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Chapter 6
Twentyyearshedalliedtherebetweenconjugialloveanditschastedelightsandscortatoryloveanditsfoulpleasures.YouknowManningham’sstoryoftheburgher’swifewhobadeDickBurbagetoherbedaftershehadseenhiminRichardIIIandhowShakespeare,overhearing,withoutmoreadoaboutnothing,tookthecowbythehornsand,whenBurbagecameknockingatthegate,answeredfromthecapon’sblankets:WilliamtheconquerorcamebeforeRichardIII.Andthegaylakin,mistressFitton,mountandcryO,andhisdaintybirdsnies,ladyPenelopeRich,acleanqualitywomanissuitedforaplayer,andthepunksofthebankside,apennyatime.
CourslaReine.Encorevingtsous.Nousferonsdepetitescochonneries.Minette?Tuveux?
—Theheightoffinesociety.AndsirWilliamDavenantofOxford’smotherwithhercupofcanaryforanycockcanary.
BuckMulligan,hispiouseyesupturned,prayed:
—BlessedMargaretMaryAnycock!
—AndHarryofsixwives’daughter.AndotherladyfriendsfromneighbourseatsasLawnTennyson,gentlemanpoet,sings.ButallthosetwentyyearswhatdoyousupposepoorPenelopeinStratfordwasdoingbehindthediamondpanes?
Doanddo.Thingdone.InaroseryofFetterlaneofGerard,herbalist,hewalks,greyedauburn.Anazuredharebelllikeherveins.LidsofJuno’seyes,violets.Hewalks.Onelifeisall.Onebody.Do.Butdo.Afar,inareekoflustandsqualor,handsarelaidonwhiteness.
BuckMulliganrappedJohnEglinton’sdesksharply.
—Whomdoyoususpect?hechallenged.
—Saythatheisthespurnedloverinthesonnets.Oncespurnedtwicespurned.
