CORAMBLIS
Art Neuendorffer
>
> > Art Neuendorffer ( a kind of machine for grinding
> > coleslaw out of large collections of facts)
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Ann <symposi...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> I like that, Art. Though, I think of you more as the guy who tries
> to paste a bowl of coleslaw back together as one whole cabbage.
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Terry Ross wrote:
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<<If "Corambis" does mean anything in Latin, perhaps the answer
may be found in the *CABBAGE* patch. In addition to the "crambe bis"
that Richard found in the Arden, there were such variants of "crambe"
as "coramble" and "corambla," so we could have the dative or
ablative plural *CORAMBLIS* ("for *CABBAGEs* ," "by *CABBAGEs* ,"
or something of the sort). Shakespeare uses both "coram" and "bis,"
though not together. The former appears in *The Merry Wives of
Windsor*
1.1.6, where Slender refers to Justice Shallow as "Justice of Peace
and Coram" ("Coram" here is Slender's malapropism for "quorum":
he is substituting one common bit of legal Latin for another);>>
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The Merry Wives of Windsor (Quarto 1, 1602)
Shal. : Well, the Councell shall know it.
Fal. : Twere better for you twere knowne in
. (counsell, Youle be laught at.
.
Sir Hu. : Good vrdes sir Iohn, good vrdes.
Fal. : Good vrdes, good *CABIDGE* .
. Slender I brake your head,
. What matter haue you against mee?
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. [The Merry Wives of Windsor (Folio) 1.1]
.
Shallow. : SIr Hugh, perswade me not: I will make a Star-
. Chamber matter of it, if hee were twenty Sir
. Iohn Falstoffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow
. Esquire.
.
Slen.: In the County of Glocester, Iustice of Peace and *CORAM* .
.
Shal.: I (Cosen Slender) and Cust-alorum.
.
Slen.: I, and Ratolorum too; and a Gentleman borne
. (Master Parson) who writes himselfe Armigero, in any
. Bill, Warrant, Quittance, or Obligation, Armigero.
.
Shal. : I that I doe, and haue done any time
. these three hundred yeeres.
.
Slen. : All his successors (gone before him) hath don't:
. and all his Ancestors (that come after him) may: they
. may giue the dozen white Luces in their Coate.
.
Shal. : It is an olde Coate.
.
Euans. : The dozen white Lowses doe become an old
. Coat well: it agrees well passant: It is a familiar beast to
. man, and signifies Loue.
.
Shal. : The Luse is the fresh-fish, the salt-fish, is an old Coate.
.
.. . . . . . . .
.
Shal. : The Councell shall know this.
.
Fal. : 'Twere better for you if it were known in coun-
. cell: you'll be laugh'd at.
.
Sir Hugh Euans Pauca verba; (Sir Iohn) good worts.
.
Fal. : Good worts? good *CABIDGE* ; Slender, I broke
.. your head: what matter haue you against me?
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<<Within the great hall is a fine bay window filled with
armorial stained glass bearing the arms of the Lucy family;
white pike or 'luces' on a crimson ground and cross crosslets
as well as the winged boar's head crest.>>
.
. <<Out of a Ducal Coronet,
. a Boar's head and neck, between WINGS.>>
. . -- LUCEY HERALDRY
.
. B. Jonson's _Every Man Out of his Humor_ shows
an uneducated rustic [Puntavolo] purchasing a crest:
. <<Boar without a head, rampant.>>
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. "The time has come," the Walrus said,
. "To talk of many things:
. Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
. Of *CABBAGEs--and KINGS* --
. And why the sea is boiling hot--
. And whether *PIGS have WINGS."
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. Gargantua & Pantagruel Book 4
.
Neighbour, my friend, answered Dingdong, they are meat for none
but KINGS and princes; their flesh is so delicate, so savoury,
and so dainty that one would swear it melted in the mouth.
I bring them out of a country where the *VERy HOGS* ,
God be with us, live on NOTHING but myrobolans.
The sows in the styes when they lie-in (saving the honour of
this good company) are fed only with orange-flowers. But, said
Panurge, drive a bargain with me for one of them, and I will pay
you for't like a KING, upon the HONEST word of a TRUE Trojan;
come, come, what do you ask? Not so fast, Robin, answered the
trader; these sheep are lineally descended from the VERy family
of the ram that wafted Phryxus and Helle over the sea since
called the Hellespont. A pox on't, said Panurge, you are
clericus vel addiscens! *Ita is a CABBAGE, and VERE a leek* ,
answered the merchant. But, rr, rrr, rrrr, rrrrr, hoh Robin,
rr, rrrrrrr, you don't understand that gibberish, do you?
Now I think on't, over all the fields where they piss,
corn grows as fast as if the Lord had pissed there; they need
neither be tilled nor DUNGED. Besides, man, your chemists
extract the best saltpetre in the world out of their urine.
