Brood

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  • brood: offspring; children
  • bride
    • bride of Christ: nun → nunce (004.17)
    • Venice: the bride of the Adriatic → in FW Venice often contains allusions to Venus (i.e. Issy)
  • blood → L/R split → Sod's brood = God's blood (cf. the old minced oath 'sblood)
  • blood: Shakespeare's Sonnet XIX: "Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws, / And make the earth devour her own sweet brood; / Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws, /And burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood"
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