Vulgar words in Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850 (Page 1)
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It can hardly have escaped the notice of your Querist (although the instance is not one adduced by Ducange), that the phrase, "burial of an ass" #Kevurat Chamor# for "no burial at all," is as old as the time of the prophet Jeremiah.
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).--The verses themselves called them "three _bastard_ dukes;" but the only bastard duke I can find at that time was the Duke of Monmouth; all the other creations of the king's bastards were subsequent to that date.