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* '''Song of Solomon 1:16: '''"Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green."'''[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28King_James%29/Song_of_Solomon] | * '''Song of Solomon 1:16: '''"Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green."'''[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28King_James%29/Song_of_Solomon] | ||
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Revision as of 19:09, 23 June 2013
- on the green always & ever → laid on the green ever & evermore → have been laid to rust upon the green
- rust: (Dutch) rest → Dutch because of the Dutch House of Orange from which the hero of the Irish Protestants, William III (King Billy, William of Orange), came
- laid to rest: dead and buried → the Orange invaders have been laid to rest
- rust: iron oxide → rust turns iron orange
- rut: sexual intercourse among mammals → in this context, laid also has sexual overtones
- green: symbolic of Ireland's Catholic, Nationalist or Republican faction (especially in Ulster) → ALP is a Catholic
- green: a village green
- there were wigs on the green: there was a public altercation; scuffles broke out
- Ulysses 337.27: "there'd be wigs on the green"
- oranges ... upon the green: HCE, a Protestant, having sexual intercourse with his wife ALP, a Catholic
- Song of Solomon 1:16: "Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green."[1]