Vulgar words in Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 21: March/April 1662-63 (Page 1)

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turd x 2
            

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When I am confident there is no man almost in the City cares a turd for him, nor hath he brains to outwit any ordinary tradesman.

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I observed his coat at the tail of his coach he gives the arms of England, Scotland, and France, quartered upon some other fields, but what it is that speaks his being a bastard I know not.

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