Vulgar words in Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 (Page 1)
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Virtue is its own reward, And Fortune is a whore; There's none but knaves and fools regard her, Or her power implore.
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We'll break the windows which the whore Of Babylon hath painted, And when the popish saints are down Then Barrow shall be sainted; There's neither cross nor crucifix Shall stand for men to see, Rome's trash and trumpery shall go down, And hey, then, up go we.
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Thou damn'd, thou cursed creature, This deed so dark with thee, Think'st thou to bring to hell below My holy wife and me?
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This cursed RUMP-REBELLIOUS CREW, They were so damn'd hard-hearted; They pass'd a vote that CHARING-CROSS Should be taken down and carted: Then fare thee well, etc.
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Under the rose be it spoken, the city's an ass So long to the public to let their gold run, To keep the King out; but 'tis now come to pass, I am sure they will lose, whosoever has won.
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Under the rose be it spoken, there's a damn'd committee Sits in hell (Goldsmiths' Hall), in the midst of the city, Only to sequester the poor Cavaliers - The devil take their souls, and the hangman their ears.
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And the Church, the other twin, Whose mad zeal enraged us, Is not purified a pin By all those broils in which th' engaged us: We our wives turn'd out of doors, And took in concubines and whores, To make an alteration; Our pulpitors are proud and bold, They their own wills and factions hold, And sell salvation still for gold, And here's our REFORMATION!
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From major-generals, army officers, and that phanatique crew; From the parboil'd pimp Scot, and from Good-face the Jew; From old Mildmay, that in Cheapside mistook his queu, And from him that won't pledge - Give the devil his due; From fools and knaves, etc.
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He's an ass That extracts all his worth from Canary; That valour will shrink That's only good in drink; 'Twas the cup made the camp to miscarry.
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You thought in the world there's no power could tame ye, You tippled and whored till the foe overcame ye; God's nigs and Ne'er stir, sirs, has vanquish'd God damn me.
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He is an ass That doth throw down himself with a glass Of Canary; He that's quiet will think Much the better of drink, 'Cause the cups made the camp to miscarry.
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You whore while we tipple, and there, my friend, you lie, Your sports did determine in the month of July; There's less fraud in plain damme than your sly by my truly; 'Tis sack makes our bloods both purer and warmer, We need not your priest or the feminine charmer, For a bowl of Canary's a whole suit of armour.
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If our masters won't supply us With money, food, and clothing, Let the State look to't, We'll find one that will do't, Let him live - we will not damn.
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here's the occurrences and a new Mercurius, A dialogue betwixt Haselrigg the baffled and Arthur the furious; With Ireton's (50) readings upon legitimate and spurious, Proving that a saint may be the son of a whore, for the satisfaction of the curious.
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Here's the true reason of the citie's infatuation, Ireton has made it drunk with the cup of abomination; That is, the cup of the whore, after the Geneva Interpretation, Which with the juyce of Titchburn's grapes (51) must needs cause intoxication.
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Being come to Whitehall, there's the dismal mone, "Let Monk be damn'd!" cries Arthur in a terrible tone (57) - "That traytor, and those cuckoldy rogues that set him on!"
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I that have care of many souls, And power to damn or save, Dar'st thou thyself compare with me, Thou vile, ungodly knave!
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My conscience, thanks to Heaven, is come To such a happy pass, That I can take the Covenant And never hang an ass.
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Quoth he, The priests have preach'd and pray'd, And made so damn'd a pother, That all the people are run mad To murther one another.
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I would as soon turn back to mass, Or change my praise to THEE and THOU; Let the Pope ride me like an ass, And his priests milk me like a cow!
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With little band precise, Hair Presbyterian cut, Whig turns up hands and eyes Though smoking hot from slut.
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of so many noble sparkes, Who on their bodies bear the markes Of their integritie; And suffer'd ruine of estate, It was my damn'd unhappy fate That I not one could see.
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I mind not the members and makers of laws, Let them sit or prorogue as his Majesty please; Let 'em damn us to Woolen, I'le never repine At my usage when dead, so alive I have wine; Yet oft in my drink I can hardly forbear To blame them for making my claret so dear.
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Then here's a good health to all those that love peace, Let plotters be damn'd and all quarrels now cease Let me but have wine and I care for no more, 'Tis a treasure sufficient; there's none can be poor That has Bacchus to's friend, for he laughs at all harm, Whilst with high-proofed claret he does himself arm.
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I did about this nation Hold forth my gifts and teach, Maintained the tolleration The common story And Directory I damn'd with the word "preach."
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The makers of the plot we see, By damn'd old TONY'S treachery, How they would have brought it about, To have given great York the rout, To have given, etc.
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God preserve our gracious King, And safe tydings to us bring, Defend us from the SHAM BLACK BOX, (114) And all damn'd fanatick plots, And all damn'd, etc.
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Then let all true subjects sing, And damn the power of all those That won't show loyalty to their King, And assist him against his Whiggish foes.
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Old Jemmy is a lad Right lawfully descended; No bastard born nor bred, Nor for a Whig suspended; The true and lawful heir to th' crown By right of birth and laws, And bravely will maintain his own In spight of all his foes.