Brood

• brood: offspring; children

• bride
  • bride of Christ: nun → nunce (004.17)
  • Venice: the bride of the Adriatic → in FW Venice often contains allusions to Venus (i.e. Issy)

• blood → L/R split → Sod's brood = God's blood (cf. the old minced oath 'sblood)

• blood: Shakespeare's Sonnet XIX: "Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws, / And make the earth devour her own sweet brood; / Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws, /And burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood." Compare "devour her own sweet brood" to "The old sow that eats her farrow" from Chapter 5, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

The old sow that eats her farrow