Vulgar words in Micah Clarke - His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, - Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 (Page 1)
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Bastard or no, he holds the sound principles of the true Church, and he is beloved by the people.
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There they were morning after morning, the French pimp, the English bully, the needy man o' letters, the neglected inventor-I never thought to have got rid of them, but indeed I have shaken them off very effectually now.
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A quiet man could not walk the highways without being elbowed into the kennel by swaggering swashbucklers, or accosted by painted hussies.
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Padders and michers, laced cloaks, jingling spurs, slashed boots, tall plumes, bullies and pimps, oaths and blasphemies-I promise you hell was waxing fat.
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There were supple-backed courtiers, and strutting nobles, and hussies with their shoulders bare, who should for all their high birth have been sent to Bridewell as readily as any poor girl who ever walked at the cart's tail.
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King Monmouth glances round too, and smiles as though he were the Court buffoon with a Geneva cloak instead of the motley.
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when I think of the swarms of needy beggars, the lecherous pimps, the nose-slitting bullies, the toadies and the flatterers who were reared by us, I feel that in hatching such a poisonous brood our money hath done what no money can undo.
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There were the orange wenches to quiz-plaguey sharp of tongue the hussies are, too-and there were the vizards of the pit, whose little black masks did invite inquiry, and there were the beauties of the town and the toasts of the Court, all fair mark for our quizzing-glasses.