Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Ithaca/659
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editad libitum (Latin) at one's pleasure. In vocal music, this expression gives the singer licence to improvise; it is also used to indicate that a passage may be omitted in performance, though that is unlikely to be the meaning here, where the words are on the last page of the song.