Vulgar words in The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 - The Drapier's Letters (Page 1)
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Suppose upon information taken before your Lordship of a rape committed, a bill of indictment were sent to a grand jury, and the grand jury return _ignoramus_ on it, application is made to the Court to recommend it to them to reconsider it, and they return as before _ignoramus_--Suppose a judge with more than decent passion should ask them their reasons (which is their counsel) for so doing, nay should be so particular as to demand of them whether they thought the woman a whore.
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Fawning and cajoling will have but little effect on those who have had the honour of your acquaintance these ten years past, for Caligula who used to hide his head if he heard the thunder, would piss upon the statues of the gods when he thought the danger over--A better expedient is this,---- Tell men the Drapier is a Tory and a Jacobite.--That he writ "The Conduct of the Allies."