Nay, with their *VERy DUNG (with rEVEREnce be it spoken)
the doctors in our country make pills that cure seventy-eight
kinds of diseases, the least of which is the evil of
St. Eutropius of Xaintes, from which, good Lord, deliver us!
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. SARTOR RESARTUS - Thomas Carlyle
<<"If aught in the history of the world's blindness could
surprise us, here might we indeed pause and wonder. An idea
has gone abroad, and fixed itself down into a wide-spreading
rooted error, that Tailors are a distinct species in Physiology,
not Men, but fractional Parts of a Man. Call any one a _Schneider_
(Cutter, Tailor), is it not, in our dislocated, HOODWINKed, and
indeed delirious condition of Society, equivalent to defying
his perpetual fellest enmity? The epithet _schneidermassig_
(Tailor-like) betokens an otherwise unapproachable degree of
pusillanimity; we introduce a _Tailor's-Melancholy_, more
opprobrious than any Leprosy, into our Books of Medicine; and
fable I know not what of his generating it by living on *CABBAGE*.
Why should I speak of Hans Sachs (himself a Shoemaker, or
kind of Leather-Tailor), with his _Schneider mit dem Panier_?
Why of Shakspeare, in his _Taming of the Shrew_, and elsewhere?
Does it not stand on record that the English Queen Elizabeth,
receiving a deputation of Eighteen Tailors, addressed them
with a 'Good morning, gentlemen both!' Did not the same virago
boast that she had a Cavalry Regiment, whereof neither horse nor
man could be injured; her Regiment, namely, of Tailors on Mares?
.
Thus everywhere is the falsehood taken for granted,
. and acted on as an indisputable fact.>>
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<<A Discovery of the Bermudas, otherwise called the Isle of Devils,
by Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Sommers, and Captain Newport, with
divers others. Set forth for the love of my country, and also for
the good of the plantation in Virginia. Sil. Jourdan. London.
Printed by John Woods, and are to be sold by Roger Barnes in
St. Dunstan's Churchyard in Fleet Street, under the dial. 1610.
The head of the palmetto tree is very good meat either
raw or sodden; it yieldeth a head which weigheth about
twenty pound, and is far better meat than any *CABBAGE*.>>
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Round the skirts of the valley (which is quite level, and paved
throughout with flat tiles), extends a continuous row of sixty
little houses. These, having their backs on the hills, must look,
of course, to the centre of the plain, which is just sixty yards
from the front door of each dwelling. EVERy house has
a small garden *BEFORE IT* , with a circular path,
a *SUN-DIAL* , and twenty-four *CABBAGEs*.
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`And "the wabe" is the grass-plot round a *SUN-DIAL* ,
I suppose?' said Alice, surprised at her own ingenuity.
'Of course it is. It's called "wabe," you know, because
it goes a long way *BEFORE IT* , and a long way behind it'
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The buildings themselves are so precisely alike, that
one can in no manner be distinguished from the other.
Owing to the vast antiquity, the style of architecture
is somewhat odd, but it is not for that reason the less
strikingly picturesque. They are fashioned of hard-burned
little BRICKS, red, with black ends, so that the walls
*look like a chess-board upon a great scale* .
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. - Poe, Edgar Allan - THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY
. first published in the *May 18, 1839* issue of
Philadelphia's Saturday Chronicle and Mirror of the Times.
.
<<It is a satirical short story, making fun of the United States
President Martin Van Buren and his election methods, by ridiculing the
inhabitants of Vondervotteimittis, with their strong Dutch features.
This methodical, boring and quiet little borough is devastated by the
arrival of a devilish figure playing a big fiddle who comes straight
down from a hill, goes into the belltower and eventually kills the
belfry-man. It can be looked upon as a satire of New York City
(originally settled by the Dutch) which has now been "invaded" by the
"Devil" (i.e., the Irish): the "Devil" plays on his fiddle an out-of-
tune song called "Judy O'Flannagan and Paddy O'Rafferty" - stock
character names for Irish Immigrants. Critics often compare the tale
to another New York satire, "A History of New-York" written by
Washington Irving under the pseudonym "Diedrich Knickerbocker."
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Between 1908 and 1914, French composer Claude Debussy worked on two
one-act operas, one based on The Devil in the Belfry and the other
based on The Fall of the House of Usher. However, only 30 minutes of
Usher were completed before Debussy's death. For his adaptation of
"The Devil in the Belfry," he said he wanted to create "a happy
blending of the real and the fantastic." His version of the devil, he
said, would "put an end to the idea that the devil is the spirit of
evil. He is simply the spirit of contradiction." The character of the
devil was not intended to speak or sing, only whistle.>>
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In 1904, at the suggestion of his editor at McClure's,
Witter Bynner, O. Henry published his first book,
, *CABBAGEs and KINGS* .
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Art Neuendorffer