> It's Black English.
Well, Polish Black English, maybe, considering the original source.
> For some reason, T.S. Eliot put it at the beginning of "The Hollow
> Men".
Indeed. Who knows why Eliot did anything?
> (A penny for the Old Guy is a reference to Guy Fawkes the
> English anarchist.)
Anarchist? Hardly. A Jacobite -- not to be confused with a Jacobin.
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