Vulgar words in Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) (Page 1)
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If you with _Friend_ or _Enemy_ are blest, Your _Fancy's Offspring_ ne'er can want a _Test_, Tho _Both_, perhaps may _overshoot_ the _Mark_: First _Spite_ with _Envy_ charges in the _Dark_; 310 _Unread_ they _damn_, and into _Passion_ fall, 'Tis _Stuff_, 'tis _Blasphemy_ 'tis _Nonsense_ all; They _sleep_ (when _doz'd before_) at every _Line_, } While your more _dang'rous Friend_ exclaims,--'Tis fine, } 'Tis _furiously Delightful_, 'tis _Divine_; } Th' _inspiring God's_ in ev'ry Page confess'd; A COWLEY or a DRYDEN at the least!
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So _Crack_, in _pious Fit_, will plead she's _poor_, 'Tis a _hard Choice_, Good Sir, to _starve_ or _whore_!