Vulgar words in The First of April - Or, The Triumphs of Folly: A Poem Dedicated to a Celebrated - Duchess. By the author of The Diaboliad. (Page 1)
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I need not tell Your Grace, that, in former times, every Family of Distinction was considered as incomplete in its establishment, if it did not possess a certain whimsical Character called a _Fool_; who was either to afford amusement to his witty Master by the real singularity of his Humour,--or to act as a foil to his foolish Lord by well-timed displays of affected Folly.--These appendages to Greatness have long been laid aside.--Indeed, the present Age, which is remarkable for its refinements, has, in the general methods of forming the Great, blended the two Characters;--and it does not seldom happen, as Your Grace very well knows, that a Modern Man of Fashion serves his Company both as their _Host_ and their _Buffoon_.
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And now, in crowds, press'd through the yielding doors, High Lords, deep Statesmen, Dutchesses, and Whores; All ranks and stations, Publicans and Peers, Grooms, Lawyers, Fiddlers, Bawds, and Auctioneers; Prudes and Coquettes, the Ugly and the Fair, The Pert, the Prim, the Dull, the Debonnair; The Weak, the Strong, the Humble and the Proud, All help'd to form the motley, mingled Crowd.
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Old powerless _S----_ still essay'd to charm The Whore that dangled on the Dotard's arm.