Vulgar words in The Bab Ballads (Page 1)

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ass x 1 country bumpkin x 1 cuss x 1

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It also was a Jew, Who drove a Putney 'bus-- For flesh of swine however fine He did not care a cuss.

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I offered to procure him weeds-- Wines fit for one in his position-- But, though an ass in all his deeds, He'd learnt the meaning of "commission."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 898   ~   ~   ~

If he were asked the time of day, By country bumpkins green, He not unfrequently would say, "A quarter past thirteen."

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