The marriage of Montan wetting his moll we know
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Jump to navigationJump to search- He married his markets, cheap by foul, I know: see FW 215.19
- montan: (obsolete spelling) mountain → HCE as a personification of the Hill of Howth
- Montanus: a 2nd-century heretic who appears in Gustave Flaubert's novel The Temptation of Saint Anthony → he is loved by two women, Priscilla and Maximilla → HCE and Issy's two personalities
- wedding
- wetting: (slang) fucking
- moll: (archaic) prostitute; a gangster's girl-friend
- Moll: an old familiar form of Mary
- Moll Flanders: a picaresque novel by Daniel Defoe
