Vulgar words in Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry (Page 1)

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damn x 3
whore x 5
            

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Disgrac'd, undone, forlorn, made Fortune's Sport, Banish'd your Kingdom first, and then your Court; Out of my Places turn'd, and out of Doors, And made the meanest of your Sons of Whores; The scene of Laughter, and the common chats Of your salt Bitches, and your other Brats; Forc'd to a private Life, to Whore and Drink, On my past Grandeur and my Follies Think: Would I had been the Brat of some mean Drab, Whom Fear or Chance had caus'd to choak or stab, Rather than be the Issue of a King, And by him made so wretched, scorn'd a Thing.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 110   ~   ~   ~

I will not call thee Son, Thou hast thyself unhappily undone; And thy Complaints serve but to show thee more, How much thou hast enrag'd thy Father's Whore.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 165   ~   ~   ~

Your Flood is soon gone, and your Fire you must humble, If into Flames store of Water you tumble; But to cure the damn'd Lust of your Wife's Titilation, You may use all the Engines and Pumps in the Nation, As well you may p---- out the last Conflagration.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 208   ~   ~   ~

And if the _French_ should e'er attempt This Nation to invade, May they be damn'd that list again, But lead the fam'd Militia on, To be like us betray'd.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 217   ~   ~   ~

Go on to purify the Court, And damn the Men of Places Till decently you send them home, And get your selves put in their room, And then you'll change your Faces.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 233   ~   ~   ~

'Twas voted once that for the Sin Of Whoring Men should die all; But then it was wisely thought again.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 330   ~   ~   ~

But T---- [12] now must command them no more; We try'd of what Mettle he was made of before; It's safer for him on the Land for to whore, _Which_, etc.

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