Vulgar words in A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) (Page 1)
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For the greatest of _Buffoons_ are the _Italians_: and in their Writings, in their freer sort of Conversations, on their Theatres, and in their _Streets_, _Buffoonery_ and _Burlesque_ are in the highest Vogue.
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In a word, their Author acts the Part of a _Jack-Pudding_, _Merry Andrew_, or _Buffoon_, with all the seeming Right, Authority, and Privilege, of the Member of some Establish'd Church of abusing all the World but themselves.
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And when they were attack'd by one _Samuel Young_, a whimsical Presbyterian-Buffoon-Divine, who call'd himself _Trepidantium Malleus_, and set up for an Imitator of Mr. _Alsop_, in several Pamphlets full of Stories, Repartees, and Ironies; in which _Young_, perhaps, thought himself as secure from a Return of the like kind, as a Ruffian or Thief may when he assaults Men: His Attacks were repell'd in a Book intitled "_Trepidantium Malleus intrepidanter malleatus_; or the West Country Wiseaker's crack-brain'd _Reprimand_ hammer'd about his own Numbscul.
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"_Another Buffoon was hired to plague the Nation with three or four Papers a Week, which to the Reproach of the Age in which we live, had but too great and too general Effect, for poisoning the Spirits of the Clergy._" [64] _In this Work the Dissenters and Low Churchmen are sufficiently rally'd and abus'd, and particularly the_ Free-Thinkers, _whose_ Creed _is therein represented as consisting of these two Negatives_, No Queen and no God.