Vulgar words in England's Antiphon (Page 1)
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It must be confessed that there is in them even occasional coarseness; but that the devil for instance should always be represented as a baffled fool, and made to play the buffoon sometimes after a disgusting fashion, was to them only the treatment he deserved: it was their notion of "poetic justice;" while most of them were too childish to be shocked at the discord thus introduced, and many, we may well hope, too childlike to lose their reverence for the holy because of the proximity of the ridiculous.
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Begin from first, where he encradled was In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay, _a rack or crib._ Between the toilful ox and humble ass; And in what rags, and in what base array The glory of our heavenly riches lay, When him the silly[61] shepherds came to see, Whom greatest princes sought on lowest knee.
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It is applied to the ox and ass in the next stanza, and is often an epithet of shepherds.