
<F 75>TO SEE WHAT THE NATIVES WERE DOING,
AND THEY GOT UP TO THE SIX FELLOWS IN LIVERY,
<D 71>AND THEY LOOKED AT IT, AND I CAN STILL HEAR THE OLD ADMIRAL,
"WAS IT? IT WAS
LORD BYRON
DEAD DRUNK, WITH THE FACE OF AN A-Y-N........
HE PULLED IT OUT LONG, LIKE THAT:
THE FACE OF AN A-Y-N.........GEL."
AND BECAUSE THAT SON OF A BITCH,
FRANZ JOSEF OF AUSTRIA......
AND BECAUSE THAT SON OF A BITCH NAPOLEON BARBICHE...
THEY PUT HIM [*ALDINGTON] ON HILL 70, IN A TRENCH
DUG THROUGH CORPSES
WITH A LOT OF KIDS OF SIXTEEN,
HOWLING AND CRYING FOR THEIR MAMAS,
AND HE SENT A CHIT BACK TO HIS MAJOR:
I CAN HOLD OUT FOR TEN MINUTES
WITH MY SERGEANT AND A MACHINE-GUN.
AND THEY REBUKED HIM FOR LEVITY.
AND HENRI GAUDIER WENT TO IT,
AND THEY KILLED HIM,
AND KILLED A GOOD DEAL OF SCULPTURE,
AND OLE T.E.H. HE WENT TO IT,
WITH A LOT OF BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY,
LONDON LIBRARY, AND A SHELL BURIED 'EM IN A DUG-OUT,
AND THE LIBRARY EXPRESSED ITS ANNOYANCE.
AND A BULLET HIT HIM ON THE ELBOW
...GONE THROUGH THE FELLOW IN FRONT OF HIM,
AND HE READ KANT IN THE HOSPITAL, IN WIMBLEDON,
IN THE ORIGINAL,
AND THE HOSPITAL STAFF DIDN'T LIKE IT.
AND MAXY LARMANN [*WYNDHAM LEWIS] WENT TO IT,
WITH A HEAVY BIT OF ARTILLERY,
AND THE AIRMEN CAME BY WITH A MITRAILLEUSE,
<F 76>AND CLEANED OUT MOST OF HIS COMPANY,
AND A SHELL LIT ON HIS TIN HUT,
<D 72>WHILE HE WAS OUT IN THE PRIVVY,
AND HE WAS ALL THERE WAS LEFT OF THAT OUTFIT.
BARHAM VANDERBERG [*WINDELER] WENT TO IT,
AND HE WAS OUT IN THE AEGAEAN,
AND DOWN IN THE HOLD OF HIS SHIP
PUMPING GAS INTO A SAUSAGE,
AND THE BOATSWAIN LOOKED OVER THE RAIL,
DOWN INTO AMIDSHIPS, AND HE SAID:
GEES! LOOK A' THE KEPT'N,
THE KEPT'N'S A-GETTIN' 'ER UP.
AND OLE CAPTAIN CORCORAN [*BAKER] WENT TO IT,
WITH HIS LEGS FULL OF RHEUMATICS,
SO MUCH SO HE COULDN'T RUN,
SO HE WAS SIX MONTHS IN HOSPITAL,
OBSERVING THE MENTALITY OF THE PATIENTS.
AND BIMMY [*FLETCHER WAS 19 WHEN HE WENT TO IT,
AND HIS MAJOR WENT MAD IN THE CONTROL PIT,
ABOUT MIDNIGHT, AND STARTED THROWING THE 'PHONE ABOUT
AND HE HAD TO KEEP HIM QUIET
TILL ABOUT SIX IN THE MORNING,
AND DIRECT THAT BUNCH OF ARTILLERY.
AND CYRIL HAMMERTON [*ERNEST HEMINGWAY] WENT TO IT,
TOO MUCH IN A HURRY,
AND THEY BURIED HIM FOR FOUR DAYS.
ET MA FOI, VOUS SAVEZ,
TOUS LES NERVEUX. NON,
Y A UNE LIMITE; LES BETES, LES BETES NE SONT
PAS FAITES POUR CA, C'EST PEU DE CHOSE UN CHEVAL.
<F 77>LES HOMMES DE 34 ANS A QUATRE PATTES
QUI CRIAIENT "MAMAN". MAIS LES COSTAUDS,
LA FIN, LA A VERDUN, N'Y AVAIT QUE CES GROS BONSHOMMES
ET Y VOYAIENT EXTREMEMENT CLAIR.
<D 73>QU'EST-CE QUE CA VAUT, LES GENERAUX, LE LIEUTENANT,
ON LES PESE A UN CENTIGRAMME,
N'Y A RIEN QUE DU BOIS,
NOTR' CAPITAINE, TOUT, TOUT CE QU'IL Y A DE PLUS RENFERME
DE VIEUX POLYTECHNICIEN, MAIS SOLIDE,
LA TETE SOLIDE. LA' VOUS SAVEZ,
TOUT, TOUT FONCTIONNE, ET LES VOLEURS, TOUS LES VICES,
MAIS LES RAPACES,
Y AVAIT TROIS DANS NOTRE COMPAGNIE, TOUS TUES.
Y SORTAIENT FOUILLER UN CADAVRE, POUR RIEN,
Y N'SERAIENT SORTIS POUR RIEN QUE CA.
ET LES BOCHES, TOUT CE QUE VOUS VOULEZ,
MILITARISME, ET CAETERA, ET CAETERA.
TOUT CA, MAIS, MAIS,
L'FRANCAIS, I S'BAT QUAND Y A MANGE.
MAIS CES PAUVRES TYPES
A LA FIN Y S'ATTAQUAIENT POUR MANGER,
SANS ORDRES, LES BETES SAUVAGES, ON Y FAIT
PRISONNIERS; CEUX QUI PARLAIENT FRANCAIS DISAIENT:
"POO QUAH? MA FOI ON ATTAQUAIT POUR MANGER."
C'EST LE CORR-GGRAS, LE CORPS GRAS,
LEURS TRAINS MARCHAIENT TROIS KILOMETRES A L'HEURE,
ET CA CRIAIT, CA GRINCAIT, ON L'ENTENDAIT A CINQ KILOMETRES.
(CA QUI FINIT LA GUERRE.)
LISTE OFFICIELLE DES MORTS 5,000,000.
I VOUS DIT, BE, VOUI, TOUT SENTAIT LE PETROLE.
MAIS, NON! JE L'AI ENGUEULE.
JE LUI AI DIT: T'ES UN CON! T'A RATE LA GUERRE.
<F 78>O VOUI! TOUS LES HOMMES DE GOUT, Y CONVIENS,
TOUT CA EN ARRIERE.
MAIS UN MEC COMME TOI!
<D 74>C'T HOMME, UN TYPE COMME CA!
CE QU'IL AURAIT PU ENCAISSER!
IL ETAIT DANS UNE FABRIQUE.
WHAT, BURYING SQUAD, TERRASSIERS, AVEC LEUR TETE
EN ARRIERE, QUI REGARDAIENT COMME CA,
ON RISQUAIT LA VIE POUR UN COUP DE PELLE,
FAUT QUE CA SOIT BIEN CARRE, EXACT...
DEY VUS A BOLCHEVIKI DERE, UND DEY DEASE HIM:
LOOKA VAT YOUAH TROTZSK IS DONE, E ISS
MADEH DEH ZHAMEFULL BEACE!!
"HE ISS MADEH DEH ZHAMEFULL BEACE, ISS HE?
"HE IS MADEH DE ZHAMEVUL BEACE?
"A BREST-LITOVSK, YESS? AINT YUH HERD?
"HE VINNEH DE VORE.
"DE DROOPS ISS RELEASED VROM DE EASTERN VRONT, YESS?
"UN VENN DEY GETTS TO DEH VESTERN VRONT, ISS IT
"HOW MANY GETTS DERE?
"AND DOSE DOAT GETTS DERE ISS SO FULL OFF REVOLUTIONS
"VENN DEH VRENCH IS COME DHRU, YESS,
"DEY SAY, "VOT?" UN DE POSCH SAY:
"AINT YEH HEARD? SAY, VE GOT A RHEFFOLUTION."
THAT'S THE TRICK WITH A CROWD,
GET 'EM INTO THE STREET AND GET 'EM MOVING.
AND ALL THE TIME, THERE WERE PEOPLE GOING
DOWN THERE, OVER THE RIVER.
THERE WAS A MAN THERE TALKING,
TO A THOUSAND, JUST A SHORT SPEECH, AND
THEN MOVE 'EM ON. AND HE SAID:
<F 79>YES, THESE PEOPLE, THEY ARE ALL RIGHT, THEY
CAN DO EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING EXCEPT ACT;
AND GO AN' HEAR 'EM, BUT WHEN THEY ARE THROUGH,
COME TO THE BOLSHEVIKI...
<D 75>AND WHEN IT BROKE, THERE WAS THE CROWD THERE,
AND THE COSSACKS, JUST AS ALWAYS BEFORE,
BUT ONE THING, THE COSSACKS SAID:
"POJALOUISTA."
AND THAT GOT ROUND IN THE CROWD,
AND THEN A LIEUTENANT OF INFANTRY
ORDERED 'EM TO FIRE INTO THE CROWD,
IN THE SQUARE AT THE END THE NEVSKY,
IN FRONT OF THE MOSCOW STATION,
AND THEY WOULDN'T
AND HE PULLED HIS SWORD ON A STUDENT FOR LAUGHING,
AND KILLED HIM,
AND A COSSACK RODE OUT OF HIS SQUAD
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SQUARE
AND CUT DOWN THE LIEUTENANT OF INFANTRY
AND THAT WAS THE REVOLUTION...
AS SOON AS THEY NAMED IT.
AND YOU CAN'T MAKE 'EM,
NOBODY KNEW IT WAS COMING. THEY WERE ALL READY, THE OLD GANG,
GUNS ON THE TOP OF THE POST-OFFICE AND THE PALACE,
BUT NONE OF THE LEADERS KNEW IT WAS COMING.
AND THERE WERE SOME KILLED AT THE BARRACKS,
BUT THAT WAS BETWEEN THE TROOPS.
THUS WE USED TO HEAR OF IT AT THE OPERA,
THAT THEY WOULDN'T BE UNDER HAIG;
AND THAT THE ADVANCE WAS BEGINNING;
THAT IT WAS GOING TO BEGIN IN A WEEK.
<F 80><D 76><C 17>
SO THAT THE VINES BURST FROM MY FINGERS
AND THE BEES WEIGHTED WITH POLLEN
MOVE HEAVILY IN THE VINE-SHOOTS:
CHIRR-CHIRR-CHIR-RIKK-A PURRING SOUND,
AND THE BIRDS SLEEPILY IN THE BRANCHES.
ZAGREUS! IO ZAGREUS!
WITH THE FIRST PALE-CLEAR OF THE HEAVEN
AND THE CITIES SET IN THEIR HILLS,
AND THE GODDESS OF THE FAIR KNEES
MOVING THERE, WITH THE OAK-WOOD BEHIND HER,
THE GREEN SLOPE, WITH WHITE HOUNDS
LEAPING ABOUT HER;
AND THENCE DOWN TO THE CREEK'S MOUTH, UNTIL EVENING,
FLAT WATER BEFORE ME,
AND THE TREES GROWING IN WATER,
MARBLE TRUNKS OUT OF STILLNESS,
ON PAST THE PALAZZI,
IN THE STILLNESS,
THE LIGHT NOW, NOT OF THE SUN.
CHRYSOPHRASE,
AND THE WATER GREEN CLEAR, AND BLUE CLEAR;
ON, TO THE GREAT CLIFFS OF AMBER.
BETWEEN THEM,
CAVE OF NEREA,
SHE LIKE A GREAT SHELL CURVED,
AND THE BOAT DRAWN WITHOUT SOUND,
WITHOUT ODOUR OF SHIP-WORK,
NOR BIRD-CRY, NOR ANY NOISE OF WAVE MOVING,
NOR SPLASH OF PORPOISE, NOR ANY NOISE OF WAVE MOVING,
WITHIN HER CAVE, NEREA,
SHE LIKE A GREAT SHELL CURVED
<F 81><D 77>IN THE SUAVITY OF THE ROCK,
CLIFF GREEN-GRAY IN THE FAR,
IN THE NEAR, THE GATE-CLIFFS OF AMBER,
AND THE WAVE
GREEN CLEAR, AND BLUE CLEAR,
AND THE CAVE SALT-WHITE, AND GLARE-PURPLE,
COOL, PORPHYRY SMOOTH,
THE ROCK SEA-WORN.
NO GULL-CRY, NO SOUND OF PORPOISE,
SAND AS OF MALACHITE, AND NO COLD THERE,
THE LIGHT NOT OF THE SUN.
ZAGREUS, FEEDING HIS PANTHERS,
THE TURF CLEAR AS ON HILLS UNDER LIGHT.
AND UNDER THE ALMOND-TREES, GODS,
WITH THEM, CHOROS NYMPHARUM. GODS,
HERMES AND ATHENE,
AS SHAFT OF COMPASS,
BETWEEN THEM, TREMBLED-
TO THE LEFT IS THE PLACE OF FAUNS,
SYLVA NYMPHARUM;
THE LOW WOOD, MOOR-SCRUB,
THE DOE, THE YOUNG SPOTTED DEER,
LEAP UP THROUGH THE BROOM-PLANTS,
AS DRY LEAF AMID YELLOW.
AND BY ONE CUT OF THE HILLS,
THE GREAT ALLEY OF MEMNONS.
BEYOND, SEA, CRESTS SEEN OVER DUNE
NIGHT SEA CHURNING SHINGLE,
TO THE LEFT, THE ALLY OF CYPRESS.
A BOAT CAME,
ONE MAN HOLDING HER SAIL,
<D 78>GUIDING HER WITH OAR CAUGHT OVER GUNWALE, SAYING:
"THERE, IN THE FOREST OF MARBLE,
<F 82>"THE STONE TREES-OUT OF WATER-
"THE ARBOURS OF STONE-
"MARBLE LEAF, OVER LEAF,
"SILVER, STEEL OVER STEEL,
"SILVER BEAKS RISING AND CROSSING,
"PROW SET AGAINST PROW,
"STONE, PLY OVER PLY,
"THE GILT BEAMS FLARE OF AN EVENING"
BORSO, CARMAGNOLA, THE MEN OF CRAFT, I VITREI,
THITHER, AT ONE TIME, TIME AFTER TIME,
AND THE WATERS RICHER THAN GLASS,
BRONZE GOLD, THE BLAZE OVER THE SILVER,
DYE-POTS IN THE TORCH-LIGHT,
THE FLASH OF WAVE UNDER PROWS,
AND THE SILVER BEAKS RISING AND CROSSING.
STONE TREES, WHITE AND ROSE-WHITE IN THE DARKNESS,
CYPRESS THERE BY THE TOWERS,
DRIFT UNDER HULLS IN THE NIGHT.
"IN THE GLOOM THE GOLD
GATHERS THE LIGHT ABOUT IT."...
NOW SUPINE IN BURROW, HALF OVER-ARCHED BRAMBLE,
ONE EYE FOR THE SEA, THROUGH THAT PEEK-HOLE,
GRAY LIGHT, WITH ATHENE.
ZOTHAR AND HER ELEPHANTS, THE GOLD LOIN-CLOTH,
THE SISTRUM, SHAKEN, SHAKEN,
THE COHORT OF HER DANCERS.
AND ALETHA, BY BEND OF THE SHORE,
WITH HER EYES SEAWARD,
AND IN HER HANDS SEA-WRACK
SALT-BRIGHT WITH THE FOAM.
KORE THROUGH THE BRIGHT MEADOW,
WITH GREEN-GRAY DUST IN THE GRASS:
<F 83><D 79>"FOR THIS HOUR, BROTHER OF CIRCE."
ARM LAID OVER MY SHOULDER,
SAW THE SUN FOR THREE DAYS, THE SUN FULVID,
AS A LION LIFT OVER SAND-PLAIN;
AND THAT DAY,
AND FOR THREE DAYS, AND NONE AFTER,
SPLENDOUR, AS THE SPLENDOUR OF HERMES,
AND SHIPPED THENCE
TO THE STONE PLACE,
PALE WHITE, OVER WATER,
KNOWN WATER,
AND THE WHITE FOREST OF MARBLE, BENT BOUGH OVER BOUGH,
THE PLEACHED ARBOUR OF STONE,
THITHER BORSO, WHEN THEY SHOT THE BARBED ARROW AT HIM,
AND CARMAGNOLA, BETWEEN THE TWO COLUMNS,
SIGISMUNDO, AFTER THAT WRECK IN DALMATIA.
SUNSET LIKE THE GRASSHOPPER FLYING.
<F 84><D 80><C 18>
AND OF KUBLAI:
"I HAVE TOLD YOU OF THAT EMPEROR'S CITY IN DETAIL
AND WILL TELL YOU OF THE COINING IN CAMBALUC
THAT HYGHT THE SECRET OF ALCHEMY:
THEY TAKE BAST OF THE MULBERRY-TREE,
THAT IS A SKIN BETWEEN THE WOOD AND THE BARK,
AND OF THIS THEY MAKE PAPER, AND MARK IT
HALF A TORNESEL, A TORNESEL, OR A HALF-GROAT OF SILVER,
OR TWO GROATS, OR FIVE GROATS, OR TEN GROATS,
OR, FOR A GREAT SHEET, A GOLD BEZANT, 3 BEZANTS,
TEN BEZANTS;
AND THEY ARE WRITTEN ON BY OFFICIALS,
AND SMEARED WITH THE GREAT KHAN'S SEAL IN VERMILION;
AND THE FORGERS ARE PUNISHED WITH DEATH.
AND ALL THIS COSTS THE KHAN NOTHING,
AND SO HE IS RICH IN THIS WORLD.
AND HIS POSTMEN GO SEWED UP AND SEALED UP,
THEIR COATS BUTTONED BEHIND AND THEN SEALED,
IN THIS WAY FROM THE VOYAGE'S ONE END TO ITS OTHER.
AND THE INDIAN MERCHANTS ARRIVING
MUST GIVE UP THEIR JEWELS, AND TAKE THIS MONEY
IN PAPER,
(THAT TRADE RUNS, IN BEZANTS, TO 400,000 THE YEAR.)
AND THE NOBLES MUST BUY THEIR PEARLS"
-THUS MESSIRE POLO; PRISON AT GENOA-
"OF THE EMPEROR."
THERE WAS A BOY IN CONSTANTINOPLE
AND SOME BRITISHER KICKED HIS ARSE.
"I HATE THESE FRENCH," SAID NAPOLEON, AGED 12,
TO YOUNG BOURRIENNE, "I WILL DO THEM ALL THE HARM
THAT I CAN."
<F 85>IN LIKE MANNER ZENOS METEVSKY.
<D 81>AND OLD BIERS WAS OUT THERE, A GREENHORN,
TO SELL CANNON, AND METEVSKY FOUND THE BACK DOOR;
AND OLD BIERS SOLD THE MUNITIONS,
AND METEVSKY DIED AND WAS BURIED, I.E. OFFICIALLY,
AND SAT IN THE YEINER KAFE WATCHING THE FUNERAL.
ABOUT TEN YEARS AFTER THIS INCIDENT,
HE OWNED A FAIR CHUNK OF HUMBERS.
"PEACE! PIEYCE!!" SAID MR GIDDINGS,
"UNI-VER-SAL? NOT WHILE YEW GOT TEW BILLIONS OV MONEY,"
SAID MR GIDDINGS, "INVESTED IN THE MAN-U-FACTURE
"OF WAR MACHINERY. HAOW I SOLD IT TO RUSSIA-
"WELL WE TUK'EM A NEW TORPEDO-BOAT,
"AND IT WAS ALL ELECTRIC, RUN IT ALL FROM A
"LITTLE BIT UV A KEYBOARD, ABOUT LIKE THE SIZE OV
"A TYPEWRITER, AND THE PRINCE COME ABOARD,
"AN' WE SEZ WUD YEW LIKE TO RUN HER?
"AND HE RUN DAMN SLAM ON THE BREAKWATER,
"AND BUST OFF ALL HER FRONT END,
"AND HE WAS MY GAWD SCARED OUT OF HIS PANTIES.
"WHO WUZ AGOIN' TEW PAY FER THE DAMAGE?
"AND IT WAS MY FIRST TRIP OUT FER THE COMPANY,
"AND I SEZ, YER HIGHNESS, IT IS NOTHING,
"WE WILL GIVE YEW A NEW ONE. AND, MY CHRIST!
"THE COMPANY BACKED ME, AND DID WE GET A FEW ORDERS?"
SO LA MARQUESA DE LAS ZOJAS Y HURBARA
USED TO DRIVE UP TO SIR ZENOS'S PLACE
IN THE CHAMPS ELYSEES
AND PRESIDE AT HIS DINNERS, AND AT LAS ONCE
SHE DROVE AWAY FROM THE FRONT DOOR, WITH HER FOOTMEN
AND HER COACHMAN IN LIVERY, AND DROVE FOUR BLOCKS ROUND
TO THE BACK DOOR, AND HER HUSBAND WAS THE SON OF A BITCH,
AND METEVSKY, "THE WELL-KNOWN PHILANTHROPIST",
<F 86>OR "THE WELL-KNOWN FINANCIER. BETTER KNOWN",
AS THE PRESS SAID, "AS A PHILANTHROPIST",
GAVE-AS THE ESTE TO LOUIS ELEVENTH-
<D 82>A FINE PAIR OF GIRAFFES TO THE NATION,
AND ENDOWED A CHAIR OF BALLISTICS,
AND WAS CONSULTED BEFORE THE OFFENSIVES.
AND MR OIGE WAS VERY CHOLERIC IN A FIRST-CLASS
FROM NICE TO PARIS, HE SAID: "DANGER!
"NOW A SAILOR'S LIFE IS A LIFE OF DANGER,
"BUT A MINE, WHY EVERY STICK OF IT IS NUMBERED,
"AND ONE TIME WE MISSED ONE, AND THERE WAS
"THREE HUNDRED MEN KILLED IN THE 'SPLOSION."
HE WAS ANNOYED WITH THE STRIKERS, HAVING STARTED HIMSELF
AS ENGINEER AND WORKED UP, AND LOSING,
BY THAT COAL STRIKE, SOME MONTHS AFTER THE PARAGRAPH:
:SIR ZENOS METEVSKY HAS BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT
OF THE GETHSEMANE TREBIZOND PETROL.
AND THEN THERE CAME OUT ANOTHER: 80 LOCOMOTIVES
ON THE MANCHESTER-CARDIFF HAVE BEEN FITTED WITH
NEW OIL-BURNING APPARATUS...
LARGE STOCKS OF THE HEAVIER VARIETIES OF WHICH (I.E. OIL)
ARE NOW ON HAND IN THE COUNTRY.
SO I SAID TO THE OLD QUAKER HAMISH,
I SAID: "I AM INTERESTED." AND HE WENT PUTTY COLOUR
AND SAID: "HE DON'T ADVERTISE. NO, I DON'T THINK
YOU WILL LEARN MUCH." THAT WAS WHEN I ASKED
ABOUT METEVSKY MELCHIZEDEK.
HE, HAMISH, TOOK THE TRACTORS UP TO
KING MENELIK, 3 RIVERS AND 140 RAVINES.
"QU'EST-CE QU'ON PENSE...? "I SAID: "ON DON'T PENSE.
"THEY'RE SOLID BONE. YOU CAN AMPUTATE FROM JUST ABOVE
"THE MEDULLA, AND IT WON'T ALTER THE LIFE IN THAT ISLAND."
<F 87>BUT HE CONTINUED, "MAIS, QU'EST-CE QU'ON PENSE,
"DE LA METALLURGIE, EN ANGLETERRE, QU'EST-CE QU'ON
"PENSE DE METEVSKY?"
<D 83>AND I SAID: "THEY AIN'T HEARD HIS NAME YET.
GO ASK AT MACGORVISH'S BANK."
THE JAP OBSERVERS WERE MUCH AMUSED BECAUSE
THE TURKISH FREEMASONS HADN'T BOTHERED TO
TAKE THE FRENCH REGIMENTAL BADGES OFF THEIR ARTILLERY.
AND OLD HAMISH: MENELIK
HAD A HUNCH THAT MACHINERY...AND SO ON...
BUT HE NEVER COULD GET IT TO WORK,
NEVER COULD GET ANY POWER.
THE GERMANS WD SEND HIM UP BOILERS, BUT THEY'D
HAVE TO CUT 'EM INTO PIECES TO LOAD 'EM ON CAMELS,
AND THEY NEVER GOT 'EM TOGETHER AGAIN.
AND SO OLD FOWLER WENT OUT THERE,
AND LOOKED AT THE PLACE, 3 RIVERS
AND A HUNDRED AND FORTY RAVINES,
AND HE SENT OUT TWO TRACTORS, ONE TO PULL ON THE OTHER
AND MENELIK SENT DOWN AN ARMY, A 5000 BLACK ARMY
WITH HAWSERS, AND THEY ALL SWEATED AND SWATTED.
AND THE FIRST THING DAVE LIT ON WHEN HE GOT THERE
WAS A BUZZ-SAW,
AND HE PUT IT THROUGH AN EBONY LOG: WHHSSSH, T TTT,
TWO DAY'S WORK IN THREE MINUTES.
WAR, ONE WAR AFTER ANOTHER,
MEN START 'EM WHO COULDN'T PUT UP A GOOD HEN-ROOST.
ALSO SABOTAGE...
<F 88><D 84><C 19>
SABOTAGE? YES, HE TOOK IT UP TO MANHATTAN,
TO THE BIG COMPANY, AND THEY SAID: IMPOSSIBLE.
AND HE SAID: I GAWT TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS TEW MAK'EM,
AND I AM GOIN' TEW MAK'EM, AND YOU'LL DAMN WELL
HAVE TO INSTALL'EM, AWL OVER THE PLACE.
AND THEY SAID: OH, WE CAN'T HAVE IT.
SO HE SETTLED FOR ONE-HALF OF ONE MILLION.
AND HE HAS A VERY NICE PLACE ON THE HUDSON,
AND THAT INVENTION, PATENT, IS STILL IN THEIR DESK.
AND THE ANSWER TO THAT IS: WA'AL HE HAD THE TEN THOUSAND.
AND OLD SPINDER, THAT PUT UP THE 1870 GOTHICK MEMORIAL,
HE TRIED TO PULL ME ON MARX, AND HE TOLD ME
ABOUT THE "ROMANCE OF HIS BUSINESS":
HOW HE CAME TO ENGLAND WITH SOMETHING OR OTHER,
AND SOLD IT.
ONLY HE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT MARX, SO I SEZ:
WAAL HAOW IS IT YOU'RE OVER HERE, RIGHT OFF THE
CHAMPZ ELYZA?
AND HOW CAN YEW BE HERE? WHY DON'T THE FELLERS AT HOME
TAKE IT ALL OFF YOU? HOW CAN YOU LEAVE YOUR BIG BUSINESS?
"OH," HE SEZ, "I AIN'T HAD TO RENT ANY MONEY...
"IT'S A LONG TIME SINCE I AIN'T HAD TEW RENT ANY MONEY."
NAWTHIN' MORE ABOUT DAS KAPITAL,
OR CREDIT, OR DISTRIBUTION.
AND HE "NEVER FINISHED THE BOOK",
THAT WAS THE OTHER CHAP, THE SLENDER DIPLOMATDENTIST
QUI SE FAISAIT SI BEAU.
SO WE SAT THERE, WITH THE OLD KINDLY PROFESSOR,
AND THE STUBBY LITTLE MAN WAS UP-STAIRS.
AND THERE WAS THE SLICK GUY IN THE OTHER
<F 89><D 85>CORNER READING THE TATLER,
NOT UPSIDE DOWN, BUT NEVER TURNING THE PAGES,
AND THEN I WENT UP TO THE BED-ROOM, AND HE SAID,
THE STUBBY FELLOW: "PERFECTLY TRUE,
"BUT IT'S A QUESTION OF FEELING,
"CAN'T MOVE 'EM WITH A COLD THING LIKE ECONOMICS."
AND SO WE CAME DOWN STAIRS AND WENT OUT,
AND THE SLICK GUY LOOKED OUT OF THE WINDOW,
AND IN CAME THE STREET "LEMME-AT-'EM"
LIKE A BULL-DOG IN A MACKINTOSH.
O MY CLIO!
THEN THE TELEPHONE DIDN'T WORK FOR A WEEK.
EVER SEEN PRISHNIP, LITTLE HUNCHBACK,
COULDN'T TAKE HIM FOR ANY ARMY.
AND HE SAID: "I HAF A MESSACHE FROM DH'PROFESSOR,
"THERE'S LOTS OF 'EM WANT TO GO OVER,
"BUT WHEN THEY TRY TO GO OVER,
"DH'H RUSSIAN BOYS SHOOT 'EM, AND THEY WANT TO KNOW
"HOW TO GO OVER."
VLETTMANN?...WAS OUT THERE, AND THAT WAS,
SAY, TWO MONTHS LATER, AND HE SAID:
"JOLLY CHAPS," HE SAID; "THEY USED TO GO BY
"UNDER MY WINDOW, AT TWO O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING,
"ALL SINGING, ALL SINGING THE HE SLOVENY!"
YES, VLETTMANN, AND THE RUSSIAN BOYS DIDN'T SHOOT'EM.
SHORT STORY, ENTITLED, THE BIRTH OF A NATION.
AND THERE WAS THAT SQUIRT OF AN AUSSTRRIAN
WITH A ROSE IN HIS BUTTON-HOLE,
AND HOW THE HELL HE STAYED ON HERE,
RIGHT THROUGH THE WHOLE BHLOODY BUSINESS,
COCKY AS KHRISTNOZE, AND ENJOYING EVERY BOCHE VICTORY.
<F 90>NAPHTHA, OR SOME DAMN THING FOR THE SUBMARINES,
<D 86>LIKE THEY HAD, JUST HAD, TO HAVE THE HEMP
VIA ROTTERDAM.
"DAS THUST DU NICHT, ALBERT!"
THAT WAS IN THE OLD DAYS, ALL SITTING AROUND IN ARM-CHAIRS,
AND THAT'S GONE, LIKE THE CAKE SHOPS IN THE NEVSKY.
"NO USE TELLING 'EM ANYTHING, REVOLUTIONARIES,
TILL THEY'RE AT THE END,
OH, ABSOLOOTLY, AT THE END OF THEIR TETHER.
GOVERNED, GOVERNED THE PLACE FROM A TRAIN,
OR RATHER FROM THREE TRAINS, ON A RAILWAY,
AND HE'D KEEP ABOUT THREE DAYS AHEAD OF THE LOBBY,
I MEAN HE HAD HIS GOVERNMENT ON THE TRAINS,
AND THE LOBBY HAD TO GET THERE ON HORSEBACK;
AND HE SAID: BIGOD IT'S DAMN FUNNY,
OWN HALF THE OIL IN THE WORLD, AND CAN'T GET ENOUGH
TO RUN A GOVERNMENT ENGINE!"
AND THEN THEY JAWED FOR TWO HOURS,
AND FINALLY STEFF SAID: WILL YOU FELLOWS SHOW ME A MAP?
AND THEY BROUGHT ONE, AND STEFF SAID:
"WAAL WHAT ARE THOSE LINES?" "YES, THOSE STRAIGHT LINES."
"THOSE ARE ROADS." AND "WHAT ARE THOSE LINES,
"THE WIGGLY ONES?" "RIVERS."
AND STEFF SAID: "GOVERNMENT PROPERTY?"
SO TWO HOURS LATER AN ENGINE WENT OFF WITH THE ORDER:
HOW TO DIG WITHOUT CONFISCATION.
AND TOMMY BAYMONT SAID TO STEFF ONE DAY:
"YOU THINK WE RUN IT, LEMME TELL YOU,
"WE BOUGHT A COALMINE, I MEAN THE MORTGAGE FELL IN,
"AND YOU'D A' THOUGHT WE COULD RUN IT.
"WELL I HAD TO GO DOWN THERE MESELF, AND THE MANAGER
<F 91>"SAID: "RUN IT, OF COURSE WE CAN RUN IT,
"WE CAN'T SELL THE DAMN COAL."
<D 87>SO I SAID TO THE X. AND B. CENTRAL,
-YOU'D SAY WE BOSS THE X. AND B. CENTRAL?-
I SAID: "YOU BUY YOUR DAMN COAL FROM OUR MINE."
AND A YEAR LATER THEY HADN'T; SO I HAD UP THE DIRECTORS,
AND THEY SAID:...WELL ANYHOW, THEY COULDN'T
BUY THE DAMN COAL.
AND NEXT WEEK OLE JIM CAME, THE BIG FAT ONE
WITH THE DIAMONDS, AND HE SAID: "MR BAYMONT,
YOU JUST MUST CHARGE TWO DOLLARS MORE
A TON FER THAT COAL. AND THE X. AND B. WILL
TAKE IT THROUGH US."
"SO THERE WAS MY OLE MAN SITTING,
THEY WERE IN ARM-CHAIRS, ACCORDING TO PROTOCOL,
AND NEXT HIM HIS NEPHEW MR. MENSDORF, [*WURMSDORF]
AND OLD BENCKENSDORFF, [*PTIERSTOFF] FOR PURELY FAMILY REASONS,
PERSONAL REASONS, WAS HELD IN GREAT ESTEEM
BY HIS RELATIVES,
AND HE HAD HIS DESPATCHES FROM ST PETERSBURG,
AND MENSDORF [*WURMSDORF] HAD HIS FROM VIENNA,
AND HE KNEW, AND THEY KNEW, AND EACH KNEW
THAT THE OTHER KNEW THAT THE OTHER KNEW HE KNEW,
AMD MENSDORF [*WURMSDORF] WAS JUST REACHING INTO HIS POCKET,
THAT WAS TO START THINGS, AND THEN MY OLE MAN
SAID IT:
ALBERT, AND THE REST OF IT.
THOSE DAYS ARE GONE BY FOR EVER."
"TEN YEARS GONE, TEN YEARS OF MY LIFE,
NEVER GET THOSE TEN YEARS BACK AGAIN:
TEN YEARS OF MY LIFE, TEN YEARS IN THE INDIAN ARMY;
<F 92>BUT ANYHOW, THERE WAS THAT TIME IN YASH (JASSY):
THAT WAS SOMETHING, 14 GIRLS IN A FORTNIGHT."
"HEALTHY BUT VERMINOUS?" "THAT'S IT, HEALTHY BUT VERMINOUS.
AND ONE TIME IN KASHMIR,
<D 88>IN THE HOUSEBOATS, WITH THE TURQUOISE,
A PILE THREE FEET HIGH ON THE BOAT FLOOR,
AND THEY'D BE THERE ALL DAY AT A BARGAIN
FOR TEN BOB'S WORTH OF TURQUOISE."
<F 93><D 89><C 20>
SOUND SLENDER, QUASI TINNULA,
LIGUR' AOIDE: SI NO'US VEI, DOMNA DON PLUS MI CAL,
NEGUS VEZER MON BEL PENSAR NO VAL.
BETWEEN THE TWO ALMOND TREES FLOWERING,
THE VIEL HELD CLOSE TO HIS SIDE;
AND ANOTHER: S'ADORA.
"POSSUM EGO NATURAE
NON MEMINISSE TUAE!" QUI SON PROPERZIO ED OVIDIO.
THE BOUGHS ARE NOT MORE FRESH
WHERE THE ALMOND SHOOTS
TAKE THEIR MARCH GREEN.
AND THAT YEAR I WENT UP TO FREIBURG,
AND RENNERT HAD SAID: NOBODY, NO, NOBODY
KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT PROVENCAL, OR IF THERE IS ANYBODY,
IT'S OLD LEVY."
AND SO I WENT UP TO FREIBURG,
AND THE VACATION WAS JUST BEGINNING,
THE STUDENTS GETTING OFF FOR THE SUMMER,
FREIBURG IM BREISGAU,
AND EVERYTHING CLEAN, SEEMING CLEAN, AFTER ITALY.
AND I WENT TO OLD LEVY, AND IT WAS BY THEN 6.30
IN THE EVENING, AND HE TRAILED HALF WAY ACROSS FREIBURG
BEFORE DINNER, TO SEE THE TWO STRIPS OF COPY,
ARNAUT'S, SETTANT'UNO R. SUPERIORE (AMBROSIANA)
NOT THAT I COULD SING HIM THE MUSIC.
AND HE SAID: "NOW IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN TELL YOU?"
AND I SAID: "I DUNNO, SIR," OR
"YES, DOCTOR, WHAT DO THEY MEAN BY NOIGANDRES?"
AND HE SAID: "NOIGANDRES! NOIGANDRES!
<D 90>"YOU KNOW FOR SEEX MON'S OF MY LIFE
"EFFERY NIGHT WHEN I GO TO BETT, I SAY TO MYSELF:
"NOIGANDRES, EH, NOIGANDRES,
<F 94>"NOW WHAT THE DEFFIL CAN THAT MEAN!"
WIND OVER THE OLIVE TREES, RANUNCULAE ORDERED,
BY THE CLEAR EDGE OF THE ROCKS
THE WATER RUNS, AND THE WIND SCENTED WITH PINE
AND WITH HAY-FIELDS UNDER SUN-SWATH.
AGOSTINO, JACOPO AND BOCCATA.
YOU WOULD BE HAPPY FOR THE SMELL OF THAT PLACE
AND NEVER TIRED OF BEING THERE, EITHER ALONE
OR ACCOMPANIED.
SOUND: AS OF THE NIGHTINGALE TOO FAR OFF TO BE HEARD.
SANDRO, AND BOCCATA, AND JACOPO SELLAIO;
THE RANUNCULAE, AND ALMOND,
BOUGHS SET IN ESPALIER,
DUCCIO, AGOSTINO; E L'OLORS-
THE SMELL OF THAT PLACE-D'ENOI GANRES.
AIR MOVING UNDER THE BOUGHS,
THE CEDARS THERE IN THE SUN,
HAY NEW CUT ON HILL SLOPE,
AND THE WATER THERE IN THE CUT
BETWEEN THE TWO LOWER MEADOWS; SOUND,
THE SOUND, AS I HAVE SAID, A NIGHTINGALE
TOO FAR OFF TO BE HEARD.
AND THE LIGHT FALLS, REMIR,
FROM HER BREAST TO THIGHS.
HE WAS PLAYING THERE AT THE PALLA.
PARISINA-TWO DOVES FOR AN ALTAR-AT THE WINDOW,
"E'L MARCHESE
STAVA PER DIVENIR PAZZO
AFTER IT ALL." AND THAT WAS WHEN TROY WAS DOWN
AND THEY CAME HERE AND CUT HOLES IN ROCK,
<F 95>DOWN ROME WAY, AND PUT UP THE TIMBERS;
<D 91>AND CAME HERE, CONDIT ATESTEN...
"PEACE! KEEP THE PEACE, BORSO."
AND HE SAID: "SOME BITCH HAS SOLD US
(THAT WAS GANELON)
"THEY WON'T GET ANOTHER SUCH IVORY."
AND HE LAY THERE ON THE ROUND HILL UNDER THE CEDAR
A LITTLE TO THE LEFT OF THE CUT (ESTE SPEAKING)
BY THE SIDE OF THE SUMMIT, AND HE SAID:
"I HAVE BROKEN THE HORN, BIGOD, I HAVE
"BROKE THE BEST IVORY, L'OLOFANS." AND HE SAID:
[ROLAND]"TAN MARE FUSTES!"
PULLING HIMSELF OVER THE GRAVEL,
"BIGOD! THAT BUGGAR IS DONE FOR,
"THEY WON'T GET ANOTHER SUCH IVORY."
AND THEY WERE THERE BEFORE THE WALL, TORO, LAS ALMENAS,
(ESTE, NIC ESTE SPEAKING)
UNDER THE BATTLEMENT
(EPI PURGO) PEUR DE LA HASLE,
AND THE KING SAID:
"GOD, WHAT A WOMAN!
MY GOD WHAT A WOMAN" SAID THE KING TELO RIGIDO.
"SISTER!" SAYS ANCURES, "'S YOUR SISTER!"
ALF LEFT THAT TOWN TO ELVIRA, AND SANCHO WANTED
IT FROM HER, TORO AND ZAMORA.
"BLOODY SPANIARD!
NEESTHO, LE'ER GO BACK...
IN THE AUTUMN."
"ESTE, GO' DAMN YOU," BETWEEN THE WALLS, ARRAS,
PAINTED TO LOOK LIKE ARRAS.
JUNGLE:
GLAZE GREEN AND RED FEATHERS, JUNGLE,
BASIS OF RENEWAL, RENEWALS;
RISING OVER THE SOUL, GREEN VIRID, OF THE JUNGLE,
<F 96>LOZENGE OF THE PAVEMENT, CLEAR SHAPES,
BROKEN, DISRUPTED, BODY ETERNAL,
<D 92>WILDERNESS OF RENEWALS, CONFUSION
BASIS OF RENEWALS, SUBSISTENCE,
GLAZED GREEN OF THE JUNGLE;
ZOE, MAROZIA, ZOTHAR,
LOUD OVER THE BANNERS,
GLAZED GRAPE, AND THE CRIMSON,
=*HO =*BIOS,
COSI ELENA VEDI,
IN THE SUNLIGHT, GATE CUT BY THE SHADOW;
AND THEN THE FACETED AIR:
FLOATING. BELOW, SEA CHURNING SHINGLE.
FLOATING, EACH ON INVISIBLE RAFT,
ON THE HIGH CURRENT, INVISIBLE FLUID,
BORNE OVER THE PLAIN, RECUMBENT,
THE RIGHT ARM CAST BACK,
THE RIGHT WRIST FOR A PILLOW,
THE LEFT HAND LIKE A CALYX,
THUMB HELD AGAINST FINGER, THE THIRD,
THE FIRST FINGERS PETAL'D UP, THE HAND AS A LAMP,
A CALYX.
FROM TOE TO HEAD
THE PURPLE, BLUE-PALE SMOKE, AS OF INCENSE;
WRAPPED EACH IN BURNOUS, SMOKE AS THE OLIBANUM'S,
SWIFT, AS IF JOYOUS.
WRAPPED, FLOATING; AND THE BLUE-PALE SMOKE OF THE INCENSE
SWIFT TO RISE, THEN LAZILY IN THE WIND
AS AEOLUS OVER BEAN-FIELD,
AS HAY IN THE SUN, THE OLIBANUM, SAFFRON,
AS MYRRH WITHOUT STYRAX;
EACH MAN IN HIS CLOTH, AS ON RAFT, ON
THE HIGH INVISIBLE CURRENT;
ON TOWARD THE FALL OF WATER;
<F 97>AND THEN OVER THAT CATARACT,
IN AIR, STRONG, THE BRIGHT FLAMES, V SHAPED;
NEL FUOCO
<D 93>D'AMORE MI MISE, NEL FUOCO D'AMORE MI MISE...
YELLOW, BRIGHT SAFFRON, CROCEO;
AND AS THE OLIBANUM BURSTS INTO FLAME,
THE BODIES SO FLAMED IN THE AIR, TOOK FLAME,
"...MI MISE, IL MIO SPOSO NOVELLO."
SHOT FROM STREAM INTO SPIRAL,
OR FOLLOWED THE WATER. OR LOOKED BACK TO THE FLOWING;
OTHERS APPROACHING THAT CATARACT,
AS TO DAWN OUT OF SHADOW, THE SWATHED CLOTHS
NOW PURPLE AND ORANGE,
AND THE BLUE WATER DUSKY BENEATH THEM,
POURING THERE INTO THE CATARACT,
WITH NOISE OF SEA OVER SHINGLE,
STRIKING WITH:
HAH HAH AHAH THMM, THUNB, AH
WOH WOH ARAHA THUMM, BHAAA.
AND FROM THE FLOATING BODIES, THE INCENSE
BLUE-PALE, PURPLE ABOVE THEM.
SHELF OF THE LOTOPHAGOI,
AERIAL, CUT IN THE AETHER.
RECLINING,
WITH THE SILVER SPILLA,
THE BALL AS OF MELTED AMBER, COILED, CAUGHT UP, AND TURNED.
LOTOPHAGOI OF THE SUAVE NAILS, QUIET, SCORNFUL,
VOCE-PROFONDO:
"FEARED NEITHER DEATH NOR PAIN FOR THIS BEAUTY;
IF HARM, HARM TO OURSELVES."
AND BENEATH: THE CLEAR BONES, FAR DOWN,
THOUSAND ON THOUSAND.
"WHAT GAIN WITH ODYSSEUS,
<F 98>"THEY THAT DIED IN THE WHIRLPOOL
"AND AFTER MANY VAIN LABOURS,
"LIVING BY STOLEN MEAT, CHAINED TO THE ROWINGBENCH,
"THAT HE SHOULD HAVE A GREAT FAME
<D 94>"AND LIE BY NIGHT WITH THE GODDESS?
"THEIR NAMES ARE NOT WRITTEN IN BRONZE
"NOR THEIR ROWING STICKS SET WITH ELPENOR'S;
"NOR HAVE THEY MOUND BY SEA-BORD.
"THAT SAW NEVER THE OLIVES UNDER SPARTHA
"WITH THE LEAVES GREEN AND THEN NOT GREEN,
"THE CLICK OF LIGHT IN THEIR BRANCHES;
"THAT SAW NOT THE BRONZE HALL NOR THE INGLE
"NOR LAY THERE WITH THE QUEEN'S WAITING MAIDS,
"NOR HAD THEY CIRCE TO COUCH-MATE, CIRCE TITANIA,
"NOR HAD THEY MEATS OF KALUPSO
"OR HER SILK SKIRTS BRUSHING THEIR THIGHS.
"GIVE! WHAT WERE THEY GIVEN?
EAR-WAX.
"POISON AND EAR-WAX,
AND A SALT GRAVE BY THE BULL-FIELD,
"NESON AMUMONA, THEIR HEADS LIKE SEA CROWS IN THE FOAM,
"BLACK SPLOTCHES, SEA-WEED UNDER LIGHTNING;
"CANNED BEEF OF APOLLO, TEN CANS FOR A BOAT LOAD."
LIGUR' AOIDE.
AND FROM THE PLAIN WHENCE THE WATER-SHOOT,
ACROSS, BACK, TO THE RIGHT, THE ROADS, A WAY IN THE GRASS,
THE KHAN'S HUNTING LEOPARD, AND YOUNG SALUSTIO
AND IXOTTA; THE SUAVE TURF
AC FERAE FAMILIARES, AND THE CARS SLOWLY,
AND THE PANTHERS, SOFT-FOOTED.
PLAIN, AS THE PLAIN OF SOMNUS,
THE HEAVY CARS, AS A TRIUMPH,
GILDED, HEAVY ON WHEEL,
AND THE PANTHERS CHAINED TO THE CARS,
<F 99>OVER SUAVE TURF, THE FORM WRAPPED,
ROSE, CRIMSON, DEEP CRIMSON,
AND, IN THE BLUE DUSK, A COLOUR AS OF RUST IN THE SUNLIGHT,
OUT OF WHITE CLOUD, MOVING OVER THE PLAIN,
<D 95>HEAD IN ARM'S CURVE, RECLINING;
THE ROAD, BACK AND AWAY, TILL CUT ALONG THE FACE OF THE ROCK,
AND THE CLIFF FOLDS IN LIKE A CURTAIN,
THE ROAD CUT IN UNDER THE ROCK
SQUARE GROOVE IN THE CLIFF'S FACE, AS CHIOSTRI,
THE COLUMNS CRYSTAL, WITH PEACOCKS CUT IN THE CAPITALS,
THE SOFT PAD OF BEASTS DRAGGING THE CARS;
CARS, SLOW, WITHOUT CREAK,
AND AT WINDOWS IN INNER ROADSIDE:
LE DONNE E I CAVALIERI
SMOOTH FACE UNDER HENNIN,
THE SLEEVES EMBROIDERED WITH FLOWERS,
GREAT THISTLE OF GOLD, OR AN AMARANTH,
ACORNS OF GOLD, OR OF SCARLET,
CRAMOISI AND DIASPRE
SLASHED WHITE INTO VELVET;
CRYSTAL COLUMNS, ACANTHUS, SIRENS IN THE PILLAR HEADS;
AND AT LAST, BETWEEN GILDED BAROCCO,
TWO COLUMNS COILED AND FLUTED,
VANOKA, LEANING HALF NAKED,
WASTE HALL THERE BEHIND HER.
"PEACE!
BORSO..., BORSO!"
<F 100><D 96><C 21>
KEEP THE PEACE, BORSO!" WHERE ARE WE?
"KEEP ON WITH THE BUSINESS,
THAT'S MADE ME,
"AND THE RES PUBLICA DIDN'T.
"WHEN I WAS BROKE, AND A POOR KID,
"THEY ALL KNEW ME, ALL OF THESE CITTADINI,
"AND THEY ALL OF THEM CUT ME DEAD, DELLA GLORIA."
INTESTATE, 1429, LEAVING 178,221 FLORINS DI SUGELLO,
AS IS SAID IN COSIMO'S RED LEATHER NOTE BOOK. DI SUGELLO.
AND "WITH HIS CREDIT EMPTIED VENICE OF MONEY-
THAT WAS COSIMO-
"AND NAPLES, AND MADE THEM ACCEPT HIS PEACE."
AND HE CAUGHT THE YOUNG BOY FICINO
AND HAD HIM TAUGHT THE GREEK LANGUAGE;
"WITH TWO ELLS OF RED CLOTH PER PERSON
I WILL MAKE YOU", COSIMO SPEAKING, "AS MANY
HONEST CITIZENS AS YOU DESIRE."
COL CREDITO SUO...
NAPOLI E VENEZIA DI DANARI..
COSTRETTI...NAPOLI E VENEZIA...A QUELLA PACE...
OR ANOTHER TIME...OH WELL, PASS IT.
AND PIERO CALLED IN THE CREDITS,
(DIOTISALVI WAS BACK OF THAT)
AND FIRMS FAILED AS FAR OFF AS AVIGNON,
AND PIERO WAS LIKE TO BE MURDERED,
AND YOUNG LAURO CAME DOWN AHEAD OF HIM, IN THE ROAD,
AND SAID: YES, FATHER IS COMING.
INTESTATE, '69, IN DECEMBER, LEAVING ME 237,989 FLORINS,
AS YOU WILL FIND IN MY BIG GREEN ACCOUNT BOOK
IN CARTA DI CAPRETTO;
<F 101><D 97>AND FROM '34 WHEN I COUNT IT, TO LAST YEAR,
WE PAID OUT 600,000 AND OVER,
THAT WAS FOR BUILDING, TAXES AND CHARITY.
NIC UZANO SAW US COMING. AGAINST IT, HONEST,
AND WARNED 'EM. THEY'D HAVE MURDERED HIM,
AND WOULD COSIMO, BUT HE BRIBED 'EM;
AND THEY DID IN GUILIANO. E DIFFICILE,
A FIRENZE DIFFICILE VIVER RICCO
SENZA AVER LO STATO.
"E NON AVENDO STATO PICCININO
"DOVEVA TEMERLO QUALUNQUE ERA IN STATO;"
AND "THAT MAN SWEATED BLOOD TO PUT THROUGH THAT RAILWAY";
"COULD YOU", WROTE MR JEFFERSON,
"FIND ME A GARDENER
WHO CAN PLAY THE FRENCH HORN?
THE BOUNDS OF AMERICAN FORTUNE
WILL NOT ADMIT THE INDULGENCE OF A DOMESTIC BAND OF
MUSICIANS, YET I HAVE THOUGHT THAT A PASSION FOR MUSIC
MIGHT BE RECONCILED WITH THAT ECONOMY WHICH WE ARE
OBLIGED TO OBSERVE. I RETAIN AMONG MY DOMESTIC SERVANTS
A GARDENER, A WEAVER, A CABINET-MAKER, AND A STONE-CUTTER,
TO WHICH I WOULD ADD A VIGNERON. IN A COUNTRY LIKE YOURS
(ID EST BURGUNDY) WHERE MUSIC IS CULTIVATED AND
PRACTISED BY EVERY CLASS OF MEN, I SUPPOSE THERE MIGHT
BE FOUND PERSONS OF THESE TRADES WHO COULD PERFORM ON
THE FRENCH HORN, CLARIONET, OR HAUTBOY AND BASSOON, SO
THAT ONE MIGHT HAVE A BAND OF TWO FRENCH HORNS, TWO
CLARIONETS, TWO HAUTBOYS AND A BASSOON, WITHOUT ENLARGING
THEIR DOMESTIC EXPENSES. A CERTAINTY OF EMPLOYMENT FOR
HALF A DOZEN YEARS
(AFFATIGANDOSE PER SUO PIACER O NON)
AND AT THE END OF THAT TIME, TO FIND THEM, IF THEY
CHOOSE, A CONVEYANCE TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY, MIGHT INDUCE
THEM TO COME HERE ON REASONABLE WAGES. WITHOUT MEANING TO
<F 102>GIVE YOU TROUBLE, PERHAPS IT MIGHT BR PRACTICABLE FOR YOU
<D 98>IN YOUR ORDINARY INTERCOURSE WITH YOUR PEOPLE TO FIND OUT
SUCH MEN DISPOSED TO COME TO AMERICA. SOBRIETY AND GOOD
NATURE WOULD BE DESIRABLE PARTS OF THEIR CHARACTERS"
JUNE 1778 MONTECELLO.
AND IN JULY I WENT UP TO MILAN FOR DUKE GALEAZ
TO SPONSOR HIS INFANT IN BAPTISM,
ALBEIT WERE OTHERS MORE WORTHY,
AND TOOK HIS WIFE A GOLD COLLAR HOLDING A DIAMOND
THAT COST ABOUT 3000 DUCATS, ON WHICH ACCOUNT
THAT SIGNOR GALEAZ SFORZA VISCONTI HAS WISHED ME
TO STAND SPONSOR TO ALL OF HIS CHILDREN.
ANOTHER WAR WITHOUT GLORY, AND ANOTHER PEACE WITHOUT QUIET.
AND THE SULTAN SENT HIM AN ASSASSIN, HIS BROTHER;
AND THE SOLDAN OF EGYPT, A LION;
AND HE BEGAT ONE POPE AND ONE SON AND FOUR DAUGHTERS,
AND AN UNIVERSITY, PISA; (LAURO MEDICI)
AND NEARLY WENT BROKE IN HIS BUSINESS,
AND BOUGHT LAND IN SIENA AND PISA,
AND MADE PEACE BY HIS OWN TALK IN NAPLES.
AND THERE WAS GRASS ON THE FLOOR OF THE TEMPLE,
OR WHERE THE FLOOR OF IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN;
GOLD FADES IN THE GLOOM,
UNDER THE BLUE-BLACK ROOF, PLACIDIA'S,
OF THE EXARCHATE; AND WE SIT HERE
BY THE ARENA, LES GRADINS...
AND THE PALAZZO, BASELESS, HANGS THERE IN THE DAWN
WITH LOW MIST OVER THE TIDE-MARK;
AND FLOATS THERE NEL TRAMONTO
WITH GOLD MIST OVER THE TIDE-MARK.
THE TESSERAE OF THE FLOOR, AND THE PATTERNS.
<F 103>FOOLS MAKING NEW SHAMBLES;
NIGHT OVER GREEN OCEAN,
AND THE DRY BLACK OF THE NIGHT.
<D 99>NIGHT OF THE GOLDEN TIGER,
AND THE DRY FLAME IN THE AIR,
VOICES OF THE PROCESSION,
FAINT NOW, FROM BELOW US,
AND THE SEA WITH TIN FLASH IN THE SUN-DAZZLE,
LIKE DARK WINE IN THE SHADOWS.
"WIND BETWEEN THE SEA AND THE MOUNTAINS"
THE TREE-SPHERES HALF DARK AGAINST SEA
HALF CLEAR AGAINST SUNSET,
THE SUN'S KEEL FREIGHTED WITH CLOUD,
AND AFTER THAT HOUR, DRY DARKNESS
FLOATING FLAME IN THE AIR, GONADS IN ORGANDY,
DRY FLAMELET, A PETAL BORNE IN THE WIND.
=GIGNETEI =KALON.
IMPENETRABLE AS THE IGNORANCE OF OLD WOMEN.
IN THE DAWN, AS THE FLEET COMING IN AFTER ACTIUM,
SHORE TO THE EASTWARD, AND ALTERED,
AND THE OLD MAN SWEEPING LEAVES:
"DAMNED TO YOU MIDAS, MIDAS LACKING A PAN!"
AND NOW IN THE VALLEY,
VALLEY UNDER THE DAY'S EDGE:
"GROW WITH THE PINES OF ISE;
"AS THE NILE SWELLS WITH INOPOS.
"AS THE NILE FALLS WITH INOPOS."
PHOIBOS, TURRIS EBURNEA,
IVORY AGAINST COBALT,
AND THE BOUGHS CUT ON THE AIR,
THE LEAVES CUT ON THE AIR,
THE HOUNDS ON THE GREEN SLOPE BY THE HILL,
WATER STILL BLACK IN THE SHADOW.
IN THE CRISP AIR,
<F 104>THE DISCONTINUOUS GODS;
PALLAS, YOUNG OWL IN THE CUP OF HER HAND,
AND, BY NIGHT, THE STAG RUNS, AND THE LEOPARD,
OWL-EYE AMID PINE BOUGHS.
<D 100>MOON ON THE PALM-LEAF,
CONFUSION;
CONFUSION, SOURCE OF RENEWALS;
YELLOW WING, PALE IN THE MOON SHAFT,
GREEN WING, PALE IN THE MOON SHAFT,
POMEGRANATE, PALE IN THE MOON SHAFT,
WHITE HORN, PALE IN THE MOON SHAFT, AND TITANIA
BY THE DRINKING HOLE,
STEPS, CUT IN THE BASALT.
DANCED THERE ATHAME, DANCED, AND THERE PHAETHUSA
WITH COLOUR IN THE VEIN,
STRONG AS WITH BLOOD-DRINK, ONCE,
WITH COLOUR IN THE VEIN,
RED IN THE SMOKE-FAINT THROAT. DIS CAUGHT HER UP.
AND THE OLD MAN WENT ON THERE
BEATING HIS MULE WITH AN ASPHODEL.
<F 105><D 101><C 22>
AN' THAT MAN SWEAT BLOOD
TO PUT THROUGH THAT RAILWAY,
AND WHAT HE EVER GOT OUT OF IT?
AND HE SAID ONE THING: AS IT COSTS,
[T. C. P.]AS IN ANY INDIAN WAR IT COSTS THE GOVERNMENT
20,000 DOLLARS PER HEAD
TO KILL OFF THE RED WARRIORS, IT MIGHT BE MORE HUMANE
AND EVEN CHEAPER, TO EDUCATE.
AND THERE WAS THE OTHER TYPE, WARENHAUSER,
THAT BEAT HIM, AND BROKE UP HIS BUSINESS,
TALE OF THE AMERICAN CURIA THAT GAVE HIM,
WARENHAUSER PERMISSION TO BUILD THE NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY
AND TO TAKE THE TIMBER HE CUT IN THE PROCESS;
SO HE CUT A ROAD THROUGH THE FOREST,
TWO MILES WIDE, AN' PERFECTLY LEGAL.
WHO WUZ AGOIN' TO STOP HIM!
AND HE CAME IN AND SAID: "CAN'T DO IT,
NOT AT THAT PRICE, WE CAN'T DO IT."
THAT WAS IN THE LAST WAR, HERE IN ENGLAND,
AND HE WAS MAKING CHUNKS FOR A TURBINE
IN SOME SORT OF AN ARMY PLANE;
AN' THE INSPECTOR SAYS: "HOW MANY REJECTS?"
"WHAT YOU MEAN, REJECTS?"
AND THE INSPECTOR SAYS: "HOW MANY DO YOU GET?"
AND JOE SAID: "WE DON'T GET ANY REJECTS, OUR..."
AND THE INSPECTOR SAYS: "WELL THEN OF COURSE
YOU CAN'T DO IT."
PRICE OF LIFE IN THE OCCIDENT.
AND C. H. D. SAID TO THE RENOWNED MR. BUKOS:
"WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF THE H.C.L.?"
<F 106>(THE HIGH COST OF LIVING) AND MR. BUKOS,
<D 102>THE ECONOMIST CONSULTED OF NATIONS SAID:
"LACK OF LABOUR."
AND THERE WERE TWO MILLIONS OF MEN OUT OF WORK.
AND C.H. SHUT UP, HE SAID
HE WOULD SAVE HIS BREATH TO COOL HIS OWN PORRIDGE.
BUT I DIDN'T, AND I WENT ON PLAGUING MR BUKOS
WHO SAID FINALLY: "I AM AN ORTHODOX
"ECONOMIST."
JESU CHRISTO!
STANDU NEL PARADISO TERRESTRE
PENSANDO COME SI FESSE COMPAGNA D'ADAMO!!
AND MR. HOBSON WROTE IN TO THE OFFICE:
I WOULD LIKE TO ACCEPT C. H.'S BOOK
BUT IT WOULD MAKE MY OWN SEEM SO OUT OF DATE.
HEAVEN WILL PROTECT
THE LAY READER. THE WHOLE FORTUNE OF
MAC NARPEN AND COMPANY IS FOUNDED
UPON COHEN'S THESAURUS. NEL PARADISO TERRESTRE
AND ALL THE MATERIAL WAS USED UP, JESU CHRISTO,
AND EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE, AND NOTHING LEFT OVER
TO MAKE UNA COMPAGNA D'ADAMO. COME SI FESSE?
E POI HA VISHTU UNA VOLPE
AND THE TAIL OF THE VOLPE, THE VIXEN,
FINE, SPREADING AND HANDSOME, E PENSAVA:
THAT WILL DO FOR THIS BUSINESS;
AND LA VOLPE SAW IN HIS EYE WHAT WAS COMING,
CORRE, VOLPE CORRE, CHRISTU CORRE, VOLPECORRE,
CHRISTUCORRE, E DAV'UN SALTU, ED HA PRESO LA CODA
DELLA VOLPE, AND THE VOLPE WRENCHED LOOSE
AND LEFT THE TAIL IN HIS HAND, E DI QUESTU
FU FATTA,
E PER QUESTU
<F 107>E LA DONNA UNA FURIA,
UNA FURRIA-E-UNA RABBIA.
<D 103>AND A VOICE BEHIND ME IN THE STREET.
"MEESTAIR FREER! MEESTAIR..."
AND I THOUGHT I WAS THREE THOUSAND
MILES FROM THE NEAREST CONNECTION;
AND HE' KNOWN ME FOR THREE DAYS, YEARS BEFORE THAT.
AND HE SAID, ONE DAY A WEEK LATER: WOUD YOU LAK
TO MEET A WHOLLEY MAN, YAIS HE IS A VEREE WHOLLEY MAN.
SO I MET MOHAMED BEN ABT EL HJAMEED,
AND THAT EVENING HE SPENT HIS WHOLE TIME
QUEERING THE SHIRT-SELLER'S BUSINESS,
AND TAKING HOT WHISKEY. THE SAILORS
COME IN THERE FOR TWO NIGHTS A WEEK AND FILL UP THE CAFE
AND THE ROCK SCORPIONS CLING TO THE EDGE
UNTIL THEY CAN'T JES' NACHERLY STAND IT
AND THEN THEY GO TO THE CALPE (LYCEO)
NO MEMBER OF THE MILITARY
OF WHATEVER RANK
IS PERMITTED WITHIN THE WALLS
OF THIS CLUB
THAT FER THE GOVERNOR OF GIBEL TARA.
"JEEN-JAH! JEEN-JAH!" SQUAWKED MOHAMED,
"O-AH, GEEF HEEM SAX-PENCE."
AND A CHAP IN A RED FEZ CAME IN, AND GRINNED AT MOHAMED
WHO SPAT ACROSS FOUR METRES OF TABLES
AT MUSTAFA. THAT WAS ALL THERE WAS
TO THAT GREETING; AND THREE NIGHTS LATER
<F 108>GINGER CAME BACK AS A CUSTOMER, AND TOOK IT OUT OF MOHAMED.
HE HADN'T SOLD A DAMN SHIRT ON THE TUESDAY.
AND I MET YUSUF AND EIGHT MEN IN THE CALLE,
SO I SEZ: WOT IS THE MATTER?
AND YUSUF SAID: VAIRY FOOLISH, IT WILL
<D 104>BE SEFEN AN' SEEX FOR THE SUMMONS
-MOHAMED WANT TO SUE HEEM FOR LIBEL-
TO GIVE ALL THAT TO THE COURT!
SO I WENT OFF TO GRANADA
AND WHEN I CAME BACK I SAW GINGER, AND I SAID:
WHAT ABOUT IT?
AND HE SAID: O-AH, I GEEF HEEM A
SEEX-PENCE. CUSTOMS OF THE SHA-HA-REEF.
AND THEY WERE ALL THERE IN THE LYCEO,
CAB DRIVERS, AND CHAPS FROM TOBACCO SHOPS,
AND EDWARD THE SEVENTH'S GUIDE, AND THEY WERE ALL
FOR SECESSION.
DANCE HALLS BEING CLOSED AT TWO IN THE MORNING,
BY THE GOVERNOR'S ORDER. AND ANOTHER DAY ON THE PIER
WAS A FAT FELLAH FROM RHODE ISLAND, A-SAYIN':
"BI HEK! I BEEN ALL THRU ITALY
"AN' AIN'T NEVER BEEN STUCK!
"BUT THIS PLACE IS PLUMB FULL ER SCOUNDRELS."
AND YUSUF SAID: YAIS? AN' THE REECH MAN
IN YOUAH COUNTREE, HAOWA THEY GET THEIR MONEY;
THEY NO GO ROB SOME POOR PAIRSONS?
AND THE FAT FELLAH SHUT UP, AND WENT OFF.
AND YUSUF SAID: WOAT, HE ISS ALL THRU EETALY
AN' EE IS NEVAIR BEEN STUCK, EE EES A LIAR.
W'EN I GOA TO SOME FORAIN'S COUNTRY
I AM STUCK.
W'EN YEOU GOA TO SOME FORAIN'S COUNTRY
YOU MOSS BE STUCK; W'EN THEY COME 'ERE I STEEK THAIM.
AND WE WENT DOWN TO THE SYNAGOGUE,
<F 109>ALL FULL OF SILVER LAMPS
AND THE TOP GALLERY STACKED WITH OLD BENCHES;
AND IN CAME THE LEVITE AND SIX LITTLE CHOIR KIDS
AND BEGAN YOWLING THE RITUAL
AS IF IT WAS CRAMMED FULL OF JOKES,
AND THEY WENT THROUGH A WHOLE BOOK OF IT;
<D 105>AND IN CAME THE ELDERS AND THE SCRIBES
ABOUT FIVE OR SIX AND THE RABBI
AND HE SAT DOWN, AND GRINNED, AND PULLED OUT HIS SNUFF-BOX,
AND SNIFFED UP A THUMB-FULL, AND GRINNED,
AND CALLED OVER A KID FROM THE CHOIR, AND WHISPERED,
AND NODDED TOWARD ONE OLD BUFFER,
AND THE KID TOOK HIM THE SNUFF-BOX AND HE GRINNED,
AND BOWED HIS HEAD, AND SNIFFED UP A THUMB-FULL,
AND THE KID TOOK THE BOX BACK TO THE RABBI,
AND HE GRINNED, E FACEVA BISBIGLIO,
AND THE KID TOTED OFF THE BOX TO
ANOTHER OLD BUNCH OF WHISKERS,
AND HE SNIFFED UP HIS THUMB-FULL,
AND SO ON TILL THEY'D EACH HAD HIS SNIFF;
AND THEN THE RABBI LOOKED AT THE STRANGER, AND THEY
ALL GRINNED HALF A YARD WIDER, AND THE RABBI
WHISPERED FOR ABOUT TWO MINUTES LONGER,
AN'THE KID BROUGHT THE BOX OVER TO ME,
AND I GRINNED AND SNIFFED UP MY THUMB-FULL.
AND THEN THEY GOT OUT THE SCROLLS OF THE LAW
AND HAD THEIR LITTLE PROCESSION,
AND KISSED THE ENDS OF THE MARKERS.
AND THERE WAS A CASE ON FOR RAPE AND BLACKMAIL
DOWN AT THE COURT-HOUSE, BEHIND THE BIG PATIO
FULL OF WISTARIA;
AN' THE NIGGER IN THE RED FEZ, MUSTAFA, ON THE BOAT LATER
AN' I SAID TO HIM: YUSUF! YUSUF'S A DAMN GOOD FELLER.
<F 110>AND HE SAYS:
"YAIS, HE EES A GOOT FELLO,
"BUT AFTER ALL A CHEW
EES A CHEW."
<D 106>AND THE JUDGE SAYS: THAT VEIL IS TOO LONG.
AND THE GIRL TAKES OFF THE VEIL
THAT SHE HAS STUCK ONTO HER HAT WITH A PIN,
"NOT A VEIL," SHE SAYS, "'AT'S A SCARF."
AND THE JUDGE SAYS:
DON'T YOU KNOW YOU AREN'T ALLOWED ALL THOSE BUTTONS?
AND SHE SAYS: THOSE AIN'T BUTTONS, THEM'S BOBBLES.
CAN'T YOU SEE THERE AIN'T ANY BUTTON-HOLES?
AND THE JUDGE SAYS: WELL, ANYWAY, YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED ERMINE.
"ERMINE?" THE GIRL SAYS, "NOT ERMINE, THAT AIN'T,
"'AT'S LATTITTZO."
AND THE JUDGE SAYS: AND JUST WHAT IS A LATTITTZO?
AND THE GIRL SAYS:
"IT'Z A ANIMAL."
SIGNORI, YOU GO AND ENFORCE IT.
<F 111><D 107><C 23>
ET OMNIFORMIS," PSELLOS, "OMNIS
"INTELLECTUS EST." GOD'S FIRE. GEMISTO:
"NEVER WITH THIS RELIGION
"WILL YOU MAKE MEN OF THE GREEKS.
"BUT BUILD WALL ACROSS PELOPONESUS
"AND ORGANIZE, AND...
DAMN THESE EYETALIAN BARBARIANS."
AND NOVVY'S SHIP WENT DOWN IN THE TEMPEST
OR AT LEAST THEY CHUCKED THE BOOKS OVERBOARD.
HOW DISSOLVE IROL IN SUGER...HOUILLE BLANCHE,
AUTO-CHENILLE, DESTROY ALL BACTERIA IN THE KIDNEY,
INVENTION- D'ENTITES- PLUS- OU- MOINS- ABSTRAITS-
EN- NOMBRE- EGAL- AUX- CHOSES- A- EXPLIQUER...
LA SCIENCE NE PEUT PAS Y CONSISTER. "J'AI
"OBTENU UNE BRULURE' M. CURIE, OR SOME OTHER SCIENTIST
"QUI M'A COUTE SIX MOIS DE GUERISON."
AND CONTINUED HIS EXPERIMENTS.
TROPISMES! "WE BELIEVE THE ATTRACTION IS CHEMICAL."
WITH THE SUN IN A GOLDEN CUP
AND GOING TOWARD THE LOW FORDS OF OCEAN
=ALIOS =D' =HYERIONIDAS =DEPAS =ESKATEBAINE =CHRYSEON
=OPHRA =DI =OKEANOIO =PERASAS
IMA VADA NOCTIS OBSCURAE
SEEKING DOUBTLESS THE SEX IN BREAD-MOULDS
=HELIOS, =ALIOS, =ALIOS ==MATAIOS
("DERIVATION UNCERTAIN." THE IDIOT!
ODYSSEUS FURROWED THE SAND.)
ALIXANTOS, ALIOTREPHES, EISKATEBAINE, DOWN INTO,
<F 112>DESCENDED, TO THE END THAT, BEYOND OCEAN,
PASS THROUGH, TRAVERSE
<D 108>=POTI =BENTHEA
=NUKTOS =EREMNAS
=POTI =MATERA, =KOURIDIAN =T' =ALOCHON
=PAIDAS =TE =PHILOIS.... =EBA =DAPHNAISI =KATASKION
PRECISELY
THE SELV' OSCURA
AND IN THE MORNING, IN THE PHRYGIAN HEAD-SACK
BAREFOOTED, DUMPING SAND FROM THEIR BOAT
=*HYPERIONIDES!
AND THE ROSE GROWN WHILE I SLEPT,
AND THE STRINGS SHAKEN WITH MUSIC,
CAPRIPED, THE LOOSE TWIGS UNDER FOOT;
WE HERE ON THE HILL, WITH THE OLIVES
WHERE A MAN MIGHT CARRY HIS OAR UP,
AND THE BOAT THERE IN THE INLET;
AS WE HAD LAIN THERE IN THE AUTUMN
UNDER THE ARRAS, OR WALL PAINTED BELOW LIKE ARRAS,
AND ABOVE WITH A GARDEN OF ROSE-TREES,
SOUND COMING UP FROM THE CROSS-STREET;
AS WE HAD STOOD THERE,
WATCHING ROAD FROM THE WINDOW,
**FA **HAN AND I AT THE WINDOW,
AND HER HEAD BOUND WITH GOLD CORDS.
CLOUD OVER MOUNTAIN; HILL-GAP, IN MIST, LIKE A SEA-COAST.
LEAF OVER LEAF, DAWN-BRANCH IN THE SKY
AND THE SEA DARK, UNDER WIND,
THE BOAT'S SAILS HUNG LOOSE AT THE MOORING,
CLOUD LIKE A SAIL INVERTED,
AND THE MEN DUMPING SAND BY THE SEA-WALL
OLIVE TREES THERE ON THE HILL
WHERE A MAN MIGHT CARRY HIS OAR UP.
<F 113>AND MY BROTHER DE MAENSAC
BET WITH ME FOR THE CASTLE,
AND WE PUT IT ON THE TOSS OF A COIN,
AND I, AUSTORS, WON THE COIN-TOSS AND KEPT IT,
<D 109>AND HE WENT OUT TO TIERCI, A JONGLEUR
AND ON THE ROAD FOR HIS LIVING,
AND TWICE HE WENT DOWN TO TIERCI,
AND TOOK OFF THE GIRL THERE THAT WAS JUST MARRIED TO BERNART.
AND WENT TO AUVERGNE, TO THE DAUPHIN,
AND TIERCI CAME WITH A POSSE TO AUVERGNAT,
AND WENT BACK FOR AN ARMY
AND CAME TO AUVERGNE WITH THE ARMY
BUT NEVER GOT PIERRE NOR THE WOMAN.
AND HE WENT DOWN PAST CHAISE DIEU,
AND WENT AFTER IT ALL TO MOUNT SEGUR,
AFTER THE END OF ALL THINGS,
AND THEY HADN'T LEFT EVEN THE STAIR,
AND SIMONE WAS DEAD BY THAT TIME,
AND THEY CALLED US THE MANICHEANS
WOTEVER THE HELLSARSE THAT IS.
AND THAT WAS WHEN TROY WAS DOWN, ALL RIGHT,
SUPERBO ILION...
AND THEY WERE SAILING ALONG
SITTING IN THE STERN-SHEETS,
UNDER THE LEE OF AN ISLAND
AND THE WIND DRIFTING OFF FROM THE ISLAND.
"TET, TET...
WHAT IS IT?" SAID ANCHISES.
"=*TETHNEKE", SAID THE HELMSMAN, "I THINK THEY
"ARE HOWLING BECAUSE ADONIS DIED VIRGIN."
"HUH! TET..." SAID ANCHISES,
"WELL, THEY'VE MADE A BLOODY MESS OF THAT CITY."
<F 114>AND SHE SAID: "OTREUS, OF PHRYGIA,
"THAT KING IS MY FATHER..."
AND I SAW THEN, AS OF WAVES TAKING FORM,
AS THE SEA, HARD, A GLITTER OF CRYSTAL,
AND THE WAVES RISING BUT FORMED, HOLDING THEIR FORM.
NO LIGHT REACHING THROUGH THEM.
<D 110><F 115><C 24>
THUS THE BOOK OF THE MANDATES:
FEB. 1422.
WE DESIRE THAT YOU OUR FACTORS GIVE TO ZOHANNE OF RIMINI
OUR SERVANT, SIX LIRE MARCHESINI,
FOR THE THREE PRIZES HE HAS WON RACING OUR BARBARISCI,
AT THE RATE WE HAVE AGREED ON. THE RACES HE HAS WON
ARE THE MODENA, THE SAN PETRONIO AT BOLOGNA
AND THE LAST RACE AT SAN ZORZO.
(SIGNED) PARISINA MARCHESA
...PAY THEM FOR BINDING
UN LIBRO FRANXESE CHE SO CHIAMA TRISTANO...
CARISSIMI NOSTRI
ZOHANNE DA RIMINI
HAS WON THE PALIO AT MILAN WITH OUR HORSE AND WRITES THAT
HE IS NOW ON THE HOTEL, AND WANTS MONEY.
SEND WHAT YOU THINK HE NEEDS,
BUT WHEN YOU GET HIM BACK IN FERRARA FIND OUT
WHAT HE HAS DONE WITH THE FIRST LOT, I THINK OVER 25 DUCATS
BUT SEND THE OTHER CASH QUICKLY, AS I DON'T WANT HIM
THERE ON THE HOTEL.
...PERFUMES, PARROT SEED, COMBS, TWO GREAT AND TWO
SMALL ONES FROM VENICE, FOR MADAMA LA MARXESANA...
...20 DUCATS TO
GIVE TO A FRIEND OF OURS WHO PAID A BILL FOR US
ON THIS TRIP TO ROMAGNA...
...VERDE COLORE PREDELETTO, 25 DUCATS ZIPARELLO
SILVER EMBROIDERED FOR UGO FIOLO DEL SIGNORE...
(27 NOV. 1427)
PROCURATIO NOMINE PATRIS, LEONELLO ESTE
<F 116><D 111>(ARRANGING DOT FOR MARGARITA HIS SISTER, TO
ROBERTO MALATESTA OF RIMINI)
NATAE PRAELIBATI MARGARITAE
ILL D. NICOLAI MARCHIONIS ESTEN. ET SPONSAE:
THE TOWER OF GUALDO
WITH PLENARY JURISDICTION IN CIVILS; AND IN CRIMINAL:
TO FINE AND HAVE SCOURGED ALL DELINQUENTS
AS IN THE REST OF THEIR LANDS,
"WHICH THINGS
THIS TOWER, ESTATE AT GUALDO HAD THE ILLUSTRIOUS
NICOLAUS MARQUIS OF ESTE RECEIVED FROM THE SAID
DON CARLO (MALATESTA)
FOR DOWER
ILLUSTRAE DOMINAE PARISINAE MARXESANA."
UNDER MY HAND D. MICHEALI DE MAGNABUCIS
NOT. PUB. FERR.
D. NICOLAEQUE GUIDUCCUOLI DE ARIMINO.
SEQUIT BONORUM DESCRIPTIO.
AND HE IN HIS YOUNG YOUTH, IN THE WAKE OF ODYSSEUS
TO CITHERA (A.D. 1413) "DOVE FU ELENA RAPTA DA PARIS"
DINNERS IN ORANGE GROVES, PROWS ATTENDED OF DOLPHINS,
VESTIGE OF ROME AT POLA, FAIR WIND AS FAR AS NAXOS
ORA VELA, ORA A REMI, SINO AD ORA DI VESPERO
OR WITH THE SAIL TIGHT HAULED, BY THE CROOK'D LAND'S ARM
ZEFALONIA
AND AT CORFU, GREEK SINGERS; BY RHODOS
OF THE WINDMILLS, AND TO PAPHOS,
DONKEY BOYS, DUST, DESERTS, JERUSALEM, BACKSHEESH
AND AN ENDLESS FUSS OVER PASSPORTS;
ONE GROAT FOR THE JORDAN, WHETHER YOU GO THERE OR NOT,
THE SCHOOL WHERE THE MADONNA IN GIRLHOOD
WENT TO LEARN LETTERS, AND PILATE'S HOUSE CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC;
2 SOLDI FOR OLIVET (TO THE SARACENS)
<F 117>AND NO INDULGENCE AT JUDAS'S TREE; AND
<D 112>"HERE CHRIST PUT HIS THUMB ON A ROCK
"SAYING: HIC EST MEDIUM MUNDI."
(THAT, I ASSURE YOU, HAPPENED.
EGO, SCRIPTOR CANTILENAE.)
FOR WORSE? FOR BETTER? BUT HAPPENED.
AFTER WHICH, THE GREEK GIRLS AT CORFU, AND THE
LADIES, VENETIAN, AND THEY ALL SANG IN THE EVENING
BENCHE NIUNO CANTASSE, ALTHOUGH NONE OF THEM COULD,
WITNESS LUCHINO DEL CAMPO.
PLUS ONE TURKISH JUGGLER, AND THEY HAD A BATH
WHEN THEY GOT OUT OF JERUSALEM
AND FOR CARGO: ONE LEOPARD OF CYPRUS
AND FALCONS, AND SMALL BIRDS OF CYPRUS,
SPARROW HAWKS, AND GRAYHOUNDS FROM TURKEY
TO BREED IN FERRARA AMONG THIN-LEGGED FERRARESE,
OWLS, HAWKS, FISHING TACKLE.
WAS BEHEADED ALDOVRANDINO (1425, VENT'UNO MAGGIO)
WHO WAS CAUSE OF THIS EVIL, AND AFTER
THE MARCHESE ASKED WAS UGO BEHEADED. AND THE CAPTAIN:
"SIGNOR...SI." AND IL MARCHESE BEGAN CRYING
"FA ME HORA TAGLIAR LA TESTA
"DAPOI COSI PRESTO HAI DECAPITATO IL MIO UGO."
RODENDO CON DENTI UNA BACHETTA CHE HAVEA IN MANI.
AND PASSED THAT NIGHT WEEPING, AND CALLING UGO, HIS SON.
AFFABLE, BULLNECKED, THAT BROUGHT SEDUCTION IN PLACE OF
RAPE INTO GOVERNMENT, TER PACIS ITALIAE AUCTOR;
WITH THE BOYS PULLING THE TOW-ROPES ON THE RIVER
TRE CENTO BASTARDI (OR BOMBARDI FIRED OFF AT HIS FUNERAL)
AND THE NEXT YEAR A STANDARD FROM VENICE
(WHERE THEY'D CALLED OFF A HORSE RACE)
AND THE BATON FROM THE FLORENTINE BAILY.
"OF FAIR ASPECT, GENTLE IN MANNER"
<F 118>FORTY YEARS OLD AT THE TIME;
"AND THEY KILLED A JUDGE'S WIFE AMONG OTHER,
<D 113>THAT WAS A JUDGE OF THE COURT AND NOBLE,
AND CALLED MADONNA LAODAMIA DELLI ROMEI,
BEHEADED IN THE PA DELLA JUSTICIA;
AND IN MODENA, A MADONNA AGNESINA
WHO HAD POISONED HER HUSBAND,
"ALL WOMEN KNOWN AS ADULTEROUS,
"THAT HIS SHOULD NOT SUFFER ALONE."
THEN THE WRIT RAN NO FURTHER.
AND IN '31 MARRIED MONNA RICARDA.
[ESTE ARMES FROM THE K. OF FRANCE]CHARLES...SCAVOIR FAISANS...ET ADVENIR...A HAUTE
NOBLESSE DU LINAGE ET HOSTEL...E FAICTZ HAUTEX...
VAILLANCE...AFFECTION...NOTRE DICT COUSIN...
PUISSANCE, AUCTORITE ROYAL...IL ET SES HORS YSSUS...ET
A LEUR LOISE AVOIR DORESENAVANT
A TOUSIUOURS EN LEURS ARMES ESCARTELURE
...TROIS FLEURS LIZ D'OR...EN CHAMPS A'ASUR DENTELLE...
IOISSENT ET USENT.
MIL CCCC TRENTE ET UNG, CONSEIL
A CHINON, LE ROY, L'ESNE DE LA TRIMOUILL,
VENDOISE, JEHAN RABATEAU.
AND IN '32 CAME THE MARCHESE SALUZZO
TO VISIT THEM, HIS SON-IN-LAW AND HIS DAUGHTER,
AND TO SEE HERCULES HIS GRANDSON, PICCOLO E PUTINO.
AND IN '41 POLENTA WENT UP TO VENICE
AGAINST NICCOLO'S CAUTION
AND WAS SWALLOWED UP IN THAT CITY.
E FU SEPULTO NUDO, NICCOLO,
WITHOUT DECORATION, AS ORDERED IN TESTAMENT,
TER PACIS ITALIAE.
AND IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT BECAME OF HIS STATUE,
<F 119>I HAD A RIFLE CLASS IN BONDENO
AND THE PRIEST SENT A BOY TO THE HARDWARE
AND HE BROUGHT BACK THE NAILS IN A WRAPPING,
<D 114>AND IT WAS THE LEAF OF A DAIRY
AND HE GOT THE REST FROM THE HARDWARE
(CASSINI, LIBRAIO, SPEAKING)
AND ON THE FIRST LEAF OF THE WRAPPING
WAS HOW IN NAPOLEON'S TIME
CAME DOWN A LOAD OF BRASS FITTINGS FROM MODENA
VIA DEL PO, ALL WENT BY THE RIVER,
TO PIACENZA FOR CANNON, BELLS, DOOR-KNOBS
AND THE STATUES OF THE MARCHESE NICCOLO AND OF BORSO
THAT WERE IN THE PIAZZA ON COLUMNS.
