Vulgar words in Bundling; Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America (Page 1)
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On speaking to my friend on the subject, he observed that, though it certainly appeared a dangerous mode of making love, he had seen so few _living_ abuses of it, during six and thirty years' residence in that country, where it nevertheless had always, more or less, prevailed, he must conclude it was as innocent as any other.
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this bundling's such a witch The man of her did catch the itch, And so provoked was the wretch, That she of him a bastard catch'd.
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But it is custom you will say, And custom always bears the sway, If I wont take my sparks to bed, A laughing stock I shall be made; A vulgar custom 'tis, I own, Admir'd by many a slut and clown, But 'tis a method of proceeding, As much abhorr'd by those of breeding.
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THE WHORE ON THE SNOW CRUST.
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Whores will be whores, and on the floor Where many has been laid, To set and smoke and ashes poke, Wont keep awake a maid.
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Bastards are not at all times got In feather beds we know; The strumpet's oath convinces both Oft times it is not so.
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She was the first, that on snow crust, I ever knew to gender I'll hint no more about this whore For fear I should offend her.
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To have done so some years ago, Was counted more disgrace Than 'tis of late to propagate A spurious bastard race.
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Quit human kind and herd with swine, Confess yourself an whore; Go fill the stye, there live and die, Or never bundle more.
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This cursed course is one great source Of matches undesigned, Quarrels and strife twixt man and wife, And bastards of their kind.
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Why, d--n it, there wasn't half as many bastards then as there are now!
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Whore on the snow crust, the, 93.
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In a country where a bastard son was often found in undisturbed possession of the chiefship or property of a clan, and where such bastard generally received the support of the clansmen against the claims of the feudal heir, it was natural to suppose that very loose notions of succession were entertained by the people; that legitimacy conferred no exclusive rights; and that the title founded on birth alone might be set aside in favor of one having no other claim than that of election.
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The person here considered as a bastard, and described as such, was by no means viewed in the same light by the Highlanders, because, according to their law of marriage, which was originally very different from the feudal system in this matter, his claim to legitimacy was as undoubted as that of the feudal heir afterward became.
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All their peculiar habits, feelings and prejudices were in direct opposition to a practice which, had it been really acted upon, must have introduced endless disorder and confusion, and hence the natural explanation of this apparent anomaly seems to be, what Mr. Skene has stated, namely, that a person who was feudally a bastard might in their view be considered as legitimate, and therefore entitled to be supported in accordance with their strict ideas of hereditary right, and their habitual tenacity of whatever belonged to their ancient usages.
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But after the introduction of the feudal law, which, in this respect, was directly opposed to the ancient Highland law, the lineal and legitimate heir, according to Highland principles, came to be regarded as a bastard by the government, which accordingly considered him as thereby incapacitated for succeeding to the honors and property of his race; and hence originated many of those disputes concerning succession and chiefship, which embroiled families with one another, as well as with the government, and were productive of incredible disorder, mischief and bloodshed.
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It is to be observed, however, that the Highlanders themselves drew a broad distinction between bastard sons and the issue of the hand-fast unions above described.