"he pours into the softclad shellborn the hard cash earned in Watling Street"

(132.20-134.20)  It's round four of the journey through the first question of the sixth chapter of Finnegans Wake.  In keeping with recent practice, here's my top five items from the catalog.

• "sponsor to a squad of piercers, ally to a host of rawlies" -- Most of the items I picked out today tie into major themes that we've already seen throughout the book.  Here we get the war/insurgent theme, but most significantly, there's the reference to HCE's incarnation as Persse O'Reilly ("pierce" "of rawlies").
• "is unhesitent in his unionism and yet a pigotted nationalist" -- This embodies HCE's dual nature as Irish invader/defender.  We also have an instance of Joyce building depth in the book by referencing events both external and internal to the Wake.  The misspelled "unhesitent" and "pigotted" recall the Parnell-Pigott rivalry in Irish political history.  They also recall the book's previous references to this rivarly, and thus incorporate the HCE-Cad feud from earlier in the Wake.  
• "hallucination, cauchman, ectoplasm" -- McHugh translates "cauchemar" as French for "nightmare," so this item highlights the dark spiritual side of HCE.  Personally, this item jumped out at me because I associate ectoplasm with the Ghostbusters.
• "cumbrum, cumbrum, twiniceynurseys fore a drum but tre to uno tips the scale" -- Here we get the two young women (the "twiniceynurses") and three soldiers (the "tre" against HCE"s "uno") from the scene of HCE's fall in Phoenix Park.  We also get Joyce's bawdy wordplay, as McHugh notes that "nurse" is a slang term for "prostitute" and "drum" is a slang term for "brothel."
• "moves in vicous circles yet remews the same" -- Vico's cyclical theory of human progress/history almost always is lurking in the background of the Wake, and it's brought to the foreground here.  HCE is continually progressing, but it's a circular progression.  He constantly renews, yet remains the same.