Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

Question 1

First line…

Answer 1

Gr-r-r–there go, my heart’s abhorrence!

Question 2

Flower pots…

Answer 2

Water your damned flower-pots, do!

Question 3

Blood and killing…

Answer 3

If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, // God’s blood, would not mine kill you!

Question 4

Hell’s heat…

Answer 4

Hell dry you up with its flames!

Question 5

Dinner time chat…

Answer 5

I must hear // Wise talk of the kind of weather, // Sort of season, time of year:

Question 6

Latin…

Answer 6

What’s the Latin name for “parsley”?

Question 7

Lily…

Answer 7

(He-he! There his lily snaps!)

Question 8

BD and Sanchicha…

Answer 8

While Brown Dolores // Squats outside the Convent bank, // With Sanchicha, telling stories,

Question 9

Their hair…

Answer 9

Steeping tresses in the tank, // Blue-black, lustrous, thick like horsehairs,

Question 10

Cutlery etiquette

Answer 10

Knife and fork he never lays // Cross-wise, to my recollection, // As do I, in Jesu’s praise.

Question 11

29…

Answer 11

Twenty-nine district damnations,

Question 12

To hell…

Answer 12

Spin him round and send him flying // Off to hell,

Question 13

Corrupt book…

Answer 13

Or, my scrofulous French novel

Question 14

Description of book…

Answer 14

On grey paper with blunt type!

Question 15

16…

Answer 15

At the woeful sixteenth print,

Question 16

Satan…

Answer 16

Or, there’s Satan!

Question 17

Last line…

Answer 17

Hy, Zy, Hine… // ‘St, there’s Vespers! Plena gratia // Ave, Virgo! Gr-r-r–you swine!