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Oxen of the Sun

click for large version "Send us, bright one, light one, Horhorn, quickening and wombfruit. Send us, bright one, light one, Horhorn, quickening and wombfruit. Send us, bright one, light one, Horhorn, quickening and wombfruit." (U14.2)

click for large version "Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa! Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa! Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa!" (U14.5)

click for large version "whereby maternity was so far from all accident possibility removed that whatever care the patient in that allhardest of woman hour chiefly required and not solely for the copiously opulent" (U14.45)

click for large version "but also for her who not being sufficiently moneyed scarcely and often not even scarcely could subsist valiantly and for an inconsiderable emolument was provided." (U14.47)

click for large version "Before born babe bliss had." (U14.60)

click for large version "hale so God's angel to Mary quoth." (U14.75)

click for large version "And he said now that he should go in to that castle for to make merry with them that were there. And the traveller Leopold said that he should go otherwhither for he was a man of cautels and a subtle. Also the lady was of his avis and repreved the learning knight though she trowed well that the traveller had said thing that was false for his subtility. But the learning knight would not hear say nay nor do her mandement ne have him in aught contrarious to his list and he said how it was a marvellous castle. And the traveller Leopold went in to the castle for to rest him for a space being sore of limb after many marches environing in divers lands and sometime venery." (U14.131)

click for large version "And there were vessels that are wrought by magic of Mahound out of seasand and the air by a warlock with his breath that he blases in to them like to bubbles." (U14.146)

click for large version "And also it was marvel to see in that castle how by magic they make a compost out of fecund wheatkidneys out of Chaldee" (U14.154)

click for large version "But, gramercy, what of those Godpossibled souls that we nightly unpossibilise, which is the sin against the Holy Ghost, Very God, Lord and Giver of Life?" (U14.225)

click for large version "For, sirs, he said, our lust is brief. We are means to those small creatures within us and nature has other ends than we." (U14.227)

click for large version "Whereat Crotthers of Alba Longa sang young Malachi's praise of that beast the unicorn how once in the millennium he cometh by his horn," (U14.232)

click for large version "even that blessed Peter on which rock was holy church for all ages founded." (U14.251)

click for large version "First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage." (U14.394)

click for large version "Thereto Punch Costello roared out mainly Etienne chanson but he loudly bid them lo, wisdom hath built herself a house, this vast majestic longstablished vault, the crystal palace of the Creator, all in applepie order, a penny for him who finds the pea." (U14.401)

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