AND THE COMMENDATORE HAS MADE IT A MONOGRAPH
WITHOUT SAYING I TOLD HIM AND SENT HIM
THE NAME OF THE PRIEST.
AFTER HIM AND HIS DAY
WERE THE CAKE-EATERS, THE CONSUMERS OF ICING,
THAT READ ALL DAY PER DILETTO
AND LEFT THE NIGHT WORK TO THE SERVANTS;
FERRARA, PARADISO DEI SARTI, "FESTE STOMAGOSE".
"IS IT LIKELY DIVINE APOLLO,
THAT I SHOULD HAVE STOLEN YOUR CATTLE?
A CHILD OF MY AGE, A MERE INFANT,
AND BESIDES, I HAVE BEEN HERE ALL NIGHT IN MY CRIB."
"ALBERT MADE ME, TURA PAINTED MY WALL,
AND JULIA THE COUNTESS SOLD TO A TANNERY...<C 25>
<F 120><D 115>THE BOOK OF THE COUNCIL MAJOR
1255 BE IT ENACTED:
THAT THEY MUSN'T SHOOT CRAP IN THE HALL
OF THE COUNCIL, NOR IN THE SMALL COURT UNDER
PAIN OF 20 DANARI, BE IT ENACTED:
1266 NO SQUIRE OF VENICE TO THROW DICE
ANYWHERE IN THE PALACE OR
IN THE LOGGIA OF THE RIALTO UNDER PAIN OF TEN SOLDI
OR HALF THAT FOR KIDS, AND IF THEY WONT PAY
THEY ARE TO BE CHUCKED IN THE WATER. BE IT ENACTED
IN LIBRO PACTORUM
TO THE THINGS EVERLASTING
MEMORY BOTH FOR LIVE MEN AND FOR THE FUTURE ET
QUOD PUBLICE INNOTESCAT
IN THE SAID DATE, DICTO MILLESSIMO
OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS LORD, LORD JOHN SORANZO
BY GOD'S GRACE DOGE OF VENICE IN THE CURIA
OF THE PALACE OF THE DOGES,
NEATH THE PORTICO NEXT THE HOUSE OF THE DWELLING OF
THE CASTALDIO AND OF THE HERALDS OF THE LORD DOGE.
BEING BENEATH SAME A PENTHOUSE OR CAGES
OR ROOM TIMBERED (TRABESILIS) LIKE A CELLAR
ONE LION MALE AND ONE FEMALE SIMUL COMMORANTES
WHICH BEASTS TO THE LORD DOGE WERE TRANSMITTED SMALL
BY THAT SERENE LORD KING FREDERIC OF SICILY, THE
SAID LION KNEW CARNALLY AND IN NATURE THE LIONESS
AFORESAID AND IMPREGNATED IN THAT MANNER THAT ANIMALS
LEAP ON ONE ANOTHER TO KNOW AND IMPREGNATE
ON THE FAITH OF SEVERAL OCULAR WITNESSES
WHICH LIONESS BORE PREGNANT FOR ABOUT THREE MONTHS
(AS IS SAID BY THOSE WHO SAW HER ASSAULTED)
<F 121><D 116>AND IN THE SAID MILLESSIMO AND MONTH ON A SUNDAY
12TH OF THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER ABOUT SUNRISE ON
ST MARK'S DAY EARLY BUT WITH THE LIGHT ALREADY APPARENT
THE SAID LIONESS AS IS THE NATURE OF ANIMALS
WHELPED PER NATURAM THREE LION CUBS VIVOS ET PILOSOS
LIVING AND HAIRY WHICH BORN AT ONCE BEGAN LIFE AND MOTION
AND TO GO GYRING ABOUT THEIR MOTHER THROUGHOUT THE
AFORESAID ROOM AS SAW THE AFORESAID LORD DOGE AND AS IT
WERE ALL THE VENETIANS AND OTHER FOLK WHO WERE IN
VENICE THAT DAY THAT CONCURRED ALL FOR THIS AS IT WERE
MIRACULOUS SIGHT. AND ONE OF THE ANIMALS IS A MALE
AND THE OTHER TWO FEMALE
I JOHN MARCHESINI DUCAL NOTARY OF THE
VENETIANS AS EYEWITNESS SAW THE
NATIVITY OF THESE ANIMALS THUS BY
MANDATE OF THE SAID DOGE WROTE THIS
AND PUT IT IN FILE.
ALSO A NOTE FROM PONTIUS PILATE DATED THE "YEAR 33".
TWO COLUMNS (A.D. 1323) FOR THE CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS OF THE
PALACE 12 LIRE GROSS.
TO THE PROCURATORS OF ST MARC FOR ENTRANCE TO THE
PALACE, FOR GILDING THE IMAGES AND THE LION OVER THE DOOR
...TO BE PAID...
BE IT ENACTED:
TO DONNA SORANTIA SORANZO THAT SHE COME FOR THE
FEAST OF ASCENSION BY NIGHT IN A COVERED BOAT AND
ALIGHT AT THE RIPA DEL PALAZZO, AND WHEN FIRST SEES THE
CHRISTBLOOD GO AT ONCE UP INTO THE PALACE AND MAY
STAY IN THE PALACE VIII DAYS TO VISIT THE DOGE HER
FATHER NOT IN THAT TIME LEAVING THE PALACE, NOR
DESCENDING THE PALACE STAIR AND WHEN SHE DESCENDS IT
<F 122>THAT SHE RETURN BY NIGHT THE BOAT IN THE LIKE MANNER
<D 117>BEING COVERED. TO BE REVOKED AT THE COUNCIL'S PLEASURE.
ACCEPTED BY 5 OF THE COUNCIL
["WHO FLEE'D THE LION'S RUMP?"]1335. 3 LIRE 15 GROATS TO STONE FOR MAKING A LION.
1340. COUNCIL OF THE LORDS NOBLE, MARC ERIZIO
NIC. SPERANZO, TOMASSO GRADONICO:
THAT THE HALL
BE NEW BUILT OVER THE ROOM OF THE NIGHT WATCH
AND OVER THE COLUMNS TOWARD THE CANAL WHERE THE WALK IS...
...BECAUSE OF THE STINK OF THE DUNGEONS. 1344.
1409...SINCE THE MOST SERENE DOGE CAN SCARCE
STAND UPRIGHT IN HIS BEDROOM...
VADIT PARS, TWO GROSS LIRE
STONE STAIR, 1415, FOR PULCHRITUDE OF THE PALACE
254 DA PARTE
DE NON 23
4 NON SINCERE
WHICH IS TO SAY: THEY BUILT OUT OVER THE ARCHES
AND THE PALACE HANGS THERE IN THE DAWN, THE MIST,
IN THAT DIMNESS,
OR AS ONE ROWS IN FROM PAST THE MURAZZI
THE BARGE SLOW AFTER MOON-RISE
AND THE VOICE SOUNDING UNDER THE SAIL.
MIST GONE.
AND SULPICIA
GREEN SHOOT NOW, AND THE WOOD
WHITE UNDER NEW CORTEX
"AS THE SCULPTOR SEES THE FORM IN THE AIR
BEFORE HE SETS HAND TO MALLET,
"AND AS HE SEES THE IN, AND THE THROUGH,
THE FOUR SIDES
<F 123>"NOT THE ONE FACE TO THE PAINTER
"AS IVORY UNCORRUPTED:
"PONE METUM CERINTHE"
<D 118>LAY THERE, THE LONG SOFT GRASS,
AND THE FLUTE LAY THERE BY HER THIGH,
SULPICIA, THE FAUNS, TWIG-STRONG,
GATHERED ABOUT HER;
THE FLUID, OVER THE GRASS
ZEPHYRUS, PASSING THROUGH HER,
"DEUS NEC LAEDIT AMANTES."
HIC MIHI DIES SANCTUS;
AND FROM THE STONE PITS, THE HEAVY VOICES,
HEAVY SOUND:
"SERO, SERO...
"NOTHING WE MADE, WE SET NOTHING IN ORDER,
"NEITHER HOUSE NOR THE CARVING,
"AND WHAT WE THOUGHT HAD BEEN THOUGHT FOR TOO LONG;
"OUR OPINION NOT OPINION IN EVIL
"BUT OPINION BORNE FOR TOO LONG.
"WE HAVE GATHERED A SIEVE FULL OF WATER."
AND FROM THE COMB OF REEDS, CAME NOTES AND THE CHORUS
MOVING, THE YOUNG FAUNS: PONE METUM,
METUM, NEC DEUS LAEDIT.
AND AS AFTER THE FORM, THE SHADOW,
NOBLE FORMS, LACKING LIFE, THAT BOLGE, THAT VALLEY
THE DEAD WORDS KEEPING FORM,
AND THE CRY: CIVIS ROMANUS.
THE CLEAR AIR, DARK, DARK,
THE DEAD CONCEPTS, NEVER THE SOLID, THE BLOOD RITE,
THE VANITY OF FERRARA;
CLEARER THAN SHADES, IN THE HILL ROAD
SPRINGING IN CLEFT OF THE ROCK: PHAETHUSA
<F 124>THERE AS SHE CAME AMONG THEM,
WINE IN THE SMOKE-FAINT THROAT,
FIRE GLEAM UNDER SMOKE OF THE MOUNTAIN,
EVEN THERE BY MEADOWS OF PHLEGETHON
<D 119>AND AGAINST THIS THE FLUTE: PONE METUM.
FADING, THAT THEY CARRIED THEIR GUTS BEFORE THEM,
AND THOUGHT THEN: THE DEATHLESS,
FORM, FORMS AND RENEWAL, GODS HELD IN THE AIR,
FORMS SEEN, AND THEN CLEARNESS,
BRIGHT VOID, WITHOUT IMAGE, NAPISHTIM,
CASTING HIS GODS BACK INTO THE =NOUS.
"AS THE SCULPTOR SEES THE FORM IN THE AIR...
"AS GLASS SEEN UNDER WATER,
"KING OTREUS, MY FATHER..."
AND SAW THE WAVES TAKING FORM AS CRYSTAL,
NOTES AS FACETS OF AIR,
AND THE MIND, THERE, BEFORE THEM, MOVING,
SO THAT NOTES NEEDED NOT MOVE.
...SIDE TOWARD THE PIAZZA, THE WORST SIDE OF THE ROOM
THAT NO ONE HAS BEEN WILLING TO TACKLE,
AND DO IT AS CHEAP OR MUCH CHEAPER...
(SIGNED) TICIAN, 31 MAY 1513
IT BEING CONVENIENT THAT THERE BE AN END TO
THE PAINTING OF TITIAN, FOURTH FRAME FROM THE DOOR ON
THE RIGHT OF THE HALL OF THE GREATER COUNCIL, BEGUN
BY MAESTRO TYCIANO DA CADORE SINCE ITS BEING THUS
UNFINISHED HOLDS UP THE DECORATION OF SAID HALL ON
THE SIDE THAT EVERYONE SEES. WE
MOVE THAT BY AUTHORITY OF THIS COUNCIL MAESTRO TYCIANO
AFORESAID BE CONSTRAINED TO FINISH SAID CANVAS,
AND IF HE HAVE NOT, TO LOSE THE EXPECTANCY OF THE
<F 125>BROKERAGE ON THE FONDAMENTA DELLI THODESCHI
AND MOREOVER TO RESTORE ALL PAYMENTS RECD ON ACCOUNT OF
SAID CANVAS. 11 AUG. 1522
SER LEONARDUS EMO, SAPIENS CONSILIJ:
SER PHILIPPUS CAPELLO, SAPIENS TERRAE FIRMAE:
<D 120>IN 1513 ON THE LAST DAY OF MAY WAS CONCEDED TO
TICIAN OF CADORE PAINTER A SUCCESSION TO A BROKERAGE
ON THE FONDAMENTA DEI THODESCHI, THE FIRST TO BE VACANT
IN 1516 ON THE 5TH OF DECEMBER WAS DECLARED THAT
WITHOUT FURTHER WAITING A VACANCY HE SHD ENTER THAT
WHICH HAD BEEN HELD BY THE PAINTER ZUAN BELLIN ON
CONDITION THAT HE PAINT THE PICTURE OF THE LAND BATTLE
IN THE HALL OF OUR GREATER COUNCIL ON THE SIDE TOWARD
THE PIAZZA OVER THE CANAL GRANDE, THE WHICH TICIAN AFTER
THE DEMISE OF ZUAN BELLIN ENTERED INTO POSSESSION OF THE
SAID SENSARIA AND HAS FOR ABOUT TWENTY YEARS PROFITED BY
IT, NAMELY TO ABOUT 100 DUCATS A YEAR NOT INCLUDING THE
18 TO 20 DUCATS TAXES YEARLY REMITTED HIM IT BEING
FITTING THAT AS HE HAS NOT WORKED HE SHOULD NOT HAVE
THE SAID PROFITS WHEREFORE
BE IT MOVED THAT THE SAID
TICIAN DE CADORE, PICTOR, BE BY AUTHORITY OF THIS COUNCIL
OBLIGED AND CONSTRAINED TO RESTORE TO OUR GOVERNMENT ALL THE
MONEYS THAT HE HAS HAD FROM THE AGENCY DURING THE TIME HE
HAS NOT WORKED ON THE PAINTING IN THE SAID
HALL AS IS REASONABLE
AYES 102, NOES 38, 37 UNDECIDED
REGISTER OF THE SENATE
TERRA 1537, CARTA 136.
<F 126><D 121><C 26>
AND
I CAME HERE IN MY YOUNG YOUTH
AND LAY THERE UNDER THE CROCODILE
BY THE COLUMN, LOOKING EAST ON THE FRIDAY,
AND I SAID: TOMORROW I WILL LIE ON THE SOUTH SIDE
AND THE DAY AFTER, SOUTH WEST.
AND AT NIGHT THEY SANG IN THE GONDOLAS
AND IN THE BARCHE WITH LANTHORNS;
THE PROWS ROSE SILVER ON SILVER
TAKING LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS. "RELAXETUR!"
11TH DECEMBER 1461: THAT PASTI BE LET OUT
WITH A CAVEAT
"CAVEAT IRE AD TURCHUM, THAT HE STAY OUT OF
CONSTANTINOPLE
"IF HE HOLD DEAR OUR GOVERNMENT'S PLEASURE.
"THE BOOK WILL BE RETAINED BY THE COUNCIL"
(THE BOOK BEING VALTURIO'S "RE MILITARI").
TO NICOLO SEGUNDINO, THE NEXT YEAR, 12TH OCTOBER
"LEAVE NO...OMNEM...AS THEY SAY...VOLVE LAPIDEM...
"STONE UNTURNED THAT HE, PIO,
"GIVE PEACE TO THE MALATESTA.
"FAITHFUL SONS (WE ARE) OF THE CHURCH
(FOR TWO PAGES)...
"AND SEE ALL THE CARDINALS AND THE NEPHEW...
"AND IN ANY CASE GET THE JOB DONE.
"OUR GALLEYS WERE STRICTLY NEUTRAL
"AND SENT THERE FOR NEUTRALITY.
"SEE BORSO IN FERRARA."
<D 122>TO BERNARD JUSTINIAN, 28TH OF OCTOBER:
<F 127>"SECUNDINO IS TO COME BACK WITH THE NEWS
"TWO OR THREE DAYS AFTER YOU GET THIS."
SENATO SECRETO, 28TH OF OCTOBER,
CAME MESSIRE HANIBAL FROM CESENA:
"CD THEY HOIST THE FLAG OF ST MARK
"AND HAVE FORTINBRAS AND OUR ARMY?"
"THEY CD NOT...BUT ON THE QUIET, SECRETISSIME,
"TWO GRAND...SIC: HE MAY HAVE
"TWO THOUSAND DUCATS; HIMSELF TO HIRE THE MEN
"FROM OUR ARMY."
...8 BARRELS WINE, TO HENRY OF INGHILTERRA...
TIN, SERGES, AMBER TO GO BY US TO THE LEVANT,
CORFU, AND ABOVE CORFU...
AND HITHER CAME SELVO, DOGE,
THAT FIRST MOSAIC'D SAN MARCO,
AND HIS WIFE THAT WOULD TOUCH FOOD BUT WITH FORKS,
SED AUREIS FURCULIS, THAT IS
WITH SMALL GOLDEN PRONGS
BRINGING IN, THUS, THE VICE OF LUXURIA;
AND TO GREET THE DOGE LORENZO TIEPOLO,
BARBERS, HEADS COVERED WITH BEADS,
FURRIERS, MASTERS IN ROUGH,
MASTER PELTERS FOR FINE WORK,
AND THE MASTERS FOR LAMBSKIN
WITH SILVER CUPS AND THEIR WINE FLASKS
AND BLACKSMITHS WITH THE GONFARON
ET LEURS FIOLES CHARGIES DE VIN,
THE MASTERS OF WOOL CLOTH
GLASS MAKERS IN SCARLET
CARRYING FABREFACTIONS OF GLASS;
<F 128><D 123>25TH APRIL THE JOUSTING,
THE LORD NICOLO ESTE,
UGACCION DEI CONTRARINI,
THE LORD FRANCESCO GONZAGA, AND FIRST
THE GOLDSMITHS AND JEWELERS COMPANY
WEARING PELLANDE OF SCARLET,
THE HORSES IN CENDATO-
AND IT COST THREE DUCATS TO RENT ANY HORSE
FOR THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY HORSES, IN PIAZZA,
AND THE PRIZE WAS A COLLAR WITH JEWELS
AND THESE FOLK CAME ON HORSES TO THE PIAZZA
IN THE LAST FIGHT FOURTEEN ON A SIDE,
AND THE PRIZE WENT TO A NIGGER FROM MANTUA
THAT CAME WITH MESSIRE GONZAGA.
AND THAT YEAR ('38) THEY CAME HERE
JAN.2. THE MARQUIS OF FERRARA
MAINLY TO SEE THE GREEK EMPEROR,
TO TAKE HIM DOWN THE CANAL TO HIS HOUSE,
AND WITH THE EMPEROR CAME THE ARCHBISHOPS:
THE ARCHBISHOP OF MOREA LOWER
AND THE ARCHBISHOP OF SARDIS
AND THE BISHOPS OF LACEDAEMON AND OF MITYLENE,
OF RHODOS, OF MODON BRANDOS,
AND THE ARCHBISHOPS OF ATHENS, CORINTH, AND OF TREBIZOND,
THE CHIEF SECRETARY AND THE STONOLIFEX.
AND CAME COSIMO MEDICI "ALMOST AS A VENETIAN TO VENICE"
(THAT WOULD BE FOUR DAYS LATER)
AND ON THE 25TH, LORD SIGISMUNDO DA RIMINI
FOR GOVERNMENT BUSINESS
AND THEN RETURNED TO THE CAMP.
AND IN FEBRUARY THEY ALL PACKED OFF
TO FERRARA TO DECIDE ON THE HOLY GHOST
AND AS TO THE WHICH BEGAT THE WHAT IN THE TRINITY.-
<F 129>GEMISTO AND STONOLIFEX,
<D 124>AND YOU WOULD HAVE BUST YOUR BUM LAUGHING
TO SEE THE HATS AND BEARDS OF THOSE GREEKS.
AND THE GUILD SPIRIT WAS DECLINING.
TE FILI DUX, TUOSQUE SUCCESSORES
AUREO ANNULO, TO WED THE SEA AS A WIFE,
FOR BEATING THE EMPEROR MANUEL,
ELEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX.
1175 A.D. FIRST BRIDGE IN RIALTO.
"YOU MAY SEAL YOUR ACTS WITH LEAD, SIGNOR ZIANI."
THE JEWELERS COMPANY HAD THEIR FURS LINED WITH SCARLET
AND SILK CLOTH FOR THE HORSES,
A SILK CLOTH CALLED CENDATO
THAT THEY STILL USE FOR THE SHAWLS;
AND AT THE TIME OF THAT WAR AGAINST HUNGARY
UNCLE CARLO MALATESTA, THREE WOUNDS,
BALISTA, SWORD AND A LANCE WOUND;
AND TO OUR GENERAL PANDOLFO, THREE LEGATES,
WITH SILK AND WITH SILVER,
AND WITH VELVET, WINE AND CONFECTIONS, TO KEEP HIM-
PER ANIMARLA-IN MOOD TO GO ON WITH THE FIGHTING.
"THAT ARE IN SAN SAMUELE (YOUNG LADIES)
ARE ALL TO GO TO RIALTO
"AND TO WEAR YELLOW KERCHIEF, AS ARE ALSO
"THEIR MATRONS (RUFFIANE)."
"AMBASSADOR, FOR HIS GREAT WISDOM AND MONEY,
"THAT HAD BEEN HERE AS AN EXILE, COSIMO
"PATER."
"LORD LUIGI GONZAGA, TO BE GIVEN CASA GIUSTINIAN."
"BISHOPS OF LAMPASCUS AND CYPRUS
<F 130>"AND OTHER FIFTY LORDS BISHOPS
THAT ARE THE CHURCH OF THE ORIENT."
<D 125>MARCH 8, "THAT SIGISMUNDO LEFT MANTUA
ILL CONTENTED...
AND THEY ARE DEAD AND HAVE LEFT A FEW PICTURES.
"ALBIZI HAVE SACKED THE MEDICI BANK."
"VENETIANS MAY STAND, COME, DEPART WITH THEIR FAMILIES
FREE BY LAND, FREE BY SEA
IN THEIR GALLEYS,
SHIPS, BOATS, AND WITH MERCHANDISE.
2% ON WHAT'S ACTUALLY SOLD. NO TAX ABOVE THAT.
YEAR 6962 OF THE WORLD
18TH APRIL, IN  CONSTANTINOPLE."
WIND ON THE LAGOON, THE SOUTH WIND BREAKING ROSES.
ILLMO AC EXMO (ECCELLENTISSIMO) PRINCEPS ET DNO
LORD, MY LORD IN PARTICULAR, SFORZA:
IN REPLY TO 1ST LTR OF YR LDSHP
RE MATR OF HORSES, THERE ARE SOME FOR SALE HERE.
I SAID THAT I HDN'T THEN SEEN 'EM ALL THOROUGHLY.
NOW I MAY SAY THAT I HAVE, AND THINK
THERE ARE ELEVEN GOOD HORSES AND ALMOST THAT NUMBER
OF HACKS THAT MIGHT BE USED IN NECESSITY,
TO BE HAD AT A REASONABLE PRICE.
IT IS TRUE THAT THERE ARE X OR XI BIG HORSES
FROM 80 TO 110 DUCATS
THAT SEEM TO ME DEARER AT THE PRICE
THAN THOSE FOR 80 DUCATS AND UNDER
AND I THINK THAT IF YR LDSP WD SEND FROM
1000 DUCATS TO ONE THOUSAND 500 IT CD BE SPENT
ON STUFF THAT WD SUIT YR LDP QUITE WELL.
PLEASE Y. L. TO ANSWER QUICKLY
AS I WANT TO TAKE MYSELF OUT OF HERE,
<F 131>AND IF YOU WANT ME TO BUY THEM
SEND THE CASH BY MR PITRO THE FARRIER
AND HAVE HIM TELL ME BY MOUTH OR LETTER
<D 126>WHAT YR LDP WANTS ME TO BUY.
EVEN FROM 80 DUCATS UP THERE ARE CERTAIN GOOD HORSES.
I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SAY TO YOUR LORDSHIP
SAVE MY SALUTATIONS.
GIVEN BOLOGNA, 14TH OF AUGUST 1453
SERVANT OF YR ILLUSTRIOUS LORDSHIP
PISANELLUS
1462, 12TH DECEMBER: "AND VITTOR CAPELLO
BROUGHT ALSO THE HEAD OF ST GEORGE THE MARTYR
FROM THE ISLAND OF SIESINA.
THIS HEAD WAS COVERED WITH SILVER AND
TAKEN TO SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE.
TO THE CARDINAL GONZAGA OF MANTUA, ULTIMO FEBBRAIO 1548
"26TH OF FEB. WAS KILLED IN THIS CITY
LORENZO DE MEDICIS. YR ILLUS LSDHP WILL UNDERSTAND
FROM THE ENC ACCOUNT HOW THE AFFAIR IS SAID TO HAVE
GONE OFF. THEY SAY THOSE WHO KILLED HIM HAVE CERTAINLY
GOT AWAY IN A POST BOAT WITH 6 OARS. BUT THEY DON'T
KNOW WHICH WAY THEY HAVE GONE, AND AS A GUARD MAY
HAVE BEEN SET IN CERTAIN PLACES AND PASSES, IT WD
BE CONVENIENT IF YR ILLS LDSHP WD WRITE AT ONCE
TO YOUR AMBASSADOR HERE, SAYING AMONG OTHER THINGS
THAT THE TWO MEN WHO KILLED LORENZINO HAVE PASSED THROUGH
THE CITY OF MANTUA AND THAT NO ONE KNOWS WHICH
WAY THEY HAVE GONE. PUBLISHING THIS INFORMATION
FROM YR LDSHP WILL PERHAPS HELP THEM TO GET FREE.
ALTHOUGH WE THINK THEY ARE ALREADY IN FLORENCE, BUT
IN ANY CASE THIS MEASURE CAN DO NO HARM. SO THAT
YR LDSHP WD BENEFIT BY DOING IT QUICKLY AND EVEN
<F 132>TO HAVE OTHERS SEND THE SAME NEWS.
MAY OUR LORD PROTECT YR ILLS AND MOST REVND PERSON
WITH THE INCREASE OF STATE YOU DESIRE.
VENICE, LAST OF FEB. 1548
I KISS THE HANDS OF YR ILL LDSHP
DON IN. HNR. DE MENDOCA
<D 127>TO THE MARQUIS OF MANTOVA, FRANO GONZAGA
ILLUSTRIOUS MY LORD, DURING THE PAST FEW DAYS
AN UNKNOWN MAN WAS BROUGHT TO ME BY SOME OTHERS
TO SEE A JERUSALEM I HAVE MADE, AND AS SOON AS HE
SAW IT HE INSISTED THAT I SELL IT HIM, SAYING IT
GAVE HIM THE GTST CONTENT AND SATISFACTN
FINALLY THE DEAL WAS MADE AND HE TOOK IT AWAY,
WITHOUT PAYING AND HASN'T SINCE THEN APPEARED.
I WENT TO TELL THE PEOPLE WHO HAD BROUGHT HIM, ONE
OF WHOM IS A PRIEST WITH A BEARD THAT WEARS A
GREY BERETTINO WHOM I HAVE OFTEN SEEN WITH YOU IN
THE HALL OF THE GTR COUNCIL AND I ASKED HIM THE
FELLOW'S NAME, AND IT IS A MESSIRE LORENZO, THE
PAINTER TO YOUR LORDSHIP, FROM WHICH I HAVE EASILY
UNDERSTOOD WHAT HE WAS UP TO, AND ON THAT ACCOUNT
I AM WRITING YOU, TO FURNISH YOU MY NAME AND THE
WORK'S. IN THE FIRST PLACE ILLUSTRIOUS M LORD, I AM
THAT PAINTER TO THE SEIGNORY, COMMISSIONED TO PAINT THE
GT HALL WHERE YR LORDSHIP DEIGNS TO MOUNT
ON THE SCAFFOLD TO SEE OUR WORK, THE HISTORY OF ANCONA,
AND MY NAME IS VICTOR CARPATIO.
AS TO THE JERUSALEM I DARE SAY THERE IS NOT ANOTHER
IN OUR TIME AS GOOD AND COMPLETELY PERFECT, OR AS
LARGE. IT IS 25FT. LONG BY 5 1\2, AND I KNOW ZUANE
ZAMBERTI HAS OFTEN SPOKEN OF IT TO YR SUBLIMITY, I
KNOW CERTAINLY THAT THIS PAINTER OF YOURS HAS CARRIED
OFF A PIECE, NOT THE WHOLE OF IT. I CAN SEND YOU
<F 133>A SMALL SKETCH IN AQUARELLE ON A ROLL, OR HAVE IT
SEEN BY GOOD JUDGES AND LEAVE THE PRICE TO YOUR
LORDSHIP.
XV. AUG 1511, VENETIJS.
I HAVE SENT A COPY OF
THIS LETTER BY ANOTHER WAY TO BE SURE YOU GET ONE OR THE OTHER.
THE HUMBLE SVT OF YR SUBLIMITY
VICTOR CARPATHIO
PICTORE.
<D 128>TO THE SUPREME PIG, THE ARCHBISHOP OF SALZBURG:
LASTING FILTH AND PERDITION.
SINCE YOUR EXALTED PUSTULENCE IS TOO STINGY
TO GIVE ME A DECENT INCOME
AND HAS ALREADY ASSURED ME THAT HERE I HAVE NOTHING TO HOPE
AND HAD BETTER SEEK FORTUNE ELSEWHERE;
AND SINCE THEREAFTER YOU HAVE
THREE TIMES IMPEDED MY FATHER AND SELF INTENDING DEPARTURE
I ASK YOU FOR THE FOURTH TIME
TO BEHAVE WITH MORE DECENCY, AND THIS TIME
PERMIT MY DEPARTURE.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS, AUGUST 1777
(INTER LINEAS)
"AS IS THE SONATA, SO IS LITTLE MISS CANNABICH."
<F 134><D 129><C 27>
FORMANDO DI DISIO NUOVA PERSONA
ET QUANT AU TROISIEME
PAS, SUMNE FUGOL OTHBAER:
THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH THICK AND CONCLUDED,
AS THEY WERE BEING RAMMED THROUGH, THE AGE OF THAT
CRUISER." "REFERRED TO NO LONGER AS
THE GODDAMNED PORTA-GOOSE, BUT AS
ENGLAND'S OLDEST ALLY." "AT RESTS IN CALM ZONE
IF POSSIBLE, THE MEN ARE TO BE FED AND RELAXED,
THE OFFICERS ON THE CONTRARY..."
TEN MILLION GERMS IN HIS FACE,
"THAT IS PART OF THE RISK AND HAPPENS
"ABOUT TWICE A YEAR IN TUBERCULAR RESEARCH, DR SPAHLINGER..."
"J'AI OBTENU" SAID M CURIE, OR SOME OTHER SCIENTIST
"A BURN THAT COST ME SIX MONTHS IN CURING,"
AND CONTINUED HIS EXPERIMENTS.
ENGLAND OFF THERE IN BLACK DARKNESS,
RUSSIA OFF THERE IN BLACK DARKNESS,
THE LAST CRUMBS OF CIVILIZATION...
AND THEY ELECTED A PRINCE DES PENSEURS
BECAUSE THERE WERE SO DAMN MANY PRINCES,
AND THEY ELECTED A MONSIEUR BRISSET
WHO HELD THAT MAN IS DESCENDED FROM FROGS;
AND THERE WAS A CRACKED CONCIERGE THAT THEY
NEARLY GOT INTO THE DEPUTIES,
TO PROTEST AGAINST THE EARTHQUAKE IN MESSINA.
THE BUCENTORO SANG IT IN THAT YEAR,
<F 135><D 130>1908, 1909, 1910, AND THERE WAS
AN OLD WASHERWOMAN BEATING HER WASHBOARD,
THAT WOULD BE 1920, WITH A CRACKED VOICE,
SINGING "STRETTI!" AND THAT WAS THE LAST
TILL THIS YEAR, '27, HOTEL ANGIOLI, IN MILAN,
WITH AN AIR CLARA D'ELLEBEUSE,
WITH THEIR LAKELIKE AND FOXLIKE EYES,
WITH AN AIR "BENETTE JOUE LA VALSE DES ELFES"
IN THE SALOTTO OF THAT DRUMMER'S HOTEL,
TWO YOUNG LADIES WITH THEIR AIR DE PROVINCE:
"NO, WE ARE CROAT MERCHANTS, COMMERCIANTI,
"THERE IS NOTHING STRANGE IN OUR HISTORY."
"NO, NOT TO SELL, BUT TO BUY."
AND THERE WAS THAT MUSIC PUBLISHER,
THE FELLOW THAT BROUGHT BACK THE SHRUNK INDIAN HEAD
BONED, OILED, FROM BOLIVIA, SAID:
"YES, I WENT OUT THERE. COULDN'T MAKE OUT THE TRADE,
LONG AFTER WE'D MELT UP THE PLATES,
GET AN ORDER, 200 COPIES, PERU,
OR SOME STATION IN CHILE."
TOOK OUT FLORADORA IN SHEETS,
AND BROUGHT BACK A RED-HEADED MUMMY.
WITH AN AIR CLARA D'ELLEBEUSE, SINGING "STRETTI".
SED ET UNIVERSUS QUOQUE ECCLESIE POPULUS,
ALL RUSHED OUT AND BUILT THE DUOMO,
WENT AS ONE MAN WITHOUT LEADERS
AND THE PERFECT MEASURE TOOK FORM;
"GLIELMO CIPTADIN" SAYS THE STONE, "THE AUTHOR,
"AND NICOLAO WAS THE CARVER"
WHATEVER THE MEANING MAY BE.
AND THEY WROTE FOR YEAR AFTER YEAR,
REFINING THE CRITERION,
<F 136>OR THEY ROSE AS THE TOPS SUBSIDED;
<D 131>BRUMAIRE, FRUCTIDOR, PETROGRAD.
AND TOVARISCH LAY IN THE WIND
AND THE SUN LAY OVER THE WIND,
AND THREE FORMS BECAME IN THE AIR
AND HOVERED ABOUT HIM,
SO THAT HE SAID:
THIS MACHINERY IS VERY ANCIENT,
SURELY WE HAVE HEARD THIS BEFORE.
AND THE WAVES LIKE A FOREST
WHERE THE WIND IS WEIGHTLESS IN THE LEAVES
BUT MOVING,
SO THAT THE SOUND RUNS UPON SOUND.
XARITES, BORN OF VENUS AND WINE.
CARVED STONE UPON STONE.
BUT IN SLEEP, IN THE WAKING DREAM,
PETAL'D THE AIR;
TWIG WHERE BUT WIND-STREAK HAD BEEN;
MOVING BOUGH WITHOUT ROOT,
BY HELIOS.
SO THAT THE XARITES BENT OVER TOVARISCH.
AND THESE ARE THE LABOURS OF TOVARISCH,
THAT TOVARISCH LAY IN THE EARTH,
AND ROSE, AND WRECKED THE HOUSE OF THE TYRANTS,
AND THAT TOVARISCH THEN LAY IN THE EARTH
AND THE XARITES BENT OVER TOVARISCH.
THESE ARE THE LABOURS OF TOVARISCH,
THAT TOVARISCH WRECKED THE HOUSE OF THE TYRANTS,
AND ROSE, AND TALKED FOLLY ON FOLLY,
AND WALKED FORTH AND LAY IN THE EARTH
AND THE XARITES BENT OVER TOVARISCH.
<F 137>AND THAT TOVARISCH CURSED AND BLESSED WITHOUT AIM,
THESE ARE THE LABOURS OF TOVARISCH,
<D 132>SAYING:
"ME CADMUS SOWED IN THE EARTH
AND WITH THE THIRTIETH AUTUMN
I RETURN TO THE EARTH THAT MADE ME.
LET THE FIVE LAST BUILD THE WALL;
I NEITHER BUILD NOR REAP.
THAT HE CAME WITH THE GOLD SHIPS, CADMUS,
THAT HE FOUGHT WITH WISDOM,
CADMUS, OF THE GILDED PROWS. NOTHING I BUILD
AND I REAP
NOTHING; WITH THE THIRTIETH AUTUMN
I SLEEP, I SLEEP NOT, I ROT
AND I BUILD NO WALL.
WHERE WAS THE WALL OF EBLIS
AT VENTADOUR, THERE NOW ARE THE BEES,
AND IN THAT COURT, WILD GRASS FOR THEIR PLEASURE
THAT THEY CARRY BACK TO THE CREVICE
WHERE LOOSE STONE HANGS UPON STONE.
I SAILED NEVER WITH CADMUS,
LIFTED NEVER STONE ABOVE STONE."
"BAKED AND EATEN TOVARISCH!
"BAKED AND EATEN, TOVARISCH, MY BOY,
"THAT IS YOUR STORY. AND UP AGAIN,
"UP AND AT'EM. LAID NEVER STONE UPON STONE."
"THE AIR BURST INTO LEAF."
"HUNG THERE FLOWERED ACANTHUS,
"CAN YOU TELL THE DOWN FROM THE UP?"
<F 138><D 133><C 28>
AND GOD THE FATHER ETERNAL (BOJA D'UN DIO!)
HAVING MADE ALL THINGS HE CD
THINK OF, FELT YET
THAT SOMETHING WAS LACKING, AND THOUGHT
STILL MORE, AND REFLECTED THAT
THE ROMAGNOLO WAS LACKING, AND
STAMPED WITH HIS FOOT IN THE MUD AND
UP COMES THE ROMAGNOLO:
"GARD, YEH BLOUDY 'ANGMAN! IT'S ME."
ASO IQUA ME. ALL ESIMO DOTTOR ALDO WALLUSCHNIG
WHO WITH THE FORCE OF HIS INTELLECT
WITH ART AND ASSIDUOUS CARE
HAS SNATCHED FROM DEATH BY A MOST PERILOUS OPERATION
THE CLASSICAL CAESAREAN CUT
MAROTTI, VIRGINIA, IN SENNI OF SAN GIORGIO
AT THE SAME TIME SAVING HER SON.
MAY THERE MOVE TO HIS LAUD THE APPLAUSE OF ALL MEN
AND THE GRATITUDE OF THE FAMILY.
S GIORGIO, 23D MAY. A.D. 1925.
ITEM: THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT CAN SWIMME IN THE SEA
HAVENS AND RIVERS NAKED
HAVING BOWES AND SHAFTS,
COVETING TO DRAW NIGH YR SHIPPE WHICH IF THEY FIND NOT
WELL WATCHED AND WARDED THEY WIL ASSAULT
DESIROUS OF THE BODIES OF MEN WHICH THEY COVET FOR MEATE,
IF YOU RESIST THEM
THEY DIVE AND WIL FLEE.
AND MR LOURPEE SAT ON THE FLOOR OF THE PENSION DINING-ROOM
OR PERHAPS IT WAS IN THE ALCOVE
AND ABOUT HIM LAY A GREAT MASS OF PASTELLS,
THAT IS, STUBBS AND BROKEN PENCILS OF PASTELL,
<D 134>IN PALE INDETERMINATE COLOURS.
<F 139>AND HE ADMIRED THE SAGE OF CONCORD
"TOO BROAD EVER TO MAKE UP HIS MIND."
AND THE MIND OF LOURPEE AT FIFTY
DIRECTED HIM INTO A ROOM WITH A CERTAIN VAGUENESS
AS IF HE WD
NEITHER COME IN NOR STAY OUT
AS IF HE WD
GO NEITHER TO THE LEFT NOR THE RIGHT
AND HIS PAINTING REFLECTED THIS HABIT.
AND MRS KREFFLE'S MIND WAS MADE UP,
PERHAPS BY THE PRESSURE OF CIRCUMSTANCE,
SHE DESCRIBED HER SPLENDID APARTMENT
IN PARIS AND LEFT WITHOUT PAYING HER BILL
AND IN FACT SHE WROTE LATER FROM SEVILLA
AND REQUESTED A SHAWL, AND RECEIVED IT
FROM THE SENORA AT 300 PESETAS COST TO THE LATTER
(ALSO WITHOUT REMITTING) WHICH
MAY HAVE EXPLAINED THE LASSITUDE OF HER DAUGHTER;
AND THE BEST PAID DRAMATIC CRITIC
ARRIVED FROM MANHATTAN
AND WAS LODGED IN A BORDELLO (PROMPTLY)
HAVING TRUSTED "HIS PEOPLE"
WHO TRUSTED A DUTCH CORRESPONDENT,
AND WHEN THEY HAD BEEN DEVOURED BY FLEAS
(CRITIC AND FAMILY)
THEY ENDEABOURED TO BREAK THE DUTCHMAN'S MONTH'S CONTRACT,
WHILE THE LADIES FROM WEST VIRGINIA
PRESERVED THE NATAL AROMA.
AND IN THE RAILWAY FEEDING-ROOM IN CHIASSO
SHE SAT AS IF WAITING FOR THE TRAIN FOR TOPEKA
-THAT WAS THE YEAR OF THE STRIKES-
WHEN WE CAME UP TOWARD CHIASSO
BY THE LAST ON THE NARROW-GAUGE,
THEN BY TRAMWAY FROM COMO
<D 135><F 140>LEAVING THE LADY WHO LOVED BULLFIGHTS
WITH HER EIGHT TRUNKS AND HER CAPTURED HIDALGO,
AND A DUTCHMAN WAS THERE WHO WAS GOING
TO TAKE THE BOAT AT TRIESTE,
SURE, HE WAS GOING TO TAKE IT;
WOULD HE GO ROUND BY VIENNA? HE WOULD NOT.
ABSENCE OF TRAINS WDNT STOP HIM.
SO WE LEFT HIM AT LAST IN CHIASSO
ALONG WITH THE OLD WOMAN FROM KANSAS,
SOLID KANSAS, HER DAUGHTER HAD MARRIED THAT SWISS
WHO KEPT THE BUFFET IN CHIASSO.
DID IT SHAKE HER? IT DID NOT SHAKE HER.
SHE SAT THERE IN THE WAITING-ROOM, SOLID KANSAS,
STIFF AS A CIGAR-STORE INDIAN FROM THE BOWERY
SUCH AS ONE SAW IN "THE NINETIES",
FIRST SOD OF BLEEDING KANSAS
THAT HAD PRODUCED THIS LIGNEOUS SOLIDNESS;
IF THOU WILT GO TO CHIASSO WILT FIND THAT INDESTRUCTABLE FEMALE
AS IF WAITING FOR THE TRAIN TO TOPEKA
IN THE BUFFET OF THAT STATION ON THE BENCH THAT
FOLLOWS THE WALL, TO THE RIGHT SIDE AS YOU ENTER.
AND CLARA LEONORA WD COME PUFFING SO THAT ONE
CD HEAR HER WHEN SHE REACHED THE FOOT OF THE STAIRS,
SQUARED, CHUNKY, WITH HER CROOKED STEEL SPECTACLES
AND HER SPLUTTER AND HER FACE FULL OF TEETH
AND OLD RENNERT WD SIGH HEAVILY
AND LOOK OVER THE TOP OF HIS LENSES AND
SHE WD ARRIVE AFTER DUE INTERVAL WITH A PINWHEEL
CONCERNING GRILLPARZER OR -PRATZER
OR WHATEVER FOLLOWS THE GRILL-, AND IL GRAN MAESTRO
MR LISZT HAD COME TO THE HOME OF HER PARENTS
AND TAKEN HER ON HIS PREVALENT KNEE AND
SHE HELD THAT A SONNET WAS A SONNET
AND OUGHT NEVER TO BE DESTROYED,
<F 141>AND HAD TAKEN A NUMBER OF COURSES
<D 136>AND CONTINUED WITH HOPE OF DEGREES AND
ENDED IN A BAPTIST LEARNERY
SOMEWHERE NEAR THE RIO GRANDE.
AND THEY WANTED MORE FROM THEIR WOMEN,
WANTED 'EM JACKED UP A LITTLE
AND SENT OVER FOR TEACHERS (CEYLON)
SO LOICA WENT OUT AND DIED THERE
AFTER HER TIME IN THE POST-IBSEN MOVEMENT.
AND ONE DAY IN SMITH'S ROOM
OR MAY BE IT WAS THAT 1908 MEDICO'S
PUT THE GOB IN THE FIRE-PLACE
OLE BYERS AND FEIGENBAUM AND JOE BROMLEY,
JOE HITTIN' THE GOB AT 25 FEET
EVERY TIME, PING ON THE METAL
(AZ OLE MAN COMLEY WD SAY: BOYS!...
NEVER CHERR TERBAKKER! HRWWKKE TTH!
NEVER CHERR TERBAKKER!
"MISSIONARIES," SAID JOE, "I WAS OUT BACK OF JAFFA,
I DRESSED IN THE COSTUME, USED TO LIKE THE CAFES,
ALL OF US SETTIN' THERE ON THE GROUND,
POKES HIS HEAD IN THE DOORWAY: "IZ THERE ANY,"
HE SAYS, "GAR'
DAMN
MAN HERE
THET KAN SPEAK ENGLISH?"
NOBODY SAID ANYTHING FER A WHILE
AND THEN I SAID: "HU ER' YOU?"
"I'M ER MISSHERNARY I AM"
HE SEZ, "CHUCKED OFF A NAVAL BOAT IN SHANGHAI.
I WORKED AT IT THREE MONTHS, NOTHIN' TO LIVE ON."
BEAT HIS WAY OVERLAND.
I NEVER SAW THE TWENTY I LENT HIM,"
<F 142>GREAT MORAL SECRET SERVICE, PLAN, TRIBUNE IS TOLD
LIMIT NUMBER TO THIRTY THOUSAND,
<D 137>ONLY HIGHEST TYPE WILL BE INCLUDED,
PROPAGANDA WITHIN RANKS OF THE VETERANS,
TO KEEP WITHIN BOUNDS WHEN THEY COME INTO
CONTACT WITH PERSONAL LIBERTY...WITH THE FRENCH AUTHORITIES...
THAT INCLUDES THE PARIS POLICE...
STRENGTHEN FRANCO-AMERICAN AMITY.
NARCOTIC CHARGE: FRANK ROBERT IRIQUIOS
GAVE HIS HOME OKLAHOMA CITY...EXPELLED JULY 24TH.
"JE SUIS...
(ACROSS THE BARE PLANKS OF A DININGROOM IN THE PYRENEES)
...PLUS FORT QUE...
...LE BOUD-HAH!"
(NO CONTRADICTION)
"JE SUIS...
PLUS FORT QUE LE...
...CHRIST!
(NO CONTRADICTION)
"J'AURAIS...
ABOLI...
LE POIDS!"
(SILENCE, SOMEWHAT UNCONVINCED.)
AND IN HIS WASTE HOUSE, DETRITUS,
AS IT WERE THE CAST BUTTONS OF SPLENDOURS,
THE HARBOUR OF MARTINIQUE, DRAWN EVERY HOUSE, AND IN DETAIL.
GREEN SHUTTERS ON HALF THE HOUSES,
HALF THE THING STILL UNPAINTED.
"...SONT
"L'IN..FAN...TERIE KOH-
LON-
I'ALE"
<F 143>VOCE TINNULA
"CE SONT LES VIEUX MARSOUINS!"
HE MADE IT, FEITZ MARCEBRUS, THE WORDS AND THE MUSIC,
<D 138>UNIFORM OUT FOR PEACE DAY
AND THAT LIE ABOUT THE TIBETAN TEMPLE
(HAPPENS BY THE WAY TO BE TRUE,
THEY DO CARRY YOU UP ON THEIR SHOULDERS) BUT
BAD FOR HIS MEDICAL PRACTICE.
"RETREAT?" SAID DR WYMANS, "IT WAS MARRVELOUS...
GALLIPOLI...
SECRET. TURKS KNEW NOTHING ABOUT IT.
UH! HELPED ME TO GET MY WOUNDED ABOARD."
AND THAT MAN SWEAT BLOOD TO PUT THROUGH THAT RAILWAY,
AND WHAT HE EVER GOT OUT OF IT?
AND ONE DAY HE DROVE DOWN TO THE WHOREHOUSE
CAUSE ALL THE FARMERS HAD CONSENTED
AND GRANTED THE RIGHT OF WAY,
BUT THE PORNOBOSKOS WDN'T HAVE IT AT ANY PRICE
AND SAID HE'D SHOOT THE SURVEYORS,
BUT HE DIDN'T SHOOT OLE POP IN THE BUCKBOARD,
HE GIV HIM THE RIGHT OF WAY.
AND THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD HIM FLUMMOX'D,
NOBODY'D SELL ANY RAILS;
TILL HE WENT UP TO THE NORTH OF NEW YORK STATE
AND FOUND SOME THERE ON THE GROUND
AND HE HAD 'EM PRIED LOOSE AND SHIPPED 'EM
AND HAD 'EM LAID HERE THROUGH THE FOREST.
THING IS TO FIND SOMETHING SIMPLE
AS FOR EXAMPLE PA STADTVOLK;
HOOKS TO HANG GUTTERS ON ROOFS,
A SPIKE AND HALF-CIRCLE, PATENTED 'EM AND THEN MADE 'EM;
WORTH A GOOD MILLION, NOT A BOOK IN THE PLACE;
GOT A HORSE ABOUT TWENTY YEARS AFTER, SEEN HIM
<F 144>OF A SATURDAY AFTERNOON
WHEN  THEY'D TAKEN DOWN AN OLD FENCE,
OLE PA OUT THERE KNOCKIN THE NAILS OUT
(TO SAVE 'EM). I HEAR HE SMOKED GOOD CIGARS.
<D 139>AND WHEN THE PRINCE OLTREPASSIMO DIED, SACCONE,
THAT FOLLOW THE COFFINS,
HE LAY THERE ON THE FLOOR OF THE CHAPEL
ON A GREAT PIECE OF PATTERNED BROCADE
AND THE WALLS SOLID GOLD ABOUT HIM
AND THERE WAS A HOLE IN ONE ON HIS SOCKS
AND THE PLACE OPEN THAT DAY TO THE PUBLIC,
KIDS RUNNING IN FROM THE STREET
AND A CAT SAT THERE LICKING HIMSELF
AND THEN STEPPED OVER THE PRINCIPE,
DISCOBOLUS UPSTAIRS AND THE MAIN DOOR
NOT OPENED SINCE '70
WHEN THE POPE SHUT HIMSELF INTO THE VATICAN
AND THEY HAD SCALES ON THE TABLE
TO WEIGH OUT THE FOOD ON FAST DAYS;
AND HE LAY THERE WITH HIS HOOD BACK
AND THE HOLE IN ONE OF HIS SOCKS.
"BUK!" SAID THE SECOND BARONET, "EH...
"THASS A FUNNY LOOKIN' BUK" SAID THE BARONET
LOOKING AT BAYLE, FOLIO, 4 VOLS. IN GILT LEATHER, "AH...
"WU... WU... WOT YOU GOIN' EH TO DO WITH AH...
"...AH READ-IT?"
SIC LOQUITUR EQUES.
AND LEST IT PASS WITH THE DAY'S NEWS
THROWN OUT WITH THE DAILY PAPER,
NEITHER OFFICIAL PET
NOR LEVINE WITH THE LUCKY BUTTON
WENT ON INTO DARKNESS,
<F 145>WEIGHT OF ICE ON THE FUSELAGE
SAW NAUGHT ABOVE BUT CLOSE DARK,
BORNE INTO THE TEMPEST, BLACK CLOUD WRAPPING THEIR WINGS.
THE NIGHT HOLLOW BENEATH THEM
AND FELL WITH DAWN INTO OCEAN
<D 140> BUT FOR THE NIGHT SAW NEITHER SKY NOR OCEAN
AND FOUND SHIP...WHY?...HOW?...BY THE AZORES.
AND SHE WAS A BATHING BEAUTY, MISS ARKANSAS OR TEXAS
AND THE MAN (OF COURSE) QUASI ANONYMOUS
NEITHER A PLACARD FOR NON-SMOKERS OR NON-ALCOHOL
NOR FOR THE CODE OF PEORIA.
<F 146><D 141><C 29>
PEARL, GREAT SPHERE, AND HOLLOW,
MIST OVER LAKE, FULL OF SUNLIGHT,
PERNELLA  CONCUBINA
THE SLEEVE GREEN AND SHOT GOLD OVER HER HAND
WISHING HER SON TO INHERIT
EXPECTING THE HEIR AINE BE KILLED IN BATTLE
HE BEING COURAGEOUS, POISONED HIS BROTHER PUINE
LAYING BLAME ON SIENA
AND THIS SHE DID BY A PAGE
BRINGING WAR ONCE MORE ON PITIGLIANO
AND THE PAGE REPENTED AND TOLD THIS
TO NICOLO (AINE) PITIGLIANO
WHO WON BACK THAT ROCK FROM HIS FATHER
"STILL DOTING ON PERNELLA HIS CONCUBINE".
THE SAND THAT NIGHT LIKE A SEAL'S BACK
GLOSSY BENEATH THE LANTHORNS.
FROM THE VIA SACRA
(FLEEING WHAT BAND OF TRITONS)
UP TO THE OPEN AIR
OVER THAT MOUND OF THE HIPPODROME:
LIBERANS ET VINCULO AB OMNI LIBERATOS
AS WHO WITH FOUR HANDS AT THE CROSS ROADS
BY KING'S HAND OR SACERDOS'
ARE GIVEN THEIR FREEDOM
-SAVE WHO WERE AT CASTRA SAN ZENO...
CUNIZZA FOR GOD'S LOVE, FOR REMITTING THE SOUL OF HER FATHER
-MAY HELL TAKE THE TRAITORS OF ZENO.
AND FIFTH BEGAT HE ALBERIC
AND SIXTH THE LADY CUNIZZA.
<F 147><D 142>IN THE HOUSE OF THE CAVALCANTI
ANNO 1265:
FREE GO THEY ALL AS BY FULL MANUMISSION
ALL SERFS OF ECCELIN MY FATHER DA ROMANO
SAVE THOSE WHO WERE WITH ALBERIC AT CASTRA SAN ZENO
AND LET THEM GO ALSO
THE DEVILS OF HELL IN THEIR BODY.
AND SIXTH THE LADY CUNIZZA
THAT WAS FIRST GIVEN RICHARD ST BONIFACE
AND SORDELLO SUBTRACTED HER FROM THAT HUSBAND
AND LAY WITH HER IN TARVISO
TILL HE WAS DRIVEN OUT OF TARVISO
AND SHE LEFT WITH A SOLDIER NAMED BONIUS
NIMIUM AMORATA IN EUM
AND WENT FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER
"THE LIGHT OF THIS STAR O'ERCAME ME"
GREATLY ENJOYING HERSELF
AND RUNNING UP THE MOST AWFUL BILLS.
AND THIS BONIUS WAS KILLED ON A SUNDAY
AND SHE HAD THEN A LORD FROM BRAGANZA
AND LATER A HOUSE IN VERONA.
AND HE LOOKED FROM THE PLANKS TO HEAVEN,
SAID JUVENTUS: "IMMORTAL...
HE SAID: "TEN THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE NOW...
OR HE SAID: "PASSING INTO THE POINT OF THE CONE
YOU BEGIN BY MAKING THE REPLICA."
THUS LUSTY JUVENTUS, IN SEPTEMBER,
IN COOL AIR, UNDER SKY,
BEFORE THE RESIDENCE OF THE FUNERAL DIRECTOR
WHOSE DAUGHTERS' CONDUCT CAUSED COMMENT.
BUT THE OLD MAN DID NOT KNOW HOW HE FELT
NOR CD REMEMBER WHAT PROMPTED THE UTTERANCE.
<F 148>HE SAID: "WHAT I KNOW, I HAVE KNOWN,
"HOW CAN THE KNOWING CEASE KNOWING?"
<D 143>BY THE LAWN OF THE SENIOR ELDER
HE CONTINUES HIS AMBULATION:
"MATTER IS THE LIGHTEST OF ALL THINGS,
"CHAFF, ROLLED INTO BALLS, TOSSED, WHIRLED IN THE AETHER,
"UNDOUBTEDLY CRUSHED BY THE WEIGHT,
"LIGHT ALSO PROCEEDS FROM THE EYE;
"IN THE GLOBE OVER MY HEAD
"TWENTY FEET IN DIAMETER, THIRTY FEET IN DIAMETER
"GLASSY, THE GLARING SURFACE-
"THERE ARE MANY REFLECTIONS
"SO THAT ONE MAY WATCH THEM TURNING AND MOVING
"WITH HEADS DOWN NOW, AND NOW UP."
HE WENT ON TOWARD THE AMATEUR STUDENT OF MINERALS
THAT LATER WENT BANKRUPT;
HE WENT ON PAST THE HOUSE OF THE LOCAL FUNNY MAN,
JO TYSON THAT HAD A CAMERA. HIS DAUGHTER WAS BOW-LEGGED
AND MARRIED THE ASSEMBLY-MAN'S SON.
O-HON DIT QUE-KE FOIS AU VI'-A-GE...
PAST THE HOUSE OF THE THREE RETIRED CLERGYMEN
WHO WERE TOO CULTURED TO KEEP THEIR JOBS.
LANGUOR HAS CRIED UNTO LANGUOR
ABOUT THE MARSHMALLOW-ROAST
(LET US SPEAK OF THE OSMOSIS OF PERSONS)
THE WAIL OF THE PHONOGRAPH HAS PENETRATED THEIR MARROW
(LET US...
THE WAIL OF THE PORNOGRAPH...)
THE CICADAS CONTINUE UNINTERRUPTED.
WITH A VAIN EMPTINESS THE VIRGINS RETURN TO THEIR HOMES
WITH A VAIN EXASPERATION
THE EPHEBE HAD GONE BACK TO HIS DWELLING,
THE DJASSBAN HAS HAMMERED AND HAMMERED,
<F 149>THE GENTLEMAN OF FIFTY HAS REFLECTED
THAT IT IS PERHAPS JUST AS WELL.
LET THINGS REMAIN AS THEY ARE.
<D 144>THE MYTHOLOGICAL EXTERIOR LIES ON THE MOSS IN THE FOREST
AND QUESTIONS HIM ABOUT DARWIN.
AND WITH A BURNING FIRE OF PHANTASY
HE REPLIES WITH "DEH! NUVOLETTA..."
SO THAT SHE WOULD REGRET HIS DEPARTURE.
DRIFT OF WEED IN THE BAY:
SHE SEEKING A GUIDE, A MENTOR,
HE ASPIRES TO A CAREER WITH HONOUR
TO STEP IN THE TRACKS OF HIS ELDERS;
A GREATER INCOMPREHENSION?
THERE IS NO GREATER INCOMPREHENSION
THAN BETWEEN THE YOUNG AND THE YOUNG.
THE YOUNG SEEK COMPREHENSION;
THE MIDDLEAGED TO FULFILL THEIR DESIRE.
SEA WEED DRIED NOW, AND NOW FLOATED,
MIND DRIFTS, WEED, SLOW YOUTH, DRIFTS,
STRETCHED ON THE ROCK, BLEACHED AND NOW FLOATED;
WEIN, WEIB, =*TAN =*AOIDAN
CHIEFEST OF THESE THE SECOND, THE FEMALE
IS AN ELEMENT, THE FEMALE
IS A CHAOS
AN OCTOPUS
A BIOLOGICAL PROCESS
AND WE SEEK TO FULFILL...
=*TAN =*AOIDAN, OUR DESIRE, DRIFT...
AILAS E QUE'M FAU MIEY HUELH
QUAR NOI VEZON SO QU'IEU VUELH.
OUR MULBERRY LEAF, WOMAN, =*TAN =*AOIDAN,
"NEL VENTRE TUO, O NELLA MENTE MIA,
"YES, MILADY, PRECISELY, IF YOU WD
HAVE ANYTHING PROPERLY MADE."
<F 150>"FAZIAMO TUTTE LE DUE...
"NO, NOT IN THE PALM-ROOM." THE LADY SAYS IT IS
TOO COLD IN THE PALM-ROOM. DES VALEURS,
<D 145>NOM DE DIEU, ET
ENCORE DES VALEURS.
SHE IS SUBMARINE, SHE IS AN OCTOPUS, SHE IS
A BIOLOGICAL PROCESS,
SO ARNAUT TURNED THERE
ABOVE HIM THE WAVE PATTERN CUT IN THE STONE
SPIRE-TOP ALEVEL THE WELL-CURB
AND THE TOWER WITH CUT STONE ABOVE THAT, SAYING:
"I AM AFRAID OF THE LIFE AFTER DEATH."
AND AFTER A PAUSE:
"NOW, AT LAST, I HAVE SHOCKED HIM."
AND ANOTHER DAY OR EVENING TOWARD SUNDOWN BY THE ARENA
(LES GRADINS)
A LITTLE LACE AT THE WRIST
AND NOT VERY CLEAN LACE EITHER...
AND I, "BUT THIS BEATS ME,
"BEATS ME, I MEAN THAT I DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT;
"THIS LOVE OF DEATH THAT IS IN THEM."
LET US CONSIDER THE OSMOSIS OF PERSONS
NONDUM ORTO JUBARE;
THE TOWER, IVORY, THE CLEAR SKY
IVORY RIGID IN SUNLIGHT
AND THE PALE CLEAR OF THE HEAVEN
PHOIBOS OF NARROW THIGHS,
THE CUT COOL OF THE AIR,
BLOSSOM CUT ON THE WIND, BY HELIOS
LORD OF THE LIGHT'S EDGE, AND APRIL
BLOWN ROUND THE FEET OF THE GOD,
BEAUTY ON AN ASS-CART
SITTING ON FIVE SACKS OF LAUNDRY
<F 151>THAT WD HAVE BEEN THE ROAD BY PERUGIA
THAT LEADS OUT TO SAN PIERO. EYES BROWN TOPAZ,
BROOKWATER OVER BROWN SAND,
THE WHITE HOUNDS ON THE SLOPE,
<D 146>GLIDE OF WATER, LIGHTS AND THE PRORE,
SILVER BEAKS OUT OF NIGHT,
STONE, BOUGH OVER BOUGH,
LAMPS FLUID IN WATER,
PINE BY THE BLACK TRUNK OF ITS SHADOW
AND ON HILL BLACK TRUNKS OF THE SHADOW
THE TREES MELTED IN AIR.
<F 152><D 147><C 30>
COMPLEYNT, COMPLEYNT I HEARDE UPON A DAY,
ARTEMIS SINGING, ARTEMIS, ARTEMIS
AGAYNST PITY LIFTED HER WAIL:
PITY CAUSETH THE FORESTS TO FAIL,
PITY SLAYETH MY NYMPHS,
PITY SPARETH SO MANY AN EVIL THING.
PITY BEFOULETH APRIL,
PITY IS THE ROOT AND THE SPRING.
NOW IF NO FAYRE CREATURE FOLLOWETH ME
IT IS ON ACCOUNT OF PITY,
IT IS ON ACCOUNT THAT PITY FORBIDETH THEM SLAYE.
ALL THINGS ARE MADE FOUL IN THIS SEASON,
THIS IS THE REASON, NONE MAY SEEK PURITY
HAVING FOR FOULNESS PITY
AND THINGS GROWNE AWRY;
NO MORE DO MY SHAFTES FLY
TO SLAY. NOTHING IS NOW CLEAN SLAYNE
BUT ROTTETH AWAY.
IN PAPHOS, ON A DAY
I ALSO HEARD:
...GOETH NOT WITH YOUNG MARS TO PLAYE
BUT SHE HATH PITY ON A DODDERING FOOL,
SHE TENDETH HIS FYRE,
SHE KEEPETH HIS EMBERS WARM.
TIME IS THE EVIL. EVIL.
A DAY, AND A DAY
WALKED THE YOUNG PEDRO BAFFLED,
A DAY AND A DAY
<D 148>AFTER IGNEZ WAS MURDERED.
<F 153>CAME THE LORDS IN LISBOA
A DAY, AND A DAY
IN HOMAGE. SEATED THERE
DEAD EYES,
DEAD HAIR UNDER THE CROWN,
THE KING STILL YOUNG THERE BESIDE HER.
CAME MADAME =HULE
CLOTHED WITH THE LIGHT OF THE ALTAR
AND WITH THE PRICE OF THE CANDLES.
"HONOUR? BALLS FOR YR HONOUR!
TAKE TWO MILLION AND SWALLOW IT."
IS COME MESSIRE ALFONSO
AND IS DEPARTED BY BOAT FOR FERRARA
AND HAS PASSED HERE WITHOUT SAYING "O".
WHENCE HAVE WE CARVED IT IN METAL
HERE WORKING IN CAESAR'S FANE:
TO THE PRINCE CAESARE BORGIA
DUKE OF VALENT AND AEMELIA
...AND HERE HAVE I BROUGHT CUTTERS OF LETTERS
AND PRINTERS NOT VILE AND VULGAR
(IN FANO CAESARIS)
NOTABLE AND SUFFICIENT COMPOSITORS
AND A DIE-CUTTER FOR GREEK FONTS AND HEBREW
NAMED MESSIRE FRANCESCO DA BOLOGNA
NOT ONLY FOR THE USUAL TYPES BUT HE HATH EXCOGITATED
A NEW FORM CALLED CURSIVE OR CHANCELLRY LETTERS
NOR WAS IT ALDOUS NOR ANY OTHER BUT IT WAS
THIS MESSIRE FRANCESCO WHO HATH CUT ALL ALDOUS HIS LETTERS
WITH SUCH GRACE AND CHARM AS IS KNOWN
HIERONYMOUS SONCINUS 7TH JULY 1503.
AND AS FOR TEXT WE HAVE TAKEN IT
<F 154><D 149>FROM THAT OF MESSIRE LAURENTIUS
AND FROM A CODEX ONCE OF THE LORDS MALATESTA...
AND IN AUGUST THAT YEAR DIED POPE ALESSANDRO BORGIA,
IL PAPA MORI.
EXPLICIT CANTO
XXX

<G 02>
<C 31>
<F 157><D 153>TEMPUS LOQUENDI.
TEMPUS TACENDI.
SAID MR JEFFERSON: IT WD HAVE GIVEN US
TIME.
"MODERN DRESS FOR YOUR STATUE.....
"I REMEMBER HAVING WRITTEN YOU WHILE CONGRESS SAT AT ANNAPOLIS,
"ON WATER COMMUNICATION BETWEEN OURS AND THE WESTERN COUNTRY,
"PARTICULARLY THE INFORMATION....OF THE PLAIN BETWEEN
"BIG BEAVER AND CAYOHOGA, WHICH MADE ME HOPE THAT A CANAL
......NAVIGATION OF LAKE ERIE AND THE OHIO. YOU MUST HAVE HAD
'OCCASION OF GETTING BETTER INFORMATION ON THIS SUBJECT
"AND IF YOU HAVE YOU WD. OBLIGE ME
"IF PRACTICABLE, AS A VERY IMPORTANT WORK."
"BY A COMMUNICATION OF IT. I CONSIDER THIS CANAL,
T. J. TO GENERAL WASHINGTON, 1787
.....NO SLAVES NORTH OF MARYLAND DISTRICT....
.....FLOWER FOUND IN CONNECTICUT THAT VEGETATES WHEN SUSPENDED
IN AIR...
...SCREW MORE EFFECTUAL IF PLACED BELOW SURFACE OF WATER.
SUSPECT THAT A COUNTRYMAN OF OURS, MR BUSHNELL OF CONNECTICUT
IS ENTITLED TO THE MERIT OF PRIOR DISCOVERY.
EXCELLENCY MR ADAMS. EXCELLENCY DR. FRANKLIN.
AND THUS MR JEFFERSON (PRESIDENT) TO TOM PAINE:
"YOU EXPRESSED A WISH TO GET A PASSAGE TO THIS COUNTRY
IN A PUBLIC VESSAL. MR. DAWSON IS CHARGED WITH ORDERS
TO THE CAPTAIN OF THE "MARYLAND" TO RECEIVE AND ACCOMMODATE YOU
WITH PASSAGE BACK, IF YOU CAN DEPART ON SO SHORT A WARNING....
<D 154>IN HOPES YOU WILL FIND US RETURNED TO SENTIMENTS
WORTHY OF FORMER TIME.....IN THESE YOU HAVE LABOURED AS
<F 158>MUCH AS ANY MAN LIVING. THAT YOU MAY LONG LIVE TO
CONTINUE YOUR LABOURS AND TO REAP THEIR FITTING REWARD....
ASSURANCES OF MY HIGH ESTEEM AND ATTACHMENT."
"ENGLISH PAPERS...THEIR LIES.....
IN A FEW YEARS...NO SLAVES NORTHWARD OF MARYLAND...
"THEIR TOBACCO, 9 MILLIONS, DELIVERED IN PORT OF FRANCE;
6 MILLIONS TO MANUFACTURE
ON WHICH THE KING TAKES THIRTY MILLION
THAT COST 25 ODD TO COLLECT
SO THAT IN ALL IT COSTS 72 MILLION LIVRES TO THE
CONSUMER.....
PERSUADED (I AM) IN THIS BRANCH OF THE REVENUE
THE COLLECTION ABSORBS TOO MUCH.
(FROM PARIS,1787)
.....FOR OUR MODEL, THE MAISON QUAREE OF NISMES.....
WITH RESPECT TO HIS MOTIVES (MADISON WRITING) I ACKNOWLEDGED
I HAD BEEN MUCH PUZZLED TO DIVINE ANY NATURAL ONE
WITHOUT LOOKING DEEPER INTO HUMAN NATURE
THAN I WAS WILLING TO DO.
(IN RE\MR ROBERT SMITH)
SO CRITICAL THE STATE OF THAT COUNTRY
MONEYED MEN I IMAGINE ARE GLAD TO PLACE THEIR MONEY ABROAD.
MR ADAMS COULD BORROW THERE FOR US.
THIS COUNTRY IS REALLY SUPPOSED TO BE ON THE EVE OF XTZBK49HT
(PARTS OF THIS LETTER IN CYPHER)
JEFFERSON, FROM PARIS, TO MADISON, AUG. 2, 1787
I HEAR THAT MR BEAUMARCHAIS MEANS TO MAKE HIMSELF HEARD...
...TURN THROUGH THE POTOMAC...COMMERCE OF LAKE ERIE...
I CAN FURTHER SAY WITH SAFETY THERE IS NOT A CROWNED HEAD
<F 159><D 155>IN EUROPE WHOSE TALENTS OR MERITS WOULD ENTITLE HIM
TO BE ELECTED A VESTRYMAN BY ANY AMERICAN PARISH.
T. J. TO GENERAL WASHINGTON, MAY 2. '88.
"WHEN LAFAYETTE HARANGUED YOU AND ME AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
"THROUGH A WHOLE EVENING IN YOUR HOTEL IN THE CUL DE SAC....
"....SILENT AS YOU WERE. I WAS, IN PLAIN TRUTH AS ASTONISHED
"AT THE GROSSNESS OF HIS IGNORANCE OF GOVERNMENT AND HISTORY,
"AS I HAD BEEN FOR YEARS BEFORE AT THAT OF TURGOT,
"LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, OF CONDORCET AND OF FRANKLIN."
TO MR JEFFERSON, MR JOHN ADAMS.
...CARE OF THE LETTERS NOW ENCLOSED. MOST OF THEM ARE
OF A COMPLEXION NOT PROPER FOR THE EYE OF THE POLICE.
FROM MONTICELLO, APRIL 16TH. 1811
TO MR BARLOW DEPARTING FOR PARIS.
...INDEBTED TO NOBODY FOR MORE CORDIAL AID THAN TO GALLATIN...
"ADAIR TOO HAD HIS KINK. HE BELIEVED ALL THE INDIANS OF
"AMERICA TO BE DESCENDED FROM JEWS."
MR JEFFERSON TO MR ADAMS.
"BUT OBSERVE THAT THE PUBLIC WERE AT THE SAME TIME PAYING
ON IT AN INTEREST OF EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT
(FOUR MILLION DOLLARS). WHERE THEN IS THE GAIN TO EITHER
PARTY WHICH MAKES IT A PUBLIC BLESSING?"
TO MR EPPES, 1813
"MAN, A RATIONAL CREATURE!" SAID FRANKLIN.
"COME, LET US SUPPOSE A RATIONAL MAN.
"STRIP HIM OF ALL HIS APPETITES, ESPECIALLY HIS HUNGER AND THIRST.
"HE IS IN HIS CHAMBER, ENGAGED IN MAKING EXPERIMENTS,
"OR IN PURSUING SOME PROBLEM.
"AT THIS MOMENT A SERVANT KNOCKS. "SIR,
<F 160>" "DINNER IS ON THE TABLE."
" "HAM AND CHICKENS?" "HAM!"
<D 156>" "AND MUST I BREAK THE CHAIN ON MY THOUGHTS TO
" "GO DOWN AND GNAW A MORSEL OF DAMNED HOG'S ARSE?
" "PUT ASIDE YOUR HAM; I WILL DINE TOMORROW;" "
TAKE AWAY APPETITE, AND THE PRESENT GENERATION WOULD NOT
LIVE A MONTH, AND NO FUTURE GENERATION WOULD EXIST;
AND THUS THE EXALTED DIGNITY OF HUMAN NATURE ETC......
MR ADAMS TO MR JEFFERSON, 15 NOV. 1813.
"..WISH THAT I CD. SUBJOIN GOSINDI'S SYNTAGMA
"OF THE DOCTRINES OF EPICURUS.
(MR ADAMS.)
"..THIS WAS THE STATE OF THINGS IN 1785..."
(MR JEFFERSON.)
..MET BY AGREEMENT, ABOUT THE CLOSE OF THE SESSION-
PATRICK HENRY, FRANK LEE AND YOUR FATHER,
HENRY LEE AND MYSELF....TO CONSULT...MEASURES
CIRCUMSTANCES OF TIMES SEEMED TO CALL FOR...
PRODUCE SOME CHANNEL OF CORRESPONDENCE...THIS WAS IN '73.
JEFFERSON TO D. CARR
.. CHURCH OF ST. PETER.....HUMAN REASON, HUMAN CONSCIENCE,
THOUGH I BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE SUCH THINGS....
MR ADAMS.
A TIELS LEIS....EN ANCIEN SCRIPTURE, AND THIS
THEY HAVE TRANSLATED HOLY SCRIPTURE...
MR JEFFERSON
AND THEY CONTINUE THIS ERROR.
"BONAPARTE...KNOWING NOTHING OF COMMERCE....
...OR PAUPERS, WHO ARE ABOUT ONE FIFTH OF THE WHOLE...
(ON THE STATE OF ENGLAND IN 1814).
HIC EXPLICIT CANTUS
<C 32>
<F 161><D 157>THE REVOLUTION," SAID MR ADAMS,
"TOOK PLACE IN THE MINDS OF THE PEOPLE."
.........WITH SIXTY CANNON, TEN TONS OF POWDER,
10,000 MUSKETS AND BAYONETS, LEAD, BED-COVERS,
UNIFORMS AND A COLONEL, TO AFFIRM THEIR NEUTRALITY...THE AMPHITRITE
DEPARTED THE TENTH OF MARCH TO HER FIRST DESTINATION...
AND A FOURTH WHICH ORDERS THE LIQUIDATION
AND PAYMENT OF WHAT REMAINS DUE TO THE MERCHANTS OF MOREA
ET DES DETTES DES DITES ECHELLES AS YOU MAY
READ DANS LES ARRETS PRINCIPAUX DU CONSEIL, DECEMBRE,'SOIXANTE SIX.
ARMES ET AUTRES USTENCILES QUI NE PEUVENT ETRE QUE POUR
LE COMPTE DU GOUVERNEMENT...MONSIEUR SAINT-LIBIN
TRES AU FAIT DES LANGUES DU PAYS, CONNU DES NABABS
ESPECIALLY HYDER ALI
...POUR L'EXCITER, ET A TAILLER DES CROUPIERES TO THE ANGLOIS...
PEU DELICAT SUR LES MOYENS....TO BREAK UP OUR BONDS
WITH THE PORTAGOOSE....AND AS FOR THE AMPHITRITE, M'LORRD
SHE FITS UNDER BEAUMARCHAIS' SUPERVISION, HER CARGO
MAINLY MUNITIONS.
WITNESSES WILL SOME OF THEM PROVE THAT HE (BURR) HAD
NO INTEREST IN THE OHIO CANAL....
CORAM NON JUDICE
AS USUAL WHERE AN OPINION IS TO BE SUPPORTED RIGHT OR WRONG,
DWELLS ON SMALLER OBJECTIONS AND PASSES OVER THE SOLID.
ORYZIA MUTICA, THE UPLAND OR MOUNTAIN RICE...
SEED OF PERENNIAL SUCCORY....VERY FAMOUS TURNIP OF SWEDEN....
I PRAY YOU PLACE ME RECTUS IN CURIA IN THIS BUSINESS
<F 162>WITH THE EMPEROR (ALEXANDER) AND TO ASSURE HIM
<D 158>THAT I CARRY INTO MY RETIREMENT THE HIGHEST VENERATION...FOR HIS
DISPOSITIONS TO BETTER AT LEAST IN SOME DEGREE THE
CONDITION OF MAN OPPRESSED....
IF YOU RETURN TO US, TO BRING A COUPLE
OF SHEPHERD DOGS, TRUE-BRED.....MUCH DESIRED THAT WAR BE
AVOIDED.
TYPE-FOUNDING TO WHICH ANTIMONY IS ESSENTIAL, I THEREFORE PLACE
MR RONALDSON IN YOUR HANDS.
...BE AVOIDED, IF CIRCUMSTANCES WILL ADMIT...
FOR CIVILIZING THE INDIANS, GREAT IMPROVEMENT ON THE
ANCIENT INEFFECTUAL...WHICH BEGAN WITH RELIGIOUS MINISTRATIONS.
THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL. FIRST, TO RAISE CATTLE
WHEREBY TO AQUIRE A SENSE OF THE VALUE OF PROPERTY...
ARITHMETIC TO COMPUTE THAT VALUE, THIRDLY WRITING, TO
KEEP ACCOUNTS, AND HERE THEY BEGIN TO LABOUR,
ENCLOSE FARMS, AND THE WOMEN TO WEAVE AND SPIN...
FOURTH TO READ AESOP'S FABLES, WHICH ARE THEIR FIRST DELIGHT
ALONG WITH ROBINSON CRUSOE, CREEKS, CHEROKEES, THE LATTER
NOW INSTITUTING A GOVERNMENT.
...AND AS MANY, JUST AS RESPECTABLE, SWORE TO THE CONTRARY
ALL OF WHOM PRESENT AT THE SERMON....
...DEEM IT NECESSARY TO KEEP THEM DOWN BY HARD LABOUR, POVERTY,
IGNORANCE,
AND TO TAKE FROM THEM, AS FROM BEES, SO MUCH OF THEIR EARNINGS
AS THAT UNREMITTING LABOUR SHALL BE NECESSARY TO OBTAIN A
SUFFICIENT SURPLUS
BARELY TO SUSTAIN A SCANT LIFE. AND THESE EARNINGS
THEY APPLY TO MAINTAIN THEIR PRIVILEGED ORDERS IN  SPLENDOUR AND
IDLENESS
TO FASCINATE THE EYES OF THE PEOPLE...AS TO AN ORDER OF SUPERIOR BEINGS...
JUNE 12, '23 TO JUDGE JOHNSON..
<F 163>WHETHER IN A STYE, STABLE OR STATE-ROOM,
LET EVERYTHING BEND BEFORE THEM AND BANISH WHATEVER MIGHT
LEAD THEM TO THINK...AND THUS ARE BECOME AS MERE ANIMALS...
<D 159>CANNIBALS OF EUROPE ARE EATING ONE ANOTHER AGAIN....
OUT OF HIS CASE, TO SAY WHAT THE LAW IN A MOOT CASE WOULD BE,
JUDGE MARSHALL IS IRREGULAR....
...ANIMAL IS ENTIRELY WITHOUT THOUGHT
IF DEPRIVED OF THAT ORGAN...
MR. ADAMS TO MR. JEFFERSON...
..WHETHER IN A STYE, A STABLE OR IN A STATE-ROOM....
LOUIS SIXTEENTH WAS A FOOL
THE KING OF SPAIN WAS A FOOL, THE KING OF NAPLES A FOOL,
THEY DESPATCHED TWO COURRIERS WEEKLY TO TELL EACH OTHER, OVER A
THOUSAND MILES
WHAT THEY HAD KILLED...THE KING OF SARDINIA
WAS, LIKE ALL THE BOURBONS, A FOOL, THE
PORTUGUESE QUEEN A BRAGANZA AND THEREFORE BY NATURE AN IDIOT,
THE SUCCESSOR TO FREDERIC OF PRUSSIA, A MERE HOG
IN BODY AND MIND, GUSTAVUS AND JOSEPH OF AUSTRIA
WERE AS YOU KNOW REALLY CRAZY, AND GEORGE 3RD WAS IN
A STRAIGHT WAISTCOAT,
THERE REMAINED NONE BUT OLD CATHERINE, TOO LATELY PICKED
UP.........
BY WHICH WE ARE IN THE CONSTANT PRACTICE OF CHANGING THE
CHARACTERS AND PROPENSITIES OF THE ANIMALS WE RAISE FOR
OUR PURPOSES....
A GUISA DE LEON
THE CANNIBALS OF EUROPE ARE EATING ONE ANOTHER AGAIN
QUANDO SI POSA.
<C 33>
<F 164><D 160>QUINCY, NOV. 13, 1815
IS THAT DESPOTISM
OR ABSOLUTE POWER ...UNLIMITED SOVEREIGNTY,
IS THE SAME IN A MAJORITY OF A POPULAR ASSEMBLY,
AN ARISTOCRATICAL COUNCIL, AN OLIGARCHICAL JUNTO,
AND A SINGLE EMPEROR, EQUALLY ARBITRARY, BLOODY,
AND IN EVERY RESPECT DIABOLICAL. WHEREVER IT HAS RESIDED
HAS NEVER FAILED TO DESTROY ALL RECORDS, MEMORIALS,
ALL HISTORIES WHICH IT DID NOT LIKE, AND TO CORRUPT
THOSE IT WAS CUNNING ENOUGH TO PRESERVE....
IF THE TROOPS CD. BE FED UPON LONG LETTERS, I BELIEVE THE GENT. AT THE
HEAD OF THAT DEPT. (IN THIS COUNTRY) WD. BE THE BEST COM-
MISSARY ON EARTH. BUT TILL I SEE HIM DETERMINED TO ACT, NOT TO
WRITE; TO SACRIFICE HIS DOMESTIC EASE TO THE DUTIES OF HIS AP-
POINTMENT, AND APPLY THE RESOURCES OF THIS COUNTRY, WHERE-
SOEVER THEY ARE TO BE HAD, I MUST ENTERTAIN A DIFFERENT OPINION
OF HIM.
T.J. TO P. HENRY, MARCH '79.
.....OVER FIVE AND TWENTY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, WHEN FOUR AND
TWENTY MILLIONS AND FIVE HUNDRED THOUDAND OF THEM CAN
NEITHER READ NOR WRITE...AS IMPRACTICABLE AS IT WD. BE OVER
ELEPHANNTS IN THE MENAGERIE AT VERSAILLES.
NAPOLEON HAS INVENTED A WORD, IDEOLOGY, WHICH EXPRESSES MY
OPINION.
.....HOW FAR ADVANCED WE WERE IN THE SCIENCE OF ARISTOCRACY SINCE
THE STALLIONS OF THEOGNIS...HAVE NOT CHANCELLOR LIVINGSTON
AND MAJOR GENERAL HUMPHRIES INTRODUCED AN ARISTOCRACY OF
<F 165>MERINO SHEEP...ENTAILED UPON US AND FOREVER....OF LAND
JOBBERS AND STOCK JOBBERS TO ENDLESS GENERATIONS.
<D 161>AGATHOS, ETERNAL AND SELF-EXISTENT
J. A. 1815.
..MULTIPLICATION OF OFFICERS AND SALARIES MERELY TO MAKE PAR-
TISANS....
THAT THIS POSSESSOR BE KALOS KAGATHOS, THEOCRAT, BARON, BOJAR OR RICH
MAN MATTERS VERY LITTLE.
..DIFFERENCE ASCRIBED TO OUR SUPERIORITY IN TAKING AIM WHEN WE FIRE..
[PIETRO LEOPOLDO]"I SPEAK OF THE GRAND DUKE OF TUSCANY (T. J. TO J.A. '77) SOME-
WHAT AVARICIOUS IN HIS NATURE...CROWNS LYING DEAD IN HIS
COFFERS...APPLICATION PERHAPS FROM DR. FRANKLIN WD. BE
PRUDENT TO SOUND WELL BEFORE HAND...."
CONDORCET HAS LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG. HE HAS MADE PRECIOUS
CONFESSIONS. I REGRET THAT I HAVE ONLY AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION
OF HIS "OUTLINE OF THE HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF THE
HUMAN MIND". BUT IN PAGES 247, 248 AND 249 YOU WILL FIND IT
FRANKLY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE PHILOSOPHERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY ADOPTED ALL THE ARTS OF THE PHARISEES.
....WAS IN THE MINDS OF THE PEOPLE, AND THIS WAS EFFECTED FROM
1760 TO 1775 IN THE COURSE OF FIFTEEN YEARS..BEFORE LEXING-
TON.....
REMOVAL WD. BE NECESSARY TO MORE ABLE COMMISSARIES RATHER THAN
TO A MORE PLENTIFUL COUNTRY. (T.J. ON PROVISIONS.)
BONAPARTE, POOR DEVIL! WHAT HAS AND WHAT WILL BECOME OF HIM
....CROMWELL, WAT TYLER, JACK CADE, I.E. TO A BAD END. AND
<F 166>WELLINGTON, ENVIED, DESPISED BY ALL THE BARONS, EARLS, VIS-
COUNTS, AS AN UPSTART, A PARVENU ELATED OVER THEIR HEADS.
