When Adam was delvin and his madameen spinning watersilts
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Jump to navigationJump to search- 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: an 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: (palindrome) 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
- Eve panning for gold
