Vulgar words in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) (Page 1)
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With six great chopping bastards,[67] each as lusty as an infant Hercules, this delicate creature blushes at the sight of his new bridegroom, assumes a virgin delicacy; or, to use a more fit, as well as a more poetic comparison, the person so squeamish, so timid, so trembling lest the winds of heaven should visit too roughly, is expanded to broad sunshine, exposed like the sow of imperial augury, lying in the mud with all the prodigies of her fertility about her, as evidence of her delicate amours,-- Triginta capitum fÅtus enixa jacebat, Alba, solo recubans, albi circum ubera nati.