(MR ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON.)
LITTERAE NIHIL SANANTES....WHETHER SERPENTS' TEETH SPRANG UP
MEN..CANNOT APPEASE MY MELANCHOLY COMMISERATION FOR OUR
<D 162>ARMIES IN THIS FURIOUS SNOW STORM (QUINCY, NOVEMBER 15TH.)
BUT TWO THINGS I DID LEARN FROM HIM (PLATO): THAT FRANKLIN'S IDEA
OF EXEMPTING HUSBANDMEN AND MARINERS ETC. FROM THE
DEPREDATIONS OF WAR WAS BORROWED FROM HIM
AND (SECONDLY) THAT SNEEZING IS A CURE FOR THE HICKUPS.
TO KEEP IN COUNTENANCE THE FUNDING AND BANKING SYSTEM...
ORATIONS, PRAYERS, SERMONS...NOT THAT THEY LOVED GENERAL
WASHINGTON, BUT MERELY TO DISGRACE THE OLD WHIGS...
$75,000 EQUAL TO 1,000 SPECIE. (FEB. 1781) SETTLER WILL BE WORTH TO
THE PUBLIC 20 TIMES AS MUCH EVERY YEAR, AS IN OUR OLD PLAN HE
WOULD HAVE PAID IN A SINGLE PAYMENT.
LIMITS OF HIS INDIVIDUALITY (CANCELS) AND DEVELOPS HIS POWER AS A
SPECIE. (DAS CAPITAL) DENOUNCED IN 1842 STILL CONTINUE (TODAY
1864) REPORT OF '42 WAS MERELY CHUCKED INTO THE ARCHIVES AND
REMAINED THERE WHILE THESE BOYS WERE RUINED AND BECAME
FATHERS OF THIS GENERATION...FOR WORKSHOPS REMAINED A DEAD
LETTER DOWN TO 1871 WHEN WAS TAKEN FROM CONTROL OF MUNI-
CIPAL...AND PLACED IN HANDS OF THE FACTORY INSPECTORS, TO WHOSE
BODY THEY ADDED EIGHT (8) ASSISTANTS TO DEAL WITH OVER ONE
HUNDRED THOUSAND WORKSHOPS AND OVER 300 TILE YARDS.
ROGIER (MINISTER) TOLD ME THAT THIS GOVERNMENT (BRUSSELS) HAD
BEEN INTENDING TO INTRODUCE SUCH A LAW BUT FOUND ITSELF (RE\
<F 167>CHILD LABOUR NOT LIMITED TO 12 HOURS PER DAY) ALWAYS BLOCKED
BY THE JEALOUS UNEASINESS THAT MET ANY LAW TAMPERING WITH
THE ABSOLUTE FREEDOM OF LABOUR.
LORD H. DE WALDEN FROM BRUSSELS. 1862.
THEY (THE OWNERS) DENOUNCED THE INSPECTORS AS A SPECIES OF REVOLU-
TIONARY COMMISSAR PITILESSLY SACRIFICING THE UNFORTUNATE
<D 163>LABOURERS TO THEIR HUMANITARIAN FANTASIES (RE\ THE LAW OF 1848).
THAT NO FACTORY-OWNER SHALL SIT AS A MAGISTRATE IN CASES CONCERNING
THE SPINNING OF COTTON...(FACTORY ACT OF JOHN HOBHOUSE)
NOR SHALL HIS FATHER, BROTHER, OR SON.
AND IF THE SAME SMALL BOYS ARE MERELY SHIFTED FROM THE SPINNING
ROOM TO THE WEAVING ROOM OR FROM ONE FACTORY TO ANOTHER,
HOW CAN THE INSPECTOR VERIFY THE NUMBER OF HOURS THEY ARE
WORKED? (1849, LEONARD HORNER).
CASE WHERE THE JURY ('62) WAS TO DECIDE WHETHER SOOT ADULTERATED
WITH 90% OF DUST AND SAND WAS "ADULTERATED-IN-THE-LEGAL-
SENSE' SOOT OR IN THE COMMERCIAL "REAL SOOT". AS FRIENDS OF
COMMERCE DECIDED (THE JURY DECIDED) IT WAS "REAL SOOT" AGAINST
THE PLAINTIFF WITH COSTS.
AVENEMENT REVOLUTION ALLEMANDE POSAIT DES PROBLEMES NOUVEAUX,
ROUTINE COMMERCIAL ETRE REMPLACEE PAR CREATION DE DEUX
FONDS OR ET BLE DESTINES AU PROLETARIAT VICTORIEUX (ALLEMAND)
TO FUNCTIONARIES OF LEGATION IN BERLIN WHO ARE MEMBERS
OF THE PARTY (1923)
BUREAUCRAT PAISIBLE, VAN TZIN VEI SE MONTRA, TOUT A FAIT INCAP-
ABLE D'ASSUMER LE ROLE DE CHEF D'UNE REVOLUTION SANGUINAIRE.
(ACCORDING TO MONSIEUR BESSEDOVSKY)
<F 168>FOR TEN YEARS OUR (RUSSIAN) ANBASSADORS HAVE ENQUIRED WHAT
THEORIES ARE IN FASHION IN MOSCOW AND HAVE REPORTED THEIR
FACTS TO FIT. (IDEM)
BILLS DISCOUNTED AT EXORBITANT RATES, FOUR TIMES OR THREE TIMES
THOSE OFFERED BY THE MIDLAND....
150 MILLIONS
<D 164>YEARLY, MERELY IN USURIOUS DISCOUNTS...
AND HE EVEN
(TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT)
PUT INTO THE MOUTHS OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS
THE WORDS THAT THEY SHOULD SAY..."YOU HAVE GOT MORE THAN
YOUR SHARE, WE WANT YOU TO REDUCE, WE CAN NOT LET YOU HAVE
ANY MORE"
(MR BROOKHART)
PAGE 34 OF THE MINUTES THEN THEY ADOPTED ANOTHER RESOLUTION PAGE
42 COMMITTEE OF INTERSTATE COMMERCE, ASK INCREASE OF RAILROAD
RATES, SAID TO THEM: WD. SUGGEST, GENTLEMEN, YOU BE CAREFUL
NOT TO GIVE OUT ANYTHING ABOUT ANY DISCUSSION OF DISCOUNT
RATES DISTURBS EVERYBODY IMMEDIATE RUSH NEVER DISCUSS IN THE
NEWSPAPERS.....
[....... & COMPANY'S BANKER WAS IN THAT MEETING, AND NEXT DAY
HE WAS OUT AFTER A LOAN OF 60 MILLIONS, AND GOT IT. SWIFT-
AMOURSINCLAIR BUT THE COUNTRY AT LARGE DID NOT KNOW IT. THE
MEETING DECIDED WE WERE OVER INFLATED.
<C 34>
<F 169><D 165>OILS, BEASTS, GRASSES, PETRIFACTIONS, BIRDS, INCRUSTATIONS,
DR. MITCHELL'S CONVERSATION WAS VARIOUS.....
AND A BLACK MANSERVANT, TO EMBARK ON A VOYAGE TO RUSSIA...
CONSISTANT WITH THEIR PEACE AND THEIR SEPARATION FROM EUROPE....
ENGLISH PRETENTIONS, EXCLUSIVE, AUF DEM WASSER.....(A.D. 1809)
"EN FAIT DE COMMERCE CE (BONAPARTE) EST UN ETOURDI," SAID ROMAN-
ZOFF...
FREEDOM OF ADMISSION FOR SHIPS, FREEDOM OF DEPARTURE, FREEDOM OF
PURCHASE AND SALE...
ARE THE ONLY MEMBERS OF THE CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE WHO HAVE ANY
INTEREST IN LITERATURE, CONVERSATION..
WE TALKED OF SHAKESPEARE, MILTON, VIRGIL AND OF THE ABBE DELILLE....
"MONSIEUR ADAMS" SAID THE EMPOROR, "IL Y A CENT ANS QUE JE NE VOUS
AI VU."
JAN 4TH. 1811:
THE IDEA OCCURRED TO ME OF A TREATY OF COMMERCE.
TOLD HIM HIS GOVERNMENT WD. PROBABLY MAKE OUR PEACE.
"HOW?" SAID THE AMBASSADOR (FRENCH).
"BY NOT KEEPING HER WORD."
AND HE, BONAPARTE, SAID TO ROMANZOFF:
"AFTER THE PEACE OF TILSIT, WHERE CD. I GO BUT SPAIN?"
FOR HE MUST ALWAYS BE GOING.
IT IS REPORTED THAT THE TWO EMPRESSES WILL RETURN TO THE CITY
AS IS SAID TO BE CUSTOMARY
AT LEAST IN WARS UN PEU INTERESSANTES, WHICH WAR ALEXANDER
HAS DONE ALL HE CAN TO PREVENT.
FRENCH ARMY 500 THOUSAND, THE RUSSIAN 300 THOUSAND,
BUT COUNTING ON SPACE AND TIME.
<F 170><D 166>"THE FIFTH ELEMENT: MUD." SAID NAPOLEON.
A BLACK. CLAUD GABRIEL, IN THE EMPEROR'S SERVICE
WAS VERY ILL USED IN AMERICA. AUG. 14TH. TO ORANIENBAUM.
WHERE WAS LD. CATHCART (THAT IS, AT MADAME DE STAEL'S)
AND SHE WANTED TO KNOW HOW SHE CD.
RECEIVE HER INTEREST FROM UNITED STATES FUNDS
WHILE IN ENGLAND, AND A WAR ON BETWEEN THEM.
HERE THE NOBILITY HAVE GIVEN ONE MAN TO THE ARMY
FROM EVERY TEN OF THEIR PEASANTS.
QU'IL FIT LA SOTTISE DE MOSCOU
AND HE, BONAPARTE HAD TO BORROW SIX SHIRTS FROM
HIS MINISTER, AND FOUR THOUSAND LOUIS...MR GALLATIN,
MR BAYARD...ANSWER FROM ROMANZOFF...MR GALLATIN
DID NOT THINK THAT "THEY CD." (DID NOT
THINK THAT OUR ACTIONS IN FLORIDA COULD BE JUSTIFIED).
AGAINST RIGHTS ON THE MISSISSIPPI....OUR
RIGHTS TO FISH, DRY FISH AND CURE...OFF NEWFOUNDLAND.
AT THE OPERA: TAMERLAN, AND THE BALLET OF TELEMAQUE.
1815, MARCH 18TH. WAS EXPECTED (BONAPARTE)
LAST NIGHT AT AUXERRE,
NEY TO BE HERE (PARIS) TOMORROW, BECAUSE IT IS THE
KING OF ROME'S BIRTHDAY...
MARCH TWENTIETH: THE KING, BOURBON, LEFT THE TUILLERIES,
TO TAKE, THEY SAY, THE ROAD GOING TOWARD BEAUVAIS...
AT THE SEANCE ROYALE LAST THURSDAY HE HAD TALKED OF
HIS DEATH IN DEFENCE OF THE COUNTRY.
AND WHEN THEY WISH TO MAKE THE TROOPS CHEER, THE
SOLDIERS SAY: AH, VOUI, VIVE LE ROI.
NEWSPAPER THIS MORNING HEADED JOURNAL DE L'EMPIRE.
.....ARRIVED LAST EVENING WITH THE TROOPS THAT HAD BEEN SENT OUT
AGAINST HIM....
WHICH IS DUE TO BOURBON MISCONDUCT.
I TOLD HIM (SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH) THAT I
DID NOT BELIEVE DR FRANKLIN OR WASHINGTON
<F 171><D 167>HAD WANTED THE REVOLUTION....HE ASKED IF ANY LEADING MAN HAD.
I SAID, MY FATHER, PERHAPS, SAMUEL ADAMS, JAMES OTIS...
(AND ON HIS RETURN WAS RECD. BY GOUVERNEUR MORRIS AND MR ASTOR
WITH A PUBK. DINNER AT TAMMANY HALL.)
AND ONE NIGHT A DEAD FOWL WAS TIED TO MR ONIS'S BELL ROPE,
AS (IN HIS EYES) A GT. DISHONOUR TO SPAIN.
MR JEFFERSON REMARKED THAT FOND AS HE WAS OF AGRICULTURE
HE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT IT THO' MR MADISON DID.
MR MADISON WAS VERY EFFICIENT IN THE CONVENTION OF '87.
"MR BAGOT HAS BEEN A MUCH BETTER MINISTER
"THAN A MUCH ABLER MAN WD. HAVE BEEN, BETTER
"FOR THE INTEREST OF ENGLAND, BETTER
"FOR THE TRANQUILLITY OF THIS COUNTRY." DE WITT CLINTON
NEVER MORE LOW AND DISCREDITED
THAN JUST BEFORE BEING ELECTED (COMMA)
WITHOUT OPPOSITION (COMMA) GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK STATE.
"A MISANTHROPIST, AN UNSOCIAL SAVAGE" J.Q.A. ON HIMSELF.
BANKS BREAKING ALL OVER THE COUNTRY,
SOME IN A SNEAKING, SOME IN AN IMPERTINENT MANNER...
PROSTRATE EVERY PRINCIPLE OF ECONOMY.
JAN 18TH. 1820. I (J.Q.A.) CALLED AT THE PRESIDENT'S
AND THE PRESIDENT SAID: COLONEL JOHNSON
MIGHT HAVE BEEN MORE WORTHILY OCCUPIED THAN IN ACTING AS
MEDIUM FOR PROPOSAL OF
FURNISHING TEN THOUSAND STAND OF ARMS TO VENEZUELA
IN ORDER TO MAKE A JOB FOR DUANE.
A.D. 1820
.....IS THAT MORAL CONSIDERATIONS SELDOM
APPEAR TO HAVE MUCH WEIGHT IN
THE MINDS OF STATESMEN
<F 172>UNLESS CONNECTED WITH POPULAR FEELINGS....
WHILE PROFESSING NEUTRALITY
(HIMSELF TO HIRE MEN FROM OUR ARMY
<D 168>SECRETISSIME, ON THE QUIET) MONROE ADMITS IT.
NO ONE ELSE SEEMS TO MIND.
....BUT THE VICE-PRESIDENCY IS-
TO CALL THINGS BY THEIR PROPER NAMES-IN THE MARKET.
"DEFECTIVE IN ELEMENTARY KNOWLEDGE AND WITH A VERY
UNDIGESTED SYSTEM OF ETHICS, MR CLAY (HENRY)."
AFTER CONVERSING WITH MR CALHOUN, ADAMS REFLECTED:
PAPER CURRENCY...REDUCTIONS OF FICTITIOUS CAPITAL....
ACCUMULATION OF DEBTS AS LONG AS CREDIT CAN BE STRAINED....
MR NOAH HAS A PROJECT FOR COLONIZING JEWS IN THIS COUNTRY
AND WD. LIKE A JOB IN VIENNA....
XMAS, 1820, READ ALOUD AFTER BREAKFAST
FROM POPE'S "MESSIAH". NOT ONE OF MY FAMILY
EXCEPT GEORGE,
APPEARED TO TAKE THE LEAST INTEREST,
NOR IS THERE ANY ONE OF THEM
WHO HAS A RELISH FOR LITERATURE.
I HAVE BEEN A LAWYER FOR BREAD,
A STATESMAN AT THE CALL OF MY COUNTRY.
PLAIN MODEST ANS TASTELESS MONUMENTS TO GEORGE CLINTON
AND ELBRIDGE GERRY....WE HAVE NEITHER FOREFATHERS NOR POSTERITY,
A FEW YEARS WILL EFFACE THEM.
....HALF EDUCATED, LIKE ALMOST ALL EMINENT MEN IN THIS COUNTRY..
..CALHOUN THOUGHT WE OUGHT IN NO CASE
ATTEND A CONGRESS OF THE ALLIES.
ENGLAND MORE BY HER INTEREST THAN
FROM PRINCIBLE OF GENERAL LIBERTY...
WE SHD. SEPARATE FROM ALL EUROPEAN CONCERNS.
<F 173>WHO HAVE FOLLOWED (MAIDEN LADIES HAVE FOLLOWED)
GENERAL LAFAYETTE FROM EUROPE TO LISSES. OCT.2. '24.
SO THAT WHEN WASHINGTOM LEFT THE SENATE CHAMBER HE SAID HE
WD. BE DAMNED IF HE EVER WENT THERE AGAIN.
THEY (CONGRESS) WD. DO NOTHING FOR
THE EDUCATION OF BOYS BUT TO MAKE SOLDIERS, THEY
<D 169>WD. NOT ENDOW A UNIVERSITY (IN 1826).
BLACK WALNUT, ALMOND PLANTED IN SPRING
TAKE TWO MONTHS PRECISELY TO VEGETATE TO THE SURFACE.
THIS HAS BEEN (MAY 26TH) A HARASSING DAY
BUT I PERCEIVED A TAMARIND HEAVING UP THE EARTH
IN TUMBLER NUMBER 2, AND IN TUMBLER NUMBER 1, PLANTED....
INTERFERE WITH OFFICAIL DUTY? I SAID
I THOUGHT THAT IT WD. AS THE U.S. WAS INTERESTED IN
THE CANAL COMPANY BY THEIR SUBSCRIPTON OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
READING EVELYN'S "SYLVA" AND MAKING
TRIVIAL OBSERVATIONS UPON THE VEGETATION OF TREES UNTIL DARK.
SOME SENSIBILITY AT PARTING? CLAY EXPRESSED A WISH TO
HEAR FROM ME NOW AND AGAIN...
"THERE IS SOMETHING STRANGE, AND WHICH WD. NOW BE
THOUGHT VERY AFFECTED IN THE LANGUAGE OF SHAKESPEARE
WHOSE COMMON THOUGHTS ARE EXPRESSED IN UNCOMMON WORDS."
(DAIRY, MARCH 1829)
BUT OF LATE YEARS HAVE LOST RELISH FOR FICTION...
DECEMBER 13TH: MRS EATON....
AND ACCORDINGLY SHE (MRS CALHOUN) REMAINS IN THE UNTAINTED
ATMOSPHERE OF S. CAROLINA.
<F 174>ENGLISH "QUARTERLY REVIEW" FOR NOVEMBER,
TWO ARTICLES OF VILIFICATION...
CALHOUN HEADS THE MORAL PARTY, MR VAN BUREN....
PRESIDENT JACKSON'S SPITTIN' BOX AND A BROKEN PIPE ON THE FLOOR..
I CALLED UPON NICHOLAS BIDDLE...AND RECD. TWO DIVIDENDS
OF MY BANK STOCK.....AS I MIGHT BE CALLED TO TAKE PART IN
PUBLIC MEASURES.....I WISHED TO DIVEST MYSELF
OF ALL PERSONAL INTEREST.....NOV. 9. '31.
"I TOOK SEAT NUMBER 203." J.Q. ADAMS.
.....ASKED HIM (MR WEBSTER) HIS VIEWS ON
THER DIMINUTION IN THE TARIFF.
<D 170>I SAID I HAD NO DESIRE THAT THE INTERRUPTION OF SOCIAL
INTERCOURSE BETWEEN GEN JACKSON AND ME SHD.
CONTINUE (MARCH SECOND) SO FAR, SO GOOD...A
RESTITUTION OF IT CD. NOT FAIL TO EXPOSE ME TO OBLOQUY
MARCH THE THIRD: DINED WITH
MR WEBSTER UPON SALMON SENT FROM NEW YORK.
MISS MARTINEAU....AUTHOR OF CONVERSATIONS UPON POLITICAL
ECONOMY
..A YOUNG WOMAN...DEAF..AND HEARING ONLY THROUGH AN EAR-
TRUMPET
HER CONVERSATION IS LIVELY AND EASY....
THE REASONING OF MR CLAY, MR CALHOUN, MR WEBSTER
IS SHALLOW, THEY SPEAK TO POPULAR PREJUDICE.
THE OLD STATES WILL SO SACRIFICE
ALL THEIR RIGHTS TO THE PUBLIC LANDS...
L'AMI DE TOUT LE MONDE, MARTIN VAN BUREN...
MR WEBSTER, A MAN OF STRAW...IN THE YARD OF THE
PRESIDENT'S HOUSE. IT IS SAID THAT THEIR OBJECT
WAS TO REMONSTRATE AGAINST WORKING MORE
THAN TEN HOURS A DAY (APRIL 13TH. '37).
<F 175>AT THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE AND HAD WITH HIM CONVERSATION
RESPECTING THE CLIMATE, QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE WEATHER....
LEGARE WD. RETORT UPON THEM BY PREACHING TO THE LABOURERS
INSURRECTION AGAINST THE CAPITALISTS OF THE NORTH.
SENATE CHAMBER WHERE I FOUND HIM (J. CALHOUN)
DISCOURSING TO HIS OWN HONOUR AND GLORY AND
VITUPERATING MR CLAY.
.....AFTER BATTLING WITH EACH OTHER ON THE ATONEMENT,
CHRIST AND THE TRINITY....PHRENOLOGY AND ANIMAL MAGNETISM....
TIPPECANOE CLUBS..STUDENTS OF COLLEGES, SCHOOLBOYS...
THE WORLD, THE FLESH, THE DEVILS IN HELL ARE
AGAINST ANY MAN WHO NOW IN THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION
SHALL DARE TO JOIN THE STANDARD OF ALMIGHTY GOD TO
PUT DOWN THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE...WHAT CAN I
<D 171>SEVENTY-FOUR YEARS, VERGE OF MY BIRTHDAY, SHAKING HAND
...FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.....
VAN BUREN...AGAINST MORE THAN TEN HOURS A DAY...
HARRISON ON A MEAN-LOOKING HORSE...
WAS AMIABLE AND BENEVOLENT...
ADMINISTRATION WILL WADDLE ALONG...
HAEC SUNT INFAMIAE...
WRONGS OF THE CHEROKEE NATION..
THESE ARE THE SINS OF GEORGIA
THESE ARE THE LIES
THESE ARE THE INFAMIES
THESE ARE THE BROKEN CONTRACTS...
BUCHANAN THE SHADE OF A SHADE,
SCOTT A DAGUERREOTYPE OF A LIKENESS,
<F 176>MR DAN WEBSTER SPOUTING, TYLER'S NOSE OUTREACHING THE MUNY-
MENT
GUN BARRELS, BLACK WALNUT...
CITY
OF
ARRARAT
FOUNDED BY
MORDECAI NOAH
THESE WORDS I READ ON A PYRAMID, WRITTEN
IN ENGLISH AND HEBREW.
THE FIREMEN'S TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION,
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ELECTRO-MAGNETIC (MORSE)
CONSTANS PROPOSITO....
JUSTUM ET TENOCEM
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<F 177><D 172>SO THIS IS (MAY WE TAKE IT) MITTELEUROPA:
MR CORLES WAS IN COMMAND OF MACHINE GUNS
BUT WHEN THE TIME CAME TO FIRE
HE MERELY LIT A CIGARETTE AND WALKED AWAY FROM HIS
BATTERY AND SEATED HIMSELF IN A FIELD,
SO SOME SUBALTERN GAVE THE ORDER TO FIRE
AND MR CORLES DID NOT SUFFER THE EXTREME PENALTY
BECAUSE HIS FAMILY
WAS A VERY GOOD BOURGEOIS FAMILY IN VIENNA
AND HE WAS THEREFORE SENT TO A MIND SANATORIUM.
MR FIDASCZ
EXPLAINED TO ME
THE HORRORS OF PLAYING THE FIDDLE WHILE THAT ASS NATAANOVITCH,
OR SOME OTHER BETTER KNOWN-OVITCH
WHOSE NAME WE MUST RESPECT BECAUSE OF THE LAW OF LIBEL
WAS CONDUCTING
IN PARTICULAR THE MATTIAS PASSION, AFTER REQUESTING THAT
THE AUDIENCE COME IN BLACK CLOTHES;
AND THE FRAULEIN DOKTOR NEARLY WEPT OVER THE TYROL,
BEING INCAPABLE OF SEEING THAT THE CENTURY-OLD JOKE ON ITALIA
WAS NOW ON SOMEBODY ELSE
THOUGH IF THEY CD. SENTIMENTALIZE OVER THAT LOUSY OLD
BEWHISKERED SONVABITCH FRANCOIS GIUSEPPE OF WHOM NOTHING
GOOD IS RECORDED-IN FACT WITH THE MOST PATIENT RESEARCH-
NOTHING GOOD IS RECORDED......AND SO FORTH....
THIS IS MITTELEUROPA
AND TSIEVITZ
HAS EXPLAINED TO ME THE WARMTH OF AFFECTIONS,
<F 178>THE INTRAMURAL, THE ALMOST INTRAVIGINAL WARMTH OF
<D 173>HEBREW AFFECTIONS, IN THE FAMILY, AND NEARLY EVERYTHING ELSE....
POINTING OUT THAT MR LEWINESHOLME HAS SUFFERED BY DEPRIVATION
OF SAME AND EXPOSURE TO AMERICAN SNOBBERY..."I AM A PRODUCT,"
SAID THE YOUNG LADY, "OF MITTELEUROPA,"
BUT SHE SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MOBILIZE
AND THE FINE THING WAS THAT THE FAMILY DID NOT
WIRE ABOUT PAPA'S DEATH FOR FEAR OF DISTURBING THE CONCERT
WHICH MIGHT SEEM TO CONTRADICT THE GENERAL INDEFINITE WOBBLE.
IT MUST BE RATHER LIKE SOME INTERNAL ORGAN,
SOME COMMUNAL LIFE OF THE PANCREAS....SENSITIVITY
WITHOUT DIRECTION...THIS IS...
OH YES, THERE ARE NOBLES, STILL INTERESTED IN POLO
SAID THE WHORING COUNTESS OF COURSE THERE WERE NOBLES.
MISTER AXON THE USUALLY SO INTELLIGENT WAS
AFTER TWO LUNCHES WITH DORTMUND UNABLE, IN FACT HE WAS
QUITE UNABLE TO PLAY RESPECTABLE CHESS AND THE YOUNGER
ALEXI AFTER LIVING WITH MURPHY
WAS OBSERVED TO BE GRAY IN THE GILLS
THROUGH A PRESUMED LOSS OF VITALITY WE HAVE SAID THAT
STUPIDITY IS CONTAGIUUS, THE DIVORCE OF POTEMKIN
WAS IMPEDED BY THE DEATH OF HIS GRANDMOTHER
AND A RESURGENCE OF FAMILY FEELING. HIS
WIFE NOW ACTS AS HIS MODEL AND THE EGERIA
HAS, LET US SAY, MARRIED A REALTOR. HAVING RESIGNED OVERT
INTENTION TO REMARRY, THE WIDOW, ONCE THE ROSE,
SPENDS HER TIME NOW PLAGUING HER DAUGHTER, AND
MR ELIAS SAID TO ME:
"HOW DO YOU GET INSPIRATION?
"NOW MY FRIEND HALL CAINE TOLD ME HE CAME ON A CASE
"A VERY SAD CASE OF A GIRL IN THE EAST END OF LONDON
"AND IT GAVE HIM AN INSPIRATION ((WORD EXPANDED)) THE ONLY
<F 179>"WAY I GET INSPIRATION IS OCCASIONALLY FROM A GIRL, I
"MEAN SOMETIMES SITTING IN A RESTAUTANT AND
LOOKING AT A PRETTY GIRL I
<D 174>"GET AN I-DE-A , I-MEAN-A BIZ-NIS I-DE-A."
DIXIT SIC FELIX ELIAS.
THE TALE OF THE PERFECT SCHNORRER: A PEAUTIFUL CHEWISCH POY
WIT A VO-ICE DOT WOULT
MELDT DH HEART OFFA SCHTONE
AND WIT A LIKEING FOR TO MAKE ARHT-VOIKS
AND VEN DH OLDT LADTY WASN'T DHERE ANY MORE
AND DEY DIDN'T KNOW WHY, TDHERE EE WOSS IN THE
OLDT ANTIQUE SCHOP AND NOBODTY KNEW HOW HE GOT DHERE
AND VENN HISS BRUDDER DIET WIDOUT ANY BAPERS
HE VEPT ALL OFER DH GARPET SO MUCH HE
HAD TO HAVE HIS CLOTHES AFTERVARDS PRESSED
AND HE ORDERET A MAGNIFFICENT FUNERAL
AND TDEN ZENT DH PILL TO DH VIFE.
BUT WHEN THEY HAVE HIGH CHEEK-BONES
THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE MONGOL. ELJEN! ELJEN HATVANY!
HE HAD IDEALS AND HE SAID TO THE GENERAL AT THE CONFERENCE,
"I INTRODUCE TO YOU THE HEAD OF THE BAKERS' UNION.
"I INTRODUCE TO YOU THE HEAD OF THE BRICK-LAYERS' UNION.."
"COMMENT! VOUS ETES TOMBE SI BAS?"
REPLIED GENERAL FRANCHET DE WHATSHISNAME
ON THE PART OF THE FRENCH ROYALIST PARTY, SHOWING THUS
THE USE OF IDEALS TO A JEWISH HUNGARIAN BARON
WITH A LIBRARY (NATURALLY WITH A LIBRARY)
AND A FINE COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS. "WE FIND THE LAND OVERBRAINED."
SAID THE BOJARS OR WHATEVER THE OLD SAVAGES CALL IT
AS THEY HUNG THEIR OLD HUNTSMAN FRIEND TO HIS CHANDELIER
IN HIS DINING HALL AFTER THE USUAL FEASTING AND FLAGONS
VIRTUSCH!! IT MUST BE ONE HELLUVA COUNTRY. ITEM:
<F 180>THAT THERE BE MADE A FONTEGO (A CHAMBER)
TO LEND MONEY ON CLOTH SO THAT THEY CEASE NOT TO
LABOUR FOR LACK OF MONEY..ITEM: THAT THERE BE MADE A SCAVENZARIA
AND IT BE FURNISHED WITH CLOTH THUS PLEDGED
<D 175>TO BE SOLD A SCHAVEZO AT A PRICE AS IF WHOLESALE
PLUS ONLY THE PROPORTION OF THE TAX FOR THE RETAIL SO THAT
MANTUA CLOTH BEING CHEAP AS IN COUNTRIES CIRCUMJACENT AND THAT
BRESCIANS, CREMONESI, PARMENESI, RESANESI
WHO NOW GO TO VERONA WHERE IT IS CHEAPER AS ALSO
OUR OWN TOWNSFOLK GO THERE, THEY WD. THEN COME HERE OR
STAY HERE TO THE AUGMENT OF INDUSTRY AND INCREASE IN
THE RETAIL TAX AND ALL OF THE OTHER TAXES.
ITEM: FOR THE INCREASE OF THIS ART
SHD. BE A MAN STATIONED IN VENICE...TO SELL WHAT WE
CAN'T SELL HERE...ITEM: A DYE WORKS...THAT THEY CAN DYE
THE PLEDGED CLOTH...AND THAT FINDING HERE CLOTH WELL COLOURED
....INFICIT UMBRAS....
THE ROMAGNOLS WD. COME HERE TO MANTUA, AND THE MARCH FOLK
WHO NOW GO TO VERONA TO BUY...ALL OF WHICH WD.
BE GAIN TO THIS INDUSTRY, BRING MORE PEOPLE TO LIVE HERE
AND BE OF GREAT USE TO YR. TAXES.
MANTUA 1401, UNA GRIDA.
WHEN THE STARS FALL FROM THE OLIVE
OR WITH FOUR POINTS OR WITH FIVE
TOWARD ST JOHN'S EVE
CAME THIS DAY MADAME =HULE, MADAME LA PORTE PARURE
ADORNED WITH THE ROMANCERO,
FOOT LIKE A FLOWERY BRANCH. THAT
VENICE BE LUOGO DI CONTRATTO MAY WE
SAY THE PLACE WHERE THE DEAL IS MADE
AND THE PROFITS
MOST ASSUREDLY FROM THE POCKET
<F 181>OF THE LAST MAN WHO BUYS \ EXEMPT FROM CUSTOMS
BE FOOD STUFFS AND NOTHING ELSE SO EXEMPTED
9 PER CENT IN, AND 9 OUT, FOR THE UPKEEP OF "THE DOMINANT"
AND DE GAMA (VASCO) A GREAT INCONVENIENCE IN FACT THE
WORST NEWS THAT THERE COULD BE BUT:
CAN PORTUGAL KEEP IT UP?
OMNES DE PARTIBUS ULTRAMARINIS
FROM ALL LANDS BEYOND THE SEA.
<D 176>NEEDING SALT, MADE THEIR PEACE WITH VENICE
"WHO COMMANDS SEA, COMMANDS TRADE"
LET THE REST PROVIDE FOR "THE DOMINANT", "VICTORIA?
"WHERE 'AVE I 'EARD THAT NYME?"
UNDERSELL, OVERBUY, MAINTAIN DEFENCE OF THE SEA ROUTE
A.D. 1423 ET CETERA
9% IN AND 9 OUT, NO EXPORT OF SAND, ALKALI, RAGS.
QUALITY. SO THAT OUR GOODS PLEASE THE BUYER.
TELL THE WAZIR THAT THAT STUFF IS OURS ONLY IN NAME
IT IS MADE BY DAMNED JEWS IN EXILE, MADE BY DAMNED JEWS IN
RAGUSA AND SOLD WITH VENETIAN LABELS. GOODS IN
VENETIAN BOTTOMS
NO SHIP TO BE BUILT OUT OF VENICE.
MOCENIGO. FOURTEEN TWENTY-THREE.
HAVE A LOAD-LINE, NO HEAVY DECK CARGO. TOLA, OCTROI AND DECIME.
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<F 182><D 177>A LADY ASKS ME
I SPEAK IN SEASON
SHE SEEKS REASON FOR AN AFFECT, WILD OFTEN
THAT IS SO PROUD HE HATH LOVE FOR A NAME
WHO DENYS IT CAN HEAR THE TRUTH NOW
WHEREFORE I SPEAK TO THE PRESENT KNOWERS
HAVING NO HOPE THAT LOW-HEARTED
CAN BRING SIGHT TO SUCH REASON
BE THERE NOT NATURAL DEMONSTRATION
I HAVE NO WILL TO TRY PROOF-BRINGING
OR SAY WHERE IT HATH BIRTH
WHAT IS ITS VIRTU AND POWER
ITS BEING AND EVERY MOVING
OR DELIGHT WHEREBY 'TIS CALLED "TO LOVE"
OR IF MAN CAN SHOW IT TO SIGHT.
WHERE MEMORY LIVETH,
IT TAKES ITS STATE
FORMED LIKE A DIAFAN FROM LIGHT ON SHADE
WHICH SHADOW COMETH OF MARS AND REMAINETH
CREATED, HAVING A NANE SENSATE,
CUSTOM OF THE SOUL,
WILL FROM THE HEART;
COMETH FROM A SEEN FORM WHICH BEING UNDERSTOOD
TAKETH LOCUS AND REMAINING IN THE INTELLECT POSSIBLE
WHERIN HATH HE NEITHER WEIGHT NOR STILL-STANDING,
<F 183>DESCENDETH NOT BY QUALITY BUT SHINETH OUT
HIMSELF HIS OWN EFFECT UNENDINGLY
NOT IN DELIGHT BUT IN THE BEING AWARE
NOR CAN HE LEAVE HIS TRUE LIKENESS OTHERWHERE.
<D 178>HE IS NOT VERTU BUT COMETH OF THAT PERFECTION
WHICH IS SO POSTULATE NOT BY THE REASON
BUT 'TIS FELT, I SAY.
BEYOND SALVATION, HOLDETH HIS JUDGING FORCE
DEEMING INTENTION TO BE REASON'S PEER AND MATE,
POOR IN DISCERNMENT, BEING THUS WEAKNESS' FRIEND
OFTEN HIS POWER COMETH ON DEATH IN THE END,
BE IT WITHSTAYED
AND SO SWINGING COUNTERWEIGHT
NOT THAT IT WERE NATURAL OPPOSITE BUT ONLY
WRY'D A BIT FROM THE PERFECT,
LET NO MAN SAY LOVE COMETH FROM CHANCE
OR HATH NOT ESTABLISHED LORDSHIP
HOLDING HIS POWER EVEN THOUGH
MEMORY HATH HIM NO MORE.
COMETH HE TO BE
WHEN THE WILL
FROM OVERPLUS
TWISTETH OUT OF NATURAL MEASURE,
NEVER ADORNED WITH REST MOVETH HE CHANGING COLOUR
EITHER TO LAUGH OR WEEP
CONTORTING THE FACE WITH FEAR
RESTETH BUT A LITTLE
<F 184>YET SHALL YE SEE OF HIM THAT HE IS MOST OFTEN
WITH FOLK WHO DESERVE HIM
AND HIS STRANGE QUALITY SETS SIGHS TO MOVE
WILLING MAN LOOK INTO THAT FORMED TRACE IN HIS MIND
AND WITH SUCH UNEASINESS AS ROUSETH THE FLAME.
UNSKILLED CAN NOT FORM HIS IMAGE,
HE HIMSELF MOVETH NOT, DRAWING ALL TO HIS STILLNESS,
NEITHER TURNETH ABOUT TO SEEK HIS DELIGHT
NOR YET TO SEEK OUT PROVING
BE IT SO GREAT OR SO SMALL.
<D 179>HE DRAWETH LIKENESS AND HUE FROM LIKE NATURE
SO MAKING PLEASURE MORE CERTAIN IN SEEMING
NOR STAND HID IN SUCH NEARNESS,
BEAUTYS BE DARTS THO' NOT SAVAGE
SKILLED FROM SUCH FEAR A MAN FOLLOWS
DESERVING SPIRIT, THAT PIERCETH.
NOR IS HE KNOWN FROM HIS FACE
BUT TAKEN IN THE WHITE LIGHT THAT IS ALLNESS
TOUCHETH HIS AIM
WHO HEARETH, SEETH NOT FORM
BUT IS LED BY ITS EMANATION.
BEING DIVIDED, SET OUT FROM COLOUR,
DISJUNCT IN MID DARKNESS
GRAZETH THE LIGHT, ONE MOVING BY OTHER,
[HAGOROMO] BEING DIVIDED, DIVIDED FROM ALL FALSITY
WORTHY OF TRUST
FROM HIM ALONE MERCY PROCEEDETH.
<F 185>GO, SONG, SURELY THOU MAYEST
WHITHER IT PLEASE THEE
FOR SO ART THOU ORNATE THAT THY REASONS
SHALL BE PRAISED FROM THY UNDERSTANDERS,
WITH OTHERS HAST THOU NO WILL TO MAKE COMPANY.
"CALLED THRONES, BALASCIO OR TOPAZE"
ERIGENA WAS NOT UNDERSTOOD IN HIS TIME
"WHICH EXPLAINS, PERHAPS, THE DELAY IN CONDEMNING HIM"
AND THEY WENT LOOKING FOR MANICHEANS
AND FOUND, SO FAR AS I CAN MAKE OUT, NO MANICHEANS
SO THEY DUG FOR, AND DAMNED SCOTUS ERIGENA
"AUTHORITY COMES FROM RIGHT REASON,
NEVER THE OTHER WAY ON"
HENCE THE DELAY IN CONDEMNING HIM
AQUINAS HEAD DOWN IN A VACUUM,
ARISTOTLE WHICH WAY IN A VACUUM?
NOT QUITE IN A VACUUM.
<D 180>SACRUM, SACRUM, INLUMINATIO COITU.
LO SORDELS SI FO DI MANTOVANA
OF A CASTLE NAMED GOITO.
"FIVE CASTLES!
"FIVE CASTLES!"
(KING GIV' HIM FIVE CASTLES)
"AND WHAT THE HELL DO I KNOW ABOUT DYE-WORKS?!"
HIS HOLINESS HAS WRITTEN A LETTER:
"CHARLES THE MANGY OF ANJOU....
..WAY YOU TREAT YOUR MEN IS A SCANDAL...."
DILECTIS MILES FAMILIARIS...CASTRA MONTIS ODORISSII
MONTIS SANCTI SILVESTRI PALLETE ET PILE...
<F 186>IN PARTIBUS THETIS....VINELAND
LAND TILLED
THE LAND INCULT
PRATIS NEMORIBUS PASCUIS
WITH LEGAL JURISDICTION
HIS HEIRS OF BOTH SEXES,
...SOLD THE DAMN LOT SIX WEEKS LATER,
SORDELLUS DE GODIO.
QUAN BEN M'ALBIR E MON RIC PENSAMEN,
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<D 181><F 187>THOU SHALT NOT," SAID MARTIN VAN BUREN, "JAIL 'EM FOR DEBT."
"THAT AN IMMIGRANT SHD. SET OUT WITH GOOD BANKNOTES
AND FIND 'EM AT THE END OF HIS VOYAGE
BUT WASTE PAPER....IF A MAN HAVE IN PRIMEVAL FOREST
SET UP HIS CABIN, SHALL RICH PATROON TAKE IT FROM HIM?
HIGH JUDGES? ARE, I SUPPOSE, SUBJECT TO PASSIONS
AS HAVE AFFECTED OTHER GREAT AND GOOD MEN, ALSO
SUBJECT TO ESPRIT DE CORPS."
"THE CALHOUNS" REMARKED MR ADAMS
"HAVE FLOCKED TO THE STANDARD OF FEMININE VIRTUE"
"PEGGY EATON'S OWN STORY" (HEADLINE 1932)
SHALL WE CALL IN THE WORLD TO CONDUCT OUR
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT?
AMBROSE (MR.) SPENCER, MR VAN RENSSELAER
WERE AGAINST EXTENSION OF FRANCHISE.
"WHO WORK IN FACTORIES AND ARE EMPLOYED BY THE WEALTHY"
(STATE CONVENTION 1821) DIXIT SPENCER:
"MAN WHO FEEDS, CLOTHES, LODGES ANOTHER
HAS ABSOLUTE CONTROL OVER HIS WILL."
KENT SAID THEY WD. "DEPLORE IN SACKCLOTH AND ASHES
IF THEY PRESERVED NOT A SENATE
TO REPRESENT LANDED INTEREST, AND DID THEY
JEOPARD PROPERTY RIGHTS?" TO WHOM MR SOMEBODY TOMPKINS:
"FILLED YOUR ARMIES
"WHILE THE PRIESTS WERE PREACHING SEDITION
"AND MEN OF WEALTH DECRYING GOVERNMENT CREDIT.
"...IN ORDER TO FEED ON THE SPOILS."
TWO WORDS, SAID MR VAN BUREN, CAME IN WITH OUR REVOLUTION
AND, AS A MATTER OF FACT, WHY ARE WE SENT HERE?
"AS FOR YOU MR CHIEF JUSTICE SPENCER
<F 188><D 182>"IF THEY VOTE AS THEY ARE BID BY THEIR EMPLOYERS
THEY WILL VOTE FOR THE PROPERTY WHICH YOU SO WISH TO PROTECT."
.....WHEN A TURNPIKE DEPENDS UPON CONGRESS
LOCAL SUPERVISION IS LOST...
NOT SURRENDER OUR CONDUCT TO FOREIGN ASSOCIATIONS...
WORKING CLASSES
WHO MOSTLY
HAVE NO CONTROL OVER PAPER, AND
DERIVE NO PROFIT FROM BANK STOCK....
MERCHANTS WILL NOT CONFESS OVER TRADING
NOR SPECULATORS THE DISPOSITION TO SPECULATE...
REVENUE FOR WANTS OF THE GOVERNMENT
TO BE KEPT UNDER PUBLIC CONTROL....DO THEY POUR
NATIONAL REVENUE
INTO BANKS OF DEPOSIT
IN SEASONS OF SPECULATION?
..DIMINISH GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE...SAILOR
NOT TO BE LASHED SAVE BY COURT....LAND
TO ACTUAL SETTLER (AS AGAINST MR CLAY)
AND WHEN HER FATHER WENT BROKE, MR EATON..GAVE RISE TO
WASHINGTON GOSSIP....LOOSE MORALS OF MR JEFFERSON,
SERVILITY OF MARTIN VAN BUREN, SAID ADAMS (J. QUINCY)
WHEN EVERYONE ELSE IS UNCIVIL.
"NOWHERE SO WELL DEPOSITED AS IN THE PANTS OF THE PEOPLE,
WEALTH AIN'T," SAID PRESIDENT JACKSON.
THEY GIVE THE UNION FIVE YEARS...
BANK DID NOT PRODUCE UNIFORM CURRENCY..
THEY WD. IMPORT GRAIN RATHER THAN GROW IT...
BANK OF ENGLAND FAILED TO PREVENT USES OF CREDIT...
"IN BANKING CORPORATIONS" SAID MR WEBSTER "THE
"INTERESTS OF THE RICH AND THE POOR ARE HAPPILY BLENDED."
<F 189>SAID VAN BUREN TO MR CLAY: "IF YOU WILL GIVE ME
"A PINCH OF YOUR EXCELLENT MACCOBOY SNUFF..."
<D 183>IN EUROPE OFTEN BY PRIVATE HOUSES, WITHOUT ASSISTANCE OF BANKS
RELIEF IS GOT NOT BY INCREASE
BUT BY DIMINUTION OF DEBT.
......AS JUSTICE MARSHALL, HAS GONE OUT OF HIS CASE...
"TIP AN' TYLER
WE'LL BUST VAN'S BILER......"
BROUGHT IN THE VICE OF LUXURIA, SED AUREIS FURCULIS,,
WHICH FORKS WERE
BOUGHT BACK IN THE TIME OF PRESIDENT MONROE
BY MR LEE OUR CONSUL IN BORDEAUX.
"THE MAN IS A DOUGH-FACE, A PROFLIGATE,
WON'T SAY HE AGREES WITH HIS PARTY."
AUTHORIZED ITS (THE BANK'S) PRESIDENT TO USE FUNDS AT
DISCRETION (ITS FUNDS, HIS DISCRETION) TO
INFLUENCE PRESS...
VETO POWER, WITH MARKED DISCRETION, USED NO FURTHER THAN
IN OBJECTING TO BANK UNDER CHARTER EXISTING.
"FRIENDLY FEELING TOWARD OUR BANK IN
"THE MIND OF THE PRESIDENT (JACKSON
WHOSE AUTOGRAPH WAS SENT TO THE PRINCESS VICTORIA)
WROTE BIDDLE TO LENNOX DEC. 1829
"COUNTER RUMOURS WITHOUT FOUNDATION, I HAD
"A FULL AND FRANK TALK WITH THE PRESIDENT WHO WAS
"MOST KIND ABOUT ITS (THE BANK'S) SERVICES TO THE COUNTRY"
BIDDLE TO HAMILTON IN NOVEMBER.
"TO WHICH END, LARGELY INCREASED LINE OF DISCOUNTS
1830, OCTOBER, 40 MILLION
<F 190>MAY, 1837 SEVENTY MILLIONS AND THEN SOME.
REMEMBERED THIS IN SORRENTO' IN THE VICINAGE OF VESUVIUS,
NEAR EXHUMED HERCULANEUM...
"30 MILLION" SAID MR DAN WEBSTER "IN STATES ON THE MISSISSIPPI
"WILL ALL HAVE TO BE CALLED IN , IN THREE
<D 184>"YEARS AND NINE MONTHS, IF THE CHARTER BE NOT EXTENDED..
"I HESERTATE NAWT TEW SAY ET WILL DEE-PRECIERATE
"EVERYMAN'S PRORPERTY FROM THE ETCETERA
"TO THE KEPERTAL OV MISSOURI, AFFECT THE PRICE OF
"CRAWPS, LEYND EN THE PRORDEWCE OV LABOUR, TO THE
"EMBARARSEMENT......"
DE MORTUIS WROTE MR VAN BUREN
DON'T QUITE APPLY IN A CASE OF THIS CHARACTER.
4 TO 5 MILLION BALANCE IN THE NATIONAL TREASURY
RECEIPTS 31 TO 32 MILLION
REVENUE 32 TO 33 MILLION
THE BANK 341 MILLION, AND IN DEPOSITS
6 MILLIONS OF GOVERNMENT MONEY
(AND A MAJORITY IN THE SENATE)
PUBLIC MONEY IN CONTROL OF THE PRESIDENT
FROM 15 TO 20 THOUSAND (ID EST, A FUND FOR THE SECRET SERVICE
"EMPLOYING MEANS AT THE BANK'S DISPOSAL
IN DERANGING THE COUNTRY'S CREDITS, OBTAINING BY PANIC
CONTROL OVER PUBLIC MIND" SAID VAN BUREN
"FROM THE REAL COMMITTEE OF BANK'S DIRECTORS
THE GOVERNMENT'S DIRECTORS HAVE BEEN EXCLUDED.
BANK PRESIDENT CONTROLLING GOVERNMENT'S FUNDS
TO THE BETRAYAL OF THE NATION....
GOVERNMENT FUNDS OBSTRUCTING THE GOVERNMENT...
AND HAS SEQUESTERED THE SAID FUNDS OF THE GOVERNMENT...
<F 191>(WITH CHAPTER, DATE, VERSE AND CITATION)
ACTING IN ILLEGAL SECRET
POURING OIL ON THE PRESS
GIVING NOMINAL LOANS ON INEXISTENT SECURITY"
IN THE EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTIES
"ON PRECEDENT THAT MR HAMILTON HAS
NEVER HESITATED TO JEOPARD THE GENERAL
FOR ADVANCE OF PARTICULAR INTERESTS."
<D 185>"BANK CURTAILED
17 MILLION ON A LINE OF
64 MILLION CREDITS.
"HAD NOT MR TANEY (OF THE TREASURY) PREVENTED
THAT BRANCH (IN NEW YORK) FROM THEN COLLECTING
8 MILLION 700 THOUSAND AND ARMED OUR CITY WITH
9 MILLION TO DEFEND US (THE WHOLE COUNTRY)
IN THIS WAR ON ITS TRADE AND COMMERCE.
CAMBRELING, GLOBE EXTRA 1834
PEGGY EATON'S OWN STORY. AND IF MARIETTA
HAD NOT PUT ON HER GRANDMOTHER'S DRESS
SHE MIGHT HAVE LASTED, A MYSTERY EVEN. IF DOLORES
HAD NOT PUT ON A HAT SHAPED LIKE A WIG
SHE MIGHT HAVE REMAINED AN EXOTIC.
PLACUIT OCULIS, AND DID NOT MIND STRONG CIGARS.
IRRITABLE AND UNSTABLE,
IS FORMED, IS DESTROYED,
RECOMPOSES TO BE ONCE MORE DECOMPOSED
(THUS, DESCENDING TO PLANT LIFE)
SORRENTO, JUNE 21ST. VILLA FALANGOLA
IN THE VICINAGE OF VESUVIUS, IN THE MIRROR OF MEMORY
<F 192>MR VAN BUREN:
JUDGE YEATS, WHOM I REMEMBER ETC...
WARDED OFF SCRUTINY OF HIS MENTAL CAPACITIES
BY A DIGNIFIED AND PRUDENT RESERVE WHICH
..LONG PRACTICE HAD MADE SECOND NATURE...
ALEX HAMILTON HAD BEEN BLACKMAILED BUT
PREFERRED, IN THE END, PRIVATE SCANDAL TO SHADE ON HIS
PUBLIC CAREER.
MARSHALL, SAID ROANE, UNDERMINED THE U.S. CONSTITUTION.
NO MAN BEFORE TOM JEFFERSON IN MY HOUSE.
<D 186>SAID ONE OF THE WOOL-BUYERS:
"ABLE SPEECH BY VAN BUREN."
"YES, VERY ABLE."
"YE-ES, MR KNOWER, AN' ON WICH SIDE OV THE TARIFF WAS IT?"
"POINT I WAS IN THE ACT OF CONSIDERING"
REPLIED MR KNOWER
IN THE MIRROR OF MEMORY: HAVE BEEN TOLD I RENDERED
THE TRUTH A GREAT SERVICE BY THAT SPEECH ON THE TARIFF
BUT DIRECTNESS ON ALL POINTS WD. SEEM NOT
TO HAVE BEEN ITS CONSPICUOUS FEATURE.
I THANKED HIM
(JAMES JONES, BROTHER IN LAW OF MR CLINTON)
FOR HIS KIND OFFER BUT
SAID MY FORTUNES WERE TOO LOW IN EBB
FOR ME AT THAT MOMENT TO COMPROMISE.
LACKED NOT WHO SAID THAT JOHN ADAMS
DISLIKED NOT SO MUCH THE IDEA OF A MONARCH
AS PREFERRED BRAINTREE HOUSE OVER HANOVER...
AND HIS SON, SEEKING LIGHT FROM THE STARS
DEPLORED THAT REPRESENTATIVES BE PARALYZED
BY THE WILL OF CONSTITUENTS.
<F 168>"I PUBLICLY ANSWERED MORE QUESTIONS
THAN ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS PUT TOGETHER"
SIGNED MARTIN VAN BUREN.
"MR WEBSTER IN DEBT TO THE BANK"
DAMNED YELLOW RASCAL, SAID CLAY
"UNNECESSARY, THEREFORE INJURIOUS...
INTERFERENCE ON THE PART OF THE GOVERNMENT.
AND THEY AND THEIR GANG IN CONGRESS
DEBATED THREE MONTHS WITHOUT INTRODUCING
ONE SOLITARY PROPOSITION TO REVERSE TANEY'S DECISION
OR IN ANY WAY TO RELIEVE ANY DISTRESS."
HIC
JACET
FISCI LIBERATOR
<C 38>
<D 187><F 194>IL DUOL CHE SOPRA SENNA
INDUCE, FALSEGGIANDO LA MONETA.
PARADISO XIX, 118.
AN' THAT YEAR METEVSKY WENT OVER TO AMERICA DEL SUD
(AND THE POPE'S MANNERS WERE SO LIKE MR JOYCE'S,
GOT THAT WAY IN THE VATICAN, WEREN'T LIKE THAT BEFORE)
MARCONI KNELT IN THE ANCIENT MANNER
LIKE JIMMY WALKER SAYIN' HIS PRAYERS.
HIS HOLINESS EXPRESSED A POLITE CURIOSITY
AS TO HOW HIS EXCELLECCY HAD CHASED THOSE
ELECTRIC SHAKES THROUGH THE A'MOSPHERE.
LUCREZIA
WANTED A RABBIT'S FOOT,
AND HE, METEVSKY SAID TO THE ONE SIDE
(THREE CHILDREN, FIVE ABORTIONS AND DIED OF THE LAST)
HE SAID: THE OTHER BOYS GOT MORE MUNITIONS
(THUS CIGAR-MAKERS WHOSE WORK IS HIGHLY REPETITIVE
CAN PERFORM THE NECESSARY OPERATIONS ALMOST AUTOMATICALLY
AND AT THE SAME TIME LISTEN TO READERS WHO ARE HIRED
FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING MENTAL ENTERTAINMENT WHILE THEY
WORK: DEXTER KIMBALL 1929.)
DON'T BUY UNTIL YOU CAN GET OURS.
AND HE WENT OVER THE BORDER
AND HE SAID TO THE OTHER SIDE:
THE OTHER SIDE HAS MORE MUNITIONS. DON'T BUY
UNTIL YOU CAN GET OURS.
<F 195>AND AKERS MADE A LARGE PROFIT AND IMPORTED GOLD INTO ENGLAND
THUS INCREASING GOLD IMPORTS.
THE GENTLE READER HAS HEARD THIS BEFORE.
AND THAT YEAR MR WHITNEY
<D 188>SAID HOW USEFUL SHORT SELLIN' WAS,
WE SUPPOSE HE MEANT TO THE BROKERS
AND NO ONE CALLED HIM A LIAR.
AND TWO AFGHANS CAME TO GENEVA
TO SEE IF THEY CD. GET SOME GUNS CHEAP,
AS THEY HAD HEARD ABOUT SOMEONE'S DISARMING.
AND THE SECRETARY OF THE SOMETHING
MADE SOME MONEY FROM OIL WELLS
(IN THE NAME OF GOD THE MOST GLORIOUS MR D'ARCY
IS EMPOWERED TO SCRATCH THROUGH THE SUB-SOIL OF PERSIA
UNTIL FIFTY YEARS FROM THIS DATE...)
MR MELLON WENT OVER TO ENGLAND
AND THAT YEAR MR WILSON HAD PROSTATITIS
AND THERE WAS TALK OF A NEW MESSIAH
(THAT MUST HAVE BEEN A BIT SOONER)
AND HER LADYSHIP CUT DOWN JENNY'S ALLOWANCE
BECAUSE OF THAT BITCH MINNY HUMBOLT
AND THAT YEAR (THAT WD. BE 20 OR 18 YEARS SOONER)
THEY BEGAN TO KILL 'EM BY MILLIONS
BECAUSE OF A LOUSE IN BERLIN
AND A GREASY BASTURD IN AUSSTRIA
BY NAME FRANCOIS GIUSEPPE.
"WILL THERE BE WAR?" "NO, MISS WI'LET,
"ON ACCOUNT OF BIZSCHNIZ RELATIONS."
SAID THE SOAP AND BONES DEALER IN MAY 1914
AND MR GANDHI THOUGHT:
IF WE DON'T BUY ANY COTTON
<F 196>AND AT THE SAME TIME DON'T BUY ANY GUNS......
MONSIEUR UNTEL WAS NOT FOUND AT THE JOCKEY CLUB
...BUT WAS, LATER, FOUND IN JAPAN
AND SO-AND-SO HAD SHARES IN MITSUI.
"THE WOOD (WALNUT) WILL ALWAYS BE WANTED FOR GUNSTOCKS"
AND THEY PUT UP A WATCH FACTORY OUTSIDE MUSCOU
AND THE WATCHES KEPT TIME....ITALIAN MARSHES
<D 189>BEEN WAITING SINCE TIBERIUS' TIME
"MARRY" SAID BEEBE, "HOW DO THE FISH LIVE IN THE SEA."
RIVERA, THE SPANISH DICTATOR, DICTATED THAT THE
INFANTE WAS PHYSICALLY UNFIT TO INHERIT...
GOTHIC TYPE STILL USED IN VIENNA
BECAUSE THE OLD FOLKS ARE USED TO THAT TYPE.
AND SCHLOSSMANN
SUGGESTED THAT I STAY THERE IN VIENNA
AS STOOL-PIGEON AGAINST THE ANSCHLUSS
BECAUSE THE AUSSTRIANS NEEDED A BUDDHA
(SEAY, BROTHER, I LEEV ET TUH YEW!)
THE WHITE MAN WHO MADE THE TEMPEST IN BALUBA
DER IM BALUBA DAS GEWITTER GEMACHT HAT...
THEY SPELL WORDS WITH A DRUM BEAT,
"THE COUNTRY IS OVERBRAINED" SAID THE HUNGARIAN NOBLEMAN
IN 1923. KOSOUTH (KU'SHOOT) USED, I UNDERSTAND
TO SIT IN A CAFE-ALL DONE BY CONVERSATION-
IT WAS ALL DONE BY CONVERSATION,
POSSIBLY BECAUSE ONE REPEATS THE POINT WHEN CONVERSING:
"VIENNA CONTAINS A MIXTURE OF RACES."
WD. I STAY AND BE BHUDD-HA?
"THEY ARE ACCUSTOMED TO HAVING AN EMPEROR. THEY MUST HAVE
SOMETHING TO WORSHIP." (1927)
BUT THEIR HUMOUR ABOUT LOSING THE TYROL?
THEIR HUMOUR IS NOT QUITE SO BROAD.
<F 197>THE RAGGED ARAB SPOKE WITH FROBENIUS AND TOLD HIM
THE NAMES OF 3000 PLANTS.
BRUHL FOUND SOME LANGUAGES FULL OF DETAIL
WORDS THAT HALF MIMIC ACTION; BUT
GENERALIZATION IS BEYOND THEM, A WHITE DOG IS
NOT, LET US SAY, A DOG LIKE A BLACK DOG.
DO NOT HAPPEN, ROMEO AND JULIET...UNHAPPILY
I HAVE LOST THE CUTTING BUT APPARENTLY
SUCH THINGS DO STILL HAPPEN , HE
SUICIDED OUTSIDE HER DOOR WHILE
<D 190>THE FAMILY WAS PREPARING HER BODY FOR BURIAL
AND SHE KNEW THAT THIS WAS THE CASE.
GREEN, BLACK, DECEMBER. SAID MR BLODGETT:
"SEWING MACHINES WILL NEVER COME INTO GENERAL USE."
"I HAVE OF COURSE NEVER SAID THAT THE CASH IS CONSTANT
(DOUGLAS) AND IN FACT THE POPULATION (BRITAIN 1914)
WAS LEFT WITH 800 MILLIONS OF "DEPOSITS"
AFTER ALL THE CASH HAD BEEN DRAWN, AND
THESE DEPOSITS WERE SATISFIED BY THE
PRINTING OF TREASURY NOTES.
A FACTORY
HAS ALSO ANOTHER ASPECT, WHICH WE CALL THE FINANCIAL ASPECT.
IT GIVES PEOPLE THE POWER TO BUY (WAGES, DIVIDENDS
WHICH ARE POWER TO BUY) BUT IT IS ALSO THE CAUSE OF PRICES
OR VALUES, FINANCIAL, I MEAN FINANCIAL VALUES.
IT PAYS WORKERS, AND PAYS FOR MATERIAL.
WHAT IT PAYS IN WAGES AND DIVIDENDS
STAYS FLUID, AS POWER TO BUY, AND THIS POWER IS LESS,
PER FORZA, DAMN BLAST YOUR INTELLEX, IS LESS
<F 198>THAN THE TOTAL PAYMENTS MADE BY THE FACTORY
(AS WAGES, DIVIDENDS AND PAYMENTS FOR RAW MATERIAL
BANK CHARGES ETCETERA
AND ALL, THAT IS THE WHOLE, THAT IS THE TOTAL
OF THESE IS ADDED INTO THE TOTAL OF PRICES
CAUSED BY THAT FACTORY, ANY DAMN FACTORY
AND THERE IS AND MUST BE THEREFORE A CLOG
AND THE POWER TO PURCHASE CAN NEVER
(UNDER THE PRESENT SYSTEM) CATCH UP WITH
PRICES AT LARGE,
AND THE LIGHT BECAME SO BRIGHT AND SO BLINDIN'
IN THIS LAYER OF PARADISE
THAT THE MIND OF MAN WAS BEWILDERED.
<D 191>SAID HERR KRUPP (1842): GUNS ARE A MERCHANDISE
I APPROACH THEM FROM THE INDUSTRIAL END,
I APPROACH THEM FROM THE TECHNICAL SIDE,
1847 ORDERS FROM PARIS AND EGYPT....
ORDERS FROM THE CRIMEA,
ORDER OF PIETRO IL GRANDE,
AND A COMMAND IN THE LEGION OF HONOUR...
500 TO ST PETERSBURG AND 300 TO NAPOLEON BARBICHE
FROM CREUSOT. AT SADOWA
AUSTRIA HAD SOME KRUPP CANNON;
PRUSSIA HAD SOME KRUPP CANNON.
"THE EMPEROR ('68) IS DEEPLY IN'ERESTED IN YR. CATALOGUE
AND IN YR. SERVICES TO HUMANITY"
(SIGNED) LEBOEUF
WHO WAS A RELATIVE OF MONSIEUR SCHNEIDER
1900 FIFTY THOUSAND OPERAI,
53 THOUSAND CANNON, ABOUT HALF FOR HIS COUNTRY,
<F 199>BOHLEM UND HALBACH,
HERR SCHNEIDER OF CREUSOT
TWIN ARSE WITH ONE BELLY.
EUGENE, ADOLF AND ALFRED "MORE MONEY FROM GUNS THAN FROM
TRACTILES"
EUGENE WAS SENT TO THE DEPUTIES;
(SAONE ET LOIRE) TO THE DEPUTIES, MINISTER;
LATER ROSE TO BE MINISTER,
"GUNS COMING FROM ANYWHERE,
BUT APPROPRIATIONS FROM THE CHAMBERS OF PARLIAMENTS"
IN 1874 RECD. LICENSE FOR FREE EXPORTATION
ADOPTED BY 22 NATIONS
1885\1900 PRODUCED TEN THOUSAND CANNON
TO 1914, 34 THOUSAND
ONE HALF OF THEM SENT OUT OF THE COUNTRY
ALWAYS IN THE CHAMBERS OF DEPUTIES, ALWAYS A CONSERVATIVE,
SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, ORSPITALS FER THE WORKIN' MAN
SAND PILES FER THE CHILDREN.
<D 192>OPPOSITE THE PALACE OF THE SCHNEIDERS
AROSE THE MONUMENT TO HERR HENRI
CHANTIERS DE LA GIRONDE, BANK OF THE PARIS UNION,
THE FRANCO-JAPANESE BANK
FRANCOIS DE WENDEL, ROBERT PROTOT
TO FRIENDS AND ENEMIES OF TOMORROW
"THE MOST POWERFUL UNION IS DOUBTLESS
THAT OF THE COMITE DES FORGES,"
"AND GOD TAKE YOUR LIVING" SAID HAWKWOOD
15 MILLION: JOURNAL DES DEBATS
30 MILLION PAID TO LE TEMPS
ELEVEN FOR THE ECHO DE PARIS
POLLOKS ON SCHNEIDER PATENTS
OUR BANK HAS BOUGHT US
<F 200>A LOT OF SHARES IN MITSUI
WHO ARM 50 DIVISIONS, WHO KEEP UP THE JAPANESE ARMY
AND THEY ARE DESTINED TO HAVE A LARGE FUTURE
"FAIRE PASSER SES AFFAIRES
AVANT CELLES DE LA NATION."
<C 39>
<F 201><D 193>DESOLATE IS THE ROOF WHERE THE CAT SAT,
DESOLATE IS THE IRON RAIL THAT HE WALKED
AND THE CORNER POST WHENCE HE GREETED THE SUNRISE.
IN HILL PATH: "THKK, THGK"
OF THE LOOM
"THGK, THKK" AND THE SHARP SOUND OF A SONG
UNDER OLIVES
WHEN I LAY IN THE INGLE OF CIRCE
I HEARD A SONG OF THAT KIND.
FAT PANTHER LAY BY ME
GIRLS TALKED THERE OF FUCKING, BEASTS TALKED THERE OF EATING,
ALL HEAVY WITH SLEEP, FUCKED GIRLS AND FAT LEOPARDS,
LIONS LOGGY WITH CIRCE'S TISANE,
GIRLS LEERY WITH CIRCE'S TISANE
=KAKA =PHARMAK =EDOKEN
=*KAK =*PHARMAK =*EDOKEN
THE HOUSE OF SMOOTH STONE THAT YOU CAN SEE FROM A DISTANCE
=LUKOI =ORESTEROI, =EDE =LEONTES
=*LUKOI =*ORESTEROI, =*EDE =*LEONTES
WOLF TO CURRY FAVOUR FOR FOOD
-BORN TO HELIOS AND PERSEIS
THAT HAD PASIPHAE FOR A TWIN
VENTER VENUSTUS, CUNNI CULTRIX, OF THE VELVET MARGE
VER NOVUM, CANORUM, VER NOVUM
SPRING OVERBORNE INTO SUMMER
LATE SPRING IN THE LEAFY AUTUMN
=KALON =AOIDIAEI
=*KALON =*AOIDIAEI
=E =THEOS =EE =GUNE ....=PTHEGGOMETHA =THASSON
=*E =*THEOS =*EE =*GUNE ....=*PTHEGGOMETHA =*THASSON
<F 202><D 194>FIRST HONEY AND CHEESE
HONEY AT FIRST AND THEN ACORNS
HONEY AT THE START AND THEN ACORNS
HONEY AND WINE AND THEN ACORNS
SONG SHARP AT THE EDGE, HER CROTCH LIKE A YOUNG SAPLING
ILLA DOLORE OBMUTUIT, PARITER VOCEM
=ALL =ALLEN =CHRE =PROTON =HUDON =TELESAI, =KAI =HIKESTHAI   490\5
=EIS =AIDAO =DOMOUS =KAI =EPAINES =PERSEPHONEIES
=PSYCHE =CHRESOMENOS =THEBAIOY =TEIRESIAO
XLVII ((MARGINAL)) =MANTEOS =ALAOU =TOU =TE =PHRENES =EMPEDOI =EISI
=TO =KAI =TETHNEIOTI =NOON =PORE =PERSEPHONEIA
WHEN HATHER WAS BOUND IN THAT BOX
AFLOAT ON THE SEA WAVE
CAME MAVA SWIMMING WITH LIGHT HAND LIFTED IN OVERSTROKE
SEA BLOSSOM WREATHED IN HER LOCKS,
"WHAT ARE YOU BOX?"
"I AM HATHOR."
CHE MAI DA ME NON SI PARTE IL DILETTO
FULVIDA DI FOLGORE
CAME HERE WITH GLAUCUS UNNOTICED, NEC IVI IN HARUM
NEC IN HARUM INGRESSUS SUM.
DISCUSS THIS IN BED SAID THE LADY
=*EUNE =*KAI =*PHILOTETI =*EPHATA =*KIRKE
=EUNE =KAI =PHILOTETI =EPHATA =KIRKE
=*ES =*THALAMON
=ES =THALAMON
EURILOCHUS, MACER, BETTER THERE WITH GOOD ACORNS
THAN WITH A CRAB FOR AN EYE, AND 30 FATHOM OF FISHES
GREEN SWISH IN THE SOCKET,
UNDER THE PORTICO KIRKE:......
<F 203>"I THINK YOU MUST BE ODYSSEUS....
FEEL BETTER WHEN YOU HAVE EATEN....
<D 195>ALWAYS WITH YOUR MIND ON THE PAST....
AD ORCUM AUTEM QUISQUAM?
NONDUM NAVE NIGRA PERVENIT.....
BEEN TO HELL IN A BOAT YET?"
SUMUS IN FIDE
PUELLAEQUE CANAMUS
SUB NOCTE....
THERE IN THE GLADE
TO FLORA'S NIGHT, WITH HYACINTHUS,
WITH THE CROCUS (SPRING
SHARP IN THE GRASS)
FIFTY AND FORTY TOGETHER
=*ERI =*MEN =*AI =*DE =*KUDONIAI
BETUENE APRILE AND MERCHE
WITH SAP NEW IN THE BOUGH
WITH PLUM FLOWERS ABOVE THEM
WITH ALMOND ON THE BLACK BOUGH
WITH JASMINE AND OLIVE LEAF,
TO THE BEAT OF THE MEASURE
FROM STAR-UP TO THE HALF-DARK
FROM HALF-DARK TO HALF-DARK
UNCEASING THE MEASURE
FLANK BY FLANK ON THE HEADLAND
WITH THE GODDESS' EYES TO SEAWARD
BY CIRCEO, BY TERRACINA, WITH THE STONE EYES
WHITE TOWARD THE SEA
WITH ONE MEASURE, UNCEASING:
"FAC DEUM!" "EST FACTUS."
<F 204>VER NOVUM!
VER NOVUM!
THUS MADE THE SPRING,
CAN SEE BUT THEIR EYES IN THE DARK
NOT THE BOUGH THAT HE WALKED ON.
<D 196>BEATEN FROM FLESH INTO LIGHT
HATH SWALLOWED THE FIRE-BALL
A TRAVERSO LE FOGLIE
HIS ROD HATH MADE GOD IN MY BELLY
SIC LOQUITUR NUPTA
CANTAT SIC NUPTA
DARK SHOULDERS HAVE STIRRED THE LIGHTNING
A GIRL'S ARMS HAVE NESTED THE FIRE,
NOT I BUT THE HANDMAID KINDLED
CANTAT SIC NUPTA
I HAVE EATEN THE FLAME.
<C 40>
<F 205>ESPRIT DE CORPS IN PERMANENT BODIES
<D 197>"OF THE SAME TRADE," SMITH, ADAM, "MEN
"NEVER GATHER TOGETHER
"WITHOUT A CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE GENERAL PUBLIC."
INDEPENDENT USE OF MONEY (OUR OWN)
TOWARD HOLDING OUR BANK, OWN BANK
AND IN THE DEPOSITS, RECEIVED, WHERE RECEIVED.
DE BANCHIS CAMBI TENENDI....
VENICE 1361,
"62..SHELVED FOR A COUPLE OF CENTURIES..
"WHETHER BY PRIVATES OR PUBLIC...
CURRENCY OF (O, F, OF) THE NATION.
TOWARD PRODUCING THAT WIDE EXPANSE OF CLEAN LAWN
TOWARD THAT DEER PARK TOWARD
THE PLAYING FIELDS, CONGERIES, SWIMMING POOLS, UNDSOWEITER:
SWORD-FISH, SEVEN MARLIN, WORLD'S RECORD
EXTRACTED IN 24 HOURS.
WD. MAKE THE LOAN, STERLING, EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND
IF PEABODY WD. QUIT BUSINESS.
ENGLAND 1858
IN THE NAME OF GOD THE MOST GLORIOUS MR
D'ARCY
IS PERMITTED FOR 50 YEARS TO DIG UP THE SUBSOIL OF
PERSIA.
"62, REPORT OF COMMITTEE:
PROFIT ON ARMS SOLD TO THE GOVERNMENT: MORGAN
(CASE 97) SOLD TO THE GOVERNMENT THE GOVERNMENT'S ARMS...
I MEAN THE GOVERNMENT OWNED 'EM ALREADY
AT AN EXTORTIONATE PROFIT
<F 206>DOLLARS 160 THOUSAND, ONE SWAT, TO MR MORGAN
FOR FORCING UP GOLD.
<D 198>"TAKING ADVANTAGE OF EMERGENCY" (THAT IS WAR)
AFTER GETTYSBURG, DOWN 5 POINTS IN ONE DAY-
BULLS ON GOLD AND BEARS ON THE UNION
"BUSINESS PROSPERED DUE TO WAR'S FAILURES."
"IF A NATION WILL MASTER ITS MONEY"
BOUTWELL DECIDED BONDS SHD. BE SOLD DIRECT BY THE TREASURY.
MR MORGAN: CONTRIBUTUONS TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, LARGELY
TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
BEECHER'S CHURCH ORGANISED BY REALTY AGENTS-
BELMONT REPRESENTING THE ROTHSCHILD
"SPECIE PAYMENT'S RESUMPTION
"ENRICHED A SMALL GROUP OF HOLDERS."
STOCK SUBSCRIPTION (RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION]
SELDOM OVER 30 PERCENT...
IN '76 DEFAULT 39% OF THE TOTAL
THAT IS 39 PER CENT OF THE
BONDS FOR RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION
SAID MR COREY "THERE BEING NO CENTRAL INSTITUTION
AS IN LONDON"
PUJO INVESTIGATION: SAID MR MORGAN:
"NEVER SOLD SHORT IN MY LIFE"
HAVING LEARNED THAT A HIGH DEGREE OF LIQUIDITY....
1907 'CD. NOT HAVE BEEN DONE WITHOUT MR BAKER
"WE CDNT. HAVE STOPPED IT (THE PANIC)."
AS TO THE GOVERNMENT'S ARMS: THEY WERE BOUGHT BY
ONE GOVERNMENT OFFICE BEFORE THEY HAD BEEN SOLD
(AS CONDEMNED) BY ANOTHER DITTO (I.E. GOVERNMENT OFFICE)
PASSING THROUGH A SPECIES OF PROFIT SIEVE.
<F 207>"A GREEK," SAID IONIDES OR SOME OTHER HELLENE,
"HONEST AFTER HE HAS CLEANED UP 20 THOUSAND"
MEANING TWENTY THOUSAND PUND STERLING.
WITH OUR EYES ON THE NEW GOTHIC RESIDENCE, WITH OUR
EYES ON PALLADIO, WITH A DESIRE FOR SEIGNIEURIAL SPLENDOURS
<D 199>(=*AGALMA, HABERDASHERY, CLOCKS, ORMOULU, BROCATELLI,
TAPESTRIES, UNREADABLE VOLUMES BOUND IN TREE-CALF,
HALF-MORROCCO, MORROCCO, TOOLED EDGES, GREEN RIBBONS,
FLAPS, FARTHINGALES, FICHUS, CUTIES, SHORTIES, PINKIES
ET CETERA
OUT OF WHICH THINGS SEEKING AN EXIT
PLEASING TO CARTHEGENIANS: HANNO
THAT HE PLY BEYOND PILLARS OF HERAKLES
60 SHIPS OF ARMADA TO LAY OUT PHOENECIAN CITIES
TO EACH SHIP 50 OARS, IN ALL
30 THOUSAND ABOARD THEM WITH WATER AND WHEAT, IN PROVISION.
TWO DAYS BEYOND GIBEL TARA, LAYED IN THE WIDE PLAIN
=*THUMIATEHYON, WENT WESTWARD TO SOLOIS
AN HEADLAND COVERED WITH TREES
=*ENTHA =*HIERON =*POSEIDONOS, AGAINST THE SUN HALF A DAY
IS SEABORD MARSHLAND HIGH-MURMURING RUSHES.
IN THAT PLACE GREAT ELEPHANT HERDS
AND BEASTS MANY OTHER AMONGST THEM
SO LAID WE HOUSE: =*KARIKON, =*GUTTA, =*AKRA, =*MELI, =*ARAMBO
THESE ARE THE CITIES, THEN LIXOS
POURS DOWN FROM OUT OF HIGH LIBYA
THE LICITAE FRIENDLY COWBOYS AND HERDERS
UP COUNTRY BE AETHIOPIANS LIVING WITH UNTAMED BEASTS
SHUT IN BY THE LIXTUS MOUNTAIN
WHEREON ARE MISSHAPEN MEN SWIFTER THAN HORSES.
<F 208>MEN OF LIXTAE CAME WITH US TO UNTERPRET
FOR 12 DAYS SAILING SOUTHWARD, SOUTHWARD BY DESERT
ONE DAY SAILED AGAINST SUN, THERE IS AN HARBOUR
WITH AN ISLAND 15 MILES IN CIRCUMFERENCE,
WE BUILT THERE, CALLING IT =*CYRNE
BELIEVING IT OPPOSITE CARTHAGE AS OUR SAILING TIME
WAS THE SAME AS FROM CARTHAGE TO THE PILLARS.
<D 200>PAST =*XRESTES, A GREAT RIVER,
A LAGOON WITH THREE LARGISH ISLANDS
A DAY ONWARD GREAT HILLS END AN INLET,
THEIR FOLK WEAR THE HIDES OF WILD BEASTS
AND THREW ROCKS TO STONE US,
SO PREVENTED OUR LANDING.
NEXT IS A RIVER WIDE, FULL OF WATER
CROCODILES, RIVER HORSES, THENCE WE TURNED BACK TO CYRNE
FOR 12 DAYS COASTED THE SHORE
AETHIOPS FLED AT OUR COMING
OUR LIXTAE CD. NOT UNDERSTAND THEM.
12TH DAY ROSE THE WOODY MOUNTAIN
WITH GREAT SOFT SMELL FROM THE TREES
ALL PERFUMES MANY-MINGLING.
TWO DAYS, THE WIDE BAYOU OR INLET
LAY FLATLAND ABOVE IT BUSY BY NIGHT WITH FIRES.
FILLED OUR TANKS, SAILED 5 DAYS ALONG SHORE
CAME THEN WEST HORN, THE ISLAND THAT CLOSES ITS HARBOUR
AND BY DAY WE SAW ONLY FOREST,
BY NIGHT THEIR FIRES
WITH SOUND OF PIPE AGAINST PIPE
THE SOUND PLY OVER PLY; CYMBAL BEAT AGAINST CYMBAL,
THE DRUM, WOOD, LEATHER, BEAT, BEAT NOISE TO MAKE TERROR.
THE DIVINERS TOLD US TO CLEAR.
WENT FROM THAT FIRE FRAGRANCE,
<F 209>FLAMES FLOWED INTO SEA,
FEARING AND SWIFTLY, THE LAND BY NIGHT DECKED WITH FLAME
ONE PILLAR OF LIGHT ABOVE OTHERS
SCORCHED AT THE SKY AND STARS
BY DAY THIS STOOD AN HTGH MOUNTAIN
THAT THEY  CALL THE GOD'S CARROCH.
BY FLAME FOR THREE DAYS TO SOUTH HORN, THE BAYOU,
THE ISLAND OF FOLK HAIRY AND SAVAGE
WHOM OUR LIXTAE SAID WERE GORILLAS.
WE CD. NOT TAKE ANY MAN, BUT THREE OF THEIR WOMEN.
<D 201>THEIR MEN CLOMB UP THE CRAGS,
RAINED STONE, BUT WE TOOK THREE WOMEN
WHO BIT, SCRATCHED, WD. NOT FOLLOW THEIR TAKERS.
KILLED FLAYED, BROUGHT BACK THEIR PELTS INTO CARTHAGE.
WENT NO FURTHER THAT VOYAGE,
AS WERE AT END OF PROVISIONS.
OUT OF WHICH THINGS SEEKING AN EXIT
TO THE HIGH AIR, TO THE STRATOSPHERE, TO THE IMPERIAL
CALM, TO THE EMPYREAN, TO THE BAILY OF THE FOUR TOWERS
THE =*NOUS, THE INEFFABLE CRYSTAL:
=*KARXEDONION =*BASILEOS
HUNG THIS WITH HIS MAP IN THEIR TEMPLE.
<C 41>
<F 210><D 202>MA QVESTO,"
SAID THE BOSS, "E DIVERTENTE."
CATCHING THE POINT BEFORE THE AESTHETES HAD GOT THERE;
HAVING DRAINED OFF THE MUCK BY VADA
FROM THE MARSHES, BY CIREO, WHERE NO ONE ELSE WD. HAVE DRAINED IT.
WAITED 2000 YEARS, ATE GRAIN FROM THE MARSHES;
WATER SUPPLY FOR TEN MILLION, ANOTHER ONE MILLION "VANI"
THAT IS ROOMS FOR PEOPLE TO LIVE IN.
XI OF OUR ERA.
STORY TOLD BY THE MEZZO-YITT:
THAT THEY WERE TO HAVE A CONSORTIUM
AND ONE OF THE POTBELLIES SAYS:
WILL COME IN FOR 12 MILLION.
AND ANOTHER: THREE MULLYUM FOR MY CUT;
AND ANOTHER: WE WILL TAKE EIGHT;
AND THE BOSS SAID: BUT WHAT WILL YOU
DO WITH THAT MONEY?
"BUT! BUT! SIGNORE, YOU DO NOT ASK A MAN
WHAT HE WILL DO WITH HIS MONEY.
THAT IS A PERSONAL MATTER."
AND THE BOSS SAID: BUT WHAT WILL YOU DO?
YOU WON'T REALLY NEED ALL THAT MONEY
BECAUSE YOU ARE ALL FOR THE CONFINO."
"NOI CI FACCIAM SCANNER PER MUSSOLINI"
SAID THE COMANDANTE DELLA PIAZZA.
"POPOLO" SAID CICI "IGNORANTE!
"AND THE WORST OF 'EM ALL IS MY "DONNA"
(IN THE THIRD YEAR OF HIS AGE)
<D 203>"WHERE THE POPE GOES IS LACK OF MONEY
<F 211>BECAUSE OF THE MASS OF CLERICS
WHO BRING CHEQUES FOR THE BANKS TO CASH,
AND FOR THESE THE BANKS MUST PAY MONEY,
AND YOU MUST KNOW HOW THEY PAY, AND
WHEN AND ON WHAT DAYS THERE ARE MARKETS
AND IN WHAT SEASONS ARE THE FAIRS, AND
WHEN THEY NEED MONEY IN WHICH WHERE
AND WHAT ARE THE RATES OF EXCHANGE
(MESSIRE UZZANO IN 1442)
TO HAVE SHORTAGE NEITHER IN TIME NOR IN PLACE
BUT TO HAVE MONEY THERE READY
FOR SAILING OF SHIPS, WANGLES OF MERCHANTS
AND FOR THE DUE PAY FOR SOLDIERS
BOTH FROM COMMUNE OR OVERLORD,
AND YOU MUST WORK DAY AND NIGHT
TO KEEP UP WITH YOUR LETTERS."
ELEVEN HOURS THE DAY, 32 CENTIMES THE HOUR
"AND YOU STOLE IT"
SAID THE EMPLOYER AT ORBE
AFTER THE BOSS HAD WORN OUT HIS BEST ONLY SHOES.
MONDAY 14TH, IN THE MORNING.
AFTER SIX DAYS IN THE TRAINING CORPS
THEY SENT HIM BACK TO THE FRONT
(DOCUMENTO)
GESCHICHTE UND LEBENSBILDER
TEMPERATURE OF ENORMOUS IMPORTANCE
ERNEUNG DES RELIGIOSEN LEBENS
MORE ESPECIALLY IN MOUNTAIN WARFARE
IN DEN DEUTSCHEN BEFREIUNGSKRIEGEN, BY WILHELM BAUR
THIS REMARKABLE WORK WAS PRESENTED
TO THE YOUNG UHLAN OFFICER
<F 212>BY HER IMPERIAL MAJESTY AUGUSTA VICTORIA
WITH A TENDER AND MOTHERLY DEDICATION
<D 204>RENEWAL OF HIGHER LIFE
IN THE STRUGGLE FOR GERMAN FREEDOM, 19 HUNDRED AND 8,
IN MOUNTAIN WARFARE.
ORDINE, CONTRORDINE E DISORDINE
"UNA PACE QUALUNQUE"
SOCIAL CONTENT TO THE WAR.
