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Ulysses

pillows on which were four tickets with these words
printed on them, Pickaback and Topsyturvy and
Shameface and Cheek by Jowl and, second, for that foul
plague Allpox and the monsters they cared not for them

for Preservative had given them a stout shield of oxengut
and, third, that they might take no hurt neither from
Offspring that was that wicked devil by virtue of this same
shield which was named Killchild. So were they all in
their blind fancy, Mr Cavil and Mr Sometimes Godly, Mr
Ape Swillale, Mr False Franklin, Mr Dainty Dixon, Young
Boasthard and Mr Cautious Calmer. Wherein, O
wretched company, were ye all deceived for that was the
voice of the god that was in a very grievous rage that he
would presently lift his arm up and spill their souls for
their abuses and their spillings done by them contrariwise
to his word which forth to bring brenningly biddeth.
So Thursday sixteenth June Patk. Dignam laid in clay
of an apoplexy and after hard drought, please God, rained,
a bargeman coming in by water a fifty mile or thereabout
with turf saying the seed won’t sprout, fields athirst, very
sadcoloured and stunk mightily, the quags and tofts too.
Hard to breathe and all the young quicks clean consumed
without sprinkle this long while back as no man
remembered to be without. The rosy buds all gone brown

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