When Adam was delvin and his madameen spinning watersilts

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  • When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman? a line taken from a sermon by the 14th century priest John Ball, who took a prominent role in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 → HCE and ALP
  • Delvin: old name for Dublin
  • From thee, sweet Delvin, must I part: Gerald Nugent, Ode Written on Leaving Ireland
  • delving: digging
  • Madamina: Leporello's catalogue aria in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni opens with the line, Madamina, il catalogo è questo
  • madam
  • -een: (Anglo-Irish) diminutive suffix
  • -ín: (Irish) diminutive suffix
  • Madam, I’m Adam: (palindronme) a Biblical palindrome; a longer version, Madam, in Eden I'm Adam, is also palindromic
  • watered silk: a type of silk fabric
  • silt: fluvial deposit → ALP as a river
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