THE YOUNG UHLAN WAS NEVER OUT OF UNIFORM FROM HIS
EIGHTH YEAR TILL THE END OF THE WAR
CONTRORDINE E DISORDINE
TREES, HEDGES OF WHITE THORN, TOWARD SAN CASCIANO
WERE STIFF FROSTED WITH SILVER-
20 METRES BETWEEN THE TRENCHES
"WAS IDENTIFIED AS THE HOPITAL WHERE MUSSOLINI...FROM
PHOTO IN CORRIERE DI DOMENICA, AND THEN BOMBED...
FELDMARSCHALL HINDENBURG IN THE IMPERIAL BOX
HEARD FOR THE FIRST TIME MOZART AND ASKED WHAT THE NOISE WAS
ALL THIS GOD DAMNED CULTURAL NONSENSE.
BUT FRITZ' FATHER HAD KEPT THE LETTER
THAT HE, HERR NVON SO FORTH, SHD. BACK UP
HIS, HINDENBURG'S APPLICATION
FOR A SEVEN DOLLAR PER YEAR INCREASE IN PENSION-
FEES DUE HIM FOR HAVING PARTICIPATED IN THE
BATTLE OF WAFFENSCHLAG, IN THE SEVENTIES OR WHENEVER.
UNA PACE QUALUNQUE. OVER UDINE...
WD. HAVE CALLED THAT EAGLE A PORTENT
"YES, SIR, WE WILL FILE THAT"
SAID THE SEVENTH UNDER CAT'S DOGKEEPER
WHEN HE REC'D THE HUN ULTIMATUM,
THE REST BEING NACHERLY ON FRENCH VACATION...1914
<F 213>"AT ANY RATE, HE HAD THE FLEET OUT."
REMARKED WINSTON'S MAMA.
"NEVER" SAID WINSTON TO HIS COUSIN
"WASTE TIME MAKING MUNITIONS.
BE A GUN, AND SHOOT OTHER'S MUNITIONS.
<D 205>DON'T WASTE TIME HAVING IDEAS."
(COUSIN DEEPLY IMPRESSED..BUT
DID NOT ACHIEVE LASTING PREEMINENCE)
IN THAT WORLD WHICH M. CREVEL HAS DEPICTED
IN THE WORLD OF ESPERANZA, PRIMROSE AND AUGUSTA;
OF FAT FUSSY OLD WOMEN AND OF FAT FUSSY OLD MEN.
"SURE THEY WANT WAR," SAID BILL YEATS,
"THEY WANT ALL THE YOUNG GALS FER THEMSELVES."
THAT LLOVELY UNCONSCIOUS WORLD
SLOP OVER SLOP, AND BLUE RIBBONS
"PIG AND PIFFLE" THEY CALLED IT IN PRIVATE
10 PENCE PER COPY TO MAKE, 6 PENCE ON THE STANDS
AND EACH YEAR 20 THOUSAND IN PROFITS
PAYS TO CONTROL THE PRESS, FOR ITS EFFECT ON THE MARKET
"WHERE THERE IS NO CENSORSHIP BY THE STATE
THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF MANIPULATION..."
AND NEWS SENSE?
COSIMO FIRST GUARANTEED IT.
TO PAY 5% ON ITS STOCK, MONTE DEI PASCHI
AND TO LEND AT 5 AND 1\2
OVERPLUS OF ALL PROFIT, TO RELIEF WORKS
AND THE ADMINISTRATION ON MODERATE PAY..
THAT STOOD EVEN AFTER NAPOLEON.
SAID C. H. "TO STRANGLE THE BANKERS...?"
AND WOERGL IN OUR TIME?
TO THE COUNT DE VERGENNES, PARIS, AUGUST. 1785
CONSUMPTION TOBACCO, ESTEEMED IN FRANCS
<F 214>15 TO 30 MILLION POUNDS, LET US SAY IT MAY BE 24
DELIVERED IN PORTS OF FRANCE @ 8 SOUS
9 MILLION 600 THOUSAND
AT THE RATE OF 6 SOUS TO MANUFACTURE
7 MILLION AND SOMETHING
REVENUE TO THE KING 30 MILLION
TO THE CONSUMER 72 (IDEM)
<D 206>EXPENSE OF THE TAX IN COLLECTION IS THEREFORE
SAY 25 MILLION
PRESUMPTUOUS TO ASSUME
TWENTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, 19 MILLIONS ACCURSED, MRS. TRIST,
IN EVERY MATERIAL CIRCUMSTANCE.....
PUBLIC DEBT INCREASING AT ABOUT ONE MILLION A YEAR
YOU WILL SEE BY GALLATIN'S SPEECHES....
SADDLED BY BANK, LED BY A BRIDLE
NATIONAL PROPERTY BEING INCREASED...
MUST FURNISH ADEQUATE REPRESENTATION...
ALL IMPORTED COMMODITIES ARE RAISED ABOUT 50 PERCENT
VOL. IX. 337, LANDS ROSE IN A VORTEX OF PAPER,
NOT HERE WHERE THE BANKS DO NOT REACH
MECHANICS GET 1.50 A DAY
BUT ARE WORSE OFF THAN WITH THE OLD WAGES....
INDEPENDENT USE OF OUR MONEY...TOWARD HOLDING OUR BANK.
MR JEFFERSON TO COLONEL MONROE
120 MILLION GERMAN FUSES USED BY THE ALLIES TO KILL GERMANS
BRITISH GUNSIGHTS FROM JENA
SCHNEIDER CREUSOT ARMED TURKEY
COPPER FROM ENGLAND THROUGH SWEDEN...MR HATFIELD
PATENTED HIS NEW SHELL IN EIGHT COUNTRIES.
AD INTERIM 1933

<G 03>
<C 42>
<F 217><D 209>"WE OUGHT, I THINK, TO SAY IN CIVIL TERMS: YOU BE DAMNED"
(PALMERSTON, TO RUSSELL RE\CHAS. F. ADAMS)
"AND HOW THIS PEOPLE CAN IN THIS THE FIFTH ET CETERA
YEAR OF THE WAR, LEAVE THAT OLD ETCETERA UP
THERE ON THAT MONUMENT!" "H.G." TO E.P. 1918 [WELLS]
LEX SALICA! LEX GERMANICA, ANTONINUS
SAID LAW RULES AT SEA
FIXED IN THE SOUL, NELL' ANIMA, OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS COLLEGE
THEY HAD BEEN TEN YEARS PROPOSING SUCH A MONTE,
THAT IS A SPECIES OF BANK-DAMN GOOD BANK, IN SIENA
A MOUNT, A BANK, A FUND A BOTTOM AN
INSTITUTION OF CREDIT
A PLACE TO SEND CHEQUES IN AND OUT OF
AND YET NOT YET A BANCO DI GIRO, AND THE BAILEY
SOUGHT VIEWS FROM THE SENATE "WITH PATERNAL AFFECTION
JUSTICE CONVENIENCE OF CITY WHAT COLLEGE HAD WITH SUCH
FORESIGHT WHEREFORE S.A. (YOUR HIGHNESS) AS IN REGISTER
NOV. 1624
FOLLOWING DETAILS: AS THIRD, A YEARLY BALANCE
AS 5TH THAT ANY CITIZEN SHALL HAVE RIGHT TO DEPOSIT
AND TO FRUITS THEREFROM RESULTANT AT FIVE PERCENT ANNUAL INTEREST
AND THAT BORROWERS PAY A BIT OVER THAT
FOR SERVICES (DEI MINISTRI) THAT IS FOR RUNNING EXPENSES
AND BOOK KEEPING WHICH SHALL BE COUNTED A HALF SCUDO
PER HUNDRED PER YEAR
(ALL OF THIS IS IMPORTANT)
AND 6THLY THAT THE MAGISTRATE
GIVE HIS CHIEF CARE THAT THE SPECIE
<F 218><D 210>BE LENT TO WHOMSO CAN BEST USE IT USE IT
(ID EST, PIU UTILMENTE)
TO THE GOOD OF THEIR HOUSES, TO BENEFIT OF THEIR BUSINESS
AS OF WEAVING, THE WOOL TRADE, THE SILK TRADE
AND THAT (7THLY) THE OVERABUNDANCE EVERY FIVE YEARS SHALL THE
BAILEY
DISTRIBUTE TO WORKERS OF THE CONTRADE (THE WARDS) HOLDING IN
RESERVE A PRUDENT PROPORTION AS AGAINST UNFORESEEN LOSSES
THOUGH THERE SHD. BE NO SUCH LOSSES
AND 9TH THAT THE BORROWERS CAN PAY UP BEFORE THE END OF THEIR
TERM WHENSO IT BE TO THEIR INTEREST. NO DEBT TO RUN MORE THAN
FIVE YEARS.
JULY 1623
LOCO SIGNI
A CROSS IN THE MARGIN
THAT PROFIT ON DEPOSITS SHOULD BE USED TO COVER ALL LOSSES
AND THAT DISTRIBUTIONS ON THE FIFTH YEAR BE MADE FROM REMAINING
PROFITS, AFTER RESTORATION OF LOSSES NO (BENCHE) MATTER HOW
SMALL
WITH SANE SMALL RESERVE AGAINST FUTURE IDEM
I, LIVIO PASQUINI, NOTARY, CITIZEN OF SIENA, MOST FAITHFULLY COPIED
JULY 18TH. 1623
CONSULES, IUDICUM, AND NOTARY PUBLIC PRO SERENISSIMO
ATTEST LIVIO'S SUPERSCRIPT NEXT DATE BEING NOVEMBER.
WAVE FALLS AND THE HAND FALLS
THOU SHALT NOT ALWAYS WALK IN THE SUN
OR SEE WEED SPROUT OVER CORNICE
THY WORK IN SET SPACE OF YEARS, NOT OVER AN HUNDRED.
THAT THE MOUNT OF PITY (OR HOCK SHOP)
MUNICIPAL OF SIENA HAS LENT ONLY ON PLEDGES,
THAT IS ON STUFF ACTUALLY HOCKED...WD BE WE BELIEVE USEFUL
<F 219>AND BENEFICENT THAT THERE BE PLACE TO LEND LICITLY
MONEY TO RECEIVE LICITLY MONEY
AT MODERATE AND LEGITIMATE INTEREST
<D 211>WAS SENT MONTHS AGO TO YYOUR HHIGHNESS AA VV A MEMORIAL
TO ERECT A NEW MOUNTAIN
COULD ACCEPT SPECIE FROM UNIVERSITIES (ID EST CONGREGATIONS)
AND INDIVIDUALS AND FROM LUOGHI
I.E. COMPANIES AND PERSONS BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
WHOMSOEVER
NOT REQUIRING THAT THEY HAVE SPECIAL PRIVILEGE
BECAUSE OF THEIR STATE OR CONDITIONS BUT TO FOLK OF
ANY CONDITION
THAT THE SAME MOUNT CD\LEND ON GOOD MALLEVADORIA
(THAT IS SECURITY) AT THE SAME RATE PLUS A LITTLE OVER
TO COVER CURRENT EXPENSES OF SUPERVISORS AND EMPLOYEES
& BEING SENT TO YY. HHIGHNESSES (AA. VV. = YY HH)
THAT YOU MIGHT UNDERSTAND IT
THAT IT BE BROUGHT TO CONSIDERATION WITH CERTAIN DETAILS
DISCUSSED FIRST ORALLY AND THEN PUT INTO WRITING
(IN WHAT WD. SEEM TO HAVE BEEN 1622)
STATING THAT FIRENZE HAD NO INCOME AND THEIR HIGHNESSES
HAD PROVIDED CREDIT FROM CUSTOMS
AND FROM MISCELLANEOUS TAXES
AND THAT THE GRAND DUKE HADN'T LOST ANYTHING BY IT
PLUS A LIST OF SIENESE ASSETS (COOLISH)
PLUS A LIEN ON "THE ABUNDANCE"
AND KNOWING THAT ALL THIS IS BUT A LITTLE
PLEDGE THE PERSONS AND GOODS OF THE LAITY
AND LEAVE OPEN DOOR TO OTHER TOWNS IN THE STATE
WHO CARE TO GIVE SIMILAR PLEDGES
AND THAT WHOSO PUTS IN MONEY SHALL HAVE LOTS IN THE MONTE
THAT YEILD 5% INTEREST
<F 220>AND THAT THESE SHAREHOLDERS SHALL RECEIVE THEIR DUE FRUIT
AND THAT THE GD. DUKE MAKE KNOWN AT SIENA
TO THE SAME DEPUTIES OF THE BAILEY...
BUT THAT IT BE SEPARATE FROM THE PAWN SHOP
AND HAVE ITS OWN MAGISTRATES AND EMPLOYEES
AND THAT YYOUR HHIGHNESSES SEND APPROBATION
<D 212>COMMANDING THEIR WILL, WE HUMBLY WITH REVERENCE
...THE 29TH DAY OF XEMBER 1622...
SERVANTS OF YYOUR HHIGHNESSES
NICOLO DE ANTILLE
HORATIO GIONFIGLIOLI
SEBASTIANO CELLESI
TTHEIR HHIGHNESSES GRATIFIED
THE CITY OF THIS DEMAND TO
ERECT A NEW MONTE
FOR GOOD PUBLIC AND PRIVATE AND TO FACILITATE...
..AGREED TO ACCOMMODATE
.....AND TO LEND THE FUND AGAINST THE GD. DUKE'S
PUBLIC ENTRIES TO THE SUM OF
200,000 SCUDI
CAPITAL FOR FRUIT AT 5% ANNUAL
WHICH IS 10,000 A YEAR
ASSIGNED ON THE OFFICE OF GRAZING
ON CAUTION OF SAID SECURITY OFFERED
LEAVING GROUND FOR OTHER TOWNS THAT
WISH TO PARTICIPATE
WITH TTHEIR HHIGHNESSES
APPROBATIONS AS FOLLOWS.
MARIA MADDALENA TUTRICE
HORO DELLA RENA 30 XEMBRE 1622
NEEDS A STAMP
REFER TO
THE GOVERNOR
<F 221>FABBIZIO BOLLO
VEDO
GOVERNATURE THE ILLUSTRIOUS BAILEY
EXECUTED IN TOTO & AS PER TRUE RESCRIPT OF
TTHEIR HHIGHNESSES
2 JAN 1622
CENZIO GRCOLINI
WHICH DATE GOES IN THE SIENESE CALENDER
<D 213>WHEREOF DECEMBER WAS THE XTH MONTH AND
MARCH WAS THE NEW YEAR
ACTUM SENIS, THE
PARISH OF SAN JOANNIJ IN THE GD. DUCAL PALACE
PRESENT THE MARQUIS JOANNE CHRISTOPHORO THE
ILLUSTRIOUS MARQUIS ANTONY MARY OF MALASPINA
AND THE MOST RENOWNED JOHNNY SOMETHING OR OTHER DE BINIS
FLORENTINE SENATOR, WITNESS AND I NOTARY UNDERSIGNED
EGO LIVIUS PASQUINUS OF MARIUS
(DECEASED) FILIUS APOSTOLIC IMPERIAL AND PONTIFICAL NOTARY
PUBLIC JUDGE ORDINARY, CITIZEN OF SIENA
WHEREFORE
LET ALL SUNDRY AND WHOEVER BE
SATISFIED THAT THE SAID MOUNT MAY BE CREATED.
SO THAT THE ECHO TURNED BACK IN MY MIND: PAVIA:
SAW CITIES MOVE IN ONE FIGURE, VICENZA, AS DEPICTED
SAN ZENO BY ADIGE...
I NICOLAUS ULIVIS
DE CAGNASCIS CITIZEN OF PISTOJA FLORENTINE NOTARY PUBLIC
COUNTERSIGNING
SENATUS POPULUSQUE SENENSIS
OB PECUNIAE SCARCITATEM
BORROWING, RIGGING EXCHANGES,
LICIT CONSUMPTION IMPEDED
AND IT IS GETTING STEADILY WORSE
<F 222>OTHERS WITH SPECIE ABUNDANT DO NOT USE IT IN BUSINESS
(TO BE YOUNG IS TO SUFFER.
BE OLD, AND BE PAST THAT)
DO NOT USE IT IN BUSINESS AND EVERYONE REMAINS HERE
WITHOUT WORK
FEW COME TO BUY IN THE MARKET
FEWER STILL WORK THE FIELDS
MONTE NON VACABILIS PUBLICO
SHARES NOT TO EXPIRE WITH DEATH...WILL TTHEIR HHIGHNESSES
AGAINST PUBLIC ENTRIES
<D 214>GET THAT STRAIGHT-CAPITAL TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
WHICH WD. CORRESPOND TO 10,000 INCOME
ON THE ENTRIES OF THE OFFICE OF GRAZING
WITH PRECAUTIONS (CAUTELES)
TO GUARANTEE THEIR SAME HIGHNESSES AGAINST ANY POSSIBLE LOSS
WHICH IDEA DATES AT LEAST TO JULY 1623
DIE DECIMA OTTAVA
AND OTHER COPIES 1624, 1622
WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN APPROVED "LAST OCTOBER"
BY DELLA RENA AND M. MAGDALENE THE SHE GUARDIAN,
TUTRICE, MORE OR LESS REGENT
DON FERDINANDUS SECUNDUS DUX MAGNUS
AND HIS SERENEST SHE TUTRICES
WITH PUBLIC DOCUMENTATION
FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE UTILITY
FORESEEING ERECTION
LEGITIMATE AND JUST, SUCH A MOUNTAIN
CHIGI, SOFFICI, MARCELLUS DE? ILLURI,
<F 223>NO, MARCELLUS AUSTINI, CALOANES MARESCOTTI AND
LORD MT ALBAN EFFECTED
THAT THE OFFICERS OF THIS MOUNTAIN
AND IN TIME TO COME ALL THEIR SUCCESSORS
SHARES THAT SHALL BE CALLED LOCA MONTIS-
HAVE YOU A PLACE ON THE HILL, SIR?
OUT OF SURE KNOWLEDGE AND
EX CERTE SCIENTIA ET IN PLENITUDE OF THEIR POWERS
INVIOLABLE FOR OBSERVANCE, SO TO BE COMPREHENDED
10 THOUSAND SCUDI
DE LIBRIS SEPTENO
? ONE SCUDO WORTH 7 LIRE
IN RESPECT TO 200,000 (TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND).
<C 43>
<F 224><D 215>TO THE SERENISSIMO DNO (PRONOUNCED DOMINO)
AND HIS MOST SERENE AFTERCOMERS
THINGS, PERSONS ET OMNIA ALIA JUVA
WHATEVER
AND THE CASH IN THE PAWN SHOP
(MOUNT OF PITY)
EIUSDEM CIVITATIS SENEN.
THERE BEING IN THE THIRD PLACE
2 THOUSAND 310 THERE TO THE CREDIT OF
THE MAGNIFICENT MAGISTRATES AND LORDS OFFICERS
AND 3756 IN THE SAME MOUNT
DESCRIBED AS TO CREDIT OF CITIZENS
AND IN COMMON CALLED MONEY OF GENOVA
AND MOST SERENE M DUX
AND SERENEST (FEMININE) TUTRICES
BY THE SAID MASTERS DEPUTIES OF THE BAILEY
AS TO THE BEST MODE AND OBLIGATIONS AND CAUTIONS
MOST AMPLE DEE-LIBERATION
PRAYER, SUPPLICATION AS HEREWITH AND HEREFOLLOWING
VIDELICET ALLIGATI
IN THE NAME OF OMNIPOTENT GOD
AND THE GLORIOUS VIRGIN AND ADVOCATE
TO THE GD. DUKE'S HONOUR AND EXALTATION
THE MOST SERENE, TUSCANISSIMO NOSTRO SIGNORE
IN THE LORD'S YEAR 1622
SATURDAY FOURTH DAY OF MARCH
AT? VITH (HOUR? AFTER SUNRISE OR WHATEVER)
CALLED TOGETHER ASSEMBLED IN GENERAL
COUNCIL OF THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF SIENA MAGNIFICENT
<F 225>SYMBOLIC GOOD OF THE COMMUNE
AND FATHERLAND DILITTISSIMO
<D 216>HAVING CHIEF PLACE AND DESIRE THAT THE
CITIZENS GET SATISFACTION (SIANO SODDISFATTI) CONTENTMENT
AND BE FULLY PERSUADED OF
WHAT FOR THE COMMON GOOD IS HERE BEING DEALT WITH
AS WE HAVE ALREADY BEEN FOR TEN YEARS PROJECTING THIS MONTE
FOR GT. FUTURE BENEFIT TO THE CITY
WORTHY WILL TO THE CHOSEN END.
OB PECUNIAE SCARSITATEM
S. P. SENENSIS AC PRO EO AMPLISSIM
BALIA COLLEGIUM CIVICES VIGILANTIAE
TOTIUS CIVITATIS
URBAN VIIITH OF SIENA, FERD. I MAG DUCE DONO
FELICITATEM DOMINANTE ET FERD. I
ROMAN EMPEROR AS ELECTED.
1251 OF THE PROTOCOLS MARKED ALSO
X, I, I, F, AND FOUR ARABIC
OB PECUNIAE SCARSITATEM
BECAUSE THERE WAS SHORTAGE OF COIN, IN NOVEMBER
BECAUSE OF TAXES, EXCHANGES, TAX LAYINGS AND USERIES
LEGITIMATE CONSUMPTION IMPEDED
TEN THOUSAND ON THE OFFICE OF PASTURAGE
TO THE END:
FOUR FAT OXEN
HAVING THEIR ARSES WIPED
AND IN GENERAL BEING TIDIED UP TO SERVE GOD UNDER MY WINDOW
WITH STOLES OF IMPERIAL PURPLE
WITH TASSELS, AND GROOMS BEFORE THE CARROCCIO
ON WHICH CARROCH SIX LION HEADS
TO RECEIVE THE WAX OFFERING
<F 226>THUS ARRIVE THE GOLD EAGLES, THE BANNERS OF THE CONTRADE,
AND BOXES OF CANDLES
"MN-YAWWH!!!"
SAID THE LEFT FRONT OX, SUDDENLY,
"PNAWH!" AS THEY TIED ON HIS RED FRONT BAND,
<D 217>ST GEORGE, TWO HOKEY-POKEY STANDS AND THE UNICORN
"NICCHIO! NICCH-IO-NE!!"
THE KALLIPYGOUS SIENESE FEMALES
GET THAT WAY FROM THE SALITE
THAT IS FROM CONTINUAL PLUGGING UP HILL
ONE BOX MARKED "200 LIRE"
"LAUDATE PUERI"
ALIAS: SERVE GOD WITH CANDLES
WITH THE PALIO AND 17 BANNERS
AND WHEN SIX MEN HAD HOISTED UP THE BIG CANDLE
A BIT ASKEW IN THE CARROCH AND THE FORE OX HAD
BEEN FINALLY ARSE-WIPED
THEY SET OFF TOWARD THE DUOMO, TIME
CONSUMED 1 HOUR AND 17 MINUTES.
ON THE SECURITY
MOBILE AND IMMOBILE
OF INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS
IN THE CITY OR WHERESOEVER REE-
SPONSIBLITY QUOCUNQUE ALIUNDE
AND THIS OBLIGATIO, OBLIGATION SHD\ BE DIVIDED
BY PORTION OF IMMOBILE GOODS
THUS DELIBERATED IN FULL MEETING
IN THE NAME OF THE OMNIPOTENT, AND OF THE GLORIOUS VIRGIN
MA (MEANING MARIA) OUR ADVOCATE
YEAR OF SALVATION 1622 ON A SATURDAY
AS WAS THE 4TH DAY OF MARCH
HAVING ALREADY TEN YEARS AGO STARTED PROPOSING
<F 227>REPRESENTATIVES OF THE WHOLE PEOPLE
AND BELOW WRITTEN NOTARIES PUBLIC
TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
(SCUDI)
MAISTER AUGUSTINO CHISIO EQUITES
ANOINTED OF THE ORDER OF STEPHEN (POPE, HOLY)
DUCATORUM? NO. DUCENTORUM
A RETURN OF 10,000 SCUDI
<D 218>IN THE PARISH OF SAN GIOVANNI (JOANNIS)
TO BE OR NOT TO BE TIED UP WITH THE PAWN SHOP
AND HIS SUCCESSORS IN THE GREAT DUCHY
GUARANTEE OF THE INCOME FROM GRAZING
UP TO (ILLEGIBLE) SAID TO MEAN, NO...
LIBRIS SEPTEM, THE SUM OF, SUMMAM, SCUTORUM
TEN THOUSAND
ON SECURITY MOBILE AND IMMOBILE
REE-
SPONSIBILITY
OUT OF SYRACUSE
NOT HAVING MONEY ABOARD
TO ATHENS AT CREDITORS' RISK
CUT THE SAILS, DUMPED OIL AT AN ISLAND
BUT THE S.O. MAN (STANDARD OIL)
WOULDNT SWALLOW IT.
UP TO THE QUANTITY OF 200,000
ON THE WHOLE PEOPLE'S CREDIT
FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE UTILITY
SHARES TO BE CALLED LOCA MONTIS
WHICH IS TO SAY SITES ON THE MOUNTAIN
@ 100 SCUDI TO GIVE 5 SCUDI A YEAR
AS LONG AS THE MOUNT ENDURE
THERE FIRST WAS THE FRUIT OF NATURE
<F 228>THERE WAS THE WHOLE WILL OF THE PEOPLE
SERENE M. DUX AND HIS TUTRICES
AND LORDS DEPUTIES OF THE BAILEY, IN NAME OF OMNIPOTENT GOD
BEST MODE ETCETERA, AND THE GLORIOUS VIRGIN
CONVOKED AND GATHERED TOGETHER 1622
GENERAL COUNCIL THERE WERE 117 COUNCILLORS
IN THE HALL OF WORLD MAP, WITH BELLS AND WITH
VOICE OF THE CRYER (IL BANDITORE)
SHARES OF MOUNT TO YIELD FIVE SCUDI ON EACH HUNDRED
PER ANNUM, AND TO BE SEPARATE FROM THE PITY
<D 219>WITH ITS OWN MAGISTRATES, ITS OWN MINISTERS
ILLUS BALIA ESEGUISCA IN TUTTO
RESCRIPT OF TTHEIR HHIGHNESSES
ACTUM SENIS IN PAROCHIA S. GIOVANNIS
BLANK LEAVES AT END UP TO THE INDEX
HOC DIE DECIM' OCTAVO, FROM THE INCARNATION
[CELSO CITTADINI]YEAR 1623. CELSO HAD A WHEAT SCHEME
JULY TO DECEMBER, JULY TO NOVEMBER
GRASS NOWHERE OUT OF PLACE.
PINE CUTS THE SKY INTO THREE
THUS BANK OF THE GRASSLAND WAS RAISED INTO SEIGNORY
STATI FATTI SIGNORIA, BEING PRESENT PARIS BOLGARINI
CREDIT OF THE COMMUNE OF SIENA
12 OF THE BAILEY PRESENT...WENT INTO COMMITTEE
I CANCELLARIUS WROTE TO HIS HIGHNESS
A NEW MOUNT THAT SHALL RECEIVE FROM ALL SORTS OF PERSONS
FROM LUOGHI PUBLIC AND PRIVATE, PRIVILEGED AND NON-PRIVILEGED
A BASE, A FONDO, A DEEP, A SURE AND A CERTAIN
THE CITY HAVING "ENTRATE"
THE CUSTOMS AND PUBLIC INCOME
150 TO M\200 SCUDI
<F 229>TO GUARANTEE WHICH
WD\ SUFFICE 8 TO 10 THOUSAND YEARLY
ON THE GABELLE AND\ OR ON THE DOGANA
TUESDAY 3 JAN TO WED. 6 EPIFANY 1622
A NEW MONTE REQUESTED TO BEAR @ 5% ANNUAL
1622 JANUARY, ASSIGNED ON THE PASCHI
OFFO DE PASCHI
MARCH 1622 DONNA ORSOLA OF WHEREVER REMOVED FROM THE BOOK OF
THE SIENESE PUBLIC WOMEN (MOTION APPROVED BY THE BAILEY)
MARCH 24 AGAIN APPEARED BLACK MONEY FROM FLORENCE
MONTE DI FIRENZE, VACABILE, 1591
<D 220>PAYABLE EVERY TWO MONTHS HAD BEEN 8 AND 1\2
GANGSTERS ADMITTED.
1621 TO PROVIDE WORK FOR THE POPULACE.
REGISTER, RESCRIPT
O-
RAZIO DELLA RENA TO BE RECOGNIZED
AS ILLEGITIMATE FATHER OF THE BASTARDS OF PIETRO DE MEDICI
AT 100 SCUDI PER ANNUM
IF YOU FOLLOW ME, NOT AS THE
LEGITIIATE FATHER OF PIETRO'S ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
ORBEM BELLIS, URBEM GABELLIS, URBANUS OCTAVUS.
IMPLEVIT. THE POPE FILLED....
JUNE 21ST FRIDAY OR THEREABOUTS 1624
AGREED TO MAGISTRATE'S ORDER THAT
MRS MARGURITA DE PECORA GALLO
BE REMOVED FROM THE REGISTER OF THE TOWN WHORES
OF SIENA, ON CHARGE OF THEIVERY
<F 230>FRIDAY THE FIRST DAY OF JULY
MERCHANTS SPOKE TO THE BAILEY, ACTION ON MONTE NUOVO
DELAYED
JAN. 1622 THE DUKE ANSWERED, AND ALREADY SPOKE OF THE
GRASS LAND
16 JULY, MONTE NUOVO, COMMITTEE TO ARRANGE IT.
NEW MOUNT APPROVED BY THEIR HIGHNESSES
XBRE MONTE PASCHALE, FATTO SIGNORIA NOTICE SERVED TO THE
MAGISTRATES FOR CONSERVATIONS AND TO THE MAGISTRACY OF
THE GRAZING
MAY 1626 MORE STEW ABOUT THE BLACK MONEY (LEAD MONEY)
RESCRIPT:
THAT IN THE SAID PLACE
BE NOT PUT FOR THE LORD COUNT NOR HIS SUCCESSORS
ANY SURETY FOR BANDITS AND CRIMINALS
<D 221>BUT ONLY FOR CIVIL DEBTS, THAT IT SERVE NOT AS SAFE CACHE FOR CRIMINALS
AS DID THE FLORENTINE LOAN OFFICE
ANNO DOMINO 15 HUNDRED AN' WHATEVER
REMAIN OBLIGED TO TAKE SALT FROM GROSSETO
AT THE SAME PRICE AS NOW RULING
1676 AMBASSADORS TO FIRENZE
WHEN THE GRAND DUKE SAID HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND ECONOMICS
NON INTENDEVA DI QUELLA MATERIA
BEING OBLIGED TO TRUST IN HIS MINISTERS
1679 FOR TWO YEARS NO ONE GAOLED
FOR DEBTS UNDER 14 LIRE, THOSE IN FOR 30 OR UNDER
CD. BE RELEASED ON ORDER OF THE BUONUOMINI
WHO SHD\ FIX TERMS FOR ARBITRATION
MONTE TO LEND 4736 SCUDI
TO THE TOLOMEI FOUNDATION, AND TO TAKE NO INTEREST ON THIS SUM
SPENT FOR THE COLLEGE
<F 231>1680 TO DEBTORS 4% AND ONE THIRD
TO CREDITORS BE PAID 2\3RDS UNDER THAT, FROZEN ASSETS
DIXBRE '22 MAKE RESPONSIBLE
ALL PERSONS, AND ALL GOODS OF THE LAITY
THAT THE MOUNT HAVE ITS FUND SECURE
THAT WHOSO PUTS HIS COIN IN IT SHALL HOLD HIS LUOGHI
BEARING 5% FRUITAGE PER ANNUM
SIGNED NICOLO DE ANTILLE
HORATIO GIANFIGLIOLI
SEB. CELLESI LL AA (THEIR HIGHNESSES)
GRATIFY THIS DEMAND TO SET UP A MONTE
TO PUBLIC GOOD AND TO PRIVATE
TO EMPOWER, FACILITATE, AND BE LICIT
WERE PLEASED TO ACCOMMODATE, AND PRESTARE
THE FUND ON THE GRAND DUKE'S PUBLIC INCOME
TO THE SUM AS OF CAPITAL 200,000
FOR 5% FRUITAGE THAT WD. BE TEN THOUSAND THE YEAR
<D 222>WHICH ATTAIN TO THE OFFICE OF GRASSLANDS
PASCHI DI DETTA CITTA
THE SAID SUM WITH CAUTELE
THAT NO ONE SHD\ SUFFER
MARIA MADDALENA, TUTRICE
HORO DELLA RENA
(WHOSE BASTARDS)
1622 THIRTIETH OF XEMBRE WERE NOT HIS NATURAL BASTARDS
THAT THE ILLUSTRIOUS BAILEY SHALL EXECUTE THIS ORDER IN ALL POINTS
(BUT ONLY HIS BASTARDS OFFICIALLY)
FAITHFUL RESCRIPT OF THEIR HIGHNESSES
2 JAN. 1622, ORAZIO GRCOLINI
STILE SENESE OR THE YEAR BEGINNING IN MARCH
ENACTED SIENA, IN THE PARISH OF S. GIONNI, IM PALATIO,
<F 232>WITH WITNESSES ABOVE MENTIONED, APOSTOLIC, IMPERIAL, CITIZEN
OF SIENA
FIRENZE 1749, 1000 SCUDI
FOR DRAINING THE LOW LAND
2000 TO FIX ROMAN ROAD ADVANCE AUTHORIZED UP TO 12,000
PUBLIC DEBT AT THE END OF THE MEDICI
SCUDI 14 MILLION
OR 80 MILLION LIRA PRE-WAR.
<C 44>
<F 233><D 223>AND THOU SHALT NOT, FIRENZE 1766, AND THOU SHALT NOT
SEQUESTRATE FOR DEBT ANY FARM IMPLEMENT
NOR ANY YOKE OX NOR
ANY PEASANT WHILE HE WORKS WITH THE SAME.
PIETRO LEOPOLDO
HEAVY GRAIN CROP UNSOLD
NEVER HAD THE MOUNT LACKED FOR SPECIE, CUT RATE TO FOUR AND 1\3RD
CREDITORS HAD ALWAYS BEEN PAID,
THAT TRADE INSIDE THE GRAND DUCHY BE FREE OF IMPEDIMENTS
SHUT DOWN ON GRAIN IMPORTS
'83, FOUR PERCENT LEGAL MAXIMUM INTEREST
'85, THREE ON CHURCH INVESTMENTS, MOTU PROPRIO
PIETRO LEOPOLDO
FERDINANDO EVVIVA!!
DECLARED AGAINST EXPORTATION
THOUGHT GRAIN WAS TO EAT
FLAGS TRUMPETS HORNS DRUMS
AND A PLACARD
VIVA FERDINANDO
AND WERE SOUNDED ALL CARILLONS
WITH BOMBS AND WITH BONFIRES AND WAS SUNG TE DEUM
IN THANKS TO THE HIGHEST FOR THIS SO
PROVIDENT LAW
AND WERE LIGHTS LIT IN THE CHAPEL OF ALEXANDER
AND THE IMAGE OF THE MADONNA UNVEILED
AND SUNG LITANIES AND THEN WENT TO ST CATHERINE'S CHAPEL
IN S. DOMENICO AND BY THE RELIQUARY
OF THE SAINT'S HEAD SANG PRAYERS AND
<F 234>WENT TO THE COMPANY FONTE GIUSTA
<D 224>ALSO SINGING THE LITANIES
AND WHEN WAS THIS THANKSGIVING ENDED THE CORTEGE
AND THE CONTRADE WITH HORNS DRUMS
TRUMPETS AND BANNERS WENT TO THE
HOUSES OF THE VARIOUS AMBULANT VENDORS, THEN WERE THE STICKS OF THE
FLAGS SET IN THE STANCHIONS ON THE PALACE OF THE SEIGNORS
AND THE GILDED PLACARD BETWEEN THEM
(THUS ENDED THE MORNING)
MEANING TO START IN THE AFTERNOON
AND THE BIG BELL AND ALL BELLS OF THE TOWER IN THE PIAZZA
SOUNDED FROM 8 A.M. UNTIL SEVEN O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING
WITHOUT INTERMISSION AND NEXT DAY WAS PROCESSION
COACHES AND MASKS IN GREAT NUMBER
AND OF EVERY DESCRIPTION E DI TUTTE LE QUALITA
TO THE SOUND ALWAYS OF DRUMS AND TRUMPETS
CRYING VIVA FERDINANDO AND IN ALL PARTS OF THE PIAZZA
WERE FLAMES IN GREAT NUMBER AND GRENADES BURNING
TO SOUND OF BOMBS AND OF MORTARETTI AND THE SHOOTING OF
GUNS AND OF PISTOLS AND IN CHAPEL OF THE PIAZZA
A GREAT NUMBER OF CANDLES FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THIS SO
PROVIDENT LAW AND AT SUNDOWN WERE DANCES
AND THE MASKS WENT INTO THEIR HOUSES
AND THE CAPTAINS OF THE WARD COMPANIES,
THE CONTRADE, TOOK THEIR BANNERS TO THE PIAZZA CHAPEL
WHERE ONCE MORE THEY SANG LITANIES
AND CRIED AGAIN FERDINANDO EVVIVA
EVVIVA FERDINANDO IL TERZO
AND FROM THE CONTRADE CONTINUED THE DRUMMING
AND BLOWING OF TRUMPETS AND HUNTING HORNS,
TORCH FLARES GRENADES AND THEY WENT TO THE PIAZZA DEL DUOMO
WITH A NEW HULLABALOO GUN SHOTS MORTARETTI AND PISTOLS
<F 235>THERE WERE NO STREETS NOT ABLAZE WITH THE TORCHES
OR WITH WOOD FIRES AND STRAW FLARES
AND THE VENDORS HAD BEEN WARNED NOT TO SHOW GOODS FOR
FEAR OF DISORDER AND STAYED ALL THAT DAY WITHIN DOORS
<D 225>OR ELSE OUTSIDE SIENA. THIS WAS A LAW CALLED
DOVIZIA ANNONARIA
TO BE FREED FROM THE YOKE OF LICENCE
FROM OCTOBER 9TH UNTIL THE 3RD NOVEMBER
WAS UNFORESEEN JUBILATION, FOUR LINES OF TABLET IN MARBLE:
FRUMENTORUM LICENTIA
COERCITA DE ANNONARIA LAXATA PAUPERUM AEQUE
DIVITIUM BONO CONSERVIT
FERDINANDI 1792
REFUSED TO TAKE WITH HIM OBJECTS OF SMALL BULK WHICH HE
HELD TO BE THE PROPERTY OF THE NATION. FERD III, 1796
THAT THE SOVEREIGN BE IL PIU GALANTUOMO DEL PAESE
THE CITIZEN PRIEST FR LENZINI MOUNTED THE TRIBUNE
TO JOIN THE CITIZEN ABRAM
AND IN ADMIRING CALM SAT THERE WITH THEM THE CITIZEN
THE ARCHBISHOP
FROM 7,50 A BUSHEL TO 12
BY THE 26TH APRIL
AND ON JUNE 28TH CAME MEN OF AREZZO
PAST THE PORTA ROMANA AND WENT INTO THE GHETTO
THERE TO SACK AND BURN HEBREWS
PART WERE BURNED WITH THE LIBERTY TREE IN THE PIAZZA
AND THE REST OF THAT DAY AND NIGHT
1799 ANNO DOMINI
PILLAGE STOPPED BY SUPERIOR ORDER 3RD JULY WAS DISCOVERED A
TREASON
<F 236>IN THE CARTRIDGES GIVEN THE TROOPS
THAT IS WERE FULL OF SEMOLINA, NOT POWDER
AND CHERRY STONE WHERE SHD\ HAVE BEEN BALL
AND IN OTHERS TOO LITTLE POWDER
RESPECTONS LES PRETRES, REMARKED TALLEYRAND
1800 A GOOD GRAIN AND WINE YEAR
IF YOU WD\ GET ON WELL WITH THE PEASANTRY
OF THE PENINSULA.
<D 226>PREMIER BRUMAIRE:
VOUS VOUDREZ CITOYEN
TURN OVER ALL SUMS IN YR\ CASH BOX
TO THE COMMUNITY, FRATERNITE, GREETINGS.
DELORT
ACTING FOR DUPONT LIEUTENANT GENERAL
LOUIS KING OF ETRURIA, PRIMAS, ABSOLUTE, WITHOUT CONSTITUTION.
TAXES SO HEAVY THAT ARE THOUGHT TO BE MORE THAN
PAID BY SUBJECTS OF BRITAIN.
GEN. CLARKE TO THE MINISTRO DEGLI ESTERI
WHEREAS THE FRUITS OF THE MOUNT WERE THE 2\3RDS OF THE ONE PERCENT
WHEREWITH TO PAY ALL CURRENT EXPENSES. MADAME MA SOEUR ET
COUSINE
I HAVE RECEIVED YOUR MAJESTY'S LETTER OF
NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOURTH I
SUPPOSE THAT IN THE ACTUAL CIRCUMSTANCES
SHE WILL BE IN A HURRY TO GET TO SPAIN OR AT LEAST TO
LEAVE A COUNTRY WHERE SHE CAN NO LONGER
STAY WITH THE DIGNITY BEFITTING HER RANK.
I HAVE GIVEN ORDERS THAT SHE BE
RECEIVED IN MY KINGDOM OF ITALY
AND IN MY FRENCH STATES WITH HONOURS THAT ARE DUE HER.
IF YOUR MAJESTY SHOULD BE IN MILAN OR TURIN
BEFORE THE 18TH OF DECEMBER I SHOULD HAVE THE
<F 237>ADVANTAGE OF SEEING HER. I AM SENDING AN OFFICER MY
AIDE DE CAMP, GENERAL REILE WHO WILL DELIVER THIS LETTER.
HE WILL BE CHARGED AT THE SAME TIME TO TAKE MEASURES
FOR THE SECURITY OF THE COUNTRY AND
TO REMOVE MEN WHO COULD TROUBLE ITS QUIET,
SINCE I LEARN THAT YOUR MAJESTY HAS ALREADY THOUGHT NECESSARY
TO IMPORT TROOPS FROM LISBON.
MY TROOPS SHD HAVE BY NOW ENTERED THAT CAPITAL
AND TAKEN POSSESSION OF PORTUGAL
<D 227>WHEREWITH I PRAY GOD, MADAM MY SISTER AND COUSIN,
HE BE PLEASED TO HAVE YOU IN HOLY AND WORTHY KEEPING
AT VENICE, DECEMBER FIFTH 1807
YOUR MAJESTY'S KIND BROTHER AND COUSIN
NAPOLEON
(HIS SECRETARY MIXING THE PRONOUNS
"YOU," "SHE," "SHE" ALL TO MAJESTY)
AND THOSE MEN WHO "WITH BESTIAL ENTHUSIASM" TOOK HORSE PLACE
WERE, SAYS THE MUCH LESSER BANDINI, PAID BY THE PREFECT
AND BEFOREHAND PREPARED
ARTISTS HIGH RANK, IN FACT SOLE SOCIAL SUMMITS
WHICH THE TEMPEST OF POLITICS CAN NOT REACH
WHICH REMARK APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN MADE BY
NAPOLEON
AND "SEMIRAMIS" 1814 DEPARTED FROM LUCCA
BUT HER BROTHER'S LAW CODE REMAINS.
MONUMENTO DI CIVILE SAPIENZA
DRIED SWAMPS, GREW COTTON, BROUGHT IN MERINOS
MORTGAGE SYSTEM IMPROVED
"THANK GOD SUCH MEN BE BUT FEW"
THOUGH THEY BUILD UP HUMAN COURAGE
<F 238>AND BEFORE HIM HAD BEEN PIETRO LEOPOLDO
WHO WISHED STATE DEBT BROUGHT TO AN END;
WHO PUT THE GUILDS UNDER COMMON TRIBUNAL;
WHO LEFT NAMES ONLY AS VESTIGE OF FEUDAL CHAIN;
WHO LIGHTENED MORTMAIN THAT PRINCES AND CHURCH BE UNDER TAX
AS WERE OTHERS; WHO ENDED THE GOALINGS FOR DEBT;
WHO SAID THOU SHALT NOT SELL PUBLIC OFFICES;
WHO SUPPRESSED SO MANY GABELLE;
WHO FREED THE PRINTERS OF SURVEILLANCE
AND WIPED OUT THE CRIME OF LESE MAJESTY;
WHO ABOLISHED DEATH AS A PENALTY AND ALL TORTURES IN PRISONS
WHICH HE HELD WERE FOR SEGREGATION;
<D 228>WHO SPLIT COMMON PROPERTY AMONG TILLERS;
ROADS, TREES, AND THE WOOL TRADE,
THE SILK TRADE, AND A SET PRICE, LOWER, FOR SALT;
PLUS ANOTHER FULL PAGE OF SUCH ACTIONS HABSBURG LORRAINE
HIS SON THE THIRD FERDINANDO, CUT TAXES BY HALF,
IMPROVED TILLAGE IN VAL DI CHIANA, LIVORNO PORTO FRANCO.
AND THIS DAY CAME MADAME LETIZIA,
THE EX-EMPEROR'S MOTHER, AND ON THE 13TH DEPARTED.
"THE FOUNDATION, SIENA, HAS BEEN TO KEEP BRIDLE ON USURY."
NICOLO PICCOLOMINI, PROVVEDITORE.
<C 45>
<F 239><D 229>WITH USURA
WITH USURA HATH NO MAN A HOUSE OF GOOD STONE
EACH BLOCK CUT SMOOTH AND WELL FITTING
THAT DESIGN MIGHT COVER THEIR FACE,
WITH USURA
HATH NO MAN A PAINTED PARADISE ON HIS CHURCH WALL
HARPES ET LUTHES
OR WHERE VIRGIN RECEIVETH MESSAGE
AND HALO PROJECTS FROM INCISION,
WITH USURA
SEETH NO MAN GONZAGA HIS HEIRS AND HIS CONCUBINES
NO PICTURE IS MADE TO ENDURE NOR TO LIVE WITH
BUT IT IS MADE TO SELL AND SELL QUICKLY
WITH USURA, SIN AGAINST NATURE,
IS THY BREAD EVER MORE OF STALE RAGS
IS THY BREAD DRY AS PAPER,
WITH NO MOUNTAIN WHEAT, NO STRONG FLOUR
WITH USURA THE LINE GROWS THICK
WITH USURA IS NO CLEAR DEMARCATION
AND NO MAN CAN FIND SITE FOR HIS DWELLING.
STONE CUTTER IS KEPT FROM HIS STONE
WEAVER IS KEPT FROM HIS LOOM
WITH USURA
WOOL COMES NOT TO MARKET
SHEEP BRINGETH NO GAIN WITH USURA
USURA IS A MURRAIN, USURA
BLUNTETH THE NEEDLE IN THE MAID'S HAND
AND STOPPETH THE SPINNER'S CUNNING. PIETRO LOMBARDO
CAME NOT BY USURA
<F 240>DUCCIO CAME NOT BY USURA
<D 230>NOR PIER DELLA FRANCESCA; ZUAN BELLIN' NOT BY USURA
NOR WAS "LA CALUNNIA" PAINTED.
CAME NOT BY USURA ANGELICO; CAME NOT AMBROGIO PRAEDIS,
CAME NO CHURCH OF CUT STONE SIGNED: ADAMO ME FECIT.
NOT BY USURA ST TROPHIME
NOT BY USURA SAINT HILAIRE,
USURA RUSTETH THE CHISEL
IT RUSTETH THE CRAFT AND THE CRAFTSMAN
IT GNAWETH THE THREAD IN THE LOOM
NONE LEARNETH TO WEAVE GOLD IN HER PATTERN;
AZURE HATH A CANKER BY USURA; CRAMOISI IS UNBROIDERED
EMERALD FINDETH NO MEMLING
USURA SLAYETH THE CHILD IN THE WOMB
IT STAYETH THE YOUNG MAN'S COURTING
IT HATH BROUGHT PALSEY TO BED, LYETH
BETWEEN THE YOUNG BRIDE AND HER BRIDEGROOM
CONTRA NATURA
THEY HAVE BROUGHT WHORES FOR ELEUSIS
CORPSES ARE SET TO BANQUET
AT BEHEST OF USURA.
<C 46>
<F 241><D 231>AND IF YOU WILL SAY THAT THIS TALE TEACHES...
A LESSON, OR THAT THE REVEREND ELIOT
HAS FOUND A MORE NATURAL LANGUAGE...YOU WHO THINK YOU WILL
GET THROUGH HELL IN A HURRY...
THAT DAY THERE WAS CLOUD OVER ZOAGLI
AND FOR THREE DAYS SNOW CLOUD OVER THE SEA
BANKED LIKE A LINE OF MOUNTAINS.
SNOW FELL. OR RAIN FELL STOLID, A WALL OF LINES
SO THAT YOU COULD SEE WHERE THE AIR STOPPED OPEN
AND WHERE THE RAIN FELL BESIDE IT
OR THE SNOW FELL BESIDE IT. SEVENTEEN
YEARS ON THIS CASE, NINETEEN YEARS, NINETY YEARS
ON THIS CASE
AN' THE FUZZY BLOKE SEZ (LEGS NO PANTS EVER WD. FIT) "IF
THAT IS SO, ANY GOVERNMENT WORTH A DAMN CAN
PAY DIVIDENDS?"
THE MAJOR CHEWED IT A BIT AND SEZ: "Y-ES, EH...
YOU MEAN INSTEAD OF COLLECTIN' TAXES?"
"INSTEAD OF COLLECTING TAXES." THAT OFFICE?
DIDJA SEE THE DECENNIO?
?
DECENNIO EXPOSITION, RECONSTRUCTED OFFICE OF IL POPOLO,
WAAL, OURS WAZ LIKE THAT, MINUS THE MILLS BOMB AN' THE TEAPOT,
HEAVY LIPPED CHAP AT THE DESK,
ONE HALF GREEN EYE AND ONE BROWN ONE, NINETEEN
YEARS ON THIS CASE, CRIME
OV TWO CENTURIES, 5 MILLIONS BEIN' KILLED OFF
TO 1919, AND BEFORE THAT
DEBTS OF THE SOUTH TO NEW YORK, THAT IS TO THE
<F 242>BANKS OF THE CITY, TWO HUNDRED MILLION,
<D 232>WAR, I DON'T THINK (OR HAVE IT YOUR OWN WAY...)
ABOUT SLAVERY?
FIVE MILLION BEING KILLED OFF.. COUPLE OF MAX'S DRAWINGS,
ONE OF BALFOUR AND A CAMEL, AN'
ONE W'ICH FER OBVIOUS REASONS HAZ
NEVER BEEN PUBLISHED, OLE JOHNNY BULL WITH A 'ANKERCHIEF.
IT HAS NEVER BEEN PUBLISHED..
"HE AIN'T GOT AN OPINION."
SEZ ORAGE ABOUT G.B.S. SEZ ORAGE ABOUT MR XTERTN.
SEZ ORAGE ABOUT MR WELLS, "HE WONT HAVE AN OPINION
TROUBLE IZ THAT YOU MEAN IT, YOU NEVER WILL BE A JOURNALIST."
19 YEARS ON THIS CASE, SUBURBAN GARDEN,
"GREEKS!" SEZ JOHN MARMADUKE "A COUPLE OF ART TRICKS!
WHAT ELSE? NEVER COULD SET UP A NATION!"
"WOULDN'T CONVERT ME, WDN'T HAVE ME CONVERTED,
"SAID "I KNOW I DIDN'T ASK YOU, YOUR FATHER SENT YOU HERE
"TO BE TRAINED. I KNOW WHAT I'D FEEL.
"SEND MY SON TO ENGLAND AND HAVE HIM COME BACK A CHRISTIAN!
"WHAT WD. I FEEL?" "SUBURBAN GARDEN
SAID ABDUL BAHA: "I SAID "LET US SPEAK OF RELIGION."
"CAMEL DRIVER SAID: "I MUST MILK MY CAMEL."
"SO WHEN HE HAD MILKED HIS CAMEL I SAID "LET US SPEAK OF RELIGION."
AND THE CAMEL DRIVER SAID: "IT IS TIME TO DRINK MILK.
WILL YOU HAVE SOME?" FOR POLITENESS I TRIED TO JOIN HIM.
HAVE YOU EVER TASTED MILK FROM A CAMEL?
I WAS UNABLE TO DRINK CAMEL'S MILK. I HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE.
SO HE DRANK ALL OF THE MILK, AND I SAID: LET US SPEAK OF RELIGION.
"I HAVE DRUNK MY MILK, I MUST DANCE." SAID THE DRIVER.
WE DID NOT SPEAK OF RELIGION." THUS ABDUL BAHA
THIRD VICE-GERENT OF THE FIRST ABDUL OR WHATEVER BAHA,
THE SAGE, THE UNITER, THE FOUNDER OF A RELIGION,
<F 243>IN A GARDEN AT UBERTIN, GUBBERTON, OR MEBBE IT WAS SOME
OTHER DAMNED SUBURB, BUT AT ANY RATE A SUBURBAN SUBURB
AMID A FLUTTER OF TEACUPS, SAID MR MARMADUKE:
"NEVER WILL UNDERSTAND US. THEY LIE. I MEAN PERSONALLY
<D 233>"THEY ARE MENDACIOUS, BUT IF THE TRIBE GETS TOGETHER
"THE TRIBAL WORD WILL BE KEPT, HENCE PERPETUAL MISUNDERSTANDING.
"ENGLISHMAN GOES THERE, LIVES HONEST, WORD IS RELIABLE,
"TEN YEARS, THEY BELIEVE HIM, THEN HE SIGNS TERMS FOR HIS
GOVERNMENT.
"AND, NATURALLY, THE TREATY IS BROKEN. MOHAMMEDANS,
"NOMADS, WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND HOW WE DO THIS."
17 YEARS ON THIS CASE, AND WE NOT THE FIRST LOT!
SAID PATERSON:
HATH BENEFIT OF INTEREST ON ALL
THE MONEY WHICH IT, THE BANK, CREATES OUT OF NOTHING.
SEMI-PRIVATE INDUCEMENT
SAID MR ROTHSCHILD, HELL KNOWS WHICH ROTH-SCHILD
1861, '64 OR THERE SOMETIME, "VERY FEW PEOPLE
"WILL UNDERSTAND THIS. THOSE WHO DO WILL BE OCCUPIED
"GETTING PROFITS. THE GENERAL PUBLIC WILL PROBABLY NOT
"SEE IT'S AGAINST THEIR INTEREST."
SEVENTEEN YEARS ON THE CASE; HERE
GENTS, IS\ARE THE CONFESSION.
"CAN WE TAKE THIS INTO COURT?
"WILL ANY JURY CONVICT ON THIS EVIDENCE?
1694 ANNO DOMINI, ON THROUGH THE AGES OF USURY
ON, RIGHT ON, INTO HAIR-CLOTH, RIGHT ON INTO ROTTEN BUILDING,
RIGHT ON INTO LONDON HOUSES, GROUND RENTS, FOETID BRICK WORK,
WILL ANY JURY CONVICT 'UM? THE FOUNDATION OF REGIUS PROFESSORS
WAS MADE TO SPREAD LIES AND TEACH WHIGGERY, WILL ANY
JURY CONVICT 'UM?
<F 244>THE MACMILLAN COMMISSION ABOUT TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS
LATE
WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY GOT BACK TO PATERSON'S:
THE BANK MAKES IT EX NIHIL,
DENIED BY FIVE THOUSAND PROFESSORS, WILL ANY
JURY CONVICT 'UM? THIS CASE, AND WITH IT
THE FIRST PART, DRAWS TO A CONCLUSION,
<D 234>OF THE FIRST PHASE OF THIS OPUS, MR MARX, KARL, DID NOT
FORESEE THIS CONCLUSION, YOU HAVE SEEN A GOOD DEAL OF
THE EVIDENCE, NOT KNOWING IT EVIDENCE, SI MONUMENTUM
LOOK ABOUT YOU, LOOK, IF YOU CAN, AT ST PETERS
LOOK AT THE MANCHESTER SLUMS, LOOK AT BRAZILIAN COFFEE
OR CHILEAN NITRATES. THIS CASE IS THE FIRST CASE
SI REQUIERES MONUMENTUM?
THIS CASE IS NOT THE LAST CASE OR THE WHOLE CASE, WE ASK A
REVISION, WE ASK FOR ENLIGHTENMENT IN A CASE
MOVING CONCURRENT, BUT THIS CASE IS THE FIRST CASE:
BANK CREATES IT EX NIHIL. CREATES IT TO MEET A NEED,
HIC EST HYPER-USURA. MR JEFFERSON MET IT:
NO MAN HATH NATURAL RIGHT TO EXERCISE PROFESSION
OF LENDER, SAVE HIM WHO HATH IT TO LEND.
REPLEVIN, ESTOPPLE, WHAT WANGLE WHICH WANGLE, VAN BUREN MET IT.
BEFORE THAT WAS TEA DUMPED INTO HARBOUR, BEFORE THAT WAS A
GREAT DEAL STILL IN THE SCHOOL BOOKS, PLACED THERE
NOT AS EVIDENCE. PLACED THERE TO DISTRACT IDLE MINDS,
MURDER, STARVATION AND BLOODSHED, SEVENTY FOUR RED REVOLUTIONS
TEN EMPIRES FELL ON THIS GREASE SPOT.
"I RULE THE EARTH" SAID ANTONINUS "BUT LAW RULES THE SEA"
MEANING, WE TAKE IT, LEX RHODI, THE LAW MARITIME
OF SEA LAWERS.
USURA AND SEA INSURANCE
WHEREFROM NO STATE WAS ERECTED GREATER THAN ATHENS.
<F 245>WANTING TAXES TO BUILD ST PETERS, THOUGHT LUTHER BENEATH
CIVIL NOTICE,
1527. THEREAFTER ART THICKENED. THEREAFTER DESIGN WENT TO HELL,
THEREAFTER BAROCCO, THEREAFTER STONE-CUTTING DESISTED.
"HIC NEFAS" (NARRATOR) "COMMUNE SEPULCHRUM."
19 YEARS ON THIS CASE \ FIRST CASE. I HAVE SET DOWN PART OF
THE EVIDENCE, PART\ COMMUNE SEPULCHRUM
AURUM EST COMMUNE SEPULCHRUM. USURA, COMMUNE SEPULCHRUM.
<D 235>=*=*HELANDROS =*KAI =*HELEPTOLIS =*KAI =*HELARXE.
HIC GERYON EST. HIC HYPERUSURA.
FIVE MILLION YOUTHS WITHOUT JOBS
FOUR MILLION ADULT ILLITERATES
15 MILLION "VOCATIONAL MISFITS", THAT IS WITH SMALL CHANCE FOR JOBS
NINE MILLION PERSONS ANNUAL, INJURED IN PREVENTABLE INDUSTRIAL
ACCIDENTS
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND VIOLENT CRIMES, THE EUNITED STATES OV
AMERICA
3RD YEAR OF THE REIGN OF F. ROOSEVELT, SIGNED F. DELANO, HIS UNCLE.
CASE FOR THE PROSECUTION. THAT IS ONE CASE, MINOR CASE
IN THE SERIES\ EUNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A.D. 1935
ENGLAND A WORSE CASE, FRANCE UNDER A FOETOR OF REGENTS.
"MR CUMMINGS WANTS FARLEY'S JOB" HEADLINE IN CURRENT PAPER.
<C 47>
<F 246><D 236>WHO EVEN DEAD, YET HATH HIS MIND ENTIRE!
THIS SOUND CAME IN THE DARK
FIRST MUST THOU GO THE ROAD
[XXXIX]TO HELL
AND TO THE BOWER OF CERES' DAUGHTER PROSERPINE,
THROUGH OVERHANGING DARK, TO SEE TIRESIAS,
EYELESS THAT WAS, A SHADE, THAT IS IN HELL
SO FULL OF KNOWING THAT THE BEEFY MEN KNOW LESS THAN HE,
ERE THOU COME TO THY ROAD'S END.
KNOWLEDGE THE SHADE OF A SHADE,
YET MUST THOU SAIL AFTER KNOWLEDGE
KNOWING LESS THAN DRUGGED BEASTS. =*PHTHEGGOMETHA
=*THASSON
=PHTHEGGOMETHA =THASSON
THE SMALL LAMPS DRIFT IN THE BAY
AND THE SEA'S CLAW GATHERS THEM.
NEPTUNUS DRINKS AFTER NEAP-TIDE.
TAMUZ! TAMUZ!
THE RED FLAME GOING SEAWARD.
BY THIS GATE ART THOU MEASURED.
FROM THE LONG BOATS THEY HAVE SET LIGHTS IN THE WATER,
THE SEA'S CLAW GATHERS THEM OUTWARD.
SCILLA'S DOGS SNARL AT THE CLIFF'S BASE,
THE WHITE TEETH GNAW IN UNDER THE CRAG,
BUT IN THE PALE NIGHT THE SMALL LAMPS FLOAT SEAWARD
=TU =DIONA
=*TU =*DIONA
=KAI =MOIRA =T' =ADONIN
=*KAI =*MOIRA =T' =ADONIN
<F 247>THE SEA IS STREAKED RED WITH ADONIS,
THE LIGHTS FLICKER RED IN SMALL JARS.
<D 237>WHEAT SHOOTS RISE NEW BY THE ALTAR,
FLOWER FROM THE SWIFT SEED.
TWO SPAN, TWO SPAN TO A WOMAN,
BEYOND THAT SHE BELIEVES NOT. NOTHING IS OF ANY IMPORTANCE.
TO THAT IS SHE BENT, HER INTENTION,
TO THAT ART THOU CALLED EVER TURNING INTENTION,
WHETHER BY NIGHT THE OWL-CALL, WHETHER BY SAP IN SHOOT,
NEVER IDLE, BY NO MEANS BY NO WILES INTERMITTENT
MOTH IS CALLED OVER MOUNTAIN
THE BULL RUNS BLIND ON THE SWORD, NATURANS
TO THE CAVE ART THOU CALLED, ODYSSEUS,
BY =*MOLU HAST THOU RESPITE FOR A LITTLE,
BY =*MOLU ART THOU FREED FROM THE ONE BED
THAT THOU MAY'ST RETURN TO ANOTHER
THE STARS ARE NOT IN HER COUNTING,
TO HER THEY ARE BUT WANDERING HOLES.
BEGIN THY PLOWING
WHEN THE PLEIADES GO DOWN TO THEIR REST,
BEGIN THY PLOWING
40 DAYS ARE THEY UNDER SEABORD,
THUS DO IN FIELDS BY SEABORD
AND IN VALLEYS WINDING DOWN TOWARD THE SEA.
WHEN THE CRANES FLY HIGH
THINK OF PLOWING.
BY THIS GATE ART THOU MEASURED
THY DAY IS BETWEEN A DOOR AND A DOOR
TWO OXEN ARE YOKED FOR PLOWING
OR SIX IN THE HILL FIELD
WHITE BULK UNDER OLIVES, A SCORE FOR DRAWING DOWN STONE,
HERE THE MULES ARE GABLED WITH SLATE ON THE HILL ROAD.
<F 248>THUS WAS IT IN TIME.
AND THE SMALL STARS NOW FALL FROM THE OLIVE BRANCH,
FORKED SHADOW FALLS DARK ON THE TERRACE
MORE BLACK THAN THE FLOATING MARTIN
THAT HAS NO CARE FOR YOUR PRESENCE,
<D 238>HIS WING-PRINT IS BLACK ON THE ROOF TILES
AND THE PRINT IS GONE WITH HIS CRY.
SO LIGHT IS THY WEIGHT ON TELLUS
THY NOTCH NO DEEPER INDENTED
THY WEIGHT LESS THAN THE SHADOW
YET HAST THOU GNAWED THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN,
SCILLA'S WHITE TEETH LESS SHARP.
HAST THOU FOUND A NEST SOFTER THAN CUNNUS
OR HAST THOU FOUND BETTER REST
HAST'OU A DEEPER PLANTING, DOTH THY DEATH YEAR
BRING SWIFTER SHOOT?
HAST THOU ENTERED MORE DEEPLY THE MOUNTAIN?
THE LIGHT HAS ENTERED THE CAVE. IO! IO!
THE LIGHT HAS GONE DOWN INTO THE CAVE,
SPLENDOUR ON SPLENDOUR!
BY PRONG HAVE I ENTERED THESE HILLS:
THAT THE GRASS GROW FROM MY BODY,
THAT I HEAR THE ROOTS SPEAKING TOGETHER,
THE AIR IS NEW ON MY LEAF,
THE FORKED BOUGHS SHAKE WITH THE WIND.
IS ZEPHYRUS MORE LIGHT ON THE BOUGH, APELIOTA
MORE LIGHT ON THE ALMOND BRANCH?
BY THIS DOOR HAVE I ENTERED THE HILL.
FALLETH,
ADONIS FALLETH.
FRUIT COMETH AFTER. THE SMALL LIGHTS DRIFT OUT WITH THE TIDE,
<F 249>SEA'S CLAW HAS GATHERED THEM OUTWARD,
FOUR BANNERS TO EVERY FLOWER
THE SEA'S CLAW DRAWS THE LAMPS OUTWARD.
THINK THUS OF THY PLOWING
WHEN THE SEVEN STARS GO DOWN TO THEIR REST
FORTY DAYS FOR THEIR REST, BY SEABORD
AND IN VALLEYS THAT WIND DOWN TOWARD THE SEA
<D 239>=KAI =MOIRA =T' =ADONIN
=*KAI =*MOIRA =*T' =*ADONIN
WHEN THE ALMOND BOUGH PUTS FORTH ITS FLAME,
WHEN THE NEW SHOOTS ARE BROUGHT TO THE ALTAR,
=TU =DIONA, =KAI =MOIRA
=*TU =*DIONA =*KAI =*MOIRA
=KAI =MOIRA =T' =ADONIN
=*KAI =*MOIRA =*T' =*ADONIN
THAT HATH THE GIFT OF HEALING,
THAT HATH THE POWER OVER WILD BEASTS.
<C 48>
<F 250><D 240>AND IF THE MONEY BE RENTED
WHO SHD PAY RENT ON THAT MONEY?
SOME FELLOW WHO HAS IT ON RENT DAY,
OR SOME BLOKE WHO HAS NOT?
DIED MAHOMET VITH YAHID EDDIN HAN
"BY PROFESSION EX-SULTAN"
65 YEARS OF AGE IN SAN REMO (1926)
BEGOTTEN OF ABDUL MEJID. AT BEATIFICATION
80 LOUD SPEAKERS WERE USED. SUBSEQUENT TO THE
TURKISH WAR MR KOLSCHITZKY
RECEIVED FOR HIS SERVICES AS A SPY
FIVE SCORE SACKS OF COFFEE (DE BANCHIIS CAMBI TENENDI)
THUS INITIATING THE COFFEE-HOUSE FACTS OF VIENNA
SIXTEEN, I THINK, AND WHENEVER; VON UNRUH
IS RATHER GOOD AT IMITATING THE SERGEANT
WHO JAMMED DOWN THE CADAVERS; THERE WERE CADAVERS
AND THE PIT WAS NOT LARGE ENOUGH TO HOLD ALL THE KADAVERS
SO THE SARGEANT JAMMED 'EM DOWN WITH HIS BOOTS
TO GET THE PLACE SMOOTH FOR THE KAISER.
HERR VON UNRUH IS RATHER GOOD AT MIMING THAT SERGEANT
VIDE VERDUN; AND WHAT HE WROTE DOWN; AT VERDUN.
SAID MR CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
THERE WAS NO GOOD CONVERSATION. AT NO SINGLE ENTERTAINMENT
IN LONDON DID I FIND ANY GOOD CONVERSATION
THEY TAKE BROWNING FOR AN AMERICAN,
HE IS UNENGLISH IN HIS OPINIONS AND CARRIAGE.
WAS PUT IN THE CELLARAGE
VAN BUREN HAVING WRITTEN IT DOWN
"DEFACE AND OBLITERATE" WROTE J. ADAMS
<F 251>"BECOME FATHERS OF THE NEXT GENERATION" WROTE MARX
..TUBERCULOSIS...BISMARCK
<D 241>BLAMED AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ON THE JEWS;
PARTICULARLY ON THE ROTHSCHILD
ONE OF WHOM REMARKED TO DISRAELI
THAT NATIONS WERE FOOLS TO PAY RENT FOR THEIR CREDIT
=DIGENES
=*DIGENES; LOST IN THE FOREST; BUT ARE THEN KNOWN AS LEOPARDS
AFTER THREE YEARS IN THE FOREST; THEY ARE KNOWN AS "TWICE-BORN".
I AM SORRY, YOUR HIGHNESS CAWDOR, SEPT 23
TO HAVE BEEN SO LONG IN RETURNING THE
PEDIGREE OF YR CAIRN PUPPY
BUT WHEN I WROTE TO THE MAN YOU BOUGHT HIM FROM
I RECEIVED A REPLY FROM HIS WIFE (OR DAUGHTER)
SAYING HE HAD JUST GONE ON A HOLIDAY
AND THAT HE WD WRITE WHEN HE RETURNED.
I FIND DHU ACHIL (SIRE) HAS BEEN REGISTERED
AT THE KENNEL CLUB, BUT THE DAM IS UNREGISTERED.
DHU ACHIL HAS WON A FAIR NUMBER OF PRIZES AT SCOTTISH SHOWS
AND THERE ARE SOME OTHER GOOD DOGS IN THE PEDIGREE
(THREE SENATORS; FOUR BOTTLES OF WHISKEY)
SO THE PUPPY SEEMS QUITE WELL BRED (AND AT)
FOR THE SAKE OF CONVENIENCE I WILL WRITE PARTICULARS
(FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING MR RHUMBY)
ON A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER
(WAZ SEKKERTARY) THE LITTLE DOG IS DOING
(OV STATE) VERY WELL AT MR MCLOCHERTY'S AND IS QUITE HAPPY.
THEY ARE VERY FOND OF HIM AND HE IS A MOST AFFECTIONATE DOG
YOURS RESPECTFULLY
GALILEO; PRONOUNCED "GARRY YEO"
ERR' U' NIMBECILE; ED HA IMBECILLITO
(VOICE UNDER MY WINDOW) IL MONDO
<F 252>NO TRUSTEE OF THE SALEM MUSEUM, WHO HAD NOT DOUBLED
BOTH GOOD HOPE AND THE HORN.
SEA AS IF RISEN OVER THE HEADLAND
AND THERE ARE TWIN SEAS IN THE CLOUD
12% INTEREST IN BITHYNIA;
<D 242>FOR HOME ROMANS INTEREST 6. NO MAN THEIGN
SAID ATHELSTAN WHO HAS NOT MADE THREE VOYAGES
GOING HENCE OFF THIS LAND INTO OTHER LANDS AS A MERCHANT
"A LITTLE MORE STOCK" SAID THE PRESIDENT OVER THE TELEPHONE
TO THE PRINTER "WE SOLD ALL THAT WHAT YOU PRINTED US"
SO THE BOND SALESMAN WENT ABROAD.
THEY SAY, THAT IS THE NORSE ENGINEER TOLD ME, THAT OUT PAST HAWAII
THEY SPREAD THREADS FROM GUN'ALE TO GUN'ALE
IN A CERTAIN FASHION
AND PLOT A COURSE OF 3000 SEA MILES
LYING UNDER THE WEB, WATCHING THE STARS
"WHILE SHE BOUGHT 2 PRS OF SHOES
2 VEILS; 2 PARASOLS; AN ORCHID (ARTIFICIAL)
FOR WHICH I WAS PRESENTED WITH A NEW KIND OF NET GLOVES
MADE LIKE FISHNET; SO THE DAY WAS NOT WHOLLY WASTED
THE PRIEST HERE
HAD UNA NUOVA MESSA
(DODICESIMO ANNO E.F.)
BELLA FESTA, BECAUSE THERE WAS A PRIEST HERE TO SAY HIS
FIRST MASS
AND ALL THE MOUNTAINS WERE FULL OF FIRES, AND
WE WENT AROUND THROUGH THE VILLAGE
IN GIRO PER IL PAESE
2 MEN AND 2 HORSES
AND THEN THE MUSIC AND ON THE SIDES
CHILDREN CARRYING TORCHES AND THE
CARROZZE WITH THE PRIESTS, AND THE ONE THAT HAD TO SAY
<F 253>THE NEW MASS, AND THE CARROZZE WERE FULL OF FINE FLOWERS
AND THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE. I LIKED IT,
ALL THE HOUSES WERE FULL OF LIGHTS AND
TREE BRANCHES IN THE WINDOWS
COVERED WITH HAND-MADE FLOWERS AND
THE NEXT DAY THEY HAD MASS AND A PROCESSION
PLEASE MAY I GO BACK THERE
AND HAVE A NEW PAIR OF SUNDAY SHOES?"
<D 243>VELVET, YELLOW, UNWINGED
CLAMBERS, A BALL, INTO ITS ORCHIS
AND THE STAIR THERE STILL BROKEN
THE FLAT STONES OF THE ROAD, MT SEGUR.
FROM VAL CABRERE, WERE TWO MILES OF ROOFS TO SAN BERTRAND
SO THAT A CAT NEED NOT SET FOOT IN THE ROAD
WHERE NOW IS AN INN, AND BARE RAFTERS,
WHERE THEY SCRATCH SIX FEET DEEP TO REACH PAVEMENT
WHERE NOW IS WHEAT FIELD, AND A MILESTONE
AN ALTAR TO TERMINUS, WITH ARMS CROSSED
BACK OF THE STONE
WHERE SUN CUTS LIGHT AGAINST EVENING;
WHERE LIGHT SHAVES GRASS INTO EMERALD
SAVAIRIC; HITHER GAUBERTZ;
SAID THEY WD. NOT BE UNDER PARIS.
FALLING MARS IN THE AIR
BOUGH TO BOUGH, TO THE STONE BENCH
WHERE WAS AN OX IN SMITH'S SLING HOISTED FOR SHOEING
WHERE WAS SPIRE-TOP A-LEVEL THE GRASS YARD
THEN THE TOWERS, HIGH OVER CHATEAU-
FELL WITH STROKE AFTER STROKE, JET AVENGER
BENT, ROLLED, SEVERED AND THEN SWALLOWED LIMB AFTER LIMB
HAULED OFF THE BUTT OF THAT CARCASS, 20 FEET UP A TREE TRUNK.
HERE THREE ANTS HAVE KILLED A GREAT WORM. THERE
<F 254>MARS IN THE AIR, FELL, FLEW.
EMPLOYED, PAST TENSE; AT THE LIDO, VENEZIA,
AN OLD MAN WITH A BASKET OF STONES,
THAT WAS, SAID THE ELDERLY LADY, WHEN THE BEACH COSTUMES
WERE LONGER,
AND IF WIND WAS, THE OLD MAN PLACED A STONE.
<C 49>
<D 244><F 255>FOR THE SEVEN LAKES, AND BY NO MAN THESE VERSES:
RAIN; EMPTY RIVER; A VOYAGE,
FIRE FROM FROZEN CLOUD, HEAVY RAIN IN THE TWILIGHT
UNDER THE CABIN ROOF WAS ONE LANTERN.
THE REEDS ARE HEAVY; BENT;
AND THE BAMBOOS SPEAK AS IF WEEPING.
AUTUMN MOON; HILLS RISE ABOUT LAKES
AGAINST SUNSET
EVENING IS LIKE A CURTAIN OF CLOUD,
A BLURR ABOVE RIPPLES; AND THROUGH IT
SHARP LONG SPIKES OF THE CINNAMON,
A COLD TUNE AMID REEDS.
BEHIND HILL THE MONK'S BELL
BORNE ON THE WIND.
SAIL PASSED HERE IN APRIL; MAY RETURN IN OCTOBER
BOAT FADES IN SILVER; SLOWLY;
SUN BLAZE ALONE ON THE RIVER.
WHERE WINE FLAG CATCHES THE SUNSET
SPARSE CHIMNEY SMOKE IN THE CROSS LIGHT
COMES THEN SNOW SCUR ON THE RIVER
AND A WORLD IS COVERED WITH JADE
SMALL BOAT FLOATS LIKE A LANTHORN,
THE FLOWING WATER CLOTS AS WITH COLD. AND AT SAN YIN
THEY ARE A PEOPLE OF LEISURE.
WILD GEESE SWOOP TO THE SAND-BAR,
CLOUDS GATHER ABOUT THE HOLE OF THE WINDOW
BROAD WATER; GEESE LINE OUT WITH THE AUTUMN
<F 256>ROOKS CLATTER OVER THE FISHERMEN'S LANTHORNS,
<D 245>A LIGHT MOVES ON THE NORTH SKY LINE;
WHERE THE YOUNG BOYS PROD STONES FOR SHRIMP.
IN SEVENTEEN HUNDRED CAME TSING TO THESE HILL LAKES.
A LIGHT MOVES ON THE SOUTH SKY LINE.
STATE BY CREATING RICHES SHD. THEREBY GET INTO DEBT?
THIS IS INFAMY; THIS IS GERYON.
THIS CANAL GOES STILL TO TENSHI
THOUGH THE OLD KING BUILT IT FOR PLEASURE
KEI MEN RAN KEI
KIU MAN MAN KEI
JITSU GETSU KO KWA
TAN FUKU TAN KAI
SUN UP; WORK
SUNDOWN; TO REST
DIG WELL AND DRINK OF THE WATER
DIG FIELD; EAT OF THE GRAIN
IMPERIAL POWER IS? AND TO US WHAT IS IT?
THE FOURTH; THE DIMENSION OF STILLNESS.
AND THE POWER OVER WILD BEASTS.
<C 50>
<F 257><D 246>"REVOLUTION" SAID MR ADAMS "TOOK PLACE IN THE
MINDS OF PEOPLE
IN THE FIFTEEN YEARS BEFORE LEXINGTON",
THAT WD HAVE BEEN IN PETER LEOPOLD'S TIME
TO HIS LORDSHIP THE COUNT ORSO AND HIS DESCENDENTS
MALE LEGITIMATE AND NATURAL THE ADMINISTRATION OF
CIVIL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE SAID PLACE
DEBT WHEN THE MEDICI TOOK THE THRONE WAS 5 MILLION
AND WHEN THEY LEFT WAS FOURTEEN
AND ITS INTEREST ATE UP ALL THE BEST INCOME
THE FIRST FOLLY WAS PLANTING FACTORIES FOR WOOL SPINNING
IN ENGLAND AND FLANDERS
THEN ENGLAND KEPT HER RAW WOOL, SO THAT
DAMPED DOWN THE EXCHANGING
THE ARTS GONE TO HELL BY 1750
AND LEOPOLDO CUT DOWN THE TAXES
FOUND THERE WAS "UN' ABBONDANZA CHE AFFAMAVA"
SAYS ZOBI
LEOPOLD CUT DOWN THE DEBT INTEREST
AND PUT THE JESUITS OUT
AND PUT END TO THE INQUISITION
1782
AND THEY BROUGHT IN MR LOCKE'S
ESSAY ON INTEREST
BUT GENOA TOOK OUR TRADE AND LIVORNO
KEPT TREATY WITH ENGLAND TO THE LOSS OF LIVORNO
THAT IS TO SAY LIVORNO TRADE TOOK A LOSS
TE, ADMIRABILE, O VASHINNNTTONN!
LIVORNO STUFF WENT IN GENOVESE BOTTOMS
<F 258><D 247>BECAUSE TUSCANY KEPT HER WORD AND A TREATY
VOI, POPOLI TRANSATLANTICI ADMIRABILI!
SAITH ZOBI, SIXTY YEARS LATER.
"PARDON OUR BRIEF DIGRESSION" SAITH ZOBI:
AMERICA IS OUR DAUGHTER AND VASHINNTONN HAD CIVIC VIRTUES.
AND LEOPOLDO MEANT TO CUT OFF TWO THIRDS OF STATE DEBT,
TO ABOLISH IT
AND THEN THEY SENT HIM OFF TO BE EMPEROR
IN HELL'S BOG, IN THE SLOUGH OF VIENNA, IN
THE MIDDEN OF EUROPE IN THE BLACK HOLE OF ALL
MENTAL VILENESS, IN THE PRIVVY THAT STANK FRANZ JOSEF,
IN METTERNICH'S MERDERY IN THE ABSOLUTE ROTTENNESS,
AMONG EMBASTARDIZED CROSS-BREEDS,
BUT FERDINANDO STAVED OFF AN ANSCHLUSS AND PARIS EXPLODED
"CERTAIN PRACTICES CALLED RELIGIOUS" SAID ZOBI
"LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN ECONOMIC AFFAIRS"
PIUS SIXTH, VICAR OF FOOLISHNESS, NO JEW GOD
WD. HAVE KEPT THAT IN POWER.
SO THAT ABOUT THE TIME OF MARENGO THE FIRST CONSUL
WROTE: I LEFT PEACE. I FIND WAR.
I FIND ENEMIES INSIDE YR FRONTIER
YOUR CANNON SOLD TO YR ENEMIES
1791, END OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
18TH BRUMALE, 10TH OF NOVEMBER
14TH. JUNE, 1800 MARENGO
MARS MEANING, IN THAT CASE, ORDER
THAT DAY WAS RIGHT WITH THE VICTOR
MASS WEIGHT AGAINST WRONG
A.D. 1800
INTEREST AT 24 TO THE HUNDRED
<F 259>AND AS THEY SAY "COMMERCE LANGUISHED"
1801 THE TRIUMVIRS WANTED TO GO LEOPOLDINE AS WAS.
A THOUSAND OF THE OLD GUARD AT PORTOFERRAIO
<D 248>AND TWO MILLION A YEAR, ONE HALF OF IT
REVERSABLE TO THE EMPRESS
FROM ELBA
FOR THE MILDNESS OF THE CLIMATE
AND THE SUAVITY OF ITS DENIZENS
FROM AN ENGLISH FRIGATE DESCENDED
AND FERDINANDO HABSBURG (BUT OF THE HOUSE OF LORRAINE)
WHICH IS THE TRUE NAME OF THE CLEAN PART OF THAT FAMILY
GOT BACK A STATE FREE OF DEBT
COFFERS EMPTY
BUT THE STATE WITHOUT DEBT
ENGLAND AND AUSTRIA WERE FOR DESPOTS WITH COMMERCE
CONSIDERED
PUT BACK THE POPE BUT
RESET NO REPUBLICS: VENICE, GENOVA, LUCCA
AND SPLIT UP POLAND IN THEIR SOUL WAS USURA
AND IN THEIR HAND BLOODY OPPRESSION
AND THAT SON OF A DOG, ROSPIGLIOSI,
CAME INTO TUSCANY TO MAKE SERFS OF OLD TUSCANS.
....ON THE THRONE OF ENGLAND,....ON THE AUSTRIAN SOFA
IN THEIR SOUL WAS USURA AND IN THEIR MINDS DARKNESS
AND BLANKNESS, GREASED FAT WERE FOUR GEORGES
PUS WAS IN SPAIN, WELLINGTON WAS A JEW'S PIMP
AND LACKED MIND TO KNOW WHAT HE EFFECTED.
"LEAVE THE DUKE, GO FOR GOLD!"
IN THEIR SOULS WAS USURA AND IN THEIR HEARTS COWARDICE
IN THEIR MINDS WAS STINK AND CORRUPTION
TWO SORES RAN TOGETHER, TALLEYRAND STANK WITH SHANKER
AND HELL PISSED UP METTERNICH
<F 260>FILTH STANK AS IN OUR DAY
"FROM THE BRIGANTINE INCOSTANTE0-
FOR A HUNDRED DAYS AGAINST HELL BELCH
HOPE SPAT FROM MARCH INTO JUNE
NEY OUT OF HIS SADDLE
<D 249>GROUCHY DELAYED
BENTINCK'S WORD WAS, NATURALLY,
NOT KEPT BY THE ENGLISH. GENOVA UNDER SARDEGNA. HOPE
SPAT FROM CANNES, MARCH, INTO FLANDERS.
"NOT"
SAID NAPOLEON "BECAUSE OF THAT LEAGUE OF LICE
BUT FOR OPPOSING THE ZEITGEIST! THAT WAS MY RUIN,
THAT I RAN AGAINST MY OWN TIME, TURNING BACKWARD"
OBIT, AETATIS 57, FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER D. ALIGHIERI.
NOT, CERTAINLY, FOR WHAT MOST EMBELLISHES IL SESSO FEMMINILE
AND CAUSES US TO ADMIRE IT, THEY WROTE OF MARIE DE PARMA
HIS WIDOW.
ITALY EVER DOOMED WITH ABSTRACTIONS, 1850, WROTE ZOBI,
BY FOLLOWING BRILLIANT ABSTRACTIONS.
MASTAI, PIO NONO. D'AZEGLIO WENT INTO EXILE
AND SO ON THE 30TH OF OCTOBER LORD MINTO
WAS IN AREZZO (I THINK BOWRING HAD PRECEDED) AND THE
CROWD CRIED EVVIVA
EVVIVA THE TARIFF LEAGUE
AND MINTO YELLED EVVIVA LEOPOLDO
EVVIV' INDIPENDENZA, THIS WAS THE NEW LEOPOLDO
THOUGH MINTO WAS FOR SLOWNESS AND SURENESS.
