Vulgar words in The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I (Page 2)
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_Aria._ But to marry thee-- would be a Tyranny from whence there's no Appeal: A drinking whoring Husband!
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_Beau._ He has reason, for if his Faith were no better than his Works, he'd be damn'd.
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_Beau._ Oh damn the Sex, I hate 'em all-- but thee-- farewell, my pretty jealous-sullen-Fool.
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Hah!-- Mercy upon us!-- What's yonder!-- Ah, _Ned_, my Monster is as big as the Whore of _Babylon_-- Oh I'm in a cold Sweat-- [_Blunt_ pulls him to peep, and both do so.
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_Feth._ Why, what a flattering Son of a Whore's this?
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_Blunt._ Think of a Million, Rogue, and do not hang an Arse thus.
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no 'tis all done by an inchanted Girdle-- These damn'd Rascals will spoil all by too gross an Imposition on the Fools.
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Madam, upon this little Globe is character'd your Fate and Fortune; the History of your Life to come and past-- first, Madam-- you're-- a Whore.
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_La Nu._ Damn your false Art-- had he but lov'd me too, it had excus'd the Malice of my Stars.
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_Will._ An ill thing-- your Pardon, Sweet-heart, compare it but to Banishment, a frozen Sentry with brown George and _Spanish_ Pay; and if it be not better to be Master of a Monster, than Slave to a damn'd Commonwealth-- I submit-- and since my Fortune has thrown this good in my way-- _La Nu._ You'll not be so ungrateful to refuse it; besides then you may hope to sleep again, without dreaming of Famine, or the Sword, two Plagues a Soldier of Fortune is subject to.
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_Will._ Harkye, _Harry_-- the-- Woman-- the almighty Whore-- thou told'st me of to day.
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_Will._ Damn all the rest of thy weak Sex, when thou look'st thus, and art so soft and charming.
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_Will._ Now all the Plagues-- but yet I will not curse thee, 'tis lost on thee, for thou art destin'd damn'd.
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_Will._ Why,-- I am so indifferent grown, that I can tell thee now-- to a Woman, young, fair and honest; she'll be kind and thankful-- farewel, Jilt-- now should'st thou die for one sight more of me, thou should'st not ha't; nay, should'st thou sacrifice all thou hast couzen'd other Coxcombs of, to buy one single visit, I am so proud, by Heaven, thou shouldst not have it-- To grieve thee more, see here, insatiate Woman [Shews her a Purse or hands full of Gold] the Charm that makes me lovely in thine Eyes: it had all been thine hadst thou not basely bargain'd with me, now 'tis the Prize of some well-meaning Whore, whose Modesty will trust my Generosity.
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_La Nu._ 'Tis he, I know it by his often and uneasy pauses-- _Beau._ And shall I home and sleep upon my injury, whilst this more happy Rover takes my right away?-- no, damn me then for a cold senseless Coward.
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_Beau._ Now you are silent; but you could talk to day loudly of Virtue, and upbraid my Vice: oh how you hated a young keeping Husband, whom neither Beauty nor Honour in a Wife cou'd oblige to reason-- oh, damn your Honour, 'tis that's the sly pretence of all your domineering insolent Wives-- Death-- what didst thou see in me, should make thee think that I would be a tame contented Cuckold?
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_Will._ So, I hope he will be civil and withdraw, and leave me in possession-- _Beau._ No, tho my Fortune should depend on thee; nay, all my hope of future happiness-- by Heaven, I scorn to marry thee, unless thou couldst convince me thou wer't honest-- a Whore!-- Death, how it cools my Blood-- _Will._ And fires mine extremely-- _La Nu._ Nay, then I am provok'd tho I spoil all-- [Aside.
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And is a Whore a thing so much despis'd?
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thou shame to noble Love; thou scandal to all brave Debauchery, thou Fop of Fortune; thou slavish Heir to Estate and Wife, born rich and damn'd to Matrimony.
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_La Nu._ Thou formal Ass disguis'd in generous Leudness, see-- when the Vizor's off, how sneakingly that empty form appears-- Nay 'tis thy own-- Make much on't, marry with it, and be damn'd.
