'Twas he was the dacent gaylabouring youth.

• ’Twas he was the dacent gaylabouring youth → the second of four comments by the Four Old Men (×)

• decent → pronounced daysent in parts of Ireland

• gay: dissipated; pleasure-loving; whorish; licentious; homosexual

• gaying instrument: the penis → stiff and Priam
  • Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

• daylabourer: a worker who is paid on a daily basis