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  • Pretty Molly Brannigan: (song) "When I hear yiz crying around me, ‘Arrah, why did ye die?’"
  • oros (ορος): (Greek) mountain → mon two lines above
  • orra: idle, worthless; odd
  • arrah: (Anglo-Irish interjection) but, now, really, then, truly; used at the beginning of a clause in an expostulatory or deprecating sense
  • diie: in FW ii usually denotes Issy (her "eyes")