Baddelaries

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"Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes and the Verdons cata- pelting the camibalistics out of the Whoyteboyce of Hoodie Head. Assiegates and boomeringstroms. Sod's brood, be me fear! Sanglorians, save! Arms apeal with larms, appalling"

Here, there are references to Charlemagne and the battles that established early (and late) Europe:

Baddelaries = Baudelaire (i.e., a pun on the poet, "Charles" the "great" Frenchman) = battle-Aries (the sign Aries is ruled by Mars, the planet/god of war) = battering-ram (Aries the ram)

a "partisan" is not only a fighter in a battle but also a later version of the battering ram

Malachus Micgranes may be a pun on Carolus Magnus, or anagram of Charlemagne

Verdons = Verdun = Treaty of Verdun (divided Charlemagne's kingdom among his three sons in AD 843) = Battle of Verdun, one of the bloodiest battles of World War I (1916), between the French and the Germans (Charlemagne's kingdom had included much of modern France and Germany)

catapelting = catapult + pelting

camibalistics = cannibal + ballistics (and reference to cannon-ball)

Sod's brood = 'sblood (by God's blood, an oath) = commoners/peasants? (sod = earth, brood = children = children of the earth)

Sanglorians = blood (sangus) + Angles (invaders of England) + Aryans (invading northern tribes); = sans glory (without glory)

Assiegates = Assegai (African type of spear) ostrogoths? Austria-gates?

boomeringstroms = boomerangs (+ booming storms)?

arms = weapons; larms = alarums = calls to arms; appalling = rendering bloodless (appall = lose pallor, become pale)