Forsin. Thy thingdome is given to the Meades and Porsons

• Upharsin: the writing on the wall, as recounted in Daniel 5:25-28: "And this is the writing that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it; TEKEL, thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting; PERES, thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians." → see also Many and Tieckle in this passage → compare this with the outwashed engravure that we used to be blurring on the blotchwall of his innkempt house (Page 13)

• kingdom

• Thingmote: the Viking place of public assembly in medieval Dublin → see thing mud a few lines above

• Medes

• mead: a meadow

• Meade: the surname of the Anglo-Irish Earls of Clanwilliam
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• G. R. S. Mead: author of Thrice Great Hermes (James Atherton, The Books at the Wake, p. 267, though it is hard to see what relevance he has here.)

• Persians

• Richard Porson: English classical scholar, who is alleged to have said, Life is too short to learn German
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• poor sons

• parsons

• for sin