Vulgar words in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 19, No. 533, February 11, 1832 (Page 1)
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_Bottom_ must be a "feature" in the procession, and there was no ass's head!
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As it is too late to manufacture, not but that my property-man is the cleverest in the world (except the property-man of Covent-garden), can _you_, lend me an ass's head, and believe me, my dear Charles, Yours ever truly, ROBERT WILLIAM ELLISTON."
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I have spoken to Bartley, and he agrees with me (indeed, he always does), that I cannot lend you an ass's head--he is an authority on such a subject--without risking a reprimand from the Lord High Chancellor.
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We will not pledge ourselves that the letters are _verbatim_ from the originals; but the loan of the Surrey music and coats to Covent-garden, with the refusal of Covent-garden's ass's head to the Surrey, is "true as holy writ."