Corpo di barragio

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  • Corpo di Bacco! (Italian) By Jove! (literally: Body of Bacchus!)
  • Corno di Bassetto: (Italian) basset horn, a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family → continues the theatrical and musical analogies begun by the reference to the Gaiety Theatre's "chest C" → Corno di Bassetto was the nom de plume used by George Bernard Shaw when writing as music critic of The Star in the 1880s
  • barraggio: (Italian) dam → suggests damn, another oath
  • barraggio: (Italian) barrage, as in a military barrage → line 5 below
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