"She was entitled to her widow's dower
At common law. His legal knowledge was great
Our judges tell us.
Him Satan fleers,
Mocker:
And therefore he left out her name
From the first draft but he did not leave out
The presents for his granddaughter, for his daughters,
For his sister, for his old cronies in Stratford
And in London. And therefore when he was urged,
As I believe, to name her
He left her his
Secondbest
Bed.
Woa!" (U9.686)
"Punkt
Leftherhis
Secondbest
Bestabed
Secabest
Leftabed." (9.700)
"— Pretty countryfolk had few chattels then, John Eglinton observed, as they have still if our peasant plays are true to type." (U9.708)
"— He was a rich country gentleman, Stephen said, with a coat of arms and landed estate at Stratford and a house in Ireland yard, a capitalist shareholder, a bill promoter, a tithefarmer." (U9.710)
"Why did he not leave her his best bed if he wished her to snore away the rest of her nights in peace?
— It is clear that there were two beds, a best and a secondbest, Mr Secondbest Best said finely.
— Separatio a mensa et a thalamo, bettered Buck Mulligan and was smiled on.
— Antiquity mentions famous beds, Second Eglinton puckered, bedsmiling. Let me think." (U9.712)
"— Antiquity mentions that Stagyrite schoolurchin and bald heathen sage, Stephen said, who when dying in exile frees and endows his slaves, pays tribute to his elders, wills to be laid in earth near the bones of his dead wife and bids his friends be kind to an old mistress" (U9.720)
"(don't forget Nell Gwynn Herpyllis) and let her live in his villa.
— Do you mean he died so? Mr Best asked with slight concern. I mean...
— He died dead drunk, Buck Mulligan capped. A quart of ale is a dish for a king. O, I must tell you what Dowden said!
— What? asked Besteglinton." (U9.723)
"William Shakespeare and company, limited. The people's William." (U9.729)
"For terms apply: E. Dowden, Highfield house ....
- Lovely! Buck Mulligan suspired amorously. I asked him what he thought of the charge of pederasty brought against the bard. He lifted his hands and said: All we can say is that life ran very high in those days. Lovely!" (U9.730)
"Catamite.
- The sense of beauty leads us astray, said beautifulinsadness Best to ugling Eglinton.
Steadfast John replied severe:
- The doctor can tell us what those words mean. You cannot eat your cake and have it.
Sayest thou so? Will they wrest from us, from me, the palm of beauty?" (U9.734)
"And the sense of property, Stephen said. He drew Shylock out of his own long pocket." (U9.741)
"The son of a maltjobber and moneylender he was himself a cornjobber and moneylender, with ten tods of corn hoarded in the famine riots." (U9.742)
"His borrowers are no doubt those divers of worship mentioned by Chettle Falstaff who reported his uprightness of dealing. He sued a fellowplayer for the price of a few bags of malt" (U9.744)
"and exacted his pound of flesh in interest for every money lent. How else could Aubrey's ostler and callboy get rich quick? All events brought grist to his mill." (U9.746)
"Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen's leech Lopez, his jew's heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive:" ([U9.748])

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"Hamlet and Macbeth with the coming to the throne of a Scotch philosophaster with a turn for witchroasting." (U9.751)
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