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yes, I am a Coxcomb-- a confounded one, to doat upon so false a Prostitute; nay to love seriously, and tell it too: yet such an amorous Coxcomb I was born, to hate the Enjoyment of the loveliest Woman, without I have the Heart: the fond soft Prattle, and the lolling Dalliance, the Frowns, the little Quarrels, and the kind Degrees of making Peace again, are Joys which I prefer to all the sensual, whilst I endeavour to forget the Whore, and pay my Vows to Wit, to Youth and Beauty.
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_Hugs himself._ _Beau._ --Was this done like a Whore of Honour think ye?
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_Luc._ Nay, made love so loud, that my Lord your Father-in-law, who was in his Cabinet, heard us from the Orange-Grove, and has sent to search the Garden-- and should he find a Stranger with you-- do but you retire, Sir, and all's well yet.
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_La Nu._ Damn all dissembling now, it is too late-- The Tyrant Love reigns absolute within, And I am lost, _Aurelia_.
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That I could not be warn'd from whoring in a strange Country, by my Friend _Ned Blunt's_ Example-- if I can but keep it secret now, I care not.
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_Will._ Damn the base Trash: I'll have thee poor, and mine; 'Tis nobler far, to starve with him thou lov'st Than gay without, and pining all within.
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_Beau._ Forgive me; oh so very well I love, Did I not know that thou hadst been a Whore, I'd give thee the last proof of Love-- and marry thee.
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Death, hadst thou lov'd my Friend for his own Value, I had esteem'd thee; but when his Youth and Beauty cou'd not plead, to be the mercenary Conquest of his Presents, was poor, below thy Wit: I cou'd have conquer'd so, but I scorn thee at that rate-- my Purse shall never be my Pimp-- Farewel, _Harry_.
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_Will._ _La Nuche!_-- Why, she's a Whore-- I hope you take me for a civiller Person, than to throw my self away on Whores-- No, Child, I lie with none but honest Women I: but no disputing now, come-- to my Lodging, my dear-- here's a Chair waits hard by.
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_Blunt._ Ah, see the Inconstancy of fickle Fortune, _Nicholas_-- A Man to day, and beaten to morrow: but take comfort, there's many a proper fellow has been robb'd and beaten on this Highway of whoring.
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and egad, I am almost weary of being a Man, and subject to beating: wou'd I were a Woman, a Man has but an ill time on't: if he has a mind to a Wench, the making Love is so plaguy tedious-- then paying is to my Soul insupportable.
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_Blunt._ Pox on't, do not use an old Friend so scurvily; consider the Misery thou'lt indure to have the Heart and Mind of a jilting Whore possess thee: What a Fit of the Devil must he suffer who acts her Part from fourteen to fourscore!
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_Feth._ 'Tis true, should I turn Whore to the Disgrace of my Family-- what would the World say?
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_Feth._ Fight, 'Sbud, a Million of Money wou'd have provok'd a Bully; besides, I took you for the damn'd Rogue my Rival.
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_Aria._ _Beaumond!_ _Beau._ Oh what a World of Time have I mispent for want of being a Blockhead-- 'Sdeath and Hell, Wou'd I had been some brawny ruffling Fool, Some forward impudent unthinking Sloven, A Woman's Tool; for all besides unmanageable.
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alas no, I'm a Fool, a Country Fop, an Ass, I; but that you may perceive your selves mistaken, Gentlemen, this is but an earnest of what's to come, a small token of remembrance, or so-- and yet I have no Charms, I; the fine Captain has all the Wit and Beauty-- but thou'rt my Friend, and I'll impart.
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p. 184, l. 1 _Damn all dissembling._ 1724 prints this speech as prose.
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This play itself is often referred to, and there are other allusions to Pope Joan about this time, e.g., in the Epilogue to Lee's _Cæsar Borgia_ (1679), where the author says a certain clique could not have been more resolute to damn his play Had he the Pope's Effigies meant to burn, ... Nay, conjur'd up Pope Joan to please the age, And had her breeches search'd upon the stage.
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_Met_, iv, 457-8. p. 126 _I ... must be this very Mountebank expected._ One may remember Rochester's unpenetrated masquerade as Alexander Bendo, high above 'the bastard race of quacks and cheats,' and Grammont's account of all the courtiers and maids of honour flocking for lotions and potions of perpetual youth to the new empiric's lodgings 'in _Tower-Street_, next door to the sign of the _Black Swan_, at a Goldsmith's house.'