LALAGE'S SHADOW MOVES IN THE FRESCO'S KNEES
SHE IS BLOTTED WITH DIRCE'S SHADOW
DAWN STANDS THERE FIXED AND UNMOVING
ONLY WE TWO HAVE MOVED.
<C 51>
<F 261><D 250>SHINES
IN THE MIND OF HEAVEN GOD
WHO MADE IT
MORE THAN THE SUN
IN OUR EYE.
FIFTH ELEMENT; MUD; SAID NAPOLEON
WITH USURY HAS NO MAN A GOOD HOUSE
MADE OF STONE, NO PARADISE ON HIS CHURCH WALL
WITH USURY THE STONE CUTTER IS KEPT FROM HIS STONE
THE WEAVER IS KEPT FROM HIS LOOM BY USURA
WOOL DOES NOT COME INTO MARKET
THE PEASANT DOES NOT EAT HIS OWN GRAIN
THE GIRL'S NEEDLE GOES BLUNT IN HER HAND
THE LOOMS ARE HUSHED ONE AFTER ANOTHER
TEN THOUSAND AFTER TEN THOUSAND
DUCCIO WAS NOT BY USURA
NOR WAS "LA CALUNNIA" PAINTED.
NEITHER AMBROGIO PRAEDIS NOR ANGELICO
HAD THEIR SKILL BY USURA
NOR ST TROPHIME ITS CLOISTERS;
NOR ST HILAIRE ITS PROPORTION.
USURY RUSTS THE MAN AND HIS CHISEL
IT DESTROYS THE CRAFTSMAN; DESTROYING CRAFT
AZURE IS CAUGHT WITH CANCER. EMERALD COMES TO NO MEMLING
USURY KILLS THE CHILD IN THE WOMB
AND BREAKS SHORT THE YOUNG MAN'S COURTING
USURY BRINGS AGE INTO YOUTH; IT LIES BETWEEN THE BRIDE
AND THE BRIDEGROOM
USURY IS AGAINST NATURE'S INCREASE.
<F 262>WHORES FOR ELEUSIS;
UNDER USURY NO STONE IS CUT SMOOTH
<D 251>PEASANT HAS NO GAIN FROM HIS SHEEP HERD
BLUE DUN; NUMBER 2 IN MOST RIVERS
FOR DARK DAYS; WHEN IT IS COLD
A STARLING'S WING WILL GIVE YOU THE COLOUR
OR DUCK WIDGEON; IF YOU TAKE FEATHER FROM UNDER WING
LET THE BODY BE OF BLUE FOX FUR, OR A WATER RAT'S
OR GREY SQUIRREL'S. TAKE THIS WITH A PORTION OF MOHAIR
AND A COCK'S HACKLE FOR LEGS.
12TH OF MARCH TO 2ND OF APRIL
HEN PHEASANT'S FEATHER DOES FOR A FLY,
GREEN TAIL, THE WINGS FLAT ON THE BODY
DARK FUR FROM A HARE'S EAR FOR A BODY
A GREEN SHADED PARTRIDGE FEATHER
GRIZZLED YELLOW COCK'S HACKLE
GREEN WAX; HARL FROM A PEACOCK'S TAIL
BRIGHT LOWER BODY; ABOUT THE SIZE OF PIN
THE HEAD SHOULD BE. CAN BE FISHED FROM SEVEN A.M.
TILL ELEVEN; AT WHICH TIME THE BROWN MARSH FLY COMES ON.
AS LONG AS THE BROWN CONTINUES, NO FISH WILL TAKE GRANHAM
THAT HATH THE LIGHT OF THE DOER; AS IT WERE
A FORM CLEAVING TO IT.
DEO SIMILIS QUODAM MODO
HIC INTELLECTUS ADEPTUS
GRASS; NOWHERE OUT OF PLACE. THUS SPEAKING IN KONIGSBERG
ZWISCHEN DIE VOLKERN ERZIELT WIRD
A MODUS VIVENDI.
CIRCLING IN EDDYING AIR; IN A HURRY;
THE 12 : CLOSE EYED IN THE OILY WIND
THESE WERE THE REGENTS; AND A SOUR SONG FROM THE FOLDS
OF HIS BELLY
<F 263>SANG GERYONE: I AM THE HELP OF THE AGED;
I PAY MEN TO TALK PEACE;
MISTRESS OF MANY TONGUES; MERCHANTS OF CHALCEDONY
I AM GERYON TWIN WITH USURA,
<D 252>YOU WHO HAVE LIVED IN A STAGE SET.
A THOUSAND WERE DEAD IN HIS FOLDS;
IN THE EEL-FISHERS BASKET
TIME WAS OF THE LEAGUE OF CAMBRAI:
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<C 52>
<F 267><D 257>AND I HAVE TOLD YOU OF HOW THINGS WERE UNDER DUKE
LEOPOLD IN SIENA
AND OF THE TRUE BASE OF CREDIT, THAT IS
THE ABUNDANCE OF NATURE
WITH THE WHOLE FOLK BEHIND IT.
"GOODS THAT ARE NEEDED" SAID SCHACHT (ANNO SEIDICI)
COMMERCIABILI BENI, DELIVERABLE THINGS THAT ARE WANTED.
NESCHEK IS AGAINST THIS, THE SERPENT
AND VIVANTE WAS THERE IN HIS PARADISE, THE MILD AIR
THE FIELDS ROLLING EASTWARD, AND THE TOWER HALF RUIN'D
WITH A PEASANT COMPLAINING THAT HER SON WAS TAKEN FOR WAR
AND HE SAID "PLUTOCRACIES WERE LESS VIOLENT:
((OMISSION))SIN DRAWING VENGEANCE, POOR YITTS PAYING FOR
((OMISSION))
PAYING FOR A FEW BIG JEWS' VENDETTA ON GOYIM
I THINK WROTE MISS BELL TO HER MAMA
THAT WHEN NOT AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF EMPIRE
WE SHD\KEEP OUR PLEDGES TO ARABS.
THUS WE LIVED ON THROUGH SANCTIONS, THROUGH STALIN
LITVINOF, GOLD BROKERS MADE PROFIT
ROCKED THE EXCHANGE AGAINST GOLD
BEFORE WHICH ENTREFAITES REMARKED JOHNNIE ADAMS (THE ELDER)
IGNORANCE, SHEER IGNORANCE OV THE NATR OV MONEY
SHEER IGNORANCE OF CREDIT AND CIRCULATION.
REMARKED BEN: BETTER KEEP OUT THE JEWS
OR YR\GRAND CHILDREN WILL CURSE YOU
JEWS, REAL JEWS, CHAZIMS, AND NESCHEK
ALSO SUPER-NESCHEK OR THE INTERNATIONAL RACKET
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<D 258>GOVERNMENTS FULL OF THEIR GUN-SWINE, BANKBUZZARDS, POPPINJAYS.
DID COMMIT, THAT HE DID IN THE KINGDOM OF ITALY...
OF THE TWO USURIES, THE LESSER IS NOW PUT DOWN.
("PERICLES," NEAR THE BEGINNING.)
THAT HE DID IN THE KINGDOM OF BRITAIN ETC\
BETWEEN KUNG AND ELEUSIS
OR UNDER THE GOLDEN ROOF, LA DORATA,
HER BALDACCHINO,
RICCIO ON HIS HORSE RIDES STILL TO MONTEPULCIANO
THE GROGGY CHURCH IS GONE TOOTHLESS
NO LONGER HOLDS AGAINST NESCHEK
THE FAT HAS COVERED THEIR CROZIERS
THE HIGH FANS AND THE MITRE MEAN NOTHING
ONCE ONLY IN BURGOS, ONCE IN CORTONA
WAS THE SONG FIRM AND WELL GIVEN
OLD BUFFERS KEEPING THE STIFFNESS,
GREGORY DAMNED, ALWAYS WAS DAMNED, OBSCURANTIST.
KNOW THEN:
TOWARD SUMMER WHEN THE SUN IS IN HYADES
SOVRAN IS LORD OF THE FIRE
TO THIS MONTH ARE BIRDS.
WITH BITTER SMELL AND WITH THE ODOUR OF BURNING
TO THE HEARTH GOD, LUNGS OF THE VICTIM
THE GREEN FROG LIFTS UP HIS VOICE
AND THE WHITE LATEX IS IN FLOWER
IN RED CAR WITH JEWELS INCARNADINE
TO WELCOME THE SUMMER
IN THIS MONTH NO DESTRUCTION
NO TREE SHALL BE CUT AT THIS TIME
<F 269>WILD BEASTS ARE DRIVEN FROM FIELD
IN THIS MONTH ARE SIMPLES GATHERED.
THE EMPRESS OFFERS COCOONS TO THE SON OF HEAVEN
THEN GOES THE SUN INTO GEMINI
VIRGO IN MID HEAVEN AT SUNSET
INDIGO MUST NOT BE CUT
NO WOOD BURNT INTO CHARCOAL
<D 259>GATES ARE ALL OPEN, NO TAX ON THE BOOTHS.
NOW MARES GO TO GRAZING,
TIE UP THE STALLIONS
POST UP THE HORSEBREEDING NOTICES
MONTH OF THE LONGEST DAYS
LIFE AND DEATH ARE NOW EQUAL
STRIFE IS BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARKNESS
WISE MAN IN HIS HOUSE
STAG DROPPETH ANTLERS
GRASSHOPPER IS LOUD,
LEAVE NO FIRE OPEN TO SOUTHWARD.
NOW THE SUN ENTERS HYDRA, THIS IS THE THIRD MOON OF SUMMER
ANTARES OF SCORPIO STANDS MID HEAVEN AT SUNSET
ANDROMEDA IS WITH SUNRISE
LORD OF THE FIRE IS DOMINANT
TO THIS MONTH IS SEVEN,
WITH BITTER SMELL, WITH ODOUR OF BURNING
OFFER TO GODS OF THE HEARTH
THE LUNGS OF THE VICTIMS
WARM WIND IS RISING, CRICKET BIDETH IN WALL
YOUNG GOSHAWK IS LEARNING HIS LABOUR
DEAD GRASS BREEDETH GLOW-WORMS.
IN MING T'ANG HE BIDETH
IN THE WEST WING OF THAT HOUSE
RED CAR AND THE SORREL HORSES
<F 270>HIS BANNER INCARNADINE.
THE FISH-WARD NOW GOES AGAINST CROCODILES
TO TAKE ALL GREAT LIZARDS, TURTLES, FOR DIVINATION,
SEA TERRAPIN.
THE LAKE WARDEN TO GATHER RUSHES
TO TAKE GRAIN FOR THE MANES
TO TKAE GRAIN FOR THE BEASTS YOU WILL SACRIFICE
TO THE LORDS OF THE MOUNTAINS
TO THE LORDS OF GREAT RIVERS
INSPECTOR OF DYE-WORKS, INSPECTOR OF COLOUR AND BROIDERIES
<D 260>SEE THAT THE WHITE, BLACK, GREEN BE IN ORDER
LET NO FALSE COLOUR EXIST HERE
BLACK, YELLOW, GREEN BE OF QUALITY
THIS MONTH ARE TREES IN FULL SAP
RAIN HAS NOW DRENCHED ALL THE EARTH
DEAD WEEDS ENRICH IT, AS IF BOIL'D IN A BOUILLON.
SWEET SAVOUR, THE HEART OF THE VICTIM
YELLOW FLAG OVER EMPEROR'S CHARIOT
YELLOW STONES IN HIS GIRDLE.
SAGITTARIUS IN MID-COURSE AT SUNSET
COLD WIND IS BEGINNING. DEW WHITENS.
NOW IS CICADA'S TIME,
THE SPARROW HAWK OFFERS BIRDS TO THE SPIRITS.
EMPEROR GOES OUT IN WAR CAR, HE IS DRAWN BY WHITE HORSES,
WHITE BANNER, WHITE STONES IN HIS GIRDLE
EATS DOG AND THE DISH IS DEEP.
THIS MONTH IS THE REIGN OF AUTUMN
HEAVEN IS ACTIVE IN METALS, NOW GATHER MILLET
AND FINISH THE FLOOD-WALLS
ORION AT SUNRISE.
HORSES NOW WITH BLACK MANES.
EAT DOG MEAT. THIS IS THE MONTH OF RAMPARTS.
<F 271>BEANS ARE THE TRIBUTE, SEPTEMBER IS END OF THUNDER
THE HIBERNANTS GO INTO THEIR CAVES.
TOLLS LOWERED, NOW SPARROWS, THEY SAY, TURN INTO OYSTERS
THE WOLF NOW OFFERS HIS SACRIFICE.
MEN HUNT WITH FIVE WEAPONS,
THEY CUT WOOD FOR CHARCOAL.
NEW RICE WITH YOUR DOG MEAT.
FIRST MONTH OF WINTER IS NOW
SUN IS IN SCORPIO'S TAIL
AT SUNRISE IN HYDRA, ICE STARTING
THE PHEASANT PLUNGES INTO HOUAI (GREAT WATER)
AND TURNS TO AN OYSTER
RAINBOW IS HIDDEN AWHILE.
<D 261>HEAVEN'S SON FEEDS ON ROAST PORK AND MILLET,
STEEL GRAY ARE STALLION.
THIS MONTH WINTER RULETH.
THE SUN IS IN ARCHER'S SHOULDER
IN CROW'S HEAD AT SUNRISE
ICE THICKENS. EARTH CRACKS. AND THE TIGERS NOW MOVE TO MATING.
CUT TREES AT SOLSTICE, AND ARROW SHAFTS OF BAMBOO.
THIRD MONTH, WILD GEESE GO NORTH,
MAGPIE STARTS BUILDING,
PHEASANT LIFTETH HIS VOICE TO THE SPIRIT OF MOUNTAINS
THE FISHING SEASON IS OPEN,
RIVERS AND LAKES FROZEN DEEP
PUT NOW ICE IN YOUR ICE-HOUSE,
THE GREAT CONCERT OF WINDS
CALL THINGS BY THE NAMES. GOOD SOVEREIGN BY DISTRIBUTION
EVIL KING IS KNOWN BY HIS IMPOSTS.
BEGIN WHERE YOU ARE SAID LORD PALMERSTON
BEGAN DRAINING SWAMPS IN SLIGO
FOUGHT SMOKE NUISANCE IN LONDON. DREDGED HARBOUR IN SLIGO.
*CHIH(3)939 ((ND ONLY))
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<F 272><D 262>**YEOU TAUGHT MEN TO BREAK BRANCHES
**SEU-GIN SET UP THE STAGE AND TAUGHT BARTER,
TAUGHT THE KNOTTING OF CORDS
**FOU-HI TAUGHT MEN TO GROW BARLEY
2837 ANTE CHRISTUM
AND THEY KNOW STILL WHERE HIS TOMB IS
BY THE HIGH CYPRESS BETWEEN THE STRONG WALLS.
THE FIVE GRAINS, SAID **CHIN-NONG, THAT ARE
WHEAT, RICE, MILLET, GROS BLE AND CHIC PEAS
AND MADE A  PLOUGH THAT IS USED FIVE THOUSAND YEARS
MOVED HIS COURT THEN TO **KIO-FEOU-HIEN
HELD MARKET AT MID-DAY
"BRING WHAT WE HAVE NOT HERE", WROTE AN HERBAL
**SOUAN-YEN BAGGED FIFTEEN TIGERS
MADE SIGNS OUT OF BIRD TRACKS
**HOANG-TI CONTRIVED THE MAKING OF BRICKS
AND HIS WIFE STARTED WORKING THE SILK WORMS,
MONEY WAS IN DAYS OF **HOANG-TI.
HE MEASURED THE LENGTH OF SYRINX
OF THE TUBES TO MAKE TUNE FOR SONG
TWENTY-SIX (THAT WAS) ELEVEN ANTE CHRISTUM
HAD FOUR WIVES AND 25 MALES OF HIS MAKING
HIS TOMB IS TODAY IN **KIAO-CHAN
**TI-KO SET HIS SCHOLARS TO FITTING WORDS TO THEIR MUSIC
IS BURIED ON **TUNG-KIEOU
THIS WAS IN THE TWENTY FIFTH CENTURY A.C.
**YAO LIKE THE SUN AND RAIN,
SAW WHAT STAR IS AT SOLSTICE
SAW WHAT STAR MARKS MID SUMMER
<F 273>**YU, LEADER OF WATERS,
BLACK EARTH IS FERTILE, WILD SILK STILL IS FROM **SHANTUNG
AMMASSI, TO THE PROVINCES,
<D 263>LET HIS MEN PAY TITHES IN KIND.
"**SIU-TCHEOU PROVINCE TO PAY IN EARTH OF FIVE COLOURS
PHEASANT PLUMES FROM **YU-CHAN OF MOUNTAINS
**YU-CHAN TO PAY SYCAMORES
OF THIS WOOD ARE LUTES MADE
RINGING STONES FROM **SE-CHOUI RIVER
AND GRASS THAT IS CALLED **TSING-MO' OR =MOLU,
**CHUN TO THE SPIRIT **CHANG-TI, OF HEAVEN
MOVING THE SUN AND STARS
QUE VOS VERS EXPRIMENT VOS INTENTIONS,
ET QUE LA MUSIQUE CONFORME
*YAO(2)7295-YAO*SHUN(4)5936-CHUNYU(3)7620-YU<F 232854><D 264>*KAO(1)7 *TAO(2)6156 **KAO-YAO
ABUNDANCE
THEN AN EMPRESS FLED WITH **CHAO-KANG IN HER BELLY.
**FOU-HI BY VIRTUE OF WOOD;
**CHING-NONG, OF FIRE; **HOANG-TI RULED BY THE EARTH,
**CHAN BY METAL.
**TCHUEN WAS LORD, AS IS WATER.
**CHUN, GOVERN
**YU, CULTIVATE,
THE SURFACE IS NOT ENOUGH,
FROM **CHANG-TI NOTHING IS HIDDEN.
FOR YEARS NO WATERS CAME, NO RAIN FELL
FOR THE EMPEROR **TCHING-TANG
GRAIN SCARCE, PRICES RISING
SO THAT IN 1766 **TCHING-TANG OPENED THE COPPER MINE (ANTE
CHRISTUM)
MADE DISCS WITH SQUARE HOLES IN THEIR MIDDLES
AND GAVE THESE TO THE PEOPLE
WHEREWITH THEY MIGHT BUY GRAIN
WHERE THERE WAS GRAIN
THE SILOS WERE EMPTIED
7 YEARS OF STERILITY
DER IM BALUBA DAS GEWITTER GEMACHT HAT
**TCHING PRAYED ON THE MOUNTAIN AND
<F 275><D 265>WROTE MAKE IT NEW
*HSIN(1)2737 *JIH(4)3124 *JIH(4)3124 *HSIN(1)2737
ON HIS BATH TUB
DAY BY DAY MAKE IT NEW
CUT UNDERBRUSH,
PILE THE LOGS
KEEP IT GROWING,
DIED **TCHING AGED YEARS AN HUNDRED,
IN THE 13TH OF HIS REIGN.
"WE ARE UP, **HIA IS DOWN."
IMMODERATE LOVE OF WOMEN
IMMODERATE LOVE OF RICHES,
CARED FOR PARADES AN HUNTIN'.
**CHANG-TI ABOVE ALONE RULES.
**TANG NOT STINTING OF PRAISE:
CONSIDER THEIR SWEATS, THE PEOPLE'S
IF YOU WD\ SIT CALM ON THRONE.
*HSIA(4)2521-HSIA ((ROMAN IN ND ONLY))
**HIA! **HIA IS FALLEN
FOR OFFENCE TO THE SPIRITS
FOR SWEATS OF THE PEOPLE.
NOT BY YOUR VIRTUE
BUT BY VIRTUE OF **TCHING-TANG
HONOUR TO **YU, CONVERTER OF WATERS
HONOUR **TCHING-TANG
HONOUR TO **YIN ((YN IN F))
SEEK OLD MEN AND NEW TOOLS
<F 276>AFTER FIVE HUNDRED YEARS CAME THEN **WEN-WANG
B.C. 1231
UNCLE **KI SAID: JEWELS!
YOU EAT NOTHING BUT BEARS' PAWS.
IN MARBLE TOWER OF **LOU-TAI DOORS WERE OF JASPER
<D 266>THAT PALACE WAS TEN YEARS IN THE MAKING
**TAN-KI, PALACE, LIT BY DAY WITH TORCHES AND LANTHORNS
NOW **KIEOU'S DAUGHTER
WAS BAKED IN AN OX AND SERVED.
AND THE**Y WORKED OUT THE Y-KING OR CHANGES
TO GUESS FROM
IN PLAIN OF **MOU-YE, **CHEOU-SIN CAME AS A FOREST MOVING
**WU-WANG ENTERED THE CITY
GAVE OUT GRAIN TILL THE TREASURES WERE EMPTY
BY THE NINE VASES OF **YU, DEMOBILIZED ARMY
SENT HORSES TO **HOA-CHAN
TO THE PEACH GROVES
DATED HIS YEAR FROM THE WINTER SOLSTICE.
RED WAS HIS DYNASTY.
KIDS 8 TO 15 IN THE SCHOOLS, THEN HIGHER TRAINING
MOTTOES WRIT ALL OVER WALLS
"USE THEIR WAYS AND THEIR MUSIC
KEEP FORM OF THEIR CHARTS AND BANNERS
PREPARE SOLDIERS IN PEACE TIME
ALL IS LOST IN THE NIGHT CLUBS
THAT WAS GAINED UNDER GOOD RULE."
WAGON WITH SMALL BOX WHERIN WAS A NEEDLE
THAT POINTED TO SOUTHWARD
AND THIS WAS CALLED THE SOUTH CHARIOT.
**LO-YANG IN THE MIDDLE KINGDOM AND ITS LENGTH
WAS 17200 FEET. SAITH **TCHEOU-KONG: TRUE SAGE SEEKS NOT REPOSE.
HOPE WITHOUT WORK IS CRAZY
<F 277>YOUR FOREBEAR AMONG THE PEOPLE
DRESSED AS ONE OF THE PEOPLE
CARING FOR NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE,
OLD WHEN HE CAME TO THE THRONE
OBSERVING THE SOLSTICE.
DIED ELEVEN O SIX ANTE CHRISTUM
ARE STILL BITS OF HIS WRITING
"A GOOD GOVERNOR IS AS WIND OVER GRASS
<D 267>A GOOD RULER KEEPS DOWN THE TAXES."
**TCHING-OUANG KEPT LYNX EYE ON BUREAUCRATS
LYNX EYE ON THE CURRENCY
WEIGHT OF THE **TCHU WAS ONE 24TH OF AN OUNCE
OR ONE HUNDRED GRAINS OF MILLET
CLOTH BOLT AND SILK BOLT
TO BE TWO FEET TWO INCHES BY FOUR **TCHANG (ONE **TCHANG EQUALS
FOUR FEET)
REIGNED TILL 1079
AND WAS PEACE FOR THE REST OF HIS REIGN.
CALLED FOR HIS HAT SHAPED AS A MORTAR BOARD
SET OUT THE PRECIOUS STONES ON HIS TABLE
SAYING THIS IS MY WILL AND MY LAST WILL:
KEEP PEACE
KEEP THE PEACE, CARE FOR THE PEOPLE.
TEN LINES, NO MORE IN HIS TESTAMENT.
**CHAO-KONG CALLED THE HISTORIANS,
LAID OUT WHITE AND VIOLET DAMASK
FOR THE TABLE OF JEWELS, AS WHEN **TCHING-OUANG RECEIVED PRINCES
ON THE TABLE OF THE THRONE OF THE WEST
LAID OUT THE CHARTERS
CONSTITUTIONS OF ANTIENT KINGS AND TWO SORTS OF STONE
**HONG-PI AND **YUEN-YEN
AND ON THE EAST TABLE HE PUT THE PEARLS FROM MT **HOA-CHAN
<F 278>AND PEARLS FROM THE ISLANDS AND THE SPHERE OF **CHUN
THAT SHOWETH THE PLACES OF HEAVEN, AND THE DANCE ROBES OF IN
THE OLD DYNASTY AND THE GREAT DRUM THAT IS 8 FEET HIGH
THESE HE PUT IN THE PLACE FOR MUSIC. THE PIKES, BOWS,
BAMBOO ARROWS AND WAR GEAR HE SET TO THE EAST.
THE MATS OF THE FIRST RANK OF RUSHES BORDERED WITH DAMASK
OF THE SECOND OF BAMBOO AND THE THIRD RANK
OF TREE BARK.
A GRAY FUR CAP FOR THE CROWNING, AND 20 FT HALBARDS.
TEN SEVEN EIGHT ANTE CHRISTUM) ((NO PRIOR BRACKET IN F))
"LEFT IN MY FATHER'S ORDERS, BY THE TABLE OF JEWELS
<D 268>TO ADMINISTRATE AS IN THE LAW LEFT US
KEEP PEACE IN THE EMPIRE
**OUEN-OUANG, AND **WU-WANG YOUR FATHERS."
THUS CAME **KANG TO BE EMPEROR\.
WHITE HORSES WITH SORREL MANES IN THE COURT YARD.
"I AM PRO-**TCHEOU" SAID **CONFUCIUS
"I AM" SAID **CONFUTZIUS "PRO-**TCHEOU IN POLITICS
**WEN-WANG AND **WU-WANG HAD SAGE MEN, STRONG AS BEARS
SAID YOUNG **KANG-WANG:
HELP ME TO KEEP THE PEACE!
YOUR ANCESTORS HAVE COME ONE BY ONE UNDER OUR RULE
FOR OUR RULE.
HONOUR TO **CHAO-KONG THE SURVEYOR.
LET HIS NAME LAST 3000 YEARS
GAVE EACH MAN LAND FOR HIS LABOUR
NOT BY PLOUGH-LAND ALONE
BUT FOR KEEPING OF SILK-WORMS
REFORESTED THE MULBERRY GROVES
SET PERIODICAL MARKETS
EXCHANGE BROUGHT ABUNDANCE, THE PRISONS WERE EMPTY.
"**YAO AND **CHUN HAVE RETURNED"
<F 279>SANG THE FARMERS
PEACE AND ABUNDANCE BRING VIRTUE." I AM
"PRO-**TCHEOU" SAID **CONFUCIUS FIVE CENTURIES LATER.
WITH HIS MIND ON THIS AGE.
*CHOU(1)1293-CHOU ((ROMAN IN ND ONLY))
IN THE 16TH OF **KANG **OUANG DIED **PE-KIN
PRINCE OF **LOU, FRIEND OF PEACE, FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE
WORTHY SON OF **TCHEOU-KONG
AND IN THE 26TH **KANG **OUANG, DIED **CHAO-KONG THE TIRELESS
<D 269>ON A JOURNEY HE MADE FOR GOOD OF THE STATE
AND MEN NEVER THERAFTER CUT BRANCHES
OF THE PEAR-TREES WHERUNDER HE HAD SAT DEEMING
JUSTICE
DEEMING THE MEASURES OF LANDS.
AND YOU WILL HEAR TO THIS DAY THE FOLK SINGING
GROW PEAR-BOUGHS, BE FEARLESS
LET NO MAN BREAK TWIG OF THIS TREE
THAT GAVE SHADE TO **CHAO-KONG
HE HAD SHADOW FROM SUN HERE;
REST HAD HE IN YOUR SHADE.
[B.C.1053] DIED THEN **KANG-WANG IN THE 26TH OF HIS REIGN.
MOON SHONE IN AN HAZE OF COLOURS
WATER BOILED IN THE WELLS, AND DIED **TCHAO-OUANG
TO JOY OF THE PEOPLE.
**TCHAO-OUANG THAT HUNTED ACROSS THE TILLED FIELDS
AND **MOU-OUANG SAID:
AS A TIGER AGAINST ME,
A MAN OF THIN ICE IN THAW
<F 280>AID ME IN THE DARKNESS OF RULE"
THEN FELL INTO VANITY
AGAINST COUNCIL LED OUT A MYRIAD ARMY AND BROUGHT BACK
4 WOLVES AND 4 DEER
HIS FOLK REMAINED MERE BARBARIANS.
YET WHEN NEARED AN HUNDRED
HE WD\ HAVE MADE REPARATION
"CRIMINAL LAW IS FROM **CHUN,
FROM NECESSITY ONLY
IN DOUBT, NO CONDEMNATION, RULE OUT IRRELEVANT EVIDENCE.
LAW OF **MOU IS LAW OF THE JUST MIDDLE, THE PIVOT.
RICHES THAT COME OF COURT FINES AND OF JUDGES' TAKINGS
THESE ARE NO TREASURE
AS IS SAID IN THE BOOK **LIN-HING OF THE **CHU-KING.
AND THE GOVERNOR'S DAUGHTERS, THREE DAUGHTERS,
CAME TO THE RIVER **KING-HO,
<D 270>FOR TEN MONTHS WAS THE EMPEROR SILENT
AND IN THE TWELFTH MONTH, HE, **KONG, BURNT THE TOWN
AND GOT OVER IT
**SONG TURNED AGAINST **Y-WANG, GREAT HAIL UPON
**HIAO-WANG
KILLING THE CATTLE, **HAN-KIANG WAS FROZEN OVER.
AND IN THIS TIME WAS THE HORSE DEALER **FEI-TSEI
INDUSTRIOUS, OF THE FALLEN HOUSE OF **PE-Y
WHO BECAME MASTER OF EQUERRY, WHO BECAME PRINCE OF **TSIN.
**LI-WANG AVID OF SILVER, TO WHOM A MEMORIAL
"A PRINCE WHO WD\ FULFILL OBLIGATION, TAKES CAUTION
A CE QUE L'ARGENT CIRCULE
THAT CASH MOVE AMONGST THE PEOPLE.
"GLORY OF **HEOU-TSIE IS CLOUDED
DEATHLESS HIS HONOUR THAT SAW HIS FOLK USING THEIR SUBSTANCE.
THE END OF YOUR HOUSE IS UPON US."
<F 281>[B.C. 860] **YOUI-LEANG-FOU, IN MEMORIAL.
SAID **CHAO-KONG: TALK OF THE PEOPLE
IS LIKE THE HILLS AND THE STREAMS
THENCE COMES OUR ABUNDANCE.
TO BE LORD TO THE FOUR SEAS OF CHINA
A MAN MUST LET MEN MAKE VERSES
HE MUST LET PEOPLE PLAY COMEDIES
AND HISTORIANS WRITE DOWN THE FACTS
HE MUST LET THE POOR SPEAK EVIL OF TAXES.
INTERREGNUM OF **CONG-HO. **SIUEN WENT AGAINST THE WEST TARTARS
HIS PRAISE LASTS TO THIS DAY: **SIUEN-OUANG ((F HAS INCORRECT SIEUN)) CONTRA BARBAROS
LEGAT BELLI DUCEM **CHAOUMOUKONG,
**HOAILAND, FED BY **HOAI RIVER
DARK MILLET, **TCHANG WINE FOR THE SACRIFICE.
JUXTA FLUVIUM **HUAI ACIES ORDINATUR NEC MORA
SWIFT MEN AS IF FLYERS, LIKE **YANGTSE
STRONG AS THE **YANGTSE,
THEY STAND ROOTED AS MOUNTAINS
THEY MOVE AS A TORRENT OF WATERS
<D 271>EMPEROR NOT RASH IN COUNCIL: AGIT CONSIDERATE
**HAN FOUNDED THE TOWN OF **YUEI
AND TAUGHT MEN TO SOW THE FIVE GRAINS
IN THE 4TH YEAR OF **SIUEN,
**SIE WAS FOUNDED.
AND THERE WERE FOUR YEARS OF DRY SUMMER.
RITE IS:
NINE DAYS BEFORE THE FIRST MOON OF SPRING TIME,
THAT HE FAST. AND WITH GOLD CUP OF WHEAT-WINE
THAT HE GO AFIELD TO SPRING PLOUGHING
THAT HE PLOUGH ONE AND THREE QUARTERS FURROWS
AND EAT BEEF WHEN THIS RITE IS FINISHED,
SO DID NOT **SIUEN
<F 282>THAT AFTER FAMINE, CALLED BACK THE PEOPLE
WHERE ARE REEDS TO WEAVE, WHERE ARE PINE TREES
::SIUEN ESTABLISHED THIS PEOPLE HAC LOCA FLUVIUS ALLUIT
HE HEARD THE WILD GOOSE CRYING SORROW
CAMPESTRIBUS LOCIS
HERE HAVE WE FIXED OUR DWELLING
AFTER OUR SORROW,
OUR GRANDSONS SHALL HAVE OUR ESTATE
THE LADY **PAO-SSE BROUGHT EARTHQUAKES. **TCHEOU FALLETH,
FOLLY, FOLLY, FALSE FIRES NO TRUE ALARM
MOUNT **KI-CHAN IS BROKEN.
**KI-CHAN IS CRUMBLED IN THE 10TH MOON OF THE 6TH YEAR OF
**YEOU-OUANG
SUN DARKENED, THE RIVERS WERE FROZEN....
AND AT THIS TIME WAS **TCIN RISING, A MARQUIS ON THE
TARTAR BORDER
EMPIRE DOWN IN THE RISE OF PRINCES
**TCIN DRAVE THE TARTAR, LANDS OF THE EMPEROR IDLE
**TCHEOU TOMBS FALLEN IN RUIN
FROM THAT YEAR WAS NO ORDER
NO MAN WAS UNDER ANOTHER
9 **TCHEOU WD\ NOT STAND TOGETHER
<D 272>WERE NOT RODS IN A BUNDLE
SKY DARK, CLOUDLESS AND STARLESS
AT MIDNIGHT A RAIN OF STARS
WARS,
WARS WITHOUT INTEREST
BOREDOM OF AN HUNDRED YEARS' WARS.
AND IN **SIANG, THE PRINCES IMPATIENT
KILLED A BAD KING FOR A GOOD ONE, AND THUS **OUEN-KONG
CAME TO THEIR RULE IN **SUNG LAND
AND THEY SAID **LIANG HAD BEEN KILLED WHEN HUNTING
<F 283> **OUEN CHERISHED THE PEOPLE.
STATES OF **LOU WERE UNHAPPY
THEIR RICHARDS POISONED YOUNG PRINCES.
ALL BLOODS, MURDERS, ALL TREASONS
SONS OF THE FIRST WIFE OF **OUEN-KONG.
**LING-ONG LOVED TO SHOOT FROM THE HEDGES
YOU'D SEE HIM BEHIND A WALL WITH HIS ARROWS
FOR FUN OF WINGING PEDESTRIANS
THIS PRINCE LIKED EATING BEARS' PAWS.
BY THE NINE URNS OF **YU, KING **KONG
MADE AN ALLIANCE AT HEARING THE SOUND OF **TCHEOU MUSIC
THIS WAS THE YEAR OF THE TWO ECLIPSES
AND **CHEOU-LANG THAT HELD UP THE PORTCULLIS
WAS NAMED "HILLOCK" BECAUSE OF A LUMP ON HIS HEAD
MAN OF **SUNG, AND HIS LINE OF **LOU LAND
AND HIS SECOND SON WAS **KUNG-FU-TSEU
*CHUNG(4)1505 **NI(4)4654
TAUGHT AND THE NOT TAUGHT. **KUNG AND ELEUSIS
TO CATECHUMEN ALONE.
AND WHEN **KUNG WAS POOR, A SUPERVISOR OF VICTUALS
**PIEN'S REPORT BOOSTED HIM
SO THAT HE WAS MADE SUPERVISOR OF CATTLE
IN THAT TIME WERE BANQUETS AS USUAL, **KUNG WAS INSPECTOR OF
MARKETS
AND THAT YEAR WAS A COMET IN SCORPIO
AND BY NIGHT THEY FOUGHT IN THE BOATS ON **KIANG RIVER
<D 273>AND KING **WANG THOUGHT TO VARY THE CURRENCY
=METATHEMENON =TE =TON =KRUMENON
AGAINST COUNCIL'S OPINION,
AND TO GAIN BY THIS WANGLING.
HONOUR TO **FEN-YANG WHO RESISTED INJUSTICE
AND KING **KONG SAID "THIS IDEA IS GOOD DOCTRINE"
BUT I AM TOO OLD TO START USING IT.
<F 284>NEVER WERE SO MANY ECLIPSES.
THEN **KUNGFUTSEU WAS MADE MINISTER AND MOVED PROMPTLY
AGAINST T.C. **MAO
AND HAD HIM BEHEADED
THAT WAS FALSE AND CRAFTY OF HEART
A TOUGH TONGUE THAT FLOWED WITH DECEIT
A MAN WHO REMEMBERED EVIL AND WAS COMPLACENT IN DOING IT.
**LOU ROSE. **TSI SENT GIRLS TO DESTROY IT
**KUNGFUTSEU RETIRED
AT **TCHING SOMEONE SAID:
THERE IS MAN WITH **YAO'S FOREHEAD
**CAO'S NECK AND SHOULDERS OF **TSE-TCHIN
A MAN TALL AS **YU, AND HE WANDERS ABOUT IN FRONT OF THE
EAST GATE
LIKE A DOG THAT HAS LOST HIS OWNER.
WRONG, SAID **CONFUCIUS, IN WHAT HE SAYS OF THOSE EMPERORS
BUT AS TO THE LOST DOG, QUITE CORRECT.
HE WAS SEVEN DAYS FOODLESS IN **TCHIN
THE REST SICK AND **KUNG MAKING MUSIC
"SANG EVEN MORE THAN WAS USUAL"
HONOUR TO **YNG-P THE BASTARD
**TCHIN AND **TSAI CUT OFF **KUNG IN THE DESERT
AND **TCHEOU TROOPS ALONE GOT HIM OUT
**TSAO FELL AFTER 25 GENERATIONS
AND **KUNG CUT 3000 ODES TO 300
COMET FROM **YNG STAR TO **SIN STAR, THAT IS TWO DEGREES LONG
IN THE 40TH YEAR OF KING **OUANG
[B.C. 479] DIED **KUNG AGED 73
<D 274>**MING-KONG'S LINE WAS SIX CENTURIES LASTING
AND THERE WERE 84 PRINCES
SWINE THINK OF EXTENDING BORDERS
DECENT RULERS OF INTERNAL ORDER
<F 285>**FEN-LI SOUGHT THE FIVE LAKES
TOOK PRESENTS BUT MADE NO HIGHWAYS
SNOW FELL IN MID SUMMER
APRICOTS WERE IN DECEMBER, MOUNTAINS DEFEND NO STATE
NOR SWIFT RIVERS NEITHER, NEITHER **TAI-HIA NOR **HOANG-HO
USURPATIONS, JEALOUSIES, TAXES
GREED, MURDER, JEALOUSIES, TAXES AND DOUANES
280 DIED **HAO-TSE
**SOU-TSIN, ARMAMENT RACKET, WAR PROPAGANDA.
AND **TCHAN-Y WAS WORKING FOR **TSIN
BRAIN WORK =*POLLON =*IDEN
AND **TCHAO-SIANG CALLED HIMSELF "EMPEROR OF THE OCCIDENT"
SOU TSI THOUGHT IT BADINAGE
YO-Y REDUCED CORVEES AND TAXES.
THUS OF KUNG OR CONFUCIUS, AND OF "HILLOCK" HIS FATHER
WHEN HE WAS ATTACKING A CITY
HIS MEN HAD PASSED UNDER THE DROP GATE
AND THE WARDERS THEN DROPPED IT, SO HILLOCK CAUGHT
THE WHOLE WEIGHT ON HIS SHOULDERS, AND HELD TILL HIS
LAST MAN HAD GOT OUT.
OF SUCH STOCK WAS KUNGFUTSEU.
*CHOU(1)1293-CHOU
<C 54>
<F 286><D 275>SO THAT TIEN-TAN CHOSE BULLS, A THOUSAND
AND COVERED THEM WITH GREAT LEATHER MASKS, MAKING DRAGONS
AND BOUND POIGNARDS TO THEIR HORNS
AND TIED TORCHES, PITCH-SMEARED, TO THEIR TAILS
AND LOOSED THEM BY NIGHT FROM TEN POINTS
ON THE CAMP OF KI-KIE THE BESIEGER
LIGHTING THE TORCHES
[B.C. 279] SO DIED KI-KIE AND THAT TOWN (TSIE-ME) WAS DELIVERED.
FOR THREE HUNDRED YEARS, FOUR HUNDRED, NOTHING QUIET,
WALL ROSE IN THE TIME OF TSIN CHI
TCHEOU LASTED EIGHT CENTURIES AND THEN TSIN CAME
AND OF TSIN WAS CHI HOANG TI THAT UNITED ALL CHINA
WHO REFERRED TO HIMSELF AS THE SURPLUS
OR NEEDLESS BIT OF THE EMPIRE
AND JACKED UP ASTRONOMY
AND AFTER 33 YEARS BURNT THE BOOKS
[B.C. 213] BECAUSE OF FOOL LITTERATI
BY COUNCIL OF LI-SSE
SAVE MEDICINE AND ON FIELD WORKS
AND HAN WAS AFTER 43 YEARS OF TSIN DYNASTY.
SOME FISHIN' SOME HUNTIN' SOME THINGS CANNOT BE
CHANGED
SOME COOK, SOME DO NOT COOK
SOME THINGS CAN NOT BE CHANGED.
AND WHEN TSE-YNG HAD SUBMITTED, SIAO-HO RAN TO THE
PALACE
CARELESS OF TREASURE, AND LAID HOLD OF THE RECORDS,
REGISTERS OF THE REALM FOR LORD LIEOU-PANG
<F 287>THAT WD\ BE FIRST HAN
NOW AFTER THE END OF EULJ AND THE DEATH OF HIS EUNUCH
<D 276>WERE LIEOU-PANG, AND HIANG-YU
WHO HAD TASTE FOR COMMANDING
BUT MADE NO PROGRESS IN LETTERS,
SAYING THEY SERVE ONLY TO TRANSMIT NAMES TO POSTERITY
AND HE WISHED TO CARVE UP THE EMPIRE
BLOODY RHOOSHUN, THOUGHT IN TEN THOUSANDS
HIS WORD WAS WORTH NOTHING, HE WOULD NOT LEARN FENCING. AND
AGAINST HIM
LIEOU-PANG STORED FOOD AND MUNITIONS
[B.C. 202] SO THAT HE CAME TO BE EMPEROR, KAO,
BROUGHT CALM AND ABUNDANCE
NO TAXES FOR A WHOLE YEAR,
"NO TAXES TILL PEOPLE CAN PAY 'EM"
"WHEN THE QUARRY IS DEAD, WEAPONS ARE USELESS."
"IT APPEARS TO ME" SAID THIS EMPEROR, "THAT IT IS
BECAUSE I SAW WHAT EACH MAN CD\ PUT THROUGH."
AND LOU-KIA WAS ENVOY TO NAN-HAI, WITH NOBILITY,
AND WISHED THAT THE KING (THE BOOKS CHU KING AND CHI KING)
BE RESTORED
TO WHOM KAO: I CONQUERED THE EMPIRE ON HORSEBACK.
TO WHOM LOU: CAN YOU GOVERN IT IN THAT MANNER?
WHERON LOU-KIA WROTE "THE NEW DISCOURSE" (SIN-YU)
IN 12 CHAPTERS, AND THE BOOKS WERE RESTORED.
AND KAO WENT TO KUNG FU TSEU'S TOMB OUT OF POLICY
VIDELICET TO PLEASE THE WRITERS AND SCHOLARS
A HOT LORD AND UNLETTERED, THAT KNEW TO CORRECT HIS OWN
FAULTS
AS INDEED WHEN HE HAD FIRST SEEN PALACE WOMEN, THEIR
SPLENDOUR
YET LISTENED TO FAN-KOUAI
<F 288>AND HAD GONE OUT OF HIEN-YANG THE PALACE, AROUSED.
AND HE TOLD SIAO-HO TO EDIT THE LAW CODE
THEREON THE MEN IN THE VAUDEVILLES
SANG OF PEACE AND OF EMPIRE
AU DOUCE TEMPS DE PASCOR
<D 277>AND TCHANG-TSONG WROTE OF MUSIC, ITS PRINCIPLES
SUN-TONG MADE RECORD OF RITES
AND THIS WAS WRITTEN ALL IN RED-CHARACTER, COUNTERSIGNED BY
THE ASSEMBLY
SEALED WITH THE IMPERIAL SEAL
AND PUT IN THE HALL OF THE FOREBEARS
AS CHECK ON SUCCESSORS.
HIAO HOEI TI SUCCEEDED HIS FATHER.
RAIN OF BLOOD FELL IN Y-YANG
PEAR TREES FRUITED IN WINTER
LIU-HEOU WAS EMPRESS, WITH DEVILMENTS,
[B.C. 179] TILL THE GRANDEES BROUGHT HIAO OUEN
PRINCE OF TAI TO THE THRONE
THAT WAS SON OF KAO TI AND A CONCUBINE
(NO TRIBUTE FOR THE FIRST YEAR OF HIS REIGN)
AND THE CHIEF OF THE SOUTHERN BARBARIANS COMPLAINED
THAT HIS SILVER IMPORT WAS INTERCEPTED
CIRCULATION OF SPECIE IMPEDED
THE TOMBS OF HIS ANCESTORS RUIN'D
"49 YEARS HAVE I GOVERNED NAN-YUEI
MY GRANDSONS ARE NOW FIT TO SERVE
I AM OLD, NIGH BLIND, CAN SCARCE HEAR THE DRUM-BEATS
I GIVE UP TITLE OF EMPEROR."
AND KIA-Y SENT IN A PETITION THAT THEY STORE GRAIN AGAINST
FAMINE
AND HIAO OUEN TI THE EMPEROR PUBLISHED:
<F 289>EARTH IS THE NURSE OF ALL MEN
I NOW CUT OFF ONE HALF THE TAXES
I WISH TO FOLLOW THE SAGES, TO HONOUR CHANG TI BY MY FURROW
LET FARM FOLK HAVE TOOLS FOR THEIR LABOUR IT IS
FOR THIS I REDUCE THE SAID TAXES
GOLD IS INEDIBLE. LET NO WAR FIND US UNREADY.
THUS TCHAO-TSO OF HIS MINISTRY (WAR)
"GOLD WILL SUSTAIN NO MAN'S LIFE NOR WILL DIAMONDS
<D 278>KEEP THE LAND UNDER CULTURE....
BY WISE CIRCULATION. BREAD IS THE BASE OF SUBSISTANCE."
THEY ENDED MUTILATION AS PUNISHMENT
WERE BUT 400 MEN IN ALL JAILS
DIED HIAO OUEN TI, ANTE CRISTUM ONE FIFTY SEVEN.
AFTER 23 YEARS OF REIGN, THAT PENSIONED THE ELDERS.
[B.C. 146] GREAT REBELS BEGAN MAKING LEAD MONEY
GRASSHOPPERS CAME AGAINST HARVEST
AND LI-KOUANG BLUFFED THE TARTARS (THE HIONG-NOU)
IN FACE OF A THOUSAND, HE AND HIS SCOUTS DISMOUNTED
AND UNSADDLED THEIR HORSES, SO THE HIONG NOU
THOUGHT LI'S ARMY WAS WITH HIM.
VIRTUE IS THE DAUGHTER OF HEAVEN, YU FOLLOWED CHUN
AND CHUN, YOA HAVING ONE ROOT OF CONDUCT
HIAO KING HAD A JUST MAN'S BLOOD ON HIS CONSCIENCE.
*HSIN(1)2737
SIN
JIH
JIH
SIN,
HIA'S FORTUNE WAS IN GOOD MINISTERS
THE HIGHBROWS ARE FULL OF THEMSELVES
<F 290>LEARNED, GAY AND IRRELEVANT
ON SUCH BASE NOTHING STANDS
HAN OU WAS FOR HUNTIN', HUNTIN' TIGERS, BEARS, LEOPARDS
THEY SAID: YOU OUTRIDE ALL YR\ HUNTSMEN
NO ONE ELSE HAS SUCH GOOD HORSES.
THE PRINCE OF HOAI-NAN TOOK TO LIGHT READING
PRINCE OF HO-KIEN PREFERED HISTORIES, CHU KING
AND THE TCHEOU-LI AND THE LI-KI OF MENCIUS (MONG-TSE)
AND THE CHI-KING OR ODES OF MAO-CHI AND THE TCHUN-TSIOU
WITH THE COMMENT OF TSO-KIEOU-MIN.
AND THE LI-YO WITH TREATISE ON MUSIC.
<D 279>HAN TCHAO TI OPENED THE GRANARIES
HAN SIEUN (OR SIUN) WAS FED UP WITH HIGHBROWS
PREFERRED MEN WHO KNEW PEOPLE'S HABITS
"WRITERS ARE FULL OF THEIR OWN IMPORTANCE"
AND WHEN THE TARTAR KING CAME TO TCHANG-NGAN
ALL THE TROOPS STOOD BEFORE HIM
THE GREAT IN CEREMONIAL UNIFORM WAITED BEFORE THAT CITY
AND THE EMPEROR
CAME OUT OF THE PALACE WITH
FOREIGN AND CHINESE PRINCES,
MANDARINS OF THE ARMY AND THE BOOK MANDARINS
AS AN HEDGE FROM THE PALACE
AND HE TOOK HIS WAY BETWEEN THEM
MID CHEERING AND ACCLAMATION
OUAN-SOUI!! OUAN-SOUI!!
10,000 OUAN SOUI!! MAY HE LIVE FOR
TEN THOUSAND YEARS!
THEY CRIED THIS FOR THE EMPEROR AND JOY WAS IN EVERY VOICE.
AND THE TARTAR RAN FROM HIS CAR TO HAN SIEUN
HELD OUT HIS HAND IN FRIENDSHIP
AND THEN REMOUNTED HIS WAR HORSE
<F 291>AND THEY CAME INTO THE CITY, AND TO THE PALACE
PREPARED
AND NEXT DAY TWO IMPERIAL PRINCES WENT TO THE PRINCE TARTAR
THE TCHEN-YU AND BROUGHT HIM TO THE AUDIENCE HALL
WHERE ALL THE PRINCES SAT IN THEIR ORDERS
AND THE TCHEN-YU KNELT TO HAN SIEUN
AND STAYED THREE DAYS THERE IN FESTIVAL
WHEREAFTER HE RETURNED TO HIS BORDER AND PROVINCE.
HE WAS THE PRINCE OF HIONG-NOU
AND THE KINGS OF SI-YU, THAT ARE FROM TCHANG-NGAN TO THE
CASPIAN
CAME INTO THE EMPIRE
TO THE JOY OF HAN SIEUN TI
(PRETTY MANOEUVRE BUT THE TECHNICIANS
<D 280>WATCHED WITH THEIR HAIR STANDING ON END
ANNO SIXTEEN, BAY OF NAPLES)
FROM NGAN TO THE CASPIAN ALL WAS UNDER HAN SIEUN
[B.C. 49] THE TEXT OF BOOKS REESTABLISHED. AND HE DIED IN THE 25TH OF
HIS REIGN
AND FONG-CHI LED THE BEAR BACK TO ITS CAGE
WHICH TALE IS AS FOLLOWS:
FONG-CHI AND FOU-CHI HAD TITLES BUT ONLY AS QUEENS OF
HAN YUEN
AND IN THE IMPERIAL GARDEN A BEAR FORCED THE BARS OF HIS CAGE
AND OF THE COURT LADIES ONLY FONG FACED HIM
WHO SEEING THIS WENT BACK QUIETLY TO HIS CAGE.
AND NOW WAS SEEPAGE OF BHUDDISTS. HAN PING
SIMPLE AT TABLE, GAVE TAEL TO THE POOR
TSEOU-KOU AND TCHONG TOOK THE HIGH ROAD
THE PRINCE OF OU-YEN KILLED OFF A THOUSAND,
SET TROOPS TO TILLING THE FIELDS.
KOUANG OU TOOK HIS RISKS AS A COMMON SOLDIER
<F 292>HAN MING CHANGED NOTHING OF OU'S
GAVE NO POSTS TO PRINCESSES' RELATIVES
AND YANG TCHONG SENT IN A PLACET THAT FOOD PRICES HAD RISEN
SINCE THE START OF THE TARTAR WAR, TAXES HAD RISEN
YEAR OF DROUGHT 77 AND THE EMPRESS MA CHI ANSWERED:
UNTIL NOW FEW EMPRESSES' RELATIVES
HAVE BEEN ENRICHED WITHOUT MAKING TROUBLE
WHEN OUANG CHI'S FIVE BROTHERS WERE LIFTED
THICK FOG CAME ON THIS EMPIRE
"HISTORY IS A SCHOOL BOOK FOR PRINCES."
HAN HO TI HEARD MEN'S GOOD COUNSEL
[A.D. 107] AND IN THE THIRD MOON OF THE FIRST YEAR OF HAN NGAN
THE EMPRESS' BROTHER NAMED TENG-TCHI REFUSED THE HONOUR
OF PRINCEDOM
BUT GATHERED SCHOLARS AND FINALLY HEARD OF YANG-TCHIN
WHOM HE MADE GOVERNOR
<D 281>AND YANG-TCHIN REFUSED GOLD OF THE MANDARIN
OUANG-MI
EARTHQUAKES AND ECLIPSES.
AND THEY TURNED OUT 300 MANDARINS
THAT WERE CREATIONS OF LEANG-KI
[A.D. 159] AND HUON GAVE MOST OF THE SWAG TO THE PEOPLE
500 MILLION TAEL
WAR, TAXES, OPPRESSION
BACKSHEESH, TAOISTS, BHUDDISTS
WARS, TAXES, OPPRESSIONS
AND SOME GRANDEES FORMED AN ACADEMY
AND THE EUNUCHS DISLIKED THE ACADEMY
BUT THEY NEVER GOT RID OF THE EUNUCHS
TEOU-CHI BROUGHT BACK THE SCHOLARS
[A.D. 175] AND THE BOOKS WERE INCISED IN STONE
46 TABLETS SET UP AT THE DOOR OF THE COLLEGE
<F 293>INSCRIBED IN 5 SORTS OF CHARACTER
HAN HUON WAS RUN BY EUNUCHS
HAN LING WAS GOVERNED BY EUNUCHS
WARS, MURDERS AND CRIME NEWS
HAN SANK AND THERE WERE THREE KINGDOMS
AND BOOZE IN THE BAMBOO GROVE
WHERE THEY SANG: EMPTINESS IS THE BEGINNING OF ALL THINGS.
LIEOU-TCHIN DIED IN HALL OF THE FOREBEARS-
WHEN HIS FATHER WD\ NOT DIE FIGHTING-
BY SUICIDE, SLAYING HIS CHILDREN AND CONSORT.
DOWN! HAN IS DOWN. UNDER TCIN
TOU-YU PROPOSED A BRIDGE OVER HOANG-HO
TCIN OU TI MOURNED FOR SIR YANG-HOU
THAT HAD PLANNED THE UNION OF EMPIRE,
AND HAD NAMED TOU-YU TO SUCCEED HIM
OUANG-SIUN WROTE TO HIS MAJESTY: WIND WAS AGAINST US
AT SAN-CHAN, WE CD\ NOT SAIL UP THE KIANG
NOR WAS THERE SENSE IN RETURNING.
NOT I BUT SUN-HAO'S OWN MEN SACKED HIS PALACE.
<D 282>AND TCIN OU EXEMPTED THE CONQUERED IN OU FROM TAXES.
WAS AN ARMY AND NAVY DOG FIGHT. AND AFTER THE FALL OF SUN-HAO
HIS BALLET DISTRACTED THE EMPEROR
WERE FIVE THOUSAND BALLET GIRLS
AFTER THE FIRST QUINDECENNIO
AND LIEOU-Y ANSWERED THE EMPEROR:
"DIFFERENCE, MILORR", IS THAT HUON AND LING TI
EXTRACTED AND KEPT IT IN PUBLIC VAULTS
WHERAS YR MAJESTY KEEPS IT IN YR\ OWN PRIVATE
TCIN OU DISMISSED TOO MANY TROOPS
AND WAS COMPLIMENTED ON DRAGONS
(TWO FOUND ON THE SOLDIERS' WELL, GREEN ONES)
AND THE COUNTRY WAS RUN BY YANG SIUN
<F 294>WHILE THE EMPEROR AMUSED HIMSELF IN HIS PARK
HAD A LIGHT CAR MADE, HARNESSED TO SHEEP
THE SHEEP CHOSE WHICH PICNIC HE WENT TO,
ENDED HIS DAYS AS A GOURMET. SAID TCHANG, TARTAR:
ARE NOT ALL OF HIS PROTEGES FLATTERERS?
HOW CAN HIS COUNTRY KEEP PEACE?
AND THE PRINCE IMPERIAL WENT INTO THE CABARET BUSINESS
AND READ LAO TSE.
[A.D. 317] HOAI TI WAS DEPOSED, MIN TI TAKEN BY TARTARS
MADE LACKEY TO LIEOU-TSONG OF HAN
TCIN TCHING CARED FOR THE PEOPLE.
TCIN NGAN DIED OF TONICS AND TAOISTS
TCIN HIAO TOLD A GIRL SHE WAS 30
AND SHE STRANGLED HIM
[A.D. 396] (PIQUEE DE CE BADINAGE) HE DRUNK AT THE TIME
NOW WAS THEREFORE SUNG RISING.
WHEN LIEOU-YU'S MOTHER WAS BURIED
HIS DAD COULDN'T HIRE A NURSE FOR THIS BABBY
KAO-TSOU.
LAST TCIN DOWN IN A BHUD MESS
KAO TSEU PREFERRED DISTRIBUTION
NO POMPS IN PALATIO, MADE PEACE WITH THE TARTARS
<D 283>LI-CHAN WD\ NOT LEAVE HIS MOUNTAIN
ET LES INDIENS DISENT QUE BOUDHA
IN THE FORM OF A WHITE BUCK ELEPHANT
SLID INTO QUEEN NANA'S BOSOM, SHE VIRGIN,
AND AFTER NINE MONTHS INGESTION
EMERGED ON THE DEXTER SIDE
THE PRINCE OF OUEI PUT OUT HOCHANGS
PUT OUT THE SHAMEN AND TAOTSSE
A.D. 444, PUTT ((VARIANT SPELLING FLAG?)) 'EM OUT
IN THE TIME OF OUEN TI
<F 295>"LET ARTISANS TEACH THEIR SONS CRAFTS"
FOUND GREAT STORE OF ARMS IN A TEMPLE
THEN TO-PA-TAO WENT AFTER THE SHAVE-HEADS, THE HOCHANG
AND THE CENSOR FINALLY PRINTED HIS PLACET
AGAINST EXTORTIONATE JUDGEMENTS AND GREED OF
[A.D. 448] THE HIGH JUDGE YUPINGTCHI
OUEN TI REDUCED HIM (YUPINGTCHI)
AND THERE WAS PEACE BETWEEN SUNG LAND AND OUEI LAND
AND THEY ORDERED MORE WAR MACHINES A LA VALTURIO
CONSCRIPTIONS, ASSASSINS, TAOISTS
TAXES STILL IN THE HANDS OF THE PRINCES
OU TI HAD 'EM CENTRALIZED
YEN YEN WAS FRUGAL. OUEI PRINCE WENT PUSSYFOOT
AND THE RITES OF TIEN, THAT IS HEAVEN
WERE PLOUGHING AND THE RAISING OF SILK WORMS
[A.D. 460] OU TI PLOUGHED HIS FESTIVAL FURROW
HIS EMPRESS DID RITE OF THE SILK WORMS
THEN OU WENT GAY AND SUNG ENDED.
THUS WAS IT WITH KAO'S SON THAT WAS SIAO, THAT WAS CALLED
AS EMPEROR
OU TI
COLLECTOR OF VASES
(TOPAS WERE IN OUEI COUNTRY, THEY WERE TARTAR)
BHUDDISTS, HOCHANGS, SERENDIPITY
"MAN'S FACE IS A FLAG" SAID TAN TCHIN
<D 284>"THOUGHT IS TO BODY AS IS ITS EDGE TO A SWORD"
"WHEAT IS BY SWEAT OF THE PEOPLE"
[A.D. 503-550] SO OU TI OF LEANG HAD A RENAISSANCE
SNOW LAY IN PING TCHING TILL JUNE
EMP'R'R HUNTIN' AND THE CROWN PRINCE FULL OF SAKI
AND TOPA HONG CAME SOUTH UNDER THE RAIN
"NO LACK OF STUDENTS, FEW WISE.
<F 296>PERHAPS THIS IS DUE TO THE COLLEGES."
AND TOPA, WHO WAS LORD OF THE EARTH CALLED HIMSELF YUEN
AND THERE WAS A HAND-OUT TO THE AGED
HALLS WERE RE-SET TO KUNG-FU-TSEU
YET AGAIN, ALLUS DROPPIN' 'EM AND RESTORIN' 'EM
AFTER INTERVALS. AND THERE WAS WAR ON THE EMPEROR OU TI
HOCHANG CONSIDER THEIR OWN WELFARE ONLY.
AND THE 46 TABLETS THAT STOOD STILL THERE IN YO LANG
WERE BROKEN AND BUILT INTO FOE'S TEMPLE (FOE'S, THAT IS
GODDAM BHUDDISTS.)
THIS WAS UNDER HOU-CHI THE SHE EMPRESS.
OU TI WENT INTO CLOISTER
EMPIRE ROTTED BY HOCHANG, THE SHAVE-HEADS, AND
ANOTHER BOOSY KING DIED. SNOW ALONE KEPT OUT THE TARTARS
AND MEN TURNED THEIR THOUGHT TOWARD OUEN TI
YANG-KIEN OF SOUI SET MEN TO REVISE HIS LAW CODE
SOU-OUEI ADVISED HIM, GRAIN WENT INTO HIS GRANARIES
HEOU RAISED THE THREE TOWERS
SAT LATE AND WROTE VERSES
HIS MANDATE WAS ENDED.
[A.D. 581] CAME THE XIITH DYNASTY: SOUI
YANG-KIEN, ROUGH, ABLE, WRATHY
FLOGGED A FEW EVERY DAY
AND SACRIFICED ON MT TAI CHAN
BUILT GIN CHEOU THE PALACE
PARDONED THOSE WHO STOOD UP TO HIM.
TOULI-KHAN, TARTER, WAS GIVEN A PRINCESS
NOW WAS CONTEMPT OF SCHOLARS
<D 285>OUEN KEPT UP MULBERRY TREES
AND FAILED WITH HIS FAMILY
YANG (KOUANG) TI ORDERED MORE BUILDINGS
JOBS FOR TWO MILLYUM MEN
<F 297>AND FILLED HIS ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS
1600 LEAGUES OF CANALS 40 FT WIDE FOR THE
HONOUR OF YANG TI OF SOUI
THE STREAM KOU-CHOUI WAS LINKED TO HOANG HO THE RIVER
GREAT WORKS BY OPPRESSION
BY SPLENDID OPPRESSION
THE WALL WAS FROM YU-LIN TO TSE-HO
AND A MILLION MEN WORKED ON THAT WALL.
PEI-KIU WAS TACTFUL WITH TRADERS,
KNOWING THAT YANG LIKED NEWS FROM AFAR,
WITH WHAT HE LEARNED OF THE SI-YU HE MAPPED 48 KINGDOMS.
KONG SANK IN ABULEIA. TANG RISING.
[A.D. 618] AND THE FIRST TANG WAS KAO TSEU, THE STARTER.
AND THAT YEAR DIED LI-CHI THAT HAD COME TO HIS RESCUE
WITH A TROOP OF 10,000. THE WAR DRUMS BEAT AT HER FUNERAL
AND HER HUSBAND DROVE BACK THE TARTARS, TOU-KOU-HOEN.
FOU STOOD AGAINST FOE, DAMN BHUDDISTS
WHEN TAI TSONG CAME TO BE EMPEROR HE TURNED OUT 3000
FANCIES
BUILT THUS FOR TWO HUNDRED YEARS TANG
AND THERE WERE TEN THOUSAND STUDENTS.
FOU-Y SAYING THEY USE MUZZY LANGUAGE
THE MORE TO MISLEAD FOLK.
KUNG IS TO CHINA AS IS WATER TO FISHES.
WAR, LETTERS, TO EACH A TIME.
PROVINCES BY MOUNTAIN AND RIVERS DIVIDED.
"A TRUE PRINCE WANTS HIS NEWS STRAIGHT"
TAI TSONG WAS NO FRIEND TO TAOZERS HOCHANGS AND FOES.
WAS OBSERVER OF SEASONS, SAYING:
TAKE NOT MEN FROM THE PLOUGH
LET JUDGES FAST FOR THREE DAYS BEFORE PASSING CAPITAL SENTENCE
<D 286>OUEI-TCHING ROCK-LIKE IN COUNCIL
MADE THE EMPEROR PUT ON HIS BEST CLOTHES
<F 298>SAID: IN WAR TIME WE WANT MEN OF ABILITY
IN PEACE WE WANT ALSO CHARACTER
300 WERE UNJAILED TO DO THEIR SPRING PLOUGHING
AND THEY ALL CAME BACK IN OCTOBER
"I GREW WITH THE PEOPLE" SAID TAI TSONG
"MY SON IN THE PALACE"
DIED KAO TSEU THE EMPEROR'S FATHER
635 ANNO DOMINI
DIED THE EMPRESS TCHANG-SUN CHI
LEAVING "NOTES FOR PRINCESSES"
AND TAI IN HIS LAW CODE CUT 92 REASONS FOR DEATH SENTENCE
AND 71 FOR EXILE
AS THEY HAD BEEN UNDER SOUI
AND THERE WERE HALLS TO CONFUCIUS AND TCHEOU-KONG
MA-TCHEOU SPOKE AGAINST CORVEES
THAT HAD BEEN UNDER SOUI
GRAIN PRICE WAS HIGH WHEN TAI ENTERED
A SMALL MEASURE COST ONE BOLT OF SILK, ENTIRE.
IF A PRINCE PILES UP TREASURE
HE SHARES ONLY HIS SURPLUS
LOCK NOT UP THE PEOPLE'S SUBSISTENCE. SAID TAI TSONG:
LET A PRINCE BE CITED FOR ACTIONS.
A MEASURE OF RICE NOW COST THREE OR FOUR DENARS,
THAT WD\ FEED ONE MAN FOR ONE DAY.
OUEI-TCHING SPOKE HIS MIND TO THE EMPEROR. DIED A.D. 643.
AND THERE WERE PLOTS IN PALATIO.
TAI TSONG HAD A LETCH FOR COREA
AND AN EMBASSY CAME FROM NORTH OF THE CASPIAN
FROM KOULIHAN OF SHORT NIGHTS
WHERE THERE IS ALWAYS LIGHT OVER HORIZON
AND FROM THE RED-HEADS OF KIEI-KOU
BLUE-EYED AND THEIR HEAD MAN WAS ATCHEN OR ATKINS CHELISA
<D 287>AND THE EMPEROR TAI TSONG LEFT HIS SON "NOTES ON CONDUCT"
<F 299>WHEREOF THE 3RD TREATS OF SELECTING MEN FOR A CABINET
WHEREOF THE 5TH SAYS THAT THEY SHD\ TELL HIM HIS FAULTS
THE 7TH: MAINTAIN ABUNDANCE
THE 10TH A CHARTER OF LABOUR
AND THE LAST ON KEEPIN' UP KULCHUR
SAYING "I HAVE SPENT MONEY ON PALACES
TOO MUCH ON 'OSSES, DOGS, FALCONS
BUT I HAVE UNITED THE HEMPIRE (AND YOU 'AVEN'T)
NOTHING HARDER THAN TO CONQUER A COUNTRY
AND DAMN'D EASY TO LOSE ONE, IN FACT THERE
AIN'T ANYTHING HEASIER.
DIED TAI TSONG IN THE 23RD OF HIS REIGN.
AND LEFT NOT MORE THAN FIFTY MEN IN ALL JAILS OF THE EMPIRE
NONE OF 'EM COMPLAINING OF JUDGEMENT.
AND THE TARTARS WANTED TO DIE AT HIS FUNERAL
AND WD\ HAVE, IF TAI HADN'T FORESEEN IT
AND WRIT EXPRESSLY THAT THEY SHOULD NOT.
THEN THE EMPRESS OU-HEOU RAN THE COUNTRY
TOWARD RUIN
[A.D. 662] BUT TAI TSONG'S CONTRAPTION STILL WORKED-
LOCAL ADMINISTRATIONS IN ORDER
TCHING-GINTAI DROVE AFTER TARTARS,
HIS MEN PERISHED IN SNOW STORMS
AND THE HOCHANG RAN THE OLD EMPRESS
THE OLD BITCH RULED BY PRESCRIPTION AND HOCHANGS
WHO TOLD HER SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF BUDDHA
TARTARS REMEMBERING TAI TSONG
HELD UP THE STATE OF TAI TSONG
YOUNG TCHONG WAS RUN BY HIS WIFE.
HONOUR TO HIEUN "TO HELL WITH EMBROIDERIES,
[A.D. 713-756] TO HELL WITH THE PEARL MERCHANTS"
HIEUN MEASURED SHADOWS AT SOLSTICE
POLAR STAR AT 34.4
<F 300><D 288>MEASURED IT IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE EMPIRE
AT LANG-TCHEOU WAS 29 AND A HALF
TSIUN-Y 34((DEGREES SYMBOL)) AND 8 LINES
FOR FIVE YEARS NO TAXES IN LOU-TCHEOU
CENSUS 41 MILLION, 726 ANNO DOMINI
AND HIEUN TSONG DECREED KUNG POSTHUMOUS HONOURS
THAT HE SHD\ BE HENCEFORTH CALLED PRINCE NOT MERE "MAISTRE"
IN ALL RITES
AND WE WERE SAD THAT THE NORTH CITIES, CHEPOUTCHING
AND NGAN-YONG WERE IN HANDS OF THE TARTARS (TOU-SAN)
AND THERE CAME A TAOZER BABBLING OF THE ELIXIR
THAT WD\ MAKE MEN LIVE WITHOUT END
AND THE TAOZER DIED VERY SOON AFTER THAT.
AND PLOTTERS CRIED OUT AGAINST THE QUEEN KOUE-FEI
[A.D. 756] "A REBEL"S DAUGHTER' AND KILLED HER.
TCHANG-SIUN FIGHTING FOR SOU TSONG HAD NEED OF ARROWS
AND MADE THEN 1200 STRAW MEN WHICH HE SET IN DARK
UNDER WALL AT YONG-KIEU
AND THE TARTARS SHOT THESE FULL OF ARROWS. AND NEXT NIGHT
COLONEL TCHANG SET OUT REAL MEN, AND THE TARTARS WITHHELD
THEIR ARROWS
TILL TCHANG'S MEN WERE UPON THEM.
TO SOU TSONG THEY SENT RHINOCERI AND ELEPHANTS DANCING
AND BOWING, BUT WHEN LI-YEN
SENT TE TSONG A MEMORIAL ON THE NUANCES OF CLOUDS OUR LORD
TE TSONG REPLIED THAT PLENTIFUL HARVESTS WERE PROGNOSTICS
MORE TO
HIS TASTE THAN STRANGE ANIMALS
OR EVEN NEW BOTANICAL SPECIMENS AND OTHER NATURAL WHAT-NOTS
COCK FIGHTING WASTES PALACE TIME
SO THEY SET UP ANOTHER TRIBUNAL
TO WATCH MANDARINS
AND NO NEW TEMPLES TO IDOLS
<F 301>700,000 MEN IN THE ARMY
<D 289>INKUM 30 MILLION TAEL SILVER
AND IN GRAIN 20 MILLION MEASURES OF 100 LBS EACH.
NESTORIANS ENTERED, GENERAL KOUO-TSE-Y
IS NAMED IN THEIR MONUMENT.
SUCH BRAVERY AND SUCH HONESTY, 30 YEARS WITHOUT REST.
AND MORE GODDAM TARTARS BUST LOOSE AGAIN
BETTER WAR THAN PEACE WITH THESE TARTARS
TAXES RISING, LI-CHING HAD A LIAISON
AND TE-TSONG RODE APART FROM HIS HUNTSMEN IN THE HUNTING
BY SINTIEN
AND WENT INTO A PEASANT'S HOUSE INCOGNITO
AND SAID:
WE HAD GOOD CROPS FOR TWO YEARS OR THREE YEARS
AND NO WAR.
AND THE PEASANT SAID: BE, IF WE HAVE HAD
GOOD CROPS FOR TWO YEARS OR THREE YEARS
YOU'VE GOT NO TAXES TO PAY TO THE EMPEROR
WE USED TO PAY TWICE A YEAR AND NO EXTRAS
AND NOW THEY DO NOTHING BUT THINK UP NEW NOVELTIES
WE PAY THE USUAL TITHE, AND IF THERE'S A FULL CROP
THEY COME ROUND TO SQUEEZE MORE OF IT OUT OF US
AND BEAT DOWN OUR PRICES, AND THEN
SELL IT BACK AGAIN TO US
OR ELSE WE HAVE TO GET PACK ANIMALS
OR WEAR OUT OUR OWN, SO THAT I CAN'T KEEP A TAEL QUIET.
DOES THIS MEAN CONTENTMENT?"
WHEREON TE TSONG DID NOTHING
SAVE EXEMPT THAT ONE PEASANT FROM CORVEE.
AND THEN LAID A TEA TAX
EMPRESSES, REBELS, TARTARS
SIX MONTHS WITHOUT RAIN.
[A.D. 805] DIED TE-TSONG; THE DECEIVED.
<C 55>
<F 302><D 290>[A.D. 805] ORBEM BELLIS, URBEM GABELLIS
IMPLEVIT
AND THE TROOPS NOT EVEN PAID
AND TCHUN THE NEW LORD WAS DYING
BUT AWOKE TO NAME LI-CHUN HIS HEIR
AND AT THAT TIME DIED OUEI-KAO THE JUST TAXER
THAT SET UP PENSIONS FOR WIDOWS
HIS TEMPLE STANDS TO THIS DAY
THAT HIS SOLDIERS BUILT FOR HIM.
HONOUR TO TCHUN-TSONG THE SICK MAN.
"CUT IT! YOU BASTARD" SAID LIN-YUN
"DO YOU TAKE MY NECK FOR A WHETSTONE?"
AND THE REBEL LIEOU PI WAS DELIGHTED.
AND THE CENSORS SAID LIKI HAS HOGGED TEN PROVINCES' TREASURE
IF THESE GO TO THE NATIONAL TREASURY
THEY WILL GO OUT OF CIRCULATION
THE PEOPLE THEREBY DEPRIVED,
SO HIEN-TSONG THREW THIS INTO COMMERCE
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*CHE(3)263-CHE(3),((ROMAN IN F ONLY))((NB SPURIOUS COMMA))
*I(3)2932-I(3) ((ROMAN IN F ONLY))
*SHEN(1)5718-SHEN(1) ((ROMAN IN F ONLY))
*FA(1.5)1768-FA(2-5) ((ROMAN IN F ONLY))
*TS'AI(2)6662-TSUI(2) ((ROMAN IN F ONLY))
*JEN(2)3099-JEN(2) ((ROMAN IN F ONLY))
*CHE(3)263-CHE(3),((ROMAN IN F ONLY))((NB SPURIOUS COMMA))
*I(3)2932-I(3) ((ROMAN IN F ONLY))
*TS'AI(2)6662-TSUI(2) ((ROMAN IN F ONLY))
*FA(1.5)1768-FA(2-5) ((ROMAN IN F ONLY))
*SHEN(1)5718-SHEN(1),((ROMAN IN F ONLY))((NB SPURIOUS COMMA))
*PU(4.5)5379-PU(4-6?) ((IDENTIFIER NOT CLEAR))
<F 303><D 291>AND YET HE WAS HAD BY THE EUNUCHS,
THE ARMY 800 THOUSAND
NOT TILLING THE EARTH
AND HALF OF THE EMPIRE TAO-TSE HOCHANGS AND MERCHANTS
SO THAT WITH SO MANY HOCHANGS AND MERE SHIFTERS
THREE TENTHS OF THE FOLK FED THE WHOLE EMPIRE, YET
HIEN REDUCED THE SUPERFLUOUS MANDARINS
AND REMITTED TAXES IN HOAI
LI KIANG AND TIEN HING WERE HIS MINISTERS
REMEMBERING TCHING-OUANG, KANG,
HAN-OUEN AND HAN KING TI
"MEN ARE THE BASIS OF EMPIRE", SAID OUR LORD HIEN-TSONG
YET HE DIED OF THE ELIXIR,
[A.D. 820] FOOLED BY THE EUNUCHS, AND MORE TOU-SAN (TARTARS)
WERE RAIDING
MOU-TSONG DROVE OUT THE TAOZERS
BUT REFUSED TO WEAR MOURNING FOR HIEN HIS FATHER.
THE HEN SANG IN MOU'S TIME, RACIN', JAZZ DANCIN'
AND PLAY-ACTORS, TARTARS STILL RAIDIN'
MOU'S FIRST SON WAS STRANGLED BY EUNUCHS,
CAME OUEN-TSONG AND KICKED OUT 3000 FANCIES
LET LOOSE THE FALCONS
YET HE ALSO WAS HAD BY THE EUNUCHS AFTER 15 YEARS REIGN
OU-TSONG DESTROYED HOCHANG PAGODAS,
SPENT HIS TIME DRILLIN' AND HUNTIN'
BRASS IDOLS TURNED INTO HA'PENCE
CHASED OUT THE BONZES FROM TEMPLES
46 THOUSAND TEMPLES
CHASED OUT THE EUNUCHS
AND TSAI-GIN WHOM HE HAD WISHED TO MAKE EMPRESS
HANGED HERSELF AFTER HIS DEATH
SAYING: I FOLLOW TO THE NINE FOUNTAINS"
<F 304>SO SIUEN DECREED SHE SHD\ BE HONOURED AS FIRST QUEEN
OF OU-TSONG
<D 292>RULED SIUEN WITH HIS MIND ON THE "GOLD MIRROR" OF
[A.D. 846] TAI TSONG
WHERIN IS WRITTEN: IN TIME OF  DISTURBANCE
MAKE USE OF ALL MEN, EVEN SCOUNDRELS.
IN TIME OF PEACE REJECT NO MAN WHO IS WISE.
HIEN SAID: NO REST FOR AN EMPEROR. A LITTLE SPARK
LIGHTS A GREAT DEAL OF STRAW.
SIUEN'S INCOME WAS 18 MILLION STRINGS OF A THOUSAND
ON SALT AND WINE ONLY
NOT COUNTING GRAIN, SILK ETC.
(CALCULATED AT FRENCH LOUIS D'OR 1770
SAY ABOUT 90 MILLYUN PUND STERLING)
A MAN WHO REMEMBERED FACES
AND HAD BY THE TAOZERS
THO' HE STOOD FOR JUST PRICE AND SOUND PAPER
13 YEARS ON THE THRONE.
Y TSONG HIS SON BROUGHT A JAZZ AGE HI-TSONG
[A.D. 860] COCK FIGHTS POVERTY ARCHERY
SQUABBLES OF GOVERNORS, EUNUCHS
SUN TE PUT OUT THE EUNUCHS
AND GOT HIMSELF MURDERED
THEN CAME LITTLE DYNASTIES, CAME BY MURDER, BY TREASON, WITH
THE PRINCE OF TCIN RISING.
LI-KE-YONG IS NOT DEAD" READ TCHU
"FOR HIS SON PROLONGS HIM"
WHEREAS MY SONS ARE MERE PIGS AND DOGS.
HIU CUT DOWN TAXES AND DOUANES
WAS HELL ON EXTORTERS
10 YEARS CHANCONS DE GESTES
<F 305>KHITANS RISING, YELIOU APAOKI AND CHULIU, SOME GAL,
HIU, GALLANT, PUGNACIOUS SO THEY SAID
IN THE CITY OF TCHING-TCHEOU ARE WOMEN LIKE CLOUDS
OF HEAVEN,
SILK, GOLD, PILED MOUNTAIN HIGH.
<D 293>TAKE IT BEFORE PRINCE TCIN GETS THERE..
THUS OUANG YEOU TO THE KHITAN OF APAOKI
WHOSE SON WAS LOST IN THE MULBERRY FOREST
THUS CAME TCIN INTO EMPIRE
[A.D. 923] CALLING THEMSELVES LATER TANG
HUNTERS AND JONGLEURS. COMEDIANS WERE THE KING'S EYES
BUT UNSTABLE.
TOOK CHOU LAND IN 70 DAYS WITHOUT DISORDER
A PRINCE THIS WAS, BUT NO EMPEROR, PALADIN, USELESS TO RULE.
TARTAR YUEN RULED AS PROTECTOR
CUT DOWN TAXES, ANALPHABETIC.
AND YET HE SET ALL THE HAWKS LOOSE,
SAID HUNTIN' IS HELL ON THE CROPS
THIS LI-SSE YUEN, CALLED MING TSONG, HAD EIGHT YEARS OF
GOOD REIGN
LI TSONGKOU RULED HIS TROOPS BY AFFECTION
WAS PRINCE OF LOU AT THIS TIME
[A.D. 934] THAT IS KUNGFUTSEU'S COUNTRY.
THE DOWAGER EMPRESS CHOSE HIM
A GREAT CAPTAIN UNDER MING TSONG
AND THEY NEEDED TROOPS FOR DEFENCE AGAINST TARTARS
IN CHEKING-TANG'S DEPARTMENT
CALLED APAOKI SON OF CHULIU TO ASSIST THEM
AND CHEKING TANG FOUNDED A DYNASTY
COMING UP FRON THE RANKS
DRY SPRING, A DRY SUMMER
LOCUSTS AND RAIN IN AUTUMN
<F 306>AND, BEYOND THAT, LACK OF SPECIE
TAX COLECTORS INHUMAN.
CHULIU A GREAT QUEEN OF THE TARTAR
TE KOUANG PUT THE EMPEROR IN A TEMPLE
AND SUPPLIED HIM WITH COMFORTS
TARTARS PUT ON CHINESE CLOTHES.
[A.D. 947] OUAN SOUI!! TEN THOUSAND
EVVIVA, EVVIVA LIEOU-TCHI-YUEN.
<D 294>TURK OF THE HORDE OF CHATO, SET HIS CITY AT CAIFON FOU
AND THE TARTARS CALLED THEIR DEAD EMPEROR "SALTED"
AND IT WD\ BE NOW 13 YEARS UNTIL SUNG.
TEOUI-TCHEOU SAID: LOU LAND HAS PRODUCED ONLY WRITERS.
SAID TAI-TSOU: KUNG IS THE MASTER OF EMPERORS.
AND THEY BROUGHT OUT OU-TCHAO'S EDITION, 953,
AND TAI ORDERED HIMSELF A BRICK TOMB WITH NO FLUMMERY
NO STONE MEN SHEEP OR TIGERS
CHI-TSONG IN THE THICK BY TCE-TCHEOU, AGAINST HAN
AND TARTARS
SENT RESERVE TROOPS TO THE LEFT WING
WHILE HE HELD FIRM ON THE RIGHT,
SAYING: NOW, THAT THEY THINK THEY HAVE BEATEN US!
AND CHI CLEARED OUT THE TEMPLES AND HOCHANG
CLEARED OUT 30 THOUSAND TEMPLES
AND THAT LEFT 26 HUNDRED
WITH 60 THOUSAND BONZES AND BONZESSES.
CHOU COIN WAS OF IRON, LIKE SPARTA'S,
AND CHI'S MEN DROVE THE TANG BOATS FROM THE
HOAI-HO
ALL NORTH OF THE GREAT KIANG WAS TO CHI-TSONG.
WHO LENT GRAIN TO HOAI-NAN DEVAST.
<F 307>DIED OUANG-PO THE ADVISOR.
SUNG WAS FOR 300 YEARS.
LIGHT WAS IN HIS BIRTH ROOM AND FRAGRANCE
AS IF IT WERE ALMOND BOUGHS
RED THE ROBE OF HIS DYNASTY
POURVOU QUE CA DOURE, SAID HIS MOTHER
HE SAID: LET BROTHERS INHERIT
YOU ARE NOT HERE BY VIRTUSH\
THE LAST HAN WAS A MINOR
EUNUCHS, HOCHANGS AND TAXERS
PRINCES GET TOO MUCH POWER
TCHAO KOUANG REVIEWED ALL CAPITAL SENTENCES
TOOK TAX POWER FROM GOVERNORS
<D 295>AND CENTERED THE ARMY COMMAND
SOUTH HAN WAS ROTTED WITH DOUANES
WAS ROTTED WITH TORTURES
TSIUENPIU IN SNOW HAD ALL CHOU
AND WAS SIXTY DAYS ONLY IN TAKING IT. AND THE
EMPEROR
SENT HIS OWN COONSKIN COAT TO THIS GENERAL
WHO PROMPTLY WENT GAY,
FIVE STARS SHONE IN KOUE, FIVE PLANETS
[A.D. 978] TAI TSONG BROUGHT OUT THE TRUE BOOKS
AND THERE AROSE IN THE PROVINCE OF SSETCHUEN A REVOLT
BECAUSE OF THE GREED OF THE MANDARINS.
NOT CONTENT WITH THEIR SALARIES
BEGAN TO BLEED MERCHANTS FOR LICENCES
WHICH NEW DAMN TAX MADE MONEY SO SCARCE IN THAT PROVINCE
[A.D. 993] THAT MEN CDN'T BUY THE NECESSITIES.
