Flowerwhite bodey

• flour-white body

• flower → the botanical reference was alluded to in the previous use of pyth, as well as references to the hop plant (hop in his tayle) and Dobbin's Flowery Vale (Dobbelin ayle)

• white flour → the Host which become the Body of Christ in the Catholic ritual of the Eucharist is a form of wheaten bread made from white flour
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• Flowerwhite bodey: Here, at the wake of Finnegan/Macool/HCE, his body and blood are consecrated through the blessing into the bread and ale, giving HCE a familiar Christ/Osiris-archetype