The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]

19043 To be tabulary, must know the Manuale

19044 to recite it, and the Basiliks, 60 books

19045 and draw up an act in the presence, and be sponsored

19046 by the primicier and his colleagues

19047 and to have a clear Handschrift

19048 and be neither babbler nor insolent, nor sloppy in habits

19049 and have a style. Without perfect style

19050 might not notice punctuation and phrases

19051 that alter the sense,

19052 and if he writes down a variant

19053 his sponsors will be responsible

19054 Give him time to show what he's got.

19055 And the smoke at his consecration,

19056 incense

19057 shows how his thought shd/ go. Upward, videlicet.

19058 And be fined if he miss procession

19059 and the college shall go to his funeral.

19060 SILVERSMITHS may buy what pertains to their trade,

19061 not copper,

19062

19063 nor linen save for their personal use.

19064 If ladies (? ) want to sell jewelry

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19065 let the goldsmith report to the Prefect &

19066 Be sure it is not for export.

19067 If they adulterate

19068 Shall cost 'em a hand

19069

19070 If foreigners try to sell the two metals,

19071 report it.

19072 If a silversmith buy sacred vessels, intact or otherwise,

19073 let him report this to the Eparch

19074 and a goldsmith report purchase of any unmarked

19075 gold over one pound;

19076 Work to be done ... on Main St.

19077 Not in the goldsmith's home

19078 And no one to be brought into the guild without notice

19079 (aveu du prefet) What was the greek for aveu

19080 in this instance?

19081 rather nice use of aveu, Professor,

19082 though you were looking at .

19083 From the Palace, half-circle that street is,

19084 ending near the seven-towered castello.

19085 Bankers not to file coins

19086 nor make false ones

19087 Nor put a slave () in charge of their business

19088 ‹ › (double m)

19089 If they do not notify counterfeits that come in

19090 and from whom

19091 shall be flogged, shaved and exiled

19092 And in this there can have been few innovations

19093 And before this was that affair of Habdimelich

19094 Anno sexto imperii, of the Second Justinian

19095 "pacem".
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XCVII

19096 Melik & Edward struck coins-with-a-sword,

19097 "Emir el Moumenin" (Systems p. 134)

19098 six and ½ to one, or the sword of the Prophet,

19099 SILVER being in the hands of the people

19100 "and for the first time in my life

19101 "I had thousand $ bills in my hand-bag"

19102 (Princess A.)

19103 after the 27/75 Spew Deal wangle

19104 one billion and whatso in dinars, Gothic 8,

19105 barleycorn, habbeh, tussuj, danik, one mithcal,

19106 Shafy and Hanbal both say 12 to 1,

19107 Roman Christers

19108 "and by devlish ingenuity Abd-el-Melik"

19109 says, ut supra Paulus the Deacon, out of Theophanus,

19110 & went decimal,

19111 and the Prophet

19112 set tax on metal

19113 (i. e. as distinct from) & the fat 'uns pay for the lean 'uns,

19114 said Imran,

19115 & a king's head and "NOUCH KHOR" persian,

19116 optative, not dogmatic,

19117 in fact as sign of

19118 cordiality and Royal benevolence.

19119 AND in 1859 a dirhem "A.H. 40" was

19120 paid into the post-office, Stamboul.

19121 Struck at Bassora

19122 36.13 English grains.
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19123 "I have left Irak its dinar",

19124 & one fifth to God.

19125 Percussum forma publica corium. JANUS ACE.

19126 Said Lear: "not for coining." "Can't get me on that, I am Royal."

19127 "This leather" (Seneca)

19128 Charisius, cited by Scaliger,

19129 Andoleon of Paeonia,

19130 Gold scrupulum: 20 aces. A. U. 437

19131 but now they play with 12 draughtsmen,

19132 the scrupulum one 9th of an aureus

19133 B. C. 316

19134 "Outre la livre pondérable,"

19135 2000 aces: one double eagle,

19136 Monsieur Gibbon nearer than Mommsen at this point

19137 or than Lenormant

19138 "Qu'on décrie"

19139 that was after Caligula

19140 And that the Senate coined after Nero

19141 June 9th, 68,

19142 LIBERTATI

19143 to July of the next year

19144 LIBERTAS RESTITUTA.

19145 £. s. d. as from Caracalla,

19146 Venice, Florence, Amalfi maintained 12 to 1 ratio,

19147 one gold against that in silver,

19148 leather stamped at the siege of Faenza &

19149 in Mathew Paris for 1250 anno Domini (Aug.).

