Vulgar words in Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) (Page 1)

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blockhead x 1
damn x 1
whore x 2
            

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About this Gay wrote to Caryll in April: "There is a sixpenny criticism lately published upon the tragedy of 'The What D'ye Call It,' wherein he with much judgment and learning calls me a blockhead and Mr. Pope a knave.

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I believe farther, the pastoral ridicule is not exhausted, and that a porter, footman, or chairman's pastoral might do well; or what think you of a Newgate pastoral, among the whores and thieves there?

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Quin is recorded as having said that there was a disposition to damn it, and that it was saved by the song, "O ponder well!

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It shows the miserable lives, and the constant fate, of those abandoned wretches: for how little they sell their lives and souls; betrayed by their whores, their comrades, and the receivers and purchasers of those thefts and robberies.

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