The marriage of Montan wetting his moll we know

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  • He married his markets, cheap by foul, I know: see FW 215.19
  • montan: (obsolete spelling) mountain → HCE as a personification of the Hill of Howth
  • Montanus: a 2nd-century heretic who appears in Gustave Flaubert's novel The Temptation of Saint Anthony → he is loved by two women, Priscilla and Maximilla → HCE and Issy's two personalities
  • wedding
  • wetting: (slang) fucking
  • moll: (archaic) prostitute; a gangster's girl-friend
  • Moll: an old familiar form of Mary
  • Moll Flanders: a picaresque novel by Daniel Defoe