19150 In Avignon wrote of transmutation, that is, Papa Johannes

19151 wrote there of the transmutation of metals,

19152 Darius, and Targitaus, nowt new in monopoly.

[Page 670]
19153 Cicero tried to keep gold in the country Senatus Consulto,

19154 "gravissime me consule judicavit".

19155 Theodosian Code thirteen, eleven, eleven,

19156 £. s. d. from Caracalla

19157 first fish & vadmal or cloth money, then "baug" rings

19158 pseudo roman, and then, later, moslem

19159 dinars, maravedis,

19160 kelt coin & norse "herring", 8 stycas: one scat

19161 "That most powerful engine" says Del Mar.

19162 King Offa at 6 and ½

19163 Alfred, finally, Athelstan 12;

19164 Canute opposing Byzantium, 20 scads to the dinar,

19165 100 scads to the mark (of accountancy)

19166 Edgar's leather (?) came after Athelstan

19167 "thon yilden he gon rere"

19168 that is, guilds into England,

19169 "And he, the president, is true to his caste

19170 "and that caste," said old Lampman, "the underworld."

19171 1948

19172 Mencken joked inopportunely. "I am sorry,"

19173 said the London judge, "that this has been brought as a civil

19174 and not as a criminal action."

19175 Missenden, Dunmore for coining, not me, said Lear,

19176 a canon of Sempingham, clandestine export.

19177 Offa's gold, then all hiatus, then Henry,

19178 Crimen majestatis, the Third, &the plebs

19179 not then in public affairs

19180 AT all, utterly, and in 1914 british sovreigns

19181 poured into the Philadelphia mint in great quantity

19182 and were promptly restamped with eagles.

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19183 Coins struck by Coeur de Lion in Poitou,

19184 Caxton or Polydore, Villon: "blanc",

19185 a gold Bacchus on your abacus,

19186 Henry Third's second massacre, wheat 12 pence a quarter

19187 that 6 4/5ths pund of bread be a farden

19188 Act 51, Henry Three. If a penny of land be a perch

19189 that is grammar

19190 nummulary moving toward prosody

19191 ..

19192 after Dandolo got into Byzance

19193 & worsened AND ...

19194 and the Third Edward

19195 (not to mention the VIIth)

19196 Thus Dante: "Senna"; and Villon: "décrie".

19197 & in 1311 the barons wanted a voice in the chapter

19198 "coignagio stagminis"

19199 "that religious men as well as all other

19200 shall forfeit."

19201 Almoravedis' gold was in Britain

19202 with bezants

19203 & after

19204 40 to 43 grains of true gold.

19205 Old standard of Araby, 9, 7, 9?

19206 And out of Scanda in Colchis,

19207 Getes had been in Cythera

19208 (vide Pausanias, the Laconics)

19209 2 doits to a boodle, 3 1/3 bawbee: 160 doits.

19210 Will they get rid of the Rooseveltian dung-hill

19211 And put Capn. Wadsworth back in the school books

19212 ED. Three, dei gratia, "old standard"

[Page 672]
19213 & there was a good deal of sand-paper ordered,

19214 a staple which seems to move without great publicity.

19215 Mons of Jute should have his name in the record,

19216 thrones, courage, Mons should have his name in the

19217 record.

19218 Vasa klipped for the people, Lycurgus, nomisma,

19219 and "limitation is the essence of good nomisma"

19220 but Goertz von Schlitz had not thought of this,

19221 Sweden, Pultawa, and was in any case,

19222 executed for something

19223 1745 Copjenhaven, the nine year old bank relieved of conver-

19224 sion.

19225 When kings quit, the bankers began again.

19226 15.08 Denmark and Scandinavs (ratio) in '73

19227 18, that is 1873

19228 on which Mr Benton would have reflected, as per:

19229 the CONtinuous effort to have it different somewhere or other.

19230 And if these were quarter dirhems in Friesland

19231 they should be of ratio 6 & one half

19232 to the quarter (talis est) dinars of Spain.

