Vulgar words in 'All's Well!' (Page 1)
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S. ELIZABETH'S LEPER VOX CLAMANTIS FLORA'S BIT RED BREAST OUR HEARTS FOR YOU THE BURDENED ASS WINNERS OR LOSERS?
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THE BURDENED ASS (AN ALLEGORY) One day, as I travelled the highway alone, I heard, on in front, a most dolorous groan; And there, round the corner, a weary old ass Was nuzzling the hedge for a mouthful of grass.
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It is really too much for an old ass's back."
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(A strangely ingenuous old ass, you perceive, Whom any shrewd rascal could easily deceive.)
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But there,--I'm perhaps wrong again, Such matters are outside an old ass's ken.
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Much surprised,--the old ass, thus set free from his load, Picked out a soft spot in the nice dusty road, And laid him down on it and rolled in high glee, And, as he kicked this way and that, said to me,-- "Say, Man, I have never enjoyed such a roll Since the day I was born, a silly young foal.
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Seems to me, if I'd had half the sense of an ass, I'd have long since got rid of that troublesome mass.