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* '''on the green always & ever''' → '''laid on the green ever & evermore''' → '''have been laid to rust upon the green''' ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] * '''rust:''' (''Dutch'') rest → Dutch because of the Dutch House of Orange from which the hero of the Irish Protestants, William III (King Billy, William of Orange), came * '''laid to rest:''' dead and buried → the Orange invaders have been laid to rest * '''rust:''' iron oxide → rust turns iron orange * '''rut:''' sexual intercourse among mammals → in this context, '''laid''' also has sexual overtones * '''green:''' symbolic of Ireland's Catholic, Nationalist or Republican faction (especially in Ulster) → [[ALP]] is a Catholic * '''green:''' a village green ** '''there were wigs on the green:''' there was a public altercation; scuffles broke out ** '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 337.27:''' "there'd be wigs on the green" * '''oranges ... upon the green:''' [[HCE]], a Protestant, having sexual intercourse with his wife [[ALP]], a Catholic * '''Song of Solomon 1:16: '''"Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green."'''[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28King_James%29/Song_of_Solomon] [[Category:green]] [[Category: Old Testament]] *'''Rust upon the Green''': reference to the flag of Ireland, with green and orange bordering white.

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