19233 "The olde double-ducat,

19234 The olde turkish grouch."

19235 And then Amsterdam (1609) busted the Wisselbank

19236 and said who shd/ deal in exchange,

19237 But Mr Del Mar does not, at this point,

19238 connect issue with backing,

19239 though he is all for a proper total proportion

19240 between total issue and buyables,

19241 Ike, '55, had got that far.

19242 And Baffico had papers, daily papers, giornali.

[Page 673]
19243 "And as to Thomas, legat de Leicestre:

19244 that our coin be raised

19245 as is that of the Emperor." 1526

19246 "As ours is being conveyed out of the Realm". "Ad perpetuam

19247 liberationis divinae memoriam", said the Dutch on white

19248 pasteboard.

19249 "Rien de ce monde", said Villon, inclusively

19250 "Godt behoede."

19251 Pugno pro patria. And

19252 degradations, depradations, degradations whatsodam

19253 of emperors, kings and whatsodam,

19254 Dukes et cetera have since been exceeded,

19255 Kitson, Fenton & Tolstoi had observed this.

19256 And by curious segregation Brooks Adams ignores him, Del

19257 Mar,

19258 and he, Adams, so far as I have yet met them,

19259 despite stylistic resemblance.

19260 "Salzburg alone struck full weight."

19261 The 1806 Prussian notes

19262 ran 90 years,

19263 Octonary sun-worshiping Baltic.

19264 371 ¼ grains silver in Del's time

19265 as I have seen them by shovels full

19266 lit by gas flares.

19267 One wd/ suppose Theresa's 390,

19268 but were, apparently, 353 and a fraction,

19269 at Salzburg 5 more, or supposedly 361, or

19270 "Window-dressing" as Bryan admitted to Kitson.

19271 "Legal in all states (1841) of the Zollverein

19272 and in 1873 was a crisis

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19273 in vain did Hume, in vain von Humboldt!"

19274 Such suckers, or at any rate sophists as

19275 Cobden and Liverpool.

19276 A disc of light over yon Humboldt.

19277 Von Schultz and Sir William Harcourt

19278 both wished to retain some national independence,

19279 "so long as a state resigns ...

19280 "something" sd/ Frank Harris

19281 "the value of which is unknown".

19282 Albuquerque made discs in Goa.

19283 18, CHARLES SECOND c. 5

19284 In 1816 gave up power over the ratio

19285 and 1870 gave up the remains of prerogative.

19286 "Victoria, Victoriaa, w'ere 'ave I 'eard that nyme:"

19287 Goldsmiths not aiming at [Image] i

19288 not ruled by Sophia ()

19289 ,

19290 Del Mar examined Gansl,

19291 that would have been in the time of Centennial

19292 50 years after Mr Jefferson's death.

19293 "Duped into double indebtedness",

19294 "Portcullis" struck by the Crown, but Charles

19295 let the East Indias do it

19296 "with the Company's own devices".

19297 Assyria, Babylon, Macedonia,

19298 always more somewhere than somewhere,

19299 but the (abbreviare) the great gap declining.

19300 Steed asked Douglas about the rupee.

19301 1858: End of the Company.
[Page 675]
19302 Sylla 9 (ratio 9), Caesar 12

19303 and stayed there till the fall of Byzantium.

19304 "The signal was given by Mr Marble"

19305 (a modest name from some angles)

19306 "Not read except by title". Mr Carlyle:

19307 "This coil of Geryon" (Djerion) said Mr Carlyle,

19308 in Congress,

19309 who later went to the Treasury,

19310 New fronds,

19311 novelle piante [Image]

19312 what ax for clearing?

19313 [Image] ch'in1 [Image] tan4 [Image] ch'in1

19314 the gloss, probably,

19315 not the colour. So hath Sibilla a boken ysette

19316 as the lacquer in sunlight

19317 & shall we say: russet-gold.

19318 That this colour exists in the air

19319 not flame, not carmine, orixalxo, les xaladines

19320 lit by the torch-flare,
19321 & from the nature the sign, [Image]

19322 as the small lions beside San Marco. Out of ling

19323 the benevolence
19324 Kuanon, by the golden rail,

19325 Nile the flames gleam in the air

19326 and in the air

19327 Bernice, late for a constellation, mythopoeia persisting,

[Page 676]
19328 (now called folc-loristica)

19329 reserpine clearing fungus,

19330 Uncle William frantically denying his

19331 most intelligent statements (re/every individual soul, per esem-

19332 pio)

19333

19334 [Image]

19335 "Ten men" said degli Uberti "who will charge a

19336 nest of machine guns

19337 "for one who will put his name on a chit."

