Vulgar words in Great Italian and French Composers (Page 1)

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buffoon x 2
make love x 2
            

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He was made one of the King's secretaries in spite of the loud murmurs of this pampered fraternity against receiving into their body a player and a buffoon.

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I have seen a couple of rivers appear in red stockings; and Alpheus, instead of having his head covered with sedge and bulrushes, making love in a fair, full-bottomed periwig, and a plume of feathers; but with a voice so full of shakes and quavers, that I should have thought the murmur of a country brook the much more agreeable music.

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Their hero is a dashing cavalry officer, who makes love to every pretty woman he comes across, the 'White Lady of Avenel' among the number.

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The French heard these stories with amazement, for they could not understand how this musical demigod could be the same as he who was little better than a witty buffoon.

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