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A NOBLEWOMAN: (Nobly) All that man has seen!
A FEMINIST: (Masculinely) And done!
A BELLHANGER: A classic face! He has the forehead of
a thinker.
(Bloom’s weather. A sunburst appears in the northwest.)
THE BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR: I here pres-
ent your undoubted emperor-president and king-chairman,
the most serene and potent and very puissant ruler of this
realm. God save Leopold the First!
ALL: God save Leopold the First!
BLOOM: (In dalmatic and purple mantle, to the bishop
of Down and Connor, with dignity) Thanks, somewhat emi-
nent sir.
WILLIAM, ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH: (In purple
stock and shovel hat) Will you to your power cause law and
mercy to be executed in all your judgments in Ireland and
territories thereunto belonging?
BLOOM: (Placing his right hand on his testicles, swears)
So may the Creator deal with me. All this I promise to do.
MICHAEL, ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH: (Pours
a cruse of hairoil over Bloom’s head) Gaudium magnum
annuntio vobis. Habemus carneficem. Leopold, Patrick, An-
drew, David, George, be thou anointed!
(Bloom assumes a mantle of cloth of gold and puts on a
ruby ring. He ascends and stands on the stone of destiny.
The representative peers put on at the same time their twen-
tyeight crowns. Joybells ring in Christ church, Saint Patrick’s,
George’s and gay Malahide. Mirus bazaar fireworks go up
from all sides with symbolical phallopyrotechnic designs. The