19338 All neath the moon, under Fortuna,

19339 splendor' mondan',

19340 beata gode, hidden as eel in sedge,

19341 all neath the moon, under Fortuna

19342 hoc signo [Image] chen (four), hoc signo

19343 with eyes pervanche,

19344 three generations, San Vio

19345 darker than pervanche?

19346 Pale sea-green, I saw eyes once,

19347 and Raleigh remarked, on Genova's loans non-productive,

19348 that they had only their usury left,

19349 and there was that Führer of Macedon, dead aetat 38,

19350 The temple [Image] is holy,

19351 because it is not for sale.

[Page 677]
19352 "No, George, don't you be with that fellow for president,

19353 "We don't know what he'll do next."

19354 Some faint connection

19355 between criminality and calamity,

19356 lo jorn, Der Tag

19357 that at least a few should perceive this [Image] tan

19358 Arnaut spoke his own language, 26th Purgatorio,

19359 above the Moon there is order,

19360 beneath the Moon, forsitan.

19361 And if, say, we had a pope, like Pisani?

19362 abbreviare

19363 faster than it distributes the power to buy,

19364 but the interval, 15, 16, (vide Benton)

19365 as from 12 to 6 and one half,

19366 but by that time they found some other wangle,

19367 by '78, T.C.P. said "non-interest-bearing"

19368 as from Adams to Rush, as from Vasa (Gustavus)

19369 Since when they have had several wars.

19370 Pieire Cardinal mentioned that subject.

19371 Earth under Fortuna,

19372 each sphere hath its Lord,

19373 with ever-shifting change, sempre biasmata,

19374 gode,

19375 "Not difficult to make"

19376 said Brancusi

19377 "mais nous, de nous mettre en état DE les faire."

19378 "Je peux commencer une chose tousles jours,

19379 mais fi---nir!"

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19380 "All true," said Griffith

19381 "but I can't move 'em with it."

19382 Ownership? Use? there is a difference.

19383 The temple [Image] is not for sale.

19384 "Always" said Del Croix, "the same things".

19385 "By the conquest," said Picabia, "of Alsace-Lorraine".

19386 Art is local,

19387 Ike driven to the edge, almost, of a thought.

19388 Started with a limited (if not by dogma, but in practice)

19389 suffrage of the qualified,

19390 now at the top.

19391 Tried to get Essad out,

19392 but he died at the gate-post,

19393 and you will certainly not convert them

19394 if you remove the houris from Paradise.

19395 Even Aquinas could not demote her, Fortuna,

19396 violet, pervanche, deep iris,

19397 beat' è, e gode,

19398 the dry pod could not demote her, plenilune,

19399 phase over phase.

19400 Dante had read that Canzone.

19401 Birds, said Hudson, are not automata.

19402 Even Jonathan Edwards is said to have noticed trees,

19403 and as for who have a code and no principles ...

19404 The Twelve Tables penalized satire,

19405 and some one has wiped out most of Lucilius

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19406 and there is, of course, very little about Antoninus

19407 left in their records,

19408 Luigi, gobbo, makes his communion with wheat grain

19409 in the hill paths

19410 at sunrise
19411 ONE, ten, eleven, chi con me [Image] tan?
19412 And the dogmatic leave to lie now and again

19413 to maintain their conformity,

19414 the chun tze, never.

19415 And as for the original-sin racket ... the hex-hoax,

19416 Aswins drawing the rain-cloud,

19417 Fou-Hi by wood.

19418 In a buck-board with a keg of money: Damn you, I

19419 said I would get it (the wages).

19420 The temple is holy [Image] because it is not for

19421 sale

19422 From Sargon of Agade

19423 [Image]

19424 a thousand years before T'ang,

19425 gothic arch out of India,

19426 from Multan 700 li,

19427 torchlight, at Multan, offer perfume,
[Page 680]
19428 Son of Herakles, Napat son of Waters,

19429 Panch, that is Phoenician, Tyanu

19430 [Image] lion head

19431 Came then autumn in April and

19432 "By Knoch Many now King Minos lies",

19433 From Sargon to Tyana

19434 no blood on the altar stone.

19435 "As THAT!" said Ungaro,

19436 "It is just as hard as that"

19437 (jabbing a steel cube with his pencil butt

19438 and speaking of mind as resistant).