THEREFORE OUANG SIAOPO OF THE PEOPLE
DEMANDED JUST DISTRIBUTION
AND THEY WENT AGAINST TSING-CHIN CITY, AND TOOK
PONGCHAN
BY VIOLENCE AND CUT OPEN THE GOVERNOR'S BELLY
<F 308>WHICH THEY FILLED UP WITH SILVER
(BIT OF WHAT HE HAD EXTORTED)
AND TAI TSONG REIGNED 22 YEARS
CARING FOR FIELD WORK. MEANWHILE JELLY HUGO
THE TARTAR, A KHITAN, FREED HIS PEOPLE OF TAXES
AND STARTED OLD AGE RELIEF. GHENGIS RISING
AND TCHIN-SONG DECLINED A PRESENT OF SABLES (MARTE ZIBBELINE)
SAYING IT WAS JUST AS COLD FOR THE SOLDIERS.
AND IN TEN FOUR MEN CRIED ONCE AGAIN OUAN SOUI
MAY HE LIVE FOR 10 THOUSAND YEARS
TCHIN-TSONG
OUAN SOUI, MAY HE LIVE FOR TEN THOUSAND YEARS
WHO SAID: DON'T WORRY ABOUT COMING AGES
THE PEOPLE NEED TIME TO BREATHE.
<D 296>AND HE MADE TERMS WITH THE TARTARS, PAID 'EM IN
SILK AND IN SILVER
TO KEEP 'EM QUIET AS FAR AS THE WALL.
AND THE KING OF KHITAN SET COURT AT TCHONGKING
OUR LORD TCHIN GOING MUMBO
AND THEY BURIED HIM WITH THE TRACTS ABOUT HEAVEN
[A.D. 1022] WHICH HAD WROUGHT HIS DISHONOUR
AND GIN TSONG CLEANED OUT THE TAOZERS
AND THE TARTARS BEGAN USING BOOKS
HAN, KHITAN, TARTAR WARS, BOREDOM OF.
MONEY AND ALL THAT, STABILIZATION. PROBABLY RACKET
1069
AND NOW FOU-PIE TO WHOM WE OWED THE PEACE OF 1042 WITH
THE TARTARS
RETURNED AND WAS KEPT AND MADE MINISTER
AND CHIN-TSONG LIVED SOBERLY
WITH NO SPLURGE OF TABLE OR COSTUMES
<F 309>AND AT THIS TIME BEGAN NGAN
(OR MORE FULLY OUANG-NGAN-CHE) TO DEMAND THAT THEY RESET
THE MARKET TRIBUNALS,
POSTING EVERY DAY WHAT WAS ON SALE AND WHAT THE RIGHT PRICE
OF IT
AS HAD BEEN UNDER TCHEOU EMPERORS
AND THAT A MARKET TAX SHD\ GO TO THE EMPEROR FROM THIS
THEREBY RELIEVING THE POOR OF ALL DOUANES
GIVING THEM EASY MARKET FOR MERCHANDISE
AND ENLIVENING COMMERCE
BY MAKING TO CIRCULATE THE WHOLE REALM'S ABUNDANCE.
AND SAID HE KNEW HOW HARD IT WD\ BE TO FIND
PERSONNEL
TO LOOK AFTER THIS, AS WHEN YAO HAD APPOINTED KOEN
WHO COULD NOT, AND THEN YU WHO HAD DRAWN OFF THE
FLOOD WATER
AND THESE CHANGES ANNOYED, GREATLY, THE BUREAUCRATS
<D 297>WHOM HE SENT TO CONFINO
THAT IS THE MOST STUBBORN
AND GOT YOUNGER MEN TO REPLACE 'EM.
AND LIU-HOEI SAID NGAN WAS A TWISTER
BUT THE EMPEROR SENT BACK HOEI'S PROTEST
SO HOEI BEGGED TO RETIRE, AND
WAS SENT OUT TO TENGTCHEOU AS GOVERNOR.
AND NGAN SAW LAND LYING BARREN
BECAUSE PEASANTS HAD NOWT TO SOW THERE
WHENCE SAID: LEND 'EM GRAIN IN THE SPRING TIME
THAT THEY CAN PAY BACK IN AUTUMN
WITH A BIT OF AN INCREASE, THIS WD\ AUGMENT THE RESERVE,
THIS WILL NEED A TRIBUNAL
AND THE SAME TRIBUNAL SHD\ SEEK
EQUITY
<F 310>FOR ALL LANDS AND ALL MERCHANDISE
ACCORDING TO HARVEST AND SOIL
SO THAT THE EMPEROR'S TITHES SHD\ BE PROPORTIONATE
TO THE RARITY OR THE ABUNDANCE OF MERCHANDISE
TO MAKE COMMERCE MORE EASY, THAT THE FOLK BE NOT
OVERBURDENED
NOR YET THE IMPERIAL REVENUE BE MADE LESS.
AND NGAN MADE YET A THIRD POINT
THAT WAS TO FIX THE VALUE OF MONEY
AND TO COIN ENOUGH DENARS
THAT SHD\ STAY ALWAYS ON THE SAME FOOTING.
AND FAN-CHUNGIN PROTESTED
BUT
HEOI-KING ARGUED FOR NGAN:
NO MAN IS FORCED TO BORROW THIS GRAIN IN SPRING TIME
IF PEASANTS FIND IT NO ADVANTAGE
THEY WILL NOT COME BORROW IT.
AND SSE-MA; SAID, ALL RIGHT IN THEORY
BUT THE EXECUTION WILL BE FULL OF ABUSE
THEY'LL TAKE IT, BUT NOT BRING IT BACK
<D 298>TSONG OF TANG PUT UP GRANARIES
SOMEWHAT LIKE THOSE YOU WANT TO ESTABLISH
A MEASURE OF TEN OR TWELVE POUNDS COST NO MORE THAN TEN PENCE
AND WHEN THE PRICE WAS PUT UP
THEY WENT ON BUYING
AND THE WHOLE PROVINCE WAS RUINED
CHIN STAYED PRO-NGAN; AND IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT
DROUGHT WAS DUE TO NGAN'S REFORMS,
WHERETO NGAN SAID DROUGHTS HAD HAPPENED BEFORE.
AND AT THE 12TH MOON OF THE 17TH YEAR OF THIS EMPEROR
SSE-MA KOUANG, FAN TSUYU AND LIEOU JU OFFERED THE
HISTORY, CALLED
<F 311>[A.D. 1084] TSE-TCHI TONG KIEN HANG MOU
ON THE MODEL OF TSO KIEOU MING
AND THIS BEGAN WITH THE 23RD YEAR OF
OUEI-LIE OF TCHEOU DYNASTY
AND WAS IN 294 BOOKS.
HONOUR TO CHIN-TSONG THE MODEST
LUX ENIM PER SE OMNEM IN PARTEM
REASON FROM HEAVEN, SAID TCHEOU TUN-Y
ENLIGHTENETH ALL THINGS
SEIPSUM SEIPSUM DIFFUNDIT, RISPLENDE
IS THE BEGINNING OF ALL THINGS, ET EFFECTU,
SAID NGAN: YAO, CHUN WERE THUS IN GOVERNMENT
DIED NOW THE MASTER OF NENUPHAR
MANDARINS OPPRESSING PEASANTS TO GET BACK THEIR GRAIN LOANS,
AND HIS DICTIONARY IS, THEY SAY, COLOURED WITH HOCHANG
INTERPRETATIONS AND TAOZER, THAT IS NGAN'S.
AND MERCHANTS IN CAIFONG PUT UP THEIR SHUTTERS IN MOURNING
FOR SSE-KOUANG
ANTI-TAO, ANTI-BHUD, ANTI-NGAN
WHOSE RULES HAD WORKED 20 YEARS
TILL SSE-KOUANG REVERSED 'EM
STUDENTS WENT BHUD RATHER THAN TAKE KUNG VIA NGAN,
FLOOD RELIEF, DUE TO NGAN?
<D 299>JOKER SOMEWHERE?
CAME TSAI KING PRO-NGAN, PROBABLY CROOKED
AND THEY PUT NGAN'S PLAQUE IN A TEMPLE
HOEI WENT TAOZER, AN' I SUPPOSE
TSAI RAN TO STATE USURY. THE TARTAR LORD
WANTED AN ALPHABET
BY NAME AKOUTA, ORDERED A WRITTEN TONGUE FOR KIN TARTARS
AND A FOX WALKED INTO THE IMPERIAL PALACE
<F 312>AND TOOK HIS SEAT ON THE THRONE
A MAD MAN RAN SHRIEKING: CHANGE, TARTARS MORE TARTARS
TARTARS PASS OVER HOANG-HO
AND THEY USED PAPER NOTES WHEN COIN WAS TOO HEAVY FOR
TRANSPORT
AND REDEEMED THESE NOTES AT ONE THIRD\
AND THERE WERE EVER ALL SORTS OF DISTURBERS
FOR THERE WERE THE TARTARS, KHITAN, THAT HAD
TAKEN THE OLD TURK'S COUNTRY,
AND THESE TARTARS ARE CALLED ALSO LEAO
AND THERE ARE KIN TARTARS, THAT WERE UNDER AKOUTA
AND THESE ARE CALLED ALSO NUTCHE, FROM NORTH OF COREA,
AND THERE WERE THE HORDES OF GHENGIZ (TAI-TSOU, TEMOUGIN)
OF WHOM WAS CHI-TSOU OR KOUBLAI
HOANG HO, HOANG HO, TARTARS PASS OVER HOANG HO.
SUNG DIED OF TAXES AND GIMCRACKS
MONGRELS IN FISH-SKIN (SHAGREEN, OR SHARK'S SKIN)
TILL 1157 THE KIN USED COIN MADE IN CHINA
[A.D. 1172] AND OULO STOPPED SWAPPING SILK FOR THE TOYS OF HIA,
SAID: MEN CANNOT EAT JEWELS
OULO OF KIN, GREATEST OF KIN, UNDER HIM WERE BOOKS SET
INTO NUTCHE
IN HIS REIGN WERE ONLY 18 BEHEADED
BUT HIS BRAT WAS RUN BY HIS MISSUS
AND THEY HAD AN IDEOLOGICAL WAR
"MEDIOCRITY'S CHILDHOOD LASTS INTO MIDDLE AGE"
<D 300>THEY BROUGHT OUT A TEXT BOOK ON MUSIC
GHINGIZ (TCHINKIS) HEARING OF ALPHABETS
HEARING OF MORES
AND SAW A GREEN UNICORN SPEAKING,
FUMEE MALIGNE IN THE UNDERGROUND 1219
<F 313>SAID YELIU TCHUTSAI: TAX; DON'T EXTERMINATE
YOU WILL MAKE MORE IF YOU TAX 'EM.
THIS WAS A NEW IDEA TO THE MONGOLS
WHO WANTED TO TURN ALL LAND INTO GRAZING
AND SAW NO USE FOR HUMAN INHABITANTS
THESE MONGRELS BEIN' 'ORSEMEN
TEN PERCENT TAX ON WINE, THREE AND 1\3RD ON NECESSITIES
MOHAMMEDS SAY DIFFERENT
MAKE MORE ANYHOW IF YOU TAX 'EM
SUNG FALLING, ANTZAR WENT AGAINST KIN
BY TANG AND TENG, LET 'EM PASS.
*CH'E(4,5)287-CH'E(4.5)
<C 56>
<F 314>
<D 301>BILLETS, BIGLIETTI, AS COIN WAS TOO HEAVY FOR TRANSPORT,
BUT REDEEMED THE STUFF AT ONE THIRD
AND OU-KIAI HAD ANOTHER SWAT AT THE TARTARS
AND LICKED 'EM
AND YU-TCHONG, GOVERNOR OF KINGTCHEOU IN THE CHENSI
SAID: MY SPIES HAVE TOLD ME ETC\
EASY TO START A WAR,
NOT EASY TO FINISH ONE.
SUNG DIED OF LEVYING TAXES
GIMCRACKS, SUNG DIED UNDER HOEI THE SLIDER,
AND THERE WAS A MAN NAMED TCHINKIS IN TARTARY
HEARING OF ALPHABETS, MORALS, MORES
AND A MAN NAMED YELIU-TCHUTSAI.
YELIU APAOKI OUANYEN AKOUTA,
OF KIN, OF KHITAN, AND GENGHIS OF YUEN,
HEARING OF ALPHABETS
AND YELIU TCHURSAI SAID TO OGOTAI:
TAX, DON'T EXTERMINATE
YOU'LL MAKE MORE BY TAXING THE BLIGHTERS
THUS SAVED SEVERAL MILLYUM LIVES OF THOSE CHINAMEN
BOJARS THOUGHT LAND WAS FOR GRAZING.
TEN PERCENT TAX ON HOOCH, 3 1\3RD ON NECESSITIES
AND THEY TRIED TO STOP THE TARTARS ON HOANG HO
DAY FALLS LIKE A FLUTTERING FLAG
EAST PRINCES WENT BY THE VALLEY OF BOX WOOD
TO COVER MT KUAI WITH A PALACE...
"THERE IS", SAID THE TAOZERS,
"A MEDICINE THAT GIVES IMMORTALITY."
AND SHIPS SENT (LI SAO) TO JAPAN.
<F 315>
MT TAI HAKU IS 300 MILES FROM HEAVEN
LOST IN A FOREST OF STARS,
SLEPT ON THE PINE NEEDLE CARPET
<D 302>SPRINKLED HORSE BLOOD
PRAYING NO BRAVE MAN BE BORN AMONG MONGOLS
OUEN YAN TCHIN HOCHANG OF KIN.
*YAO(2)7295
*SHUN(4)5936
*YU(3)7620
YAO, CHUN, YU CONTROLLER OF WATERS
BRIDGE BUILDERS, CONTRIVERS OF ROADS
GAVE GRAIN TO THE PEOPLE
KEPT DOWN THE TAXES
HOCHANG, EUNUCHS, TAOISTS AND BALLETS
NIGHT-CLUBS, GIMCRACKS, DEBAUCHERY
DOWN, DOWN! HAN IS DOWN
SUNG IS DOWN
HOCHANG, EUNUCHS, AND TAOZERS
EMPRESSES' RELATIVES, CAME THEN A FOUNDER
SAYING NOTHING SUPERFLUOUS
CLEARED OUT THE TAOZERS AND GRAFTERS, GAVE GRAIN
OPENED THE MOUNTAINS
CAME TAOZERS, HOCHANG AND DEBAUCHERY
AND LITTERATI FOUGHT FIERCER THAN OTHER MEN TO KEEP OUT THE
MOGUL
DRIFTING DUNG-DUST FROM THE NORTH.
HOCHANG SOUTHWARD LIKE RABBITS
HALF A MILLION IN ONE PROVINCE ONLY
MUS INGENS, INGENS, NOLI MEUM GRANUM COMEDERE
NO SLOUCH EVER FOUNDED A DYNASTY
DIED KIN LUSIANG, HISTORIAN AND CONFUCIAN
ALL MULBERRIES FROZEN IN PA YANG
WHERE WERE TWO MILLION TREES AND BEYOND THAT
LITTERATI FOUGHT THAN OTHER MEN
<F 316>
HAIL BREAKING THE TREES AND WALLS
IN I-TCHING-TCHEOU
CROPS GONE.
AGAINST OGOTAI'S CATAPULTS NIK-IA-SU USED POWDER
MAY THE WHITE BIRDS REMEMBER THIS WARRIOR, GOOD AT LOGISTICS
OZIN (WODIN) YOURIAK HAD 'EM SET OUT MULBERRY TREES
<D 303>GHENSO WAS FOR NO TAXES, GREW UP AS A LABOURER
A HUNDRED CHI OF RICE FOR TEN DENARS
THAT IS AN 1\2 OUNCE OF SILVER
ZINKWA OBSERVED THAT GOLD IS INEDIBLE
STORED GRAIN AGAINST FAMINE
OBSERVED THAT JADE IS INEDIBLE
AND THEY USED INVISIBLE WRITING
IN TEN BOU'S TIME CAME A WHITE PHOENIX
AND IN THIS TIME WAS YELIU TCHUTSAI
MENG KONG STILL HELD AGAINST MOGOLS.
HAN, LANG, OUEN, KONG,
MEI, KIEN, TCHONG, KING
FOU, PONG, CHUN KING
GONE
VENDOME, BEAUGENCY, NOTRE DAME DE CLERY,
AND THEY TOOK LAW AGAINST YELIU, BUT HIS LEAVING
WAS 13 FLUTES, HIS LUTE AND HIS LIBRARY
TO REFUTE CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT
AND AFTER HIM DIED MENG KONG.
KUJAK WAS CROWNED
AND THE FIRST DAY THEY PUT ON THEIR WHITE CLOTHES
AND THE SECOND DAY RED ROBES
AND THE THIRD DAY WERE ALL LORDS IN VIOLET,
SCARLET THE FOURTH DAY, AND KUJAK WENT AGAINST HUNGARY
MADE WAR ON POLAND, ON PRUSSIA
AND MENGKO TOOK OFF TAXES
<F 317>
AND IN CAI FONG THEY MADE A GRAIN DIVIDEND
AND GAVE INSTRUCTION IN FARMING
PLOUGHS, MONEY, AMMASSI
YAO, SHUN, YU, KUNG
TCHIN OUANG, OUEN, GHENGIZ KHAN
AND MENGKO WENT INTO BAGDAD, WENT INTO KUKANO
AND DIED BY THE WALL AT HO-TCHEOU
OGOTAI REIGNED FOR NINE YEARS
<D 304>KUBLAI ASCENDED MT HIANGLOU
THE KIANG FULL OF WAR JUNKS
[A.D. 1225\65] AND SUNG THOUGHT SECURITY
LI TSONG BELIEVED HIS NEWS SERVICE
WRONGLY
KUBLAI BEFORE HIM
AND ABOUT HIM DAMNED RASCALS, COURTEZANS, PALACE
WOMEN
CLIQUES, EASY WARS WITHOUT JUSTICE.
AND KUBLAI SAID: SUNG LAWS VERY BEAUTIFUL
UNLIKE THEIR CONDUCT
KIASSE HARMED SUNG MORE THAN MONGOLS
NORTH IS THE CRADLE OF MONGOLS
PASEPA GAVE THEM THEIR ALPHABET
1000 WORDS MONGOL, AND 41 LETTERS
SUNG SANK BY YAI ISLAND. THE LINE OF GHENGIZ CALLED YUEN
[A.D. 1278] THIS DYNASTY MO'GOL
HOANG-HO'S FOUNT IN A SEA OF STARS.
OUANG TCHI SLEW AHAMA. OUEN TIENSIANG WAS FAITHFUL.
WAR SCARES INTERRUPT COMMERCE. MONEY WAS NOW MADE OF BRASS
AND PROFIT ON ARMS WENT TO THE GOVERMMENT
WINE TAXED HIGH, SETTLERS LICENSED.
LOU-CHI BROUGHT BACK THE GRAFTERS (AHAMA'S)
<F 318>
AND BOOSTED THE TEA TAX
TCHIN-KIN DISGUSTED BY THE SIZE OF THE TAX RECEIPTS
AND L SIEUEN STAVED OFF A WAR WITH JAPAN
STAVED OFF A WAR ON ANNAM
SAID: TAXES ARE NOT ABUNDANCE
YELIU RESUMED THE IMPERIAL COLLEGE, GATHERING SCHOLARS
KUBLAI WAS A BUGGER FOR TAXES
SANGKO STINKING WITH GRAFT
OUANTSE MADE A LAW CODE
ELIMINATED 250 TRIBUNALS, THAT MOSTLY DID NOWT BUT TAX
[A.D. 1295] KUBLAI DIED HEAVY WITH YEARS
HIS LUCK WAS GOOD MINISTERS, SAVE FOR THE TREASURY.
<D 305>"AS HUNGER ALONE DROVE THEM TO BRIGANDAGE
THEY WD\ CONTINUE BANDITS TILL FED"
THIS KNOWN IN THE TIME OF TIMOUR
THE LAST SUNG FLED IN WHAT WAS LEFT OF A NAVY
WENT DOWN IN SEA WAVES, CAME MONGOLS
OF GHENGIZ
ROSE KUBLAI
HIA, CHANG, TCHEOU
WERE GREAT LINES TILL KUNGFUTSEU
[B.C. 202] THEN WERE HAN
[A.D. 265] TCIN
[A.D. 618] TANG
[A.D. 950] SUNG
THEN THESE MONGOLS OR YUEN
GHENGIZ, OGOTAI, KUBLAI KHAN
THAT CAME INTO EMPIRE
FROM THE ISLE OF YAI, NO MORE SUNG COUNTING
AND MOGOLS STOOD OVER ALL CHINA
89 YEARS MORE TILL MING CAME, 1368
THAT IS FROM GHENGIZ AN HUNDRED AND 60 (CAMBUSKIN)
<F 319>
AND IN SOUTH PROVINCE TCHIN TIAOUEN HAD RISEN
AND TOOK THE CITY OF TCHANG TCHEOU
OFFERED MARRIAGE TO OUANG CHI,
WHO SAID: IT IS AN HONOUR.
I MUST FIRST BURY KANOUEN. HIS BODY IS HEAVY.
HIS ASHES WERE LIGHT TO CARRY
BRIGHT WAS THE FLAME FOR KANOUEN
OUANG CHI CAST HERSELF INTO IT, FAITHFUL FOREVER
HIGH THE HALL TIMOUR MADE HER.
AND IN THE 8TH MOON THE PUBLIC WORKS AND CORVEE DEPARTMENT
PRESENTED GIN TSONG A VOLUME ON MULBERRY CULTURE
BY MIAO HAOKIEN WHERE HE EXPLAINS IN DETAIL THE
GROWING OF SILK WORMS
AND OF UNWINDING COCOONS
<D 306>AND THE EMPEROR HAD THIS ENGRAVED WITH ALL DIAGRAMS
AND DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT ALL CHINA
NOR HAD ANY EMPEROR MORE CARE TO FIND MEN OF MERIT-
DOING WHAT KUBLAI HAD INTENDED-
THAN HAD AIULIPATA CALLED GIN TSONG
[A.D. 1312\20] (ALGAIPTOU KHAN) HONOURING KUNG WITH THE RITES.
AND HIS SON DIED OF ASSASSINS
DIED OF THE GANG OF TIEMOUTIER, LAMAS, FOES,
SHIT AND RELIGION ALWAYS STINKING IN CONCORD
CAME JASON AGAINST THESE ASSASSINS
CAME CHUNTI LAST OF THE MOGUL.
TWO MILLION FAMILIES WENT DOWN IN FAMINE
BLOOD RAINED ON THE HIGH LAND
GREEN HAIR CAME DOWN LIKE RAIN
HANJONG LEVELLED THE TEMPLES
HIS FOLK BURST INTO JOY
TO PUT LAND BACK UNDER TILLAGE
<F 320>
CHUNTI CAME TO THE COLLEGE, AS HAD NOT IN 12 YEARS OF REIGN
GAVE A SILVER SEAL TO KUNG'S EPIGON
BUT GANGSTERS CONTINUED
A PIRATE DECLINED TO TURN MANDARIN,
A COMET EXPLODED IN PLEIADES
HOANG-HO SHIFTED ITS BED
AND THEY SAID THAT THE MILE BUDDHA
HAD COME DOWN TO TURN OUT THE MOGUL,
PSEUDO-SUNG PUT ON RED HATS
TIENOUAN BEAT THE REBELS, TAIPOU WAS KILLED BY REBELS
SINGKI RESPECTED
AND THE LAMAS PUT ON A BALLET FOR CHUNTI
IN IVORY HEADGEAR
CASTAGNETTES CRINKLING AND CLACKING, AND A TANG DANCE
WITHOUT FANCY CLOTHES
KONGPEI SAID TO TOTO: DON'T OPEN DISPATCHES.
DRAGON BARGE DRIFTED WITH MUSIC
STATUE POURED WATER AMIDSHIP
<D 307>SPIRITS STRUCK THE NIGHT WATCHES
THEY SAY CHUNTI INVENTED THIS CLOCKWORK
THE RED CAPS CALLED THEIR CANDIDATE MING OUAN
AS IF EMPEROR
LEFT MONKHOOD AND PUT MANHOOD ON
TO END THE LINE OF GHENGIZ KHAN
YUENTCHANG CEASED BEING HOCHANG
TOOK ITO YEN WITHOUT PILLAGE
AND PASSED OVER KIANG RIVER
CONQUERED THE TAIPING PROVINCE
COMET IN TCHANG STAR, OVER TAI MING SHONE THE METEOR
BROOM-SHAPED
MING COMING OUT OF SOUTH COUNTRY, IN 35 YEARS' DISSOLUTION
CHUNTI CEASED FROM THE THRONE.
<F 321>
DIED YUKIOU OF MORE THAN TEN WOUNDS
NOW IN CHANG-TOU WAS RUIN
THE HIGH HOUSE OF KUBLAI CAST DOWN
CAME MING SLOWLY, A THOUSAND, AN HUNDRED THOUSAND
THE PIRATE KOUETCHIN CAME TO HIM
AT COURT, EUNUCHS AND GRAFTERS
AMONG MONGOLS NO MAN TRUSTED OTHER
THE EMPRESS' FOLK IN COREA KILLED OFF KING PEYEN
OF MING WERE NOW 200,000
THAT FOUGHT THREE DAYS IN THE BOAT FIGHT
THERE BY LAKE PEYAN
TO HOANG HO THE RIVER
YEOUGIN AND THE TCHING BROTHERS
TILL LEOU LEAN WAS ARROWED.
AND THEY LEFT TCHIN-LI HIS FATHER'S TREASURE
BUT TOOK HIS GRAIN FOR THE PEOPLE.
CAME MING THUS TO KIANKING, SAY 1368
FOR CRIME AFTER TIMOUR THE MANDATE
LEFT YUEN MONGOLS
NO SLOUCH EVER FOUNDED A DYNASTY
FROM GHENGIZ WERE 8 SCORE YEARS UNTIL MING TIME
<D 308>SAID NOW YUENTCHANG
SUIS FILS D'UN PAUVRE LABOUREUR
IN A VILLAGE OF SSETCHEOU IN THE PROVINCE OF KIANGNAN
AT SEVENTEEN WAS MADE SHAVELING
THEN ENROLLED UNDER TSEHING THE CAPTAIN
THIS IS CALLED DESTINY
SCHICKSAL TO BRING PEACE TO THE EMPIRE
LI, SU, TONG AND I
WERE FOUR MUSKETEERS
WE WERE WORKMEN IN THE SAME VILLAGE
WE WERE PLAIN SOJERS TOGETHER
<F 322>
IF WE CAN TAKE CHANTONG PROVINCE, WE CAN TAKE PEKIN
(AND DID SO , 1368)
HE SAID TO SU TA: DO AS YOU DEEM
CHANG, CHOU, AND HAN ROSE BY TALENTS
ONCE WE FOUR WERE LUCKY TO HAVE EVEN CANVAS COATS
MONGOLS ARE FALLEN
FROM LOSING THE LAW OF CHUNG NI
*CHUNG(4)1505
*NI(4)4654
(CONFUCIUS)
HAN CAME FROM THE PEOPLE
HOW MANY FATHERS AND HUSBANDS ARE FALLEN
MAKE CENSUS
GIVE RICE TO THEIR FAMILIES
GIVE THEM MONEY FOR RITES
LET RICH FOLK KEEP THEIR GOODS BY THEM
LET THE POOR BE PROVIDED
I CAME NOT AGAINST YUEN
BUT AGAINST GRAFTERS AND REBELS
I REBELLED NOT AGAINST KUBLAI, NOT AGAINST GHENGIZKHAN
BUT AGAINST LICE THAT ATE THEIR DESCENDANTS.
TAI TSONG
KAO TSEU
TAI TSOU
AND NOW HONG VOU THREE HUNDRED, THREE HUNDRED
<D 309>EACH HAD 300 YEARS BY THE MANDATE
FIVE CYCLES OF 60 YEARS
MONGOLS WERE AN INTERVAL
*YAO(2)7295-YAO
<F 323>
*SHUN(4)5936-SHUN
*HAN(4)2039-HAN
*CHOU(1)1293-TCHEU
"ONCE AGAIN WAR IS OVER. GO TALK TO THE SAVANTS."
HE GAVE FUR COATS TO THE TROOPS IN NINGHIA
SHOWED NO ZENOPHOBIA. MOGULS WD\ NOT HAVE CHINESE IN OFFICE.
IN PEKIN HE PAID THE SOLDIERS
TO PEASANTS HE GAVE ALLOTMENTS
GAVE TOOLS AND YOKE OXEN
NO EUNUCHS TO SERVE SAVE AS DOMESTICS
"DON'T BELIEVE ALL YOU ARE TOLD BY OFFICIALS
"I SUGGEST", SAID HONG VOU, "THAT YOU GET A FACULTY
A GOOD FACULTY BEFORE INCREASING THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS."
<D 310>HE DECLINED ARAB COSMETICS
CAPN YE-OUANG BUILT AN ICE WALL
TO KEEP OFF THE YUEN
WHICH THEY TOOK FOR A REAL WALL.
"COREANS ARE GENTLE BY NATURE".
AND THAT YEAR THE EMPEROR DIED.
FIVE PLANETS WERE IN CONJUCTION.
<F 324>
IN '84 DIED GENERAL LI-OUEN, IN '85 SU TA
IN 1386 PEACE
HONG VOU DECLINED A TREATISE ON IMMORTALITY
OFFERED BY TAOZERS, ET
EN L'AN TRENTUNIEME DE SON EMPIRE
L'AN SOIXANTE DE SON EAGE
HONG VOU VOYANT SES FORCES AFFOIBLIR
DICT: QUE LA VERTU T'INSPIRE, TCHU-OUEN.
VOUS, MANDARINS FIDELES, LETTRES, GENS D'ARMES
AIDEZ MON PETIT-FILS A SOUTENIR
LA DIGNITE DE CEST POUVOIR
LE POIDS DE SON OFFICE
ET COMME AU PRINCE OUEN TI
JADIS DES HAN
FAICTES MOI MES FUNERAILLES.
*HSIAO(4)2601-HSIAO(4)
<C 57>
<F 325>
<D 311>AND WHEN KIEN OUEN WAS THRONED
HIS UNCLE SET TO UNTHRONE HIM, SAYING:
AS TCHEOU-KONG LOOKED AFTER TCHING-OUANG HIS NEPHEW...
PROTECT HIM FROM THE GUILES OF HIS MINISTERS.
AND WHEN THE PALACE CD\ NO MORE HOLD OUT
THEY REMEMBERED A BOX LEFT BY HONG VOU
WHEREIN WAS WRITTEN:
GO OUT BY THE GATE OF KOUEMEN
UNDER NIGHT DARK, FOLLOW THE AQUEDUCT TILL YOU COME TO THE
TEMPLE OF CHIN LO-KOAN
AND IN THE RED CHEST WAS HABIT OF HOCHANG
AND DIPLOMA OF HOCHANG
[A.D. 1403] NINE MEN WENT WITH KIEN OUEN TI
AND AT KOUEMEN GATE, MESSIRE OUANGCHIN, THE TAOIST
BEAT WITH HIS HEAD ON THE GROUND, CRYING OUAN SOUI
MAY YOU LIVE FOR 10,000 YEARS
HONG VOU CAME TO ME IN A VISION
SAYING GO TO THE GATE AT KOUEMEN
AND THAT I ROW YOU TO CHIN-LO-KOAN.
WERE NINE MANDARINS, WERE YANG-LONG AND YE HIHIEN
THAT WENT THUS WITH KIEN TI, TOOK MONKHOOD,
AND HE WAS WANDERING FOR 35 YEARS UNTIL YNG-TSONG
FROM ONE HIDING PLACE TO ANOTHER.
YONG LO DID 20 YEARS HEAVY POLICE WORK
[A.D. 1409] TO WHOM CAME AN ENVOI FROM BENGAL
[A.D. 1415] AND MALACCA CAME INTO OUR EMPIRE,
AND YANG LO COMMANDED A "SUMMA"
THAT IS THAT THE GIST OF THE BOOKS BE CORRECTED.
AND MAHAMOU SENT IN TRIBUTE OF HORSES.
<F 326>
GIN TSONG WAS TEN MONTHS ON THE THRONE
UNDER TARTARS HAD ALL GONE FEUDAL. AND IN 1430 WAS PEACE
<D 312>CAME YNG-TSONG A CHILD OF EIGHT YEARS,
EUNUCHS AS WET-ROT IN THE PALACE
HONG VOU RESTORED IMPERIAL ORDER
YET NOW CAME AGAIN EUNUCHS, TAOZERS AND HOCHANG
ARMOURERS WORKED DAY AND NIGHT
YUKIEN BURNT THE FORAGE ROUND PEKIN
AGAINST TARTAR HORSES
THIS WAS IN DAYS OF KING TI
FAN-KUANG TOOK BURNING ARROWS
AND LANCES OF THE SORT THAT ONE THROWS
YESIEN, PEYEN TIEMOUR CAME UP UNDER THE WALLS AT PEKIN
CHE-HENG AND YUKIEN WERE DEFENDERS
"NO LONGER AMUSED BY THEIR PROMISES"
IN '52 WAS EMPEROR'S GRAIN RATION
FOR FAMINE IN HONAN, FOR FAMINE IN SHANTUNG
A MILLION SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND MEASURES OF GRAIN
AND FOR WAR THEY MADE 15 FOOT CARROCHS
WITH A CASE SLUNG BELOW FOR PROVISIONS
(VIDE VALTURIO)
AND A CANNON TO FORRARD, A TURRET BORDERED WITH LANCES
WE HAD A THOUSAND SUCH CARROCHS
COUNTING THEY WD\ FILL A FIELD OF FOUR LI
AND THESE WERE NEVER BROUGHT INTO ACTION
[A.D. 1459] DIED YUKIEN THE RESTORER, THAT HAD SO VILE A REWARD
BY HIS OWN HAND, IN PRISON.
CHE-HENG TURNED TO MAGICIANS
A MAN FULL OF HIMSELF.
NOW WERE THE NEW MAPS PUBLISHED. THERE WAS A REBELLION
OF EUNUCHS
<F 327>
HIEN TSONG THE IDOLATER DID POSTHUMOUS HONOUR TO YUKIEN
DECREED KUNGFUTSEU WAS AN EMPEROR
TO BE SO HELD IN ALL RITES,
DROVE OUT THE TAOZERS AND HOCHANG
YET FOR ONE EUNUCH, HOAI-NGAN, ONE MIGHT FORGIVE MANY
EUNUCHS
<D 313>THO' THEY TRIED A STAR CHAMBER
AND HELD IT ALL OF FOUR YEARS
TILL HIEN TSONG REMOVED THEM.
ANOTHER LORD SEEKING ELIXIR
SEEKING THE TRANSMUTATION OF METALS
SEEKING A WORD TO MAKE CHANGE
*PIEN(4)25
HOAI OF SUNG WAS NEARLY RUINED BY TAOZERS
HIEN OF TANG DIED SEEKING ELIXIR
AND IN '97 THEY MADE A LAW CODE
A BEAR WALKED INTO PEKIN UNNOTICED
THOUGH THEY STRAFED THE WATCH FOR ALLOWING IT
AND THERE WERE 53 MILLION FOLK IN THE EMPIRE
AT TRIBUTE AVERAGE OF FIVE MEASURES
OF, SAY, 100 LBS EACH
"OU TI OF LEANG, HOEI-TSONG OF SUNG
WERE MORE THAN ALL OTHER EMPERORS
LAOISTS AND FOEIST, AND CAME BOTH TO AN EVIL END.
TO HELL WITH THE PYRAMID
YAO AND SHUN LIVED WITHOUT ANY SUCH MONUMENT
<F 328>
TCHEOU KONG AND KUNGFUTSEU CERTAINLY WD\ NOT HAVE
ORDERED ONE
NOR WILL IT LENGTHEN YR MAJESTY'S DAYS
IT WILL SHORTEN THE LIVES OF YR SUBJECTS
THEY WILL, MANY OF 'EM DIE UNDER NEW TAXES."
[A.D. 1505] DIED HIAO TSONG AGED 36, AFTER PEACE AND HIS 18 YEARS
ON THE THRONE
AND 8 BLOODY EUNUCHS CONSPIRED WITH LIEU,
<D 314>THUNDERBOLT FELL, NATURALLY, ON THE PALACE
FROM HONG VOU WERE AN HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS
TILL NOW OU TSONG, A MINOR,
AND 140 WOULD BE TILL THE MANCHU, NEW MONGOL.
AND WHEN LIEOU-KIN THE CASTRAT WAS ARRESTED
THEY FOUND IN HIS BUILDINGS:
GOLD BARS 240 THOUSAND, OF ABOUT 10 TAEL EACH
15 MILLIONS IN MONEY
5 MILLION BARS SILVER, OF ABOUT 50 TAEL EACH
2 MEASURES OF UNSET JEWELS
THUS SHAKING THE EMPEROR'S CONFIDENCE
IN 1512 CAME "BACHELORS MEN", THAT WERE HORSE THIEVES.
DIED OU TSONG THE LAZY
AND THE EMPRESS CHOSE CHI-TSONG SUCCESSOR
WHO WAS SON (AINE) OF THE SECOND SON OF THE EMPEROR
HIEN TSONG
HE WAS A WRITER OF VERSES,
IN FACT HE SAID HE WD\ LIKE TO RESIGN
AND SHE (TCHANG CHI) TOLD THEM TO LAY HOLD OF KIANG-PING
AND THEY FOUND IN HIS CELLARAGE
70 CASKETS OF GOLD
2 THOUSAND 200 CASKETS OF SILVER
500 CASKETS OF MIXED
400 GREAT PLATES, GOLD AND SILVER
<F 329>
NOT TO COUNT SILK OF THE FIRST GRADE, PEARLS,
CUT STONES AND JEWELS
CAME AGAIN MANSOUR THE TARTAR
AND TARTARS SAID THEY WANTED A MARKET FOR HORSES
JAP SAILORS DROVE CHINKS TO EMBARGO
"NO TRADE SAVE WITH OUR REGNICOLES"
AND WERE FIVE PLANETS IN THE CONSTELLATION OF YNG-CHE
[A.D. 1536] CHI-TSONG DID RITES AT THE MING TOMBS
ON MT TIEN-CHEOU
JAPS BURNT THE SALT WORKS AT HAI MEN
<D 315>OUA-CHI LED TROOPS AGAINST THEM
WHO CALLED THEMSELVES "WOLVES OF OUR LADY"
AND JAPS FEARED ONLY THIS LADY OUA-CHI
PIRATES ALMOST TOOK FOU-KIEN.
*CHIN(1)1057-CHIN(1)
<C 58>
<F 330>
<D 316>SINBU PUT ORDER IN SUN LAND, NIPPON, IN THE BEGINNING
OF ALL THINGS
WHERE WERE DAI TILL SHOGUN JORITOMO
THESE DAI WERE OF HEAVEN DESCENDED, SO SAYING.
GODS WERE THEIR FOREBEARS. TILL THE SHOGUN
OR CROWN GENERAL PUT AN END TO INTERNAL WARS
AND DAI WERE BUT REGES SACRIFICIOLI AFTER THIS TIME
IN MIACO, WITH FORMALITIES
WEARING GOLD-FLOWERED ROBES.
AT EACH MEAL WAS A NEW CLAY DISH FOR THEIR SERVICE
"DESCENDED FROM TEN SEO DAISIN
THAT HAD REIGNED FOR A MILLION YEARS."
ALL THESE LORDS SAY THEY ARE OF HEAVEN DESCENDED
AND THEY RAN INTO DEBT TO KEEP UP APPEARANCE
THEY WERE THERE BUSY WITH SCIENCES, POETRY, HISTORY
DANCING, IN MIACO, AND MUSIC, PLAYING AT JEU DE PAUME AND
ESCRIME
WITH A GARRISON TO KEEP WATCH ON 'EM
AND TO KEEP 'EM FROM INTERFERING WITH BUSINESS.
SO CAME A "BUTLER TO A PERSON OF QUALITY"
MESSIRE UNDERTREE
A SLAVE, IN SA MO A FISH-VENDOR
A STUD-KEEPER,
THAT MADE WAR ON COREA
AND WAS CALLED WAR GOD POST MORTEM
AND BECAUSE OF THE HAUTEUR OF
PORTAGOOSE PRELATES, THEY DROVE THE XTIANS OUT OF JAPAN
TILL WERE NONE OF THAT SECT IN THE ISLAND
<F 331>
[A.D. 1578] AND IN THE 5TH MOON OF THE 20TH YEAR OF OUAN LI
WITH SHIPS NEW CONDITIONED
MESSIRE UNDERTREE WENT AGAINST THE LORD LIPAN
BOOZING KING OF KOREA
<D 317>AND FOUR TOWNS OPENED THEIR GATES TO THE NIPPONS
AND HE, UNDERTREE, CAME TO PUNYANG THE CHIEF CITY
DESTROYING THE ROYAL TOMBS
AND THE KOREANS RAN YOWLING TO CHINA
SEEKING HELP OF THE EMPEROR OUAN LI
AT THIS TIME WERE 'THE PIRATES INCORPORATE"
KU CHING THE IMPERIAL TUTOR SAID: I WAS SEDUCED
BY IMPOSTERS
CHIN SONG HAD COME AGED 10 TO THE THRONE
AND ON T'OTHER SIDE WAS THE QUESTION OF HORSE FAIRS, AND TARTARS
OF WHOM WERE NUTCHE OR SAVAGE,
THESE TRADED AT KAIYUEN
AND THE OTHER GREAT HORDES, PE AND NAN-KOAN
THAT WERE BEYOND THE GREAT WALL FIGHTING EACH OTHER
AND THE NUTCHE GAVE REFUGE TO MONGOLS
WHEN THE MONGOLS WERE DRIVEN FROM CHINA BY MING LORDS
AND THEY WERE SO POOR THEY WERE DRIVEN TO PEDDLING
GINSENG, BEAVER PELTS HORSE HAIR
AND FULL OF MARTES ZIBBELINES
SEVEN SUCH HORDES UNITED, AND DRAVE MING BEFORE THEM
BUT NUTCHE OF NANKOEN, FIRST FOUGHT THE WILD NUTCHE
IN THE 4TH YEAR OF SUEN TE
THEY STOPPED PAYING TRIBUTE 1430 OR THEREABOUTS
AND A DIPLOMAT SAID TO THE TARTARS:
YOU HAVE LOST YR\ MARKET FOR GINSENG
YOU HAVE LOST HORSE FAIRS
BY FIGHTING EACH OTHER.
<F 332>
AND ON TOTHER SIDE, WAS UNDERTREE MAKING WAR IN KOREA
AND PERE RICCI BROUGHT A CLOCK TO THE EMPEROR
THAT WAS SET IN A TOWER
AND KU TCHANG WASN'T SAFE, EVEN BURIED,
COURT LADIES IN CABAL, GANGSTERS SET TO DEFAME HIM.
TILL HIS SON HANGED HIMSELF FROM THE WORRY.
<D 318>AND THE EUNUCHS OF TIENTSIN BROUGHT PERE MATHIEU TO COURT
WHERE THE RITES ANSWERED:
EUROPE HAD NO BONDS WITH OUR EMPIRE
AND NEVER RECEIVES OUR LAW
AS TO THESE IMAGES, PICTURES OF GOD ABOVE AND A VIRGIN
THEY HAVE LITTLE INTRINSIC WORTH. DO GODS RISE BONELESS TO
HEAVEN
THAT WE SHD\ BELIEVE YOUR BAG OF THEIR BONES?
THE HAN YU TRIBUNAL THEREFORE CONSIDERS IT USELESS
TO BRING SUCH NOVELTIES INTO THE PALACE,
WE CONSIDER IT ILL ADVISED, AND ARE CONTRARY
TO RECEIVING EITHER THESE BONES OR PERE MATHIEU.
THE EMPEROR CHIN TSONG RECEIVED HIM.
TEN THOUSAND BRAVE MEN, TEN THOUSAND
DESPERATE SIEGES
LIKE BELLS OR A GHAZEL
TREACHERIES, AND ROMANCES,
AND NOW THE BULL TANKS DIDN'T WORK
FROM THE BEGINNING OF CHINA, GREAT GENERALS, FAITHFUL ADHERENTS,
TO ECHO, DESPERATE SIEGES, SELL OUTS
BLOODY RESISTANCE, AND NOW THE BULL TANKS DIDN'T WORK
SIEGES FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME UNTIL NOW.
SIEGES, COURT TREASONS AND LAZINESS.
<F 333>
AGAINST ORDER, LAO, BHUD AND LAMAS,
NIGHT CLUBS, EMPRESSES' RELATIVES, AND HOANG MIAO,
POISONING LIFE WITH MIRAGES, RUINING ORDER; =*TO =*KALON
AND TI KOEN HEARD CRIES FROM THE FOREST
WHENCE CAME THE BULL TANKS
CAME GREAT CARS BUILT LIKE SHIPS FIFTEEN FEET HIGH
BY A HUNDRED, THREE DECKERS.
CARRIED ON GREAT WHEELS OF STONE
DRAWN EACH BY AN HUNDRED OR MORE HUNDRED OXEN
BUT TCHU-YE AND HIS MEN
MADE THEIR SORTIE
CAST PETARDS THAT FRIGHTENED THE OXEN,
<D 319>THERBY WAR CARS WERE TURNED OVER.
AND TCHU-YE'S MEN SLAUGHTERED THE SIEGERS
HOAI TSONG FELL BEFORE TARTARS, 5 LY FROM TSUNHOA
TAI TSONG OF MANCHU TOOK THEN THE LAW FROM CHINA
FORBAD MANCHUS MARRY THEIR SISTERS
YELLOW BELT FOR THE EMPEROR
RED BELT FOR THE PRINCES OF BLOOD
TOLD ALL TO CUT OFF THEIR PIG TAILS
AND SOUTH MING HAD TO FEAR MORE FROM ROTTENESS INSIDE
THAN FROM THE MANCHU NORTH AND NORTH EAST.
LI KOEN, VICEROY, HAD SPENT ALL THIS MONEY, NOT PAYING THE
TROOPS
WHO TURNED BANDIT.
AND THE LORD OF MANCHU WROTE TO THE MING LORD SAYING:
WE TOOK ARMS AGAINST OPPRESSION
AND FROM FEAR OF OPPRESSION
NOT THAT WE WISH TO RULE OVER YOU
WHEN IN SUEN FOU I MET WITH YR OFFICERS
I SACRIFICED ON THIS OATH, A BLACK BULL TO EARTH
<F 334>
A WHITE HORSE TO THE SPIRIT OF HEAVEN
ALTHOUGH THEY WERE QUITE SUBORDINATE OFFICERS
I DID THIS FROM RESPECT TO YR PERSON
AS PEACE OATH
TO SHOW THAT WE WANTED PEACE
WHERETO ALL MY ACTIONS HAVE TENDED
I OFFERED TO EXTRADITE CRIMINALS
TO GIVE BACK DROVES STOLEN
AND TO THIS OFFER I HAD NO ANSWER
I DON'T MEAN NO PROPER ANSWER
I HAD NO ANSWER WHATEVER
AND KONG YEOU CAME TO JOIN TAI TSONG
AND TAI SENT AN HETMAN TO GREET THIS KONG, REBEL,
WHO CAME WITH BOATS ARMS MUNITIONS AND FURNITURE,
AN HUNDRED THOUSAND FOLK CAME WITH KONG YEOU
<D 320>AND TAI TSONG SAID: NO TARTARS FAVOURED OF HEAVEN
HAVE STAYED BOXED WITHIN THEIR OWN CUSTOMS
MOGULS TOOK LETTERS FROM LAMAS
I A FREE LORD WITHOUT OVERLORD
WILL ADOPT SUCH LAW AS I LIKE, IN MY RIGHT TO ADOPT IT
I TAKE LETTERS FROM CHINA
WHICH IS NOT TO SAY THAT I TAKE ORDERS FROM ANY MAN
I TAKE LAWS, BUT NOT ORDERS.
THEREAFTER HE GRADED HIS OFFICERS
ABA TCHAN , MAEN TCHAN, TIHALI TCHAN
ON MANDARIN SYSTEM
AND FOUR MORE ISLANDS CAME TO HIM
AND HE TAI SET EXAMS IN THE CHINESE MANNER
FOR 16 BACHELORS, FIRST CLASS
31 BACHELORS, SECONDS, AND 181 THIRDS
AND HE MADE A BERLITZ, MANCHU, CHINESE AND MOGUL
AND GAVE PRIZES, AND CAMPED NEXT YEAR KOURBANG TOURHA
<F 335>
HERE MONGRELS CAME TO HIM. AND THENCE INTO CHINA SOUTHWARD
BY GORGES
THE GORGES OF HO-CHE NEAR TON,
AND BY TAI CHEN GORGE WEST OF TAITONG
NAMING CHENSI AS NEXT PLACE OF MUSTER
(TAI TSONG, SON OF TAI TSOU, RULING FROM MOUGDEN)
1625\35
CHOSE LEARNING FROM YAO, SHUN AND KUNGFUTSEU,
FROM YU LEADER OF WATERS.
AND IN THE SEVENTH MOON THIS MONARCH OF TARTARY
COMING NEAR UNTO SUEN-HOA-FOU WROTE TO THE GOVERNOR:
YOUR SOVRAN TREATS ME AS ENEMY
WITHOUT ASKING WHAT FORCES MY ACTION
YOU ARE, INDEED, SUBJECTS OF A GREAT REALM
BUT THE LARGER THAT EMPIRE, THE MORE SHD\ IT STRIVE TOWARD PEACE
IF CHILDREN ARE CUT OFF FROM PARENTS
IF WIVES CAN NOT SEE THEIR HUSBANDS
IF YR HOUSES ARE DEVAST AND YOUR RICHES CARRIED AWAY
<D 321>THIS IS NOT OF ME BUT OF MANDARINS.
NOT I BUT YR\ EMPEROR SLAUGHTERS YOU
AND YR\ OVERLORDS WHO TAKE NO CARE OF YR\ PEOPLE
AND COUNT SOLDIERS AS NOTHING.
AND TOWARD THE END OF THE 8TH MOON
TENGYUN SENT IN DISPATCHES: I HAVE BEATEN THE TARTARS
I HAVE SLAUGHTERED GREAT NUMBERS. WHICH HE HAD NOT.
WHEREUPON TAI TSONG WROTE HIM: I WILL SEND A THOUSAND
TO MEET ANY TEN THOUSAND
IF YOU FEAR TO RISK THAT, SEND A THOUSAND
I WILL MEET THEM WITH AN HUNDRED
HOPING THIS WILL TEACH YOU NOT TO LIE TO YOUR EMPEROR.
AND AFTER THE NEXT RAID OFFERED PEACE.
<F 336>
AND AFTER VAIN WAITING AN ANSWER
HIS TARTAR FOLK AGAIN ASKED HIM TO BE EMPEROR
AND HE SAID: IF THE KING OF COREA ACCEPTS ME
WHEREON THE TARTARS WROTE THE KING OF KOREA:
EIGHT ROYAL PRINCES OF MANCHU
18 GREAT LORDS OF OUR BANNERS TO THE KING OF COREA
AS HEAVEN APPEARS TO DESIRE IT
WE ACCEPT OUR KING TO BE EMPEROR
HAVING BEGGED HIM TO TAKE THIS MANDATE.
THE MOGUL PRINCES HAVE JOINED US
HONG VOU BROUGHT THE LAND UNDER ONE RULE
BEFORE HIM THE KIN WERE UNITED
AND AFTER THEM WAS YUEN, ENTIRETY
AND THE MOGULS WROTE TO COREA:
49 PRINCES MOGUL; TO THE KING OF COREA
200 YEARS UNDER MING
AND NOW TURNED AGAINST THEM
BECAUSE OF THE CRIMES OF THEIR MANDARINS
WE JOIN MANCHU TO MAKE END OF OPPRESSION
THE WEAKNESS OF THE MING TROOPS, THE FAITHLESSNESS
OF THEIR COMMANDERS
<D 322>SHOW THAT THEIR MANDATE IS FALLEN
WE NOW RECOGNIZE TAI TSONG OF MANCHU
OUR BLOOD IN HIS SERVICE
FOR TWO YEARS WE HAVE BESOUGHT HIM TO TAKE IMPERIAL TITLE
FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND MOGUL, THEIR QUIVERS AND ARROWS
ARE BACK OF THIS.
AND COREA REPLIED IN THE NEGATIVE
AND NEXT YEAR TAI TSONG TOOK THRONE
THIRD MOON, 1635 ANNO DOMINI
PUT THE THREE RACES IN OFFICE
AS MOGULS AFTER GHENGIS HAD NOT DONE
<F 337>
AND CONTINUED THE RAIDING...
ROUND PEKING, INTO SHANTUNG (GALLICE CHANTONG)
AND INTO KIANGNAN, RETURNING WITH PLUNDER.
THUS UNTIL OUSAN INVITED THEM TO PUT DOWN THE REBELS.
RICE WAS AT ONE MARK SILVER THE MEASURE
IN KAI FONG
AND HUMAN MEAT SOLD IN MARKET.
LITSE'S GANGSTERS OVER ALL HONAN
LI SAO: WEEP, WEEP OVER KAIFONG; KIENTSONG THE BLOODY
AND LITSE CALLED HIMSELF EMPEROR
MING TROOPS WERE UNPAID
EUNUCHS DEVOURED THE TAXES; THE PRIME MINISTER
COULD NOT GET HOLD OF THEM
AND THE CASTRATS OPENED THE GATES OF PEKIN TO REBELS
TILL HOEI DIED HUNG IN HIS BELT
AND THERE WAS BLOOD IN THE PALACE. LI SAO; LI SAO,
WRONG NEVER ENDING
LIKOUE; FAITHFUL TO DEATH, AND THEN AFTER
AND IN THIS DAY OUSAN ASKED IN THE MANCHU
TAI TSONG WAS DEAD THESE TWO YEARS;
HIS BROTHERS RULING AS COUNSEL.
ATROX MING, ATROX FINIS
THE NINE GATES WERE IN FLAME.
<D 323>MANCHU WITH OUSAN PUT DOWN MANY REBELS
OUSAN OFFERED TO PAY OFF THESE MANCHU
WHO REPLIED THEN WITH COURTESY:
WE CAME FOR PEACE NOT FOR PAYMENT.
CAME TO BRING PEACE TO THE EMPIRE
IN PEKIN THEY CRIED OUAN SOUI
A THOUSAND, TEN THOUSAND YEARS, A NOI
EIJEN, OUAN SOUI; OUSAN, OUSAN
<F 338>
PEACE MAKER OUSAN, IN THE RIVER, REEDS,
FLUTES MURMURED OUSAN
BROUGHT PEACE INTO CHINA; BROUGHT IN THE MANCHU
LITSE THOUGHT TO GAIN OUSAN,
ROUSED OUSAN AND OUSAN
REMEMBERED HIS FATHER
DEAD BY THE HAND OF LITSE.
=TAD =HOD =ECHEI
*P'ING(2)5303-P'ING(2)
<C 59>
<F 339>
<D 324>DE LIBRO CHI-KING SIC CENSEO
WROTE THE YOUNG MANCHU, CHUN TSHI,
LESS A WORK OF THE MIND THAN OF AFFECTS
BROUGHT FORTH FROM THE INNER NATURE
HERE SUNG IN THESE ODES.
URBANITY IN EXTERNALS, VIRTU IN INTERNALS
SOME IN A HIGH STYLE FOR THE RITES
SOME IN HUMBLE;
FOR EMPERORS; FOR THE PEOPLE
ALL THINGS ARE HERE BROUGHT TO PRECISIONS
THAT WE SHD\ LEARN OUR INTEGRITY
THAT WE SHD\ ATTAIN OUR INTEGRITY
UT ANIMUM NOSTRUM PURGET, CONFUCIUS AIT, DIRIGATQUE
AD LUMEN RATIONIS
PERPETUALE EFFECTO\
THAT THIS BOOK KEEP US IN DUE BOUNDS OF OFFICE
THE NORM
SHOW WHAT WE SHD\ TAKE INTO ACTION;
WHAT FOLLOW WITHIN AND PERSISTENTLY
CHI KING OSTENDIT INCITATQUE. VIR AUTEM RECTUS
ET LIBIDINIS EXPERS ITA DOMINE SERVAT
WITH FAITH, NEVER TRICKY, OBSEQUATUR PARENTIS
NUNQUAM DEFLECTAT
ALL ORDER COMES INTO SUCH NORM
IGITUR MEIS ENCOMIIS, THEREFOR THIS PREFACE
CHUN TCHI ANNO UNDECESIMO
(A.D. 1655)
PERIPLUM, NOT AS LAND LOOKS ON A MAP
BUT AS SEA BORD SEEN BY MEN SAILING.
<F 340>
NOW TARTARS IN THE MURK NIGHT
SENT GREAT NUMBERS OF SOJERS WITH LANTHORNS
WHICH THEY HELD UP VERY HIGH
<D 325>AND THUS SPREAD LIGHT ON PROCEEDINGS
CAUSING GREAT FEAR IN NANKING.
SO THE LAST MINGSTERS FLED OUT BY THE TCHINKIANG ROAD.
AND THE AMMIRAL PUT TO SEA THINKING PERHAPS THAT
A FEW MINUTES MORE RESISTANCE
WD\ BE OF NO MORTAL USE.
AND ON THE TENTH CAME AN OFFICER
TO SAY THAT THE PORT WAS IN TARTAR HANDS
BUT MILORD THE PRINCE AND HIS EATING COMPANIONS
WERE IN NO SHAPE TO TAKE IN THE MESSAGE
THEY WEREN'T SOBER TILL THE FOLLOWING MIDNIGHT
WHEREON THEY SKEDADDLED
[A.D. 1645] AND THE NANKINGS SET UP A NEW EMPEROR
AND THE ORDER TO OFF PIGTAILS STIFFENED RESISTANCE
PUT NEW GUTS INTO MINGSTERS
KOUEI BORN TO ILL FORTUNE
NO MINGSTER CD\ TRUST ANY OTHER; CD\ AGREE WITH ANY SIX OTHERS
UTILITE PUBLIQUE, MOTIF TROP ELEVE
FOR VILE COURTIERS
AND WHEN THE YOUNG MANCHU WAS 14 THEY GAVE HIM TO
WIFE A MOGUL
AND TOOK IN GALLILEO'S ASTRONOMY,
CHUCKED THE MOHAMETAN
AND THERE CAME A HONG-MAO OR RED-HEADED DUTCHMAN
AND THE PORTAGOOSE TO MACAO
AND THEY SAY THAT THE EMPEROR CHUN TCHI
DIED OF SORROW, FOR THE DEATH OF ONE OF HIS QUEENS
AN OFFICER'S WIFE WHO HAD RISEN.
<F 341>
AND THE FOUR REGENTS PUT EUNUCHS OUT OF HIGH OFFICE
A THOUSAND PURGED OUT OF PALACE
AND A HALF TON BLOCK OF IRON INSCRIBED
LET THERE BE NO EUNUCH IN OFFICE HEREAFTER.
AND IN '64 THEY PUTT OUT THE XTIANS
PORTAGEESE WERE CONFINED TO MACAO
THUS KANG HI
<D 326>WHO PLAYED THE SPINET ON JOHNNIE BACH'S BIRTHDAY
DO NOT EXAGGERATE\ HE AT LEAST PLAYED ON SOME SUCH INSTRUMENT
AND LEARNED TO PICK OUT SEVERAL TUNES (EUROPEAN)
AND WERE DEMARKED THE BORDERS OF RUSSIA
WITH A PORTAGOOSE AND A FROG PRIEST TO INTERPRET
TO WHOM EACH A ROBE BROCADED WITH DRAGONS
BUT NOT EMBROIDERED
AND SHORT COATS OF MARTIN, SATIN LINING, GOLD BUTTONS
PEREIRA AND GERBILLON
MADE MANDARINS SECOND ORDER
AND THAT EMBASSY WENT OUT VIA MT PAUCITY
AND PAID VISIT TO THE HO FO, THE LAMA WHO DIES NOT
AS HE SAT ON A PAIR OF GREAT CUSHIONS
ONE BROCADE AND THE OTHER PLAIN YELLOW
WHO BLESSED THEM WITH TEA AND A LUNCHEON
AND IN ANOTHER ROOM ASSEZ MAL PROPRE
SINGING HIS PRAYERS WAS ANOTHER
AND IN YET ANOTHER TEMPLE APARTMENT ANOTHER SAID FRANKLY
HE DIDN'T SEE HOW HE CD\ HAVE LIVED IN ANOTHER BODY
BEFORE THIS AND IN ANY CASE HAD NO SUCH REMEMBRANCE
BUT ONLY THE HO FO'S WORD
AND THEY WENT ON TOWARD THE HANS OF KALKAS
WHERE THEY GOT ORDER TO TURN ABOUT AND COME HOME
WAS A WAR ON BETWEEN ELEUTES AND KALKAS
AND TO TELL THE OROS (THE O ROSSIANS) TO MEET 'EM AT SELINGA
<F 342>
OR SOME OTHER PLACE ON THE FRONTIER
TO DETERMINE FRONTIERS.
WHICH THEY ACCOMPLISHED NEXT YEAR AT NIPCHOU.
WITH THESE AMBASSADORS WERE A LOT OF DOMESTICS
FIVE THOUSAND 800 SOJERS
AND A SPOT OF ARTILLERY
WHO ALL PASSED THE GT WALL AT CHA HOUKOEN.
AND KANG WALKED TO HIS GRANDMOTHER'S FUNERAL
A DISTANCE OF 500 LY FROM THE CAPITAL.
<D 327>AND THIS EMBASSY WAS CONCERNING THE AMUR FRONTIER
COMING FROM PETERSBURG
BUT WE WANTED OUR MARTIN SABLES, OUR HUNTIN'
THAT WAS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE AMUR
WHERE ARE MOUNTAINS AND GREAT LAKES IN THE VALLEYS.
YEAR 28TH OF KANG HI, UNDER THE 7TH MOON
WAS THIS TREATY IN LATIN WITH COPIES IN TARTAR AND MUSCOVITE
AND THE CHINKS SWORE BY THE GOD OF XTIANS
THINKING NOTHING ELSE WD\ HAVE MORE FORCE WITH THE MUSCOVITES
"TO SPARE FURTHER BLOODSHED ON OUR FRONTIERS
WE WERE NEAR THE TOWN OF NIPCHOU
SWEAR PEACE SOLID, ETERNAL
STATE THAT BOUNDERY STONES SHALL BE SET.
PRAY WE TO THE GOD OF ALL THINGS
WHO SEETH OUR HEARTS
THAT IF ANY MAN HERE HAVE RESERVATION
OR PLOT HIS OWN PROFIT
IN VIOLENCE TO THIS TREATY
HE DIE BEFORE HE REACH A RIPE AGE
SO THE ENVOYS
EMBRACED TO THE MUSIC OF INSTRUMENTS
AND THE RHOOSIANS (OROSIANS) SERVED A SORT OF LUNCH
<F 343>
TO THE CHINESE AMBASSADORS
CONFITURES AND THREE SORTS OF WINE
VINTAGE OF EUROPE
AND THIS WAS DUE TO THE FROG AND THE PORTAGOOSE
GERBILLON AND PEREIRA
TO GERBILLON IN THE MOST CRITICAL MOMENT
THAT HE KEPT THEIR TEMPERS TILL THEY CAME TO CONCLUSION.
*CHING(4)1138-CHING(4)
<C 60>
<F 344>
<D 328>SO THE JESUITS BROUGHT IN ASTRONOMY
(GALILEO'S, AN HERETIC'S
MUSIC AND PHYSICS FROM EUROPE,
GRIMALDI, INTORCETTA, VERBIEST,
KOUPELIN. SUBJECT OF YR\ MAJESTY,
PRESCRIBED OF THE TRIBUNE OF RITES:
TRUE THAT THE EUROPEANS HAVE PASSED ZEALOUSLY MANY DANGERS
AND HAVE BROUGHT US ASTRONOMY, AND FOUNDED CANNON
WHICH HAVE SERVED US IN CIVIL WARS,
AND THAT ONE SHD\ REWARD THEIR SERVICES IN NEGOTIATING WITH
THE OROSIANS.
THEY HAVE NOT MADE ANY TROUBLE.
WE PERMIT LAMAS, HOCHANGS AND TAOTSES TO GO TO
THEIR CHURCHES
IT WD\ SEEM UNWARRANTED TO FORBID ONLY THESE EUROPEANS
TO GO TO THEIR TEMPLES. WE DEEM THEREFORE
THAT THEY BE SO PERMITTED
INDISCRIMINATE TO PRAY AND BURN PERFUMES.
3RD DAY 2ND MOON OF THE 31ST YEAR OF KANG HI
17 GRANDEES OF THE EMPIRE, WHEREOF ELEVEN CABINET MINISTERS
OF THIS EMPEROR
LES PERES GERBILLON, FOURTERES, BOURNAT
TOOK QUININE TO THE PALACE, ANNO DOMINI 1693
HENCE THE JESUIT CHURCH IN PEKIN IN THE HOANG TCHANG
THAT IS THE PALACE ENCLOSURE.
AND FEYENKOPF IN THE KALDAN WAR
WAS FIGHTING ELEUTES AND MOHAMEDANS AND THE
EMPEROR SHOT SIX QUAIL DE SUITE WITH SIX ARROWS
AND SENT THE CROWN PRINCE AN ELEUTE HORSE
<F 345>
SAYING: I DON'T KNOW THAT CHINESE BEAN FODDER WILL SUIT HIM.
HEREWITH SOME KALKAS SHEEP FOR PRIME MUTTON.
YR AFFECTIONATE FATHER KANG HI
<D 329>HOANG HO IS FROZEN. IN FACT THE ORTES COUNTRY SEEMS TO BE
PRETTY MUCH AS WE THOUGHT IT IN PEKIN,
SMALL HUNTIN' QUITE PLEASANT, A LOT OF PHEASANTS AND HARES,
PASTURAGE EXCELLENT. HOANG HO FRUZ 1\2 A FT. THICK.
ORTES VERY ORDERLY, HAVE LOST NONE OF THEIR MONGOL HABITS,
THEIR PRINCES IN CONCORD, NO USURY.
CLEVER ESPECIALLY IN LOOKIN' AFTER THEIR ANIMALS,
CLUMSY BOWMEN, BUT HIT THEIR MARK.
AND GENERAL FEYENKOPF WROTE HIM
THAT THE ELEUTES HAD CAVED IN
AND KANG HI GAVE A FUR CAP TO THE ENVOY
AND HIS (KANG HI'S) HORSE SWEAT PINK
AS IN LEGEND THE HORSES OF TAOUEN LAND, THE
TIEN MA, OR HORSES OF HEAVEN
AND THIS HORSE IN PARTICULAR HAD BEEN TAKEN IN THE BATTLE OF
TCHAOMED
AND THEY HAD A GRAND SHOW IN PEKIN FOR NEXT NEW YEAR'S
MONGOLS, KALDANS AND ELEUTES.
"IT IS EASY AFTER THIS TO BE SURE
THAT ALL LAMAS ARE TRAITORS.
KEEP THESE PRISONERS IN SEPARATE ROOMS,
SOLD TO THE TIPA WHO IS A LIAR. I HAVE TAKEN
THE SUN 38((DEGREES SYMBOL)) 34((ARCMINUTES SYMBOL))I.E. ONE DEGREE 20 LESS HERE THAN IN PEKIN'
KANG HI
DOGS BARK ONLY AT STRANGERS. AND AT PAICHEN
KANG HI WAS PLEASED WITH THE PASTURE LAND,
DELAYED HIS RETURN TO THE CAPITAL,
STAYED STAG-HUNTING OUTSIDE THE GREAT WALL
<F 346>
WHILE KALDA HAD GRABBED SAMARKAND AND
BOKARA FOR THE MOHAMMEDS
1699 PEACE YEAR IN ALL TARTARY
GRIMALDI, PEREIRA, TONY THOMAS AND GERBILLON
SENT IN THEIR PLACET SIC:
EUROPEAN LITTERATI
<D 330>HAVING HEARD THAT THE CHINESE RITES HONOUR KUNG-FU-TSEU
AND OFFER SACRIFICE TO THE HEAVEN ETC\
AND THAT THEIR CEREMONIES ARE GROUNDED IN REASON
NOW BEG TO KNOW THEIR TRUE MEANING AND IN PARTICULAR
THE MEANING OF TERMS FOR EXAMPLE MATERIAL
HEAVEN AND CHANGTI MEANING? ITS RULER?
DOES THE MANES OF CONFUCIUS
ACCEPT THE GRAIN, FRUIT, SILK, INCENSE OFFERED
AND DOES HE ENTER HIS CARTOUCHE?
THE EUROPEAN CHURCH WALLAHS WONDER IF THIS CAN BE RECONCILED.
AND THE ARCHBISH OF ANTIOCH SPENT A YEAR IN CANTON
MOUSING ROUND BUT NOT COMING TO PEKIN
BUT WAS, NEXT YEAR, PERMITTED,
MONSEIGNEUR MAILLARD DE TOURNON
FROM CLEMENS, PAPA (NUMBER XI) THE KIAO HOANG
AND THE PORTAGOOSE KING SENT AN ENVOY
AND THEY CURED KANG HI WITH WINE FROM THE CANARIES
W'ICH PUTT 'EM UP A JOT HIGHER
AND TOO MUCH RICE WENT TO BATAVIA
SO OUR LORD KANG LAYED AN EMBARGO
(A BIT BEFORE TOMMY JUFFUSUN'S)
AND A TSONG-PING OR SECOND CLASS MANDARIN
PUTT UP A PETITION:
AGAINST EUROPES AND XTIANITY
THAT THERE HAD BEEN NINE RED BOATS INTO MACAO
DUTCHMEN, RED-HEADS OR ENGLANDERS.
<F 347>
JAPAN, SEZ TSHING MAO, IS THE ONLY CONSIDERABLE KINGDOM
TO EAST OF US
AND JAPAN KEPT PEACE EVEN ALL THROUGH THE GREAT MING REBELLION.
SIAM AND TONKIN PAY TRIBUTE,
ONLY DANGER TO US IS FROM THESE EUROPEANS
BY HONG-MAO I MEAN ANY NORDIC BARBARIAN
THERE ARE YENKELI AND YNTSA (MEANIN' FROGGIES
AND HOLANS
ALL EQUALLY BARBAROUS
<D 331>I HAVE KNOCKED AROUND AT SEA FOR SOME YEARS
AND THE DUTCH ARE THE WORST OF THE LOT OF THEM,
POIFIK TIGURS,
THEIR VESSELS STAND ANY WIND AND CARRY A HUNDRED CANNON
IF TEN OF 'EM GET INTO CANTON
WHO KNOWS WHAT CD\ HAPPEN.
I THINK WE SHD\ STOP THIS DANGER AT SOURCE
OR AT LEAST MAKE 'EM DISARM BEFORE COMING INTO OUR HARBOURS
OR HAVE 'EM COME IN ONE AT A TIME
OR UNLADE IN A FORTRESS.
THEY WORMED INTO JAPAN VIA MANILLA THEY HAVE BEEN
KICKED OUT BUT STILL TRY TO GET IN AGAIN
THEY SPEND MONEY, GATHER THE DREGS OF THE PEOPLE, MAKE MAPS
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE UP TO
AND THAT'S NOT MY PROVINCE
ALL I KNOW IS THEY REFUGED IN MANILLA
AND NOW THEY ARE TOP DOG IN MANILLA
I REST MY CASE IN THE TRIBUNALS OF EMPIRE
TRUSTING THAT THIS BIND-WEED WILL NOT BE PERMITTED
TO ROOT IN AND FORTIFY
HUMBLY TO YR MAJESTY
TCHING MAO, A SEA CAPTAIN
DUG UP EDICT OF '69
<F 348>
PERMIT ONLY VERBIEST AND HIS COLLEAGUES
WE VOTE TO PARDON ALL CONVERTS
PROVIDED THEY PULL DOWN THEIR CHURCHES, AND AGAIN MAY ELEVENTH
MISSIONARIES HAVE WELL SERVED IN REFORMING OUR
MATHEMATICS
AND IN MAKING US CANNON
AND THEY ARE THEREFORE PERMITTED TO STAY
AND TO PRACTISE THEIR OWN RELIGION BUT
NO CHINESE IS TO GET CONVERTED
AND THEY ARE NOT TO BUILD ANY CHURCHES
47 EUROPEANS HAVE PERMITS
THEY MAY CONTINUE THEIR CULT, AND NO OTHERS.
<D 332>JESUITS APPEALED THAT THEY BE NOT
CONFOUNDED WITH DUTCHMEN
LET STAY, IF WD\ PROMISE NEVER SEE EUROPE AGAIN
VARIOUS CHURCHES WERE LEVELLED AND
THERE CAME AN EMBASSY FROM PETER OF RUSSIA
1720
WITH CAVALCADE AND DRAWN SABRES
AND A NEW BLOKE FROM THE KIAO-HOANG OF ROMA.
TIBET WAS BROUGHT UNDER AND '22 WAS A PEACE YEAR
THE EMP'R'R WENT HUNTIN' AS USUAL
AND TIGER HUNTIN' IN HAITSE AND DIED THE 20TH OF THIS MONTH
AT 8 IN THE EVENING
'NO DYNASTY HAS COME IN WITH SUCH JUSTICE
AS OURS HAS. I HAVE NOT WASTED THE TREASURES OF EMPIRE
CONSIDERING THEM AS THE BLOOD OF THE PEOPLE
3 MILLION A YEAR ON RIVER EMBANKMENTS
I ORDER THAT YONG TCHING SUCCEED ME
THOU SHALT NOT
LEND MONEY TO SOJERS
<F 349>
HUNTIN' KEEPS MANCHU FIT
AVOID THE HOT SUMMER IN PEKIN."
HE BEGAN TAKING TRIPS INTO TARTARY.
HISTORY TRANSLATED TO MANCHU. SET UP BOARD OF TRANSLATORS
VERBIEST, MATHEMATICS
PEREIRA PROFESSOR OF MUSIC, A TREATISE IN CHINESE AND MANCHU
GERBILLON AND BOUVET, DONE IN MANCHU
REVISED BY THE EMPEROR AS TO QUESTIONS OF STYLE
A DIGEST OF PHILOSOPHY (MANCHU) AND CURRENT
REPORTS ON THE MEMOIRES DES ACADEMIES
DES SCIENCES DE PARIS.
QUININE, A LABORATORY SET UP IN THE PALACE.
HE ORDERED 'EM TO PREPARE A TOTAL ANATOMY, ET
QU'ILS VEILLERENT A LA PURETE DU LANGAGE
<D 333>ET QU'ON N'EMPLOYAT QUE DES TERMES PROPRES
(NAMELY CH'ING MING)
*CHENG(4)351 *MING(2)4524
EN SON PALAIS DIVERS ATELIERS
WANTED THE BEST EUROPEAN MODELS
FER PAINTIN' AN' SCUPPCHURE,HIS WORKS IN ONE HUNDRED VOLUMES
WUZ EMPEROR KANG HI 61 YEARS
FROM 1662 AND CAME AFTER HIM
*LO(4.5)4129-YUEH(4.5)
<C 61>
<F 350>
<D 334>YONG TCHING
HIS FOURTH SON, TO HONOUR HIS FOREBEARS
AND SPIRITS OF FIELDS
OF EARTH
HEAVEN
UTILITY PUBLIC
SOUGHT GOOD OF THE PEOPLE, ACTIVE, ABSOLUTE, LOVED
NO DEATH SENTENCE SAVE A MAN WERE THRICE TRIED
AND HE PUTT OUT XTIANITY
CHINESE FOUND IT SO IMMORAL
HIS MANDARINS FOUND THIS SECT SO IMMORAL
"THE HEAD OF A SECT" RUNS THE LAW "WHO DECEIVES FOLK
"BY PRETENDING RELIGION, OUGHT DAMN WELL TO BE STRANGLED."
NO NEW TEMPLES FOR ANY HOCHANG, TAOISTS OR SIMILARS
SIC IN LEGE
FALSE LAWS ARE THAT STIR UP REVOLT BY PRETENSE OF VIRTUE.
ANYONE BUT IMPERTINENT FAKERS WD HAVE ADMITTED
THE TRUTH OF THE EMPEROR'S ANSWER:
WHAT I SAY NOW I SAY AS EMPEROR
APPLIED TO THIS DAILY AND ALL DAY
NOT SEEING MY CHILDREN NOT SEEING THE EMPRESS
TILL THE TIME OF MOURNING BE ENDED
XTIANS BEING SUCH SLIDERS AND LIARS.
PUBLIC KITCHEN IN FAMINE
PUBLIC WORKS FOR THE UNEMPLOYED, 1725,
A DOLE, NOTHING PERSONAL AGAINST GERBILLON AND HIS
COLLEAGUES, BUT
XTIANS ARE DISTURBING GOOD CUSTOMS
SEEKING TO UPROOT KUNG'S LAWS
<F 351>
SEEKING TO BREAK UP KUNG'S TEACHING.
OFFICERS AT TIENTSING
WHO FAKED RICE DISTRIBUTION
<D 335>AND GAVE BAD RICE TO THE NEEDY
CAN DAMN WELL PAY UP WHAT THEY HAVE EMBEZZLED.
LIEU-YU-Y, STATE EXAMINER SAID:
PUT MAGAZINES IN THE 4 TOWNS OF CHAN-SI
(THAT THERE BE SET UP A FONDEGO)
LOOK WHOM YOU CHOOSE TO ADMINISTER
THAT THESE BE NOT THE OVERWORKED GOVERNORS
TO KEEP OUT GRAFT...IF ANY MAN HAVE LOANED RICE IN SECRET...
A 100,000 PUND CAPITAL
WD\ MEAN THIRTY THOUSAND GREAT MEASURES
AT MODERATE PRICE WE CAN SELL IN THE SPRING
TO KEEP THE MARKET PRICE DECENT
AND STILL BRING IN A SMALL REVENUE
WHICH SHOULD BE USED FOR GETTING MORE NEXT CROP
AMMASSI OR SANE COLLECTION,
TO HAVE BIGGER PROVISION NEXT YEAR,
THAT IS, AUGMENT OUR FAMINE RESERVE
AND THUS TO KEEP THE RICE FRESH IN STORE HOUSE.
IN TIME OF COMMON SCARCITY; TO SELL AT THE JUST PRICE
IN EXTRAORDINARY LET IT BE LENT TO THE PEOPLE
AND IN GREAT CALAMITIES, GIVE IT FREE
LIEOU-YU-Y
APPROVED BY THE EMPEROR
(UN FONTEGO) ((FTNOTE REFERS TO C 35))AND IN EVERY TOWN ONCE A YEAR
TO THE MOST HONEST CITIZENS: A DINNER
AT EXPENSE OF THE EMPEROR
NO FAVOUR TO MEN OVER WOMEN
<F 352>
MANCHU CUSTOM VERY OLD, REVIVED NOW BY YONG TCHING
AN' WOIKINMEN THOUGHT OF. IF PROPER IN FIELD WORK
GET 8TH DEGREE BUTTON AND
RIGHT TO SIT AT TEA WITH THE GOVERNOR
ONE, EUROPEAN, A PAINTER, ONE ONLY ADMITTED
AND POPE'S ENVOYS GOT A MELON
<D 336>AND THEY DRUV OUT LON COTO FER GRAFTIN'
SENT HIM TO CONFINO TO WATCH MEN BREAKIN' GROUND
HE HAD BOOSTED THE SALT PRICE.
AND THEY RECEIVED THE VOLUMES OF HISTORY
WITH A PEE-RADE WITH PORTABLE CASES LIKE TABERNACLES
THE DYNASTIC HISTORY WITH SOLEMNITY.
"I CAN'T", HAD SAID KANG HI
"RESIGN" SAID VICTOR EMANUEL, YOU COUNT CAVOUR CAN RESIGN
AT YOUR CONVENIENCE.
"TO COMFORT THE SOUL OF MY FATHER
EMPEROR NOW DEFUNCT AND IN HEAVEN", SAID YONG TCHING;
DON'T THINK THAT SOFT TALK IS WANTED
YOU WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU TAKE FOR THE FACTS
CALL PORK PORK IN YOUR PROPOSALS
YOUR BRIEFS SHD\ BE SECRET AND SEALED AND YOUR EMPEROR
WILL PUBLISH AT HIS DISCRETION.
ELEVENTH MONTH 23RD DAY FOR CEREMONIAL PLOUGHING
(I TAKE IT DECEMBER)
OUT BY THE OLD WORKER'S HILL
YONG PLOUGHED HALF AN HOUR
THREE PRINCES, NINE PRESIDENTS DID THEIR STUFF
AND THE PEASANTS IN GT\ MASS SANG THE HYMNS
BEFITTING THIS FIELD WORK
AS WRIT IN LI KI IN THE OLD DAYS
AND THEY SOWED GRAIN AND IN AUTUMN THE GRAIN OF THAT FIELD
WAS FOR CEREMONIAL PURPOSES PUT IN SACKS OF IMPERIAL
<F 353>
YELLOW AS FIT FOR THIS PURPOSE.
"YOU CHRISTERS WANNA HAVE FOOT ON TWO BOATS
AND WHEN THEM BOATS PULLS APART
YOU WILL D\N WELL GIT A WETTIN'" SAID A COURT MANDARIN
TELLIN' 'EM.
AND THEY SET UP A YELLOW PAVILION
WITH A BUFFET BENEATH IT
AND THE DISHES AND THE COURT SILVER
AND IN DEEP SILENCE SOUNDED SUDDENLY TRUMPETS
<D 337>AND MUSIC FOR THE EMPEROR YONG TSHING
AND DOM METELLO AND THE EUROPEANS WENT TO THEIR PLACES
A CUSHION FOR DOM METTELLO
AND THE EMPEROR'S WINE WAS BROUGHT IN, WHICH HE OFFERED TO
DOM METELLO
WHO KNELT, DRANK, AND RETURNED TO HIS CUSHION
WHEREON THEY OFFERED HIM FRUIT PILED HIGH IN A PYRAMID
AND THE EMPEROR YONG SAID: TAKE HIM SOMEWHERE WHERE
IT IS COOLER.
SO THEY DINED HIM AND SHOWED HIM A COMEDY
AND GAVE HIM SEVEN TRUNKS OF STUFF FOR HIMSELF
AND 35 FOR THE PORTAGOOSE BOSS WHO HAD SENT HIM
I.E. HE WUZ HONOURED BUT CDN'T SPILL PROPPERGANDER
AND THE CHINK GRANDEES TOOK HIM DOWN THE CANAL
WITH A DINNER COOKED BY THE CHEFS OF THE PALACE
AND THE TRAPPINGS UP-(AS THEY SAY)- HELD THE HONOUR OF EUROPE
AND AS TO SOUNOU BEING XTIAN, HE WUZ PROBABLY ALSO A CONSPIRACY
BUT THE POPULATION OF YUN-NAN WAS GROWING
AND THE PRICE OF GRAIN KEPT GOIN' UP.
LOT OF LAND UNDEVELOPED
SO THEY OPENED IT
TAX EXEMPTION FOR SIX YEARS ON GOOD RICE LAND
AND FOR TEN YEARS ON DRY
<F 354>
AND HONOURS IN PROPORTION TO
HOW MUCH A BLOKE WD PUT UNDER CULTURE
BUTTON 8TH CLASS FOR ENOUGH, AND DIPLOMAS
FOR 15 ARPENS. A PEASANT GOT TWO BOUQUETS FOR HIS CAP
AND A CRAMOISI SCARF AND A BAND TO WALK HOME WIFF.
AND A BOOST FOR ANY MANDARIN
THAT WD STAKE OUT NEW SETTLERS
800,000 IN DOLES
A MILLION ON CANAL REPARATIONS
GOOD OF THE EMPIRE OF ANY PART OF THE EMPIRE
CONCERNS EVERY MANDARIN
NO MATTER WHERE HE IS LOCATED
<D 338>IT IS LIKE A FAMILY AFFAIR
GHOST FRIGHTENS NO HONEST MAN. NO HOUSE IS
DURABLE IF PERCHED ON YR NEIGHBOR'S RUIN
AN HONEST PEASANT IS A PROGNOSTIC
WROTE YONG TCHING
PASSING IN SILENCE THE OTHER "PROGNISTICS" OF THE
GOVERNOR'S LETTER
MEN ARE BORN WITH A FUND OF RIGHTNESS YOU WILL
FIND GOOD MEN IN ANY SMALL VILLAGE
BUT THE BUREAUCRATS TAKE NO NOTICE
LET CHIYEOU BE MADE A 7TH CLASS MANDARIN
GIVE HIM 100 OUNCES OF SILVER AS INCENTIVE TO OTHER MEN
HEAVEN HAS SCATTERED RICHES AND POVERTY
BUT TO PROFIT ON OTHER MEN'S LOSS (ANTONINUS)
IS NO BETTER THAN BANDITRY
IN MOMENTUM OF AVARICE, NO LONGER STEERS HIS OWN COURSE.
CHIYEOU DIDN'T DO IT ON BOOK READIN'
NOR BY MUGGIN' UP HISTORY.
