Vulgar words in Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers (Page 1)
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~ ~ ~ Sentence 57 ~ ~ ~
On the 23rd a famous buffoon of the play-house will die a ridiculous death, suitable to his vocation.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 149 ~ ~ ~
some Pity shew On Coblers militant below, Whom roguish Boys in stormy Nights Torment, by pissing out their Lights; Or thro' a Chink convey their Smoke; Inclos'd Artificers to choke.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 195 ~ ~ ~
In short, what with undertakers, imbalmers, joiners, sextons, and your damn'd elegy hawkers, upon a late practitioner in physick and astrology, I got not one wink of sleep that night, nor scarce a moment's rest ever since.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 253 ~ ~ ~
And my first argument is thus: Above a thousand gentelmen having bought his almanacks for this year, merely to find what he said against me; at every line they read, they would lift up their eyes, and cry out, betwixt rage and laughter, "They were sure no man alive ever writ such damn'd stuff as this."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 354 ~ ~ ~
If they don't think it worth while to defend a fortress that is to be demolish'd in a few days, let them reflect that it will be a melancholy thing nine months hence, to be brought to bed of a bastard; a posthumous bastard as it were, to which the quondam father can be no more than a dry nurse.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 356 ~ ~ ~
The cruelty of scornful mistresses shall be return'd; the slighted maid shall grow into an imperious gallant, and reward her undoer with a big belly, and a bastard.