Vulgar words in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 13, No. 368, May 2, 1829 (Page 1)
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Take, as a proof, the following nervous passage from Dryden's Epilogue to "The Duke of Guise," 1683: "Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring: Nor whigs, nor Tories they; nor this nor that; Not birds, not beasts, but just a kind of bat: A twilight animal, true to neither cause, With _Tory_ wings, but _Whiggish_ teeth and claws."