MILLION IN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF
AND A THOUSAND TAELS TO THE CAPITAL JESUITS
<F 355>
BUT EXPELLED THE REST FROM CANTON
"THEY GO ON BUYING CONVERTS"
[1735] ((F ONLY))DIED 1735 AT 58
IN THE 13TH YEAR OF HIS REIGN
CAME KIEN, 40 YEARS BEFORE "OUR REVOLUTION"
YONG TCHING UNREGRETTED BY CANAGLIA AND NITWITS
"A MAN'S HAPPINESS DEPENDS ON HIMSELF,
NOT ON HIS EMPEROR
IF YOU THINK THAT I THINK THAT I CAN MAKE ANY MAN HAPPY
YOU HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD THE FU
*FU(2.5)1978
(THE HAPPINESS IDEOGRAM) THAT I SENT YOU.
THUS TCHING WHOM COUPETAI HAD BROUGHT UP,
<D 339>FOR THE NUMBER OF BYE-LAWS
FOR HIS ATTENTION TO DETAIL
UNREGRETTED BY SCOUNDRELS
NEVER HAD DEATH SENTENCES SUCH ATTENTION
THREE TRIALS, PUBLICATION OF DETAILS, EXAMINATION,
TO POOREST AS FOR THE HIGHEST
CAI TSONG HIEN HOANG TI BE HE CREDITED
SO HIS SON KIEN LONG CAME TO THE THRONE
IN THE 36TH OF THAT CENTURY-
AND AS TO THE RISE OF THE ADAMSES-
EXTENSIVE MOHAMEDAN TREASURES
"QUESTION OF COIN IN THESE CONQUERED TOWNS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
I ADVISE A FEW OF YOUR MINTAGE
AND TO LEAVE THE OLD PIECES CURRENT.
THOSE USED HERE,
HASKAI, YERQUI AND HOTIEN
<F 356>
ARE OF BRONZE WEIGHING ABOUT 1\5TH OF ONE OF OUR OUNCES
50 OF THESE MAHOMETAN DISCS MAKE A TEUKE
ABOUT ONE OF OUR TAELS.
THERE ARE SOME USELESS OLD CANNON HERE
WHICH I SUGGEST WE MELT UP FOR SMALL CASH
TO KEEP COMMERCE MOVING."
TCHAO-HOU
TO HIS EMPEROR
FROM THE CAMP BEFORE HASHAN
(OR KASGAR, A CITY IN LITTLE BOUCARIA)
THIS PRINCESS ENTERED THE PALACE WHEN YONG TCHING WAS
EMPEROR
AS "A YOUNG LADY MERELY OF TALENTS
RECITED WITH BEAUTIFUL VOICE
AND HAD OTHER AMIABLE QUALITIES"
CONCUBINE, AND HAVING A SON WAS MADE QUEEN
AND FOR FORTY TWO YEARS HAD SEEN HIM, THIS SON,
ON THE FIRST THRONE OF ASIA
<D 340>IN THE 86TH YEAR OF HER AGE
POSTHUMOUS EMPRESS
HIAO CHING HIEN HOANG HEOU
AND HER SON AS MEMORIAL
EXEMPTED HIS EMPIRE FROM THE LAND TAX
FOR A YEAR AS INDEED HE HAD DONE BEFORE ON HER BIRTHDAYS
WHEN SHE WAS 70 AND WHEN SHE REACHED HER EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY
AND NOW, IN MEMORIAM. AND HE WROTE
A POEM ON THE BEAUTIES OF MOUGDEN
AND CONDENSED THE MING HISTORIES
LITERARY KUSS, AND WUZ EMPEROR
FER AT LEAST 40 YEARS.
PERHAPS YOU WILL LOOK UP HIS VERSES.
<C 62>
<D 341><F 357>ACQUIT OF EVIL INTENTION
OR INCLINATION TO PERSEVERANCE IN ERROR
TO CORRECT IT WITH CHEERFULNESS
PARTICULARLY AS TO THE MOTIVES OF ACTIONS
OF THE GREAT NATIONS OF EUROPE."
FOR THE PLANTING
AND RULING AND ORDERING OF NEW ENGLAND
FROM LATITUDE 40 ((DEGREES SYMBOL)) TO 48 ((DEGREES SYMBOL))
TO THE GOVERNOR AND THE COMPANIE
WHEREON THOMAS ADAMS
19TH MARCH 1628
18TH ASSISTANT WHEREOF THE SAID THOMAS ADAMS
(ABBREVIATED)
MERRY MOUNT BECOME BRAINTREE, A PLANTATION NEAR WESTON'S
CAPN WOLLANSTON'S BECAME MERRYMOUNT.
TEN HEAD 40 ACRES AT 3\ (SHILLINGS) PER ACRE
WHO LASTED 6 YEARS, BREWING COMMENCED BY THE FIRST HENRY
CONTINUED BY JOSEPH ADAMS, HIS SON
AT DECEASE LEFT A MALTING ESTABLISHMENT.
[1735] BORN 1735; 19TH OCT. OLD STYLE; 30TH NEW STYLE JOHN ADAMS
ITS EMOLUMENT GAVE BUT A BARE SCANTY SUBSISTENCE.
"PASSION OF ORTHODOXY IS FEAR, CALVINISM HAS NO OTHER AGENT
STUDY OF THEOLOGY
WD\ INVOLVE ME IN ENDLESS ALTERCATION
TO NO PURPOSE, OF NO DESIGN AND DO NO GOOD TO
ANY MAN WHATSOEVER...
NOT LESS OF ORDER THAN LIBERTY....
BURKE, GIBBON, BEAUTIFIERS OF FIGURES...
MIDDLE PATH, RESOURCE OF SECOND-RATE STATESMEN...
<F 358>
PRODUCED NOT IN BRITAIN:
*CH'A(2)101-TCHA
TAX FALLS ON THE COLONISTS.
<D 342>LORD NORTH, PURBLIND TO THE RIGHTS OF A
CONTINENT, EYE ON A FEW LONDON MERCHANTS...
NO LONGER SAW REDCOAT
AS BROTHER OR AS A PROTECTOR
(BOSTON ABOUT THE SIZE OF RAPALLO)
SCARCE 16,000
HABITS OF FREEDOM NOW FORMED
EVEN AMONG THOSE WHO SCARCELY GOT SO FAR AS ANALYSIS
SO ABOUT 9 O'C IN THE MORNING LARD NARF WUZ BEIN' IMPASSIBLE
WAS A LIGHT FALL OF SNOW IN BASTUN, IN KING ST.
AND THE 29TH STYSCHIRE IN BRATTLE ST
MURRAY'S BARRACKS, AND IN THIS CASE WAS A
BAKER'S BOY RAGGING THE SENTINEL
SO CAPN PRESTON ETC\
LOWER ORDER WITH BILLETS OF WOOD AND "JUST ROVING"
FORCE IN FACT OF A RIGHT SEZ CHAWLES FWANCIS
AT SAME TIME, AND IN LOUSES OF PARLEYMOOT...
SO FATAL A PRECISION OF AIM,
SOJERS AIMING??
GENT STANDING IN HIS OWN DOORWAY GOT 2 BALLS IN THE ARM
AND FIVE DEADERS "NEVER CADMUS..." ETC
WAS MORE PREGNANT
PATRIOTS NEED LEGAL ADVISOR
MEASURES INVOLVIN' PRO-FESSIONAL KNOWL-EDGE
BE IT ENACTED \ GUV'NOR COUNCIL AN' HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
(BLAYDON OBJECTIN' TO FORM OV THESE DOGGYMINTS)
ENCOURAGE ARTS COMMERCE AN' FARMIN'
<F 359>
NOT SUGGEST ANYTHING ON MY OWN
IF EVER ABANDONED BY ADMINISTRATION OF ENGLAND
AND OUTRAGE OF THE SOLDIERY
THE BONDS OF AFFECTION BE BROKEN
TILL THEN LET US TRY CASES BY LAW IF BY
SNOWBALLS OYSTERSHELLS CINDERS
WAS PROVOCATION
REPLY WAS THEN MANSLAUGHTER ONLY
<D 343>IN CONSIDERATION OF ENDOCRINE HUMAN EMOTIONS
UNUPROOTABLE, THAT IS, HUMAN EMOTIONS-
MERELY MANSLAUGHTER
BRAND 'EM IN HAND
BUT NOT HANG 'EM BEING MERE HUMAN BLIGHTERS
COMMON MEN LIKE THE REST OF US
SUBJEKK TO
PASSIONS
LAW NOT BENT TO WANTON IMAGINATION
AND TEMPER OF INDIVIDUALS
MENS SINE AFFECTU
THAT LAW RULES
THAT IT BE
SINE AFFECTU IN 1770, BASTUN,
BAD LAW IS THE WORST SORT OF TYRANNY. BURKE
DISPUTED RIGHT TO SEIZE LANDS OF THE HEATHEN
AND GIVE IT TO ANY KING, IF WE BE FEUDATORY
PARLIAMENT HAS NO CONTROL OVER US
WE ARE MERELY
UNDER THE MONARCH
ALLEGIANCE IS TO THE KING'S NATURAL PERSON "THE SPENSERS"
SAID COKE, HATCHED TREASON DENYING THIS
ALLEGIANCE FOLLOWS NATURAL, NOT POLITIC PERSON
ARE WE MERE SLAVES OF SOME OTHER PEOPLE?
<F 360>
MERCANTILE TEMPER OF BRITAIN
CONSTITUTION...WITHOUT APPEAL TO HIGHER POWERS UNWRITTEN
VOTED 92 TO 8 AGAINST OLIVER
I.E. AGAINST KING'S PAY FOR THE JUDGES INSTEAD OF
HAVING THE WIGS PAID BY THE COLONY
NO JURORS WD\ SERVE
THESE ARE THE STONES OF FOUNDATION
J.A.'S REPLY TO THE GOVERNOR
IMPEACHMENT OF OLIVER
THESE STONES WE BUILT ON
<D 344>I DON'T RECEIVE A SHILLING A MONTH, WROTE MR ADAMS TO ABIGAIL
IN SEVENTEEN 74
JUNE 7TH. APPROVE OF COMMITTEES FROM THE SEVERAL COLONIES
BOWDOIN, CUSHING, SAM ADAMS, JOHN A. AND PAINE (ROBERT)
"MOPE, I MUSE, I RUMINATE" LE
PERSONNEL MANQUE WE HAVE NOT MEN FOR THE TIMES
CUT THE OVERHEAD MY DEAR WIFE AND KEEP YR\ EYE ON THE DAIRY
NON IMPORTATION, NON EATING, NON EXPORT, ALL BUGWASH
BUT UNTIL THEY HAVE PROVED IT
IN EXPERIMENT
NO USE IN TELLING 'EM
LOCAL LEGISLATION \ THAT IS BASIC \
WE WD. CONSENT IN MATTERS OF EMPIRE TRADE, IT IS
BY NO MEANS ESSENTIAL TO TRADE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS AT ALL
AS SEZ CHAS FRANCIS, CHINA AND JAPAN HAVE PROVED IT
WEEKLY IN BOSTON GAZETTE FROM '74 UNTIL LEXINGTON
WROTE NOVANGLUS, THEN SHOOTING STARTED
ALLUS THEM AS PUTTS OFF TAKING A SIDE
AND LASTLY IN SUPERINTENDING THE PREPARATION OF
BILLS OF CREDIT, TO SERVE AS DOLLARS DURIN' THE STRUGGLE
THEN MOVED FOR A NAVEE
WHICH HE GOT, AFTER SOME RIDICULE
<F 361>
GUIDED PUBK MIND IN FORMATION OF STATE CONSTITUTIONS
E.G. N. YORK AND N. CAROLINA
RETAIN WHAT EXPERIENCE HAS FOUND GOOD,
CENTRAL AUTHORITY, WAR, TRADE, AND DISPUTES BETWEEN STATES
REPUBLICAN JEALOUSY WHICH SEEKS TO CUT OFF ALL POWER
FROM FEAR OF ABUSES DOES
QUITE AS MUCH HARM AS A DESPOTISM
9TH FEB TO END OF THAT YEAR PROBABLY VERY LABORIOUS
BIRTH OF A NATION
PRIVATEERS NOT INDEPENDENCE, WHAT IS?
SOVEREIGN STATE
ACKNOWLEDGED OF NATIONS AND ALL THAT
SOVREIGN STATE AND ALL THAT
<D 345>BY OTHER NATIONS ACKNOWLEDGED
WHEN HIS BRIT. MAJESTY LORDS COMMONS HAVE EXCLUDED FROM
CROWN PROTECTION
MAY 12TH, "AS 12 MONTHS AGO SHD\ HAVE BEEN"
REGARDS INDEPENDENCY BEING MOVED AND ACCEPTED JUNE 7TH
SPIES AND PERSONS COUNTERFEITING-OR ABETTING IN SAME-
OUR CONTINENTAL BILLS OF CREDIT
OR KNOWINGLY PASSING THE SAME TO BE PUNISHED
NO WORD, ORATIONEM, PROBABLY NOT ELEGANTISSIMAM
ROUTLEDGE WAS ELEGANT
0-SAID NOTHING NOT HACKNEYED SIX MONTHS BEFORE"
WROTE J. A. TO HIS WIFE
I SAID NOTHING ETC\ LETTER TO CHASE FROM JOHN ADAMS
THE PEOPLE ARE ADDICTED, AS WELL AS THE GREAT, TO CORRUPTION
PROVIDENCE IN WHICH, UNFASHIONABLE AS THE FAITH IS, I BELIEVE
SCHICKSAL, SAGT DER FUHRER
WITH POMP BELLS BONFIRES ON THE 2ND DAY OF JULY
THAN ANY SOCIAL COMMUNITY HAS EVER YET CARRIED OUT
REASONABLE ACT ONLY BY ITS GEOGRAPHY
<F 362>
INADEQUATE CONCESSION BY ENGLAND,
ALWAYS TOO LATE (SERO)
BRITAIN NEVER IN SEASON, RECIPROCATION BY TRADE
CAVALIER, SENTIMENT RATHER THAN PRINCIPLE
TO SERVE LIBERTY AT A HIGHER RATE THAN TYRANTS WD\ PAY 'EM
YOU SHD\ HAVE NUMBERED YR\ REGIMENTS, YOU NEVER
SEND ME
ACCOUNTS E.G. OF GUNS, NUMBERS, THEIR WEIGHT OF METAL
I NEVER KNOW OF WHAT SIZE (FRIGATES ETC\)
IMPASSABLE MODERATION OF WASHINGTON
SAVED US BY STOPPIN' CATFIGHTS BETWEEN OFFICERS
FOR PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION-
CLEAREST HEAD IN THE CONGRESS
(JOHN'S WAS)
=*THUMON
WE WANT ONE MAN OF INTEGRITY IN THAT EMBASSY
<D 346>BORDEAUX, AND HAS PASSED ON TO PARIS
THE ETHICS, SO CALLED, OF FRANKLIN
IF MORAL ANALYSIS
BE NOT THE PURPOSE OF HISTORICAL WRITING...
LEYDEN GAZETTE, MAGAZINE POLITIQUE HOLLANDAIS, CALKOEN,
AMSTERDAM BANKERS, DIRECTED TO MR A. BY GEN. WASHINGTON
(CORNWALLIS' SURRENDER)
DE RUYTER STILL CHERISHED MEMORIES OF DUTCH FREEDOM
DOIVENT TOUSJOURS CRIER LA LIBERTE,- AMIS DE LA FRANCE SHD\
REMARKED FLASSANS
AND ESPECIALLY THE CONSONANCE OF VAN CAPELLEN
PERSONAL VISITS TO DEPUTIES AT DER HAAG
LEYDEN, HARLEM, ZWOL WERE PETITIONS
ZELAND, OVERYSSEL, GRONYE, UTRECHT AND GUILDERLAND
SO ON THE 19TH OF APRIL
<F 363>
JOHN GOT HIS ANSWER AND RECOGNITION, CATEGORIC
MR ADAMS HAS DEMANDED A CATEGORICAL ANSWER
FOR THE U.S.N.A. (OF NORTH AMERICA) LETTERS OF CREDENCE\
WE SAY THAT HE IS TO BE NOW
ADMITTED AS ENVOY 1782 BIRTH OF A NATION
CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE
HIS LITERARY CONNECTIONS SANS WHICH WAS NO OPENING
A STRANGER TO LANGUAGE AND MANNERS SO IN HIS CORRESPONDENCE
WITH
DUMAS, WITHOUT MONEY, FRIENDS, AGAINST INTRIGUE
TO PECUNIARY ADVANCES
IN FACT FROM WILLINK, VAN STAPHORST AND FYNJE
5,000,000 GUILDERS TO MAINTAIN OUR OVERSTRAINED CREDIT
TILL 1788 RELATIONS
HIS RELATIONS WITH BANKERS IN AMSTERDAM
IN OCTOBER A TREATY OF COMMERCE, BY NO ARTS OR DISGUISES
NO FLATTERIES, NO CORRUPTIONS
WHO TO THE AGE OF 40 YEARS
HAD SCARCE CROSSED THE EDGE OF HIS PROVINCE
<D 347>TRANSFERRED TO ADAM STREET IN THE ADELPHI
SUSPECTING THE POST BOY OF HUMOUR IN TAKING HIM THERE
MAGAZINES, DAILY PAMPHLETS IN HANDS OF MEN OF NO CHARACTER
IN FACT ONE BOOKSELLER SAID TO ME: CAN GET 'EM AT A GUINEA A DAY
TO WRITE PRO OR CON ANYTHING. HIRED!
FOUND ARCHERY STILL BEING PRACTICED
CREDIT TILL I RETURNED TO AMERICA
ICE, BROKEN ICE, ICY WATER
500  MILES ON A TROTTING HORSE IN DEAD WINTER
BUT NEVER AS ON THAT JOURNEY TO HOLLAND
(ENGLAND TO HOLLAND)
STRUCK DOWN OUR MEN, SHATTERED OUR MAINMAST
NEVER AS ON THAT GOING TO AMSTERDAM,
<F 364>
FUNDAMENTALS IN CRITICAL MOMENTS
LITERATURE AND PHILISOPHY ARE THE RAGE IN EVEN
FASHIONABLE CIRCLES
AND FREDERICK'S TREATY OF COMMERCE
TOWARD MITIGATION OF MARITIME LAW
CONSIDERABLY IN ADVANCE OF WORLD STANDARDS
PHILANTHROPY NOT WHOLLY FREE FROM SUSPICION THAT
THE NEW STATES CD\ PROFIT
THE DUKE SAID THAT JOHN WD\ BE STARED AT,
TO MAKE GAIN OUT OF NEIGHBOR'S TROUBLES
SECONDARY MISFORTUNE OF BRITAIN.
AS OF A DEMONSTRATION IN EUCLID:
SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
IMMEDIACY: IN ORDER TO BE OF ANY EFFECT
PERCEIVE TASTE AND ELEGANCE ARE THE CRY
WHICH I HAVE NOT
LIBERTATEM AMICITIAM FIDEM
A NEW POWER AROSE, THAT OF FUND HOLDERS
FOND OF ROTATION SO THAT TO REMOVE
THE ABUSE FROM ME TO THE PRESIDENT (WASHINGTON)
TO BE PUNCTUAL, TO BE CONFINED TO MY SEAT
(OVER THE SENATE)
<D 348>TO SEE NOTHING DONE (BY THE SENATE)
TO HEAR NOTHING SAID, TO SAY AND DO NOTHING
BORROW FOR TRADING VERY UNMERCANTILE
BY THOUGHT, WORD, NEVER ENCOURAGED A WAR...
HORROR THEY ARE IN LEST PEACE SHD\ CONTINUE
WILL ACCUMULATE PERPETUAL DEBT
LEADING TO YET MORE REVOLUTIONS
HE (ADET) ANNOUNCED TO THE PRESIDENT THE ENTIRE
ANNIHILATION OF FACTIONS IN FRANCE (18 JUNE '95)
HE (JAY) RETURNED YESTERDAY TO N. YORK
<F 365>
VERY SOCIABLE AND IN FINE SPIRITS
NO CHIEF JUSTICE YET NAMED TO SUCCEED HIM
HAPPILY HE IS ELECTED BEFORE THE
TREATY WAS PUBLISHED
AS FACTIONS
AGAINST HIM WD\ HAVE QUARRELLED WHETHER RIGHT OR
THE CONTRARY
TO COLOUR THEIR OPPOSITION
ELEGANCE OF J.Q.A.'S STYLE IS ADMIRED
PROPERTIES OF SERENITY IN OBSERVATION
BUT WHERE SHALL BE FOUND (1795) GOOD MEN AND TRUE TO FILL OFFICES
WASHINGTON'S CABINET POSTS GO A-BEGGING
TO FOUR SENATORS, AND TO MORE WHOM I DO NOT KNOW NOMINATIM
KING, HENRY, COTSWORTH (?) AND PINCKNEY
ALL HAVE REFUSED IT (SIMILARLY FOR THE WAR OFFICE)
EXPENSES HERE SO FAR BEYOND SALARIES
INTEGRITY REWARDED WITH OBLOQUY
I BELIEVE THE PRESIDENT WILL RETIRE
DANGEROUS THAT PRESIDENT AND V.P. BE IN OPPOSITE BOXES
PERSONS HIGHEST CLASS OF ABILITY ENLISTED
HABITUALLY IN ELABORATE DISCUSSIONS
ASSIDUOUSLY READ BY THE PEOPLE
I HATE TO LIVE IN PHILADELPHY IN THE SUMMER
HATE SPEECHES MESSAGES ADDRESSES LEVEES AND
DRAWINGROOMS
<D 349>BEEN 30 YEARS AMONG THESE ROCKS WHISTLING
(AMPHION) AND NONE WD\ EVER MOVE WITHOUT MONEY.
HAD I ELOQUENCE HUMOUR OR IRONY, IF MR JEFFERSON BE ELECTED I
BELIEVE I MUST PUT UP FOR THE HOUSE,
BELIEVE I
MIGHT BE OF SOME USE IN THAT BODY, RETIREMENT
(WASHINGTON'S) REMOVED ALL CHECK UPON
<F 366>
PARTIES
MR JEFFERSON. MR HAMILTON
THE LATTER NOT ENJOYING THE CONFIDENCE OF THE PEOPLE AT LARGE
TO OPPOSE HAM TO JEFF WD\ BE FUTILE
WHEREON HAM SET TO UNDERCUT ADAMS
'96 TILL 1854 NO PRESIDENT CHOSEN AGAINST PENNSYLVANIA
"THE OLD MAN WILL MAKE A GOOD PRESIDENT" REMARKED MR GILES
"BUT WE SHALL HAVE TO CHECK HIM OCCASION'LLY"
"MANOEUVRES THAT WD\ SURPRISE YOU" WROTE JOHN TO ABIGAIL
A LOVE OF SCIENCE AND LETTERS
A DESIRE TO ENCOURAGE SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES
AS ONLY MEANS TO PRESERVE OUR CONSTITUTION.
ELLESWOOD ADMINISTERED THE OATH WITH GREAT ENERGY.
NAPOLEON'S CONQUEST OF ITALY
CREATED A PARADISE FOR ARMY CONTRACTORS.
WHEREON SENOR MIRANDA
WAS FOR MAKING GREAT CONQUESTS AND HAMILTON...
TALLEYRAND...MR A. NOT CAUGHT ASLEEP BY HIS CABINET
SO THAT ON THE 18TH OF FEB. THE SENATE RECD\ THE NOMINATION
OF MURRAY
AND A COMMUNICATION OF TALLEYRAND'S DOCUMENT
ASSUMING NO RISK IN TRUSTING
THE PROFESSIONS OF TALLEYRAND.
NOT VINDICTIVE THAT I CAN REMEMBER
THOUGH I HAVE OFTEN BEEN WROTH
AT ANY RATE STAVED OFF A WAR
ROUSED THE LAND TO BE READY
A PARDON FOR ALL OFFENDERS
<D 350>(I.E. POOR DUTCH FRIES AND COMPANIONS)
FORMED OWN VIEW OF HAMILTON'S GAME (AND HIS FRIENDS')
WHICH WD\ CERTAINLY HAVE TANGLED WITH EUROPE
WONT TO GIVE TO HIS CONVERSATION
<F 367>
FULL IMPETUS OF VEHEMENT WILL,
CHARGED COURSE OF HAM AND HIS SATELLITES
TO DISAPPOINTMENT THAT THEY HADN'T
GOT US ENTANGLED WITH BRITAIN
DEFENSIVE AND OFFENSIVE
SNOTT, BOTT, COTT LEFT OVER FROM
WASHINGTON'S CABINET
AND AS FOR HAMILTON
WE MAY TAKE IT (MY AUTHORITY, EGO SCRIPTOR CANTILENAE)
THAT HE WAS THE PRIME SNOT IN ALL AMERICAN HISTORY
(11TH JAN. 1938, FROM RAPALLO)
BUT THE CLEAREST HEAD IN THE CONGRESS
1774 AND THEREAFTER
PATER PATRIAE
THE MAN WHO AT CERTAIN POINTS
MADE US
AT CERTAIN POINTS
SAVED US
BY FAIRNESS, HONESTY AND STRAIGHT MOVING
ARRIBA ADAMS
<C 63>
<D 351><F 368>TOWARDS SENDING OF ELLSWORTH
AND THE PARDON OF FRIES
25 YEARS IN OFFICE, TREATIES PUT THRU AND LOANS RAISED
AND GENERAL PINCKNEY, A MAN OF HONOUR
DECLINED TO PARTICIPATE
OR EVEN TO GIVE SUSPICION OF HAVING COLLUDED
DEFICIENCY IN EARLY MORAL FOUNDATIONS (MR HAMILTON'S]
THEY EFFECT HERE AND THERE SIMPLE MANNERS
TRUE RELIGION, MORALS, HERE FLOURISH
I.E. WASHINGTON 4TH MARCH 1801
TOWARD THE NEWLY CREATED FOUNT OF SUPPLY (MR JEFFERSON)
IN ARDOUR OF HOSTILITY TO MR JEFFERSON
TO OVERLOOK A GOOD DEED
IF PICKERING CD\ MOUNT ON
WD\ VOTE FOR J. ADAMS
WHOSE INTEGRITY NOT HIS ENEMIES HAD DISPUTED
...RIGHTS
DIFFUSING KNOWLEDGE OF PRINCIPLES
MAINTAINING JUSTICE, IN REGISTERING TREATY OF PEACE
CHANGED WITH THE TIMES, AND NOT
FORGETTING WHAT HAD SUFFERED
BY THE SEDITION LAWS
OBT. SVT. CHAS HOLT
HONOURED FATHER
(SIGNED JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (IN FULL)
1825 (WHEN ELECTED)
SCOTT'S FICTIONS AND EVEN THE VIGOROUS AND EXAGGERATED
POETRY OF LD\ BYRON
WHEN THEY WD\ NOT READ HIM ANYTHING ELSE
<F 369>
PROPERTY EQUAL'D LAND IN J.A.'S DISPOSITION
FROM FANCY'S DREAMS TO ACTIVE VIRTUE TURN
THE CATS THOUGHT HIM (FRANKLIN) ALMOST A CATHOLIC
<D 352>THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND LAID CLAIM TO HIM AS ONE OF 'EM
PRESBYTERS THOUGHT HIM HALF PRESBYTERIAN
FRIENDS, SECTARIES,
ERIPUIT CAELO FULMEN
AND ALL THAT TO DITCH A POOR MAN FRESH FROM THE COUNTRY
VOL. TWO (AS THE PROTAGONIST SAW IT:)
NO BOOKS, NO TIME, NO FRIENDS
NOT A NEW IDEA ALL THIS WEEK
EVEN BAGPIPE NOT DISAGREEABLE
FOR AMUSEMENT READING HER (MRS SAVIL) THE ARS AMANDI
1758, AROUND HALF AFTER THREE, WENT TO THE COURT HOUSE
WITH SAML QUINCY AND DR GORDON....
AND SAW THE MOST SPACIOUS ROOM AND
FINEST LINE
OF LADIES I EVER DID SEE, GRIDLEY
ENQUIRED MY METHOD OF STUDY
AND GAVE ME REEVE'S ADVICE TO HIS NEPHEW
READ A LETTER HE WROTE TO JUDGE LEIGHTON: FOLLOW THE STUDY
RATHER THAN GAIN OF THE LAW, BUT THE GAIN
ENOUGH TO KEEP OUT OF THE BRIARS, SO THAT I
BELIEVE NO LAWYER EVER DID SO MUCH BUSINESS
FOR SO LITTLE PROFIT AS I DURING THE 17 YEARS THAT I PRACTISED
YOU MUST CONQUER THE INSTITUTES
AND I BEGAN WITH COKE UPON LITTLETON
GREEK MERE MATTER OF CURIOSITY (IN THE LAW)
TO ASK MR THATCHER'S CONCURRENCE
WHOLE EVENING ON ORIGINAL SIN AND THE
PLAN OF THE UNIVERSE
AND LASTLY ON LAW, HE THINKS THAT THE COUNTRY IS FULL
<F 370>
VAN MYDEN EDITIO TERZA DESIGN OF THE BOOK IS
EXPOSITION
*CHENG(4)351
OF TECHNICAL TERMS
<D 353>AS OF HAWKINS' PLEAS OF THE CROWN. BRACTON,
BRITTEN, FLETA ON GLANVILLE, MUST DIG WITH MY FINGERS
AS NOBODY WILL LEND ME OR SELL ME A PICK AXE.
EXERCISES MY LUNGS, REVIVES MY SPIRITS OPENS MY PORES
READING TULLY ON CATALINE QUICKENS MY CIRCULATION
RUGGLES GRANDEUR IN BOLDNESS OF THOUGHT HONOUR CONTEMPT
OF MEANESS
WAS PRACTISING LAW AND RUNNING A TAVERN IN SANDWICH
DIED NOVASCOTIA 1788 AND A TORY.
READ ONE BOOK AN HOUR
THEN DINE, SMOKE, CUT WOOD
IN QUELLA PARTE
DOVE STA MEMORA, COLONEL CHANDLER NOT CONSCIOUS
THESE CRUDE THOUGHTS AND EXPRESSIONS
ARE CATCHED UP AND TREASURED AS PROOF OF HIS CHARACTER.
NOT FINDING THEM (RHINE GRAPES SLIPS) IN THAT CITY
SENDS TO A VILLAGE 70 MILES AWAY
ADN THEN SENDS TWO PACKETS
ONE BY WATER AND LEST THAT MISCARRY, THE OTHER BY POST
TO MR QUINCY TO WHOM HE OWES NOTHING
AND WITH WHOM HE IS BUT LITTLE ACQUAINTED
PURELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF
PROPAGATING RHINE WINE IN THESE PROVINCES
(ONE UP TO FRANKLIN) I
<F 371>
READ TIMON OF ATHENS, THE MANHATER
MUST BE (IRA MUST BE) AROUSED ERE THE MIND BE
AT ITS BEST
LA QUAL MANDA FUOCO
DIRTY AND RIDICULOUS LITIGATIONS BEEN MULTIPLIED
PROVERBS; AS LITIGIOUS AS BRAINTREE
FRAUD AND SYSTEM OF BIGOTRY
ON WHICH PAPAL USURPATIONS ARE FOUNDED, MONUMENT OF PRIESTLY
AMBITION
GUILE WROUGHT INTO SYSTEM
"OUR CONSTITUTION" "EVERY MAN HIS OWN MONARCH"
<D 354><D 354>ALL THESE BOASTING SPEECHES HAVE HEARD (1760)
AND NEVER FAILED TO RAISE A HOARSE LAUGH
AN INFERIOR OFFICER IN SALEM
WHOSE NAME WAS COCKLE PETITIONED
THE JUSTICES FOR A WRIT OF ASSISTANCE
TO BREAK OPEN SHIPS, SHOPS, CELLARS AND HOUSES
MR SEWALL EXPRESSED DOUBT OF LEGALITY,
OXENBRIDGE THAYER WITH OTIS,
A CONTEST APPEARED TO BE OPENED.
<C 64>
<D 355><F 372>TO JOHN'S BRO, THE SHERIFF, WE LAY A KIND WORD IN PASSING
CROMWELL WAS NOT PRUDENT
NOR HONEST
NOR LAUDABLE.
PRAYER: HANDS UPLIFTED
SOLITUDE: A PERSON, A NURSE
PLUMES: IS SHE ANGEL OR BIRD, IS SHE A BIRD OR AN ANGEL?
RUFFLED, RUMPLED, RUGGED...WINGS
LOOKS DOWN
AND PITIES THOSE WHO WEAR A CROWN
MEANING (QUERY) GEORGE, LOUIS OR FREDERICK?
BEAUTIFUL SPOT, AM ALMOST WHOLLY SURROUNDED BY WATER
WHEREIN DEACON (LATER GENERAL) PALMER
HAS SURROUNDED HIMSELF WITH A COLONY
OF GLASS-BLOWERS FROM GERMANY
COME TO UNDERTAKE THAT WORK IN AMERICA, 1752,
HIS LUCERNE GRASS
WHEREOF 4 CROPS A YEAR, SEED HE HAD OF GRIDLEY OF ABINGDON
PODS AN ODD THING, A SORT OF RAMSHORN OF STRAW
ABOUT 70 BUSHEL OF 1\4TH AN ACRE OF LAND
HIS POTATOES
SUB CONDITIONE FIDELITATIS
IS IT KNOWN THAT OLIVER EVER ADVISED TO LAY INTERNAL TAXES
UPON US?
OR SOLICITED OFFICE OF STAMPS?
TO BE DRAGGED THROUGH THE TOWN ONLY IN PAGEANTRY
TO BE BURNT ON AN HILL, AND HIS HOUSE BROKEN OPEN...
BUT HAS NOT THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
A NEAR RELATION ETC\
<F 373>
A SON ETC\
IN ONE FAMILY ETC\
BY 40 TOWNS, VERBATIM, THEIR INSTRUMENT
<D 356>TO THEIR REPRESENTATIVES SAM ADAMS HAS TAKEN SOME
PARAGRAPHS
STAMP ACT SPREAD A SPIRIT FROM GEORGIA
TO NEW HAMPSHIRE
WITH HONOUR, MORE INQUISITIVE AS TO THEIR LIBERTIES
EVEN THE LOWEST
YOUR COURTS ARE SHUT DOWN, JUSTICE VOID
I HAVE NOT DRAWN A WRIT SINCE THE 1ST OF NOVEMBER
IF THIS AUTHORITY BE ONCE RECOGNIZED
RUINS AMERICA
I MUST CUT DOWN MY EXPENSES.
FOR MY RUIN AS WELL AS AMERICA'S...
TO RENOUNCE UNDER TREE, NAY UNDER THE VERY BRANCH
WHERE THEY HANG'D HIM IN EFFIGY...
UNANIMOUS FOR GRIDLEY, JAS OTIS, J. ADAMS
PRAY THAT THE COURTS MAY BE OPENED
(ORIGINAL OF THIS IS PRESERVED)
IF WHAT I WROTE LAST NIGHT
RECALL WHAT LORD BACON
WROTE ABOUT LAWS...INVISIBLE AND CORRESPONDENCES...
THAT PARLIAMENT
HATH NO AUTHORITY
TO IMPOSE INTERNAL TAXES UPON US.
COMMON LAW. 1ST INST. 142
COKE, TO THE 3RD INST. LAW IS THE SUBJECT'S BIRTHRIGHT
WANT OF RIGHT AND OF REMEDY ARE ALL ONE.
CONSTRUED THAT NO INNOCENT
MAY BY LITERAL CONSTRUCTION BE
DAMAGED ACTUS
<F 374>
LEGIS NULLI FACIT INJURIAM
GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL AS SUPREME COURT OF PROBATE
...BY MORE RAVENOUS SORT OF AMBITION
OR AVARICE...
AVOID AS THE PLAGUE
TENDENCY OF THE ACT TO REDUCE THE BODY OF PEOPLE
<D 357>TO IGNORANCE, DEPENDENCE AND POVERTY
RELIGIOUS BIGOTS
THE WORST OF MEN, COLONIES
BECOMES A FASHIONABLE STUDY...AND WILL PROBABLY
STARE MORE AND MORE FOR SOME TIME. IPSWICH INSTRUCTIONS
RIGHT TO TAX SELVES,
RATHER AS ALLIES THAN AS SUBJECTS
FIRST SETTLEMENT NOT A NATIONAL ACT
AND NOT AT EXPENSE OF THE NATION
NOR MADE ON LAND OF THE CROWN
WADDLED THROUGH SNOW DRIVING MY CATTLE TO WATER
SHUTTING COURTS EQUALS ABDICATION OF THRONE
FOR ENTERING A VESSEL AT LOUISBURG
AND TAKING AWAY
10 BARRELS OF
RUM
PITT VS\ GRENVILLE, AND FOR THE REPEAL OF THE ACT
PARLIAMENT TAKES AS REPRESENTATIVE AND NOT LEGISLATIVE
AUTHORITY
BUT THATCHER GOT HIM INDICTED FOR BARRATRY
AND HE CAME NEAR TO CONVICTION. GOFFE GREW WARM
AND SAID EATON'S CHARACTER
WAS AS GOOD AS ANY MAN'S AT THE BAR
PUNCH WINE BREAD CHEESE APPLES PIPES AND TOBACCO
THURSDAY OATED AT MARTIN'S
WHEN WE SAW FIVE BOXES OF DOLLARS
<F 375>
GOING IN A HORSE CART TO SALEM FOR BOSTON
FOR ENGLAND, SAID TO CONTAIN ABOUT $18,000
LOPPING AND TRIMMING
WALNUT TREES, AND FOR FELLING OF PINES AND SAVINS
AN IRREGULAR MISSHAPEN PINE WILL DARKEN
THE WHOLE SCENE IN SOME PLACES
CASE BETWEEN NEGRO AND OWNER. AT SAME TIME A CRAVING MAN
(HUTCHINSON)
<D 358>AT DR TUFT'S WHERE I FOUND FINE WILD GOOSE ON THE SPIT
AND CRANBERRIES IN THE SKILLET
TO THE WHITE HOUSE IN BRATTLE ST.
OFFICE LUCRATIVE IN ITSELF BUT NEW STATUTES
HAD BEEN PASSED IN PARLIAMENT
J.Q.A. BORN JULY ELEVENTH
DUTY ON GLASS INCOMPATIBLE
WITH MY IDEAS ON RIGHT, JUSTICE AND POLICY
BETWEEN NEGRO AND OWNER ENGAGED MR HAWLEY'S ATTENTION
100 TOWNS, ONE WEEK'S NOTICE
ABOUT 10 O'CLOCK TROOPS BEGAN LANDING UNDER COVER OF
THE CANNON
OF THE SHIPS, WITHOUT MOLESTATION
OCT. 1ST.
POPULATION OF BOSTON RETROGRADE DURING 25 YEARS
THAT PRECEDED THIS
WAS NOW NOT ABOVE 16,000
DURING MY ABSENCE ON CIRCUIT
AS BYLES SAID "OUR GRIEVANCES RED-DRESSED"
UNDER MY WINDOWS IN THE SQUARE
DRUM, FIFE, AND IN EVENING VIOLINS, SONGS
FLUTES OF THE SERENADERS, THAT IS, SONS OF LIBERTY
AS WELL AT THE EXTRAVAGANCE OF THE POPULACE.
DECEPTIONS TO WHICH THEY ARE LIABLE,
<F 376>
SUPPRESSION OF EQUITY, WHEN THOROUGHLY HEATED
MY DRAFTS WILL BE FOUND IN THE BOSTON GAZETTE FOR THOSE
YEARS '68, '69
A CARGO OF WINES FROM MADEIRA
BELONGING TO MR HANCOCK
WITHOUT PAYING CUSTOMS
PAINFUL DRUDGERY I HAD IN HIS CAUSE:
AS TO THIS STATUTE MY CLIENT NEVER CONSENTED
MR HANCOCK NEVER CONSENTED, NEVER VOTED FOR IT HIMSELF
NOR FOR ANY MAN TO MAKE ANY SUCH LAW
WHENEVER
<D 359>WE LEAVE PRINCIPLES AND CLEAR PROPOSITIONS
AND WANDER INTO CONSTRUCTION WE WANDER INTO A WILDERNESS
A DARKNESS WHEREIN ARBITRARY POWER
SET ON THRONE OF BRASS WITH A SCEPTRE OF IRON...
SUSPENDED, IN FACT, ONLY AFTER BATTLE OF LEXINGTON
WHICH ENDED ALL SUCH PROSECUTIONS
MT WOLLANSTON, SEAT OF OUR ANCESTORS
FROM
EAST CHAMBER EVERY SHIP SLOOP SCHOONER AND BRIGANTINE
THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY WERE UNDER THE LIBERTY TREE,
A YOUNG BUTTONWOOD,
AND PREPARING THE NEXT DAY'S PAPER, COOKING UP PARAGRAPHS,
ARTICLES, WORKING THE POLITICAL ENGINE
MORNING AT BRACKETT'S UPON CASE OF A WHALE...
THAT I HAD IMPORTED FROM LONDON THE
ONLY COMPLETE SET OF BRITISH STATUTES
THEN IN BOSTON OR, I THINK, IN THE WHOLE
OF THE COLONIES, AND IN THAT WORK A STATUTE
WHOSE PUBLICATION THEY FEARED, AN
EXPRESS PROHIBITION OF EMPRESSMENT
EXPRESSLY IN AMERICA WHICH STATUTE THEY INTENDED TO
<F 377>
GET REPEALED
AND DID SUCCEED 1769 TOWARD THE END OF DECEMBER SO DOING.
ABOUT 9 O'CLOCK IN EVENING, SUPPOSED TO BE SIGNAL OF FIRE
MEN IN FRONT OF THE BARRACKS AND BAKER'S BOY AFORE MENTIONED
MR FOREST KNOWN THEN AS THE "IRISH INFANT"
TEARS STREAMING OVER HIS FACE
"FOR THAT VERY UNFORTUNATE MAN, CAPTAIN PRESTON
IN PRISON
WANTS COUNCIL AND CAN GET NONE, MR QUINCY
WILL SERVE IF YOU WILL
MR AUCHMUTY DECLINES UNLESS YOU WILL ENGAGE"
"BUT HE MUST BE SENSIBLE THAT THIS WD\ BE AS IMPORTANT A CASE
AS WAS EVER TRIED HERE OR IN ANY COUNTRY....
NOT EXPECT ME TO USE ART, SOPHISTRY, PREVARICATION"
<D 360>UPON WHICH HE OFFERED ME A RETAINING FEE OF ONE GUINEA
WHICH I ACCEPTED
(RE WHICH THINGS WAS HUTCHINSON UNDOUBTEDLY SCROFULOUS
AGO SCRIPTOR CANTILENAE
EZ. P)
BRINGING IT IN ALL TO 10 GUINEAS
FOR PRESTON AND 8 FOR THE SOJERS
(BUT WHERE THE DEVIL THIS BRACE OF ADAMSES SPRUNG FROM!
(OXENBRIDGE THATCHER...DANGERS FROM INTEMPERATE
HEATS
BUT IN CONNECTICUT EVERY FAMILY HAS A LITTLE MANUFACTURY
HOUSE
AND MAKE FOR THEMSELVES THINGS FOR WHICH THEY WERE USED
TO RUN INTO DEBT TO THE MERCHANTS.)
CITED BECCARIA
HE WENT OUT AND SADDLED MY HORSE AND BRIDLED HIM
"AS A MAN OF LIBERTY, I RESPECT YOU
"AND FROM HERE TO CAPE COD YOU WON'T FIND TEN MEN AMISS"
<F 378>
NIHIL HUMANUM ALIENUM
THIS LANDLORD, A HIGH SON
AND HAS ON HIS SIGN:
SONS OF LIBERTY SERVED HERE...
WHEN HE CAME AWAY HE TOOK VIEW OF THE COMET
...TO ROLL AND COOL THEMSELVES AND FEED ON WHITE HONEYSUCKLE
OUR HORSES HAD GOT OUT OF COMPOUND.
SUBILLAM
CUMIS EGO OCCULIS MEIS
SLEEPING UNDER A WINDOW: PRAY FOR ME,
WITHERED TO SKIN AND NERVES =*TU =*THELEIS RESPONDEBAT ILLA
=*APOTHANEIN; PRAY FOR ME GENTLEMEN
MY PRAYERS USED TO BE ANSWERED, SHE PRAYED FOR DELIVERANCE
110 YEARS OF AGE, AND SOME SAY SHE IS OVER THAT
ANEMONIE, AT NANTASKET; NON VI SED SAEPE LEGENDO
SEVERN AYRES OF VIRGINIA, MR BULL, MR TRAPIER OF S. CAROLINA
CHAS SECOND'S TIME WAS TAX VOTED IN CAROLINA
<D 361>HEMP SEED CD\ BE BROUGHT HERE, MULBERRY DOES WELL IN OUR
CLIMATE
WHEN PEOPLE OF EUROPE HAVE BEEN INSIDIOUSLY DEPRIVED
OF THEIR LIBERTIES
WHICH WD\ RENDER JURORS MERE OSTENTATION AND PAGEANTRY
GREEN TEA, FROM HOLLAND I HOPE, BUT DONT KNOW,
...RECOVERED AT BRAINTREE, PRUNED BY ME, GROWN REMARKABLY
PINES BETTER FOR LOPPING
STOOD BY THE PEOPLE MUCH LONGER THAN THEY WD\ STAND
BY THEMSELVES
1771 MAKE POTASH AND RAISE A GREAT NUMBER OF COLTS
WHICH THEY SEND TO THE WEST INDIES FOR RUM
SPLENDOURS OF HARTFORD AND MIDDLETOWN
JUST AS WE GOT THERE
INDIAN PUDDING PORK GREENS ON THE TABLE
<F 379>
ONE PARTY FOR WEALTH AND POWER
AT EXPENSE
OF THE LIBERTY OF THEIR COUNTRY
WARS, CARNAGE, CONFUSION
NOT INTERESTED IN THEIR SERVITUDE
I AM, FOR ALL I CAN SEE, LEFT QUITE ALONE
13TH, THURSDAY
LANDLADY GREAT GRAND DAUGHTER OF GOVERNOR ENDICOTT
NEW LIGHT, CONTINUALLY CANTING...
SAID INDIAN PREACHER: ADAM! ADAM WHEN YOU KNEW
IT WD\ MAKE GOOD CIDER!
MRS ROPS, A FINE WOMAN
VERY PRETTY AND VERY GENTEEL
TELLS OLD STORIES OF WITCHCRAFT, PAPER MONEY AND
GOVERNOR BELCHER'S ADMINISTRATION
ALWAYS CONVINCED THAT THE LIBERTIES OF THE COUNTRY
HAD MORE TO FEAR FROM ONE MAN (HUTCHINSON)
THAN FROM ALL OTHER MEN WHATSOEVER
WHICH HAVE ALWAYS FREELY AND DECENTLY UTTERED
RICH SELDOM REMARKABLE FOR MODESTY, INGENUITY OR HUMANITY
<D 362>"IS MERE IMPERTINENCE A CONTEMPT?" ASKED MR OTIS
I SAID THERE WAS NO MORE JUSTICE LEFT IN BRITAIN THAN HELL
HUTCHINSON IS ETC.
MOORE'S REPORTS, FOR THE BOOK WAS BORROWED; ITS OWNER
A BUYER, NOT A READER OF BOOKS
FOR IT HAD BEEN MR GRIDLEY'S
N\Y\ STATE HAS DONE PARTIALLY
22; MONDAY (THIS WAS 1773)
HUTCHINSON'S LETTERS RECEIVED
OLIVER, MOFFAT, PAXTON AND ROME
FOR 1767, '8, '9
AVARICIOUS, AMBITIOUS, VINDICTIVE
<F 380>
THESE WERE THE LETTERS THAT FRANKLIN GOT HOLD OF
BONE OF OUR BONE, EDUCATED AMONG US,
SERPENT AND DEPUTY SERPENT
THAT SIR JOHN TEMPLE PROCURED THEM
GOD KNOWS HOW OR FROM WHOM
GENTLE RAIN LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNING
HUTCHINSON SUCKING UP TO GEORGE IIIRD.
FALSEHOOD IN ROME'S LETTERS QUITE FLAGRANT
COL. HAWORTH
ATTRACTED NO ATTENTION UNTIL
HE DISCOVERED HIS ANTIPATHY TO A CAT
THREE CARGOES BOHEA
WERE EMPTIED, THIS IS BUT AN ATTACK UPON PROPERTY
I APPREHEND IT WAS NECESSARY, ABSOLUTE, INDISPENSABLE
IRREGULAR RECOURSE TO ORIGINAL POWER
IMPEACHMENT BY HOUSE BEFORE COUNCIL
SAID SHD\ BE GLAD IF CONSTITUTION CD\ CARRY ON
WITHOUT RECOURSE TO HIGHER POWERS UNWRITTEN...
SAYS GRIDLEY: YOU KEEP VERY LATE HOURS!
END OF THIS CANTO.
<C 65>
<D 363><F 381>JURORS REFUSE TO TAKE OATH
SAYING: WHILE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THIS COURT STANDS IMPEACHED.
MOSES GILL HAS MADE MANY JUSTICES BY LENDING MONEY.
A STATUE OF H.M. (HIS MAJESTY)
VERY LARGE
ON HORSEBACK
SOLID LEAD GILDED WITH GOLD
ON AN HIGH MARBLE PEDESTAL
WE THEN WALKED UP BROADWAY
MAGNIFICENT BUILDING, COST 20,000 POUNDS
N.Y. CURRENCY
SHIP
OF 800 TONS BURDEN LEST LEVELING SPIRIT OF NEW ENGLAND
SHOULD PROPAGATE ITSELF IN NEW YORK
WHOLE CHARGE OF THE PROVINCE
BETWEEN 5 AND 6 THOUSAND POUNDS N. YORK MONEY
FOR MASSACHUSETTS ABOUT 12 THOUSAND LAWFUL
AS WD\ EQUAL ABOUT 16,000 OF N. YORK
ADVISED HIM TO PUBLISH
FROM HAKLUYT THE VOYAGE OF J. CABOT,
HUDIBRAS
TAVERN, PRINCETON, SING AS BADLY AS THE PRESBYTERIANS OF
N. YORK
SEZ CONGRESS SHD\ RAISE MONEY AND
EMPLOY MEN TO WRITE IN THE NEWSPAPERS (IN ENGLAND)
WASHINGTON WOULD RAISE ONE THOUSAND MEN
AT HIS OWN EXPENSE
AND MARCH FOR RELEASE OF BOSTON
NOT A VIRGINIAN
<F 382>
BUT AN AMERICAN, PATRICK HENRY
TENANTS IN CAPITE, GALLOWAY WELL AWARE THAT MY ARGUMENTS
<D 364>TEND TO THE INDEPENDENCY OF THE COLONIES
BOUND BY NO LAWS MADE BY PARLIAMENT
SINCE OUR ANCESTORS CAME HERE
BILL OF RIGHTS
WISHED TO HEAR IN CONGRESS AT LARGE
LAW OF NATR\ BRIT. CONSTITUTION
TRADE OF EMPIRE CD\ BE UNDER PARLIAMENT
MR RUTLAND OF S. CAROLINA SAID:
"ADAMS,
WE MUST AGREE UPON SOMETHING."
TURTLE AND EVERTHING ELSE
A DUTCHIFIED ENGLISH PRAYER
17TH OF SEPTEMBER:
AMERICA WILL SUPPORT MASSACHUSETTS
"THAT NATION
NOW AVOWS BRIBERY TO BE PART OF HER SYSTEM"
MR HENRY, AMERICAN LEGISLATURE
AFTER DECEMBER 1ST NO MOLASSES
COFFEE PIMENTO FROM DOMENICA
FINE BOWLING GREEN AND FINE TURTLE, MADEIRA
CONGRESS NIBBLING AND QUIBBLING AS USUAL
TOOK DEPARTURE IN VERY GREAT RAIN FROM
THE HAPPY, THE PEACEFUL, THE ELEGANT
PHILADELPHY
2 YOUNG LADIES TO SING US THE NEW LIBERTY SONG
READINESS TO BE SHOT \ VERSUS \ TAXES
JUDGEMENT GIVES WAY TO FEARS 1\3RD OF HUMANITY
IMBECILITY OF 2ND PETITION MR HANCOCK HAD AMBITION
MR ADAMS (THAT IS SAML) SAID NOTHING, APPEARED DEEPLY
TO CONSIDER...
<F 383>
BUT SECONDED MY MOTION IN CONGRESS
MR WASHINGTON SEATED NEAR BY THE DOOR
SCUTTLED INTO THE BOOK ROOM WITH MODESTY
DICKENSON
<D 365>PAST MERIDIAN, AVARICE GROWING ON HIM
[P. 432] ALUMSUPPOSE YR\ LADYSHIP HAS BEEN IN THE TWITTERS
I
OATED AT THE RED LION
6 SETS OF WORKS IN ONE BUILDING, HEMP MILL, OIL MILL, AND
A MILL TO GRIND BARK FOR TANNERS, AT BETHLEHEM, A FULLER'S
MILL BOTH FOR CLOTH AND LEATHER, DYE-HOUSE, A SHARING HOUSE
THEY RAISE A GREAT DEAL OF MADDER
COMMITTEE TO PURCHASE WOOLLEN GOODS FOR THE ARMY
SEPT. 1775, TO 5000 L\ STERLING
DELEGATES OF PENNSYLVANIA PRODUCED NO ACCOUNT OF THE POWDER
100 TONS OF POWDER WAS WANTED
CUSHING SAID: I MOVE WE TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION
A MEANS OF KEEPING UP THE ARMY IN WINTER.
AMMUNITION CAN NOT BE HAD UNLESS WE OPEN OUT PORTS
CAN'T STAND WAR WITHOUT TRADE
TOBACCO TO FRANCE AND SPAIN. RUTLEDGE SAID:
TAKE MEN FROM
AGRICULTURE AND PUT 'EM IN FACTORIES
AGRICULTURE AND MANUFACTURIES
CAN NOT BE LOST BUT TRADE IS PRECARIOUS.
"AMERICANS ARE THEIR OWN CARRIERS NOW
IMPERATIVE TO OPEN OUT PORTS," SAID MR ZUBLY
PROVISIONS TO SPAIN FOR MONEY
AND CASH SENT TO ENGLAND FOR POWDER
"WE ARE BETWEEN HAWK AND BUZZARD" SAID LIVINGSTON
PLEASED THAT NEW JERSEY RAISE TWO BATTALIONS
<F 384>
OF EIGHT COMPANIES EACH
68 PRIVATES, CAPN. LIEUTENANT, ENSIGN, 4 SARGEANTS 4 CORPORALS
WHO TO APPOINT OFFICERS FOR THEIR ARTILLERY
PERSONAL FRIENDS HAVE NOT BEEN SUITABLE
RATHER WASHINGTON'S WORD THAN ANY CONVENTION'S
TRADE OR NO TRADE
POWDER, APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS
<D 366>HOW TRADE? BY WHOSE CARRIAGE? FARMS, MANUFACTURIES
HITHERTO AS IF MONEY
WAS PROVINCE'S NOT OF THE CONTINENT
JOHN ADAMS AS SEEN BY JOHN ADAMS, SQUABBLES IN CONGRESS
TO SHUT OR NOT SHUT CUSTOMS HOUSES
"EVERTHING WE WANT FOR WAR IS POWDER AND SHOT"
SAID MR ZUBLY
2NDLY ARMS AND MUNITIONS
3RDLY THAT WE MUST HAVE MONEY
WE MUST KEEP UP THE NOTION THAT THIS PAPER IS GOOD
FOR SOMETHING (COMMERCIABILI?)
MISSISSIPPI SCHEME IN FRANCE
SOUTH SEAS IN ENGLAND
WERE WRIT FOR OUR LEARNING
A NAVY! CAN WE HAVE ONE? WITHOUT TRADE?
CAN WE MAINTAIN WAR WITHOUT IT?
CAN WE GET INFORMATION?
SPANIARDS TOO LAZY TO COME HERE FOR GOODS
TO TRADE WITH ENGLAND OR FOREIGNGRS?
IF SO, WHO DOES THE CARRYING? THEY TO US, WE TO THEM?
I SPEAK FROM PRINCIPLE, IT HAS BEEN SAID WE ASSOCIATE
IN TERROREM
DAMN WELL RIGHT, MR ZUBLY.
DEANE WD\ HAVE TRADERS PROHIBITED IMPORTING UNNECESSARY...
AND EXPORT OF ALL LIVESTOCK SAVE HORSES
<F 385>
GUADALOUPE, MARTINIQUE WILL SUPPLY POWDER AGAINST TOBACCO
EACH COLONY SHD\ CARRY THIS TRADE, NOT INDIVIDUALS
CHASE. OCT 20. 1775
JAY SAYS: MORE FROM INDIVIDUAL ENTERPRISE
THAN FROM LUKEWARMNESS OF ASSEMBLIES
WANT FRENCH WOOLLENS DUTCH WORSTEDS
GERMAN STEEL
WYTHE SAYS: BETTER OPEN OUR TRADE ALTOGETHER
WHY SHDN'T AMERICA HAVE A NAVY? WE ABOUND IN FIRS, IRON ORE, TAR
<D 367>THE ROMANS SUDDENLY BUILT ONE AGAINST CARTHAGE
RESOLVED THAT TWO VESSELS BE FITTED.
6TH APRIL: TO REMOVE ALL RESTRICTIONS ON TRADE
OBLIGE BRITAIN TO KEEP UP A NAVY
THAT WILL COST HER TWICE WHAT SHE TAKES FROM US.
FAECE ROMULI NON PLATONIS REPUBLICA!
"AMERICA" (WYTHE) WILL HARDLY LIVE WITHOUT TRADE
AM FOR GIVING LETTERS OF MARQUE
AND FOR POWDER, TO MAKE TREATIES WITH US, WHY
CALL OURELVES DUTIFUL SUBJECTS?
WD\ FRANCE HAVE LISTENED TO BRISTOL OR LIVERPOOL?
RESOLVED: A COMMITTEE TO DRAFT CONFEDERATION.
TO PROVIDE FLAX, HEMP, WOOL AND COTTON
IN EACH COLONY A SOCIETY FOR FURTHERANCE
OF AGRICULTURE, ARTS, MANUFACTURIES
AND CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THESE SOCIETIES
THAT NATURAL ADVANTAGES BE NOT NEGLECTED
DUCKS AND SAIL CLOTH
IS IT IN THE INTEREST OF FRANCE TO STAND NEUTER?
RESENTMENT A DUTY, A MAN'S PERSON, PROPERTY, LIBERTY
NOT SAFE WITHOUT IT
HOOPER OF NORTH CAROLINA SAID: I WISH TO SEE A DAY
WHEN SLAVES ARE NOT NECESSARY
<F 386>
LEE. SHERMAN AND GADSDEN ON MY SIDE
RUSH, FRANKLIN, BAYARD AND MIFFLIN PUTT US WISE TO
THE RUMOURS AGAINST US
"ADVENTURERS, BANKRUPT ATTOURNEYS
FROM MASSACHUSETTS
"DEPENDENT ON POPULARITY." SO PROMPT FAIR AND EXPLICIT.
"MR JEFFERSON, YOU CAN WRITE TEN TIMES BETTER THAN I CAN"
CUT ABOUT 1\4TH AND SOME OF THE BEST OF IT
I HAVE OFTEN WONDERED THAT J'S FIRST DRAFT HAS NOT
BEEN PUBLISHED
SUPPOSE THE REASON IS THE VEHEMENT PHILIPPIC AGAINST
NEGRO SLAVERY"
<D 368>THUS ADAMS, 40 YEARS LATER.
TO CONTRACT FOR IMPORTATION OF GUN POWDER
OR IF CANNOT, THEN FOR SALT PETER AND SULPHUR
ENOUGH TO MAKE 500 TONS
40 BRASS FIELD PIECES (6 POUNDERS) 10,000 STAND ARMS
JUNE 12TH. J. ADAMS HEAD OF THE BOARD OF WAR
TILL NOV. ELEVENTH '77
HAD CONVERSED MUCH WITH GENTLEMEN
WHO CONDUCT OUR COD AND WHALE FISHERIES
OUR SEAMEN IF ONCE LET LOOSE ON THE OCEAN...
THEY SAID: WD\ RUIN THE CHARACTER OF OUR SEAMEN ETC.
"MAKE 'EM MERCENARY AND BENT WHOLLY ON PLUNDAH"
"IN ANY CHARACTER YR\ LORDSHIP PLEASE EXCEPT
THAT OF A BRITISH SUBJECT"
(JOHN TO LORD HOWE IN PARLEY)
88 BATTALIONS, SEPTEMBER,
DASH HAD ALREADY FORMED LUCRATIVE CONNECTIONS IN PARIS
BY MR D (DEANE'S) RECOMMENDATIONS
PARTICULARLY WITH RAY DE CHAUMONT
WHO WAS SHIPPING STUFF TO SELL ON COMMISSION
<F 387>
ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AND STILL ARE SPIES IN AMERICA (1804)
AND I CONSIDERED THE
FISHERIES.
TO CAPN SAM TUCKER COMMANDING THE BOSTON:
(WIND HIGH AND SEAS VERY ROUGH)
YOU ARE TO AFFORD HIM EVERY ACCOMMODATION IN YR\ POWER
AND CONSULT HIM AS TO WHAT PORT YOU SHALL ENDEAVOUR TO GET TO.
W. VERNON
J. WARREN
NAVY BOARD, EASTERN DEPARTMENT
SUNDAY 15TH CAME UNDER SAIL BEFORE BREAKFAST
HAULED MY WIND TO SOUTHWARD
FOUND THEY DID CHASE ME
LOG BOOK, SL. TUCKER 19 FEB
AFTER RUNNING 3 HOURS TO WESTWARD
<D 369>I THEN HOVE IN THE STAYS
SHE CONTINUED TO CHASE US
ALL DAY, BUT I RATHER GAIN ON HER.
SMOKE, SMELL OF SEA COAL, OF STAGNANT AND PUTRID WATER
INCREASE THE QUALMINESS BUT DO NOT OCCASION IT
IN CALM WITH OUR GUNS OUT
TUCKER SAID HIS ORDERS WERE TO TAKE ME TO FRANCE
AND ANY PRIZES THAT MIGHT FALL IN HIS WAY
AT NIGHT THE WIND INCREASED TO A HURRYCANE
NORTH, EAST BY NORTH, THEN NORTH WEST
ANE BLASTEREND BUBB GAN IN THE FORESAIL DING
ROLLINGS
AGONIES, THE SAILORS' THEIR COUNTENANCES LANGUAGE BE-HAVIOUR
NO MAN UPON HIS LEGS NOTHING IN PLACE CHESTS CASKS BOTTLES
ETCETERA
NO PLACE NO PERSON DRY
BY LIGHTNING
<F 388>
AT MAINMAST AND TOPMAST
WOUNDED 23 MEN
LOG BOOK OF SAML TUCKER
CONTINUALLY ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER GIVING WAY
LAY BY UNDER MAIN SAIL
DOWN TOPGALLANT YARDS
4. P.M. CARRIED AWAY SLINGS CHAINS AND THE MIZZEN
REPAIR THE RIGGING
MR JOHNNIE'S BEHAVIOUR GAVE SATISFACTION (I.E. YOUNG
J.Q. ADAMS)
INEXPRESSIBLE INCONVENIENCE OF HAVING SO LITTLE
SPACE BETWEEN DECKS NOTHING BUT
DREAD OF PISTOL TO KEEP MEN IN QUARTERS IN ACTION
SHIP NOT PROPERLY FURNISHED WITH GLASSES
WHICH WD\ SAVE THEIR EXPENSE IN A THOUSAND WAYS
INATTENTION IN NAVY AS IN THE ARMY
INATTENTION TO HEALTH OF THE SAILORS
<D 370>THE PRACTICE OF PROFANE SWEARING AND CURSING
1ST MARCH: MAINMAST FOUND SPRUNG IN TWO PLACES
SEA, CLOUDS, SEA, EVERYTHING DAMP, SEA,
CLOUDS, FAIR SUN, 9 KNOTS AND NO NOISE
WHAT THE STATE OF FINANCES, STOCKS AND THEIR ARMY? SO THAT
THE BALL PASSED DIRECTLY OVER MY HEAD. TUCKER IN OLD AGE SAID
THAT J.A. WAS OUT WITH A MUSKET LIKE ANY DAMN COMMON
MARINE
"ORDERED HIM; BUT THERE HE WUZ OUT AGIN
I SEZ: ME ORDERS, SIR, ARE TO GIT YEW TO EUROPE"
WAS A LETTER OF MARQUE, SHOT THROUGH OUR MIZZEN YARD
WE UPON THIS TURNED OUR BROADSIDE WHICH
THE INSTANT SHE SAW, SHE STRUCK. THE MARTHA, WORTH 80,000
PUND STERLING
<F 389>
CAPN MCINTOSH MUCH A GENTLEMAN
5 WEEKS AFTER OUR EMBARCATION
"MR MCINTOSH OF NORTH BRITAIN
VERY DECIDED AGAINST AMERICA IN THE
CONTEST. HIS PASSIONS ENKINDLE"
NUMBERS OF SMALL BIRDS FROM THE SHORE
INSTANT THEY LIGHT ON A SHIP
DROP ASLEEP FROM EXHAUSTION
OLERON, FAMOUS FOR SEA LAWS
AT LEAST I TAKE IT THIS IS THE PLACE
ALONG SIDE WITH HAKES, SKATES AND GURNARDS
RIVER VERY BEAUTIFUL ON BOTH SIDES
HORSES, OXEN, GREAT FLOCKS, HUSBANDMEN PLOUGHING
WOMEN A HALF DOZEN IN DROVES WITH THEIR HOES
CHURCHES, CONVENTS, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS
VERY MAGNIFICENT.
FROM PERILS OF THE SEA, INTRIGUES, BUSINESS WANGLES
RURAL IMPROVEMENTS ARE BROUGHT DOWN TO THE WATER'S
EDGE
MUDDY WATER, GRAND SEATS, BEAUTIFUL GROVES
A NUMBER OF VESSELS IN THE RIVER LAND, CATTLE, HORSES AFTER
<D 371>SO LONG A JOURNEY
AT BORDEAUX, AT BLAYE
DE LONH
FIRST DISH WAS A FINE FRENCH SOUP THEN BOILED MEAT
LIGHTS OF CALF ONE WAY AND LIVER ANOTHER
BREAD VERY FINE AND FINE SALAD THE
RAISONS ARE MOST DELICIOUS
NONE OF US UNDERSTOOD FRENCH NONE OF THEM ENGLISH
ON QUARTER DECK I WAS STRUCK WITH THE HENS
CAPONS COCKS IN THEIR COOPS
SALUTED A SMALL TOWN CALLED BLAYE
<F 390>
WITH THE INDEPENDENT SALUTE
I.E. 13 FOR THE COLONIES
ALL THE GENTLEMEN AGREED DR FRANKLIN
HAD BEEN REC'D BY THE KING WITH GREAT POMP
AND A TREATY CONCLUDED
THERE ARE 4 SORTS: CHATEAU MARGAUX, HAUTE BRION, LAFITTE
AND LATOUR
FISH AND BEAN SALAD, CLARET, CHAMPAGNE
TO SEE THE NEW COMEDIE AND, AFTER, THE OPERA
DANCING VERY CHEERFUL (OUR
AMERICAN THEATRE NOT THEN EVEN IN CONTEMPLATION)
TROMPETTE, WORK OF VAUBAN
BANISHED IN LOUIS XVTH'S TIME FOR WORKING WITH MALESHERBES
I CONCLUDED THERE WAS A FORM OF SINCERITY IN IT
DECORATED WITH COMPLIMENTS
SAW "LES DEUX AVARES".
TUCKER THO' NOT POLISHED
WAS AN ENERGETIC AND SUCCESSFUL COMMANDER
LIGHTS IN THE GARDEN AND AN INSCRIPTION
GOD SAVE LIBERTY THE CONGRESS AND ADAMS
<D 372>THEIR EAGERNESS TO SELL A KNIFE WAS AS GREAT AS THAT
OF SOME PERSONS I HAVE SEEN TO GET OFFICES
FIELDS OF GRASS, VINEYARDS, CASTLES
YET EVERY PLACE SWARMS WITH BEGGARS
RUE RICHELIEU, HOTEL DE VALOIS
THEN BASSE COUR, HAD BEEN HOTEL VALENTINOIS
<F 391>
MONEY IN MR SCHWEIGHAUSER'S HANDS
SIGNED; FRANKLIN
LEE
ADAMS
TO J. WILLIAMS:
ABSTAIN FROM FURTHER EXPENDITURE
AND CLOSE YOUR ACCOUNTS
MR BEAUMARCHAIS, ANOTHER OF MR DEANE'S FRIENDS.
DINED THAT DAY WITH MADAME HELVETIUS
TO THE LONG CHAMP WHERE ALL CARRIAGES OF PARIS WERE PARADED
AS DECENT MODEST AND REGULAR
A FAMILY AS EVER I SAW IN FRANCE
AMONG WHOM WAS M. CONDORCET HIS FACE WHITE AS A SHEET
OF PAPER
FRANKLIN, DEANE, BANCROFT ARE FRIENDS
NEVER WAS BEFORE I CAME HERE
A LETTER BOOK
A MINUTE BOOK
AN ACCOUNT BOOK
MR DEANE LIVED EXPENSIVELY. DR FRANKLIN
GREAT WIT, GREAT HUMOURIST, GREAT POLITICIAN, THE LEES
ARE ALL VIRTUOUS MEN, IF
THERE HAD BEEN LETTERS, MINUTES, ACCOUNTS, MR LEE
HAD NOT SEEN THEM
IN HIS FIRST BOX NEAR THE CELEBRATED VOLTAIRE
MME LA DUCHESSE D'AGEN A 5 OU 6 ENFANTS
CONTRE LA COUTUME DU PAYS
DES NOAILLES 18 MILLION LOUIS A YEAR FROM THE CROWN
NUMBER OF PERSONS WITH THEIR EYES FIXED ON OUR LITTLE TREASURY
<D 373>YOU WROTE THAT YOU WD\ SEND THE INVOICES IF WE THOUGHT
NECESSARY
THE KING'S BED CHAMBER WHERE HE WAS DRESSING
ONE PUTTING ON HIS SWORD, ONE HIS COAT
<F 392>
I ACCORDINGLY WROTE TO SAM ADAMS:
ENORMOUS
SUMS HAVE BEEN EXPENDED, NO BOOK OF
ACCOUNTS, NO DOCUMENTS WHEREFROM
ABLE TO LEARN WHAT HAS BEEN REC'D IN AMERICA
WRONG IN HAVING THREE COMMISSIONERS ONE IS ENOUGH
IN LEAVING SALARIES AT UNCERTAINTY
IN MINGLING PUBLIC MINISTER AND COMMERCIAL AGENT
MR DEANE NEVER SUCCEEDED IN THROWING MUCH LIGHT ON
HIS MODE OF DOING BUSINESS IN FRANCE.
MANY OTHER QUALITIES I CD\ NOT DISTINGUISH FROM VIRTUES
HIS MAJESTY ATE LIKE A KING, SOLID BEEF
AND OTHER THINGS IN PROPORTION
OFFER TO MAKE 200 PEERS (IN AMERICA)
TO THE DWELLING OF MME DU BARRY
WHO SENT TO INVITE US
TURGOT, CONDILLAC, MME HELVETIUS
M. GENET'S SON WENT WITH ME AND MY SON TO THE MENAGERIE
BARBIER DE SEVILLE AT THE COMEDIE (NANTES)
ACTING INDIFFERENT.
MUCH CONVERSATION
ABOUT THE ELECTRICAL EEL.
HIS VOICE (P. JONES'S)
IS STILL, AND SOFT, AND SMALL
LAWS OF THE VISIGOTHS AND JUSTINIAN STILL IN USE IN GALICIA
13 MULES 2 MULETIERS ARRIVING CORUNNA AT 7
PORK OF THIS COUNTRY EXCELLENT AND DELICIOUS
ALSO BACON, CHIEF JUSTICE INFORMS ME THAT MUCH OF IT
IS FATTENED ON CHESTNUTS AND UPON INDIAN CORN
OTHER PORK IS THEY SAY FATTENED ON VIPERS
POSSIBLE IMPORTS TO SPAIN:
<D 374>GRAIN OF ALL SORTS PITCH TURPENTINE TIMBER,
<F 393>
SALT FISH, SPERMACETI AND RICE.
TOBACCO THEY HAVE FROM THEIR COLONIES
AS ALSO INDIGO
OF THE KING'S TOBACCO THEY TAKE 10 MILLIONS WEIGHT PER ANNUM
SAW LADIES TAKE CHOCOLATE IN SPANISH FASHION
DINED ON BOARD LA BELLE POULE
GALICIA, NO FLOOR BUT GROUND TRODDEN TO MIRE BY
MEN HOGS HORSES AND MULES
NO CHIMNEY 1\2 WAY AS YOU ASCEND TO THE CHAMBER
WAS A STAGE COVERED WITH STRAW
ON WHICH LAY A FATTENING HOG
ABOVE, CORN WAS HUNG ON STICKS AND ON SLIT WORK
IN ONE CORNER A BIN FULL OF RAPE SEED OR CULZAR
IN THE OTHER A BIN FULL OF OATS
AMONG WHICH SLEPT BETTER THAN SINCE MY ARRIVAL
IN SPAIN
IN GENERAL THE MOUNTAINS COVERED WITH FURZE
SCARCE AN ELM OAK OR OTHER TREE
O'BRIEN AFTERWARD SENT ME A MINCED PIE AND A MEAT PIE
AT ST JAMES CAMPOSTELLA AND 2 BOTTLES OF FRONTENAC WINE
NOTHING RICH BUT THE CHURCHES, NOTHING FAT BUT THE CLERGY
NO SYMPTONS OF COMMERCE OR EVEN OF INTERNAL TRAFFIC
BETWEEN GALICE AND LEON 1780
ALL OF COLOUR MADE OF BLACK SHEEP'S WOOL UNDYED
THE RIVER VALCAIRE BETWEEN TWO ROWS OF MOUNTAINS
NOT A DECENT HOUSE SINCE CORUNNA
49 TUESDAY, CLEAN BED, NO FLEAS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SPAIN
AT ASTORGA
LARGEST TURNIPS I EVER SAW
MAUREGATO WOMEN, AS FINE AS SQUAWS AND A GREAT DEAL
MORE NASTY
HOY MISMO HAN LLEGADO
<F 394>
A ESTA PLAZA EL CABALLERO
JUAN ADAMS MIEMBRO
<D 375>ETC\ LOS INGLESES
EVACUANDO RHODE ISLAND
LOS AMERICANOS TOMARON...
GAZETTE DE MADRID, 24TH OF DECEMBER
GREAT FLOCKS OF SHEEP AND CATTLE
ASTURIAS MOUNTAINS
RIVER RUNS ALSO DOWN INTO PORTUGAL
A DANCE THEY CALL THE FANDANGO
TUESDAY 11TH AT BURGOS
WE GO ALONG SNEEZING AND COUGHING
MY PATIENCE NEVER NEARER EXHAUSTED
33 RELIGIOUS HOUSES IN BURGOS
IN THE LAST HOUSE IN SPAIN WE FOUND ONE CHIMNEY
FIRST SINCE THAT IN THE FRENCH CONSUL'S, CORUNNA.
RIVER CHARENT RUNS BY IT
VERGENNES MIGHT SUPPOSE THAT I IN NAIVETE
WD\ SEND HIM MY INSTRUCTIONS
MY DETERMINATION TO INSIST ON THE FISHERIES
IN FACT JOHN SAVED COD TO BAASTUN)
I WAS NOT CLEAR THAT I SUSPECTED HIS MOTIVES
U.S. AT LIBERTY TO NEGOTIATE COMMERCE, AS PEACE
THEY INTENDED TO KEEP US IN STEW WITH ENGLAND
FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE AFTER THE PEACE, AS WAS EFFECTED
FOR ELEVEN YEARS UNTIL JAY
SACRIFICED HIS POPULARITY AND WASHINGTON'S WAS
DIMINISHED.
THOSE WHO WISH TO INVESTIGATE WHOM IN CONGRESS
(LEAVING US NO DOUBT VERGENNES WAS A TWISTER)
WITH MY TWO SONS TO AMSTERDAM
RYE BARLEY OATS BEANS
<F 395>
HEMP GRAIN CLOVER LUCERN AND SAINFOIN
AND THE PAVEMENTS ARE GOOD, VINES CATTLE SHEEP EVETYTHING
PLENTIFUL
SUCH WHEAT CROPS NEVER SAW ELSEWHERE
CHURCH MUSIC ITALIAN STYLE
<D 376>A TAPESTRY: NUMBER OF JEWS STABBING THE WAFER
BLOOD GUSHING FROM IT
BRUSSELS STONE SAME AS BRAINTREE NORTH COMMON
...EXCELLENT CHARACTER, EMPEROR DID NOT LIKE HIM
INTERMIXTURE HOUSES TREES SHIPS CANALS VERY STARTLING
NEATNESS REMARKABLE
VAN DER CAPELLEN TOT DE POL
FEARS HOLDERS OF ENGLISH FUNDS WILL ETC\
TRIED TO END SOME FEUDAL BURDENS ABOUT HERE
AND GOT HIMSELF CENSURED
O.K., AS WAS VAN BERCKEL
DON JOAS THOLOMENO: "INDEPENDENCE OF AMERICA IS ASSURED
SEPT. 14TH '82,"
MIRABEL (SARDEGNA) "ONLY WHY DONT THEY ACKNOWLEDGE IT?"
5 COPIES, ENGLISH AND DUTCH SIDE BY SIDE,
SAID WD\ BE SIGNED NEXT WEEK.
AETAT 46
FOREIGN MINISTERS ALL HERD TOGETHER
RHEINGRAVE, DE SALM, COLONEL BENTINCK
PRUSSIAN MINISTER WILL TALK OF ASTRONOMY NATURAL
HISTORY NEWS SIEGES BUT VERY RESERVED UPON POLITICS
VERJARING
VAN DEN VELDSLAG BY LEXINGTON
EERSTE MEMOIRE DAN DEN HEER ADAMS
INDRUK OF DE HOLLANDSCHE NATIE
DEPUTIES OF HOLLAND AND ZEELAND
WE SIGNED ETC\ TREATY OF COMMERCE
<F 396>
8 OCT '82
FIRMNESS HEAVEN HAS GIVEN YOU
COMMERCE OF BRUGE, OSTEND GROWN WITH OUR REVOLUTION
VINGT A VINGTCINQ NAVIRES DANS LE BASSIN
(COUNT SARSFIELD)
MAGAZINS DE LA VILLE SONT REMPLIS,
JOURNEE D'UN HOMME 15 S\ ET NOURRI.
OEUVRE DE M. LE DUC DE VAUGUYON
<D 377>TO SIGN ONE'S NAME 16,000 TIMES AFTER DINNER
MR VISCHER WHO WAS MORE OPEN THAN I HAD KNOWN HIM
SAID THE STADTHOLDER WAS LE PLUS GRAND T.... DE CE PAYS-CI
ENTETE COMME UNE SHE MULE
RODE TO VALENCIENNES AND FOUND OUR AXLETREE BROKEN
AGAIN, WALKS, ROSE GARDENS, WATERSPOUTS, FISH PONDS
CARP WILL ASSEMBLE IN AN HUDDLE BEFORE YOU
STICKING THEIR MOUTHS OUT OF WATER
MLLE DE BOURBON HER HAIR UNCOMBED
CAME OUT BY THE ROUND HOUSE
WITH IT HANGING OVER HER SHOULDERS, IN WHITE
THUS FRANCE TAXES EUROPE
GREAT PART OF COURT POLICY TO
PROVIDE NATIONAL INFLUENCE OVER LA MODE
AS AN OCCASION OF COMMERCE JAY IS DES PETITS AUGUSTINS
FRANKLIN INTRIGUES MANOEUVRES INSINUATES
I WILL MAKE A GOOD PEACE OR NO PEACE
"SHALL ENJOY RIGHT TO FISH UNMOLESTED
ON BANKS AND IN GULF OF ST LAWRENCE
OR WHEREVER ELSE HERETOFORE TO
DRY CURE IN NOVA SCOTIA
CAPE SABLE AND ON ANY UNSETTLED BAYS"
COMPLIMENTS CONVERSATION ON VAPOURS AND EXHALATIONS FROM
TARTARY
<F 397>
FOR MY PART THOUGHT THAT AMERICANS
HAD BEEN EMBROILED IN EUROPEAN WARS LONG ENOUGH
EASY TO SEE THAT
FRANCE AND ENGLAND WD\ TRY TO EMBROIL US OBVIOUS
THAT ALL POWERS OF EUROPE WILL BE CONTINUALLY AT MANOEUVRE
TO WORK US INTO THEIR REAL OR IMAGINARY BALANCES
OF POWER; J.A. 1782 FISHERIES
OUR NATURAL RIGHT, GARTERS STARS KEYS TITLES RIBBONS
OBJECTS OF THESE MEN OF HIGH LIFE
FRANCE WD\ NEVER
SEND THAT MONEY (SEND ANY OF IT) TO ENGLAND
<D 378>WHEREAS WE GETTING MONEY FROM PORTUGAL
MUST SPEND IT IN LONDON, CONSIDERED
THEIR ATTACK ON ME AN ATTACK ON THE FISHERIES.
"IF I HAVE NOT" SEZ I "BEEN MISTAKEN
IN THE POLICY OF FRANCE FROM MY FIRST OBSERVATION
OF IT TO THIS HOUR, THEY HAVE BEEN AS AVERSE TO
OTHER POWERS ACKNOWLEDGING OUR INDEPENDENCE
AS YOU HAVE BEEN."
"GOD!"
SEZ HE (OSWALD) "NOW I SEE IT.
I WILL WRITE HOME AT ONCE ON THIS SUBJECT."
TO EXEMPT FISHERMEN HUSBANDMEN MERCHANTS
AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE FROM EVILS OF FUTURE WARS
DR FRANKLIN (A NICE LESSON ANY HOW)
THE KING
IS LIKE MR HANCOCK
NOR WHERE WHO SOWS THE CORN BY CORN IS FED
(LADY LUCAN'S VERSES ON IRELAND)
THE DUKE DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
MADE ME A VISIT
(LADY LUCAN'S VERSES ON IRELAND)
<F 398>
MADE ME A VISIT
AND DESIRED ME TO EXPLAIN TO HIM SOME
PASSAGES IN THE CONNECTICUT CONSTITUTION
(AT WHICH POINT MR ELIOT LEFT US)
MR VAUGHN SAID ETC\ THAT HE SAW
"BUT" SEZ HE "YOU CAN NOT BLAME US ENDEAVOURING
TO CARRY THIS POINT TO MARKET
AND GET SOMETHING BY IT"
(WHICH SEEMS FAIRLY ENGLISH)
TO GET BILLY (FRANKLIN) MADE MINISTER HERE
AND THE DOCTOR TO LONDON
MLLE BOURBON IS GROWN VERY FAT, CHATHAM SO DAMPENED THE
ZEAL OF SARDEGNA
BLUSH, OH YE RECORDS!
<D 379>CONGRESS HAS DOUBLE XX'D ME
HOW WILL THEY WASH IT? I
DINED WITH M. MALESHERBES UNCLE OF LUZERNE
TIERS ETAT CONTAINS 30 CLASSES
DINED AT PASSY; S'IL REGNE UN FAUX SAVOIR
WHICH INFLEXIBILITY HAS BEEN CALLED VANITY. POLICY
OF FROG COURT TO LAY STUMBLING BLOCK
BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA
NONE ENGLISH HAVE COME, APPRIZED, HERE
OF WHERE WAS THE DANGER
PEACE IS MADE. NEGOTIATIONS ALL PASSED BEFORE I HEAR
OF LIVINGSTON'S LETTER OF JAN '82
SUCH IS DOC FRANKLIN (MAY 3RD 1783).
A COMPOSED MAN
PLAIN ENGLISHMAN DUKE AND AMBASSADOR MANCHESTER.
