Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Cyclops/311

thumb|600px|center|page=314 Annotations patois5(French) a regional or substandard dialect. The word patois originally meant: incomprehensible speech, or rude language, which is the point the Citizen is making about English. cabinet d'aisance5(French) water closet, toilet.Gifford (1988) 349. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen is a quotation from Thomas Gray's "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard" Conspuez les Anglais! Perfide Albion!5(French) Down with the English! Treacherous England.Gifford (1988) 349. Conspuez derives from the Latin conspuere (to spit on), though the primary meaning in French is to boo. The latter phrase, Perfidious Albion, is of obscure origin.Thornton (1968) 278-279. Variants of this phrase have been used a byword for English fickleness since the 13th century, while the familiar form was probably coined by Augustin, Marquis of Ximenez in 1793. See also 316.26-27. References Annotations to James Joyce's UlyssesPreceding Page | Page Index | Next Page