Vulgar words in Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 (Page 1)
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Of this performance the value certainly is but little; but it was one of the lucky trifles that give pleasure by novelty, and was so much favoured by the audience that envy appeared against it in the form of criticism; and Griffin, a player, in conjunction with Mr. Theobald, a man afterwards more remarkable, produced a pamphlet called "The Key to the What D'ye Call It," "which," says Gay, "calls me a blockhead, and Mr. Pope a knave."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 443 ~ ~ ~
A patten may be made by the hammer of a mortal, and a bastard may be dropped by a human strumpet.