I TOLD HARTLEY THEIR POLICY WITH HOLLAND WAS WRONG ALL WRONG
IF THEY BACKED THE STADTHOLDER THE EMPEROR AND FRENCH WD\
BACK THE REPUBLICANS AND ALL EUROPE ENKINDLE
<F 399>
ENGLAND
HAD NOW STRONGER REASON TO CULTIVATE HOLLAND
AND NOT PUSH UP THE BOURBON
EXPEDIENT THAT AN INTERCOURSE
AND COMMERCE BE OPENED, LAWS OF GT BRITAIN ON
PLANTATION TRADE CONTRIVED SOLELY TO BENEFIT BRITAIN
SAID DUTCH VESSELS HAD GONE TO AMERICA
LOADED WITH LINENS, DUCK, SAILCLOTH ETC
COPPER CORRODED SHIPS' IRON
MOST AGREEABLE DAY I EVER SPENT AT VERSAILLES
(17 MAY '83)
SARDINIAN AMBASSADOR SAID IT WAS CURIOUS
TO REMARK ON THE PROGRESS OF COMMERCE
FURS FROM HUDSON BAY COMPANY
SENT TO LONDON WERE SENT TO SIBERIA
<C 66>
<F 400>
<D 380>COULD NOT LET US BRING THEIR SUGAR TO EUROPE
WD\ LESSEN THE NUMBER OF FRENCH AND OF SPANISH SEAMEN
GENERALLY RODE TWICE A DAY TILL MADE MASTER
OF THIS CURIOUS FOREST (BOIS DE BOULOGNE)
VIEW OF ISSY AND THE CASTLE OF MEUDON
GAME IS NOT VERY PLENTIFUL. DINED AT AMIENS
PUT UP AT ABBEVILLE. DOVER VIEW. MR JOHNSON
GT TOWER HILL WHO INFORMS ME
THAT A VESSEL WITH ONE THOUSAND HOGSHEAD OF TOBACCO
IS PASSED BY IN THE CHANNEL FROM CONGRESS
TO MESSRS WILLINCKS 27 OCT '83
HAGUE JUNE 22, '84
SO THERE IS NO DROP NOT AMERICAN IN ME
AYE WE HAVE NOTICED THAT SAID THE AMBASSADOR
SENDS TO MOROCCO NO MARINE STORES
SENDS 'EM GLACES AND OTHER THINGS OF RICH VALUE
SAID LORD CARMATHEN WD\ PRESENT ME
BUT THAT I SHD\ DO BUSINESS WITH MR PITT VERY OFTEN
POSTS NOT SURRENDERED
ARE PRESQ'ISLE, SANDUSKY ETC\ DETROIT MICHILIMAKINAC
ST JOSEPH ST MARY'S.
DAUGHTER MARRIED LESS PRUDENTLY
AND THEY WERE THINKING OF SENDING HER TO AMERICA
PRESENTED
MR HAMILTON TO THE QUEEN AT THE DRAWING ROOM
MR JEFFERSON
AND I WENT IN A POST CHAISE
WOBURN FARM, STOWE, STRATFORD
STOURBRIDGE, WOODSTOCK, HIGH WYCOMBE AND BACK TO
<F 401>
GROSVENOR SQ
A NATIONAL DEBT OF
274 MILLION STG\
<D 381>ACCUMULATED BY JOBS CONTRACTS SALARIES PENSIONS IN
THE COURSE OF A CENTURY
MIGHT EASILY PRODUCE ALL THIS MAGNIFICENCE
POPE'S PAVILION AND THOMPSON'S SEAT MADE THE EXCURSION
POETIC
SHENSTONE'S THE MOST RURAL OF ALL
19TH , WEDNESDAY, ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON
AND OF MY RECEPTION IN HOLLAND
WHICH LATTER IS CONSIDERED OF NO IMPORTANCE
TO VIEW THE SEAT OF THE BANKER CHILD
THREE HOUSES, IN FACT, ROUND A SQUARE
BLOWING ROSES, RIPE STRAWBERRIES PLUMS CHERRIES ETC
DEER SHEEP WOOD-DOVES GUINEA-HENS PEACOCKS ETC
DR GREY SPEAKS VERY LIGHTLY OF BUFFON
MR H. PREFERS THE ARCHITECTURE OF THIS HOUSE BECAUSE IT
REMINDS HIM OF PALLADIO
WINDOWS WITH MAHOGANY COLUMNS
THERE ARE TWO STOVES BUT AT NEITHER OF THEM
COULD A STUDENT BE COMFORTABLE IN COLD WEATHER
JULY 18TH, YESTERDAY, MOVED ALL THE GRASS IN STONY HILL FIELD
THIS DAY MY NEW BARN WAS RAISED
THEIR SONGS NEVER MORE VARIOUS THAN THIS MORNING
CORN BY TWO SORTS OF WORM
HESSIAN FLY MENACES WHEAT
WHERE T. HAS BEEN TRIMMING RED CEDARS
WITH TEAM OF 5 CATTLE BROUGHT BACK 22 CEDARS
OTIS FULL OF ELECTION: HENRY, JEFFERSON, BURR
T. CUTTING TREES AND LEAVES OF WHITE OAKS
<F 402>
TO BARLEY AND BLACK GRASS AT THE BEACH
SAID ONE THING WD\ MAKE RHODE ISLAND UNANIMOUS
-MEANING FUNDING-
THEY WANTED HAMILTON FOR VICE PRESIDENT
I SAID NOTHING.
WHERTOWARD THE ARGUMENTS HAD BEEN
AS RENOUNCING THE TRANSACTIONS OF RUNING MEDE?
<D 382>PRINCE OF ORANGE, KING WILLIAM BY THE PEOPLE
THAT THEIR RIGHTS BE INVIOLABLE
WHICH DROVE OUT JAMES SECOND...IS STILL ACTIVE.
NOTHING LESS THAN THIS SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN MEDITATED FOR US
BY SOMEBODY OR OTHER IN BRITAIN
REPRINTED BY THOS. HOLLIS
SEVENTEEN SIXTY-FIVE
OB PECUNIAE SCARSITATEM
THIS ACT, THE STAMP ACT, WD\ DRAIN CASH OUT OF THE COUNTRY
AND IS, FURTHER, UNCONSTITUTIONAL
YR\ HUMANITY COUNTERFEIT
YR\ LIBERTY CANKERED WITH SIMULATION
EARL CLARENDON TO BILL PYM IN THE BAASTUN GAZETTE
JAN 17TH 1 7 6 8
DANEGELD EMPTIED THE LAND OF ALL COIN
WHAT ARE POWERS OF THESE NEW ADMIRALTY COURTS IN AMERICA
PER PARES ET LEGEM TERRAE
IS THERE ANY GRAND JURY TO BRING AN INDICTMENT
TO FIND PRESENTMENTS
ANY PETIT FOR FACT
IS THIS TRIAL PER LEGEM TERRAE
OR BY INSTITUTES DIGESTS ROMAN?
BECOME ATTENTIVE TO THEIR LIBERTIES
COUNTIES, TOWNS, PRIVATE CLUBS AND SODALITIES
MOST ACCURATE JUDGEMENT
<F 403>
ABOUT THE REAL CONSTITUTION
WHICH IS NOT OF WIND AND WEATHER
WHAT IS SAID THERE
IS RATHER A CHARACTER
THAN A TRUE
*CHENG(4)351-CHENG(4) *MING(2)4524-MING(2)
DEFINITION. IT IS A JUST OBSERVATION.
<D 383>JURY ANSWERS QUESTIONS OF FACT
THUS GUARDING THE SUBJECT...
POMPOUS RITUALS THEATRICAL CEREMONIES
SO SUCCESSFULLY USED TO
DELUDE TO TERRIFY MEN OUT OF VIRTUE AND LIBERTY
ELIZABETH TRIED, JAMES FIRST PUT OUT GOODWIN
AND THE COMMONS REVERSED IT
(LONDON CHRONICLE)
BY THIS COURSE, SAID ONE MEMBER, FREE ELECTION IS TAKEN AWAY
COMMON RIGHTS OUR ANCESTORS HAVE LEFT US
BY THIS COURSE, SAID ANOTHER, THE CHANCELLOR
COULD CALL A PARLIAMENT OF ONLY SUCH AS HE PLEASE
AFTER REPEAL OF AMERICAN STAMP ACT
WE HAVE MORTIFICATION TO SEE ONE ACT OF PARLIAMENT AFTER
ANOTHER,
MONEY COLLECTING FROM US CONTINUALLY WITHOUT OUR CONSENT
BY AN AUTHORITY
IN THE CONSTITUTION OF WHICH WE HAVE NO SHARE
AND SEE THE LITTLE COIN THAT REMAINED AMONG US
TRANSMITTED TO DISTANCE
WITH NO HOPE OF RETURN
<F 404>
RESOLUTION TO MAINTAIN DUTY AND LOYALTY TO OUR SOVREIGN
AND TO PARLIAMENT AS LEGISLATIVE IN ALL CASES OF NECESSITY
TO PRESERVE THE EMPIRE AS A WHOLE
17 JUNE, 1768
INSTRUCTIONS TO BRAINTREE'S REPRESENTATIVES
WE MEAN BY 6TH ANNE CHAP. XXXVII SECTION 9
IT IS ENACTED
NO MARINER
BE RETAINED ON ANY PRIVATEER SHIP OR VESSEL
IN ANY PART OF AMERICA...BE IMPRESSED ON ANY SHIP OF
HER MAJESTY'S ANY TIME AFTER ST VALENTINE'S DAY 1707
ON PAIN OF L 20. PER MAN
SMALL FIELD PIECES HAPPENED, SAID GOVERNOR HUTCHINSON,
TO POINT AT THE DOOR OF THE COURT HOUSE
<D 384>TO THE HNBL JAMES OTIS AND THOS CUSHING ESQUIRES
MR SAM ADAMS AND JOHN HANCOCK ESQUIRE
;;;;.....DEMANDS YR\ FORTITUDE VIRTUE AND WISDOM
TO REMOVE ANYTHING THAT MAY APPEAR TO AWE OR INTIMIDATE
LATE ATTACK FLAGRANT AND FORMAL
ON THE CONSTITUTION ITSELF
AND THE IMMUNITIES OF OUR CHARTERS
UNNECESSARY TO REPEAT OUR KNOWN SENTIMENTS ON THE REVENUE
THIS 41ST SECTION REPEALS MAGNA
CHARTA THE 29TH CHAPTER
AS FOLLOWS THE WORDS: NO FREEMAN...TO...BY HIS PEERS
AND THE LAW OF THE LAND
WHEREON SAID LORD COKE, SPEAKING OF EMPSON AND DUDLEY,
THE END OF THESE TWO OPPRESSORS
SHD\ DETER OTHERS FROM COMMITTING THE LIKE
THAT THEY BRING NOT IN ABSOLUTE AND PARTIAL TRIALS BY DIRECTION
...BY EVERY LEGAL MEASURE, SIRS, WE RECOMMEND YOU...
NATURAL TENDENCY OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION TO SIDE WITH AUTHORITY
<F 405>
FREEHOLDERS AND OTHER INHABITANTS (CAMBRIDGE 21 DEC. '72)
CONSTITUTIONAL
MEANS FOR REDRESS ...NATURAL RIGHTS...CHARTER RIGHT
MONEY EXTORTED FROM US. APPROPRIATED TO THE AUGMENTATION OF
BURDENS UPON US
INDEPENDENT OF GRANTS OF OUR COMMONS.
ATTEST
ANDREW BOARDMAN TOWN CLERK
JUDGES SALARIES SHD\ BE INDEPENDENT BOTH OF THE KING
AND OF THE PEOPLE
GREAT DANGER IF COMMISSION HANG UPON EITHER
A CIVIL COMMISSION GIVES NO NEW POWERS
TYRANNY IN THEM TO ASSUME IT
COMMON LAW OF ENGLAND, BIRTHRIGHT OF EVERY MAN HERE
AND AT HOME
"NOT LOOK ON MY SELF AS IN STATE OF NATURE
<D 385>AND IS PITY THAT OTHER MAN SHD\"
WM\ BRATTLE
IT IS THE WISH OF ALMOST ALL GOOD MEN, REPLIED ADAMS
THAT WHAT BRATTLE STATES WERE GOOD LAW.
BUT FROM EDWARD FIRST'S TIME TO THE PRESENT LETTERS PATENT
ARE OTHERWISE WORDED
SIC: BENEPLACITU NOSTRO.
AD REGIS NUTUM DURATURA
SAYS FORTESCUE
CHANCELLOR
WILL IT BE SHOWN THAT BY "JUDGES" GENL BRATTLE
MEANS BARONS OF EXCHEQUER?
CUSTOS ROTOLORUM AND CLERK OF THE PEACE
WERE CREATED BY STATUTE NOT ERECTED BY COMMON LAW
SIR EDWARD COKE, WHO BEING IN KING'S DISPLEASURE,
WAS REMOVED FROM HIS PLACE BY WRIT OF THE KING
<F 406>
RECITING THAT WHEREAS ETC\\\...APPOINTED TO DESIST FROM...
TIMID JURORS AND JUDGES WHO HELD DURING PLEASURE
NEVER FAILED TO SECOND THE VIEWS OF THE CROWN
HE, JAMES SECOND, WAS OBLIGED BEFORE HE BROUGHT HALES' CASE
TO DISPLACE 4 OF HIS JUDGES
BY CONCERTS BETWEEN KING JAMES AND SIR EDWARD...
HIS COACHMAN WAS EMPLOYED TO BRING ACTION...
JONES HAD THE INTEGRITY TO TELL THE KING TO HIS FACE
THAT HE MIGHT MAKE 12 JUDGES BUT WD\ SCARCE FIND 12 LAWYERS
OF HIS OPINION.
"WISHING GENL BRATTLE SUCCESS IN HIS RESEARCHES"
J. ADAMS
BY ANOTHER CLAUSE (IN OUR CHARTER)
THAT THE GREAT AND GENERAL COURT OR ASSEMBLY
SHD\ HAVE POWER
TO ERECT JUDICATORIES COURTS OF RECORD
AND OTHER COURTS
TO DETERMINE PLEAS PROCESSES PLAINTS ACTIONS ETC\
WHEREBY A LAW (2 WILLIAM III) HAVE ESTABLISHED ETC\
<D 386>AND IN EDWARD IV THIS BEAUCHAMPS COMMISSION
WAS, FOR THE UNCERTAINTY, VOID
BY LETTERS PATENT AND UNDER GREAT SEAL
IN ALL SHIRES, COUNTIES PALATINE AND IN WALES
AND ANY OTHER DOMINIONS
<C 67>
<F 407>
<D 387>WHEREOF MEMORY OF MAN RUNNETH NOT TO THE CONTRARY
DOME BOOK, INA, OFFA AND AETHELBERT, FOLCRIGHT
FOR A THOUSAND YEARS
AND I MUST ADD THAT IT APPEARS TO ME EXTRAORDINARY THAT A
GENTLEMAN EDUCATED UNDER THE GREAT GAMALIEL, MR READ, SHD\
ADDUCE THE SINGLE DICTUM OF A COUNSEL AT BAR UTTERED ARGUENDO,
AS AN ORNAMENT TO HIS DISCOURSE, NOT PERTINENT TO HIS ARGUMENT,
AS IF THIS SETTLED SOMETHING
"BY THE GREAT SAGES OF LAW FORMERLY AND MORE LATTERLY";
HAVING BEHIND IT NO COLOUR OR PRETENCE OF OTHER AUTHORITY.
AULA REGUM, IN NORMAN TIMES SPLIT UNTO 4 COURTS,
THE SUMMUS JUSTICIARIUS WAS LAID BY, LEST HE GET INTO
THE THRONE AS HAD CAPET. REGALIA PRINCIPIS (SAXON)
WHENCE MOST OF THE PREROGATIVES OF THE CROWN ARE DERIVED
IN THESE AGES
JUDICIARY A MERE DEPUTY OF THE KING
IN WHOSE PRESENCE HIS (THE JUDGE'S) AUTHORITY CEASED
CUM DELEGANS REVOCARIT (BRACTON)
BAASTUN GAZETTE '73
CLEAR
AS TO DEFINITIONS
*CHENG(4)351-CHENG
BUT HE (BRATTLE) HAS BEEN EXTREMELY UNFORTUNATE IN HAVING
BRACTON, FORTESCUE, COKE, FOSTER, HUME, RAPIN AND RUSHWORTH
DIRECTLY AGAINST HIM
THE MATERIALS ARE AT THE SERVICE OF THE PUBLIC
I LEAVE THEM TO JEWELERS AND LAPIDARIES TO REFINE
TO FABRICATE AND TO POLISH.
DE BURGH IN A VAIN HOPE OF PERPETUATING HIS POWER...
<F 408>
MR SHIRLEY IN 1754 CONFIDED TO DR FRANKLIN A SECRET
THAT IS A SCHEME FOR TAXING THE COLONIES BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT
<D 388>WHERETO BEN SAID: NUTS
IN A VERY ACCURATE MANNER.
"GEVERNORS" SEZ HE "WHOSE OBJECT IS IN GENERAL TO MAKE
FORTUNES"
SHIRLEY A SKUNK, POWNALL A GENTLEMAN HONEST,
BERNARD SKILLED ENOUGH IN THE LAW TO DO MISCHIEF
AND THUS THE TOTAL GOVERNMENT WAS TO BE RENDERED WHOLLY
INDEPENDENT OF THE PEOPLE
AND THE CREAM TO GO INTO THEIR SALARIES
(GOVERNOR'S, LIEUTENANT'S AND JUDGES')
(SIGNED ) NOVANGLUS
THIS PREPOSTEROUS "IMPROVEMENT" OF MR GRENVILLE'S
HAS WELLNIGH RUIN'D THE WHOLE
OBSTA PRINCIPIIS
THE ARMY IS HERE MERELY A PUBLICK NIUSANCE
DOES THE SINCERE WRITER REALLY BELIEVE THAT THE DESIGN
OF IMPOSING OTHER TAXES HAS BEEN LAID ASIDE BY THE MINISTRY
AND OF THE NEW-MODELLING OF THE GOVERNMENT?
THEY HAD NOW THE GOVERNOR'S SALARY OUT OF THE REVENUE
AND A NUMBER OF PENSIONS AND PLACES  I WISH MASSACHUSETTS
KNEW WHAT A DEMOCRACY IS, WHAT A REPUBLIC
IRRITAT MULCET ET FALSIS TERRORIBUS IMPLET
COLONIZATION IS AT COMMON LAW A CASUS OMISSUS
NO SUCH TITLE IS KNOWN IN THAT LAW
NO KNOWN PUNISHMENT AT COMMON LAW EVEN FOR TREASONS
COMMITTED OUT OF THE REALM
TILL HEN. VIIITH
TO CATCH CARDINAL POLE I.E. STATUTE.
MOST FANATICAL THAT EVER GOT INTO HUMAN PERICRANIUM
THAT HE HAD A RIGHT TO ALL LANDS HIS SUBJECTS CD\ FIND, AND
<F 409>
EVEN THAT INFERS NO RIGHT IN PARLIAMENT...OR
FEUDAL, HAD RIGHT OF CONTRACT (ON THAT TACK)
FEUDAL KING HAD NO MORE RIGHT TO ABSOLUTE OVER ENGLISHMEN
OUT OF THE REALM THAN IN BRITAIN
IN FACT THE OILY WRITER NOW LEAPS OVER LAW
<D 389>NOW OVER FACT NOW OVER CHARTERS AND CONTRACTS
THERE IS NO FUNDAMENTAL LAW THAT MAKES A KING OF ENGLAND
ABSOLUTE ANYWHERE EXCEPT IT BE IN CONQUERED COUNTRIES,
AND AN ATTEMPT FORFEITS HIS RIGHT EVEN TO THE LIMITED CROWN
FOR 150 YEARS TAXED THEMSELVES
AND GOVERNED THEIR INTERNAL CONCERNS
PARLIAMENT GOVERNED THEIR TRADE
WALES WAS IN SOME THINGS AN ANALOGY
HELD OF THE CROWN BUT NOT PARCEL
EDWARDUS DEO GRATIA ANGLIAE
DOM. HIB. ET DUX AQUITANIAE TERRAM WALLIAE CUM INCOLIS SUIS
IN NOSTRAE PROPRIETATIS DOMINIUM
NOW PARTLY TO DIVERT HIS SUBJECTS FROM THE MURDER OF BECKET
LAYS PRETENCE
THAT THE IRISH HAD SOLD SOME ENGLISH AS SLAVES
ADRIAN AN ENGLISHMAN BY BIRTH BEING PONTIFF
VERY CLEARLY CONVINCED OF HIS OWN RIGHT TO DISPOSE OF
KINGDOMS AND EMPIRES AND BY POWER OF PENCE OF PETER
TO ESTABLISH AN EMPIRE OF THE WORLD
THAT HENRY'S DEMAND UPON IRELAND PROCEEDED FROM PIOUS
MOTIVES
SEEDS OF GOSPEL ETCETERA FRUCTIFY FOR EIRE'S ETERNAL SALVATION
AND OBLIGE EVERY HOUSE TO PAY YEARLY ONE PENNY TO ROME
MACMORRAL THE RAPER AND ROURKE OF MEATH AS OUR JUNTO
AND AS TO HOW IRISH IN HENRY THE VTH'S TIME WERE LET INTO
ENGLAND
"SHALL PUT IN SURETY FOR THEIR GOOD ABEARING",
<F 410>
CONTRACT CALLED POYNING'S LAW,
CONSENT OF THE IRISH NATION AND AN ACT IN THEIR PARLIAMENT
(POYNING'S) EDGARDUS ANGLORUM BASILEUS
INSULARUM OCEANI IMPERATOR ET DOMINUS GRATIAM AGO
DEO IMNIP. QUI MEUM OMPERIUM
SIC AMPLIAVIT ET EXPLICAVIT SUPER REGNUM PATRUM MEORUM
CONCESSIT PROPITAI DIVINITATIS...
HIBERNIA HABET PARLIAMENTUM (VIDE SIR J. PILKINGTON'S CASE)
<D 390>"MAJESTY NEAR TO SEVENTY, AMIABLE SUCCESSOR
EDUCATED UNDER CARE OF MY NEAREST FRIENDS...
MILITANT SPIRIT, AND THE NATION UNDER A VERY LARGE DEBT.
HOW SHALL WE MANAGE IT? THESE NOBLEMEN AND IGNOBLEMEN
WORDS OF LORD MANSFIELD AND HIS ADMIRER (GOVERNOR HUTCHINSON)
AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS NEVER WERE ERECTED BY PARLIAMENT
THESE REGALIA AND JURISDICTIONS NOT GIVEN BY PARLIAMENT
A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUBJECT WILL DO US NO HARM
CHESTER A PALATINE COUNTY AND HAD JURE REGALIA
GREAT SEAL DID NOT RUN INTO CHESTER
FOR REMEDY 3 KNIGHTS OF SHIRE
2 BURGESSES OF THE CITY ESTABLISHED
CHESTER IN CROWN AND REALM EXEMPT FROM AUTHORITY
HOW QUICKLY GRANTED REPRESENTATION WHEN ASKED IT
"IN DURHAM QUEEN'S WRIT HATH NOT RUN"
25 CHARLES II BE REPRESENTED BY KNIGHTS AND BY BURGESSES
TRUE OUR OILY OPPONENT
HAS HERE MORE ZEAL THAN KNOWING
NATION WAS NOT POLITE ENOUGH
TO HAVE INTRODUCED ANY SUCH PHRASE OR IDEA INTO OUR CHARTER
NOT ONE FARTHING EVER WAS VOTED
OR GIVEN BY KING OR HIS PARLIAMENT.
STYLE ROYAL? AS KING OVER FRANCE? IRELAND? SCOTLAND OR
<F 411>
ENGLAND?
SEALS, LEAGUES, COIN ARE PREROGATIVES ABSOLUTE
SEALS, LEAGUES, COIN ARE PREROGATIVES ABSOLUTE
TO THE KING WITHOUT PARLIAMENT
NOT RESTRAINED TO ANY ASSENT OF THE PEOPLE
HOMAGE, FEALTY ARE TO THE PERSON
CAN NOT BE TO BODY POLITIC
THE KING MIGHT HAVE COMMANDED THEM TO RETURN BUT HE DID NOT
IN THE BOSTON GAZETTE 17TH APRIL
HOSTILITIES AT LEXINGTON COMMENCED ON THE 19TH OF APRIL
SEVERAL OTHER PAPERS WERE WRITTEN AND SENT TO THE PRINTER
<D 391>AND PROBABLY LOST AMID THAT CONFUSION
(NOTE TO THE 1819 EDITION "NOVANGLUS")
A PLAN OF GOVERNMENT
('76 OR '75 FROM PHILADELPHY)
TO R.H. LEE OF VIRGINIA
ON SUDDEN EMERGENCY...
LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIAL...PRINTER JOHN DUNLAP
AS LIKEWISE TO MR WYTHE OF VIRGINIA: SOME FORMS ARE BETTER
THAN OTHERS...HAPPINESS OF SOCIETY IS THEIR AIM
KUNG ZOROASTER SOCRATES AND MAHOMET
"NOT TO MENTION OTHER AUTHORITIES REALLY SACRED"
FEAR RENDERS MEN STUPID AND MISERABLE...
HONOUR IS A MERE FRAGMENT OF VIRTUE, YET SACRED...
FOUNDATION OF EVERY GOVERNMENT IN SOME PRINCIPLE
OR PASSION OF THE PEOPLE
MA CHE SI SENTE DICHO
LOCKE MILTON NEDHAM NEVILLE BURNET AND HOADLY
EMPIRE OF LAWS NOT OF MEN
...BE IN MINIATURE A PORTRAIT OF THE PEOPLE AT LARGE...
(THE REPRESENTATIVE BODY)
...OF LEARNING AND EXPERIENCE OF THE LAWS, EXEMPLARY MORALS
<F 412>
GREAT PATIENCE CALMNESS ATTENTION
NOT DEPENDENT ON ANY BODY OF MEN:
JUDGES, EXECUTIVE....
SECRECY AND DISPATCH...WHENCE
A GREAT ASSEMBLY CAN NOT EXECUTE, IT IS TOO CLUMSY.
THE COLONIES UNDER SUCH TRIPLE GOVERNMENT WD\ BE
UNCONQUERABLE BY ALL THE MONARCHS OF EUROPE
FEW OF THE HUMAN RACE HAVE HAD OPPORTUNITY LIKE THIS
TO MAKE ELECTION OF GOVERNMENT, MORE THAN OF AIR, SOIL OR
CLIMATE
WHEN BEFORE HAVE 3 MILLION PEOPLE HAD OPTION
OF THE TOTAL FORM OF THEIR GOVERNMENT?
(PAT HENRY, THUS CONTINUING:)
I PUT UP WITH THE DECLARATION FOR UNANIMITY,S SAKE
<D 392>IT IS NOT POINTED AS I WD\ MAKE IT
COLONEL NELSON IS CARRYING OUR RESOLUTION...
LEST THE ENEMY BE BEFORE US IN PARIS
CONFEDERACY MUST PRECEDE OPEN ALLIANCE
THE ARGUMENTS THAT DELAGETE BRACTON FAVOURS
ARE WEAK SHALLOW EVASIVE
WD\ TO GOD YOU AND SAM ADAMS
WERE HERE IN VIRGINIA
IF ALL YR\ FEATURES CAN NOT BE KEPT HERE
AT LEAST WE WILL KEEP SOME FAMILY LIKENESS
WILL YOU AND S.A. NOW AND THEN WRITE.
PRINTED BY JOHN TAYLOR OF CAROLINE IN 1814
TO JOHN PENN '76 FROM J. ADAMS:
NO MORE AGREEABLE EMPLOYMENT
THAN THE STUDY OF THE BEST KIND OF GOVERNMENT
TO DETERMINE FORM YOU MUST DETERMINE THE END
(THAT IS PURPOSE)
<F 413>
SINGLE ASSEMBLY IS LIABLE TO ALL THE VICES FOLLIES AND FRAILTIES
...PREROGATIVES, BADGES OF SLAVERY...
(SIMILARLY TO JONATHAN SERGEANT, HE
REQUIRING EXPLICIT ADVICE AS TO TAKING UP POWERS OF GOVERNMENT)
FIXED LAWS OF THEIR OWN MAKING
EQUITABLE MODE OF MAKING THE LAWS
IMPARTIAL AND OF APT EXECUTION.
FREEHOLDERS OF AN ESTATE OF 3 L\ PER ANNUM
OR ANY ESTATE TO THE VALUE OF 60 POUNDS.
DUTY OF LEGISLATORS AND MAGISTRATES
TO CHERISH THE INTEREST OF LITERATURE...
AND PRINCIPLES OF...GOOD HUMOUR...
(CONSTITUTION OF MASSACHUSETTS)
I WAS APPREHENSIVE IN PARTICULAR THAT
"NATURAL HISTORY" AND "GOOD HUMOUR" WD\ BE STRUCK OUT,
WROTE JOHN 34 YEARS LATER
IT IS SIGNIFICANT WROTE CHAWLES FWANCIS THAT PERSONS
<D 393>WHO HAVE SINCE BEEN ERECTED HAVE NOT...ETC....
BEEN GREATLY LITERATE
AND NO PUBLIC MAN DOWN UNTIL 1850
EXPRESSED DOUBTS OF THE IMMACULATE
NATURE OF GOVVYMINT BY THE
MAJORITY.
"EITHER CONTENT WITH THE U.S. CONSTITUTIONS
OR TOO TIMID TO SPECULATE ON CONSTITUTIONS AT LARGE"
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE...SUSCEPTIBLE TO IMPROVEMENT
(QUESTION?)
...READ THUCYDIDES WITHOUT HORROR?
WORDS LOST THEIR SIGNIFICANCE
...MR HUME HAS COLLECTED MASSACRES FROM D. SICULUS
MOST POLISHED YEARS OF GREECE
EPHESUS THREE FORTY KILLED
<F 414>
CYRENIANS 500 NOBLES
PHAEBIDAS BANISHED 300 BOEOTIANS
IN PHILIASIA THEY KILLED 300 PEOPLE
AT AEGESTA 40,000 MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN
KILLED FOR THEIR MONEY
TAKE AWAY ARMIES, THE NOBLES WILL OVERTURN EVERY MONARCH
IN EUROPE
AND SET UP ARISTOCRACIES
NO INTERVIEWS WITH THE GODS BY THOSE ON THIS SERVICE
GROSVENOR SQ. 1787
BUT AS ARCHITECTS CONSULTING VITRUVIUS AND PALLADIO
THE YOUNG GENTS OF LITERATURE IN AMERICA
TO THIS KIND OF ENQUIRY.
...DOUBTED BY TACITUS THOUGH HE ADMITS THE THEORY IS A
GOOD ONE
FACILIUS LAUDARI QUAM INVENIRE
VEL HAUD DIUTURNA
OPTIME MODICE CONFUSA, SAID CICERO.
CONCORS TAMEN EFFICITUR...CIVITAS CONSENSU
<D 394>UBI JUSTITIA NON EST, NEC JUS POTEST ESSE.
SAN MARINO, THE FOUNDER, A DALMATIAN BY BIRTH
AND BY TRADE A MASON....
WHOLE HISTORY OF GENEVA:
THE PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN UP ALL BALANCES
BETRAYING THEIR OWN RIGHTS AND THOSE OF THE MAGISTRATES
INTO THE HANDS OF A FEW PROMINENT FAMILIES...
NOBLES TO TRADE IN A GENERAL WAY
TO CARRY ON VELVET, SILK AND CLOTH MANUFACTURIES
VENICE AT FIRST DEMOCRATICAL...
ANAFESTE'S REAL MERIT, 5 MASSACRED, 5 BLINDED AND EXILED
9 DEPOSED, ONE KILLED IN A FOREIGN WAR
<F 415>
THUS 20 OF 50 DOGES, PLUS 5 ABDICATIONS
BEFORE THEY THOUGHT OF LIMITING POWERS
AND ANOTHER 200 YEARS BEFORE PLANNING A GOVERNMENT
AN ARISTOCRACY IS ALWAYS MORE CUNNING
THAN AN ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLE COLLECTIVELY
ARMIES GIVEN TO KINGS BY THE PEOPLE
TO KEEP DOWN THE NOBLES
WHEREON NOBLES DEPEND FROM THE CROWN
AND THE PEOPLE ARE STILL UNDER THEIR DOMINATION
2 THOUSAND 5 HUNDRED NOBLES IN VENICE
THE STADTHOLDER FROM FATHER TO SON
WHO AFTER LOLME NEED WRITE OF REGAL REPUBLICS?
RECENT INSTANCE
THE UKRAINE INSURRECTION
ONLY IN NEUCHATEL
=ARCHEIY =KA1 =ARCHESTHAI
AS IN ANTIENT RHODES, PROBABLY IN THREE BRANCHES
JURA ORDA...AEQUITAS LEGES...
STADTHOLDER, AVOYER, ALCALDE, CAPITANEO?? IF MONS TURGOT
HAS MADE ANY DISCOVERY...
ORDERS OF OFFICERS, NOT OF MEN IN AMERICA
NO DISTINCT SEPARATION OF LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIAL
HERETOFORE SAVE IN ENGLAND.
<C 68>
<F 416>
<D 395>THE PHILOSOPHERS SAY: ONE, THE FEW, THE MANY.
REGIS OPTIMATIUM POPULIQUE
AS LYCURGUS IN SPARTHA, REGES, SENIORES ET POPULUS
BOTH GREEKS AND ITALIANS
ARCHONS, SUFFESTES OR CONSULS
ATHENIANS. SPARTANS, THEBANS, ACHAIANS
USING THE PEOPLE AS ITS MERE DUPE, AS AN UNDERWORKER
A PURCHASER IN TRUST FOR SOME TYRANT
DEXTEROUS IN PULLING DOWN, NOT IN MAINTAINING, TURGOT
TAKES A DEFINITION OF THE COMMONWEALTH
FOR A DEFINITION OF LIBERTY.
WHERE AMBITION IS EVERY MAN'S TRADE IS NO PLOUGHING
HOW SHALL THE PLOW BE KEPT IN HANDS OF OWNERS NOT HIRELINGS?
LYCURGUS
TO THE END THAT NO BRANCH BY SWELLING...
TO SAY THAT SOME PARTS OF PLATO AND SIR THOS MORE
ARE AS WILD AS THE RAVINGS OF BEDLAM
(FOUND MILTON A DITHERING IDIOT, THO' SAID THIS WITH
MORE CIRCUMSPECTION)
LOWERED INTEREST WITHOUT ANNULLING THE DEBT...
IN THIS TRANSACTION...THERE IS NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE ORIGINAL
MR POPE HAS CONFORMED IT TO THE NOTIONS
OF ENGLISHMEN AND AMERICANS
IN TACITUS AND IN HOMER, 3 ORDERS, IN GREECE AS IN GERMANY
AND MANKIND DARE NOT YET THINK UPON
CONSTITUTIONS
"NO MAN IN AMERICA THEN BELIEVED ME"
J.A. ON HIS DAVILA, RECOLLECTING.
BE BUBBLED OUT OF THEIR LIBERTIES BY A FEW LARGE NAMES,
<F 417>
HUME, PROBABLY NOT HAVING READ THEM.
WHETHER THE KING OF THE FRANKS HAD A NEGATIVE ON THAT
ASSEMBLY
<D 396>"FORWARD YOUNG MAN" WROTE THE CRITIC
ON AN UNSIGNED J.A. (J.A. BEING THEN 53 AND VICE
PRESIDENT)
PHARAMOND ON THE BANKS OF THE SALA
HERE AGAIN THE FRENCH JARGON
NOT ONE CLEAR IDEA WHAT THEY MEAN BY
"ALL AUTHORITY"
MISERIA SERVITUS, UBI JUS VAGUM
PRIMITIVE MAN WAS GREGARIOUS, PASSIONS, APPETITES AND
PREDILECTIONS
TO BE OBSERVED, COMMENDED ESTEEMED.
I TAKE IT MR HILLHOUSE IS SINCERE
YET WD\ IT NOT BE MORE REPRESENTATIVE
TO SAY THAT EVERY COLONY HAD A GOVERNOR,
A COUNCIL, SENATE AND HOUSE
NONE OF WHICH WENT BY HEREDITY?
EMISSARIES OF BRITAIN AND FRANCE CD\ SPEAK AND HOLD CAUCUSES
COMMISSION TO FRANCE '77
"CHASED ENEMY HALF A MILE"
(LAFAYETTE HEADING SOME MORGAN'S RIFLES)
HENRY LAURENS.
"GIVE ME LEAVE TO PRESENT YOU AN INTRODUCTORY LETTER TO
MONS. LE COMTE DE BROGLIE."
DE KALB
"IN MY ENTERTAINING THEM WITH THE BEST CORRESPONDENCE"
LAFAYETTE
("IN THE NOBLE CAUSE WE ARE FIGHTING FOR")
"NOVELTY OF THE SCENE, THE INEXPERIENCE OF THE ACTORS...
<F 418>
AGAINST PAYING FOR THINGS WE HAVEN'T ORDERED"
J. ADAMS
"U.S. WILL DOUBTLESS GRANT SOME FACILITIES TO
FRENCH PRIVATEERS"
DE SARTINE
IN MUCH LARGER SUMS THAN IN THE ORDINARY COURSE OF
BUSINESS IS NEEDED
<D 397>CONGRESS HAVING BORROWED LARGE SUMS OF THIS
PAPER MONEY FROM ITS POSSESSORS
UPON INTEREST
AND PROMISED PAYMENT OF THAT IN EUROPE
B. FR. A. LEE J.A.
TO VERGENNES
TO KNOW HOW YOU (BEAUMARCHAIS) CLAIM THE THERESA
AS YOUR PROPER VESSEL, BECAUSE M. MONTHIEU CLAIMS HER AS HIS.
DEMURRAGE OF HER, PART OF WHICH WE HAVE PAID...
AND JOHN BAPTISTE
LAZARUS...AGENT OF CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS
REPRESENTATIVE OF RODERIQUE HORTALEZ...
"CONSECRATED MY HOUSE TO DR FRANKLIN
AND ASSOCIATES...WAS UNDERSTOOD I SHD\ EXPECT NO
COMPENSATION
I BEG LEAVE YOU PERMIT THIS TO REMAIN..."
RAY DE CHAUMONT
AS TO BERSOLLE, CHARGES FOR REPAIR OF THE DRAKE
SHD\ BE JONES'S
SUPPLIES OR SLOPS TO THE RANGER
SHD\ BE JONES'S
(PAUL JONES'S) AS THE CHATHAM BELONGS 1\2 TO THE PUBLIC
1\2 TO THE CAPTURERS
CHARGES SHD\ BE 1\2 TO MOITIE
MUNITIONS AND REPAIRS TO THE RANGER
<F 419>
TO US
B.F.  A. LEE  J.A. COMMISSIONERS
TO SCHWEIGHAUSER, BANKER
WHATEVER VESSELS OF WAR ARE SENT TO AMERICA
SHD\ BE PLENTIFULLY SUPPLIED WITH MARINE WOOLLEN CLOTHS
BLANKETS, MITTENS
DIFFICULT WITHOUT THESE IN COLD SEASON
THE COMMISSIONERS, FRANKLIN
A LEE  J. ADAMS
TO DE SARTINE
<D 398>IT IS CERTAIN THAT A LOAN OF MONEY IS VERY MUCH WANTED
AFFLY\ TO MASTER JOHNNIE
AND BELIEVE ME WITH GT\ ESTEEM, SIR,
B. FRANKLIN
LAGHORN, IF VIENNA RECEIVE AN AMERICAN MINISTER...
ALSO 2 ACTS OF THE 4TH AND 15TH ASCERTAINING YR\ SALARY...
AND MAKING PROVISION FOR YR\ SUBSISTENCE IN FRANCE
HUNTINGTON, PRESIDENT
MY DEAR GENERAL
THE SKILL OF OUR ENEMY (ENGLAND)
IN FORGING FALSE NEWS...ANNUAL CUSTOM TO
SEND OUT THESE CARGOES OF LIES IT IS
THEIR WAY OF PASSING THE WINTER
THUS BY "APPEASING THE TROUBLES IN IRELAND"
BY CONTRACTS WITH GERMAN PRINCES
AND ESPECIALLY PETERSBURG: 20,000 RUSSIANS
12 SHIPS OF THE LINE
ALSO DENMARK 45 VESSELS (LINE)
(TO LA FAYETTE AND TO GENET)
"THE ART OF POLITICAL LYING IN ENGLAND BETTER THAN ELSEWHERE)
19TH (NEXT DAY)
"NO CONTRACTS WITH GERMAN PRINCES"
<F 420>
MR BURKE'S BILL NOT YET BEING PUBLIC
MR FOX'S SEVERE OBSERVATIONS ON GOVR\ HUTCHINSON
THE PRECISE POINT OF THE SOLSTICE
SAYS BOLINGBROKE
THEY IN SINKING SCALE DO NOT EASILY CAST OFF HABITUAL
PREJUDICE.
"FOR THE CALLING AND CANCELLATION OF
200 MILLION DOLLARS
HAS IN GENERAL BEEN WELL REC'D
ELBRIDGE GERRY
DEMANDS OF THE TREASURY GENERALLY ANSWERED BY WARRANTS
@ $40 TO 1 IN SPECIE.
SAYS VERGENNES: FOR STRANGERS?
<D 399>"THE DEPRECIATION OF PAPER, A TAX (T,A,X, TAX)
THE AMERICANS HAVE LAID ON THEMSELVES...
IF FRENCH BE OBLIGED TO SUBMIT THEY WILL BE VICTIMS
OF ZEAL OR THEIR RASHNESS IN SUPPLYING THE AMERICANS
WITH ARMS, CLOTHES AND MUNITIONS"
DE VERGENNES
"I THANK YR\ EXCELLENCY FOR THE CONFIDENCE,
DO YOU MEAN THAT THE CHEVALIER DE LUZERNE HAS
ALREADY RECD\ SUCH INSTRUCTIONS OR THAT THEY ARE ON THEIR
WAY TO HIM?
LET ME QUOTE YOU SOME PRICES IN BOSTON,
FOREIGNERS HAVE PROFITED BY THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN SILVER AND BILLS OF EXCHANGE
THAT IS PAPER $25 TO 1 OF SILVER
BYT NO MORE THAN 12 PAPER FOR ONE IN BILL OF EXCHANGE
ALSO DIFFERENCE IN PAPER AS BETWEEN BOSTON AND PHILADELPHIA
IF ANY EUROPEAN MERCHANT CAN SHOW GOOD CAUSE FOR
EXCEPTION I DOUBT NOT WE WILL DO JUSTICE TO HIM."
1780
<F 421>
MAZZEI: LITTLE HOPE OF SUCCESS @ SO LOW AN INTEREST
MORE OFFERED BY POWERS OF EUROPE (TO T. JEFFERSON)
KEEPS GOOD COMPANY, DEVOTED TO YOU, WYTHE AND THE
GENTLEMEN OF VIRGINIA, KNOW NOT HOW YOU FEEL TOWARD HIM.
"VALUE DIFFERENTLY FROM YOURSELF, SIR, THE
UNION WHICH SUBSISTS BETWEEN FRANCE AND THE U.S.
AND THAT FRANCE MAY DESERVE SOME PREFERENCE
OVER OTHER POWERS
WHO HAVE NO TREATY WITH AMERICA AND WHO HAVE NOT EVEN
ACKNOWLEDGED
HER INDEPENDENCE..."
DE VERGENNES
ARMY DISCIPLINE GREATLY IMPROVED
RUSH
"IF THE FRENCH FLEET SHD\ CONSISTENTLY REMAIN ON THAT COAST"
(TO DE VERGENNES)
"NOT ABLE ON REFLECTION TO SEE WHY
<D 400>I SHD\ NOT HAVE PUBLISHED MY POWERS IN FEBRUARY"
(TO VERGENNES, JULY 17TH)
THAT I HAD INTENTION OF GOING TO AMSTERDAM
NO ARGUMENTS BUT FORCE RESPECTED IN EUROPE...
TO SHOW U.S. THE IMPORTANCE OF AN EARLY ATTENTION TO LANGUAGE
FOR ASCERTAINING THE LANGUAGE.
*CHENG(4)351-CHENG(4)
*MING(2)4524-MING(2)
MR BICKERS: THAT I SHD\ CONSIDER WHAT HOUSES
WERE CONNECTED WITH ENGLAND
AND ALSO WHICH HAD "OTHER CONNECTIONS"
EQUALLY LIKELY TO HINDER THE LOAN OR DEFEAT IT
(MEANING, I FOUND, THE FRENCH MINISTRY)
<F 422>
AND WHICH NOT OF CREDIT SUFFICIENT
(PARTICULARLY NEUFVILLE)
PROVISION FOR NEGOTIATONG THE CAPITAL 2%
FOR UNDERTAKERS TO FURNISH THE CAPITAL 2%
BROKERAGE 1\2% EXPENSES STAMPED PAPER 1\2
AMORTIZATION 2 1\4
FOR 3 MILLION GUILDERS
I ANSWERED MR CALKOEN'S QUESTIONS IN WRITING
CONVERSATION BY INTERPRETERS BEING HEAVY
AND HE THEN READ THEM TO A SOCIETY
AND THUS BEGAN TO BE KNOWN...THAT
WD\ BE BURDENSOME FOR US TO GO ON TEN YEARS WITH THE WAR
BUT FOR THE ENGLISH EQUALLY SO
THE TAKING OF CHARLESTON HAS NOT STRENGTHENED THEM
ON THE CONTRARY...
WHEN ENGLAND BORROWS EACH YEAR A SUM EQUAL
TO ALL HER EXPORTS
SHD\ WE BE LAUGHED AT FOR
WANTING TO BORROW UP TO 1\12TH (ONE TWELFTH)
OF OUR EXPORTS?
<D 401>WE SHD\ SEND REGULAR MINISTERS
"LAURENS, DONT LA FACHEUSE CATASTROPHE ME DESOLE...
(CAPTURED BY ENGLAND)
UN PARENT ME TEMOIGNE DE L'INCLINATION D'Y PLACER
VINGT MILLE FLORINS D'HOLLANDE"
VAN DER CAPELLEN
VAN DER KEMP PEUT ETRE DE GRAND UTILITE POUR LE CONGRES
"KING OF SPAIN SO GOOD AS TO OFFER HIS SURETY
FOR INTEREST AND THE CAPITAL
B. FRANKLIN
P.S. I FIND THE SUM HE WD\ GUARANTEE IS
150,000 DOLLARS
<F 423>
PAYABLE IN 3 YEARS
NO CONSIDERABLE SUM HERE OBTAINABLE AS MONSIEUR NECKER
IS MAKING A LOAN
(MEANING PLACING ONE)
DEPUIS QU'IL (MR LAURENS) EST ENFERME A LA TOUR
(I.E. THE TOWYER OF LONDON)
AMERICA IS WILLING TO GIVE A JUST INTEREST
MORTIER AND MEERKEMAER ACT UNDER MSSRS STAPHORST
I AM SORRY MR BLOMBERG IS ILL
I THINK THEM (THE TWO TENKATE) ARE CAPABLE
BUT FOUND THEM SO LIABLE TO INFLUENCE THAT I NEVER CD\ CLOSE
MR VAN VLOTEN IS AT UTRECHT"
H. BICKER
"BUT HAVE NEVER OBTAINED ANY MONEY
(12 NOV. 1780)
NOR THE LEAST HOPE OF OBTAINING"
J.A.
WHETHER SIR JO. YORKE AFTER 20 YEARS RESIDENCE
IS IGNORANT OF THE DUTCH CONSTITUTION
OR IS MERELY INSULTING
BURGOMASTERS OF AMSTERDAM ARE ONE
INTERGRAL BRANCH OF THE SOVREIGNTY
...AND DISLIKING THE FRENCH THEY FAMILIARIZED TO CALL
<D 402>ENGLAND THE NATURAL ALLY
KING OF ENGLAND DEMANDS PUNISHMENT OF THE REGENTS.
"LA PERSECUTION CONTRE M. VAN BERCKEL
AT SES COMPLICES"
CAPELLEN DE POL
DE NE PAS PRESSER VOTRE DEPART
LES AFFAIRES...CRISE...TEMPS POURRAIT
BUT DES ANLGAIS OUTRE CELUI D'AMUSER LA REPUBLIQUE D'HOLLAND
LOSS OF CHARLESTON
<F 424>
DUTCH HAVE JOINED THE NEUTRALITY
TOUT CREDIT SOIT D'UN PEUPLE SOIT D'UN PARTICULIER
...DE DEUX CHOSES
L'OPINION DE LA BONNE FOI
ET DE LA POSSIBILITE
OU IL SE TROUVE DE FAIRE FACE...
AFFAIRES (XMAS DAY, AMSTERDAM) STILL SUSPENDED
BUT STOCKJOBBING GOES ON UNINTERRUPTEDLY
AT COFFEE HOUSES ON SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS
WHEN IT CANNOT BE HELD UPON 'CHANGE
"WHAT THEY CD\ LEARN FROM DUTCH HISTORY
OR FRENCH OF THE LAST 25 YEARS"
J.A. 29 YEARS LATER
<C 69>
<F 425>
<D 403>IN WHICH CASE A MINISTER HERE FROM CONGRESS WD\ BE USEFUL
...IF THE NEUTRALITY, A MINISTER TO ALL NEUTRAL COURTS
MIGHT BE USEFUL
DEC. 31 AMSTERDAM 1780
1ST JAN. PHILADELPHIA 1781
YR\ COMMISSION PLENIPOTENTIARY SENT HEREWITH
HUNTINGTON, PRESIDENT
FOR A SECRET ADDRESS YOU MAY SEND UNDER COVER
A
MADAME LE VEUVE DE M. HENRY SCHORN
OP DE AGSTERBURG WAL BY DE HOOGSTRAAT
DEPRECIATION OF MONEY A TAX ON THE PEOPLE
PAID IN ADVANCE AND
THEREFORE PREVENTS THE PUBLIC FROM BEING FOUND IN DEBT, TRUE
BUT BY NO MEANS DISABLES THE PEOPLE FROM CARRYING ON THE WAR
MERCHANTS, FARMERS TRADESMEN AND LABOURERS GAIN
THEY ARE THE MONEYED MEN,
THE CAPITALISTS THOSE WHO HAVE MONEY AT INTEREST
OR THOSE ON FIXED SALARIES
LOSE.
ENGLAND HAS INCREASED HER DEBT 60 MILLION
OURS IS NOT OVER 6 MILLION
WHO CAN HOLD OUT THE LONGER?
THE DEPRECIATION HAS NOT TENDED TO MAKE THE PEOPLE
SUBMIT TO BRITAIN
AMERICAN EXPORTS 1774, 12 MILLION
ENGLISH DEBT 200 MILLION
THE AMERICAN DEBT ONLY SIX
<F 426>
A BRITISH MINISTER AND STOCK-JOBBER
VERGENNES IS FIXEDLY RESOLVED TO COMMIT HIMSELF TO NOTHING
NOT EVEN HIS TREATY WITH THE U.S. NOW EXISTING
<D 404>FOR THE PURPOSE OF CHICANING THE U.S. OUT OF THEIR LIBERTY
THIS CONGRESS PROPOSED AT VIENNA WITH THE TWO EMPERORS
PART OF ENGLAND'S PALAVER
LA COUR DE LONDRES ELUDERA AUTANT ET AUSSI LONG QU'ELLE PEUT
L'AVEU DIRECT
OU INDIRECT DE L'INDEPENDENCE DES ETATS UNIS
CORNWALLIS' FATE HAS EMBOLDENED THE HOLLANDERS
4 DEC. '81
CROPS IN U.S. FINEST KNOWN
"12,000 FLORINS, J'AI HONTE D'ETRE HOLLANDAIS"
6 JAN. CAPELLEN
"2 BURGOMASTERS, 2 SCHEPENS AND A PENSIONARY."
"I BELIEVE THIS SET RECEIVE AMPLE SALARIES
TO RESIST AMERICAN LOAN
BRITISH MINISTERS, DUTCH COURT, AND THE HOLDERS OF
ENGLISH STOCKS"
(TO FRANKLIN. JAN 25)
THAT THE PROVINCE OF FRIESLAND AND M. BERDSMA BE REMEMBERED
THAT MR ADAMS BE ADMITTED MINISTER FROM
THE CONGRESS OF THE U.S.N.A
RESOLVED IN THE PROVINCE HOUSE (FRIESLAND)
TO TREAT WITH THE HANSEATIC
I FOUND THE OLD GENTLEMAN PERFECTLY SOUND IN HIS
SYSTEM OF POLITICS
VERY POOR OPINION OF THE NEW MINISTRY
AND OF THE PRECEDING, INSINCERITY
DUPLICITY SHELBOURNE STILL FLATTERS THE
KING WITH IDEAS OF CONCILIATION
ALL TO RAISE THE PRICE OF STOCKS
<F 427>
AMSTERDAM 26 APRIL
IF THE HOUSES FISEAUX, HODSHON, CROMMELINS, VAN STAPHORST
5 MILLION BY AUGUST
LE CORPS DES NEGOCIANTS DE CETTE VILLE
SOUHAITANT JOINDRE LEURS ACCLAMATIONS A CEUX DE TOUTE LA NATION
J. NOLLET, SCHIEDAM
<D 405>"ON M'A DIT QUE CES MESSIEURS DE SCHIEDAM
DONNENT CE REPAS DE CENT COUVERTS
ET QU'IL Y AURA BEAUCOUP DE PERSONNES DE ROTTERDAM"
DUMAS
IT IS TRUE I MAY OPEN A LOAN FOR 5 MILLION
CASH IS NOT INFINITE IN THIS COUNTRY
WE THEREFORE (MAY 11TH 1780)
ACCEPT THE TERMS YOU PROPOSE 4 1\4TH% FOR REMEDIUM
WILLINCK
STAPHORST
FYNJETHE WORDS PIDDLING ETC\ ONCE COST ME VERY DEAR
IF YOU WD\ OPEN FOR 3 MILLION AT FIRST
...VAN VLOTEN AND I HAVE AGREED
3000 BONDS @ 1000 FRANCS EACH
WILLINCK
ETC.THE MINISTER OF THE EMPEROR IS 90 YEARS OF AGE AND
NEVER APPEARS
OSWALD'S CREDENTIALS
TO TREAT WITH THE "U.S.A. (NAMED SPECIFICLY)
AFTER THIS STATUUM QUORUM
MY DEAR GENERAL (LAFAYETTE)
MILLION AND A HALF, OF THE 3 MILLION, IN CASH
AMSTERDAM SEPT. 29
TREATY READY BY MONDAY (J.A. TO JEFFERSON)
<F 428>
7 OCT '82
THAT FRANCE WILL NOT
BE IN NECESSITY OF PURCHASING FROM RUSSIA
AFTER THE WAR AS SHE CAN THEN GET SOME FROM AMERICA?
THE KING'S LOANS DO NOT FILL
PARIS, 7TH NOVEMBER
VERGENNES CERTAINLY KNOWS THIS OR IS NOT EVEN
AN EUROPEAN STATESMAN
<D 406>\...AVOID TOO GREAT DEPENDENCE
ON ANY ONE POWER IN EUROPE
NOUS SOMMES EN ATTENDANT CHARMES DE VOIR
QUE LES ETATS DES AUTRES PROVINCES ET CONSEQUEMMENT LA
REPUBLIQUE ENTIERE ONT, A L'EXEMPLE  DES ETATS DE FRISE
RECONNU...
SIGNED LES MEMBRES DE LA SOCIETE BOURGEOISE
DE LEEUWARDE
W. WOPKINS
V. CATS
S.P.Q. AMST. FAUSTISSIMO FOEDERE JUNCTA
(ON A MEDAL)
FACTIONS, CABALS, AND SLANDERS
MANY THINGS SAID TO ME, FALSE, MORE I SUSPECT
AND YET OTHERS WD\ DO NO GOOD IF REPEATED
LONDON MAY 27. 1785
TO HIS MAJESTY IN HIS CLOSET
TO T.J.\...OF RUINING OUR CARRYING TRADE IF THEY CAN
(REMAINING PAGE CIPHERED)
BETWEEN ST JAMES AND VERSAILLES
ACT OF NAVIGATION 12 CAR. II, C 18
NAVIGATION BY AN AMERICAN MASTER
THREE FOURTHS OF THE SEAMEN AMERICAN
<F 429>
BUBBLES OF OUR OWN PHILOSOPHICAL LIBERALITY
(TO JAY, 19 AUG. '85
AND OF THE U.S. WHICH WD\ FIND MARKET IN BARBARY
IF BOTH GOVERMMENTS ARE POSSESSED OF THE CONTENTS OF MY LETTER
BY OPENING IT IN THE POST OFFICE...
MR PITT SAID THAT WD\ SURPRISE
PEOPLE HERE FOR THAT WARS NEVER INTERRUPTED
THE INTEREST OF DEBTS
FAT OF THE SPERMACETI WHALE
GIVES THE CLEAREST
AND MOST BEAUTIFUL LIGHT OF ANY SUBSTANCE KNOWN IN NATURE
<D 407>CONSEQUENCE...THAT PORTUGAL HAS, FOR FOUR SCORE YEARS,
CLOTHED HERSELF IN BRITISH WOOLENS LIKE ANY BRITISH COLONY
AND HAS NEVER BEEN ABLE TO INTRODUCE WOOLLEN MANUFACTURIES
AT HOME
AND THE BRITISH ISLANDS HAVE DRUNK NO OTHER THAN
PORT, LISBON AND MADEIRA
ALTHOUGH THE WINES OF FRANCE ARE MUCH BETTER.
HIS LORDSHIP WISHED SO TOO.
MILLION GUILDERS NEW LOAN FROM HOLLAND
PARIS 1787
"THIS COUNTRY WILL WITHIN THE NEXT 12 OR 15 YEARS
COME TO A PRETTY GOOD CONSTITUTION"
YRS\ LAFAYETTE
TO T. JEFFERSON:
"YOU FEAR THE ONE, I THE FEW."
IN THIS MATTER OF REDEEMING CERTIFICATES
THAT WERE USED PAYIN' THE SOJERS
VIGNETTE IN MARGINE
KING, SAM JOHNSON OF N. CAROLINA
SMITH (W.) S. CAROLINA, WADSWORTH (JEREMIAH
J. LAWRENCE, BINGHAM, CARROL OF CARROLTON
<F 430>
GONE PISS-ROTTEN FOR HAMILTON
CABOT, FISHER AMES, THOMAS WILLING
ROBT MORRIS, SEDGWICK
NATURAL BURELLA
SQUAD OF THE PINK-HAIRED SNOT
TRAITORS BLACKER THEN ARNOLD
BLACKER THAN BANCROFT
PER L'ARGINE SINISTRA DIENNO VOLTA
BEHIND THAT MASK MR SCHUYLER (FILIPPO)
THESE THE BETRAYERS, THESE THE SIFILIDES
ADVANCE GUARD OF HELL'S OILINESS
IN THEIR PROGENY NO REPENTENCE
QUINDI COCITO, CASSIO MEMBRUTO
<D 408>MR MADISON PROPOSED THAT THE ORIGINAL HOLDERS
SHD\ GET FACE VALUE,
BUT NOT SPECULATORS WHO HAD BOUGHT IN THE PAPER FOR NOTHING.
OV THE 64 MEMBERS OV THE HOUSE OV REPPYZENTATIVS
29 WERE SECURITY HOLDERS.
LAPPIN CREAM THAT IS, AND TAKIN IT
OFF OF THE VETERANS.
AN' MR MADISON'S MOVE WUZ DEE-FEATED.
MACLAY AND JIM JACKSON STOOD OUT AGAINST DIRTINESS'
SMELLED THIS STINK BEFORE MADISON
SMELT IT OR BEFORE HE TOLD LONG TOM ABOUT IT.
<C 70>
<F 431>
<D 409><F 431>
"MY SITUATION ALMOST THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD
WHERE FIRMNESS AND PATIENCE ARE USELESS"
J.A. VICE PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
1791
WILL THE FRENCH REFUSE TO RECEIVE MR PINCKNEY?
IDEA OF LEADING MR ADAMS...
BLOUNT (SENATOR) HAS BEEN SPECULATING WITH THE ENGLISH...
SURROUNDED BY PROJECTERS AND SWINDLERS, YOU WILL BE, GERRY,
FRIENDSHIP, MARSHALL A PLAIN MAN AND THE FROGS
COUNTENANCE ONLY ENEMIES OF OUR CONSTITUTION.
SET OUR SEAMEN ASHORE AT ST JAGO DE CUBA
TILL OUR SHIPS ARM...OFFICE OF SECRETARY AS RIVAL OF PRESIDENT
IN AIM TO HAVE QUINTUPLE DIRECTORY....VERGENNES' FRIENDS
DISLIKE THE FACTS LAID TO HIS CHARGE.
HAMILTON NO COMMAND,
TOO MUCH INTRIGUE. MCHENRY WAS SECRETARY FOR WAR, IN 98
WE SHD\ HAVE FRIGATES, NO EUROPEAN PEACE CAN BE LASTING.
EXPEDIENT TO RECOMMEND WAR AGAINST FRANCE?
(PRESUPPOSING THEY SHALL NOT HAVE DECLARED WAR AGAINST US
(THUS TO PINCKNEY.) "TALLEYRAND
AFFECTS UTTER IGNORANCE, MR GERRY HAS COMMUNICATED, ALTHOUGH
KNOWING THAT TALLEYRAND HAD MUCH GREATER ACQUAINTANCE
WITH THE
SAID X, Y, Z THAN HAS MR GERRY.
(SIGNED GERRY)
HAGUE 1ST JULY '98
PECULATORS, CD\ THEY BE AROUSED TO DRIVE OUT THE FRENCH...
VANS M\ EXHAUSTED ALL THINGS IN ENORMOUS BRIBES' (CIPHERED)
TALLEYRAND, LEAVING HOWEVER RESERVES FOR CHICANERY,
<F 432>
AND MURRAY NOT YET REMOVED FROM THE HAGUE
ABOUT "PEACE"
<D 410>SHORTLY AGO WERE HOWLING FOR WAR WITH BRITAIN,
PEACE, WAR
AIMED AT ELECTIONS. MY APPOINTMENT OF MURRAY
HAS AT LEAST LAID OPEN CHARACTERS TO ME
"YOU ARE HEREBY DISCHARGED"
JOHN ADAMS, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
TO TIM PICKERING
TO EXECUTE OFFICE SO FAR AS TO AFFIX SEAL TO ENCLOSED COMMISSION
JOHN MARSHAL OF VIRGINIA, TO BE CHIEF JUSTICE
AND CERTIFY YOUR OWN NAME PRO HAC VICE
HAMILTON'S TOTAL IGNORANCE (OR WHATEVER)
OF PRACTICE AND USAGE OF NATIONS.
ETERNAL NEUTRALITY IN ALL WARS OF EUROPE.
I LEAVE THE STATE WITH ITS COFFERS FULL
DEC 28TH 1800
73 FOR JEFFERSON
73 FOR BURR
A FEW FOREIGN LIARS, NO AMERICANS IN AMERICA
OUR FEDERALISTS NO MORE AMERICAN THAN WERE THE ANTIS
AND IN THE MIRROR OF MEMORY, FORMATO LOCO
MY COMPLIMENTS TO MRS WARREN
AS TO THE SEA NYMPHS
HYSON, CONGO, BOHEA, AND A FEW LESSER DIVINITIES
SIRENS SHD\ BE GOT INTO IT SOMEHOW.
TORIES WERE NEVER SO AFFABLE
TORIES WERE NEVER SO AFFABLE.
WE SHALL OSCILLATE LIKE A PENDULUM.
SLOW STARVATION, A CONCLAVE, A DIVAN,
WHAT SHALL WE DO WHEN WE GET THERE
(FIRST CONGRESS OF PHILADELPHY) A NURSERY
<F 433>
FOR AMERICAN STATESMEN
TREASONS, FELONIES, NEW PRAEMUNIRES
VIRGINIA HAS SOWN WHEAT INSTEAD OF TOBACCO
NEVER HAPPY IN LARGE AND PROMISCUOUS COMPANIES
<D 411>QUINCY'S KNOWLEDGE OF BOSTON HARBOUR, 2 MILLION ISSUED IN BILLS
OLD TO BIND YOUNG UNCONSENTING, WHAT RIGHT?
WHY EXCLUDE WOMEN FROM FRANCHISE?
POWER FOLLOWS BALANCE OF LAND
BEEN MONTHS HERE, AND NEVER ON HORSEBACK.
FOUNTAIN HEAD OF JUSTINIAN,
DEEP, BRACTON, DOMAT, AYLIFFE AND TAYLOR
FROM '61 HERE IN BRAINTREE
WAS AVERSION TO PAPER, THEY PREFERRED TO DO BUSINESS BY BARTER
YOU ARE RIGHT, RUSH, OUR TROUBLE IS IGGURUNCE
OF MONEY ESPECIALLY
ARE STILL STOCKJOBBERS TO BELIEVE ENGLISH REPORTS
"NO EXTRAVAGANCE IS TOO GREAT
TEN THOUSAND OF GENERAL WASHINGTON,S ARMY
GONE OVER TO CLINTON. COUNT D'ESTAING MAKING PROCESSION
THROUGH
BOSTON WITH THE HOST, AND SEIZING A MEETING HOUSE
FOR A CHAPEL AND THE DEVIL KNOWS WHAT."
40,000 RUSSIANS ABOUT TO GO THROUGH
MORE SOLICITATION AS TO MEANS OF OBTAINING IT, THAN AS TO
AMOUNT OF
MY SALARY
AT ANY RATE SEND ME THE NEWS.
QUAILS, PARTRIDGES, SQUIRRELS
GOD WILLING, I WILL NOT GO TO VERMONT
I MUST BE
(WHOLE OF FRENCH POLICY)
WITHIN SCENT OF
<F 434>
(MERELY TO STRING US ALONG TO KEEP US FROM)
THE SEA
(SINKING ENTIRELY, TO HAVE US STRONG ENOUGH FOR THEIR
PURPOSE, BUT NOT STRONG ENOUGH FOR OUR OWN, TO PREVENT US
FROM OBTAINING CONSIDERATION IN EUROPE. HENCE MY PLEASURE
IN HAVING SET UP A STANDARD IN HOLLAND.
<D 412>POPULARISER, DEPOPULARISER
TO POPULARIZE MR JEFFERSON
AND DEPOPULARISER GENERAL WASHINGTON, ALL ON SYSTEM.
WERE OUR INTEREST THE SAME AS THEIRS
WE MIGHT BETTER TRUST THEM, YET NOT ENTIRELY
FOR THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND EVEN THEIR OWN.
I HAVE HITHERTO PAID THE DUTCH INTEREST OUT OF CAPITAL
(LONDON '85 TO ART LEE)
COURT AS PUTRID AS AMSTERDAM, DIVINE SCIENCE OF POLITICS.
SALE OF SIX MILLION ACRES TO DIMINISH THE NATIONAL DEBT-
AND THE SOCIETY OF A FEW MEN OF LETTERS.
LEFT AT NEW ENGLAND COFFEE HOUSE, LONDON
WILL BE BROUGHT ME BY SOME BOSTON SEA CAPTAIN
I SHALL CALL MY BROOK, HOLLIS BROOK
AFTER GENEROUS CONTEST FOR LIBERTY, AMERICANS FORGET
WHAT IT CONSISTS OF
AFTER 20 YEARS OF THE STRUGGLE MEMINISSE JUVEBIT
"SEEKS INFORMATION FROM ALL QUARTERS, AND JUDGES MORE
INDEPENDENTLY THAN ANY MAN I EVER MET"
J.A. ON G. WASHINGTON
THAT THERE WERE AMERICANS INDIFFERENT TO FISHERIES
AND EVEN SOME INCLINED TO GIVE THEM AWAY
THIS WAS MY STRONGEST MOTIVE
FOR TWICE GOING TO EUROPE.
FISH BOXES WERE REC'D IN MY ABSENCE.
"THEIR CONSTITUTION, EXPERIMENT, I KNOW
<F 435>
THAT FRANCE CAN NOT BE LONG GOVERNED BY IT."
TO PRICE, 29 APRIL 1790
AIM OF MY LIFE HAS BEEN TO BE USEFUL, HOW SMALL IN
ANY NATION THE NUMBER WHO COMPREHEND ANY
SYSTEM OF CONSTITUTION OR ADMINISTRATION
AND THESE FEW DO NOT UNITE.
AMERICANS MORE RAPIDLY DISPOSED TO CORRUPTION IN ELECTIONS
THAN I THOUGHT IN '74
FRAUDULENT USE OF WORDS MONARCHY AND REPUBLIC
<D 413>I AM FOR BALANCE
*CHUNG(1)1504
AND KNOW NOT HOW IT IS BUT MANKIND HAVE AN AVERSION
TO ANY STUDY OF GOVERNMENT
THAMES A MERE RIVULET IN COMPARISON TO THE HUDSON RIVER
73 TO JEFFERSON, TO MR BURR 73
DUM SPIRO
NEC LUPO COMMITTERE AGNUM
SO THEY ARE AGAINST ANY RATIONAL THEORY.
DUM SPIRO AMO
<C 71>
<F 436>
<D 414>A GERMAN AMBASSADOR ONCE TOLD ME HE CDN'T BEAR
ST PAUL
HE WAS, HE SAID, SO HARD ON FORNICATION.
DISMISSED TO THE JOY OF BOTH PARTIES, I DO NOT
CURSE THE DAY I ENTERED PUBLIC AFFAIRS.
NOW IN THE FIRST YEAR BEFORE CONGRESS
(THAT IS BEFORE '74)
I WAS DRYING MY SADDLEBAGS AND FOUR YEOMEN IN THE BAR ROOM
WERE TALKING POLITICS: "IF" SAYS ONE "THEY CAN TAKE
MR HANCOCK'S WHARF AND MR ROWE'S WHARF
THEY CAN TAKE MY HOUSE AND YOUR BARN." REBEL!
I WAS DISGUSTED AT THEIR SAYING REBEL. I WD\ MEET REBELLION
WHEN BRITISH GOVERNORS AND GENERALS SHOULD BEGIN IT,
THAT IS, THEIR REBELLION AGAINST PRINCIPLES OF THE CONSTITUTION.
"AND IN THE MEAN TIME BUILD FRIGATES"
(1808 HE WROTE THIS AS IN THE BEGINNING)
IN EVERY PRINCIPAL SEA PORT...NOT TO FIGHT SQUADRONS AT SEA
BUT TO HAVE FAST SAILING FRIGATES.
FROM ENGLAND GREATER INJURIES
THAN FROM FRANCE,
I AM FOR FIGHTING WHICHEVER FORCES US FIRST INTO A WAR.
DEPRECIATED BY THE SWINDLING BANKS, A MULTITUDE
OF SUCH SWINDLING BANKS HAVE RUIN'D OUR MEDIUM
THEIR ISSUES ARE AGAINST GOLD OR ON NOTHING.
IN '45 AS A BOY
I HEARD OF THE CAPE BRETON CAMPAIGN AND OF
BRITISH INGRATITUDE
INJUSTICE OF SHIRLEY, OF BRADDOCK, OF ABERCROMBIE
AND OF WEBB AND LORD LOUDON ESPECIALLY.
<F 437>
IN '59 PITT, WOLF, AMHERST ENTHUSED ME, BUT IT WAS SHORT
IN '61 CAME WRITS OF ASSISTANCE.
<D 415>NO HISTORY OF THE PAST 20 YEARS WITHOUT DOCUMENTS
ESPECIALLY THE CIRCULAR LETTERS TO
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, WITHOUT THESE LIBELS
NO HISTORY OF THOSE DECADES '89 TO '09
I AM TOTIS VIRIBUS
AGAINST ANY DIVISION. BY THE NORTH RIVER
OR BY THE DELAWARE OR BY THE POTOMAC I AM AGAINST
ANY DIVISION OF THE UNION BY ANY RIVER
OR BY ANY CHAIN OF MOUNTAINS. INDEPENDENCE AGAINST
BRITISH POLICY? INDEPENDENCE AGAINST FRENCH INTERFERENCE,
FEDERAL PAPERS HIRED BY ENGLAND.
WHEN PUBLIC OPINION IS RIGHTLY INFORMED, AS IT NOW IS NOT,
VERGENNES SAID TO ME: MR ADAMS, NEWSPAPERS GOVERN THE WORLD.
TOOK MATLOCK, CANNON AND YOUNG'S CONSTITUTIONS
BELIEVING THEM FRANKLIN'S, THEY,
BEAUMARCHAIS AND CONDORCET, HAVE PAID. THEY DID NOT LIKE MINE.
I HAVE SAID THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION FOR
A GREAT NATION IN
EUROPE.
AN ALLIANCE WITH FRANCE OR ENGLAND
WD\ PUT AN END TO OUR SYSTEM OF LIBERTY.
THEIR INEXPERIENCE, SO SUPERFICIAL THEIR READING...
MERCHANTS WD\ SAY: THE MERCHANTS ARE TO DO AS THEY PLEASE.
WITHOUT LOUISIANA NO HOLD ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
WESTERNERS WD\ DO ANY THING TO OBTAIN FREE USE OF THAT RIVER
THEY WD\ HAVE UNITED WITH ENGLAND OR FRANCE
TO ELUCIDATE THE MEANING OF WORDS AT THAT TIME
AND THEN DETERMINE INTENTIONS
<F 438>
OLIGARCHY, INSATIABLE GULF, IRRESISTIBLE.
I AM A CHURCH-GOING ANIMAL
BUT IF I INCULCATE FIDELITY TO THE MARRIAGE BED
THEY WILL SAY IT IS FROM RESENTMENT AGAINST GENERAL HAMILTON.
AND I HAD FORGOT THE STORY
OF THE FOUR ENGLISH GIRLS GENERAL PINCKNEY WAS TO HIRE
<D 416>IN ENGLAND, TWO FOR ME AND TWO FOR HIMSELF.
THE NUMBER OF LICENCED HOUSES
WAS SOON REINSTATED, YOU MAY AS WELL PREACH AGAINST RUM TO
INDIANS
LITTLE TURTLE PETITIONED ME
TO PROHIBIT IT "BECAUSE I HAD LOST 3000 OF MY CHILDREN
IN HIS TRIBE ALONE IN ONE YEAR."
FUNDS AND BANKS I
NEVER APPROVED I ABHORRED EVER OUR WHOLE BANKING SYSTEM
BUT AN ATTEMPT TO ABOLISH ALL FUNDING IN THE
PRESENT STATE OF THE WORLD WD\ BE AS ROMANTIC
AS ANY ADVENTURE IN OBERON OR DON QUIXOTE.
EVERY BANK OF DISCOUNT IS DOWNRIGHT CORRUPTION
TAXING THE PUBLIC FOR PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS' GAIN.
AND IF I SAY THIS IN MY WILL
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WD\ PRONOUNCE I DIED CRAZY.
THEIR WIGWAMS
WHERE I NEVER FAILED TO BE TREATED WITH WHORTLE BERRIES
BLACK BERRIES STRAWBERRIES APPLES PLUMS PEACHES ETC
FOR THEY HAD PLANTED A NUMBER OF FRUIT TREES ABOUT THEM
BUT THE GIRLS WENT OUT TO SERVICE AND THE BOYS TO SEA
TILL NONE WERE LEFT THERE...
AND SO WILL BE, BELIEVE ME, WHILEVER WE FEEL LIKE
COLONISTS
DEPENDENT ON FRANCE OR ENGLAND.
WITH WOOD HEMP IRON, SAID THE CHEF D'ESCADRE
<F 439>
A NATION MAY DO WHAT IT PLEASE.
TAXES LAID, WAR SUPPORTED, THIS MUST BE.
ADAMS WRITING IN QUINCY IN 1813
HISTORIES ARE ANNIHILATED OR INTERPOLATED OR PROHIBITED...
OUR "PURE UNCORRUPTED UNCONTAMINATED UNADULTERATED
ETC"
SIR WM. KEITH IN 1739 PROPOSED SUCH AN ASSEMBLY TO THE MINISTRY
<D 417>AIMING AT STAMP TAX-HE BEING THEN, I BELIEVE, IN FLEET PRISON
HIS HINT WAS TAKEN IN '54 AND IN '64
NO GENTLEMAN OF TALENTS HAS UNDERTAKEN THIS HISTORY.
THOS MCKEAN
CAN REMEMBER NO BRITISH FRIENDSHIP
DURING THE YEARS THAT YOU INDICATE
(1600 TO 1813)
THEMIS CONDITOR
IN THE CONGRESS OF '74 ONLY PAT HENRY
HAD SENSE OF THE PRECIPICE WHERON
...AND COURAGE TO FACE IT
FRENCH, ENGLISH, MONGRELS
WE WERE DIVIDED A THIRD TO A THIRD
PERSONS WHO SAW THAT WITH OUR INDEPENDENCE
THEIR SALARIES (FROM THE GOSPEL SOCIETY OF LONDON)
WD\ NECESSARILY CEASE.
LAWS OF CHARONDAS, DESTROYED I PRESUME BY SPIRIT OF PARTY.
CIVIC POLITY ECCLESIASTICAL BIGOTRY
DESTROY EVERYTHING THAT CD\ GIVE TRUE LIGHT OR CLEAR INSIGHT
INTO ANTIQUITY...
ARISTOCRATICAL AND DEMOCRATICAL FURY...
ADOPTED BY MOSES, BY NO MEANS ACCOUNT FOR THE FACTS
...ENTITLED ACTA SANCTORUM
WHETHER THE PREPUCE SHOWN AT ANTWERP BE AUTHENTIC...
<F 440>
MANY A KEPT MISTRESS HAS DARED FOR HER LOVER
HAZARDS AND SUFFERINGS AS YOU FIND IN THE MISSION RECORDS
OR TALES OF MILITANT GLORY.
"WILL HIS SON SAVE 'EM (THE FISHING RIGHTS)
FOR A SECOND TIME?"
NO CONFIDENCE IN CLAY, GALLATIN, RUSSELL...
LAKE!! WE SHOULD HAVE COMMAND OF THE OCEAN!
J. BULL STILL BELLOWS (JULY 1814)
I WISH FRANCE MAY NOT STILL REGRET BONAPARTE
BULL GREATER TYRANT, OUR TREATY OF 1783 HAS NOT LAPSED.
LITTLE INTERCOURSE BETWEEN THE SEPARATE STATES, NO PART OF
<D 418>MY ADMINISTRATION SO UNPOPULAR, EVEN IN MARBLEHEAD,
AS WAS MY FIGHT FOR THE NAVY
THAT IS TO GET A NAVY.
JOHN ADAMS
FOR PEACE
1800
I BELIEVE NO PRINTER IN BOSTON WD\ PRINT 'EM.
ADAMS TO L. LLOYD, IN 1815)
I DO NOT BELIEVE THEY CD\ GET PRINTED EVEN TODAY
IN ANY NEWSPAPER IN BOSTON. CIRCULAR LETTERS, THE LOT OF 'EM
ARE FULL OF AS MANY LIES AS THE ACTA SANCTORUM.
MIHITES IN PENNSYLVANIA. AND THEY BELIEVED FIRMLY THAT BONAPARTE
WAS THE "INSTRUMENT" TO BRING IN MILENNIUM
CHOSEN OF PROVIDENCE TO PUT AN END TO THE POPE
JEFFERSON KNEW THEM...ALL COURTING HIM 15 YEARS
MY ANSWER WAS: COL. LYMAN
IT WILL BE AS YOU SAY BUT RUIN HONESTER MEN THAN THE LOT OF 'EM.
BURR FOLDED IT WITH GREAT GRAVITY, SAYING:
NOW I HAVE HIM ALL HOLLOW.
(RE\ LIST OF HAMILTON'S DELEGATES)
<F 441>
WALCOTT PERSISTED FOR 8%
DID THEY BELIEVE SOUTH AMERICANS
WERE CAPABLE OF FREE GOVERNMENT?
LUCID INTERVAL. THE DIRECTORY HAD ONE FOR THAT MOMENT
NO PEOPLE IN EUROPE CARES ANYTHING
ABOUT CONSTITUTIONS, 1815, WHATSOEVER
NOT ONE OF 'EM UNDERSTANDS OR IS CAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING
ANY CONSTI-DAMN-TUTION WHATEVER
GOD FORBID THAT OUR NAVY
EVER BE AS ENGLAND'S HAS BEEN A SCOURGE.
NO INDIAN'S HATCHET RAISED WHILE I WAS PRESIDENT
<D 419>NOR HAS NATURE NOR HAS ART PARTITIONED THE SEA INTO EMPIRES
OR INTO COUNTIES OR KNIGHT'S FEES
ON IT BE NO FARMS ORNATE OR UNORNATE, NO PARKS AND NO GARDENS
FISH TO US, FISHERIES, BRITAIN STILL HAS NAVIGATION RIGHTS ON
THE MISSISSIPPI
MONEY OR NO MONEY, SHE CAN NEVER CONQUER THIS COUNTRY.
"THEY WILL PRINT ANYTHING THAT WILL SELL.
"OUR CORRESPONDENCE IS CONSIDERED A CURIOSITY BY BOTH PARTIES"
ADAMS TO JEFFERSON 1815
BUT I DO NOT THINK THAT IT IS TAMPERED WITH
YOUR LETTERS SEEM TO GET HERE UNOPENED.
PRICE FOUND "GLOOMY PREDICTIONS" MOST UNWELCOME
WHEN ADAMS SAID THE FRENCH REVOLUTION WD\ FLOP
"GIVE MORE FOR JEFFERSON'S LETTERS
THAN FOR ALL THE REST IN HIS (MORGAN'S) VOLUME."
SPEECHES, RESTARTED INQUISITION IN SPAIN...
BLACK WHITE AND PIED BRITISH ALLIES.
FLEET TO PROTECT PAXTON, BIRCH, TEMPLE.
CREDIT OTIS WITH A GREAT PART OF MY ARGUMENT
HE SHOWED ILLEGALITY; TOWARD DESTROYING THE CHARTERS
POOR SOLDIERS KNEW NOT WHAT SENT 'EM
<F 442>
NORTH CALLED 'EM SAM ADAMS TWO REGIMENTS
ENORMOUS WIGS THAT HUTCHINSON BROUGHT HERE
LIKE FLEECES. BELIEVE I HAD ONLY SET
OF "STATE TRIALS" IN AMERICA
...AT STATE HOUSE WITH MY MUSKET AND BAYONET
UNDER PADDOCK
EVEN JESUITS POPES SORBONNISTS MUST HAVE SOME CONSCIENCE
SO HAD SYLLA, SO MARIUS, AND IF HANCOCK HAD VANITY
SO HAD I ALSO, IF HE RILED ME, I HIM
4 LARGE SHIPS BETWEEN BOSTON AND LONDON
IN '55 HIS UNCLE LEFT HIM THE BUSINESS
AND THIS MADE NO CHANGE IN JOHN HANCOCK
THOUSAND FAMILIES IN HIS DEPENDENCE
<D 420>THE PEOPLE ELECTED HIM AND SAM ADAMS APPROVED THEIR
INTELLIGENCE
JOSEPH HAWLEY, OTIS, SAM ADAMS, HANCOCK
ADD JAY, WITHOUT KNOWING THEIR ACTIONS
YOU KNOW NOT WHAT MADE US OUR REVOLUTION
MAGIS DECORA POETICIS FABULIS
OTIS WROTE ON GREEK PROSODY
I PUBLISHED WHAT HE WROTE ON THE LATIN
HIS DAUGHTER TOLD ME HE HAD BURNT ALL HIS PAPERS
IN MELANCHOLIA
MAY BE FROM THAT SWAT ON THE POW
FROM '74 DATES NEUTRALITY
I BEGGED OTIS TO PRINT IT (THE GREEK PROSODY)
HE SAID THERE WERE NO GREEK TYPES IN AMERICA
AND IF THERE WERE, WERE NO TYPESETTERS CD\ USE 'EM
OTIS RESIGNED HIS POST (ADVOCATE GENERAL)
AND WAS BEATEN UP BY COFFEE HOUSE BANDITS
IN GOOD LOOKING CLOTHES,
OTIS AGAINST THE WRITS, J.A. VERSUS JUDICIARY,
<F 443>
DEFENDED PRESTON, DEFENDED THE SOLDIERS;
FISHERIES, PEACE, NOMINATION OF WASHINGTON, KEPT PEACE WITH
FRANCE 1800. GOLD, SILVER ARE BUT COMMODITIES
PITY, SAYS TRACY, THEY EVER WERE STAMPED SAVE BY WEIGHT
THEY ARE COMMODITIES AS IS WHEAT OR IS LUMBER.
KEEP OUT OF EUROPE
AND THUS BEFORE CHARLIE MORDECAI:
"NOT FREE 'EM TO SOMETHING WORSE" AND QUOTED
"CONSIDER WHAT SUBSTANCE ALLOW TO; WHAT LABOUR EXTRACT FROM
THEM (SLAVES) IN MY INTEREST WHICH WILL WORK OUT TO THIS
IF YOU WORK 'EM UP IN SIX YEARS ON AN AVERAGE
THAT MOST PROFITS THE PLANTER"
WITH COMMENT:
"AND IS SURELY VERY HUMANE IF WE ESTIMATE
THE COALHEAVER'S EXPECTATION: TWO YEARS ON AN AVERAGE
AND THE 50,000 GIRLS ON THE STREETS, AT THREE YEARS' OF LIFE
<D 421>"FOR THE BETTER SECURING OF THE PLANTATIONS" TRADE
WHEREAS DIVERS ACTS 7TH AND 8TH WILLIAM THIRD
IN PREAMBLE FOR CHAPTER THE TWENTY SECOND
DON'T IT REMIND YOU OF ALDERMAN BECKFORD
INSTRUCTING HIS OVERSEERS
(TREAT 'EM ROUGH) IN THE WEST INDIES
ADAMS TO WILLIAM TUDOR
1818
24 YEARS BEFORE HOBHOUSE.
"IGNORANCE OF COIN, CREDIT AND CIRCULATION!"
=KUDIST =ATHANATON, =POLYONUME,
=PANKRATES
=AIEI
=ZEU, =PSUSEOS =ARCHEGE,
=NOMOU =META =PANTA
=KUBERNON.