Behove this sound of Irish sense

• Behold a proof of Irish sense! from Jonathan Swift's Epigram on the Magazine satirizing the building of the Magazine fort in the Phoenix Park: “Behold a proof of Irish sense! Here Irish wit is seen! Where nothing’s left that’s worth defence, they build a magazine.” → Swift was the author of Gulliver's Travels, whose image of Gulliver as a sleeping giant on the Lilliputian shore informs this passage

• Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves: Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, punning on the proverb Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

• behove: to be fit, right or necessary

• hoved: (Danish) head → Howth Head derives its name from this word