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In Massinger's _The Unnatural Combat_ (1621: 4to, 1639), the demoniac Malefort pursues his daughter Theocrine with the same baleful fires as Francesco Cenci looked on Beatrice, but the height of horror, harrowing the soul with pity and anguish, culminates in Ford's terrible scenes _Tis Pity She's a Whore_ (4to, 1633), so tenderly tragic, so exquisitely beautiful for all their moral perversity, that they remain unequalled outside Shakespeare.
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However true this is, I am myself well able to affirm that none of all our English Poets, and least the Dramatique (so I think you call them) can be justly charg'd with too great reformation of men's minds or manners, and for that I may appeal to general experiment, if those who are the most assiduous Disciples of the Stage, do not make the fondest and the lewdest Crew about this Town; for if you should unhappily converse them through the year, you will not find one Dram of sense amongst a Club of them, unless you will allow for such a little Link-Boy's Ribaldry thick larded with unseasonable oaths & impudent defiance of God, and all things serious; and that at such a senseless damn'd unthinking rate, as, if 'twere well distributed, would spoil near half the Apothecaries trade, and save the sober people of the Town the charge of Vomits; And it was smartly said (how prudently I cannot tell) by a late learned Doctor, who, though himself no great asserter of a Deity, (as you'll believe by that which follows) yet was observed to be continually persuading of this sort of men (if I for once may call them so) of the necessity and truth of our Religion; and being ask'd how he came to bestir himself so much this way, made answer that it was because their ignorance and indiscreet debauch made them a scandal to the profession of Atheism.
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A thing, Reader-- but no more of such a Smelt: This thing, I tell ye, opening that which serves it for a mouth, out issued such a noise as this to those that sate about it, that they were to expect a woful Play, God damn him, for it was a woman's.
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_Silvio_, Supposed Bastard Son to _Ambrosio_.
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_Alon._ But there's a damn'd Custom that does not at all agree with Men so frank and gay as thou and I; there's a deal of Danger in the Atchievement, which some say heightens the Pleasure, but I am of another Opinion.
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_Silv._ Damn her for a Dissembler!
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_Mar._ Thy Mother was some base notorious Strumpet, And by her Witchcraft reduc'd my Father's Soul, And in return she paid him with a Bastard, Which was thou.
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What a damn'd Defeat is this, that she should be honest now!
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all on the sudden to leave delicious whoring, drinking and fighting, and be condemn'd to a dull honest Wife.
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_Hau._ Thou art a Fool, I never made love so well as when I was drunk; it improves my Parts, and makes me witty; that is, it makes me say any thing that comes next, which passes now-a-days for Wit: and when I am very drunk, I'll home and dress me, and the Devil's in't if she resist me so qualify'd and so dress'd.
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_Gload._ Your Hands, defil'd with counting of damn'd dirty Money, never made other use of Gloves, than continually to draw them thro-- thus-- till they were dwindled into the scantling of a Cats-gut.
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_Gload._ Presently, Sir; only a little touch at your Debauchery, which unless it be in damn'd Brandy, you dare not go to the Expence of.
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_Hau._ Away, you Fool, I hate the sober Spanish way of making Love, that's unattended with Wine and Musick; give me a Wench that will out-drink the Dutch, out-dance the French, and out-- out-- kiss the English.
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Enter Swains playing upon Pipes, after them four Shepherds with Garlands and Flowers, and four Nymphs dancing an amorous Dance to that Musick; wherein the Shepherds make Love to the Nymphs, and put the Garlands on their Heads, and go out; the Nymphs come and lay them at _Cleonte's_ Feet, and sing.
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Why, yes, Sir, you know you can fight, you try'd but this very Morning-- _Hau._ Softly, you damn'd Rogue, not a Word of my Prowess aloud.
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_Salerimente_, I shall be put to fight when I am sober, shall I, for your damn'd prating, ye Rascal?
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_Alon._ I know not why an Ass should have more privilege than any other rude Beast.
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_Hau._ May I so?-- and why, Sir?-- am I, Sir-- an Ass, Sir?
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_Hau._ Why look you here now, you damn'd Rogue, [To _Gload_.]
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here now, here's damn'd doings.
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Whilst sad Experience our Eyes convinces, That damn'd their Plays which hang'd the _German_ Princess; And we with Ornament set off a Play, Like her drest fine for Execution-day.
