Vulgar words in Cock Lane and Common-Sense (Page 1)

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bastard	x 1
knock up	x 2

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'She, rising from her bed, sat down to supper, and from below there was such a knocking up as bred fear to all that were present.

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This knocking was just under her chair, where it was not possible for any mortal to knock up.'

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Thus he could not sell or devise it, and his brother James was heir in tail, the children being bastards.

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