Vulgar words in Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 (Page 1)
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Some person was relating to the Earl of Coventry the strange fact that the Earl of Devon's harriers last week gave chase, in his demesne, to an unhappy donkey, whom they tore to pieces before they could be called off; upon which his lordship asked for a piece of chalk and a slate, and composed the following _jeu d'esprit_ on the circumstance:-- I'm truly shocked that Devon's hounds The gentle ass has slain; For _me_ to shun his lordship's grounds, It seems a warning plain.
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Damn the last Derby--regularly stump'd--cleaned out--and done Brown!--not a feather to fly with!
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More frequently he knocks up the people of the neighbouring house, under the impression that it is his own, but that a new keyhole has been fitted to the door in his absence; and, in the mildest forms of the disease, he drinks up all the water in his bed-room during the night, and has a propensity for retiring to rest in his pea-coat and Bluchers, from the obstinate tenacity of his buttons and straps.