Mous at hand

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  • close at hand: Joyce, Letters 13-05-1927 (to Harriet Shaw Weaver)
  • mous = Chaucerian form to suggest distance in time: Joyce, Letters 13-05-1927 (to Harriet Shaw Weaver)
  • mous: (archaic) mouse → Hickory Dickory Dock, The mouse ran up the clock
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