Same white harse

• same white horse: an allusion to W. G. Wills' play A Royal Divorce about Napoleon divorcing Josephine and marrying Marie-Louise → james S. Atherton, The Books at the Wake, p. 162: "... a scene without words. A backcloth showing the scene of Waterloo ... In the foreground on a big white horse, rode Napoleon [played by W. W. Kelly], or sometimes - apparently when Mr. Kelly wanted a rest - Wellington. It made no difference to the play who was on the horse as nothing was said, but Joyce makes great play with this interchangeability of the opposed generals."

• This is the Willingdone on his same white harse → cf. a joke quoted by Sigmund Freud in his Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious: "Von Falke brought home a particularly good example of representation by the opposite from a journey to Ireland ... The scene was a wax-work show ... A guide was conducting a company of old and young visitors from figure to figure and commenting on them: ‘This is the Duke of Wellington and his horse,’ he explained. Whereupon a young lady asked: ‘Which is the Duke of Wellington and which is the horse?’ ‘Just as you like, my pretty child,’ was the reply. ‘You pays your money and you takes your choice.’" → compare this with Wellington's assertion (on being "accused" of being Irish) that one is not necessarily a horse merely because one happened to be born in a stable!
  • Jacob von Falke, Lebenserinnerungen

• Willingdon → Willingdone

• Samen: (German) seed; sperm

• samite: a precious cloth made of six fabrics, popular in the Middle Ages

• Samnite Wars: a series of three wars fought between ancient Rome and the inhabitants of Samnium in central Italy between 343 and 290 BC
  • Wikipedia

• white horse → generally associated in Ireland with William III of Orange (King Billy), champion of the Protestant cause in the Jacobite wars (which included his victory over the Catholic James II at the Battle of the Boyne, Ireland's Waterloo) → in the 19th Century many Protestants displayed a model of the white horse in the fanlight above their front doors as a sign of their loyalty to the crown

• wide arse → HCE on the privy in his outhouse, and HCE & ALP engaged in sexual intercourse, both of which activities are involved in this complicated account of the Battle of Waterloo → there is probably also a reference to How Buckley Shot the Russian General (FW 338.04 - 355.07)
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• white hearse