Vulgar words in The History of London (Page 1)
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Remember that everything was brought to the City on pack horse or pack ass.
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There was a Dick Whittington: and he was Lord Mayor of London--to be accurate, he was Mayor of London, for the title of Lord Mayor did not yet exist.
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The profanity of the comic scenes increased: and reverence was destroyed when in the same tableau which presented the most sacred of events appeared the most unbridled buffoons.
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Probably this was of old standing, and first belonged to the time when the minstrel and the tumbler, the musician and the dancing girl, the buffoon and the contortionist, wandered about the country free of rule and discipline, leading careless and lawless lives.