| 'Beneath us, like an —'s pendent nest' (Longfellow, The Belfry of Bruges) |
ORIOLE |
| 'Speak fair words, — — be mute' (Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis) |
ORELSE |
| A Miss Pecksniff of unstrained quality, no doubt |
MERCY |
| Bemelmans heroine almost triggering Proustian recall |
MADELINE |
| Cognomen of HCE, the flatterer |
EARWIG |
| Consumed after bad translation of Dante, it may occur earlier |
ANTEDATE |
| Disraeli has him form government, with career well-documented by Keats |
ENDYMION |
| Dr Lake, the fallen angel |
MOLOCH |
| Eucharistic offering, unique to albino? |
OBLATION |
| Exist in alternative – one of de Boys |
OLIVER |
| Fiction in early play, possibly partly Shakespeare, and wholly Poquelin |
MOLIERE |
| Harp on it, it's instrumental of a god |
AEOLIAN |
| Hazlitt mistrusted the most plausible ones |
REASONERS |
| Immature, as Eban, page to Keats's Emperor Elfinan |
UNDERAGE |
| Is cut evil, perhaps, in old law book? |
LEVITICUS |