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The Reckoning
Corn-king, thee
Torch, keening... (torchlit night time funerals
were typical of Tudor era)
(keened, keenˇing, keens
To wail in lamentation, especially for the dead.
http://dictionary.reference.com/ )
Creek not nigh? (Deptford Creek)
Night on creek...
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Aldebaran
A lean bard
An ale, bard?
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Hail poet so underfed!
Ale-house in Deptford
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Widow Bull
willow bud
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Pot of willow bud tea do, Dr.?
O O Widow Bull at Deptford!
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> Widow Bull
> willow-bud
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> Pot of willow bud tea do, Dr.?
> O O Widow Bull at Deptford!
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"Polly, (Poley) put the kettle on,
We'll all have tea.
Sukey, (Skeres) take it off again,
They've all gone away."
(nursery rhyme)
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At Widow Bull's house............ (anagrams)
Who will douse a stub ???
Who was ill ? do use tub !
Ill used ? O but who was ?
But who will do as *Sue*? (or Sukie! :) )
Who will *doubt* as *Sue* ? (a Sue-donym !)
Do a *will* ? but who sues...?
Doubt a *will* ? who sues...?
A will ? who doubts "Sue" ? (Kit's will)
Old law, I...but who sues ?
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more anagrams of
The Reckoning
> Torch, keening...
(note Torch is a name for Aldebaran!)
Kit go ? Nr. Ch., e'en (evening)
No K. ? "greet" in Ch. ... (*greet* can mean cry)
No Kit ? ... Ch. green ... (with laurels)
Kit on Ch. green (like a "village green" )
O King enter Ch. ...?
*Green* kin, to Ch. ?
(Matilda Green, likely to be Kit's grandmother)
Three con king ?
"Conker" the gin ?
a midsummer night's dream
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