PROTEUS
"My father's a bird, he lapped the sweet lait chaud with pink young tongue, plump bunny's face. Lap, lapin." (U3.164)
[*Ed. Wild Geese = Irish soldiers who left Ireland to serve in continental armies, mainly France. The core of the movement happened after the defeat of the Catholic Jacobite forces, led by Patrick Sarsfield, in the Williamite War. Under the Treaty of Limerick (1691), ~14,000 Irish soldiers chose exile over allegiance to the British Crown. Later, the harsh anti-Catholic Penal Laws and land dispossession continued to drive young Irish men into foreign service.]