19439 Ville d'Avray, Pré Catalan, permanence,

19440 an interest in equity

19441 not in mere terminology

19442

19443 metah, not so extraneous, possibly not so extraneous

19444 most "metas" seem to be in with.

19445 "Had not thought about government", Adams;

19446 "or civilization" said Monsieur Bonaparte,

19447 at least I think it was Bonaparte.

19448 The artigianato bumbles into technology,

19449 "Buckie" has gone in for structure (quite rightly)

19450 but consumption is still done by animals.

19451 "Luce benigna, negli occhi tuoi,

19452 Quel che voglio io, tu vuoi?

19453 Tu vuoi."

19454 May 4th. Interruption

19455 mid dope-dolls an' duchesses

[Page 681]
19456 tho' orften I roam,

19457 some gals is better,

19458 some wusser

19459 than some.

19460 But that the free-born run wade into slavery

19461 this is not good;

19462 run wode in job hunting,

19463 this is NOT good.

19464 "Got no stone" said Knittl. [Image]
19465 [Image]
19466 Flowers, incense, in the temple enclosure,

19467 no blood in that TEMENOS

19468 when crocus is over and the rose is beginning.

19469 PAUL, the Deacon, Migne 95.

19470 Upsala, was the golden fane,

19471 ministrat virtutem, Fricco, pacem. Voluptatem,

19472 ingenti Priapo.

19473 Dea libertatis, Venus.

19474 Agelmund son of Ayon, reigned 33 years.

19475 PUER APULIUS

19476 "Fresca rosa" sang Alcamo.
[Page 682]
19477 Of Antoninus very little record remains
19478 [Image]
19479 That he wrote the book of the Falcon.

19480 Mirabile brevitate correxit, says Landulph

19481 of Justinian's Code

19482 and built Sta Sophia, Sapientiae Dei

19483 [Image]
19484 As from Verrius Flaccus to Festus (S.P.)

19485 that the greeks say ,

19486 being less elegant.

19487 All this came down to Leto (Pomponio)

19488 wanting the right word .

19489 Deorum Manium, Flamen Dialis & Pomona

19490 (seeking the god's name)

19491 "that remain in all aethera terrenaeque"

19492 Manes Di, the augurs invoke them

19493 per aethera terrenaeque

19494 are believed to stay on

19495 manare credantur

19496

19497

19498 & Spartans in Mount Taygeto

19499 sacrifice a horse to the winds,

[Page 683]
19500 as in Campo Martio, in October,

19501 in Lacedaemon, dust to the uttermost

19502 and at Rhodos, the sun's car is thrown into the sea,

19503 rubbing their weapons with parsley,

19504 Flamen Portualis

19505 "inter mortua jam et verba sepulta"

19506 [Image]

19507 And that Athelstan set up guilds there

19508 kadzu, arachidi, acero,

19509 not lie down

19510 [Image]
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XCVIII

19511 The boat of Ra-Set moves with the sun

19512 "but our job to build light" said Ocellus:

19513 Agada, Ganna, Faasa

19514 [Image] hsin1

19515 Make it new

19516

19517 Leucothea gave her veil to Odysseus

19518

19519

19520

19521 The Temple (hieron) is not for sale.

19522 Getting the feel of it, of his soul,

19523 while they were making a fuss about Helen

19524 No man in Greece will sell a slave out of his country

19525 ne quaesaris

19526 Mines, quarries, salt-pans, of the state,

19527 a guild system in Constantinople

19528 ius Italicum, more Sabello,

19529 no more black shawls in the Piazza

19530 more Sabello, for Demeter.

19531 "Ut facias pulchram"

19532 there is no sight without fire.

19533 Thinning their oar-blades

19534

19535 nothing there but an awareness

19536 In Byzantium 12% for a millennium

[Page 685]
19537 The Manchu at 36 legal, their Edict

19538 the next pass.

19539 Anselm: that some is incarnate awareness,

19540 thus trinitas; some remains spiritus.

19541 "The body is inside". Thus Plotinus,

19542 But Gemisto: "Are Gods by hilaritas";

19543 and their speed in communication.

19544 et in nebulas simiglianza,

19545 Deorum

19546 a fanned flame in their moving

19547 must fight for law as for walls

19548 ---Herakleitos' parenthesis---

19549 And that Leucothoe rose as an incense bush

19550 ---Orchamus, Babylon---

19551 resisting Apollo.