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_1 Sold._ Ay, ay, a _Lambert_, a _Lambert_, he has Courage, _Fleetwood's_ an Ass to him.
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_2 Sold._ A Blockhead.
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_1 Sold._ No, damn him, he'll have his Clergy.
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Thou canst never make me believe thou art earnestly in love with any of that damn'd Reformation.
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Make love to 'em, they answer in Scripture.
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Of all Whores, give me your zealous Whore; I never heard a Woman talk much of Heaven, but she was much for the Creature too.
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_Lov._ Damn 'em for sighing, groaning Hypocrites.
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_Lov._ Not I, damn it, I was all Rage; and hadst not thou restrain'd me, I had certainly pull'd that Rogue of a Holder forth by the Ears from his sanctify'd Tub.
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_Lov._ A Plague upon the whole Congregation: I minded nothing but how to fight the Lord's Battle with that damn'd sham Parson, whom I had a mind to beat.
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I'd rather make love to an _Incubus_.
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_Lov._ The greatest Devil of all; damn her, do'st think I'll cuckold the Ghost of old _Oliver_?
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_Whit._ That will not recommend him at this _Juncto_, tho he's an excellent Tool for your Lordship to make use of; and therefore use him, Sir, as _Cataline_ did _Lentulus_; drill the dull Fool with Hopes of Empire on, and that all tends to his Advancement only: The Blockhead will believe the Crown his own: What other Hopes could make him ruin Richard, a Gentleman of Qualities a thousand times beyond him?
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_Gill._ Her Highness, Blockhead.
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_Lov._ No matter, then I shall be free from a damn'd Commonwealth, as you are pleas'd to call it, when indeed 'tis but a mungrel, mangy, Mock-Monarchy.
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and I, frail Flesh and Blood, Cannot resist her Charms; but she's of the damn'd Party.
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'Tis an Abomination to look like a Gentleman; long Hair is wicked and cavalierish, a Periwig is flat Popery, the Disguise of the Whore of _Babylon_; handsom Clothes, or lac'd Linen, the very Tempter himself, that debauches all their Wives and Daughters; therefore the diminutive Band, with the Hair of the Reformation Cut, beneath which a pair of large sanctify'd Souses appear, to declare to the World they had hitherto escap'd the Pillory, tho deserv'd it as well as _Pryn_.
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_Free._ Damn 'em, no; what honest Man wou'd keep 'em Company, where harmless Wit and Mirth's a Sin, laughing scandalous, and a merry Glass Abomination?
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_Lav._ Damn 'em, what stuff's here for a Council-Table?
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_Free._ Damn 'em, how they lavish out the Nation!
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_Free._ Damn it, I shall miss my Assignation with Lady _Desbro_; a Pox of your unnecessary prating, what shall I do?
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Des._ Damn the sham Saint; am I now in Condition to be plagu'd with his impertinent Nonsense?
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Des._ So, from Whoring, to a zealous Catechism-- who made me?
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D'ye start?-- this must be done-- for you can pimp I'm sure upon occasion, you've Tools for all uses; come, resolve, or I'll discover your bloody Offer.
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Is your Stomach so queasy it cannot digest Pimping, that can swallow Whoring, false Oaths, Sequestration, Robbery, Rapes, and Murders daily?
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_Free._ On the zealous Parole of _Rabbie Ananias_; that Rhetorick that can convert whole Congregations of well-meaning Blockheads to errant Knaves, has now mollify'd my Keeper; I'm to be render'd back within this Hour: let's not, my dear _Maria_, lose the precious minutes this Reverend Hypocrite has given us.
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_Lov._ And then he rails against the Whore of Babylon, and all my neighbours think he calls me Whore.
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Lam._ Damn _Lilly_, who with lying Prophecies has rais'd me to the hopes of Majesty: a Legion of his Devils take him for't.
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_War._ Wons, Madam, undone, undone; our honourable Committee is gone to th' Diel, and the damn'd loosey Rump is aud in aud; the muckle Diel set it i'solt, and his Dam drink most for't.
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Those Fools, those Pimps to Monarchy, Those that exclude the Saints; yet open th' Door, To introduce the _Babylonian Whore_.
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When this is all th' Exception they can make, They damn us for our Glorious Master's sake.
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p. 398 _Nickers._ Or knickers, marbles generally made of baked clay.