Bidimetoloves

• biddymetolives → bidimetoloves
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• Bid me to live: Robert Herrick (1591-1674), To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything, in Hesperides (1648), lines 1-2: "Bid me to live, and I will live/ Thy Protestant to be" → Herrick's cavalier love-lyric was set to music by John L. Hatton (1809-86)
  • Ulysses 614.33: "Bid me to live and I will live thy protestant to be"

• Protestants → contrasted with tegotetabsolvers, or Catholics

• pity me to love

• Biddy Doran: the Earwickers' hen
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• Biddy O'Brien: a character in the ballad Finnegan's Wake; it is the fight between Biddy O'Brien and Maggy O'Connor that sets off the riot at Tim Finnegan's wake, during which a splash of whisky revives his dead body