Vulgar words in The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1 (Page 1)

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ass x 2
damn x 1
whore x 1
            

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J. W. _At the Swan at Chelsea, in one of the Summer-Houses; supposed to be written by One who lost his Estate in the South-Sea Year._ Damn the Joke Of all the Folk: I've lost my Estate; And all Men I hate: I shall look through a Grate, For I see 'tis my Fate.

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_At the same Place._ Three Bottles of _Burgundy_, and a brisk Lass, With a thousand of _Grigs_, should it e'er come to pass, Would make me behave my self just like an Ass.

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As Tradition informs us, Ben Johnson was acquainted with the House; and in some Time, when he found strange People there, and the Sign changed, he wrote the following Lines._ When _Hope_ and _Prudence_ kept this House, The _Angel_ kept the Door; Now _Hope_ is dead, And the _Angel_ fled, And _Prudence_ turn'd a Whore.

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_At the same Place._ A Hog, a Monkey, and an Ass, } Were here last Night to drink a Glass, } When all at length it came to pass, } That the Hog and the Monkey, Grew so drunkey, That both were ready to kiss the A - - se of _Tom.

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